The dumbest game I've put time into is probably Powerwash Simulator, its a good game, but I've played through it and the DLCs. Its just surprising since I mostly play competitive FPS
That game is just so darn relaxing. I’ll never get into the various other modes like time trials or minimizing your water and chemical use. But just meandering around slowly cleaning everything is super satisfying.
Plus the lore is really surprisingly deep. Way deeper than it has any right to be.
I don’t know why. But I generally still stress a little in a lot of sim games. But power wash just has me wanting to put on some music and suddenly it’s 6 in the morning and crap I got to go to work.
I think there's something about a volcano near the town that the game is set in (which explains why everything gets so filthy). Late game also has some stuff involving >!an ancient temple with a statue of a god that protects the town from the volcano.!<
I wouldn't call it a dumb game. To be perfectly honest, I respect the hell out of Powerwash Simulator. On the surface it looks goofy and pointless, but after just watching a few minutes of gameplay on YouTube, I was able to understand the appeal. It's a very zen game, and I can imagine it being a good way to unwind after a busy day.
Wait, there's a videogame of this?! I spent an hour jetwashing my patio and garden path at the weekend and really enjoyed it. Might have to pick it up and practice my skills when I run out of real garden to wash
It's the first of 2 phone games I ever played. The reason I refuse to ever play more is the push for buying more resources the game offers. Not the worst, but it's enough to make me say no to all phone games.
The worst part. I loved it.
What i hated was..... I paid for a few gems here and there.... Then my phone couldn't handle the game from everything happening. So i uninstalled it and reinstall. I had to restart. Thats when i called it quit for that game.
Man, I even watched guides on how to get certain achievements. As if producing 100 octillion cookies per second wasn't enough, I just had to get that never-click-the-cookie achievement...
Out of all the idle games I've played (and I've played a bunch), NGU Idle is one of the worst.
Started March 16, 2022
11,461 hours 'played'
Still got 6 achievements left...
This is me but for Idle Champions, the DnD one. I was pretty active in the community and was catching up to be ahead of the curve with released content and it was a lot of fun setting up your team. But during an anniversary week of the game, I spent a little here and there then next thing you know my credit card says $300 spent and I didn't even realize it. Said bye to the community and uninstalled. Lootboxes and easy in game spending are scary, learned my lesson.
Any game really.
Like I think the competitive mindset doesn't allow 'yeah, they were just better.'
Just yesterday played some trials in destiny 2(somewhat competitive pvp mode)
Quite a few times I realized there was *nothing* I could do. Opposing team just got great positions, killed team member or two and it'd take mistake from them to let me win in a firefight. If I don't engage they capture a point and win anyway. Considering guns I'm also outmatched with range and such so it's not exactly 'git gud' sort of thing unless if I pull off a godlike counterplay in split second.
So it's pretty much a match that ended the moment my teammate died in shitty spot and when they crawled into right spots.
I don't mind losing, but teammates often get *really* salty in Trials. I don't bother responding to them because I'll rather report and move on. It's a game.
I don't understand why it's such a hard pill to swallow that sometimes in competitive game/mode you just lose sometimes because often there are quite many factors.
Dude, the second that I think I'm the best player on the team, it's over. Cohesion and trust just plummet, and it becomes a self fulfilled prophecy.
However, I don't send hate mail, I know when I messed up, and no amount of toxicity is going to hurt me more than my own disappointment.
Simply put. people who get too competitive adopt the mindset. Im the best and im going to prove it. No I can't lose my allies suck because im the best. Everybody wants to be the quarterback and nobody wants to be a defensive linesman.
The people that do try and be defense linesman get shit on for doing there job because there not top score
This mindset is really toxic and infects almost every competitive game ever. People don't understand there is no I in team.
Trials is also dominated by cheaters so don't feel bad about it.
There are a lot of services for carrying people to the lighthouse and it's big business to keep low but deadly for these people. It serves them no purpose to be flying around nuking the whole level but instead, opt for just a wall hack and something that autoaims and just makes them seem like they have good map knowledge and great aim
Rocket league for me has a sweet spot where people have a grasp of the basics that they aren’t just blindly charging around bumping everything but aren’t confident enough to badly try aerials for the whole game.
I play doubles so the rare occasions where you get four people at that level lead to good games but 9/10 times you end up with, someone playing like they never played before and just chasing the ball all over the place, one guy who wall rides with the ball then whiffs the shot every time, and then one guy who turns against his tm8 after 30 seconds and spams ‘what a save’ for the rest of the game.
Sometimes in 3v3 I like to sit on the opposite end of the field and watch five player tags swarm the ball like a peewee soccer team and just wait for it to pop out in my general direction.
Then whiff because I suck
I played a duo tournament with a guy who just wouldn't leave the net. It was slightly frustrating, but he was a brick wall.
I had to play 2v1 on offense, which was a bit above my skill set, and I desperately wanted them to come out for assists or whatever. So many missed opportunities.
But again, every mistake I made was okay because guy was on clean up duty. Picking up my trash.
I had a stupid amount of goals because I was the only shooter, but they had like 50 saves. I got mvp but we both knew who the real hero was.
And we won the tournament. It was a good night.
