Games

Probably most hours I've spend where with Conquer Online back in the days before mysteryboxes where introduced. After that probably puzzle and dragons.

Luckily after those games I learned to question my time spent in these games. (Basically just one day after grinding tower of gods for umpteenth time to spend my 1k stamina/energy, I asked myself wtf am I doing with my life, was I having fun?)

After that my most played games have been Grim dawn, Sacred2, Monster hunter world, No Man sky, Incredible adventures of van helsing then various 2d fighters like Blazblue, undernight inbirth and Granblue fantasy versus that I play on locals.

Uh oh I have 517 hours in Planetside 2. That's only counting Steam game time, and not using the standalone client before I played on Steam or time spent in the closed beta.

I have almost 1,000 hours in Final Fantasy XIV and I have only finished the main game and first expansion. Although I mainly played before the first expansion came out and got back into it in 2023.

Other games include: World of Tanks Blitz with 755 hours on Steam, not counting mobile; Lord of the Rings Online with 714 on Steam, not counting standalone client before it was on Steam; Elite Dangerous with 687 hours; Star Wars The Old Republic with 572 hours on Steam, not counting the standalone client before it was on Steam; Elden Ring with 360 hours; Mount & Blade Bannerlord with 180 hours.

Honorable mention: The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind on original XBox. I don't know how many hours I sunk into that, but it was a favorite of mine.

Escape from Tarkov - 2500h Elite Dangerous - 800h Kerbal Space Program - 300h Satisfactory - 250h and still going up ^^

Over 6000 hours on Dota2, I became passionate about the esports scene, only to eventually realize that multiplayer competition has little to do with art.

here are my timesinks.

there are slight caveats to that data. first of all, i actually have more time spent within Terraria, since i have about 144 hours recorded in tModLoader.

and second of all, i do estimate about 250 hours spent in Fallout: New Vegas as well. but since i own it on GOG and not Steam, i do not know for sure.

Spelunky 1 and Spelunky 2 by far. 1000+ hours in each I still never got to the Sunken City :-(

Beyond that: Dwarf Fortress, Road Rash/Road Redemption, Oblivion, The Halos (1-3)

No idea what Steam has to say, but I've played more games for longer than Steam has been around, so here's a guess of mine in no particular order:

• Skyrim
• Morrowind
• Fallout (3, NV, 4, London combined)
• Ultima II
• Doom II
• Grim Fandango

My games with over 1k hours (approximately):

Skyrim - 5,300

HITMAN - 1,350

Forza Motorsport 6 - 1,200

Other games with > 400 hours: Fallout 4 (mostly modding), Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Oblivion, all the Bungie Halo games, Red Dead Redemption 2, Battlefield 4, Minecraft, Dark Souls III, Elden Ring

Minecraft and some of the Touhou games (I haven't been keeping up with the newer ones). I don't have those getting time tracked on Steam. Stardew Valley is the next most-played, and my highest played on Steam.

I also sank SO MUCH time into Nintendogs as a kid I think it is worth a mention.

If idle games count, PokéClicker.

Can't access my time spent right now, but between Warframe and idle/incremental games, THOUSANDS of hours.

Does that count as cheating?

Definitely Minecraft. I don't play it much anymore but when it was a kid I used to play it all the time.

Probably being paying that game on and off for 15 years. I have to save a pocket money in order to buy it, I think it was about £12, no I have a mortgage.

I used to have about 4000 hours logged in tf2 and counter strike source, but they dropped thier playtime database at some point since then 😅 so now my top one is rocket league at around 600 hours

Minecraft.

• Counter Strike
• Factorio
• Elden Ring

On Steam*:

• Increlution (1552.8 hrs)
• Rimworld (943.7 hrs)
• Cookie Clicker (898.3 hrs)
• NGU Idle (524.4 hrs)
• Oxygen Not Included (472.2 hrs)

Not counting idle games, which have an artificially inflated playtime:

• Rimworld (943.7 hrs)
• Oxygen Not Included (472.2 hrs)
• Team Fortress 2** (336.8 hrs)
• Stardew Valley (234 hrs)
• Fallout: New Vegas (90.5 hrs)

*Not counting games on other platforms (minecraft) or games obtained through extralegal means (spacewar!)

**Also most recently played

Probably either Left4Dead 2 or the latest Hitman game

In roughly chronological order: Doom (who knows how many hours), Quake\Quake Team Fortress Mod (countless hours), Diablo\Diablo 2 (countless hours), Quake 2 (hundreds of hours), Quake 3 (thousands of hours), CounterStrike Mod (thousands of hours), Day of Defeat Mod, CS 1.6, Team Fortress Classic, Team Fortress 2 (thousands of hours), World of Warcraft (years of play time), ARK: Survival Evolved (1000+), Day Z mod (1000+), Day Z (standalone, 1000+) 35 years of gaming.. I'm sure I'm missing stuff, I'm not even including consoles.

Stardew Valley: 421 Soace Rangers HD: 375 Cities Skylines: 363

Felt like more at the time, for all three. Guess I didn't used to game as much as I do now. I've owned X4 for two weeks and I'm at 107 hours, so it's on pace to smash those numbers.

Blockland... played a lot, for years. Before Minecraft, before it came to steam. It turned me onto Tribes.

I've played a little bit of Warframe...

Stellaris for me…

If you want to go waaaay back before there was even time tracking, it would no doubt be Maplestory and Warcraft 3.

For games I can provide concrete numbers for, it's Anno 1800 at nearly 500 hours, Stardew Valley at over 400, and Rocket League at nearly 300.

skyrim, 307 hours

My numbers seem low compared to a lot of people here, but I also own almost 4,000 games on Steam, so I don't spend tons of time on a single game.

Also, here are my stats for 2024:

Assetto Corsa (in VR). Civilization was mostly my ex-wife. eFootball PES is kind of a weird one, but it has really great mods that have now been spun off into a totally free singleplayer game called SP Football Life.

I’ve spent a lot of time on the XCOM games. Installed 2 recently and having almost as much fun as the first time (this is like the 10th).

I’ve tried Risk of Rain 2 a few times. Like the comment I left about Rim World below, it just doesn’t click with me and I love shooters. Wondering what I’m missing that everyone else sees.

Your mother (and I) play Counter-Strike 1.6

Terraria, 480 hours. Every time Im done with the game a new major update comes out and I start a new playthrough.