I leave the game running at night while I sleep
this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2025
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I have like 3700 hours in factorio, but I also leave it running when I’m not around… like an idle game
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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?
1000-2000 hours in several games. It's a mix of several reasons:
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Some games are more replayable than others. My high-playtime games tend to be roguelikes, played over multiple years
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The more you play something, the more of a comfort game it gets. It becomes easier to just play it mindlessly if you just want to turn off your brain
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Some games have inconvenient save systems, intentional or otherwise (especially true for roguelikes). This incentivizes you to just leave the game running overnight instead of saving and quitting. Just once and you're looking at ~20 hours added to your playtime. Rinse and repeat for multiple nights
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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.
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.
More than a day?
So you don’t shut down your Pc when done? I only ask as I always turn it off.
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Leaving *Commandos" on pause when I don't play racks up hours it seems 🤷🏼♀️
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.
The only games I have over 1000 hours in are games that I've owned for more than 10 years and are online. TF2, Counter-Strike, Arma 2 and 3, Rocket League...
I love Souls games and have played the shit out of every single one; but they average 300-500 hours of total playtime.
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.