I’m curious what game you guys have sunk the most hours into. Mine has to be RuneScape, I don’t know the total hours because I’ve had so many accounts over the years I don’t even remember half my passwords, but it’s definitely in the thousands of hours now. I’ve played on/off RS2, OSRS, and RS3 since 2004.
I’ve also probably sunk anywhere from hundreds to 1000+ hours into Skyrim and Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura, though I don’t know the counts there either since neither were through Steam. Embarrassingly enough I’ve never completed either of those two games - I get sidetracked making so many alt characters.
What about you guys? & What got you hooked on said game?
Stellaris.
Rimworld
Late to the party, but for me Endless Sky: https://github.com/endless-sky
As far as I know, it’s the only open source and crowed developed game out there.
If you remember EV series, it’s basically that. But better and under constant development.
Allow me to introduce you to BAR. (Also open source)
That looks really good and will scratch the ancient Starcraft itch. Thanks!
I’ve played it. It’s much more like Total Annihilation and Supreme Commander.
God I miss the heyday of playing TA online.
Not me but a friend of mine has 10+ IN GAME YEARS in Everquest. Apparently he has been playing with his dad since he was 4 or 5 lmfao. I don’t understand it but I respect it.
Team Fortress 2
Same, i haven’t touched it in 10 years but it’s all my top played game from my college days. Poetically followed by Sims 4 but my hours are skewed since my spouse and i both play it on the same account.
I’d have to check, and for the older ones I can’t, but either something from Bethesda before they forgot how to make games (probably Morrowind, possibly Skyrim or New Vegas) or something from Paradox (either Crusader Kings 2 and 3 or Stellaris), followed by Cyberpunk 2077 (can’t keep me away from Night City for long) or something else by either of the first ones. Or Excel; wasted a few thousand hours on that one too.
Endless Space 2. 488 hours. It’s my comfort game. I wait long enough to forget how to play it, then I play it again.
Elite Dangerous. Instead of paying attention to my uni classes I was hauling freight to Sargoth and ramming people with a hull-maxxed federal dropship.
Sure, but that’s cheating… you can finish most other games on a second computer during a trip to Hutton Orbital…
World of Warcraft, split between a vanilla private server and official Classic. I have a character on each with over 150 days of playtime (although significant chunks of that are leaving the game open while doing other things, and also programming addons while otherwise afk at the bank).
A man of culture
Probably Warframe, followed by rimworld. i say probably, because I pirated rimworld because its so expensive with all the expansions, heh. Only got 200 hours logged on steam.
Actually, WoW might be #1 because I played it since I was a kid, theres no hour counter though so I have no idea. Haven’t touched it since the blitzchung era tho, and its really hard to even guess
Guilty Gear Strive? I remember playing a lot of skyrim too. Anything past 2k hours kinda gets lumped together
Definitely Skyrim, across multiple editions and platforms. And I’m proud to say I never sank into the stealth-archer habit. Armored mage FTW muthafucka!
My favorite is my pugilist who believed magic was a hoax. There was something very satisfying about punching a dragon to death then while absorbing it’s soul some random fuck in one of the Northern cities tried to fight me because i chose the dialog box that wasn’t racism. Piledriver.
I’m not sure which one I have more hours in, but it’s either Mechwarrior Online or the Mass Effect trilogy.
Ya, i keep going back to MWO. There’s just nothing else like it.
I’ve been playing Mechwarrior games since I was a kid playing MW2 Mercs. I’m a certified “Mech Dad” now.
Minecraft.
It doesn’t keep track in general, but I’ve had multiple worlds go over 1000 hours individually.
Mine would also be Minecraft and probably the Creeper World series.
Both have been around for a while and are extremely relatable and have strong communities that keep them going and feeling new.
Elite: Dangerous
You can sink a ludicrous amount of time traversing a 1:1 scale galaxy even with FTL.
