For me it was Terraria, Satisfactory, Tetris Effect Master Mode, Minecraft with Mekanism mod & CSGO / CS2 (almost 2000 hours in CS alone).
Edit: There are so many answers that I might only reply if I have something interesting to say. I will read all of your answers though. 🙂
Edit 2: It has become too much for me and I have to disable notifications. Thank you for the massive response and please continue to discuss with everyone here. ❤️ 🫡
Path of Exile. And by extension Path of Building.
I’ve only played like 8 leagues (each league is around 3 months long) and I have almost 5k hours :/.
Have you tried Last Epoch?
Souls games.
I played Elden Ring a lot and loved it.
I started a little after Dark Souls 2 came out, pushed by a friend. Liked it after a while, it took a bit to get used to it.
Then went DS1, loved it to bits. Used to sit by “hard” bosses, put sign down and help random players trough, usually for hours on end.
Went back to DS2 and did a lot of coop and PvP. Soul memory was a pain.
Was there at DS3 launch, same plan but started to do invasions too. Still my most loved of the souls games.
Between DS3 and ER, did demon’s souls, loved it too although I find it a bit janky.
By Elden Ring I was there at launch, doing both the game and coop/PvP. Did the DLC. Have not touched the latest game, Nightreign.
I kinda need a story, item descriptions, NPCs, lore, figure out stuff, etc. to enjoy a souls game.
I can understand Nightreign although it’s not for me.DS 2 is probably the worst game to start with 😅. Glad to hear you stuck with it and enjoyed most souls games. I have also not played nightreign and don’t really intend to.
Battle pass shit aside, I really like Apex Legends. Probably has some dark patterns but still I really like their gunfights.
The movement and gunplay is really fun. I dip in and out every so often.
i liked it for the same reasons but matchmaking is ass. i’m either playing against professionals or morons with no inbetween.
either that or the skill floor on that game is way too high for me to really enjoy it casually.
The hard part is the skill gap - it’s not like the pros are a little better than you and you can maybe eke out win. They absolutely dominate you.
I describe them as gusts of wind because they blow in so fast and aggressively we’re dead before we can react
If Apex could stop that experience from happening I’d honestly still play it
I kept getting just LASERED then I realized people playing with controllers get aimbot at medium or close range, and I’m using a keyboard and mouse like a pleb.
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Once I played counter strike, all other shooter games died for me. I love the comparaison: “if valorant [or other FPS’] was a designer drug, counter strike would be uncut cocaine.”
Minesweeper. I’ve had a period where I played it 3 hours a day. Eventually forced myself to delete it from my phone.
Factorio. I blinked and a month went by the first time I played it. It ruins my sleep schedule like no other.
Absolutely love it
I can’t enjoy Factorio… It just feels like I’m at work. I don’t even think I’ve finished the tutorial levels yet.
I resisted it for a while for the same reason. But after a few hours it felt like the best parts of working :)
Your iron plate production is looking a little lackluster there, bud
Have you tried invading and exploiting the resources of multiple planets to keep up your green chip addiction?
Steel pan music
After playing Satisfactory I thought I’d love factorio too, but somehow never really got into it.
My friend was the same way, largely due Factorio being in 2D. He was able to get into Satisfactory due to it’s 3D nature.
Oh I don’t care about the graphics at all, as long as I know what I’m looking at. I should try again.
Think they mean 2d as in your basically walking on a map whereas in satisfactory it’s a 1st person world with height.
I had the same experience, but the other way around. I started losing interest in Satisfactory after I found out the map was static.
Honestly, the good thing about that is that everything is hand crafted. So exploring is really rewarding IMO. A good example is an area where you find tons of power slugs.
I can appreciate that. Maybe I’ll revisit my spaghetti base one day and try to finish.
