"replaying a video game"

[APeacefulWarrior]

While I get the analogy, I could counter by saying you're playing the wrong kind of game.

Think of open-world games like Skyrim. Sure, the landscape of Skyrim never changes, but there are many many different ways you can react to it. A run as an evil necromancer might touch on the same questlines, but would be a VERY different experience from that of a paladin archer. Or if we're talking about games with no real goals at all, a freeform space sim like Elite or a grand strategy game like Europa Universalis, ways a player might experience the game would be as varied as each player and the approaches they choose. One might even (akin to how incarnations are picked) deliberately put restrictions on their behavior, like saying ahead of time, "Ok, this time in Crusader Kings 2 there will be NO incest and NO child murders" just to see if it can be done.

Which is more or less to say, if you feel like your life(s) are stuck in a rut, go do something different. It's a big world out there. There's surely something left that you haven't done!