Cold turkey is best turkey my friend, thay digital gacha crap you have accumulated is all worthless, 95% of what you have will be obsolete in a couple of months anyways. Throw it in a ditch and walk away to a good real game.
If you still want to sink hours and hours into single game there's plenty of good sandbox games out there.
I've played some strictly free to play. I still have 7dsgc & last cloudia.
I only play gacha shit sometimes because you can have some decent strategy in building aspects of it.
Just wait until RNG fucks you. It will happen. It is inevitable. You can either rage quit or allow Koreans to rape your wallet. Opening your wallet is the only true way to lose at a gacha game.
Also bear in mind most progression systems go nowhere. You just max out then there is nothing left to do. It's a treadmill & an illusion.
Also there's a mobile version of World of Warships, to which I'm addicted normally (have over 300 ships and I can say I'm pretty damn good with destroyers). I guess I might be playing this one but I'm already beaten this week's season progress.
Street Fighter: The Duel, Among Gods (pic related), Last Day Alive (only started several days ago, and downloaded like a hundred of them but only checked out a few).
Oh, and also Warface GO and Unkilled but these are more like FPS with lootboxes (especially the first one, and shockingly I absolutely dominate the matches while normally I struggle with leaving the last place in real games like Rogue Company that I should be playing instead).
I'm guilty of wasting way too much of my lifeforce in Marvel Puzzle Quest.
The match 3 + very light rpg mechanics grab me just right,
The gatcha is quite punishing in that you need 10-13! copies of any card that isn't top tier to make them not totally suck.
They are truly insidious in that they give you rewards that expire unless you pay to expand your collection space. And I'm ashamed to admit I did pay probably too much and it did make the game much more enjoyable.
What is the most brutal is everything is based on a timed event system. The meaningful/collection building rewards are all competitive so you have to grind against the bots and no-lifers but normal humans won't get past mid-tier which was good enough for me.
Like drugs, it felt good at the time but looking back I seriously regret my use.
Unlike drugs I'm never more than a couple of clicks away from re-installing because I'm tied to the phone and computer for my job.
I know to stay away from them, plus I get frustrated with them easily it's why I REALLY hated loot box mechanics that don't at least include a pity system so you can still get what you want without constant rng
World of Warcraft is closest I ever got to full on life altering game addiction. Realized it one day and just quit. Just decided I'm not doing this anymore. I tried to go back a couple times years after but didn't really stick. So that's my suggestion, just delete.
As someone who has played Final Fantasy Brave Exvius, Marvel Puzzle Quest, Gems of War, RAID: Shadow Legends, Azur Lane, Puzzle and Dragons, Clash Royale, Hearthstone and others I just cannot remember right now, the only person who can stop you is you.
Put down the phone, move away from the phone, pick up something else. A book perhaps, or maybe watch a movie or show. Anything to get away from your phone amd break that connection.
Thankfully I feel no need to mess around with mobile gaming, but (very) occasionally some stupid F2P game on the PC will grab my attention for a few days or weeks. Honestly, probably even sillier than falling for mobile games, since you have so many other good options on the PC if you want to game.
The worst I played - as far as the intersection of time spent and boring gameplay - was Might & Magic: Chess Royale, a few years back. For some reason that game hooked me, and took me a week or two to realize it was pretty fricking bland and two dimension. Not sure why, but something about it grabbed me.
i wont lie i tried a gacha game once... i dont understand how they are adictive outside what ive read on them. i diddnt feel any thrill or rush to play them... then again perhaps being aware of the manipulation offers some resistence to it as my time playing the game was hollow, empty and not fun. i would rather be playing puyo puyo or collapse.
Cold turkey is best turkey my friend, thay digital gacha crap you have accumulated is all worthless, 95% of what you have will be obsolete in a couple of months anyways. Throw it in a ditch and walk away to a good real game.
If you still want to sink hours and hours into single game there's plenty of good sandbox games out there.
Doom endures.
Gacha Games are just gambling.
I've played some strictly free to play. I still have 7dsgc & last cloudia.
I only play gacha shit sometimes because you can have some decent strategy in building aspects of it.
Just wait until RNG fucks you. It will happen. It is inevitable. You can either rage quit or allow Koreans to rape your wallet. Opening your wallet is the only true way to lose at a gacha game.
Also bear in mind most progression systems go nowhere. You just max out then there is nothing left to do. It's a treadmill & an illusion.
What game or games are you playing?
Also there's a mobile version of World of Warships, to which I'm addicted normally (have over 300 ships and I can say I'm pretty damn good with destroyers). I guess I might be playing this one but I'm already beaten this week's season progress.
Street Fighter: The Duel, Among Gods (pic related), Last Day Alive (only started several days ago, and downloaded like a hundred of them but only checked out a few).
Oh, and also Warface GO and Unkilled but these are more like FPS with lootboxes (especially the first one, and shockingly I absolutely dominate the matches while normally I struggle with leaving the last place in real games like Rogue Company that I should be playing instead).
You failed at mobile gaming
I'm guilty of wasting way too much of my lifeforce in Marvel Puzzle Quest.
The match 3 + very light rpg mechanics grab me just right,
The gatcha is quite punishing in that you need 10-13! copies of any card that isn't top tier to make them not totally suck.
They are truly insidious in that they give you rewards that expire unless you pay to expand your collection space. And I'm ashamed to admit I did pay probably too much and it did make the game much more enjoyable.
What is the most brutal is everything is based on a timed event system. The meaningful/collection building rewards are all competitive so you have to grind against the bots and no-lifers but normal humans won't get past mid-tier which was good enough for me.
Like drugs, it felt good at the time but looking back I seriously regret my use.
Unlike drugs I'm never more than a couple of clicks away from re-installing because I'm tied to the phone and computer for my job.
I know to stay away from them, plus I get frustrated with them easily it's why I REALLY hated loot box mechanics that don't at least include a pity system so you can still get what you want without constant rng
World of Warcraft is closest I ever got to full on life altering game addiction. Realized it one day and just quit. Just decided I'm not doing this anymore. I tried to go back a couple times years after but didn't really stick. So that's my suggestion, just delete.
As someone who has played Final Fantasy Brave Exvius, Marvel Puzzle Quest, Gems of War, RAID: Shadow Legends, Azur Lane, Puzzle and Dragons, Clash Royale, Hearthstone and others I just cannot remember right now, the only person who can stop you is you.
Put down the phone, move away from the phone, pick up something else. A book perhaps, or maybe watch a movie or show. Anything to get away from your phone amd break that connection.
Thankfully I feel no need to mess around with mobile gaming, but (very) occasionally some stupid F2P game on the PC will grab my attention for a few days or weeks. Honestly, probably even sillier than falling for mobile games, since you have so many other good options on the PC if you want to game.
The worst I played - as far as the intersection of time spent and boring gameplay - was Might & Magic: Chess Royale, a few years back. For some reason that game hooked me, and took me a week or two to realize it was pretty fricking bland and two dimension. Not sure why, but something about it grabbed me.
I’ve never bought a loot box or cosmetic in my life
i wont lie i tried a gacha game once... i dont understand how they are adictive outside what ive read on them. i diddnt feel any thrill or rush to play them... then again perhaps being aware of the manipulation offers some resistence to it as my time playing the game was hollow, empty and not fun. i would rather be playing puyo puyo or collapse.