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What video game genres induce hyperfocus in you? (self.adhd)

submitted 4 months ago by WatTyler to c/[email protected]

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Maybe this doesn't need to be said but this is a different question to which video game genres do you enjoy. For example, I enjoy playing Dota 2. Every few months or so, I'll play it for a couple of weeks and put it back down. I'll never play more than two or three matches and I feel 'present' for the duration.

Paradox grand strategy games (especially EUIV), however, I can start playing at 7am and in a blink of an eye it can be 11pm and I won't have eaten or used the toilet or anything. I can do this for multiple days in a row. Furthermore, I don't often feel like I'm 'enjoying' it. I'm just consumed by it.

I'm intrigued to hear whether or not anyone recognises this difference in themselves. If you have any insight as to why you're consumed by some games and not others, I'd be very interested.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, anything competitive is too stressful for me to be able to just play for hours on end. I'm playing Deadlock at the moment and I'm typically taking a break after every one or two games just to control my mood.

Football Manager was the worst for me I'd say. Consumed months at a time. Civilization can eat a day easily if you're not careful. Really, anything I can control the pace of that I get interested in and that doesn't have a story. I enjoy narrative games, but they require a different type of focus and concentration that takes a lot more energy. I can't play those for days on end, even hours on end. I can get obsessed by them, and I can play tons of hours over the course of a week, but I don't hyperfocus on them the same way.

Anything management or strategy however, where you're working for incremental progress and "just one more turn"? That's dangerous. Last little obsession I had was Esports Godfather, a MOBA themed deckbuilder/autobattler/management game that has probably been my surprise hit of the year and which was gloriously addicting.

Furthermore, I don't often feel like I'm 'enjoying' it. I'm just consumed by it.

Recognise this feeling very well, from a lot of things when I hyperfocus on it. It's almost a sensation like nausea, that palpable feeling of not being in control, for me at least. Especially bad when I briefly snap into self-awareness - but not enough to break out of the hyperfocus.

[–] WatTyler 1 points 4 months ago

I tried a few times to get into FM but it never stuck. Which always felt faintly ridiculous. Almost as if I was someone who really wanted to get into heroin and was disappointed they couldn't get themselves addicted 😂

I did however get that fix from Motorsport Manager. It's way more 'game-y' and less simulation-like than FM but it gave me a faint taste of what an FM addiction must feel like.