Gaming What's the healthy amount of time to play games

[eLdavis]

We all know playing games for too long can be unhealthy, how long do you think one should play games to be considered a healthy amount of time?

 

[Amdhone3qq]

Actually you are right and for me 4 hour's is okay to play games in a day, despite that you are addicted or not at time's I don't even play at all in a day just for to focus on other things.

 

[Kingpin]

It would be different for everyone because everyone has different health issues, eye health, mental health.

 

[JennyorAlice]

I think it depends.

If you have kids (especially if they are young), I think it's important to control how much time they are spending playing video games. When I was a kid, I had video games but I was also required to go outside to play at times. I wasn't playing video games 24/7 when I was a kid. I think there are too many kids that are spending too much time playing video games. I think this is hurting a child's ability to interact with others because they are constantly playing these video games and I think this all started when the pandemic blew up in 2020. I also think parents should limit their kids interaction with video games to a certain extent anyway until the child learns to control their own gaming habits or the child learns to control the amount of time they're playing video games.

 

[Eric]

We all know playing games for too long can be unhealthy, how long do you think one should play games to be considered a healthy amount of time?

I've played video games for more than 7 hours when I was between 10 years to 15 years old. Now, I'm in my late 30's, it's going to be very difficult for me to play video games more than 2 hours.

 

[Nomad]

I spend 4-5 hours playing games every week, on average, and I think this is the healthy amount of time to play games. If you miss important things because of your game, that is certainly not healthy.