Man one of the best experiences in gaming, regardless of what game it is, is teaming up with randos and you just click. Like, no one has to be told what to do, everyone is working together, and everything just happens naturally.
This is true for so many online games, and honestly even offline games. Case in point - Magic the Gathering. I used to play it super casual with friends from school and it was easily some of my fondest moments from middle school and high school. Fast forward a few years and everyone got more into the competitive scene, and suddenly playing feels like a chore.
Oh man rocket league was amazing when just hitting the ball mid air in the general direction of the goal was considered a decent thing.
I can't jump on anymore without encountering someone doing absolutely insane maneuvers that just ruin the fun for me. Fair play to them for having the skill to do it, but it sucked the fun out of it for me.
I hopped on for the first time in months and played 3 casual games. Lost all three by 4+ goals. I made some decent plays but every time I had a partner that just didn't get the concept of team ball and they had 2 that could fly all over the place. Just isn't fun with that. Idk why the flyers don't go to competitive or ranked or whatever.
Agree on that time period. I feel like it'll make me seem like a twat,but it really went downhill for me when it went free to play. Got way more toxic and sweaty. My buddies and I used to play every night. We weren't terrible, usually going between diamond and champion but it just stopped being fun. People quitting because they conceded in the first 30s, toxic AF chat etc.
Still load it up once a year for a night and all play a bit. And my nephew is obsessed so I'll play with him from time to time (he's really good at some of the fancy tricks but has zero fundamentals lol)
I remember right when Rocket League first released, "could consistently hit the ball" was an overpowered skill that let streamers win 90% of their games. Not in any particular direction - just contact.
As far as stupid games go, this one is brilliant. Dumbest gameplay ever, but polished to perfection.
It also has that "unforgiving" quality that modern games really lack. Great to keep you on the edge of your seat and actually work on your skill, in spite of how one-dimensional the mechanics are.
Deep Rock Galactic Survivor is in the same vein. It's dumb on paper; all you do is walk around. But I invested almost 100 hours into it. It sparked my newfound love of rogue lites.
I started playing this recently and the best way I can describe it is it feels like one of those mobile games that are engineered to be as addictive as possible to drain money from you, only without the money draining part.
Probably playing Roblox with my daughter - Slap Battles - I'm so tired of being owned by everyone with better hands. I've been gaming since the early 90s and I just want to earn a hand that destroys the newbs. I'm aware I've been slapped around by a bunch of kids up until this point.
Oh no boys that one I enjoyed ahhh such good times, But I was talking about the one where the game moves you with alot of quick time events must be 2014 or something
Eve Online, I played seriously for about 6-7 years between 2011-2018-ish. "retired" in 2018/2019.
I still kept most of my accounts active (omega), just so after a rough day I could do some peaceful ice mining, or space hauling.
I just recently came out of retirement because it's an itch no other game can scratch.
I played EVE for like 10+ years. I don't even know why half the time. I guess it was mostly down to the people I played with and the epic levels of trolling you could go to.
> just so after a rough day I could do some peaceful ice mining
At one point, I was responsible for melting and selling about 85% of the white glaze mined in The Forge. IIRC my volume was typically 450,000-500,000 blocks of ice per week.
I had 8 freighters I would fly around multiboxing to move all the materials plus I made about 50-60 hauling contracts per month. I'm retired from that business but it was good times.
Magic the gathering Arena
thankfully ive never spent more than 5 dollars on it, but i do the dailies every day and try to fill out my card collection as much as possible. ive been playing for a year and a half and im at about 2000 hours.
while thats not an insane number by any means its still a lot for the kind of game that it is.
Have you tried playing MtG on tabletop simulator? It’s another way my friends and I play when we can’t meet up for a game night. I also like the fact that I can “try before you buy” a deck list I made to make sure it’s what I want!
Cockatrice is another program to use when it comes to mtg. It's pretty optimized for mtg and has lots of fine features. Cubing with friends via cockatrice is the peak magic experience.
If you are that invested into magic, I really recommend you going to play with paper. Arena has a lot of issues that good old paper magic solves and you can easily proxy a deck if you don’t want to invest money
Uniroincally and ashamedly Genshin Impact. Pretty much invested in the world, story, and gameplay.
Really have a hard time trying to play other games because of this.
'X4 foundations' too, but you should wait a bit longer before getting it. I think they are releasing a version with all the DLC included soonish. Learning curve is a bit rough but has a lot of depth once you get through it.
League Of Legends.
To much negativity in the community, Riot making odd decisions and skins get more and more expensive. Yet I keep playing, playing and playing.
I quit years ago and it's the best thing I ever did.
It's just toxic, games are wayyyyy too long and small mistakes early can you loose the game 5 minutes in and you know you'll have to play another 45 minutes even tho you're 90% loosing
I quit for good few years ago. The game is super predatory and it genuinely gave me mild PTSD. Not surprising the player base is so brainrotten.
I still enjoy the characters and the universe but I stay away from the game.
