When do YOU decide to give up on a 'boring/dull' game?

It depends on the game.

One of my biggest issues as I get older is the lack of time to play games, but that's heavily compounded by the fact my favourite genre is the RPG. It's very difficult to judge a 50-60 + hour narrative game on an hour or two, I've become far more picky thanks to that and spend more time speaking to like minded friends/checking reviews from people with similar tastes. I have given chances to other games which I honestly thought would be average to terrible, but only when they've been available on Games Pass or were given away by Epic, DA:V and Avowed both fall into that segment. Avowed being "okay" enough to finish the first act before dropping it, DA:V I felt was horrendous in every way that mattered, I'd not have been happy if I'd actually spent money on it.

Anything else I tend to realise whether it's for me or not fairly quickly and will make use of the two hour refund window on Steam, outside of the odd RPG I mainly play small indie games where you can have quick 10-15 minute sessions off and on.
 
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Going through this will Cyberpunk now, played it at release was okay. Trying to get into it a second time to play the DLC and struggling.

I don’t get much chance to game so sitting through hours of dialogue isn’t the one for me.
 
There are quite a few games that are now my all time favourites (Like the Stalker series) that took me a few hours to get into. The misery mod for Stalker was a rare exception where I gave up on it, but then went back to give it a proper go later and then it ended up being one of the best gaming experiences I have had. But with Misery, it was like a niggling feeling there was something there ever since I put it down. Most modern games I can just tell from the first few hours that theres nothing more to it and no heart and soul has been put into it. Its just a generic shell, filled with things they think modern gamers need.
 
Being a bit special needs, boring doesn't bother me much.
Fiddly tends to ruin stuff. I want to just play, I don't want to have to worry about 3000 different things to do it.
 
Usually I give a game 3-4 hours and then call it quits if it still hasn't grabbed me. But retiring games is rare since I know my taste and usually pick stuff I enjoy.

However, now I am playing 1000XResist and I HATE everything about it, but I already invested 6 hours in it and so I decided to let my HATE OCD take over and finish it.

I haven't hated a game this much in years, if ever. This is me, about this game

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Easier to do nowadays what with gamepass etc but then are you quitting too soon? I feel if it hasn’t cost me anything other than the sub I could well be.

To answer the question though I generally give up if it hasn’t grabbed me within an hour, atomfall was the latest.
 
It’s rarely a conscious decision for me, I just find I’ve lost the desire to play the game at some undefined point and if I were to think “where did I leave it in the story”, my answer would be “don’t know”.

KCD2 for example, got to 45 hours and hadn’t played for weeks. Loaded it up and put another 5 or so hours in to it and stopped playing without realising again. Now have zero desire to play again.

Then there are the games where I can point to a defining moment where I just thought “nope”. In Veilguard it was during a particularly annoying boss fight that was just frustrating. I didn’t even mind it as a game until that point.
 
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Usually between two and four hours. By then it is clear that I will never like the game. If it hasn't grabbed me by then it obviously never will. By contrast, games I like will be played for hundreds of hours.
 
Back in the days, like 90s, it was easier as every game was bringing something new. Nowadays almost each game is an iteration of some idea or story, or even recently a remaster or remake of older game. I have to force myself with almost every game now to crawl through first hour or so and then see if its worth it or not. It needs to have a good story, graphics and essentially have something that I like to play, otherwise I uninstall it. Grinding in adventure games is also tiring, so if this happens, I stop playing.
Generally I dont play games that much as I used to when was younger, so its even harder to keep playing a game. Nostalgia plays a bigger role nowadays as well, so if something brings back memories of old games, I will play that, at least try harder;)
 
Back in the day I used to play games through just to complete them, regardless of it whether it was good or bad, purely because I paid for it.
Now my gaming time is so much more valuable and I pretty much give it an hour or 2 before I can it. Veilguard and Starfield were the 2 exceptions, Veilguard I canned it within the first 15 minutes as it just wasn't a dragon age game for reasons I've given in the games thread in here, Starfield I persevered with for about 20-30 hours but it was just extremely boring and I couldn't bring myself to continue with it.
 
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Back in the day I used to play games through just to complete them, regardless of it whether it was good or bad, purely because I paid for it.
Now my gaming time is so much more valuable and I pretty much give it an hour or 2 before I can it. Veilguard and Starfield were the 2 exceptions, Veilguard I canned it within the first 15 minutes as it just wasn't a dragon age game for reasons I've given in the games thread in here, Starfield I persevered with for about 20-30 hours but it was just extremely boring and I couldn't bring myself to continue with it.
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I miss those days. I remember when I was in school the only time I got games was at christmas and my birthdays, so the games I did get got completed and then played to death. Then again, this was an amazing point in gaming where so many great games and franchises were born. Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, Gran Turismo, Broken Sword, Silent Hill to name a few. Later on when I got my consoled chipped was the start of the backlog era :(
 
A couple of hours at the top end perhaps. Sometimes it can be within minutes. There are just so many games that I want to play it seems ridiculous to stick with one that I'm not enjoying.
 
Currently bogged down in Stalker 2. I swear it is the most boring and overly drawn out game I've ever played.
 
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