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The game in my Steam library with the most hours played is.....PAYDAY 2.
But I didn't actually play a thousand hours of it. In the late 2010s, the heat in my condo barely worked and our self-managed association refused to acknowledge it because "nobody else [was] having problems with their heat." I had all the windows plasticed up with heavy blankets literally nailed to the wall. I had to abandon the living room and bedroom entirely. I emptied the smallest room (12x10) and moved my mattress and desk in there...In addition to the playpen for my two rabbits that took up the rest of the free space.
You might be wondering what that has to do with PAYDAY 2. Well....the game revved up my video card to max on the main menu so my PC became a supplementary heat source at night...
Good times. Thanks, PAYDAY devs!
ETA: In the spring, the guy who handled yardwork noticed the flowerbed was kind of sinking on one side of the building. That's when they discovered a leak in the radiator line...small enough that 11 units didn't notice but big enough for the water pressure to not reach the farthest unit from the boiler....the unit I owned...
Aren't space heaters pretty cheap? Probably didn't need to add wear and tear to your GPU.
I had a space heater in there, too. It was not enough.
The solution is always more space heaters. There are 0 safety issues with this plan.
Or just use use your PC like a normal person.
I was gonna check my Steam library for the numbers, but the real answer probably is Shattered Pixel Dungeon on my phone.
The only game on my phone! Great game.
Probably not nearly close to top hours though. I haven’t even beaten it once yet.
You can beat it??
It took me 48 attempts to beat it the first time. After that it was like every five to ten tries.
25 is the lowest floor. after that, you can either choose to end the run or do an ascension
Great game, it and the original Pixel Dungeon were my most played phone games for years.
Another high quality mobile experience I can't recommend enough is Slice & Dice. Gameplay is quite different from Pixel Dungeon, but it's basically replaced all other phone games for me. Been playing it almost continuously now for the past 3 years.
When I was a teen I played WoW from vanilla through Cata... Had over a full year of *in game* /played time on just my main.
...and I made a lot of alts.
100% full-blown addicted.
Blizzard is actually the one example of enshittification that I can actually be thankful for - I didn't really ever quit; they just stopped supplying my drug of choice. They definitely had the power to keep me enthralled, but instead shifted to a younger and younger target audience as I was ofc aging the opposite direction.
The Kung-Fu-Panda xpac trailer was finally my cue to accept that my dealer wasn't going to provide that fix anymore.
Then I
started making healthy life decisionsdiscovered Ark >_<Edit - ...Ark owned my life for a bit, too:
Factorio.
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Rimworld 2300 hours or so
Grindy first person exploration type stuff really vibes with my inner magpie I guess
Dude! How on earth… maybe pick up writing, the last sentence was fire.
The Bethesda RPGs: Skyrim, Morrowind, Fallout series (although most of the hours probably into NV, which wasn't actually Bethesda).
I have crazy high hours on Skyrim because I replayed it in French and Spanish. It is a very fun way to get the cheapest language immersion ever (though your vocabulary becomes a little, um, specialized)
Votre français est très bon, mais vous avez un accent étrange. D'où venez-vous ? ("Your French is very good, but you have an odd accent. Where are you from?")
"Skyrim."
Je parle aussi dragon. *Foos!*
Minecraft, Factorio, Satisfactory and Dyson Sphere program have the most *real* playtime, but idle games have the top slots.
Steam says my top 3, in order, are ARMA3 (though more than half of that has to be with the game minimized as I work on scripts for mods), Team Fortress 2, and Rocket League. All have over 2000 hours, Arma 3 has slightly over 3k.
However, from 1997 to 2007 (literally haven't played it since The Orange Box released), I was playing Ultima Online for at least 8 hours a day, every day. So if that kept track of my play time, it would likely be numero uno. Diablo 2 and EverQuest would be right behind it.
Terraria
the binding of isaac: rebirth. steam claims ~800 hours, but with the time I played offline, its probably closer to 1300-1400
I finally picked up Repentance after putting around 300 hours into Antibirth. I'm completely addicted again. Jacob & Esau is such a struggle for me
Repentance was such a huge expansion. And it's getting updated again shortly!
EverQuest was my jam back in the day. It ruined highschool for me. Nearly 5 straight years of farming and raids.
