Red light, green light

About to play a couple more rounds now on my way to the grocery store

This old Korean MMO called Nexus TK. I think it was Nexon's first game (Arc Raiders. Picked it up in like... 1997? I played it very heavily for a few years on and off. When I say heavily I mean like 4-5 hours a day. It got bad at some points. Got off of it at times but always went back. I still pop on every now and then just to say hi to the hundred or so people who still play.

Civilization V, especially considering it might often stay open all weekend on the second monitor. Also saw Eve Online mentioned; that took untold amounts of my life, but I've been clean for a long time o/. Arma 3 with it's various mods also has well over a thousand, what with it's endless modular gameplay and annoying ass realism (hiking sim). But right now at this very moment I've got X4 going on a few hundie. I've heard it called Eve Offline; I dunno if it's exactly that, but it can be incredibly frustrating and clunky, but also crack cocaine. I think I've just barely figured out how to play it.

WoW is definitely at the top and it will be hard to unseat it even though I don't really play anymore. After that It's likely between Minecraft, Eve Online, or World of Tanks - I don't actually know. The next one I know a number for is Baldur's Gate 3 at over 1400 hours, so that's 5th. I have no idea what order 2, 3, and 4 are though, lol.

I only have the numbers for games from Steam, so my actual longest played game is probably the old version of Dwarf Fortress. I also typically don't have the attention span to keep playing a single game for hundreds of hours so the longest I see in my Steam library is just under 200 hours. Aether Way would actually be higher in the list because I played an earlier version of it before it came to Steam.

According to steam, Factorio.

Non-steam games would probably be Dwarf Fortress, but i have no idea how many 100s of hours I have in it

Official? 4000 hours in Left 4 Dead 2.

Unofficial? Easily over 10,000 hours in Sven-Coop (a multiplayer Half-Life 1 mod).

I started playing Sven-Coop when it was released in 1999. I play at least a little almost every day I'm not out of town. I moderate some servers. I show new players how to beat hard levels. People still make new levels. Sven-Coop wasn't added to Steam until 2016, so the hours weren't tracked until then. Since 2016 I've racked up around 4000 hours. Factor in the 16-17 years of gameplay that wasn't tracked and I easily have over 10,000 hours.

I'm not sure I'd want to know the exact hours even if I could.

WoW, it'll never be close.

But more recently, Rimworld, Deep Rock Galactic, Golf With Your Friends, Sea of Thieves, the Witcher.

I've put in 100s of hours on RDR2 and Elden Ring, but my newest game would probably be Ball X Pitt

its an unofficial number but rock band 3 i used to play every day, 5-8 hours a day. for around 3 years

Probably Ultima Online if I had a way of checking.

I used to play that game all day, every day I wasn't in school from 1997 to about 2004. I even still play it on occasion, just not on EA's servers.

Based on what Steam has recorded, ARMA 3. But I know for a fact that many hundreds of hours in that was just the game running in the background on the map editor while I typed up scripts in notepad++. TF2 is the next highest one, and that game was like UO again for me from 2007 to 2014.

I seem to get obsessed for 7 years and then just drop things.

Definitely one of the Guitar Heros

Probably World of Warcraft unfortunately. That was a long time ago though.

Probably Animal Crossing New Horizons with like 450hrs

I get bored so quickly of games, I don’t understand how some people manage to put several hundreds of hours in most games they play

Well, according to Steam, the answer is a tool that used to be available to adjust GPU fan speed. At the time I had a video card that wasn't letting the OS adjust that, or maybe I didn't have the right driver, I don't really recall enough details to retroactively troubleshoot it.

But if I didn't use that even the least demanding game would very swiftly overwhelm the card because it didn't have any heat mitigation, so any time I played any game I would also open this tool and crank the fans to max so I didn't have to pay attention to them (I had headphones). It also wasn't that uncommon for me to forget to close it since it ran in the background once configured. In fact, it looks like I have even more hours in that than I do in EVE Online.

It probably shouldn't count due to the nature of the "game," but World of Warcraft will never be surpassed by another game for me in terms of sheer hours "played." I put those two words in quotes because at some point the game became a job, and the hours played were almost like work or social time talking to friends. I haven't had an active account or played since 2020, so I can't check my hours; but I would estimate I had 200 days played on my main, 150 days on my primary alt, 50 days on my secondary alt... roughly 9600 hours total??

