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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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 😵
- Guild Wars 2 with 5,004 hours since 2015 :)
- Guild Wars 1 with 2,507 hours since 2018 (yes, I started it after sequel; also spent a few weeks afk farming, so probably a few hundred hours less)
- Genshin with 2,248 hours since 2021
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.
Elite Dangerous at about 1300 hours. I do wonder if anything from the ps2 days beats that, with more time and fewer games, but I doubt it. Been playing for 6 years
The Binding Of Isaac, around 1700 or something
Same. I usually come back for 40+ hours each year. I only stopped playing because my save file corrupted
Rimworld
Stellaris.
Depends how we’re counting. Actively playing is probably WoW, but I have so many hours in Factorio, as i would just leave it running overnight. Had a server up for friends also, so probably have close to 1k hours of the game being open, but definitely feel like i wasn’t actively playing as much as WoW. Just to how many years i put into playing WoW.
Yeah, I don’t think I’ll ever focus on one game enough to catch up to my time in WoW. I had one character with over one year /played and I was also the type that had multiple raiding alts. Tbf, some portion of that time was afk or just shitchatting in IF/Org.
