The point of games is to have fun, so you should play the game in the way that is most fun for you. Whether that involves cheating or modding the game is up to your own preferences.

Cheating only becomes a problem in competitive contexts because at that point you are being dishonest and ruining the fun for others.

There are some cases where cheating is not okay in singleplayer games and some cases where it is okay in multiplayer games. It all circles back to whether everyone is having a good time.

Single player, if I feel like it, yes. Why the fuck no, its my game, If i feel like cheating makes the game more fun for me why shouldnt I.

Games nowdays have a fuckton of griding and content that is "Collect this" so the cheats help with a lot of that.

People who "cheat" in single player games... I don't care. You do you.

People who use "hacks" in multiplayer games? Scum of the earth. Don't deserve internet access.

Single player = absolutely

Multiplayer = absolutely not (unless we all unanimously agree to cheat, confirmation is required)

single player, absolutely. half the fun in the 90s was typing in a code from a magazine just to see what broke

I cheat on a lot of single player games and I'm happy to tell anyone. It makes gaming sooo much better. It's one of the main reasons I favor pc gaming and have moved away from console. Cheating in competitive multi is nasty and I would never do that but for single-player it helps me reclaim time and avoid frustration. Grinding is a thing of the past - good riddance. I used to love it as a kid and I cannot stomach it now. Heavy punishments for failure is some sort of trend now and I don't understand it and don't want any part of it. I don't want to replay 10 minutes to get back to where I was because it decided to send me back to the beginning of a level or a boss has 4 phases and I'm just stuck on the last one. I skip a lot of platforming in my action / adventure games - jumping around to climb a building is not why I'm playing. Rng for rewards - skip that too. Grinding and save scumming and guides were all strategies to work around annoyances but cheating is much faster and easier. I don't make the game trivial I just make it so that I'm enjoying the fun parts and avoiding the tedious parts that I no longer have the time and patience for.

Singleplayer? Who cares. Cheat mods can be fun. You’re not messing anyone else’s day up, and as long as you’re not making any claims about your skill based on cheating it’s not even worth discussing.

Competitive multiplayer cheaters can get fucked, though.

Yes. Mostly Money and Inventory Space. I'm already grinding and at full capacity in real life. Why should it follow me into my hobby space? Health, mana, legendary weapons/armor, levels/experience points, one hit kill... Almost never. Only if the game starts to become unfair. But I still like to have a challenge.

Cheating destroys the joy I get from games. I used to run cheatengine, but noticed I got bored of the game the instant I ran a cheat. So I stopped. Only time I will create a cheat now is if I get stuck in something time consuming and I don't really enjoy the game but want to see what's next.

Never cheated in multiplayer, people who do that should be put to death, fucking assholes.

I grew up typing IDDQD and never once felt bad about it. Single player is your sandbox. Online is the only place cheating actually costs someone else their fun.

No, I would rather actually play the game then to research how to cheat in them.

If we're talking single player games I do use cheats on games I want to play but dont want to grind for it. No man's sky or space engineers for instance. I just wanna build shit man.

Single player games, it's to be expected. Some games even build it in. Multiplayer, you have a special circle of hell just for you.

Oh yes, I did a lot of rosebud cheats in The Sims back in the day. But it's not like you're taking anyone else's money, so who cares? Then, after building homes got boring, I challenged myself to try the game without money cheats and it was like a whole new game.

Right now I'm playing Ori and I wouldn't even know how to begin to find cheats in that game.

When I want to, yes. I play for fun, not for some arbitrary badge of merit that the game authors decided I ought to live up to. Just because the game's authors had their own ideas about what they think is fair and fun, doesn't mean that they're right. It's my spare time, and I'll use it the way I want.

Valheim, I'm looking at you.

I only play single player games though. I would never cheat in a multiplayer game. If I felt like I wanted/needed to cheat in a multiplayer game, I wouldn't play it to begin with.

Sometimes. Fun is fun. If it makes you happy and have fun doing it, do it. Who cares what anyone else thinks.

I cheat when the game pisses me off. Stuff like turning off carry weight limits because I don't enjoy the inventory management. Maybe infinite lockpicks because we all save scum that shit anyway. Sometimes I'll turn off fall damage because it's faster to fall than tediously climb down 8 ladders. Quick save mods in any game that restricts saving in any way; fuck that noise (looking at you: kingdom come deliverence). If I really get hard stuck on a difficult section for more than 1 day I'll just Google the answer or Godmode through it just to keep the game going.

