The 9 Worst Reasons We Haven’t Finished A Game

From embarrassment to heartbreak to pure spite, there are many silly reasons to not roll the credits

By Kenneth Shepard Published April 27, 2023 |

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Did you know most people don’t actually finish video games? A game like Elden Ring can sell 20 million copies, but if you look at the trophy completion percentage, only a little under half of the people who bought the game on PlayStation actually saw it through to the end. There are a lot of reasons for this, many of them totally valid. AAA games are getting longer, and our lives are getting busier. But occasionally we may have a reason for not finishing a game that is a little, well, questionable. Some might even say embarrassing, depending on the reasoning. Here are a few bad reasons we never finished a video game.