PC Gamer Asks: What's Your 'Back on My Bullshit' Game?

PC Gamer has posed a question to its audience: what's your 'back on my bullshit' videogame?

The term refers to a default, go-to game that absorbs players for hours, making the day disappear without notice. These are the titles people instinctively load when they have free time, the ones that command attention through sheer engagement.

PC Gamer's own answer comes from the Final Fantasy franchise. The publication noted that Final Fantasy 14 serves as its pull-back-in game, specifically the ranked PvP queue. The writer suggested that if someone needed to reach them urgently and couldn't find them through normal channels, they'd likely be mid-match in FF14's competitive PvP mode, possibly on a losing streak.

The question taps into a common gaming experience. Nearly every player has at least one title they return to repeatedly, a game that functions as a comfortable default rather than a carefully chosen session. These games vary wildly by player, spanning genres from competitive multiplayer to single-player narratives to live-service experiences.