There's been a few games where I wish I just hadn't ever picked them up in the first place. like, such a complete waste of time that I won't ever get back, or frustrating beyond reason, or stuff like that.
I'm curious what's on your "stay away from" lists.
for me it's idle games. oh my god, they are plague, both on mankind in general and myself in specific. I just can't look away. cannot put them down. they eat me for days, and when I finally get away I wish I'd never installed them.
any builder game played alone. like, minecraft, factorio, space engineers etc.I get REALLY INTO it and then lose my save for some reason and realize I don't miss it at all and suddenly there's other things I can do in life. maybe I just don't have the creative spirit, but like...at least make shared memories if you're doing it.
like 99% of indie RPGs. they just do not bring nearly enough to the table for the time investment.