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Rocket league. Scrolled all the comments and slightly disappointed to not find this one :/
This was a game I was truly addicted. Uninstalled it many times recognising it as an addiction but kept coming back to it. I feel lucky that I could break out of it. It was THAT addictive. Around 1200-1300hrs on that game.
I have a few thousand more than that and only stopped because my Steam controller could no longer be repaired. The only reason I want to stay away is Epic/Psyonix being exploitive and abusive. Would love a FOSS clone.
It is a truly a digital esport if there ever has been one.
World of Warcraft. I don't even try to think about quitting anymore.
DOTA 2, man. Once you get past the massive learning curve, there is just so much to do in-game. Every match is entirely unique, with constant updates, tournaments, battle passes, and what have you. When I feel like disappearing, I disappear into DOTA.
About 20 years ago I played world of warcraft every day and every awaken hour of the day or just about. School was over and I lived with my parents and was "looking for work". Let's just say that I played vanilla so much that I had guild members calling in the middle of the night to get together for world boss killing.
Since then I have realized that is not how to go about in life and last time i really got stuck was with Factorio.
Rhythm Doctor
Modded Factorio. I did 450 hours of pyAnodon's recently and it just broke me. I didn't win the game. I feel like I lost at it and life.
It seems impossible to manage the side products properly. Ridiculous amount of materials that are all interrelated means that if you are low on one thing, it is very hard to fix it because you need the thing to work to make anything.
Too many recipes means it is very difficult to make modular, adaptable designs to copy and paste. Advanced recipes seem better, but they end up just exacerbating the issue even more.
Vanilla factorio had me at “just one last thing” until dawn numerous times.
I had an old housemate who lost his very lenient student job due to being late and missing work multiple times due to the game.
It’s great :)
I love this thread, so many people passionate about their experiences with games makes me happy.
Gemstone 3 mud back in the late 90’s. Had its claws in me for a few years.
My most played Steam game is hilariously Tametsi. It's a Minesweeper spin-off with different layouts and shapes and zero guessing required for its ~200 puzzles. Some of the later puzzles require some absolutely bonkers chains of logic to figure out. It helps there's a fantastic YouTube series of videos by innocentive going through puzzle solutions that are some of the most relaxing and entertaining things I've ever watched. He almost always points to the next thing you need to consider first, so you can just pause a video after he mentions where the next step is and follow the logic yourself rather than spending hours hunting for it.
Pretty much everything I’ve ever played. Going all-in on a new hobby for periods of time (before cycling to another interest weeks later) is just how my brain works.
But right now? I’m very into playing Surviving Mars. Something about escaping from Earth and creating a new society on another planet just feels so appealing right now, for some reason. Nervously glances at news headlines
GW2. When i first started playing it many moons ago, I couldn't stop playing it! It was so addicting.
George Washington 2? George W 2?
ohhh wait, I got it. Gone Wild 2. I didn't know there was a sequel to that
Project Zomboid. I have over 1000 hours of playtime. I always come back to this game.
have you tried Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead?
I wasted some 2-3 years of my life in CSGO too when I was younger. All my free time, down the drain basically. It wasn’t even fun after a while, just a hard, tiring grind. Attempted to compete on semi-pro level, somehow got it to my head that it was possible. Did compete ultimately, but none of my teams made it. Never got anywhere and the day I finally got off it was the best day of my adult life. It was bad.
I feel ashamed to admit this out loud. It’s just so cringeworthy. But it does some good to keep my head level and remember the shortcomings of my younger days.
Nowadays the closest I get to “addiction” level is bingeing a few months worth of evenings on the likes of Crusader Kings 3, M&B Bannerlord, Stellaris or Rimworld. Much more sane since it’s not as intensive, it can be paused at any moment, and ultimately there’s an end to it, so it just naturally withers away from my days eventually.
League of legends, yes I am a toxic person
Same
Skyrim, Demon's Souls
Civilization, Civilization 2, Civilization 3 and FreeCiv
Just one more turn. Looks up. Where did the day go?
I finally kicked the habit with FreeCiv.
My first Civ game was civilization revolution (xbox 360) back in the day and I loved it, though it didnt get addicted to it.
I bought Civ 6 with all the dlc's last year on a steam sale for like, 7 bucks. I got 200 hours in.. three months?
I played non stop for a good few months all I know. Haven't touched it in a bit, but I love the civ games
RTS games for me, particularly WarZone-2100 & Earth-2150.
The fact that you get a base of operations to return to & has Picture-in-picture mode is a unique thing
Crash bandicoot 3 was my first heperfocus game. I played that game until I finished all levels, first time I did that my entire life. Second one was Skyrim. I played it so much!! I clocked over a thousand hours on the vanilla game, and I played more modded than vanilla, I can't tell how much I played in total because steam didn't track my modded playthrough. Then there was super Mario Galaxy (I got every star except the stupid thrash bombing one and I'm still so fucking mad about it). My most recent ones are monster hunter world (plus DLC) and current is monster hunter wilds, I've already 100% it and am in the process of crafting every single armour and weapons
Monster Hunter World is a superb game!
