While I manage to restrain myself nowadays with AAA games / full priced games, my VR backlog is outpacing my ability to play them all. The games are $10 to $40, impulse buy territory, yet only play a couple hours a week.

I'm starting the play more again with winter approaching, but doubt I'll catch up with my VR backlog over winter. Too many to play. I just bought Dreams of Another today, Wallace & Gromit The Grand Getaway a few days ago, Reach before that and still have PSVR2 games to play I bought well over a year ago.

I admit I am very bad about this. There are A LOT of games on my shelf still in shrink wrap, and many more digital titles I've never touched.

I think I still fool myself that I can somehow play them all, but realistically there are only so many hours in the day.

Most games I have spent more than $10 on I have at least tried by now.
But in my physical library (and especially digital where most unplayed are) I have over 100 games easily I have never played yet. It's easy to spend $2-$10 on a digital game for me (especially if it only goes on sale once or twice a year) and have it sit for at least months, sometimes over a year.
I could surely buy a PS5 Slim with the money over the years I've spent on games that are unplayed right now.

I do this with retro games. I damn near have every single "best of" for the N64 now, and they just sit a box with the system lol. I know I'll eventually get around to them, as I do actually play my consoles, but man... I wish I could see a cart/disc I need to collect without having to pull the trigger. Personally, I blame the market as much for it as my lack of will power. Because you never know when that hundred-dollar game is going to jump to two hundred. It sucks.

I need games physically and collect for 14 different consoles. Sadly, a lot of games show up for sale locally once a decade. And when they show up I buy regardless of whether I am ready to play them. But I'm also on the verge of giving up on modern consoles. Switch 2 and PS5 may be my final consoles because I have such a huge backlog and games are getting worse as time goes on.

My backlog is embarrassingly huge.

I still have multiple Switch 1 games I haven't gotten around to yet even now that Switch 2 is out, less than 5 months into Switch 2 I already have a backlog of games going, and I have a list of like 30 PS4/5 games I want to play but haven't found the time yet.

So many games, so little time.

I will almost certainly never be able to play even half of the games I own. That said, a large number of them were also included in bundles I got for other games, and the bundles were good deals even for the few games I got them for. Counting only games I care about, I might have a better chance, but honestly, I'm probably not going to complete even all the kind of interesting games. I've also bought games a bit more recklessly in the past, but I've got better at it. I still probably buy games way faster than I can complete them, but the situation feels more manageable now. I guess it helps that I already own most of the games that interest me, and nowadays deals are worse than in the past.

One thing preventing me from making more progress on my backlog is that I keep coming back to the same games, typically ones that either don't have a proper end or have great replayability. I guess that's time well spent, at least as well as any time spent on gaming is - gotta do what I enjoy, not work on trying to enjoy something.

At this point... I have accepted that I am a hoarder of video games and the worlds largest video game museum in the Southern Hemisphere will open when I die.

I won't stop.

I used to be wild with this but nowadays try to only buy a game if I intend to play it soon unless it's very deeply discounted. At this point Humble Choice is what's adding most of the new additions to my Steam Library excluding free stuff.

I'm a terrible gamer in that sense, I own so many games, yet I've played so few of them. My Steam library alone is probably about 65-70% unplayed, and of the ones I have played, I don't think I finished more than about half. I generally finished more games on console, at a per capita rate anyway. I still have quite a few console games I never finished. As a general rule, I buy about 15-20 games every year, but I find myself sticking to replays or staying with a handful of titles for years.