I wouldn't do anything different though. I met some awesome people that got me through the awkward years of high school when the internet was still somewhat new.
Dota 2. I barely enjoy it, but it's hard to find games that a friend group will agree to consistently play.
What an amazing exhausting game. I go through phases where I'll play it for a month straight then I won't touch it for 6 months
Yeah I got over 5000 hours clocked in but damn its toxic af.
STALKER and The Elder Scrolls probably hold the record. I may have wasted even more time in my life on World of Warcraft, but I feel like that doesn't count since you're just in a fucking trance for several years until you finally break away.
My list of multiple hundreds/thousands of hours include, in no particular order;
Team Fortress 2
I've just about got 2,000 hours in Warframe. I tend to play a lot of different games so it's hard to get big numbers in any one game.
Minecraft, and the number is still growing.
Kerbal Space program (1800.8)
DCS world (1172.2)
Witcher 3 (1131.5)
Sims 4 (838.2)
Stardew Valley (579.3)
I just wish ksp2 wasn’t a massive flop and I eagerly await KSA.
Hard to say, but I would think Minecraft (over the last decade) then Factorio. If we’re factoring in games from when I was younger then it’s certainly COD followed by Halo then Gran Turismo.
Oblivion, Skyrim, Every Fallout (yes even 1 and 2, but especially New Vegas) borderlands 2, Diablo 2 & 3, Stardew Valley, and there were a few years of CoD, and a WoW phase.
Oh. And ten years worth of Hearthstone.
2000 hours in Garry's Mod, 1300 in TF2.
Third place is way behind, Hollow Knight at 180.
Around 2.6k hours in CSGO. Quit playing CS2 shortly after release :(
Need a buddy to play with? I've got ~5k hours
Timberborn. 4,677 hours. I enjoy my beavers.
Overall? Probably Unreal Tournament (1999). That was when I was at the peak of my gaming time and I would play for hours most weeks and played that basically for a solid decade.
In the modern era? Warframe which Steam says I have over 700 hours in.
World of Warcraft - over 11k hrs
Guild Wars 2 - over 5k hrs
Warframe - 2200 hrs
Minecraft - who knows... a lot
TF2, Diablo II, and Ragnarok Online. 1k-2k+ hours each.
Europa Universalis 4, and it's not really a close margin. 1445 hr mark is when you've finally completed the tutorial and can start the real game.
Try Hearts of Iron 4 and the 1936 hour tutorial ;-;
Probably 2048 which is just a fidgeting toy for me.
Probably League of Legends, I don‘t know how to check how many and don‘t really care, but I‘d be surprised if I hadn‘t spent more than in Rocket League which clocks in at 1100 hours. I don‘t play much of either anymore though. Counterstrike 1.6 is at 400 hours but that‘s gotta be a lie and way more as well lol
KSP. I colonized almost the entire system on chemical rockets alone with bases and ISRU fuel depots orbiting the smaller moons (I'd have to go to each base, do some mining, and refill the orbiting tanker station before every long mission so it's ready when I got there). I'm not at my PC but last I checked it was a couple thousand hours.
League of legends, Counter Strike and Warcraft 3 custom maps are waaaay up there.
Factorio is catching up though
SteamDB says Rimworld, but I'm almost certain it's actually Fallout: NV, as the Nexus launcher at one point bypassed Steam and so those hours aren't represented. I have about 1100 hours in Rimworld, but probably closer to 3000 in Fallouts 3 and NV.
Lol I somehow completely forgot about Guild Wars 2. Pretty sure my age in that game is over 2 years of active playtime.
I have 3,400 hours in Space Engineers.
About 1,500 hours in FFXIV, 1,400 hours in DayZ, and 1,300 hours in 7 Days To Die.
Then 900 hours in Empyrion Galactic Survival, 500 hours in Baldurs Gate 3, and 300 hours in Fallout 4.
The rest are well below 200.
Historically:
I have a lot of hours of Morrowind and Doom 1&2, as well as Warcraft 2 and Ultima Online, but I dunno the hour count
Rocket League, by far. 1500 hours or so.
Can't say that without saying your rank.
Champ 2 in 2s currently, it's pretty much the only thing I play.
