Gunjo Roman Traces Her Unfinished Games to the Workload of Running Her Own Career

UNIRAID! — Gunjo Roman, a Uniraid! streamer, worked out on Sunday why she no longer finishes games, and decided the answer was her schedule rather than her stamina. She reached the conclusion during a *zatsudan*, or chat stream, that she had put together on short notice, saying she had felt run down all day and might stop after an hour. It ran 106 minutes.

The talk began with her admission that she abandons nearly every story game she starts, from otome games (romance visual novels) to anime she means to watch. She said she has quit them one after another around the second or third route, and that she now plays almost only games she streams. While looking for an old record of her play time, she found two screenshots from her office-job years: one from the launch day of a major Switch game, when she took paid leave to play, and another showing two otome games played within about two weeks. “I used to be like this,” she said.

“It’s not that my task muscle has weakened. The kind of effort I’m using is different.” — Gunjo Roman, on why she stopped finishing games

Looking at them, she said, the difference became clear. As a salaried employee she had one heavy task that ended when she left work, and the evenings were entirely free. Now, she said, it is closer to ten smaller tasks running at once, such as making thumbnails, setting up streams and posting to social media, and managing them takes far more than the job did. “It’s not that my task muscle has weakened,” she said. “The kind of effort I’m using is different.” She added that she is much happier in her current life.

She later read out a long list of purchased but unplayed games on Steam and Switch, saying that buying them during sales had become the goal in itself. Genshin Impact, she said, is the one game she has kept up with: she is caught up on its latest story and called the recent chapters excellent. She said she is considering Ys VIII for the winter break.

She ended the stream saying she would likely not broadcast on Monday or Tuesday, and plans to return around Wednesday to continue playing Trails in the Sky.