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?
It’s either Elite Dangerous or Warframe.
*checks* uhhhh… Elite Dangerous.
1935 hours, and we played a while outside of Steam running the launcher directly, so let’s call it 2000 hours. Elite itself also tracks hours played (in a weird “weeks/days/hours” format for some reason), but we’d have to actually open it and log in and everything to find out.
– Frost
You ok over there?
Don’t worry, I haven’t played in over a year now.
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That’s eight hours a day for five straight years. You sure love those cookies.
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.
TA was great too.
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
I bought Spore for my kids when it came out but wound up playing it far more than them!
Spode demanding tribute to their religion again? Oh no! I destroyed all your cities and turned your planet into a nature preserve so you can never come back.
I had mixed reactions about Spore. The ambition/breadth of gameplay was impressive. The creature creator was impressive, and it was fun to see other people’s creatures show up in-game. I was disappointed at the shallowness of individual stages, how little earlier stages affected later stages, and the tediousness of space. I think without the pre-game hype, the balance would have been more positive feeling than negative for me, but I mostly remember it as few gems wrapped in disappointment.
My eldest son shares your views entirely.
I think the game with the highest playtime for me is Final Fantasy XIV with around 1,2k hours. That’s only Steam though, I’m sure Minecraft is way, way higher than that.
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.
Creeper World ? Idk what that is !
I’ve almost exclusively played vanilla survival with friends.
I don’t play with friends much but that would definitely keep people playing. I come back every once in a while when the game and mods I like update. It’s a big change if I wait too long.
Creeper world is cool strategy game that is like real time strategy and tower defense but the enemy is a liquid. You can place your guns anywhere and you manage your energy and infrastructure. Also there have been 5 or so games that are all related by the single dev since the days of flash games (5 mainline that add new features and sometimes switch it up and one related but unique game). It’s worth checking out knuckle cracker games.
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.
Rimworld
Final Fantasy XIV and it’s not even close… need to grind to get my girl new outfits
I’ve been playing since mid-2020 now and mostly spend my time either playing the story, doing side-content or making pretty screenshots of new glamours
I was scrolling down to find someone list the best game and here were are.
I’ve been playing since beta for 2.0, so it certainly is my most played game.
Hell, I played some over lunch today.
FFXIV is one of those games that I liked, but wished I could like more. I wasn’t into progression raiding or crafting, so it was always a matter of time before my interest would fizzle out once the current MSQ was done.
Your character looks nice, btw.
I just quit last year. Been at it since ARR. Don’t have time for it anymore. It is easily my top hours too.
Factorio! 2k hours :)
I am over 4k but for someone else these are still rookie numbers lol
The worst part is that I still believe I’m fairly new and inexperienced to this game… How’s it like at 4k ?
You believe it or not I keep learning new tricks and exploring new ways to solve old problems. If you factor in (no pun intended) mods like space exploration or Factorio 2.0 then it becomes more true.
I was able to “finish” Factorio 1.0 several times but never reached end game in both space exploration and Factorio 2.0 and still enjoy to play it several months straight every so often. I still have to visit Vulcanus and Fulgora because I was playing with friends and they “sent” me on Gleba, which it felt like playing Factorio for the first time; loved it!
Man! now I want to play it again hahahahah
Elite: Dangerous
You can sink a ludicrous amount of time traversing a 1:1 scale galaxy even with FTL.
I’m on the Distant Worlds 3 expedition. I’ve been relying on the carrier shuttling to keep pace. I wanted to try flying myself form waypoint 12 to 13. Something like 8,000ly in a week. I’m still heading to my second POI along the way, 4kly from wp 12, 4kly to poi 2, and then it’s another 4kly to wp 13. I’ve been going 7 days out of 10 available before they go to wp 14. They’re all undiscovered systems so it’s hard to convince myself to just honk and scan and leave without at least mapping bio signs… For science. And just like that, it became a family road trip “vacation”
I’m no noob, either. 1300 hours and several of prior 5-10kly exploration trips. 50ly jump range and the neeeeed to scan
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 😵
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
Trackable? Terraria at just over 1,350 hours plus another 147 in tmodloader since it moved to steam 7 Days to Die at 711 Binding of Isaac at 572
Untrackable? Probably Breath of Fire 2, Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, or maybe Secret of Mana I play a randomizer of one of them almost every night before I go to bed or when I’m bored.
Red light, green light
About to play a couple more rounds now on my way to the grocery store
I’m sure when I last checked GTA5 on PS4 was sitting at around 1500 hours.
MW2 back on 360 was sitting at around 35 days according to the multiplayer leaderboards.
