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Dropping in and not having to get back up to speed with a game has become more important to my gaming life than I wish it was. I don't have time to change it. Even minimal-story games like Valheim or Elite: Dangerous have become too cumbersome because I have to spend a bunch of time figuring out what I did last, what I need to gather, and what I need to build to progress. I can either go mine/sail iron in Valheim, I can hope my pirate hunter ship and pirate activity are close to where I last docked... Or I can just play some basic game and take 5 minutes to get up to speed instead of spending the first 45 minutes recalibrating my memory. It makes a difference when you might only play 3 times a week and have less than 2 hours left. I'm hoping next year goes better, but for now, it's battle Royale, team match, or racing games.
Obviously, there's a massive competitive attractiveness for some people to games like PUBG and CS as well. But it's not all trigger-finger addicts. Some of us are just trying to have an OK time, not the best time.
E:D doesn't really have them, but valheim and other information heavy games tend to have writeable signs. Since early modded minecraft, I have utilized these signs to communicate with my future self; writing down what I'm doing at the time and what my major goals are before logging off for the night is just part of my gaming routine now. Takes me a few seconds of reading to trigger the flow of action again. When games don't have signs, I use a notepad .txt file to track what I was up to, or failing that I'll save a note in my phone.
I would never have finished factorio or satisfactory without text files and signage. I would never have finished most large minecraft modpacks without signage. Organization skills rock.