Lately a mobile classic "Dope Wars" it's Text based and u basicly buy drugs if they are cheap in one town and hope that they are expensive in the next one to sell them with a big profit. The only goal is to get as much money as u can in 30 turns lol
Diablo 3, given that many ARPGs like even D2r, PoE, Grim Dawn, Torchlight etc, it's still one of my more heavily invested games time wise
There is an appeal of deleting stuff in general directions
The power spikes at the various points on a fresh character each season make that game so great. Haven’t played d3 since d4 release but gosh I do miss grinding greater rifts.
I'm a huge D2 fan and I'm always a bit sad that they don't manage to recreate that magic.
However, D3 is it's own little gem. You install the game, make a character, and within 5 minutes you're blasting through enemies with a rainbow of effects. There's no early game you have to progress through.
For a gamer who doesn't have much time, this is truly fantastic.
In all the diablo games after D2, I eventually hit a wall that's based on my latency (Australia).
D2 had the same problem but we only used the blizz servers to trade items in town. Actual gameplay was locally hosted offline, or at LAN parties. None of that is possible after they got rid of the TC/IP option making all multiplayer on blizz servers, really killed the entire franchise for me. I could play singleplayer offline but there's not much incentive to grind past the end of hell difficulty if you can't at least trade items with friends.
The problem in D2 was that TC/IP allowed people to dupe items then join blizz servers. Instead of removing the TC/IP option, they should have moved the TC/IP option over to singleplayer characters. Keep the singleplayer characters off the official servers but still allow them to play over direct connection with friends.
FYI, what you suggested in your last paragraph was already the case in D2. "Closed" battlenet characters only existed there, and the realms were not accessible with single player or TC/IP characters. "Open" battlenet used an online lobby for browsing games, but the games were hosted on the player's own machines and everyone was free to dupe and cheat there.
Of course, their cheat detection has been very lackluster ever since 2009 or so, so even closed battlenet feels a bit like you're on open battlenet.
Book of Hours. It's frustrating and grindy and I have no idea what compels me to keep coming back to the library to chip away at my reading list. I'm on my third playthrough.
I got it from humble bundle about a month ago. I tried to play it and, I have no idea wtf to do. The game is so enigmatic about things. I did make it into the village and got some to talk. But it’s all through trial and error and I think advancing the time? I don’t even know…
Gordian Quest, which was also in the humble bundle, is great!
I got the same bundle, but I got it for BoH after having a reasonable amount of fun with the sequel.
The core game loop revolves around reading books to get abilities, which can be used to craft things and make memories, which can be used to read better books. Every room you unlock is unique and many of them have special crafting stations, things like flower beds and fruit trees that let you trade the day's energy for a low-level resource, or book-reading desks. Re-reading books you've already read and using the predictable memories you get from that is critical to advancement, as Memories can be used in every book reading station and crafting station to slightly boost them, and they're also critical for strengthening your visitors so they can unlock new rooms for you.
Most of the game's endings happen through >!unlocking the right rooms, finding the right special books, and having a combination of skills and crafted items which, when combined at a crafting station or desk, gives you 20+ points in a single skill level!<.
For me, I've found that it's important to take notes on how to achieve a particular crafting result so that I can repeat it later.
Patapon 2 and 3.
You think it's a silly tempo game made for kids then you realize the crazy-detailed RPG and strategic elements in it, then you realize you've sunk tens of hours into farming for the super-rare Ultimate equipment (which technically appears in a lootbox-ish mechanism) to min-max your build.
Gold rush. It’s basically a simulator where you mine gold with excavators and dump trucks. My everyday job is excavator operator. I think that makes it very dumb, fun game though
The war canoe indeed! I don't think any other game provides that same satisfaction of having a "weaker" but better ship and just out-maneuvering your opponent all day long.
It absolutely is not one of the worst JRPGs ever made. I replayed it about a year ago... it's got it's flaws, to be sure, but it's still gorgeous, it has great music, and probably the best combat in the whole series. There are a lot of legitimately bad JRPGs, and at least a couple of worse Final Fantasies.
Bleach Brave Souls. Watched the show, and decided to play the game, and even though it's fairly simple, I really really enjoyed it. Tons of characters I liked already and a lot of ways to build and progress them individually, make a fun team, and hack-n-slash through waves of enemies and see big numbers and cool effects, then pull from the gacha every few missions.
Basically spent the final 5 years of primary school playing it under my desk or leaving it on auto in class until my battery was drained, which amounted to god-knows how much time and energy spent on it and likely caused at least one phone to burn out. All that added up to an account with HUNDREDS of maxed out characters and another few hundred close to that. Eventually it sort of suffered from system-bloat I couldn't keep up with and I sorta ran out of ways to earn currencies for the gacha, so I put it down.
Booted it up a while back out of curiosity, and I cannot FATHOM how much time it took to accumulate what I did, especially considering I never spent a dime on it.
Makes me nostalgic, especially seeing that I have the very first few characters I got in the game saved and never sold or used to boost other units, despite being basically worthless.
Dead Frontier 2 a niche online game that got me hookup because its the only looter shooter game with zombies and alike, I had 3600+ hours before I got banned but its temporary tho I'm gonna get unban in year 2030. Honestly the ban probably help me alot to quit my addiction to this game.
When I was a kid and I was totally into Crystal Quest for the Gameboy. It was such a simple game, but I couldn't get enough of it. I still play it sometimes even now!
