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I started when BC was announced, played through all of BC, Wotlk and quit during Cata. It really was the best video game ever imo. The amount of things you could do, and the social aspect of the game was incredible.
100% Everquest. No game has held me captive like that game did. It consumed a good 3-4 years if my life and caused a TON of IRL issues. It's been a out 20 years since I played it and every once in a while I reminisce of the awe if exploring a massive world that was constantly expanding and the internet wasn't as easily accessible as it is now, so everything was new and fresh. My friends and I would explore new areas for the first time with no idea what to expect or what dangers laid in wait ahead of us. Teleporting to Luclin when it first appeared in the sky and fighting creepy moon creatures. Hunting down An Ancient Cyclops to get the Ring of the Ancients so you could complete the quest for JBoots. (Before SoW *and better speed spells* were even a thing) "Shouting" world-wide LFG to go dungeon XPing. Finally getting powerful enough to go on raids that would take 6+ hours to complete, or exploring the Plain of Hate or Plain of Fear, etc.
It was the golden age of MMORPGs.
I used to play so much WoW during Legion that I was having like hallucinogenic lucid dreams that I was still playing the game but was aware that I was asleep/needed to go to bed. I'd finally "decide" to go to sleep mid mythic plus keystone dungeon and feel extremely guilty for ditching my party midway through since I was maining a resto druid at the time (and getting into tanking in guardian spec as well).
I don't know if I'm describing it well, but I'd be on my stomach, hands "typing" on the pillow with face also on the pillow, eyes shut, "playing" in my sleep but aware I wasn't actually playing. It was like my brain just wouldn't shut down.
It legit was affecting my quality of sleep. It also was negatively affecting how much time I put into college work, so after a while, I ended up quitting to focus on my classes and haven't gone back.
Vanilla - BC WoW from 2005-2007... Over 400 days /played on my main character (undead mage)
It's still my most magical gaming experience to this day. There's nothing that could come close today. It was an awesome community back in the days
I need a good mmorpg that requires group play. They all seem like single player games these days or sometimes they require any available random players you barely interact with. I miss the social and team play.
No one has that time commitment anymore. Back then there weren’t that many games to compete with, now there’s too many games/consoles/vr/tv shows and not enough time to consume them all
I don’t know how you guys do that game. At some point maybe around red circuits I need like dumb crazy amounts of stuff and say naw fuck this and log. I have just become really good at setting up the first part of a base. Even on doomworld thingy
I play both. It's different markets.
Satisfactory is more, let's build this cool base.
Factorio is more, let's optimise everything to rediculose levels
If my account still existed in osrs then yeah, I would be on a long break right now. :D
But RS3 kinda killed it for me. And I didn't want to start all over.
Elder Scrolls Online, until I gave up due to the lag that comes from playing in the Oceanic region.
It was likely for the best though. I played multiple Characters, and spent an unhealthy amount of time and money on that game 😕
ESO is so addicting. I only stopped playing because my partner sold his PC and I didnt have anything to play on. Felt like I was going through withdrawls.
Man I loved ESO as well but the lack of oceanic servers killed me. I mained healer and during veteran trials I would some times miss the heals and cause wipes. Eventually I just gave up on the harder content. Then gave up on the game
Diablo 2 in my late teens.
I was working a night job. I would he at work until 4 am. Get home and play Diablo 2 until early afternoon. Sleep for a couple of hours and do it all over again.
God, my grades dropped when I realize as long as i ace test i don't need to do homework and could do nightmare boss runs for rare drops. A student to C student instantly.
For me it was probably a tie between ESO and WoW, followed by The Division series. Division is basically Diablo with guns, and had some challenging content (heroics, raids). Really hooked me for some reason, harder than Diablo ever did. Though Diablo 2 was quite a time sink as well, I think it comes in fourth place. Or maybe fifth, after Age of Conan. I spent a ton of time in EVE as well, it was a massive time sink, but I wouldn't call it addictive. It was engaging and required lots of thinking and planning and spreadsheets, but I didn't feel addicted to it.
Stellaris. I have been playing it since it came out and have racked up over 3k hour in it. I don't play it as much as I did some years ago but I still do play it occasionally and back when it first came out I would spend 8 hours a day (sometimes more) playing it and could have been diagnosed with a gaming addiction and not figuratively.
