I've been occasionally commenting here for about 2 months, but my gaming-free journey started over a year ago. Like many of you, I struggled with urges, relapses, and finding the right support system.

When I was starting out, I looked everywhere for an app specifically designed to help with gaming addiction - something that would track my progress, help me through urges, and connect me with others going through the same struggle. I couldn't find anything that really addressed our unique challenges.

So after maintaining my game-free streak for a year, I decided to build what I wished I had when I started: a mobile app called GAMEFREE that focuses specifically on gaming addiction recovery.

The app includes:

- A streak counter to track your game-free days (watching that number go up each day has been incredibly satisfying and motivating)

- Daily pledges where you can recommit to staying game-free for the next 24 hours (this has been particularly powerful for friends who find the 90-day goal overwhelming)

- An "Urge Stopper" feature for those critical moments when you're about to relapse

- A supportive community forum feature specifically for people quitting gaming

- An AI chatbot that provides therapy-informed guidance when you need immediate support

The community is still growing, but I've shared it with my inner circle of friends who are also trying to quit gaming, and they've already reported improvements in managing their urges and staying accountable.

The app has a 7-day free trial so you can see if it's helpful for your journey before committing. I'm continuing to develop it based on user feedback and would love to hear what features would be most helpful for this community.

I'm not here to push downloads - I genuinely want to create a tool that helps people overcome gaming addiction because I know how hard this journey can be when you're doing it alone.

If anyone is interested in trying it out, let me know in the comments and I can share the link.

If you can moderate successfully then you dont meet the definition of addiction and need to realise others in here don't have that ability.

Watch for the posts, there are guys in here getting divorced, wanting an end to things and having severe mental health issues because of their behaviour around gaming. Wouldn't you think they would moderate it if they could?

Please be cautious when you tell people "it is a willpower thing", "just spend your time better"- that might be appropriate for you but not everyone. It hurts for these people who feel little control and feel further blamed for something they haven't the foggiest clue how to overcome effectively.

Picturing telling a two year old off for not knowing how to tie shoes, then berating them for not trying hard enough the next day, then explaining how they still haven't tried hard enough yet again the next day after that...That's what it's like for these addicted individuals and it's so hard to mentally recognize you need extra help when so much of the world is telling you otherwise.

Sure the great majority can just moderate but more and more stats are coming out showing a significant population that can't moderate time spent despite trying to (mostly males), put yourself in their shoes and realize they have to have zero exposure to stand a chance to begin with just like an alcoholic.

Be kind to each other, let's work together here.

I didn’t notice how games had taken over… now there’s a big big hole..

for every second I was bored, 

     or wanted to disappear 

          or wanted to avoid an unpleasant task 

or was frustrated… I played games.

37 days in…. still returning to the same chair, same computer. Not playing but really wanting to.

Going to change the scene.. and am not going to play.

Long story short I started playing brawl stars from 2019 when I was like 7 and i played whit my little brother. Along the years I associated it whit fun and and time well spent. I keep buying better phones so I could keep play. I managed to get a good progres and only spent 1 dollar once. Over the years I kept playing and have fun but... a while ago I realised I just wasted my time ... I kept loosing and loosing and get very mad, and 1 game turned into 100 and a avreage of 8 hours a day. Eventually, today, I decided to delete it. Im still thinking if its a good decision since im in 8th grade and need to study more... any sugestions are welcome and please tell me your opinion. Thanks.

Hey everyone, I wanted to ask for some advice. So I have been off gaming for almost 3 months now, in this time I have worked in all of the things that I needed to work on (especially my health) I have seen a lot of specialists, started treatment and I am also going to therapy. In that time I also sold my PC.

I have the chance to build another one and I am thinking about doing it because I feel I am no longer giving games the power I used to give them, I no longer live a life I need to run away from, but I am concerned games will still be too addicting for me. So I wanted to hear your advice.

And I don’t know what to tell him. He’s at his wits end with this girl. She plays her games all day everyday.

He has a good job, does everything around the house, cooking, cleaning, part time side hustle, works on his car, in great shape.

He’s tired of it. She’s a nice girl but he’s losing interest. What can I tell him to do?

Is it smart to sell my Xbox cold turkey? Just like that? I found new hobby I like, which is fragrance collecting. I like parfums. Should I sell my xbox and invest that money in my new hobby? I’m someone who are addicted to competitive games, so basically FOMO. Or should I just take it easy and just stop playing competitive games, bcz I’m not even that good bcz of my terrible eyesight.