Actually I've only been playing casual of late, I find the toxicity a bit lower there. You might actually have a couple of decent games with a nice team mate.
But I've been playing since it wad kinda new, I was among the ones who had to pay 20 euros just to buy the game on pc. I played it with a DualShock 3 with an XInput wrapper. When I started I didn't even have a DualShock so I played mouse and keyboard. And I think some of the hours are just having the game open but not playing.
I just uninstalled rocket league.
After 9 years and 4200 hours, it just feels like its time. No hard feelings at all. It was a great game and I enjoyed the first 4100 hours. Im just not improving anymore and don't want to sink more time into learning mechanics.
Ive peaked 1605 MMR (GC2) but its tough to stay motivated enough to continue at that rank.
Oh yeah I never got into things like tracking my MMR or trying to learn all the crazy stuff that goes on just above my rank. I'm perfectly okay with keeping the ball low and passing to my teammates and having a good game like that. I get super annoyed if my team mates try for the 7th time in one match to do a flip reset and not rotating ever.
If I even play now, I just play a couple of casual games with rando's or ranked with a friend. After 10 to 15 games I'm completely done.
That I know of (3000+): Team Fortress 2
Probably(500+): Super Mario 3, or Apotris
Probably counterstrike back in the day, possibly battlefield 2 including the Project Reality mod. That was back when gametime wasn't really tracked and I had a lot more spare time Possibly WoW, but I only played for a couple of years or less and for a few hours a day at most.
Currently my highest is Forza Horison 5 with like 1200 hours. Have a few others with 500+ hours although a few are inflated at least 100+ hours because the game locked up on closing and counted as played for several days multiple times.
World of Warcraft and then Final Fantasy XIV.
And it's not even close.
Rimworld
My most played game is hands down: Borderlands 2.
995h in it!
I'm approaching a thousand hours in Elite Dangerous. Quoting myself from a week or two ago:
It’s different to most other games, by not being goal-oriented except for the goals you set for yourself. No main quest line dictating progress. No mandatory tasks. No win condition. Instead, it drops you into a simulation of our entire galaxy roughly 1300 years in the future, where humanity has mastered hyperspace travel and spread through hundreds of star systems.
(To give an idea of the simulation’s scope: Around 85 million systems have been recorded by players so far, and those are a vanishingly small fraction of what’s out there. Space is big.)
I like that it offers a variety of activities to fit whatever mood I might be in on a given day. I can hunt pirates, mine asteroids, engage in a bit of piracy myself, find and collect bio samples, infiltrate rival settlements, venture into vast unexplored areas of space, discover Earth-like worlds that nobody has ever encountered before, defend humanity against hostile forces, photograph beautiful stellar phenomena, rescue stranded survivors, customize and finely tune my ship to perform beyond its original specs, team up with friends, pledge to a political power and expand their influence, or chill out as a space trucker and haul cargo to earn enough money for my next upgrade. It can occupy all my attention, or just be relaxing entertainment while I listen to music or an audiobook.
It’s an MMO in the sense of having a large game world (galaxy) shared by all players in real time, but PvP is optional. One mode exposes you to other players, while another limits you to NPC encounters. You can switch between them at will.
One warning: A space ship has more than a few controls to learn, and they’re better suited to a game controller or HOTAS than a keyboard and mouse. I use button combinations for almost everything beyond basic flight controls, since there aren’t enough buttons on a controller for everything.
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Same, but my hours are definitely boosted by the times I’ve fallen asleep at the yoke.
I'm not sure if it's wow or League.
I played League for 10 years but in my adult phase, while wow was mostly while studying so a lot more hours to burn.
No hard numbers here, but probably Medieval 2: Total War.
Every few months I get the urge to play and log more hours doing a few campaigns.
WoW, Grim Dawn, Don't Starve (Together), Stardew Valley, Terraria, Skyrim, Borderlands
World of Warcraft is the absolute winner in my case. I have no idea on actual numbers, given 99% of my time was in private servers, with a very brief stint on official. Only one of those private servers is still around, with my character from Warlords of Draenor times still there.
