January Video Game Challenge

 So, I have kind of been feeling I wanted to work on a challenge in the month of January. So I decided to do one involving playing video games I haven't played yet.

So the challenge has 2 main ideas. First off, I aim to avoid spending money on video games in January no matter how good the deal. I might still add free games from epic but my goal is to not buy or spend any money on games this month.

The second, and I guess main point is to try some of the games I have acquired. So the goal is to play a half an hour of a game in my library that I have never played before each day. Basically I missed January 1st as I just wasn't feeling great and didn't get around to playing anything. So perfection is already out the window. Hopefully that will allow me to feel a bit looser about it and not stress about this too much. So far on January 2nd I played Citizen Sleeper. On the 3rd I played Forgotten City, and on the 4th I played Forza Horizon 4 (the blogger dates don't match Taipei time so this post might be dated the third but I am writing it on the morning of the fourth).

There is a third idea that I have thought a bit about but don't really feel committed to. This is to somehow organize the games in my library. I might make a list in document and write some goals for each game. Or I might just create categories in my Steam and Epic libraries and add games to those. This isn't a very serious part of the challenge. This partly because I feel mixed about this kind of organization. It often seems to be a good idea but in my experience it almost never works out and sometimes backfires in terms of killing my enthusiasm rather than building it up. Secondly I don't have much idea of how to incorporate it into the challenge other than maybe just categorizing the games I play each day.

Another issue is something my Dad talked about in a recent email. Just basically the idea of having a lot of games (in his case books) ongoing to where I have started them and feel invested to some degree but that I am not actively playing through as my main go-to game. I already feel I have a good number of open games that I have started and messed around with but not gotten very far with. This project will create a bunch more of these loose threads. I guess that is the downside. The upside is that I am breaking the seal on a lot of these games so I can try them out and get a bit more of an idea of whether I will like them or not. So maybe I will be more inclined to pick them up when I have free time.