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Civ, Balatro.

Monster hunter world, by a long way

Lots, chrono trigger, ffvi-x, Mario 64, basically every yakuza game, sekiro, breath of the wild, a ton more. Embarassing ones sometimes like that power washing game because I got it for free and was like “this will be dumb” then kept going and going and going

Some older games that I’d probably power through now but at the time cheating/save states/youtube wasn’t easily accessible (gamefaqs existed but text based walkthroughs hit much different). Like the ps1 survival horror games: resident evil 1-3, silent hill, Dino crisis, parasite eve, etc. when you know what to do most of those can be run through in a few hours but in 1997 on the original hardware (no save states) and at best a txt file faq to guide you if you get stuck it would take some time to figure it out. Then with ones like re2 that had multiple routes and endings you’d play it like 6-7 times at least

Duke Nukem 3D.
Then Quake I and II.
I'm still playing the latter many times a week.

Neverwinter Nights and Planeshift are the two that come to mind

Football Manager. A damn spreadsheet game 😭

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.

I have never left the Terraria addiction. Mods have made that significantly worse haha.

Warframe. I have been clean for years now, but the itch never really goes away

How can people play single games for thousands of hours ?

I game a lot and my absolute record is maybe ~400h

1200h in PZ and 1000h in Rimworld. This was across many years, but still, I have a job and a family, so I feel like that's a huge chunk of time.

Civ, and Rimworld. "One more turn" crack in a bottle.

There's many, even from your list. Recently Deadzone: Rogue.