Be a smart minimalist gamer not a game hoarder.
Less is More. It is enough to have only the best quality games instead of hundreds of average/poor quality games that we don't even play.

The more cheaper you sell your game the more people gonna buy. Cheap games that are easily accessible will always become more popular and more successful than expensive games.

Sometimes the best gaming experiences come from mods like:
Entropy Zero 2 (most interesting half-life 2 mod)
Counter-Strike 1.6 Zombie Plague mod (best multiplayer experience)
CS: Source Zombie Escape mod (best zombie escape maps)

Mods and community made content is what keeps games alive.
Corporate greed, microtransactions, live service, no mod support is what ruins games.

From 2008 to 2011 were the golden ages of gaming. When everyone had weaker computers, fewer games and limited features, the multiplayer games, maps and mods felt super fun, interesting, addictive.

Now days all we have are endless grind, hyper competitive games, cheaters, griefers, toxic community/players, content locked behind DLC, paywall, microtransactions. This is what modern gaming has become.

From around 2023 to 2025 I decided to remove a bunch of games from my wishlist and drastically reduced the number of wish-listed games. It has become a rarity for good games these days and I might go back to pirating or just simply don't care about new games anymore. I didn't fall into consumerism or mindless buying every time there were sales. It is not worth it.

You buy a game, play it once or twice and then never again = wasted money.
Sometimes there are games that look and feel really fun at the beginning then you progress, play it more and realize that there's something bad about it or it isn't fun. Games like this are everywhere on Steam and it is getting harder to notice them because they look very good on the surface but the game's content is bad.

Another problem is that there are way too many games, too many options. There's no way I gonna play every single game.