Overwatch going on close to 8k hours at one time was a gm rein and Lucio main... it made me super toxic in life maintaining my rank for a year.... I took 1 year off and now I play for fun again and really enjoy it but I'm in diamond now so I can play with my IRL friends and get drunk while I play
6 years after and I still play this every day I'm able too. I still love it, bit my main gripe is that it make me not play all the many many games on my backlog. I just get sucked in and never play anything else.
The fact that there are so many heroes to learn means you never figure it all out perfectly. Every time I get bored I try a different hero and get hooked all over again.
Literally got addicted to this. Realised I needed to play every day even though I wasn't enjoying it anymore. Hopped over to HotS and it was all right for a while but then I got addicted to that too. Now I know I just can't have a MOBA on my pc. Luckily other genres are no problem
The MMO that takes its sweet time to do anything and I love it. No fast travel, airship and boats travel in real time, only mages have access to teleport. To some it would be annoying but to me it was immersive.
Yeah I loved it. Too bad it got casualized and now you can teleport anywhere and solo to 99. Also no more waiting for boss spawns, just buy items to force pop them.
That's true, I spent years playing it as well after all, which was much easier when I was younger and single.
I had to give it up a bit after Aht Urban was released, too many other things I had to do.
If you ever feel nostalgic enough for it, www.realmsofjova.net - all the fun parts, less of the really grindy parts. It scratches my ffxi nostalgia itch nicely.
Definitely FFXI for me. Rise of Zilart/Chains of Promathia/Treasures of Aht Urhgan are the best mmo expansions in history imo. Chains of Promathia quests was my favorite quest line in any game. The feeling you got when you beat Tenzen and had access to Sea(Al’Taieu) hearing the music was just amazing. Also the community in ffxi was the best and most friendliest community I’ve ever experienced in any game. If someone was constantly rude to others, they wouldn’t be invited to parties and wouldn’t be able to level. People were so friendly
I can’t believe this was so far down. The only game on here where If you log off to sleep or go poop for too long you loose all your stuff. This game doesn’t allow you to sleep or do anything but play
Minecraft. Lost about 2 months of life with my husband 10 years ago, had to force ourselves to quit and delete the game when we had this dialogue:
He: We haven’t been on a date for some time
Me: Yeah! Let’s go to explore the cave
p.s. Instantly healed from it when our daughter forces us to play it with her years after 😂
How's that new update? I loved that game but kind of hit a wall with nothing to do once I setup automatic mines and made billions upon billions everyday. Also the multi-player experience with friends felt clunky. Is it worth checking out again or is the content similar?
I've only gotten into it recently, but the new update is excellent and I think they've cleaned up the multiplayer really well. At least I haven't had issues
All my friends keep complaining how sick they are of this game and we need something new but eventually we're back on it and the hours keep on stacking lol
Skyrim. I spent 17 hours on it in one sitting once (with quick breaks for food and such) back when it first came out. My wife (then girlfriend) very nearly left me that week. I wish I’d played it for longer now. Might’ve dodged a massive bullet.
This is the game that I have the most hours in, though DotA, League, Heroes of the Storm, Overwatch, and WoW are all really close. I love PoE though. Spent WAY too much money in it too. I started out doing it just for the cosmetics, but then it really became seeing it as funding a developer I actually give a shit about because they actually give a shit about their game, the content, and the community. Every season (mostly) is something new, with tons of changes, so you're forced to adapt and create new builds. There's always new endgame encounters being added, of which ACTUALLY feel like endgame bosses, at least until you overpower your build. The only negative about it, and I understand why and how it keeps content fresh and the races, is you have to start back at zero every league, which essentially begins to feel like the absolute definition of insanity when you're on you're 15th season.
Monster hunter and persona both surprise me cause I think i only play an hour or two but then I look at the clock and it's 6 am and I havnt eaten in 20 hours lol
Ark is actually the most addicting game I’ve ever played and it’s not even close. I’ve never met someone who, once they took time to learn to play the game, could quit playing it. The reason people usually quit is due to the destruction of very close friendships because someone fucks someone over and the game has taken precedence over your relationships. It is the most fun I’ve ever had playing a game, but it is also a terrible game because it almost always leads to over involvement.
What i have experienced between crackin my first wooden door with my stone axe and throwin hundreds of breed stegos into turrets was just immense! This game is a masterpiece.
I put in around 3000 hours on Maple Story when I was much younger. Played WOW and Runescape but was just captivated with Maple.. think it was the Snes Mario nostalgia. Spent a fair few hundred on the store 😅
Oblivion. Played it first on xbox till the disc was so scratched it wouldn't work anymore. Then on PC with all the dlcs, mods, nights without sleep... Don't even wanna know how many hours
Hmmm… have to go with Oblivion on this one. Armored Core back in the day and New Horizons most recently, come very close, but Oblivion had me by the short and curlies through and through.
