Can I take my time with video games

I have a lot of video games I'd like to get through, as seen by this list:

ANd that is just a fraction of the video games I want to work my way through. I am currently on Kingdom Come: Deliverance which is by all accounts an amazing game, but it's a hard game to just casually play. On top of that it's so easy to end up doing something that 'feels wrong' or making the wrong decision. That can be great for replayability but given the long list of games I want to get through and the limited time I have in my life to do it, it just doesn't feel possible. All that in mind, sometimes I struggle to bring myself to play KCD as it really feels like I have to commit some serious time to it. I didn't feel that when I played Mass Effect.

Recently I saw a video about Skyrim that piqued my interest. I've never completed the main questline in Skyrim despite the many hours I have had playing it. In fact, I've never even gotten the Horn of Jurgen Windcaller. I always get sidetracked by other quests and then forget about the game for a long time. In this video, the idea was discussed to slow down your gameplay of Skyrim, to try and take in the world more and feel more immersed in the game.

Since KCD is also a first person RPG and is quite similar to Skyrim in that regard I figured those ideas would be applicable here. So I set up a gaming environment for immersing myself in the game. I poured myself a nice drink in a fake tankard souvenir I picked up in the Tower of London, I lit a nice candle, and I sat down to just play the game and try not to worry about 'doing things right' and it was fun. I made some progress in the game I was happy with and I enjoyed my experience.

But the point still stands. Do I have time for that? I've said it before that I have a lot of games I want to get through and so little time to do it. Can I afford to 'take my time' with KCD?

But then, as I was thinking about that, another thought occurred to me. Have I truly played through this game if I didn't enjoy it? Was it even worth playing if I didn't immerse myself in the experience? What would be the point in having completed the game if I can't really look back and remember my time playing it?

With that in mind, then surely it's no matter if I don't really have the time for it. It wouldn't really have been worth playing it if I rushed through the game, if I just saw it as some sort of entry on a list that had to be checked, rather than something to be experienced. I may as well have stuck a podcast on or another video on a different screen while I played, and that's not a rabbit hole I want to go down.

In short, I'm going to try taking my time with KCD. Sure I've been playing it for a while (I started it nearly a year ago now) but that's just the nature of it. It wouldn't be worth playing if I didn't enjoy it.