Is there a game you always wanted to play but did not dare? (updated , new ga)

Hm... I haven't had that exact experience before
But I've definitely had a lot of experiences where I avoided popular games because I thought I wouldn't like it, then years later try it out and love it

Witcher 1-2-3 , I just don't have time and I cannot play "casual" those RPGS, I cannot dare to play like casuals ewwwwwwwww

Your Rimworkd reference helps. For me it would be Monster Hunter or Disgaeia. Time sinks that seem to be pretty neat. And since I've tried Cookie Clicker for the first time yesterday, I am definitely right to stay at a reasonable distance from these games.

Probably Kingdom come. Most likely the biggest rpg from my country, yet I don't know if I will like it as it isn't a fantasy. I haven't even bought it yet.

Pretty much any horror game. I love the genre in itself. I love hanging out when a friend plays it, I love horror movies, books..

But games - I am too much of a chicken to move past the tutorial :D I would have loved to play dead space, resident evil, even amnesia. But I can handle only the tame ones - Alan Wake (first part), Metro Exodus and similar.

So I am pretty much losing out on some brilliant gameplays and stories just because I cant get into horror games. And watching youtubers play is like watching porn instead of actually doing it. The fun aspect is almost non existent there. Used to do gaming parties where we gifted some new horror game to a friend and then hung out when he was playing it. Then you can be at least part of the fun and the game wont stop when you close your eyes from fear (and don't you compare it to my initial example :D)

I want to play Resident Evil Village, but at the same time I fear horror games. Never purchased though:)

For me it's gotta be the Yakuza series, i've played and enjoyed other games in the same genre as the series, but knowing the amount of time i'll have to sink into one game - I can never bring myself to do it (especially given the size of my backlog O_O)

I've got basically all of them in my library (Have the first 6 games in the series) so it's very possible that I could play it in the future, but for the time being I can't bring myself to start it knowing the commitment I'll have to put in to finish the game.

For me probably Deus Ex Revision. I enjoyed Human Revolution years ago and then wanted to play the whole series. Tried Deus Ex original first, but didn't get warm with its old state, then found Revision and wanted to give that a go, but the sheer amount of achievements is bothering me.

Quake :)

Oh man, what a subject. Me and my dad recently managed to gather enough for a psvr2 after years of being fans of the technology. I was super hyped to play horror games since it felt like the proper way of playing them that way. I played Resident Evil Village and i felt my heart numb afterwards, something i also felt after a recent surgery i had, so i don't feel comfortable enough playing them due to health concerns even though i would really, really like to. Unfortunately i'll have to hold off from playing the rest of RE8 and Madison Vr, for now at least.

I find it hard to play long games since I am afraid I need a break after a bit and then never really get back into it and leave in unfinished and the longer you wait the harder it gets to get back into it.

Also have games that I think I may enjoy but am afraid I would suck to much to get through it, like for example Ori and the blind forest, played it, got stuck somewhere, tried 30+ times and gave up and now the game is just collecting dust being forever unfinished. (and no, I don't remember where I got stuck, I just know I had to jump and there were tries and I kept getting hit and had to retry)

Almost forgot a category, games that are first-person and look fun, since I can feel very sick from first-person games, I find it hard to even give a game a chance if I may get sick from it!

Bump! For me it's all horror. I watch on YouTube, but I don’t play. Afraid))

Far Cry 6. Man i love every game in the series, I even played new dawn (its ok but wow nothing really different) and I'm just, I did actually play it on epic with a friend but i could not play it alone and even with a friend there was a link missing a lack of entertainment. Something similar to FC was, Assassin's creed 2 on ps3 and odyssey on xbox, I loved them and they're great console games, but to play them on PC i just get lazy, and AC 2 had such wack controls that I did not feel like adjusting them that night and havent touched it again. And I don't wanna boot up the consoles since I've lost the passwords to basically all of them and the only thing keeping me on them is if they stay logged in, also I'm lazy LOL.

Bloodborne, Sekiro, Elden Ring. I don't like souls-like games, because I'm not good enough for their difficulty and I hate to do the same thing without any progress. But these games' lore and art are seem very interesting, but the gameplay discourage me.

Dwarf Fortress

EDIT Another one: games by Zachtronics (TIS-100, SHENZHEN I/O, Opus Magnum, EXAPUNKS, etc.)

https://store.steampowered.com/developer/zachtronics

For me it's story-heavy RPGs where I know I'll need to focus for long periods of time and play regularly... Still haven't played Fallout, Planescape or Arcanum because for years I haven't been able to foresee 3 months where I would be able to play at least 1 hour a day without being swamped by life.

Closest I can think of would probably be Genshin Impact, I guess.
It looks cute and it (presumably) has descent gameplay... and I fully expect those to be completely undermined by the fact that it's a loolbox-infected gatcha game. Games like that are designed with their gambling mechanics first, anything else second. I know that the cute aesthetic and (presumably good) gameplay are just there to attract as many people as possible to get the gambling addicts between them to sink their lives into it. Even if I have a strict "no money spend on free games" policy, I know those mechanics would be fighting me on every step of the way.
Screw games like that and screw the mobile games market. <.<

Rimworld, Kenshi, Caves of Qud, Unreal world, kerbal and most of rpgs and city builders...all are waiting in my backlog, but I'm too overwhelmed by the bare thought of starting:) From time to time I'm pushing myself into some of it, enjoyed Factorio, Kingdome come (it became one of my top5 fav game) and yet it still hard to start and gain the first momentum of interest.

There were two games or well series if you want. The first one was The Dark Pictures Anthology which I'm not ashamed to admit I put aside because I'm not a big fan of horror games, but in the end I got persuaded to try and that led to me finishing Man of Medan 5 times and House of ashes twice so far.
The second one is the Yakuza series because of the sheer amount of time needed to complete those games.

Yakuza series, it looks like something i would like, but maaaan, there's so many sequels and i've just never felt like i want to start a story that long.

Yup, it's Dwarf Fortress and Rimworld for me. I have both of them on my library but they're so massive in scale that my poor brain can't handle them right now. I hope that one day I might understand them enough to get hooked.

Also, Paradox strategy games.

The Persona series, I actually really want to play them but keep putting it off because I'm kinda afraid of the NPC AI (I hate not having control over characters).

Also Baldur's Gate 3, I saw that 150 gb free space requirement and was like "lol no".

I have both Hollow Knight and Celeste and I'm afraid to play either because I'm not sure if I can beat them without losing my mind (and joy).
Also the Zero games, I don't think I'm that intelligent.

For me I think these are Factorio and Dwarf Fortress.
The first one I bought it but never passed past a few minutes. And I think i will try it eventually, but so little time...
And Dwarf Fortress is a game i always wanted to try, and I will buy it probably, but I doubt I will pass beyond a few minutes, but it's the kind of game I want to play and like it. But I'm not sure i will enjoy. (And I know it's free on their website, but i preffer to try the version with graphics)

I've been told when I expressed my concerns that RimWorld might be too complicated to me now that it's easy to get into, I remember that clearly.

My "I don't dare to dare" game is Skyrim.