laravel belongsTo gives null

Question

belongsTo relation in laravel is returning null

public function games(){
    return $this->belongsTo(\'App\\Models\\Game\');
  }

but when i

Answer 1

In my case, i was using public for defining variables. When I change to protected it worked.

public $fillable = [..class properties..];

changed to

protected $fillable = [..class properties..];