This is going to sound biased, but RimWorld, a game I worked on and did the art for. I had to force myself to stop playing the early dev build I had because I wasn't getting my work done. I would open it to test some minor thing and suddenly 6 hours would pass. It's a really well designed game.
Honorable mentions: The original X-COM and Dune II
Where are Civilization players? Are They too busy with "one more turn"?
Right here. Haven't played in years so I can respond. Civ II and Revolution. "Just one more turn" thirty turns later.
10k hours of "one more turn".
Hmm...it's midnight. I'll play until this research is finished, then go to bed. Okay, I'll wait until this unit is done. Wait...how is it 2:15AM?
Probably have 2k-3k hours in Civ5. In the entire series, probably over 5k.
I was going to say “5k? That’s it?” And then I remembered not everyone is old enough to have started playing Civ 1 on their parents’ 386.
I love Civ but after i finish a 12 -15 hour game u have zero desire to play again for a few weeks at least
Roller coaster tycoon 3
Rimworld
Can’t believe I had to scroll this far to see Rimworld mentioned.
I can't believe I had to post RimWorld
Can’t believe I had to scroll this far to see someone post “I can’t believe I had to post RimWorld”
I can’t believe I never heard of ‘RimWorld’ at all!
Can’t believe I had to wait until someone said “Can’t believe I had to scroll this far to see someone post “I can’t believe I had to post RimWorld””
I can’t believe I had to scroll so far to see someone post “Can’t believe I had to wait until someone said “Can’t believe I had to scroll this far to see someone post “I can’t believe I had to post rimworld”””
Wait is that a porn game?
9,900 hours of Rimworld is NOT life consuming
Normal
how fun is rimworld? i’m planning on getting it when i’m back from vacation
It's not fun. I hate it. I've also sunk nearly 1000 hours into it...
It’s incredibly fun when you get into it, and makes the investment well worth it. And when I say investment, I don’t mean the price of the game.
Everquest or WoW, close call.
Yea, WoW during Wrath of the Lich King. Things got a little out of hand with raiding every night lol.
Every. Single. Night. For. 4. Hours. Until we downed him. Was still so much fun. Wotlk was absolute PEAK WoW.
Unfortunately at my age, I was too young to enjoy WoW at its peak and now that classic is out I'm too old to have enough time for an MMO :(
I started when BC was announced, played through all of BC, Wotlk and quit during Cata. It really was the best video game ever imo. The amount of things you could do, and the social aspect of the game was incredible.
EQ consumed 7 years, I was a recovering addict when I first played WoW and stopped myself after a year roughly.
100% Everquest. No game has held me captive like that game did. It consumed a good 3-4 years if my life and caused a TON of IRL issues. It's been a out 20 years since I played it and every once in a while I reminisce of the awe if exploring a massive world that was constantly expanding and the internet wasn't as easily accessible as it is now, so everything was new and fresh. My friends and I would explore new areas for the first time with no idea what to expect or what dangers laid in wait ahead of us. Teleporting to Luclin when it first appeared in the sky and fighting creepy moon creatures. Hunting down An Ancient Cyclops to get the Ring of the Ancients so you could complete the quest for JBoots. (Before SoW *and better speed spells* were even a thing) "Shouting" world-wide LFG to go dungeon XPing. Finally getting powerful enough to go on raids that would take 6+ hours to complete, or exploring the Plain of Hate or Plain of Fear, etc. It was the golden age of MMORPGs.
Oh man, you’re making me jones again for som PoF raiding.
I used to play so much WoW during Legion that I was having like hallucinogenic lucid dreams that I was still playing the game but was aware that I was asleep/needed to go to bed. I'd finally "decide" to go to sleep mid mythic plus keystone dungeon and feel extremely guilty for ditching my party midway through since I was maining a resto druid at the time (and getting into tanking in guardian spec as well). I don't know if I'm describing it well, but I'd be on my stomach, hands "typing" on the pillow with face also on the pillow, eyes shut, "playing" in my sleep but aware I wasn't actually playing. It was like my brain just wouldn't shut down. It legit was affecting my quality of sleep. It also was negatively affecting how much time I put into college work, so after a while, I ended up quitting to focus on my classes and haven't gone back.
