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?
Stellaris.
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.
The Outlast Trials.
Right around 400 hours
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
Minecraft.
It doesn’t keep track in general, but I’ve had multiple worlds go over 1000 hours individually.
Mine would also be Minecraft and probably the Creeper World series.
Both have been around for a while and are extremely relatable and have strong communities that keep them going and feeling new.
Creeper World ? Idk what that is !
I’ve almost exclusively played vanilla survival with friends.
I’m with you in Runescape. By far my most played game since coming back to osrs in 2018.
I keep taking breaks, but always come back. Many periods I’ve played more than my full time job, and I still haven’t done nearly everything.
My answer will likely always be World of Warcraft. I played in my 20s and I played a lot. At some point when I typed /played, the number I got back exceed 1 year of in game time. I vowed never to look again out of shame. I this day I do not know what my total play time is.
EVE Online and Valheim.
I have 4000 hours in Wurm Unlimted as tracked by steam. A fantastically wonderful game, that was sadly abandoned by developers, and even more sadly doesnt seem you can find a stable server for anymore because the servers are either weird, scummy places, or eventually implode due to weird admin dramas.
I have two other 1000+ hour games as officially tracked by steam, that i wont mention because i need to pretend it didnt happen for my own sanity, lol.
beyond this are older games that I know I have more time in, but steam was really buggy at the time about tracking played time… like TF2, which I’m sure is my actually most played game, because you can’t play that game 5 hours a night, almost every night, for 5+ years, and only have 700 hours played. My real played time is probably in the 5 digits.
Arma 2 (for original DayZ mod/DayZero/Epoch) is probably up there in the 5 digit range too, if steam tracked time properly.
what’s different about wurm unlimited vs wurm online?
Wurm Unlimited is the privately hosted server version of WO. Anyone could set up a WU server and run it how they wanted as far as map size, mobs, mods, skill gain/action timer speed, etc etc.
It was very attractive to anyone who didnt want to play on Wurm Onlines geological time scale. It was mostly 1:1 with content and updates with WO too, until development was abandoned like…6? years ago? or so.
It was super attractive to anyone who didnt want to drag ass on the glacial speed that WO progress is based on. Typical servers ran 3x skill timer/action speed… Which made the game much more playable, as a good balance between WO’s glacial speed, and the “Just start people with 99 skill cause theres no point” speeds that a rare few servers ran.
I had many years of great fun playing it… but every server I ever played on eventually imploded due to staff/admin drama… and no, i was not on the staff or admin of any of them, was just a player caught in the crossfire
Rimworld
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Put a lot of hours into Paradox Interactive games
Dota 2 is the most I have logged at around 3000 hours, but I don’t have any friends to play with and don’t want to deal with randoms, so almost all of it is against bots. Even though the bots are garbage, there’s still so many creative, silly ways to play that game and ridiculous builds that are fun to try and see if they work.
Super Smash Brothers (64 and melee) is probably the most of all time though. Any time I pick up a new 2D game, I find myself comparing it to SSB in terms of mechanics. The way you control your characters in that series is the most innovative and compelling concept I have ever seen in a game. If I ever have the time to make a game myself, I would probably heavily model it based on that control scheme.
I also have to give a shoutout to Streets of Rogue, which is a fairly obscure rogue-like that deserves a lot more attention IMO. Another very replayable game with many fascinating play styles and ways to complete missions. It’s on Steam and it’s fantastic, I would highly recommend it.
Enter the Gungeon is another game I have high playtime on. It took about 40 hours before it started becoming fun, but man, it’s awesome once you finally figure out how to properly dodge enemies and make the most of your weapons and items.
Streets of Rogue and Enter the Gungeon are really solid. Also recommend.