Maybe try again? I played satisfactory at first and thought factorio looked stupid, but having a roboport network for the first time felt soo goooooood
I played Factorio first and since my friends are “done with Factorio” (not sure what’s wrong with them but I think I need new friends) I agreed to play satisfactory with them. It was fun for a couple of hours then it just started tobuild up rage inside of me because of so many strange or stupid design decisions the devs made. When we got to trains and I started building that was when I hit my rage limit and boiled over. My god those stations are huge and the unloading was the most stupid shit ever. Then all the small finicky tricks you can do to slim your builds… And this you want to learn/do since blueprints are small. Don’t get me started… Never started the game again after we were done but have a couple of hundred more hours in Factorio since then :)
There is a reason we call it Cracktorio
There’s many, even from your list. Recently Deadzone: Rogue.
Never heard of it, might have to check it out when I’m home at my PC again. 🙂
historically: gmod. recently: oxygen not included.
Over two thousand hours in ONI, so I feel ya…
Some hurdles are so hard to overcome, I tend to give up at one point.
Oh shit, how could I forget gmod. Those were good times.
Dark Souls 1 and Hollow Knight
Saying Hollow Knights soundtrack slaps is a big understatement. Love that game. The song Dirtmouth gives me chills everytime.
Oh me too! The songs for Greenpath and Resting Grounds give me such a peace… and i can’t help myself but drop at least a tear every time I hear the Sealed Vessel theme, is just so beautifully tragic.
Christopher Larkin is a genius composer. I hear the first note of dirtmouth and instantly get goosebumps everywhere.
Oh, I should add Pokemon Unite too, although I’m not very proud of that one…
I didn’t even know that game existed 😅 I guess everyone has their guilty pleasure games.
Duke Nukem 3D.
Then Quake I and II.
I’m still playing the latter many times a week.I played alot of quake III arena on LAN 😊
YOU HAVE TAKEN THE LEAD!
(YSK: Plumbum is really bad for your health)
Many in the past, but the most recent is Project Zomboid. That game would quickly take away decades of my life if I let it.
Warframe. I have been clean for years now, but the itch never really goes away
The most severe was Warframe. Not the most hours, but the most hours in the shortest time. 200 hours in 2 weeks. No I didn’t do anything else.
Other than that, Runescape, Minecraft, Baldur’s gate 3 all have just deleted days. Runescape and Minecraft have deleted months if not a year of time.
Buying gf
/s
Now it’s just scammers buying max gear on lv3 accounts, not even fun :(
That sucks. Honestly I never played it, but my friends did back in the day where pretty much everyone did. I was mostly playing Valve games then.
It’s blowing up again now, over 200,000 concurrent players without an event. OSRS hits it’s platinum era because gold was a long time ago
i played rs3 for a while, before pandemic i tried out with 6months preminum, then the pandemic hit and said might as well use ingame currency to get yearly prenium, until last early last year, when the prices suddenly EXPLODED FOR in game bonds, thats when i stopped.
I bailed on RS3 a couple years ago for OSRS, recently liquidated my RS3 bank to fund bonds for my hardcore ironman on OSRS haha.
No Man’s Sky. Keeps drawing me in.
Homeworld 1, 2, Cataclysm. Forget the latest one.
Need for Speed Most Wanted.
Horizon 1 & 2
So many more…
Did you play 1 and 2 original or remastered? I’m wondering if the remastered version is worth it and if it makes the HW1 levels more 3D (many of the levels’, until near the end at least, elements were still mostly on a flat horizontal plane, which I found to be disappointing).
I think most here are too generous with the term addiction.
I had to uninstall Hearthstone years ago, because I compulsively played it multiple hours every single day, despite not really having fun playing it anymore. It was either grinding to get cards or tilting on ladder. That’s what I would call an addiction.
You are right, that is part of an actual addiction diagnosis. It’s good that you did the right thing.
I got a couple hundred dollars deep into hearthstone, but luckily they came out with cubelock and I lost all interest after having to fight that stupid deck over and over.
I loved that deck! Sorry, but I guess in the end I might have helped you escape.
I’m not sure if I should tell you to try Balatro, or to stay far away from it…
I had to put balatro down after spending 4 days straight trying to get conpletionist++. After the few hundred hours it took to get the rest of the achievements. I will get those last damned rare Jimbo’s at some point!!
Football Manager. A damn spreadsheet game 😭
I get it, I also spent tons of hours in these pointless incremental / number go up games. 😅