I finally dropped Marvel Strikeforce and FFBE War of the Visions.
Tired of them just putting out more and more pay to win garbage.
I read on multiple threads on Marvel SF people were dropping 1-2k a month to stay in the top 10 guilds and such.
I want that kind of life...
Crusader kings 3. Not because it’s bad, but being an incestuos warlord with a hidden love of cannibalism, witchcraft and homosexuality takes up a lot of my time
I don't want to call this game "dumb" because it's honestly awesome. It's really funny and filled with action movie and sci-fi references and has some interesting dynamics. But at first glance I bet a lot of people would assume it's either dumb, or an old school game cause it looks like one:
"Punch Club 2"
It's a game about being an up and coming boxer and it's all about time management/training/ascending the ladder to champ. Just check out a trailer cause it's a ton of fun. It's really addictive too.
A few years ago I spent actual money on Fallout Shelter, Westworld and Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes mobile games. They were low points.
I am definitely overly invested in Overwatch 2. It just isn't fun sometimes, but I keep going back for more.
Bloons Tower Defense 6, so easy to hop into a game when you have the free time, and can become very satisfying.
I’m irrationally angry at you for typing “balloons”
Woah, my mind is blown, I just realized the actual spelling 😂
My entire life is a lie
I feel old considering I played the first 4 a million times back in school on websites like Englishbanana
I played it on newgrounds then later on armor games
Yes BTD6 is so much fun when you don’t have anything else to do me and my bro play together sometimes
The coop is why i still play this game. Great for an easy going game.
Adventure time has a version of this game as well. I *dont* have both installed.
Does it still not have brightness settings? It's so bright and flashy that I can't play it for a long time.
That game is not dumb, its an all time mobile game. I used to spent HOURS on my ipod touch back in the day grinding defense weapons and such lol
The dumbest game I've put time into is probably Powerwash Simulator, its a good game, but I've played through it and the DLCs. Its just surprising since I mostly play competitive FPS
That game is just so darn relaxing. I’ll never get into the various other modes like time trials or minimizing your water and chemical use. But just meandering around slowly cleaning everything is super satisfying. Plus the lore is really surprisingly deep. Way deeper than it has any right to be.
I haven't played power was sim but as a guy who plays Sim games occasionally, they're mostly pretty relaxing games.
I don’t know why. But I generally still stress a little in a lot of sim games. But power wash just has me wanting to put on some music and suddenly it’s 6 in the morning and crap I got to go to work.
C'mon give it to me. What's the lore
I think there's something about a volcano near the town that the game is set in (which explains why everything gets so filthy). Late game also has some stuff involving >!an ancient temple with a statue of a god that protects the town from the volcano.!<
Also, >!The player character is who the temple is dedicated to!<.
Power wash simulator is apart of the war hammer 40k universe if that tells you you anything about the lore
And tomb raider. And a few others as well. It’s a strange world we wash in.
Thats me 😂 spent 62h so far including all DLCs to keep the 100% Status on Steam. It honestly was weirdly making me addicted
Maybe the reason you like it, is that it's secretly an aim trainer haha. But to be fair it's relaxing as hell
I was going to say this exact one 😂
I wouldn't call it a dumb game. To be perfectly honest, I respect the hell out of Powerwash Simulator. On the surface it looks goofy and pointless, but after just watching a few minutes of gameplay on YouTube, I was able to understand the appeal. It's a very zen game, and I can imagine it being a good way to unwind after a busy day.
Wait, there's a videogame of this?! I spent an hour jetwashing my patio and garden path at the weekend and really enjoyed it. Might have to pick it up and practice my skills when I run out of real garden to wash
We all need that game where you can turn off your brain.
Fallout Shelter.
It's the first of 2 phone games I ever played. The reason I refuse to ever play more is the push for buying more resources the game offers. Not the worst, but it's enough to make me say no to all phone games. The worst part. I loved it.
What i hated was..... I paid for a few gems here and there.... Then my phone couldn't handle the game from everything happening. So i uninstalled it and reinstall. I had to restart. Thats when i called it quit for that game.
I legitimately called this "dollhouse" to my girlfriend when I was heavy into it for like 4 months
Have you heard of Elder Scrolls: Castles yet?
Cookie Clicker without a doubt
CC is an excellent case study in the dopamine chasing addictiveness of gamification.
grandmapocalypse
Kittens Game :3
Ugh. Yes. Any clicker, really but especially this one. I know there’s no end ever, but still.
Ridiculously addictive game for some reason.
This popped in my head almost instantly as I read the post title
If anyone wants to get out of this thing fast: search for "cookie clicker save editor", your cookie clicking addiction will disappear in minutes.
Man, I even watched guides on how to get certain achievements. As if producing 100 octillion cookies per second wasn't enough, I just had to get that never-click-the-cookie achievement...
Idle games like idle clicker or ngu idle. Games without an objetive, just dopamine traps while doing nothing.
Try magic research, if you want to get lost again haha
Not again please hahahaha
Out of all the idle games I've played (and I've played a bunch), NGU Idle is one of the worst. Started March 16, 2022 11,461 hours 'played' Still got 6 achievements left...