Outside that, probably Skyrim (many hours playing pirate versions, modding it with more lethal combat, more lore-friendly armors and "actual" civil war, among other things). I wonder how many hours I've spent on Dwarf Fortress, as I've only played the freeware version, starting with 0.34, before trees had height.
Final Fantasy XI. Something like 400-500 days, so roughly 10k hours. Though I haven't seriously played since 2011.
Civilisation, the original one. Got it in the 90s, and none of my computers was without it. Even now I sometimes launch it for a guick, half-day game.
I'm sure other Microprose games from that era, in particular UFO: Enemy Unknown, are on my top 10 most played games.
From modern games, I probably spent the most time playing Civ4 and Heroes of Might and Magic 3.
I enjoy how old your picks are for the more modern games too! HoMM3 is a stone cold classic.
steam says I played Fallout 4 for 436 hours, but that seems very high. not sure if that count is accurate.
The X3 games (Reunion/Terran Conflict/Albion Prelude) would be one game with DLC today, combined they're my only 1000hr+ game. X4 *is* one game with DLC and is well on it's way to that record.
Team Fortress 2 easily. Been playing since 2008. It scratches an itch that no other game can scratch. Ironically though, my second favorite fps game is also TF2 (Titan fall 2)
Skyrim over 2000 hours easily, 400 some into Assassins Creed Odyssey and Ghost Recon Wildlands; I have no idea how many I put into Vindictus, which is an MMORPG I played for more than a decade. For phone games I’ve probably put the most time into the Kingdom Rush series, best TD out there.
Dark Age of Camelot. 6000 hours on my main character, and I had more or less ten characters…
I’ll never beat that amount of dedication into a game.
Everquest by far. Then League. Then Diablo 2. I dont think theres any game that comes close to the total unrecorded amount of hours those 3 games have.
The most that I have proof of is Europa Universalis IV at a little over 1k hours, but I wouldn't be surprised if my time on Guitar Hero 3 in high school surpassed that by quite a bit. I played a *lot* of Guitar Hero in high school...
The Binding of Isaac
Old School RuneScape, Gran Turismo 5 & 7, The Crew 1, 2 & Motorfest and I think Midtown Madness 1 & 2 are also high on my list of most played games.
Elden Ring and StarCraft2
WoW, CS 1.6, Warframe, and ARK
I think something like 5k hours into Warframe,
15 years into WoW (at least 2 of my characters have 1+ year of playtime--so 17k hours just on those 2; and I max-leveled every class of character up until Battle for Azeroth)
and so far, 2 years into ARK. Just over 3.5k hours of playtime between ASE and ASA.
Factorio: 1300h
Fallout 4: 1100h
Persona 5 Royal
150 hrs and I'm almost done with it
7 Days to die. 1600 hrs on steam
Call of Duty. 1200 hrs on steam
Elite, the original one, on Commodore 64.
KSP
Pokemon, either Pokemon Sword or Pokemon Violet, I would have to look at the Switch itself to compare, but last I looked at either one it was around 400-something hours. Shiny hunting can be a surprisingly cozy time-waster, lol.
According to Steam the top 3 are:
1. Oxygen not included
1. Civilization 5
1. Factorio
But that of course does not include the games not running from Steam and pre-Steam games. So World of Warcraft is somewhere in there too. And the final Top 1 must be Transport Tycoon Deluxe (even if you don't include OpenTTD).
I put the most hours into Awesomenauts during college... really miss games that time
As much as Monster Hunter is my favorite series of all time, and I have about 1600 hours combined total over several games, it's still not caught up to my total of over 2000 hours in Warframe. Love that game to bits but yeah I think I played it enough.
Most other games I play, that I played a lot, hover between 100 and 300 hours each.
Ayy which MH is your favorite? Which one brought you into the series? I'm also a huge monster hunter fan, Generations Ultimate is one of my favorite games of all time.
My favorite, most played game AND intro to the series was MH 4 Ultimate on the 3DS. I had a total of 1,000 hours just on that game, across two saves (the first one went to 850 hours) and later I moved on to Gen and GenU on the Switch several years later when I found out I could carry over my save file. GenU is literally a game with infinite content and I don't think I'll ever fully finish it, but I'll keep coming back to it every now and then. I only wish they hadn't crippled the moveset of my favorite weapon, the Charge Blade.
