How do I get back the love of games crunch is killing?

You came into this because games lit something up in you, and now the very work you dreamed about is grinding that spark down to nothing. That is a painful kind of loss, because it is not just a hard job. It is watching a job take the thing you loved. Naming that plainly is where healing starts. The crunch is stealing your joy partly because it never lets you step back and remember why you came. When every hour is a deadline, play turns into a factory line. Some of that is the industry, and you cannot fix it alone. But some of it is a boundary you can begin to draw, so the work stops eating every part of you. Protect a small corner of your love that the job cannot reach. Play a game just for fun, with no thought of work. Make a tiny thing of your own on a weekend, only because you want to. Guard your time off like it matters, because it does. The love is not gone. It is buried under exhaustion. Give it a little air, and start by taking one real evening back this week.