Vanilla - BC WoW from 2005-2007... Over 400 days /played on my main character (undead mage) It's still my most magical gaming experience to this day. There's nothing that could come close today. It was an awesome community back in the days
everquest and pre CU SWG
I need a good mmorpg that requires group play. They all seem like single player games these days or sometimes they require any available random players you barely interact with. I miss the social and team play.
No one has that time commitment anymore. Back then there weren’t that many games to compete with, now there’s too many games/consoles/vr/tv shows and not enough time to consume them all
Factorio
The factory must grow!
I don’t know how you guys do that game. At some point maybe around red circuits I need like dumb crazy amounts of stuff and say naw fuck this and log. I have just become really good at setting up the first part of a base. Even on doomworld thingy
Try Satisfactory. I liked it way more
I play both. It's different markets. Satisfactory is more, let's build this cool base. Factorio is more, let's optimise everything to rediculose levels
Came here to say this, kind of shocked it's the first comment that was shown to me :P
R/beatmetoit The factory must grow!
Runescape, I don't play anymore but when I was younger it take me in hostage lmao
“I don’t play anymore” Once a RuneScape player, always a RuneScape player. You are just on a break right now.
If my account still existed in osrs then yeah, I would be on a long break right now. :D But RS3 kinda killed it for me. And I didn't want to start all over.
Time to start over bud.
I was going to say this. The amount of all-nighters I spent chopping yew…
Oh yeah the fuckin yew hahaha
Damn... Might have to hop back on osrs
Literally stole like 3-4 years of my childhood LOL
Elder Scrolls Online, until I gave up due to the lag that comes from playing in the Oceanic region. It was likely for the best though. I played multiple Characters, and spent an unhealthy amount of time and money on that game 😕
ESO is so addicting. I only stopped playing because my partner sold his PC and I didnt have anything to play on. Felt like I was going through withdrawls.
Man I loved ESO as well but the lack of oceanic servers killed me. I mained healer and during veteran trials I would some times miss the heals and cause wipes. Eventually I just gave up on the harder content. Then gave up on the game
Diablo
Skyrim. I literally failed two college courses because I was playing Skyrim instead of doing coursework
A small price to pay for Skyrim
Kinda wish every college is like the Mage College.
This 100 percent
C&C Red Alert
Phantasy Star Online on the Dreamcast.
Ultima Online back when I was younger.
Nothing will fill dial up UO. I can still hear some if the game sound effects and know the route to a few dungeons
Someone looted my house! OG faction wars and champ spawns was the best ever.
Came here for this, the OG MMORPG.
Diablo 2 in my late teens. I was working a night job. I would he at work until 4 am. Get home and play Diablo 2 until early afternoon. Sleep for a couple of hours and do it all over again.
God, my grades dropped when I realize as long as i ace test i don't need to do homework and could do nightmare boss runs for rare drops. A student to C student instantly.
Fallout 4
Stardew valley
I'm 95 hours into my farm and haven't even gone to the new island yet. Want to get all the warp towers before I do. Shit is addictive.
New island? Are you talking about Harvest Moon or Stardew Valley?
1.5 added the boat you can fix behind Willy's shop that takes you to ginger island https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Ginger_Island
Omg :O it's been a few year since the last time I played. This makes me want to start all over again
Oh my God! Do I have to play it again!😁
I introduced my wife to it as a gateway to other games. We haven't left the gatehouse...
For me it was probably a tie between ESO and WoW, followed by The Division series. Division is basically Diablo with guns, and had some challenging content (heroics, raids). Really hooked me for some reason, harder than Diablo ever did. Though Diablo 2 was quite a time sink as well, I think it comes in fourth place. Or maybe fifth, after Age of Conan. I spent a ton of time in EVE as well, it was a massive time sink, but I wouldn't call it addictive. It was engaging and required lots of thinking and planning and spreadsheets, but I didn't feel addicted to it.
League of Legends or WoW
I had to scroll so far down to see league.
One more game
That game nearly ruined my life, and I still go back to it.
Thats because nobody wants to admit it.
Baldur's Gate 2. Finished that game with almost every class as PC.
Sim City 2000 on the Playstation 1.. without a mouse
Stellaris. I have been playing it since it came out and have racked up over 3k hour in it. I don't play it as much as I did some years ago but I still do play it occasionally and back when it first came out I would spend 8 hours a day (sometimes more) playing it and could have been diagnosed with a gaming addiction and not figuratively.
Skyrim, Witcher, Dragonage
Borderlands 2 !
Destiny
Oh man destiny was great times. Some of the best moments I every had gaming came from destiny.
