I always try to make time to play video games every day. For quite a few years now, I have put off playing video games and instead stuck to working, even more so when the cost of living hit really hard.
I learned the hard way, though, that not taking time for myself to do the things I enjoyed was hurting me mentally, so now I find that taking time out every day, even for an hour or so to play video games I enjoy, really does help.