Usually, my taste and process of elimination makes it so that once I start a game. I'm usually pretty into it from the start.

Rarely does it happen that I kinda get into something else unless the release of another awaited title comes into play.

The latest one I can think of where I dropped the game after a few hours of gameplay would be ... Luigi's Mansion 3 ... Which I have yet to explain it myself to this day. Maybe it just wasn't the right time to play it when I did back then

10 hours sounds about the same for me. And sometimes that's not enough. I dropped HZD and RDR after 10 hours, yet came back to them later and became favorites. I nearly dropped TotK after 10 hours banging my head against the tutorial island, and now I'm still playing it after 200 hours. Yet there are also plenty games I have dropped sooner and not gone back to.

There are also games that instantly grab me yet fizzle out later. Open world games tend to go like that. Do all the fun stuff first, explore the map, then all the 'work' is left over. Open world games usually have good starts, great middle, no idea how to end it but get bored and move on. Usually dragging it out too long by avoiding the main story line, then getting bored and grudgingly finish the story :/

Haha I lose interest in gaming in general not a game if a new release that has a huge day one patch that takes hours to download after it took an hour to install. By the time the game is up and running it's like I had enough I'll do something else then won't touch my console for another 6 to 12 months.

I pretty much inherently enjoy all games that I play. Even if I don't like the game, I can still find paths to enjoy it. I finish most games 1 by 1 and I often don't replay any games.

Depends. Spiderman 1 remastered never did but I kept going cause trophies were easy to get . Takes of arise got me hooked at the opening scenes! Same with ff7r

I rarely ever drop games because I rarely ever play games without having a significant interest in them beforehand. That's changed a little this year, though. I bought Tunic and was excited to play it but my god I did not enjoy it, played probably some 3-4 hours and dropped it. Tried picking it up again here and there but it didn't work.

A friend lent me Stray (I'd bought it for them as a birthday present) and I only played around an hour, seemed fun enough but eh it didn't grab me. That's what happens the most, a game I didn't pay for, I'll play for a little bit, say "it's fun, I'll continue it later" then just never pick it up again.

Then there's Zelda. I didn't enjoy Tears of the Kingdom much at all, but I still stuck with it and finished it after like what, 100 hours? Just because it's Zelda, really.

Usually I feel from the first seconds if it is my kinda game or not.

Games that are consider great by a large population is given 3 separate playing sessions of at least 2 Hours each before I give up on them. Some exceptions to this is made for games considered candidate for best game ever like Zelda Breath of the Wild that got the change of multi hour sessions several times over the years before I gave up on it.

Games that have less hype around them get around an hour before verdict if I bought them. If the game is free or a demo it have to grab me within minutes.

After many years of playing games however, most games wont even get any playtime before being discarded by me. Games of certain genres will not be played at all. Time is my most valuable resource and I will not spend it lightly.

I have a pretty impeccable spidey-sense when it comes to games. It's very rare that I get disappointed. Usually I look up some Youtube footage of a game before purchasing, just to make sure, and get a sense of the game really fast that way. Also, there are a couple of developers that I can trust blindly and know I will not be let down.
Needless to say, I never preorder anything.

One pattern I realized is that I'll keep on playing a game I'm more or less interested in unless something I REALLY want to play comes out and then I'll drop the game in favor of the new release and I'll rarely come back to the so-so game after.