I played World and Iceborne, but only for 200 hours, didn't enjoy it much. I liked base Rise on the Switch a lot, and I'm finally playing Sunbreak now on the PC, and it's instantly become my favorite modern monster hunter game.
I also plan on eventually playing Portable3rd and Freedom Unite on emulators.
Hell yeah, 4U is a great intro to the series. I started with Freedom Unite but it didn't stick. Played Tri for the wii and that's what really got me into it (which is weird cause tri is clunky as hell and I think has the least content of any mainline game).
Never really got into charge blade, but GenU did a lot of favors for my two favorite weapons at the time, great sword and gunlance, and the online bosses are absolutely nuts.
Rise is probably my favorite gameplay wise, but I prefer the pre-world armor skill system, and I'm not too keen on the Sunbreak endgame grind.
As far as old titles go, Freedom Unite is very iconic and has a ton of content, but I like portable 3rd way more. The general atmosphere of the areas and town are excellent, and it introduces Zinogre to the game so well. There's also an english patch floating around for it if you can't read japanese.
Sadly as I get older I game less hours, so most of my games on this list are older. LoL, wow, Dota 2, modern warfare 2 (2009), Wingspan(online boardgame), PubG battlegrounds, counter strike 2, terraria. I haven't played fps, wow, or dota for years, but they still dominate this list. It's funny because if I made a list of my favorite games, it would include almost none of these, except terraria.
DotA2 and possible WoW next.
When I played on PC more EverQuest, counterstrike, TF2, wow, Skyrim
After playing more on console ff14, elder scrolls online, pillars of eternity 1/2, and souls games (ds2, ds3, bloodborne, elden Ring)
I also like to play Indies and smaller games but those are the ones I keep going back to
Stardew Valley and Core Keeper ;)
Braben & Bells "Elite". The original one on the C64.
Guild Wars 2 has been my theme park MMORPG of choice on and off for the last 12 years, with >2500h.
I have also spent ~1000h on Elite Dangerous.
DayZ, I have around 3000 hours in it.
I have few hundred hours in Minecraft.
And probably something like 180h in Witcher 3 GOTY.
Recently I 100% Yakuza 5 with 120h on the counter, and it was (mostly) fun, because game is packed with many different minigames, so it wasn't repetetive.
My top four on steam are:
In no particular order:
Phantasy star online (and 2)
Path of Exile
Morrowind probably.
I was wondering if PSO (and/or PSO2) would get mentioned. PSO2 is my most played by far. Probably my most consistently played game too. Played off and on since 2012.
I dumped 8k hours into it once it came west within a year and a half but have since stopped. The NGS changeover was so poorly handled that it really hurt my enjoyment of the game significantly.
Yeah I hopped on global and played a bunch but dropped it for a while after I learned that NGS sucks. Been playing it again, just sticking to base PSO2 and popping over to NGS for login bonuses and only the dailies that have the highest reward to clear time ratio. Base game is still great, but the playerbase tanked since there's no new content being made. Ngs has fundamental problems that no amount or quality of content will fix, and it's getting extremely half assed content anyway.
I honestly can't wait until SEGA just drops the game altogether so I can hope that private servers start popping up like Ephinea and a few others did with PSO Blue Burst (which is still active if you're looking for that old school PSO grind).
I'm a bit ashamed of it, but Overwatch, I really enjoyed the multiplayer and played with some cool people I met in game. Stopped playing when OW2 released.
My second most played game is Destiny 2.
Maybe something is wrong with me...
Arma 3
Same here. Over 1000 hours and like 80% of it is on Eden Editor.
I have over 8000 hrs and like 90% is playing asylum.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1861972534
To expand on this, DayZ, including Arma Mod. Over 1k hours
Final Fantasy XI and it's not even close.
Heyyyy, high five! I’m not sure what my XI playtime is at offhand but I know it could be measured in years.
Fallout 4 and Skyrim
Kerbal space program
That's a though one... there are more games in my library that I haven't played than ones I did.
Maybe Fallout or Neverwinter Nights. Or Silent Storm.
Yes, I'm old. And waiting for my retirement to play all of those I haven't tried yet.
Warframe, by a big margin.
