Back when I wasted money on games, I bought shit like Garry’s Mod, PUBG, Rust, etc. because I knew some people who played it and thought we could play together.
It never happened.
So they’re collecting dust in my library and now I only play single player games
The only multiplayer games I play, apart from occasional WoW sessions, are Satisfactory and Raft. Chill, stuff for players from “I have this differential calculus equation on production rates” to “how does mouse click work?”