I keep my sanity by pouring spare time into the kind of games that you can play for hundreds of hours and still be "relatively inexperienced" in.
@scarlet honestly same, and I need to find more of them (please let me know if you have any recommendations).
@itspomf I'm a bit of a trope in that I play a lot of Paradox Interactive games like crusader kings, stellaris, victoria, etc and I play Total War Warhammer.
Paradox Interactive's DLC policies are terrible, and I dislike how they handled a lot of things, but the games are nice timesinks.
Total War Warhammer is an acquired taste, I feel, but it's kind of addictive even though it's a bit of a step down from the older historical titles in some ways, and if you're not a WH fan then YMMV.
@itspomf There's nothing wrong with Civ 5, tbh - I put a lot of hours into that game until Civ 6 came out.