i play what i want when i want because it's just a hobby it's meant to be fun.

Yes, that's true and I am enjoying myself, but I can't play many games at once because I'll get the controls or the stories mixed up and I don't want that.

Elden Ring, for example, is a great game but I don't want to start another game now and possibly neglect Elden Ring because I like the other game better, or vice versa.

then don't

I can enjoy multiple games because I'm a fucking idiot and can laser focus on one game for weeks or months, then wake up the next day and spend hours trying to figure out what I wanna play, or God forbid playing something for an hour then switching ad nauseam.

My issue has never been playing multiple games at once. My issue is leaving a significant span of time in between play sessions and coming back to a game I've lost familiarity with. This tends to lead to more games abandoned after months and sometimes years of not playing them.

I don't have that problem if I'm constantly rotating what I'm playing, but some games become more of a chore over time and some just lose their appeal. I don't have a set rule to play everything to completion. I just tend to let the mood take me where it will.

That being said I've got a lot of games unfinished. And for a few months now I've been on a bit of a gaming hiatus as the interst has just not been there for a while in general.

Ample opportunity and material, no inspiration or motivation.

>My issue has never been playing multiple games at once. My issue is leaving a significant span of time in between play sessions and coming back to a game I've lost familiarity with. This tends to lead to more games abandoned after months and sometimes years of not playing them.

Yes, this is exactly what I have as well. I can enjoy a game for hundreds of hours, but as soon as I find a game that is a little more interesting, I neglect the first game, never to return to it or return and have forgotten everything.

For that reason, I must have started games like Bloodborne and Skyrim a hundred times, simply because I forgot the controls or forgot where I was in the first place.

This is why I usually just stick to one game. If I get bored with it I usually switch to something new and retry the first one at a later date.

I have the same problem. And 3 times now, I decided to give up on CP2077.

I love it first couple of hours. Then something else catches my attention. Then I come back after maybe 2 weeks and have lost interest and forgot story. I think this was the last time I’ll try to get into the game :)

I typically don't have this issue of forgetting where I am at in a game, but it also helps that I mentally go down a checklist every time I start playing a game. Especially if I have multiple games that I am playing at the same time. It is something that I have practiced since childhood and it is a good memory exercise.

For instance, I just went back to Dark Souls 3 despite not playing the game for over six months and immediately started on an old save that was midgame. I first reorient myself with the game and mentally check off what was done prior, which bosses I had fought, and what areas I had already unlocked double checking this against the Firelink Shrine's teleporter to make sure that I didn't forget anything major, all of this is done in roughly a minute.

If you are really having issues, I would also suggest keeping a notebook with just highlights of major events done in games. I used to do this before I came up with my current method, mostly because I thought logging my adventures in various games would be what adventurers like Link from Legend of Zelda would have done.

For RPGs, I typically do a debriefing session post gaming session where I go over the major events in my head and think about what made those events cool or thought provoking. That makes them stick out in my head more.

maybe try playing the games one at a time...

This is what I do too

Amen.