Outside of WoW, my next highest is probably a close tie between COD MW2, Counterstrike, Elden Ring, Ghosts of Tsushima, Oblivion, BG3, DOS2, and Skyrim. I can only focus on one game at a time, so I'll pick a game and play it exclusively for 6 months to a year.

God of war

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

World of Warcraft with over 11k hours. Guild wars 2 is probably 2nd with over 6k. The highest on Steam is Warframe with 2329.

For WoW and GW2, it's basically the same reason. I loved MMO games and the huge world you can explore. I found guilds in both that I vibed with, and still talk with some of those folks today.

For Warframe, the gameplay is top notch IMO. I didn't mind the grind (I was a MMO player, after all) and the selection of warframes and loadouts kept things from getting too stale. I mainly played with one of my friends I met through WoW, and we roped some friends into playing with us from time to time.

I still get the itch from time to time to get into a new MMO to try and relive the experiences I had from previous games, but those days are most likely behind me.

Doom 2. Played since it first came out and played tons of mods

Islands of Myth.

What got me hooked is really the essence of the game itself. A multiplayer fantasy RPG with a global player base. It's a really cool concept that I've enjoyed in many iterations. EQ, WoW, GW2 etc.

I just never really stopped playing this one. One of the things I love about MUDs is that it's so easy to just have it running in another window. Killing a monster every 4 minutes during the work day. Chatting with folks and organizing groups while literally playing other MMOs.

I don't think that I could play WoW on one screen and GW2 on another with any efficacy and I almost certainly wouldn't enjoy it.

I've also really enjoyed the classes the game offers, the ability to multi class, and the reincarnation system which is similar to modern "prestige" systems. Except I can keep most of my earned exp while choosing an entirely different race and class combination.

MUD communities tend to be pretty great and this one has been no exception.

In regards to the screenshot "Mud age" is the same thing as /played or /age in MMOs. The amount of time spent logged in to the game.

Super Mecha Champions, when the servers were still online. Such a fun game, genuinely fun gameplay.

Second place is either Stellaris, Helldivers 2, or Halo CE.

Somewhere between 10,000 and 15,000 hours of EQ2 since 2008, across all the characters i made there.

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For me it's Minecraft and Space Engineer (1,600 hrs). Maybe 1/4 of the time it's AFK while machines are gathering the work.

Did not care much for the expansion, just didn't like the game play. Didn't even finish it, so it is almost all base game and mods.

Games are short (5 mins). Queues are short (less than 1 min). Cross platform. Runs on Linux. Controller support (preferred). Easy to understand, but high skill ceiling. Amateur leagues are fun. Keeps my reflexes sharp. Can turn chat off. A decent esports scene.

I actually just started playing it again after a nearly 2 year long break too, so that can't possibly turn out to be a bad life decision.

Steam says, out of those I have in my library there, Rocket League. But it's relatively closely followed by GTA 5, which I've also played on a console (those hours wouldn't be counted there), so I suspect that that's the real answer overall. GTA 5 is just a wonderfully deep game with an entertaining story where you can almost never run out of things to explore.

It's possible that Pokémon FireRed or Emerald has even more, that was too long ago for me to know for sure.

I haven't touched it in years, but I don't think anything is going to surpass World of Warcraft in hours played anytime soon.

Next up would be Monster Hunter World and Dark Souls III with 2000+ hours each.

Fallout New Vegas at 200 hours

Maplestory, even though I haven't played it in a decade or so.

More recently, it would be Anno 1800.

This isn't a recent photo but also I havent played much since switching to PC sims

More than 800 in Dark Souls 1

I have been playing Unreal Tournament (1999) since 2000. It is impossible for me to tally up those hours.

Approaching my first 1000 in Elite:Dangerous. Got myself a Fleet Carrier and a Squadron and I feel like I’ve just started the mid-game. It’s a seemingly endless game world.

I’ve got over 2500 hours in Civ VI, and probably double that or more for all previous versions of Civ