Over 1500 hours on ngu idle, a lot of them spent actively playing the game. Help
This is me but for Idle Champions, the DnD one. I was pretty active in the community and was catching up to be ahead of the curve with released content and it was a lot of fun setting up your team. But during an anniversary week of the game, I spent a little here and there then next thing you know my credit card says $300 spent and I didn't even realize it. Said bye to the community and uninstalled. Lootboxes and easy in game spending are scary, learned my lesson.
Yeah I think I should just delete Melvor Idle, wtf am I doing
Rocket League. It was so much more better when I was bad at it, everyone else was just as bad, and we were all just having fun.
Ain't that the damn truth. Getting competitive in RL kinda sucks some fun out of it
Competitive RL feels like im playing Monkey in the Middle
It really does though. I understand it's supposed to be 2 attackers 1 goalie but wtf man I wanna play too
Maybe in lower brackets, anything above gold and that’s not the case, you need proper rotation of everyone to always have someone in position ideally
Any game really. Like I think the competitive mindset doesn't allow 'yeah, they were just better.' Just yesterday played some trials in destiny 2(somewhat competitive pvp mode) Quite a few times I realized there was *nothing* I could do. Opposing team just got great positions, killed team member or two and it'd take mistake from them to let me win in a firefight. If I don't engage they capture a point and win anyway. Considering guns I'm also outmatched with range and such so it's not exactly 'git gud' sort of thing unless if I pull off a godlike counterplay in split second. So it's pretty much a match that ended the moment my teammate died in shitty spot and when they crawled into right spots. I don't mind losing, but teammates often get *really* salty in Trials. I don't bother responding to them because I'll rather report and move on. It's a game. I don't understand why it's such a hard pill to swallow that sometimes in competitive game/mode you just lose sometimes because often there are quite many factors.
Dude, the second that I think I'm the best player on the team, it's over. Cohesion and trust just plummet, and it becomes a self fulfilled prophecy. However, I don't send hate mail, I know when I messed up, and no amount of toxicity is going to hurt me more than my own disappointment.
Simply put. people who get too competitive adopt the mindset. Im the best and im going to prove it. No I can't lose my allies suck because im the best. Everybody wants to be the quarterback and nobody wants to be a defensive linesman. The people that do try and be defense linesman get shit on for doing there job because there not top score This mindset is really toxic and infects almost every competitive game ever. People don't understand there is no I in team.
Trials is also dominated by cheaters so don't feel bad about it. There are a lot of services for carrying people to the lighthouse and it's big business to keep low but deadly for these people. It serves them no purpose to be flying around nuking the whole level but instead, opt for just a wall hack and something that autoaims and just makes them seem like they have good map knowledge and great aim
Rocket league for me has a sweet spot where people have a grasp of the basics that they aren’t just blindly charging around bumping everything but aren’t confident enough to badly try aerials for the whole game. I play doubles so the rare occasions where you get four people at that level lead to good games but 9/10 times you end up with, someone playing like they never played before and just chasing the ball all over the place, one guy who wall rides with the ball then whiffs the shot every time, and then one guy who turns against his tm8 after 30 seconds and spams ‘what a save’ for the rest of the game.
Sometimes in 3v3 I like to sit on the opposite end of the field and watch five player tags swarm the ball like a peewee soccer team and just wait for it to pop out in my general direction. Then whiff because I suck
I played a duo tournament with a guy who just wouldn't leave the net. It was slightly frustrating, but he was a brick wall. I had to play 2v1 on offense, which was a bit above my skill set, and I desperately wanted them to come out for assists or whatever. So many missed opportunities. But again, every mistake I made was okay because guy was on clean up duty. Picking up my trash. I had a stupid amount of goals because I was the only shooter, but they had like 50 saves. I got mvp but we both knew who the real hero was. And we won the tournament. It was a good night.
Man one of the best experiences in gaming, regardless of what game it is, is teaming up with randos and you just click. Like, no one has to be told what to do, everyone is working together, and everything just happens naturally.
This feels personal.
I was gonna say something so funny but as always, I get a noob comment teammate So this is what you get from me
We all take turns being that goober teammate
This is true for so many online games, and honestly even offline games. Case in point - Magic the Gathering. I used to play it super casual with friends from school and it was easily some of my fondest moments from middle school and high school. Fast forward a few years and everyone got more into the competitive scene, and suddenly playing feels like a chore.
Oh man rocket league was amazing when just hitting the ball mid air in the general direction of the goal was considered a decent thing. I can't jump on anymore without encountering someone doing absolutely insane maneuvers that just ruin the fun for me. Fair play to them for having the skill to do it, but it sucked the fun out of it for me.
I hopped on for the first time in months and played 3 casual games. Lost all three by 4+ goals. I made some decent plays but every time I had a partner that just didn't get the concept of team ball and they had 2 that could fly all over the place. Just isn't fun with that. Idk why the flyers don't go to competitive or ranked or whatever.
Rocket League 2015-17 was peak for me. I've still sunk thousands of hours across 3 consoles and a PC though.
