I was looking at my playtime for some games and realized I have over 450 hours in PlanetSide 2.
I’ve been wanting to find a new game to sink some hours into so I’m curious what Lemmy plays the most.
Dota, 9,000+ hours. I don’t play it anymore though, toxic af
I now mostly play Path of Exile and World of Warships
For me it’s 7 Days to Die, at 1580 hrs.
I got suckered into playing 800+ hours of GTA Online and paying thousands of SEK for shark cards over a year or two before I realized what a terrible game it is.
I was addicted to it, and paid money every month to buy shark cards.
When my work situation improved however, I took a few steps back and realized that I had wasted a lot of money on it and that I was only chasing the dragon that was just out of reach, kept away from me by carefully crafted mental mechanics of the game.
I was disgusted and refused to participate further.
I uninstalled it right away and have never looked back.
Super proud of you internet stranger. Addictions fucking suck and are hard to break. Congratulations!
Yeah, I never let it spiral out of control, but I did let it take all of my lessiure money for a year or two, not fun.
But educational.
I never spent a dime on it, but I did play for over 3000 hours before rock star blocked linux. I enjoyed the grind rather than the reward, so it sort of became my little safe-space game when I was really stresses out. could always just go hang out with my buds for a few hours and grind out a million bucks. I’m still kinda torn up about the anticheat situation tbh, I would gladly play alone if there were any way to play the same game. but story mode just doesnt compare for me, completly different game :(
Factorio: 1,400 hours
Fallout 4: 1,100 hoursSoooooo much factorio
Na, I know some who have upwards of 5k hours.
Factorio: 5,000
10/10 best game on steam by far.
Yeah… 1212 hours in Factorio, and I only just started Space Age
Rimworld, way too much Rimworld. A big part of it is that I’ll often have it one a second computer during the workday just on pause to pop in during downtime but I guess that still counts as playtime just being loaded.
Ive got 2.2k hours in RimWorld and I’ve only ever tried to launch a spaceship once(spoiler I died).
Such a good game, such good modding scene.
I’ve tried the game a few times and it doesn’t click with me. What’s is it that you find so appealing?
Emergent gameplay is what appeals to me
I like that each pawn builds up a personality overtime and grows as a character. I pretty much just play Rimworld as a doll house simulator
I feel this way about XCOM. I’ll give this a shot.
When someone does a heroic move I elevate them to hero status in the colony and they get a better bedroom, better armour and the best weapon.
Dangit you’re making me want to play. Can you build an army with laser guns?
Look for the “vanilla expanded” mods.
It is a dedicated and organized team of modders that has output a stunning amount of content, all of it cohesive, and what many would consider required “base game” content.
They have literally put out dozens of mods that could be standalone DLC, all for free.
Charge rifles or charge lances in vanilla. More laser weapons that you could ever use if you use mods.
For me a lot of it is in trying to maximize efficiencies. Setting up task duties and resources where you have plenty enough but not overloading your storage. Defensive position designs to counter any possible situation. Layouts to the base to allow free movement.
Lot of others try for specific artistic ideas or scenario goals, but I’m something of engineer minded player.
I’m not efficiency oriented at all. Which I dislike because I wish I was, but simply not. I do like base building games, and enjoyed Banished a lot.
I imagine you’ve played Satisfactory.
They send BABIES to fight me!
SOLDIER IS-MEEEEEEEEDIC
TF2 is one of my highest as well, but only half as many hours as you! Lots of hats… cashed out all my unusuals for an Index.
Highest is probably Diablo II+D2R, played every day in my teens, from when I got home to when I slept. Then I started playing while botting. Has to be 3k+ hours. Never been so addicted to a video game.
Same, my most played game ever. I find it funny, at least to me, a game from 2007 thats barely supported by the dev is significantly better than the other modern derivatives of tf2 like overwatch and marvel bandwaggon money maker.
I’ll tell you what it is. Freedom.
We can make servers, host servers, have our own communities and set our own rules. Hell, I haven’t played a Valve server in five years.
Overwatch isn’t a matter of better or worse. It fails to do, at base value, what I value TF2 for, freedom.
