I used to be what you might call addicted when I was younger. Mainly online shooters like Overwatch, Call of Duty, etc. Unlike a lot of people though I didn't need to do much to give them up, I just got so fed up of how angry the games made me that I turned them off and never played them again. So I guess when you look at it that way I wasn't addicted in any real sense? Maybe the better word would be obsessed.
Anyway, nowadays I still game but it serves a different purpose in my life. I regularly relax with an hour of a chill game like The Binding of Isaac where I mute the audio and listen to music, audiobooks, podcasts etc. I find it's a good distraction from porn. Honestly I can see myself more-or-less quitting gaming within the next 5 years simply because modern games are mostly awful and it's not worth spending so much money for a console I'd barely use. If Nintendo didn't still put out high quality, wholesome games that I don't find exploitive, my playtime outside of the aforementioned chill sessions would probably be close to zero.