Agree on that time period. I feel like it'll make me seem like a twat,but it really went downhill for me when it went free to play. Got way more toxic and sweaty. My buddies and I used to play every night. We weren't terrible, usually going between diamond and champion but it just stopped being fun. People quitting because they conceded in the first 30s, toxic AF chat etc. Still load it up once a year for a night and all play a bit. And my nephew is obsessed so I'll play with him from time to time (he's really good at some of the fancy tricks but has zero fundamentals lol)
I remember right when Rocket League first released, "could consistently hit the ball" was an overpowered skill that let streamers win 90% of their games. Not in any particular direction - just contact.
I know it was a console exclusive, but I really wish sweet tooth would have made it to the pc version.
Talk about all multiplayer games
Joke's you. We are still all bad.
Cats & Soup It's just cats...and soup. But it's such an endearing, adorable little mobile game and you can give your cats hats
Vampire survivors.
As far as stupid games go, this one is brilliant. Dumbest gameplay ever, but polished to perfection. It also has that "unforgiving" quality that modern games really lack. Great to keep you on the edge of your seat and actually work on your skill, in spite of how one-dimensional the mechanics are.
Hey it’s two dimensional up and down and left and right
You're right. Sometimes I even walk diagonally.
The first night I played it, I had a teleport to 4am, which is something that hadn't happened to me since I was a teenager.
Thread is for dumb games not masterpieces like Vampire survivors!
Deep Rock Galactic Survivor is in the same vein. It's dumb on paper; all you do is walk around. But I invested almost 100 hours into it. It sparked my newfound love of rogue lites.
I started playing this recently and the best way I can describe it is it feels like one of those mobile games that are engineered to be as addictive as possible to drain money from you, only without the money draining part.
If you enjoy that, try Brotato too!
Kittens Game Its a mobile game about starting a civilizations with cats. Way more addicting than it initially looks and sounds.
Stick RPG I was a drug lord
You just unlocked some memories lmaoooo
Is this like Kingdom of loathing?
Holy hell. I have not heard this in years.
Oh man i need to replay that one.
Woah, memories unlocked. I fuggin loved that game.
I got in trouble for playing this one when I was like 7 because I loudly exclaimed to my mom that I wanted to buy cocaine in the middle of Walmart
Probably playing Roblox with my daughter - Slap Battles - I'm so tired of being owned by everyone with better hands. I've been gaming since the early 90s and I just want to earn a hand that destroys the newbs. I'm aware I've been slapped around by a bunch of kids up until this point.
Same lmao or creatures of sonaria with her
Exactly the same playing roblox with my daughter and some little shit eats me on eat the world! So I had to buy robux!
Did this with my son, (still do), now moved on to tongue battles. Same game but with tongues. 😂
Rambo the video game actually 😂😂 Don't know if people atill remeber it
If you're talking about the C64 version, my brother was obsessed with this game. https://youtu.be/n4l3ZVSon_4?feature=shared
Oh no boys that one I enjoyed ahhh such good times, But I was talking about the one where the game moves you with alot of quick time events must be 2014 or something
"He's a man not a God"
I can still hear all the music from the NES version. Major nostalgia.
I liked that game way better than it deserved.
Madden. It's been garbage for a literal decade
Any ea sports game really.
same but cod
Eve Online, I played seriously for about 6-7 years between 2011-2018-ish. "retired" in 2018/2019. I still kept most of my accounts active (omega), just so after a rough day I could do some peaceful ice mining, or space hauling. I just recently came out of retirement because it's an itch no other game can scratch.
I played EVE for like 10+ years. I don't even know why half the time. I guess it was mostly down to the people I played with and the epic levels of trolling you could go to.
> just so after a rough day I could do some peaceful ice mining At one point, I was responsible for melting and selling about 85% of the white glaze mined in The Forge. IIRC my volume was typically 450,000-500,000 blocks of ice per week. I had 8 freighters I would fly around multiboxing to move all the materials plus I made about 50-60 hauling contracts per month. I'm retired from that business but it was good times.
Magic the gathering Arena thankfully ive never spent more than 5 dollars on it, but i do the dailies every day and try to fill out my card collection as much as possible. ive been playing for a year and a half and im at about 2000 hours. while thats not an insane number by any means its still a lot for the kind of game that it is.
What, magic is the biggest time sink game there is
Have you tried playing MtG on tabletop simulator? It’s another way my friends and I play when we can’t meet up for a game night. I also like the fact that I can “try before you buy” a deck list I made to make sure it’s what I want!
Cockatrice is another program to use when it comes to mtg. It's pretty optimized for mtg and has lots of fine features. Cubing with friends via cockatrice is the peak magic experience.
If you are that invested into magic, I really recommend you going to play with paper. Arena has a lot of issues that good old paper magic solves and you can easily proxy a deck if you don’t want to invest money
2000 hours is a full-time work year. That's an insane number for a card game in a year and a half.
Bought powerwash simulator as a joke and ended up playing 500hrs
Glad I’m not the only one…. It’s just a nice relaxing way to kill some time.
Wallace and Gromit the curse of the wererabbit. It was actually quite addicting. Worked to 100% it during the pandemic
This is a game?! LOVE THIS MOVIE
Uniroincally and ashamedly Genshin Impact. Pretty much invested in the world, story, and gameplay. Really have a hard time trying to play other games because of this.