Add however many neat little gameplay mechanics you want, if I can’t play the game the way I want to, I’m not going to get into it or care.
shrug
Overwatch was good when it released then they actively made it trash
I gave it a shot within the first year it came out, only ever played ~10 hours and just didn’t find it that fun I suppose.
I’ve got close to 5000 hrs in tf2. By far my most played game ever
4000+ hours in (edit a strategy game) as I used to be the top streamer until the publishing company fucked me around. 3500+ in Diablo 3 as I was able to Leaderboard with a solo Monk… LB’ed and didn’t earn any XP in groups… all solo!
I have over 6,000 hours in Dota2.
Dang, I was feeling real smug looking down on these people with my 4134.1 hours.
Me too!
I bet you’ve been cursed at in every living language. At 600 hours I called it quits. That was maybe 8 years ago. Couldn’t hack it. But, godspeed to you, great creep slayer.
“CYKA BLYAT VODKA VODKA VODKA”
~Midlane
Flashed back to the great war.
Factorio it’s over 6000 last time I checked
I bow to you master. I’m incing close to 1000.
The factory must grow.
Playing it with my boyfriend, I have about 500 hours, about to head to aquilo for the first time, wish us luck!
Good luck and don’t forget to bring heat pipes!
(More realistically, given you posted this 11 hours ago; hope y’all weren’t stranded!)
Actually we ended up just fixing production on Nauvis and getting epic mech armor lol.
5500 on steam. 1500 before steam. The best game, and most value for money i have ever spent
Almost 2k here
I wish I could filter out idle and clicker games. My biggies are Factorio and KSP for non-idle games. Several thousand hours in each.
It’s was World of Warcraft before I quit.
What other games had in hours, that had in days. Probably around 500 days, mostly standing around waiting for others.
Now I play FFXIV instead.
Much healthier…
Deep Rock Galactic with about 1000 hrs.
Best Co-Op game I’ve ever played with a marvellous community and its own subculture. It has been my absolute favourite game for a couple of years.
Stopped playing though when they introduced the “flappy boots” minigame. I know it’s optional and there are mods to get rid of it, but somehow this has killed the entire game for me. Silly, but can’t help the feeling.
In German I would say “die Luft ist raus” about this. Literally translated: “the air is out” and describes situations where something totally lost its appeal and is now just “meh”, although it was (very) appealing before.
If you haven’t played it before and like co-op shooters: give it a try. You probably won’t regret it.
I love the expression! Sounds close to “out of steam” in English which is used similarly… nothing underlying has changed but the enthusiasm or “special something” is gone
That’s not very rock and stone of you
That’s steam but the games I’ve put the most time into are:
Minecraft, must be over 10k hours.
Halo 1, 2, 3 and Reach, pretty sure over 10k hours combined.
There’s surely some game I’m forgetting right now, just woke up.
There are also several mobile games I must have put thousands of hours into over the years.
Before this I used to play certain games exclusively, often for 10+ hours a day (beefy laptop at work and then home).
QuakeWorld - '98-2003
Ragnarok Online - 2003-2008
WoW - 2008-2012
EVE - 2012-2014
You play games at work?
I used to. Not since 2012. I had a night shift job, getting paid to do nothing.
Also since 2020 I’ve been wfh. So technically yes, I play games at work.
World of Warcraft by a huge margin. A couple of years ago, I went through all my characters, and added the /played time up. I think it was already over 10k back then, and I’ve played a bunch since then. Also, I often delete characters, so I can’t count those. My sub runs for another 10 days, so I might take the time to check again.
Next is probably Diablo 2, but that was 20 years ago, when this stuff wasn’t really automatically tracked.
On Steam I have two idle games at 800 hours, FF14 650h, both Nioh games 600h each.
for sure wow… i remember in xfire days it logged like 20-25k hrs
… i literally have nightmares where my character is reaching out of a black void sobbing “please im so lonely come back and play with me”
fuck that whole game
I played Wow for the first 3-4 years after its launch.
I had a part time job back then, but otherwise I was playing wow. At some point my /played time passed a year, after that I refused to look. I don’t know if it ever got to two years, but I fear it may have…
Likewise for me.
I have upwards of 6k hours in WoW and my next closest games is Rainbow 6:Siege is ~500