Easily Fallout 4 or No Man's Sky
Monster Hunter World. I usually stop playing games after I roll the credits, but I have been addicted to min/maxing in that series since Tri.
Old-school RuneScape, 12k hours, another 6k hours on rs3 pre-eoc. Over the course of 21 years.
And also Satisfactory. I think I kinda like it better than factorio
based on this, you should try Rimworld if you haven't yet. I've put over 1000 hours into it and i don't do that with anything
It’s on my wishlist… but I haven’t had time to play anything else since I’ve spent most my time in satisfactory
O! The pain! Cractorio for life!
MMO wise, it has to be World of Warcraft. Played it nonstop when I was young.
2nd place is Oxygen Not Included.
I have over 1500 cumulative hours invested in No Man's Sky and Minecraft respectively. I am a casual gamer. I started playing Minecraft in 2012 and NMS in 2017.
On and off for over a decade I've played the original Borderlands on xbox360, so definitely that.
I think that Borderlands still had the best gameplay loop because of its more random loot system.
You didn't have the legendary items dropping from specific enemies, so instead of farming bosses for a specific item, you just run around playing the game. Every time you opened a chest it was exciting because there might be something good inside.
Oh, and the legendary guns could be stupid powerful. I got a Hellfire with my Lilith at level 25 or something, and it still melted enemies at level 70 because of the elemental effects.
If I could get that loot system with BL2's story and level design and the Pre-sequel's OZ kits I think it'd be perfect.
I quit a couple years ago for good, but my main account on RuneScape was created in classic as a kid. I had about a year and a half of PLAY time on the account, mind you the vast majority of that was back when you had the hard 5 minute afk timer, so that was at least moderately active play. Then if you add my ironman account I have nearly 1/15th of my whole life logged into RuneScape. I don't regret it, my whole friend group as an adult stem from those friendships I made online during my young teen years. However, as a modern game as much as I have a place for it in my heart, I found I had more of a negative addictive relationship with it. Maybe I always did, but I didn't feel a negative mental effect at a young age.
I have over 1k hours in The Long Dark and 7 days to die. Around 500 in space engineers, darkest dungeon, binding of Isaac, enter the gungeon, grim dawn, and satisfactory. ~300 hours in ToME4 and Caves of qud each. That's just steam stuff though, there are a lot of games that I know are up there that aren't on steam.
I'm sure I have at least similar numbers to 500-1k if not much higher in Diablo 2-3, and I'm sure more than a few thousand in wow though I lost my og account after wotlk because I forgot the details when I quit so I'm really not sure.
Factorio 5k+ atm
Unless we count pokemon, played that to death when I was younger, would be willing to say I have "young person time" amount of hours in the Gameboy versions.
If we're counting every Pokémon game as a single one, then that. Otherwise, probably Skyrim. I must have like 2000+ hours across all of its versions.
It's either the Sims or Animal Crossing.
World of Warcraft, EverQuest, and No man’s Sky
I would love to know for sure. I've put hundreds of hours into Final Fantasy 8, Final Fantasy X, Morrowind, and probably Halo: Reach too.
Dota 2 around 3500 hours.
Rust 1100 hours.
Monster Hunter World 400 hours.
Binding of Isaac 350 hours.
XCOM: War of the Chosen
Overwatch (gave up on blizzard a couple of years ago though)
Sadly League of Legends, probably Skyrim next, Overwatch and Terraria
I also play FGO since the NA server released(7 years ago) but I don't play more than 20min daily
One of the Paradox strategy games by a comfortable margin. It'll be one of the Crusader Kings or Victoria games. I've got a weekly game night with a couple of friends that was originally just CK, but has for a while now been working extremely slowly through a megacampaign. You can take the end of Crusader Kings and make it into a mod for the start of Europa Universalis, then repeat the process into Victoria and then Hearts of Iron. You need to set some rules for yourselves, because an experienced player doesn't need even a third of the CK timeline to demolish all AI threats, but the games are already good roleplaying fodder anyway so you can set rules that play into that. We're currently about three quarters of the way through Victoria
Outside of those, Noita or Deep Rock Galactic. For a while, those plus a podcast were my go-to "zone out brain off" relaxation, so the hours racked up
Civ all games and Apex legends with like 6k or more hours.
