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?
League of Legends, and nothing comes close to my time spent on it

That’s eight hours a day for five straight years. You sure love those cookies.
You ok over there?
Don’t worry, I haven’t played in over a year now.
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Factorio! 2k hours :)
While not in 1000+ hours like others, but I have 700± hours in both Terraria and factorio.
Elite Dangerous at about 1300 hours. I do wonder if anything from the ps2 days beats that, with more time and fewer games, but I doubt it. Been playing for 6 years
Battlefield on PlayStation, hands down
Played 2, 3, 4, 1 (don’t ask, I didn’t make the numbering) and 5 to death on a wide variety of play Station models. Would log some average of 10 hours per week, every week, for since BF2 started and BF5 ended
- Guild Wars 2 with 5,004 hours since 2015 :)
- Guild Wars 1 with 2,507 hours since 2018 (yes, I started it after sequel; also spent a few weeks afk farming, so probably a few hundred hours less)
- Genshin with 2,248 hours since 2021
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.
Endless Sky looks cool. Definitely going to give it a try.
My two favorite open source games are Thrive and Cataclysm DDA
Thrive is an evolutionary survival game. Similar to Spore, you start as a single-cell microbe. You gather nutrients, evade dangers, and evolve adaptations. Eventually, you can progress to the multicellular stage, then macroscopic, etc. up to spacefaring. Currently everything after multicellular is placeholder, but the cellular gameplay is fun and has enough viable strategies to make replaying interesting. https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive
Cataclysm DDA is a zombie-survival rogue-like simulation game. You start as a single survivor and need to scavenge for food, shelter, and protection. If you like games that focus on system/simulation complexity over visuals (e.g. dwarf fortress) I’d recommend this one. For example, the vehicle system allows you to build custom vehicles, which can be anything from a dinky wooden bicycle to a monstrous RV-turned deathdozer+mobile base-on-wheels. https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA
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 had about 700 hours played in high school, I picked the game back up ~2021 and am now up to 2,000 hours. Working from home helped with that alot, although I haven’t played in 2 or so months.
Put a lot of hours into Paradox Interactive games

Stellaris.

Rimworld
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.
I had to convert that to hours to make it comparable, holy fuck that’s almost 88,000 hours 😵
Diablo 2. No idea how many hours, easily over 3k for sure.
No other game I played come close to this amount, closest is probably 600 or 700 hours. I got so many 50-400 hours games.
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).
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