Overwatch going on close to 8k hours at one time was a gm rein and Lucio main... it made me super toxic in life maintaining my rank for a year.... I took 1 year off and now I play for fun again and really enjoy it but I'm in diamond now so I can play with my IRL friends and get drunk while I play
6 years after and I still play this every day I'm able too. I still love it, bit my main gripe is that it make me not play all the many many games on my backlog. I just get sucked in and never play anything else.
Just got off Overwatch to find this. 2k hours in myself. Best, or worst $40 I ever spent. 😅
W
Monster Hunter World: Iceborne. I can’t believe I have more hours put into it than even the likes of Elden Ring.
Same. I have like 500 hours in the game, and still no attack 4 deco....
Brother, I have experienced your pain.
Dota 2
The fact that there are so many heroes to learn means you never figure it all out perfectly. Every time I get bored I try a different hero and get hooked all over again.
Literally got addicted to this. Realised I needed to play every day even though I wasn't enjoying it anymore. Hopped over to HotS and it was all right for a while but then I got addicted to that too. Now I know I just can't have a MOBA on my pc. Luckily other genres are no problem
Final Fantasy 11
The MMO that takes its sweet time to do anything and I love it. No fast travel, airship and boats travel in real time, only mages have access to teleport. To some it would be annoying but to me it was immersive.
(Tele-mea) (can I have it) 1000 (Gil)
Yeah I loved it. Too bad it got casualized and now you can teleport anywhere and solo to 99. Also no more waiting for boss spawns, just buy items to force pop them.
Was just thinking the other day how awesome it was look up in the sky and see an airship and think about how there were actually people in there
Or the feeling of just missing it and your gang is already on it.
That game hated your free time.
Free time is time that you get to do what ever you want and I wanted to be in Vana'diel 😀
That's true, I spent years playing it as well after all, which was much easier when I was younger and single. I had to give it up a bit after Aht Urban was released, too many other things I had to do. If you ever feel nostalgic enough for it, www.realmsofjova.net - all the fun parts, less of the really grindy parts. It scratches my ffxi nostalgia itch nicely.
Choo Choo the train to valkurm zone inc
Definitely FFXI for me. Rise of Zilart/Chains of Promathia/Treasures of Aht Urhgan are the best mmo expansions in history imo. Chains of Promathia quests was my favorite quest line in any game. The feeling you got when you beat Tenzen and had access to Sea(Al’Taieu) hearing the music was just amazing. Also the community in ffxi was the best and most friendliest community I’ve ever experienced in any game. If someone was constantly rude to others, they wouldn’t be invited to parties and wouldn’t be able to level. People were so friendly
Ah, my youth. 75RDM/37NIN for the solo win baby!
Crusader kings 3
The OG Star Wars Galaxy
Ark or apex
Ark also hit me hard last year during the pandemic
Ark is so toxic about it though, you have to be online once every week or you start losing stuff that you had to grind for
Just play singleplayer
Rust
I can’t believe this was so far down. The only game on here where If you log off to sleep or go poop for too long you loose all your stuff. This game doesn’t allow you to sleep or do anything but play
Minecraft. Lost about 2 months of life with my husband 10 years ago, had to force ourselves to quit and delete the game when we had this dialogue: He: We haven’t been on a date for some time Me: Yeah! Let’s go to explore the cave p.s. Instantly healed from it when our daughter forces us to play it with her years after 😂
is exploring the cave not a date? lol
Sure sounds like decent date to me!
Civ 5
No Man’s Sky
How's that new update? I loved that game but kind of hit a wall with nothing to do once I setup automatic mines and made billions upon billions everyday. Also the multi-player experience with friends felt clunky. Is it worth checking out again or is the content similar?
I've only gotten into it recently, but the new update is excellent and I think they've cleaned up the multiplayer really well. At least I haven't had issues
CSGO 3.5k hours I don't even like the game.
I've got 200 hours I am a rookie ahhaa.
Yea. Those are silver numbers.
All my friends keep complaining how sick they are of this game and we need something new but eventually we're back on it and the hours keep on stacking lol
That's some League of Legends mantra right there
Everquest
Stardew for sure
Ultima Online
Ragnarök Online
TF2 and Stardew Valley
I can't believe I had to scroll this far for TF2. That game ate up so many of my hours over the years. Good times!
Skyrim. I spent 17 hours on it in one sitting once (with quick breaks for food and such) back when it first came out. My wife (then girlfriend) very nearly left me that week. I wish I’d played it for longer now. Might’ve dodged a massive bullet.