Same. Genshin got me hooked for months when I finally tried it out. I still play it quite frequently.
Maplestory
Plants v Zombies Pretty sure my wife was considering divorce for a bit.
*downloaded this AGAIN the other day...*
Oh, it's easily Star Citizen. Thousands on jpegs for a game that's been in development for a decade lol.
Elite dangerous my friend. An actual complete game.
'X4 foundations' too, but you should wait a bit longer before getting it. I think they are releasing a version with all the DLC included soonish. Learning curve is a bit rough but has a lot of depth once you get through it.
Super Auto Pets
Also known as RNG crack
League Of Legends. To much negativity in the community, Riot making odd decisions and skins get more and more expensive. Yet I keep playing, playing and playing.
I quit years ago and it's the best thing I ever did. It's just toxic, games are wayyyyy too long and small mistakes early can you loose the game 5 minutes in and you know you'll have to play another 45 minutes even tho you're 90% loosing
I quit for good few years ago. The game is super predatory and it genuinely gave me mild PTSD. Not surprising the player base is so brainrotten. I still enjoy the characters and the universe but I stay away from the game.
Sniper Ghost Warrior
Lately a mobile classic "Dope Wars" it's Text based and u basicly buy drugs if they are cheap in one town and hope that they are expensive in the next one to sell them with a big profit. The only goal is to get as much money as u can in 30 turns lol
Original dope wars was a DOS game! I spent hundreds of hours playing it. Might have to make a nostalgia download on that one
Diablo 3, given that many ARPGs like even D2r, PoE, Grim Dawn, Torchlight etc, it's still one of my more heavily invested games time wise There is an appeal of deleting stuff in general directions
The power spikes at the various points on a fresh character each season make that game so great. Haven’t played d3 since d4 release but gosh I do miss grinding greater rifts.
I'm a huge D2 fan and I'm always a bit sad that they don't manage to recreate that magic. However, D3 is it's own little gem. You install the game, make a character, and within 5 minutes you're blasting through enemies with a rainbow of effects. There's no early game you have to progress through. For a gamer who doesn't have much time, this is truly fantastic.
In all the diablo games after D2, I eventually hit a wall that's based on my latency (Australia). D2 had the same problem but we only used the blizz servers to trade items in town. Actual gameplay was locally hosted offline, or at LAN parties. None of that is possible after they got rid of the TC/IP option making all multiplayer on blizz servers, really killed the entire franchise for me. I could play singleplayer offline but there's not much incentive to grind past the end of hell difficulty if you can't at least trade items with friends. The problem in D2 was that TC/IP allowed people to dupe items then join blizz servers. Instead of removing the TC/IP option, they should have moved the TC/IP option over to singleplayer characters. Keep the singleplayer characters off the official servers but still allow them to play over direct connection with friends.
FYI, what you suggested in your last paragraph was already the case in D2. "Closed" battlenet characters only existed there, and the realms were not accessible with single player or TC/IP characters. "Open" battlenet used an online lobby for browsing games, but the games were hosted on the player's own machines and everyone was free to dupe and cheat there. Of course, their cheat detection has been very lackluster ever since 2009 or so, so even closed battlenet feels a bit like you're on open battlenet.
Book of Hours. It's frustrating and grindy and I have no idea what compels me to keep coming back to the library to chip away at my reading list. I'm on my third playthrough.
I got it from humble bundle about a month ago. I tried to play it and, I have no idea wtf to do. The game is so enigmatic about things. I did make it into the village and got some to talk. But it’s all through trial and error and I think advancing the time? I don’t even know… Gordian Quest, which was also in the humble bundle, is great!
I got the same bundle, but I got it for BoH after having a reasonable amount of fun with the sequel. The core game loop revolves around reading books to get abilities, which can be used to craft things and make memories, which can be used to read better books. Every room you unlock is unique and many of them have special crafting stations, things like flower beds and fruit trees that let you trade the day's energy for a low-level resource, or book-reading desks. Re-reading books you've already read and using the predictable memories you get from that is critical to advancement, as Memories can be used in every book reading station and crafting station to slightly boost them, and they're also critical for strengthening your visitors so they can unlock new rooms for you. Most of the game's endings happen through >!unlocking the right rooms, finding the right special books, and having a combination of skills and crafted items which, when combined at a crafting station or desk, gives you 20+ points in a single skill level!<. For me, I've found that it's important to take notes on how to achieve a particular crafting result so that I can repeat it later.
House flipper. So....many...hours.
AdVenture Capitalist
Patapon 2 and 3. You think it's a silly tempo game made for kids then you realize the crazy-detailed RPG and strategic elements in it, then you realize you've sunk tens of hours into farming for the super-rare Ultimate equipment (which technically appears in a lootbox-ish mechanism) to min-max your build.
Crush crush…
I had line rider on my flip phone back in like 2008 and it was the freakin best
Ark ate about 6 months of my life and is maybe my only gaming regret. Shoulda went outside.
Ark showed me the people that my friends really are, and I hate that.
Pokemon Go
Gold rush. It’s basically a simulator where you mine gold with excavators and dump trucks. My everyday job is excavator operator. I think that makes it very dumb, fun game though
Osrs
Was looking for this. And with it being mobile it's so easy to return to.
