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I'm sorry but I want to take a slight tangent to show just how high my power level is when it comes to this shit.

I was interested in tracking my game time on my games in years well before Steam was a thing. We had a family computer and a printer.

Some are expecting an excel spreadsheet, which was absolutely possible, and I'll come back to that, but no. I was maybe 8 years old and my solution was to print off an entire page of numbers, cut each of them out individually, then every time I played a game, I'd place the next number inside the CD case.

Naïve me thought printing up to 20 would be enough, but once I went over that, I simply kept the 20 in the case and added another number inside.

Years later - in my teens in the mid-00's - I was obsessed with Pro Evolution Soccer. This is where the excel spreadsheet came in. I logged every single game, the result, the date I played the game, colour coded the results red/yellow/green to show loss/draw/win respectively, won trophies, and a bunch of other stats.

I didn't move on to Steam properly until the start of the 2010s. Since then my biggest game is 2016's Motorsport Manager, which has logged in 1720 hours, followed by Civ V which has 1122 hours since I started playing in 2017.

My current time sink is Football Manager. I have played over 500 hours in little over a year. Anyone who has played FM knows those are rookie numbers.

I quit League some half a year ago after 10 years of playing. I can see now how impossible it seems to play that consistently when you just consume different games rather than having a single title.

It's a completely different experience.

As a side note, what's up with all the people saying "I played a game", just say what game it is, we are all nerds in here.

My friend just shared this with me:

I leave the game running at night while I sleep

Warframe is a hell of a drug.

How many hours yearly do people work?

Assume 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year. That makes 2000 hours a year. So yeah, how do people pull through with this?

Forget to turn the launcher off and your computer off a few times and it adds up.

Some people are also lucky enough to have a bullshit job and still be remote.

Leaving *Commandos" on pause when I don't play racks up hours it seems 🤷🏼‍♀️

It's me. I have numerous games like this. The answer? Alt-tab + multiple monitors + powerful PC. It's easier for me to just switch to another application and switch back when I want to keep gaming than to close the game completely and open it again... Only sometimes it's more than a day before I get back to playing again. And there's how you end up with numerous games with thousands and thousands of hours on Steam.

When you find that one game that you love that also has infinite replayability. Four years later your likely to have thousands of hours if you play it everyday.

Some like a game enough to play it for years. I wasn’t one, until I found an obscure racing combat game called “OnRush”, and have over 3700 hours in it. Can’t even get it on the PS Store anymore, but I still play it drunk now and again.

It's fine

You just got to find the right game that will ruin your life.

My max is csgo with 600 hrs and I'm still trash at it.

Factorio enters chat.

I have around 1500 in KSP but tbf, most of that is AFK where I've had to do long manouvre burns in the multiples of hours so I've just set it and walked away lol.

I play 2-3 hours a day and sometimes 5 on the weekends. Easily get a few 1000 hours in a year and if I like a game ill play it for years

Idle games

There's an MMO I have played off and on for almost 2 decades now. I can't even imagine how many hours I've accumulated, especially back when I was a kid with nothing to do but school.

Life is so much busier and way more things demanding my time as a grown-up, and I simply cannot sit in a chair like that for any long stretch of time, I get antsy.

Running the game servers with Steam installed can do that.

I got 800 hours across 3 years in a game. It was a huge time commitment. Loved every minute, until the dev team stopped outsourcing and lost their source code.

1200+ hours is a terrifying thought to current me. That’s years of concerted effort. Anyone capable of focusing on a game for so long has a screw loose.