I had been a gamer since the Commodore 64 in the 1980's, and online since the mid-90's. When I retired in 2017 I played 10-12 hours a day most days and on some of the games spent a small fortune. I never tried DCS but did try IL-2 Sturmovik even using a good quality VR headset. It was a little too realistic for me although the game looked great. I spend a bunch of $$$ on an Alienware gaming rig along with the VR headset I mentioned. Then about 2-3 years ago I just burned out and stopped gaming. I went back to using my 2019 iMac because I like the OS for general computing and also because of the great 5K 27" screen. I still have my 32" widescreen gaming monitor and a 25" standard monitor hooked up to the iMac. My expensive gaming rig has been gathering dust since then.

For anyone who likes space sims take a look at "Elite Dangerous". I played the original version on my Commodore 64 almost 40 years ago. Then a new version came out around 2015. One of the good things is you only pay for the game, it's not one of those "free to pay, pay to win" type games. Once you buy it that's it. The only money you can spend is on "eye candy" type stuff (ship paint jobs, fancy uniforms, etc) that don't affect game play. The game has multiple career paths: Trading, Exploring, Bounty Hunting, Pirating. There are political factions you can join and assist and of course squadrons you can join. Ships range from very small scout ships to large cargo ships and other large ships that can be configured as battleships or long range exploration ships. They're even added Carriers although you'll need to play quite a few hours to make enough credits to buy one. You can have up to 40 ships on your CV and it will jump up to 500 light years whereas other ships are capped around 70LY even when heavily engineered. The downside is after the CV jumps it's a 15 minute cool down before you can jump again so smaller ships with 50-70LY jump ranges can get somewhere faster via fuel scooping around stars. The galaxy in the game has over 400 million stars so even after 8 years there's still a lot of star systems that haven't been explored.