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or do something I'll be able to enjoy
I won't have the time or the energy for a hobby especially for one as demanding as this

Did not sound to me, as you enjoy creating games. If you were enthusiastic about it, you would just finish the game and not ask for advice on the internet if you should do it.

You seem to make something like that:

https://itch.io/games/top-sellers/tag-roguelike/tag-top-down-shooter

If you filter for paid, you will see, that only 60 of those 80 games ever sold anything.

To guess how many sales were made, you might look at the ratings and the followers. You can also guess by looking at https://itch.io/games/on-sale . That will not tell you how many sales the game makes overall, but it will tell you a general magnitude.

So, you should be able to guess what a hypothetical game might generate. Just look at a similar game. The problem is, that you do not know if you would be able to create such a game. And more importantly, if you would be able to successfully market it to the people willing to pay for the game. The market for games is saturated. Creating a game is not enough.

If you have never created a game, you do not even know if you can do it. That is not a textbook homework in coding. Even if you toiled away for months from morning to night, the result might be ... just not be any good. At least not in a way, that people would be willing to pay for it.

You are on Itch. Have a look at game jams. And finish a few games, before you decide to try doing this full time. Or even as a hobby. You did not even finish your first game. That really does not sound to me, like you really enjoy game making.

I did enjoy working on it but still it was a hassle and there's so many other things I enjoy more that I rather be doing but I 1000% would rather be making games then working an office job even if I'll be making alot less money but the question is if I'll be making money at all

and I get what you mean I know that i shouldn't be even thinking about making money before I finished multiple games and I know that im not special and that im even still in the 80% of people that haven't even finished a game but im at the age and point in my life where I need to have an income source of any kind, bec life won't wait for my ass to keep experimenting and trying new things, I was just hoping to find something i can do for a living that won't make me hate me life

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Well. Most people on Itch are hobby developers and struggling developers. The people that make enough money to have this as their full time job are rarely talking in this message board.

And game developer is basically an office job. Even if you work from home, because you have no office, because you are unemployed self employed.

I suggest you try reading about experiences of non indie game developers. Not about success stories of small developers gone viral. I talk about the regular people that are employed by medium to big game studios. I would guess their work is just about the same as that of any other person that works in an office on a computer.