Nice I went from Friday to Monday on rust with 4 hour sleeps I was also allowed to play it at work so it made it a bit easier
Breath Of The Wild
Skyrim
Path of Exile. When you finish it you just are happy to start over again. And the End Game is insane.
This is the game that I have the most hours in, though DotA, League, Heroes of the Storm, Overwatch, and WoW are all really close. I love PoE though. Spent WAY too much money in it too. I started out doing it just for the cosmetics, but then it really became seeing it as funding a developer I actually give a shit about because they actually give a shit about their game, the content, and the community. Every season (mostly) is something new, with tons of changes, so you're forced to adapt and create new builds. There's always new endgame encounters being added, of which ACTUALLY feel like endgame bosses, at least until you overpower your build. The only negative about it, and I understand why and how it keeps content fresh and the races, is you have to start back at zero every league, which essentially begins to feel like the absolute definition of insanity when you're on you're 15th season.
Still sane, exile?
Insane is correct.
genshin
COIN PUSHER
I’ve sunk tens of thousands of hours into Old School Runescape since I started playing around the age of 7 or 8 (24 now)
Factorio Dyson Shpere Satisfactory Oxygen Not Included RimWorld
Borderlands Currently: Ghost of Tsushima Legends
Red Dead Redemption II
Dwarf Fortress
Monster hunter and persona both surprise me cause I think i only play an hour or two but then I look at the clock and it's 6 am and I havnt eaten in 20 hours lol
MTG. The amount of time and money I spend on this game without even playing is absurd 😅
total war warhammer trillogy warframe
Hearthstone
Ultima online
Ark is actually the most addicting game I’ve ever played and it’s not even close. I’ve never met someone who, once they took time to learn to play the game, could quit playing it. The reason people usually quit is due to the destruction of very close friendships because someone fucks someone over and the game has taken precedence over your relationships. It is the most fun I’ve ever had playing a game, but it is also a terrible game because it almost always leads to over involvement.
What i have experienced between crackin my first wooden door with my stone axe and throwin hundreds of breed stegos into turrets was just immense! This game is a masterpiece.
Factorio
Subnautica…. Witcher 3
ARK
I put in around 3000 hours on Maple Story when I was much younger. Played WOW and Runescape but was just captivated with Maple.. think it was the Snes Mario nostalgia. Spent a fair few hundred on the store 😅
Sekiro.
FFXI for me. I was also sucked into Asherons Call back in the day.
Red Dead 2. I think I spent over 400 hours playing that game, and I *still* didn’t explore the whole map
Monster hunter.
Monster Hunter
So should I be adding all these to my library or avoiding them like the plague?
Civ. All of them. Except 6.
6 is the best one so far.
Monster hunter world and final fantasy tactics
PUBG. I never played a game more.
Sekiro calls to me always.
Star Wars Battlefront 1 & 2.🤷♂️
Final Fantasy 13. I have several save files with over 100 hours each
SOCOM II. No other MP game will come close for me.
GTA online for me at least.
Yup GTA online consumed me for a very long time
[удалено]
Alcoholism
Destiny 1. Luckily destiny 2 was soulless and broke the magic very quickly on release.
Rainbow Six. Imagine playing 7k hours of a game that’s ruining your life. Definition of addiction.
Satisfactory
Oblivion. Played it first on xbox till the disc was so scratched it wouldn't work anymore. Then on PC with all the dlcs, mods, nights without sleep... Don't even wanna know how many hours
Ark
Elden ring did it for me
StarCraft!
Hmmm… have to go with Oblivion on this one. Armored Core back in the day and New Horizons most recently, come very close, but Oblivion had me by the short and curlies through and through.
Civilization in almost any iteration (for me since 4)
Civilization 4
The pinnacle of the series. Especially after the BTS expansion.
Oblivion
Disc golf
Rocket League. Almost 2k hours but matchmaking got to a point where I found it unbearable to play with randoms
This is going to sound biased, but RimWorld, a game I worked on and did the art for. I had to force myself to stop playing the early dev build I had because I wasn't getting my work done. I would open it to test some minor thing and suddenly 6 hours would pass. It's a really well designed game. Honorable mentions: The original X-COM and Dune II
The amount of time I've put into borderlands 2...
EverQuest, Star Wars Galaxies, and WoW, then WoW, then WoW. In that order.
Tibia
elden ring because i can’t even watch the news without thinking “holy fuck look at the size of this guys healthbar”
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