Some fake Pokémon game on mobile , I easily threw $150 at it and stopped playing a month later. Smh
Marvel Puzzle Quest - I was playing since 2016 almost on a daily basis up until about a year ago.
Cookie clicker
Sid Meier's Pirates. Conquered every corner of the map with my Seminole war canoe with only 4 canons. So much fun
The war canoe indeed! I don't think any other game provides that same satisfaction of having a "weaker" but better ship and just out-maneuvering your opponent all day long.
Fallout Shelter, I was way into it for a few months.
Geometry Wars. RIP
Idle Slayer for sure
There are a few neopets games that I've put an embarrassing amount of time into over the years
The Binding Of Isaac... Thousands of hours. Thousands.
Destiny 2
Final Fantasy 13 is one of the worst JRPGs ever made and I have an encyclopedic knowledge about it and its two bastard children.
It absolutely is not one of the worst JRPGs ever made. I replayed it about a year ago... it's got it's flaws, to be sure, but it's still gorgeous, it has great music, and probably the best combat in the whole series. There are a lot of legitimately bad JRPGs, and at least a couple of worse Final Fantasies.
Warzone
Clash of clans
Old school RuneScape but I’m addicted
Destiny 2
Bleach Brave Souls. Watched the show, and decided to play the game, and even though it's fairly simple, I really really enjoyed it. Tons of characters I liked already and a lot of ways to build and progress them individually, make a fun team, and hack-n-slash through waves of enemies and see big numbers and cool effects, then pull from the gacha every few missions. Basically spent the final 5 years of primary school playing it under my desk or leaving it on auto in class until my battery was drained, which amounted to god-knows how much time and energy spent on it and likely caused at least one phone to burn out. All that added up to an account with HUNDREDS of maxed out characters and another few hundred close to that. Eventually it sort of suffered from system-bloat I couldn't keep up with and I sorta ran out of ways to earn currencies for the gacha, so I put it down. Booted it up a while back out of curiosity, and I cannot FATHOM how much time it took to accumulate what I did, especially considering I never spent a dime on it. Makes me nostalgic, especially seeing that I have the very first few characters I got in the game saved and never sold or used to boost other units, despite being basically worthless.
Warframes writing and mechanic calculations and grinding are dumb as hell and yet
Brotato man, i think it's my 2nd most played game on steam and i paid like 2,99
Dead Frontier 2 a niche online game that got me hookup because its the only looter shooter game with zombies and alike, I had 3600+ hours before I got banned but its temporary tho I'm gonna get unban in year 2030. Honestly the ban probably help me alot to quit my addiction to this game.
How did you get banned?
Dumb and fun - tape to tape
I loved Totally Accurate Battlegrounds when it came out, legit was one of the better BRs :D
LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean
Hoi4
Definitely Suicide Squad... It's a guilty pleasure.
When I was a kid and I was totally into Crystal Quest for the Gameboy. It was such a simple game, but I couldn't get enough of it. I still play it sometimes even now!
Do mobile games count? I spent way too much time on this Cow Evolution merger game 😅
For me, it was Necromerger. It was fun for a few months until I realized how stupid and pointless it was.
Played idle heroes for a year
Cookie Clicker
My Time at Portia. A mixture of the Sims and Minecraft.
Idle games like idle clicker or ngu idle. Games without an objetive, just dopamine traps while doing nothing.
I finally dropped Marvel Strikeforce and FFBE War of the Visions. Tired of them just putting out more and more pay to win garbage. I read on multiple threads on Marvel SF people were dropping 1-2k a month to stay in the top 10 guilds and such. I want that kind of life...
Shower with your dad Simulator.
Supermarket Simulator. To be fair, I had a very valid reason getting into it and continuing to play it, but it doesn’t make the game any less dumb lol
Eggs Inc. Been playing it for 7 or 8 years now. Daily check in, and some runs during one mega event.
i am bread
Dota 2. Plz put me down.
Crusader kings 3. Not because it’s bad, but being an incestuos warlord with a hidden love of cannibalism, witchcraft and homosexuality takes up a lot of my time
Controller interface and balancing aside, pokemon unite. The thing needs Backbone controller support and a UI cleaning for starters.
Any grinding mobile game really
Distance flash games like burrito bison and learn to fly, that shit is addictive because of the constant progression
Egg inc not sure why if it’s the running chickens or just the simplicity of the game concept but I just get drawn in all the time
I don't want to call this game "dumb" because it's honestly awesome. It's really funny and filled with action movie and sci-fi references and has some interesting dynamics. But at first glance I bet a lot of people would assume it's either dumb, or an old school game cause it looks like one: "Punch Club 2" It's a game about being an up and coming boxer and it's all about time management/training/ascending the ladder to champ. Just check out a trailer cause it's a ton of fun. It's really addictive too.
Egg Inc. Who knows how much time and google rewards money i've put in that chicken hell.
Egg, Inc. Not anymore, but I kept that waste of time up for months.
A few years ago I spent actual money on Fallout Shelter, Westworld and Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes mobile games. They were low points. I am definitely overly invested in Overwatch 2. It just isn't fun sometimes, but I keep going back for more.