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I work from home so I can play a round or two of my fave shooters to break the monotony in the middle of my work day. Then around two hours after work.

No, but i neglect important things to play anyway.

I don't have kids, so I have a few hours a week for the video games. Oblivion remaster is consuming all of that time currently. I fucking love the original and this new one is just so beautiful

in my experience, adults yes. adults with kids, not for a while.

you get to play some games again when your child starts sleeping longer hours at night. if your spouse is ok with it you might be able to go to sleep later and play a session. just make sure your spouse is ok with it. even better if your spouse also plays.

and hopefully when they're old enough you'll play together anyway.

if you have another child only a year or two apart however that'll set you back a couple years probably. 2x children is like 4x time sink for some reason.

As an adult with a family: Yes, but nothing like when I was younger. The biggest shift for me primarily was to games that are not competitive or multiplayer.

I can't do the 25-60 minute intense gaming sessions with or against other players. I have to be able to stop everything I am doing at a moment's notice. I feel bad having to drop on people.

Also I can't do the FPS games now because I'm old and my eyes just can't anymore.

Wish I had more free time but unfortunately my work/life balance is pretty bad at the moment.

But every once in a while the urge will hit and I'll end up playing something obsessively for a few weeks or so while suffering through a lack of sleep during that time.

Only on the weekends, between chores.

I drive a truck for work, and it's my home during the week. Theoretically, I've got some gaming time while waiting on loading docks, but in terms of providing time for gaming, I can't count on it. Some of my customers are annoyingly efficient. I prefer to nap anyway.

I could always play once I'm parked at the end of my trip, but after 11 hours of driving, I'm often too mentally fried to even watch TV.

Plus, my truck's power inverter can't handle running my gaming PC anyway. So it waits for me at home.

Obviously, yes is the answer. Partners and kids don't prevent you from doing anything. Hell, your partner might play with you and the kids might watch.

Only problem is that kids learn "mine" before they learn "I can't pause Dark Souls, let me get to a safe spot and I'll refill the goldfish, I don't want to lose these... Damnit."

Yes

I have all the time I ever did (little), but I use it differently. I’d rather take a walk in the mountains with my wife than play a game. In my mid-30’s I quit smoking, smoking, and playing games. Nothing against those things; I just wanted to use my time differently.

I read a ton more too, and find it far more enjoyable.

Yes. Less but yes.

I have time, but not the energy. I'll usually play on the weekends some, but after work and getting dinner made I don't usually want to engage my brain much

It helps to not have kids. Also helps to have a job with downtime, like when i. recompiling the software or publishing which takes forever sometimes.

Yes I have time, but I'm not the average working class, because I don't work. And have no kids.

Yes. Make time.

My husband and I are in our mid 30’s and don’t have kids. I even work from home 90% of the time so no commute time. I have so much time that I do volunteering next to my full time job. And then I still have time for hobbies.

I do, but I don't have a whole lot else going on

I steal "me time" from my sleep time, it sucks

Fifty plus here and yes I still play. Two fifteen minute breaks and a half hour lunch so I game during that time. Plus a couple hours on Monday nights and same on Friday nights. Gives me a little time to unwind. Definitely not middle class

Yes, as I chose not to have kids and my wife also enjoys video games.

Edit: However, I do tend to hyperfixate on other interests for periods of time.

Video games as a hobby is one of the cheapest ones out there. As far as having time, in my experience people that say they don't have time for it can't see the time they spend doing anything else as time spent.

Yes, with no kids. But because time is limited, it can easily become all you do with your free time.

I don't have a "battlestation" that I game at anymore. No more 5 hour raids in Naxx. I have a steam deck and thats all I need for now.

I do, but not much these days. I’ve got kids and a career with meh work life balance. Sleep, exercise, and hobbies all compete for the remainder.

On a good weekend I can get a couple of hours in though.

Didn't really get to for ages, but with a steam deck it's doable to do it after the kid's in bed to play an hour or 2 of something. You definitely have to pick other types of games than the ones I used to play tho (FPS and RTS don't really work well with the Steam deck controls).

Yes, a bit at least. If your routine doesn't have any time for what you love, it's an extremely shitty situation.

I try to manage my work hours even if it hits income a bit.

Steam Deck helps a lot. Kid wants to watch some awful Paw Patrol or whatever before bed? Sure, I can sit down and spend 20 minutes failing to make progress on The Binding of Isaac.

I have gobs of free time. Too much, really...but I'm also 35 and my main hobby was still video games two years ago. There's a lot of "been there, done that" fatigue setting in when you've played thousands of games for decades. Even going back to retro, I've played most cream of the crop including fan translations by now. Once and awhile a genuinely old good foreign game still gets translated and I'm all over it.

Now I play less on average, but if a game comes out now that grabs my attention I'll still dump 60-100 hours in two weeks into it for RPG or play shorter games in 8 hour chunks no problem still. It's just a matter of capturing that attention.

I got other new competing hobbies now where I don't know everything yet and that's more fun. I my have drifted away from games slower than most, but I still did eventually. It's natural and I don't force myself to play. I'm okay with change.

I do mourn the loss of my core 4 player co-op group still :s

I had a good chunk of time where I wasn't gaming. But when I first got my Steam Deck I went through some of my backlogged catalog, the ability to pause, sleep the deck and come back to it later and be back where I stopped in seconds was really useful. After that I remembered how much I enjoyed gaming and so made some changes in my routine to allow for some game time every now and then.