Apex is from day 1 launch day.
Do you still play apex these days ?
What do you think about the state of the game
Yes still do. There's nothing really new in the game so I feel that it is stagnant in experience. I've just started to move to the different country severs for fun and see how they play compared to the US.
Servers are still glitchy with random stutters hitting everybody their cash cow but still can't fix it.
Planetside 2, Arma 3, and X4 Foundations.
For me it has to be either the binding of isaac or noita. It's hard to say since i played tboi on so many devices before i got a PC.
Dayz, 3500hrs and still ticking.
Alley Cat
Maplestory and Warcraft 3 almost certainly hold the first two places from an age gone by, but I don't have numbers for those.
For games that I do have numbers for, Anno 1800, Stardew, and Total War Warhammer (especially if you combine the trilogy).
Over time: probably Contra on the NES, Tetris and Bionic Commando on the GameBoy, Operation Wolf and Sinistar in the arcade. DOOM, Duke3d, and XEvil on the PC. CS 1.6 and CS:S in college. The Gears series on the 360.
Then I had a decade or so gaming drought. More recently: Batsugun, Ketsui (Deathtiny and Death Label), Danmaku Unlimited 3, and Battlefield 2042.
Stardew Valley, Skyrim, and Halo 3 probably top my list. I dumped like 400 hours into Stardew during Covid lockdowns and a few hundred more after
Terraria. I don’t know why but the progression in the game feels so damn addicting. Mods add onto it by alot too
Talisman
Top 3:
Escape from Tarkov: 14600h
Elite Dangerous: 3600h
The Division 2: 3200h
R6: Siege at 1800, followed by Terraria at 1100. Terraria is the better game of the two.
Skyrim and Satisfactory.
Probably Warcraft Rumble.
Craft the world, Valorant and AoE3
Final Fantasy 6, because I have played through it on SNES, PS1, Rom, then SNES again.... oh, and there's 500 hours in Slay The Spire. Maybe also Civ 3.
Sigh... Rust
Probably still World of Warcraft. When I quite around 2010, I had close to 700 days /played time on my main, and another 400 days between various alts.
Definitely WoW for me back in the day too, in the 400 day range across my main and alts. These days No Man’s Sky in the 400 hour category. Things change when you become a parent, but I still try to find time to play games.
Yeah, the amount of time you had as a student sure was amazing. These days it's more like a few hours a month.
Hang on. WoW came out in 2004. So in 6 years you played 3 years in-game? 12 hours a day, every single day for 6 solid years? Were you on disability? Because after sleeping, that doesn't leave much time for work or school.
2 of those years were after I finished school and was just living rent free at home and gaming full time. During that time it was easly more then 12h a day. Though, a lot of that was just being logged in and idle while chatting on teamspeak or doing administrative work for the guild (we ran our own webserver out of a friends house for our forum/dkp system, etc). That's how I learned programming.
There was also some account sharing, which was literally required to get to the top of the vanialla PvP ranking. Games were built different back then.
Oh god, the PvP ranking bullshit grind. Yeah, you almost had to account share to get the top ranks. Back in Vanilla, two of my IRL buddies did the HWL grind. It was different from the Arena rankings grind, but still brutal. The last 3 weeks were nearly 24/7 to move up, and that's only because we had an organized server that had a list of who was next in line to get HWL and enforced weekly caps to make sure someone didn't grind 24/7 and miss a rank.
I stopped at Centurion, because fuck all that. I also wasn't good at PvP.
Honestly, I loved that kind of meta gaming, all the backdoor deals, even across factions. The drama when some group wouldn't honour the list or agreements (Been on both sides of it).
I made rank 13, luckily I already had a better weapon from raiding, so I could skip the last one. Good times.
I have over 3K hours on rust on PC. If I include all the hours on Xbox when I was younger it would most likely be either destiny 1+2 or Rianbow Six Siege but Im not sure how to find all that info since alot of R6 was on Smurfs
Minecraft
Star Citizen (no joke, I have put more than 2000h in the Alpha...). But because some people may say Star Citizen is not a game (I'm not agree with that statement), the second game I have played the most is warframe (1500h)
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