discussion Reasons for dropping a game

[partymanimal]

When devs start to make the MC too annoying/oblivious or put way to much pointless filler in to drama bait

 

[AbbaDoo]

Really broken Engrish can do it for me.

 

[xatfx]

After 15/20 minutes of playing, you know if a game will be interesting or not, and if you will abandon it or go through with it.

 

[MercurioC]

• When the game leans too heavily into parody and loses its seriousness. A bit of humor is fine, but if everything becomes a joke, it’s hard to stay engaged.
• When the main character—or female protagonists in general—aren’t likeable. If I can't connect with them, it really takes the fun out of playing.
• Bad pacing or forced drama. If the story tries too hard to be emotional or dramatic without building it up properly, it just feels fake.
• And definitely paywalls. When too much content is locked behind extra payments or microtransactions, it turns something fun into something annoying real fast.

 

[setzer]

Really broken Engrish can do it for me.

Same. I try to be considerate but god damn do some things just make me X out of game and uninstall.

 

[shaiko]

too much mini games

 

[lak]

Reasons for dropping a game?​

The dev dropping the game…

 

[JadedSkywalker]

Killing love interests off. I'm really tired of this trope. Fine in a horror maybe, if a game that promised violence and fuckery but in harem games.

 

[LewisCarroll]

I'm too OCD to quit games after I've invested more than 30 min in them... Really really wish I would have quit Hi Emi.

 

[User_160778]

If a story is dragging a lot and it is boring then i will drop the game for sure.

 

[MattShizzle]

Blueballing, killing LIs/MC, old saves not working, unavoidable minigames...

 

[prirasust]

inefficient sandbox and unnecessary grind.

 

[MattShizzle]

inefficient sandbox and unnecessary grind.

I just filter sandbox out as a "never download" - like futa, ntr, 2d, blackmail, etc. Any grind whatsoever gets dropped.

 

[Mcloving]

sometimes lack of a story just makes the game boring,and sex scenes dont mean much

 

[Mcloving]

I just filter sandbox out as a "never download" - like futa, ntr, 2d, blackmail, etc. Any grind whatsoever gets dropped.

same,first thing i do is exclude sandbox tag

 

[rgutsampage]

For me mostly, is that they take too long to get to the good stuff or if is too complicated to get to that point

 

[FixWill]

If a game is too linear or I can’t take a few steps without constant encounters, I drop it. It just feels suffocating.

 

[blonk1]

Very infrequent updates

 

[Deleted member 212632]

poor writing or updates that don't update anything

 

[A_Man_In_Space]

Game gets abandoned, losing interest in them, and Updates taking so long that I lose interest in them.