Ask Lemmy

Souls games.

Definitely animal well. When I played it out was the coolest sense of discovery that I had ever felt playing a game, and it kept going for so long. I would play it whenever I had a spare minute, especially if I had an idea for a puzzle. I'm not great at normal puzzle games, my brain just doesn't work like that, but I love exploration and easy puzzles and animal well really scratched that itch for me in a way no other game has.

Aside from that, I wouldn't be surprised if I had like 10,000 hours in Minecraft, since that's pretty much the only video game I like to play, and I've been playing it for almost ten years. Not an addiction though, I only play when I have the time and the desire.

Valkyrie Chronicles, I legitimately called off work sick for 2 days when the game came out on ps3.

For the entirety of high school I only played Team Fortress 2, League of Legends, and Melee. I have 2000+ hrs in TF2 and probably more in the other two. Then in college I was on the Overwatch team and played in the college league, I have a bit under 5000 hrs in that.

No games I have come close to that kinda play time and none probably will since I have less time to game and I’ve kinda been losing interest in gaming in general.

Urban Terror, it has such a high skill ceiling. Spent many hours just happily running jump maps, let alone all the thousand of games. Thinking of going back.

Path of exile for sure. Everytime there is a new league, i put a lot of hours into it.

Subnautica, Witcher 3, Far Cry 4, Metro Exodus, Dead By Daylight so far

Warframe, I have more than 3000 hours on it but I haven't touched it in years

Duke Nukem 3D.
Then Quake I and II.
I'm still playing the latter many times a week.

Team Fortress 2 and Splatoon

I have probably over 3k hours on Splatoon. I can't stop. I'm S+8 fwiw

Elite. Lode Runner. Castles of Dr. Creep. Boulderdash.

Minecraft and Factorio.

Both mixed in a little IRL depression and I was living vicariously through Steve or making factories.

Civ, Balatro.

Unfortunately Fortnite. The Jak series. I guess that's it. I'll edit if I think of more.

Sad to say league

Less sad to say hades. Incredible game that I have preemptively already told my partner she won't see me for a week after hades 2 comes out

Morrowind.

Skyrim, Demon's Souls

Lots, chrono trigger, ffvi-x, Mario 64, basically every yakuza game, sekiro, breath of the wild, a ton more. Embarassing ones sometimes like that power washing game because I got it for free and was like “this will be dumb” then kept going and going and going

Some older games that I’d probably power through now but at the time cheating/save states/youtube wasn’t easily accessible (gamefaqs existed but text based walkthroughs hit much different). Like the ps1 survival horror games: resident evil 1-3, silent hill, Dino crisis, parasite eve, etc. when you know what to do most of those can be run through in a few hours but in 1997 on the original hardware (no save states) and at best a txt file faq to guide you if you get stuck it would take some time to figure it out. Then with ones like re2 that had multiple routes and endings you’d play it like 6-7 times at least

I've been playing and DMing D&D sessions on Neverwinter Nights for two decades.

The only other game that got me for an extended period of time was Dead by Daylight. (Around 1500 hours)

Hitman: Codename 47

Timberborn is my drug of choice right now. But every few months I have a No Man's Sky relapse.

Monster hunter world, by a long way

Space Engineers right now. The Scrapyard scenario really gets me.