Just little stuff. The equivalent of if you're reading a book, skipping the parts that don't interest you

If the game is a grindfest and I dont have the time, I will do whatever it takes to just see the ending.

It is meant to be fun after all.

I like to cheat sometimes on singleplayer shooter games, give me all weapons and unlimited health so I can just kill monsters in a wild rampage to relax and release stress. This is especially fun in Serious Sam style games.

The other thing that I do in singleplayer games is to use mods, that could be seen as cheating too, which I personally don't.

Absolutely.

I like a challenge. It's not fun if there's no risk. But the bottom line is a lot of devs appear to not have a great grip on gameplay. These days if I come across a mechanic that is just bad, I cheat or go to Nexus Mods and find a mod to just strip the mechanic out of the game or alter it to make it more reasonable. Just got done playing a game I Nexus Modded the shit out of to get it to play the way I wanted.

Or maybe you just select a difficulty you think you can handle but you get halfway through the game and you realize you can't and you aren't going to start over cuz you have a life.

Cheating is totally fine to get the experience you want unless you're doing it in an online game, then you can die a slow death.

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Depending on your definition, if using mods to give myself unlimited weight limit is cheating, then I definitely cheat every game if possible.

But things like God mode, no.

singleplayer doesnt matter in any way.

for multiplayer, if you can buy a ressource/item/perk for real money ingame, i am totally fine with it being cheated in as well

I don't. I noticed that when I do I completely lose interest in playing. And I really enjoy starting a game over to do things better the second (or third) time around

The only games I ever used cheats on were games where I wanted to experience the story of the game but found it to be prohibitively difficult to get through (Silver Surfer for NES and Einhänder for PlayStation are two that come to mind—I used a Game Genie and Game Shark respectively). One game where it was the opposite was Grand Theft Auto 3 (and Vice City). I have never actually played the storylines of those games. I just really enjoyed pulling rampages and wandering around. So I’d employ cheats to do that.

I don't see the harm of cheating in single player games but I don't personally like to do it. I like to play the game in the way the Dev intended.

I have a few exceptions. I replay Final Fantasy 8 and Final Fantasy 10 regularly and I do abuse the built-in cheats. Speeding up is a must have now, can't live without it. I also use the Get all items cheat to complete the sphere grid before doing dark aeons. I establish that I can kill the monsters that drop the items and then just use the cheat. It saves like 10 hours of repetitive non stop grinding.

It strongly depends on the game and the definition of cheating. I do mod a lot of games, and some mods make them easier/give me advantages so that can be seen as cheating. If a game has MTX I always cheat myself everything I can buy, either the premium currency or the items directly. You might be rich enough to buy your way to success, I'm smart enough to do the same thing without spending a dime. Other than that, I may use a cheat or two if I get to a point in a game that frustrates me, be it because of difficulty or grind. I do enjoy an occational challenge and I have quite a tolerance for grind, but both have a limit and once it is reached, I prefer to just skip ahead and continue from there.

One thing I loved to do was counter-cheating in multiplayer games. I had my cheating setup ready but disabled and play the game normally until I met another cheater, then I started everything and showed him how its done until he gave up and left. Good times. But once my interests shifted more and more away from multiplayer pvp I eventually also stopped doing that.

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I still remember that game shark code years later. I still remember which digits to change to screw with the game in fun ways. I learned hexidecimal because of cheating.

In online games cheating is a dick move but in single player it’s just another way to enjoy the game.

I can't recall the last time I used a cheat. I so wanted a game shark growing up. Some games I will exploit systems if I get a chance. That said there is fun to putting on 'god mode' for a game like gta and going to town to just blow crap up, sometimes you just want to fool around.

I wouldn't say I ever beat a game while cheating though, hell the list of games I've beaten is shorter than women I've dated (or at least close I don't keep track anymore). Really though growing up with undiagnosed ADD and only being allowed to rent games, possibly for the best, I finished reactively few. Oh shit the Sierra adventure games I never count those ones for some reason, they were great for learning typing.

In the end just play how you want single player and don't cheat multiplayer is what I think works. Though I wouldn't call it beating a game if you used cheats, maybe saw ending or finished but not beaten. Though all semantics is all.

Does the game cheat me?

Working on an SL1 run of Elden Ring, but I won't cheese a fight unless it's unrewarding. FromSoft usually gives you enough to make due in any situation. I'll absolutely cheese something if I'm frustrated and only invested in the game for the plot.