For those of us who still play games, when do you play them?

Pre-evening to nighttimes weekday, so 6pm-10pmish and Weekends.

I'm a (31-year-old, cough) college student right now. I slot gaming in whenever it works for me, really.

At night mostly busy during the day and that's for an hour but if I die then I'm done for the night

I take my 3ds to work and play on lunch break. My wife watches a couple shows during the week, so I can game on my 3ds, Switch or Wii U then. PS4 and Xbox not so much, but I like playing on a handheld and have something on the tv too.

My primary time is weekday mornings when I play about an hour before going to work.
I have a pretty regular office job so this fits well into my schedule as I am something of an early riser. I don't play many multiplayer games so this syncing up with others is usually not an issue for me.

My weekends and evenings are generally allocated to other parts of my life, but I'll maybe play another hour or two sprinkled in then.

Short session in the morning, from 6 to 7 am. And in the evening after work, from 6 to 11 pm.

On weekends, I could play all day long if there's no plan to visit my (or wife's) parents.

Randomly when I'm done with everything else. Usually like 12am to 3am or something like that

I sneak em in whenever I can.

I used to be able to play them regularly at the end of the day, but now that doesn't always work for me.

The first 2/3 of next year is gonna be hard for me to get my gaming in.

During the work week I'm less motivated so I'll put in maybe 2 hours max on a weeknight but I also skip some nights if I'm not feeling it.

Weekends though it's kind of my ritual I wake up early around 8am, eat breakfast and then make a nice extra large coffee and sit down and game for 3-4 hours uninterrupted. Early morning so no one is bugging me and I still have the rest of the day to do whatever after.

Maybe for an hour or so during the 1-2 times per week after the kids go to sleep. Usually sometime between 8:30pm to 10:00pm. On the weekends, if I play, I might extend that out until 11pm.

Every once in a while I'll play early Saturday morning like at around 5 or 6am.

I try not to stay up until past midnight anymore.

At work during hurry up and wait and at home. Thanks Switch.

After 7:30pm until I get tired. Sucks but I got bills to pay.

Whenever possible.
My primary passions outside of gaming are learning and educating myself.

I'll stop playing games when I'm dead.

After the kids go to bed.

Nearly 4-7 hours a day after working.

A couple of hours on my two days a week off. Other than that not at all. On work nights I'd rather watch TV.

Late in the evening if I can.

Whenever I have some room to breath between tests and project deadlines, and it's usually something easy to pick-up/put-down. I save longer games for vacations between terms.

I was just discussing this with a coworker. I feel like I have transitioned to a seasonal weekend gamer.

I just don't have the time during the week. Work tends to be mentally draining and/or friends want to grab dinner,etc. I find streaming shows to be a better fit for relaxing my mind before bed.

Weekends are heavily dependent on social obligations and apparently the NFL season lol.

Winter break and holiday season are the biggest opportunities for me and my friends to play games together, and perfect for more story driven games that require all my focus vs games I can hop in and out while doing other things which get played on and off thruought the year.

After work on weekdays. Saturday and Sunday mornings as well if I can fit it in.

When I get a chance. Switch is godsend I can play at the kids sports practices and games during halftime. I get it in whenever I can.

Whenever I feel like it. Even when I have the free time, I don't always spend it on games.

Everyday and whenever I'm not doing something else or nothing at all. I'll even put on a podcast or Netflix or whatever while I play.

I'm not a busy person, so I can play whenever.

At no specific time really, when I have the time for it and when I feel like it. Much less than I used to, let's say 5 years ago.

It's weird...I mostly only play games at night. Not sure why, but I just can't be bothered during the day even if I have the free time

Normally an hour or two after work

Get home, have dinner with my GF, then she goes off to watch her YouTube videos and I'll play for an hour or two, then we'll do/watch something together before bed

I have a Retro Pi hooked up to the TV in the bedroom so I'll sometimes play an hour of something before bed too (I beat DQV recently)

Weekends, it depends what we have planned, sometimes I'll play for 3-5 hours a day, sometimes not at all

Maybe a few hours after work, and weekends when possible.

A couple of hours after 8 hr shifts, none after 12 hr ones and usually 4 or more during my days off.

Between the hours of 11pm and 3 am most days. While the world sleeps and I have all the time for me. My sleeping habits allow this

20.00-23.00 if not doing anything else like Netflix or other hobbies and chill.

Keeps my mind off from the real world and everything around it, i don't know if i never had this what i would be doing.

I play after work and in the weekends, i consume a lot of time with games.

Usually several hours every day, sometimes a bit less if I got something else to do or don't feel like it.

My work hours are very inconsistent, but an average it's a 100 hour work month.
Even on weeks where I work 40 hours, I still have plenty of time left for gaming.

Actually I also play on my lunch hour, as I bring my Vita to work with me, though if I'm busy or meeting someone for lunch I don't play

Working on Velocity 2X at the moment

Biggersmaller said:

After the kids go to bed.

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This is pretty accurate. I don't have kids but working full-time has sapped me of the energy and motivation to play videogames for long play sessions like I used to. It fucking sucks but the alternative is being poor as shit and being unemployed at 32 isn't really fashionable for a middle class slob like myself.

I'm lucky enough to work somewhere that doesn't exhaust me.. And I have pretty reasonable hours, with the ability to meet for work anywhere between 6.30 and 9am.
As such, I manage to get a lot of game time in, especially on the days where I meet early and can then leave early as well.

It all depends on uni studying. There are weeks where I can play as long as I want everyday and weeks that I can't play at all. My schedule is pretty random tbh

Very rarely during the week. I don't like short sessions, I want to play at least an hour or better two. It's mostly at the weekend, saturday evening/night. Sometimes a session on friday night, if I'm not to late at home (I have different working hours) and feel like I have enough energy left and maybe on sunday. I try to play as much as possible during holidays.
But it's always a struggle with all the other stuff I need and want to do. Of course there is the housework, and sometimes I want to watch a movie/series, and I'm following some gaming channels. So I have to decide what gets my precious free time.
In the end I'm playing not as often as I would love to, sometimes not for weeks, and there are so many games I'd love to play. Even if I can cross out some form my to do list, it's not getting any shorter. D:

Usually Thurs days and Fri, I'm off and don't have anything to do till around 3:30pm those days. Besides that I squeak in an hour or two before work sometimes just depends how tired I am from the night before since I mostly work closing shifts.

It's usually the weekends, but I can put time in for the weekdays if I don't have any busy weeks going on for college.