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In which game did you spend the most hours?

I discovered today that my most played game on Steam is Astronner with about 500 hours, and my second most played is Surviving Mars with about 500 hours.

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Satisfactory. I'm well past 1,500 hours.
The factory must grow
- The factory building genre is way to addictive, I only have like 200 hours as of now in satisfactory, but I must say Spaghetti bases on satisfactory are a work of art
  
  The genre is crack for anyone in any kind of STEM job. Gets even worse if you've got ADHD too
- Stopped at around 100 hours with Update 7, might have to wait for 1.0 to fully get back in again
  
  Has 1.0 been announced to be close?
- Bad enough they stole Factorio’s concept but now we’re stealing the fanbase’s catchphrase too? 😜 /s
  
  Both games are awesome!

In a year I had over 200 DAYS played on World of Warcraft back in 2005-2006. That's over 13 hours a day, then I quit abruptly and later tried a couple of expansions casually.
Second is probably Counter-Strike 1.#. No idea actual playing time but would estimate around 1000 hours.
The above two I don't regret spending my time in. Made a lot of friends and it all felt rewarding.
Then there are games like Civilization VI (_{200 hours), Rimworld (}300 hours), Tropico (_{200 hours) and even Path of Exile (}500 hours). These games are not really rewarding, other than little dopamine hits that gets you continuing playing forever.
Edit: Added hours!
- Another WoW addict checking in. I was somewhere north of 12,000 hours from release to the end of Wrath with another stint during Classic.
  I've since quit with no intention of ever returning. Despite how much I loved the game it doesn't love me back, and it's better if I don't play at all.
  
  It was so easy to spend time in early WoW. The community was awesome before all the sharding and LFG/LFR tooling!
- It's undoubtedly WoW for me too, but I don't know how many hours. I wish there was a way to check without re-subscribing.
  If it ever gets added to Xbox Game Pass I'll probably give it another whirl.
- I'm glad I never picked up wow. Its definitely a all or nothing type game.

Rocket league.. 4500 hours.. only a diamond 2
- Also Rocket League. I've got like 2K hours and managed to get to Grand Champion (1) once, but usually hang around in Champ 2 or 3. In a way I just play like a very consistent Diamond player though. I can semi-reliably wavedash, sometimes manage to hit a half flip, and can't do any flip resets, musty flicks, etc. I solely rely on positioning, shooting at the right time, fast aerials, bumping, and boost stealing.
- 10k+ hours here, been playing since 2016. Got bored of ranked and the way people play in there at least 3 years ago.
- Nice! I'm at 1400hrs and can proudly say I'm Champ 2 (in Rumble)!
- Wow really? Maybe you dont play ranked much? I have 850 hours and am champ 2 / 3 by solo 2v2ing
  
  Embarrassingly, I typically only.pkay ranked and am D2 in both 2v and 3v .. but, I haven't played in 2 or 3 months now and I understand they've changed the MMR or how players are ranked. Btw, I'm old

Where are you people getting all this time from?!
- 20 years ago before I had a wife, a child, pets, or a mortgage and when I had a simple job, I would destroy weeks at a time with some Final Fantasy 8. Logged obscene hours, unlocked every secret and beat every minigame, more than once. There's just no time in my life now for a game requiring that kind of time commitment, but there's always the memories
  
  Same. I get maybe an hour or two a week total these days. Which I'm ok with to be honest. Lots of other things on the go constantly.
- Before those things that grow in your house and eat all your food.
- I know, right? I have about 88 hours in PlanetZoo and I've had the game for 3 years.

Factorio - 364h on steam and god only know how many outside Planetary Annihilation: Titans - 332h BeatSaber - 230h
But compared to other gamers ...

Definitely factorio, but I can't tell you how many hours. I started playing on steam, but then downloaded it from factorio.com and had multiple installs so I could play different mod packs. Steam says 1100 hours, but it's got to be 3 or 4 times that, total. I've played multiple saves that took several hundred hours
- Same here. Steam says 200 hours. Which is a lot for me. The next closest is NMS at 50 hours.
  My play time is also higher because I have played many hours offline and then reset my computer so it didn't track that time.
  It's such a ridiculously addictive game. I regret nothing.
  
  My longest NMS save is 80 hours. I mostly just do the expeditions.
- Do you know of a factorio community on lemmy? I tried looking but didn't find anything.
  
  I subscribed to !factorio@lemmy.ml but it doesn't have much traffic.

This is a low ball but I easily have 3000+ hours in FFXIV and Old School Runescape (not combined)
- Sheesh. I heard FFXIV is really good later in the game. But you first have to get over a 60 hour bump or something?
  I did try it out and barely lasted a few hours. So many boring cutscenes, so much running from NPC to NPC. And barely any combat, the quests were like "Run 3 minutes over there, kill 3 enemies, then run 3 minutes back to the NPC". It was tough :-/
  
  They’ve been working on redoing and slimming down some of the base game to cut some of the fat. You’re not wrong about the structure. The story itself especially in the expansions 3/4 of them could stand on proud amongst the best of final fantasy stories. MMOs aren’t everyone’s cup of tea, though, I get it.
- FFXIV for sure is up there. Probably my most hours in a single game. The first several Monster Hunter games are so similar that I kinda want to count all their hours together. If I did that then the MH franchise MAY surpass XIV. Either one is a hell of an experience and I don’t regret any of it.

All of these comments have amateur numbers. My most played is wow and over all of my characters its on the order of 500 days.

World Of Warcraft. I stopped looking at /played once I passed 5000 hours and that was during WoTLK, I'm gonna take a guess and say i would have ended up between 12-13k hours. Just stopped playing one day about 4 years ago and have had no interest in logging back in for some reason.. just weird I'd had enough.

Dota 2. 7882 hrs
- 6331 hours here. Maybe one day I will be good in that game.

Parent here, very badly envious of all y'all's numbers.
(but in my pre-kid days I'm sure I put in at least 300 hours on the pre-Steam version of Dwarf Fortress)
- Same sitch, but my Dwarf Fortress hours are much, much higher.
  If I can combine all versions of the Civilization series it might top it, but not by much.

4,167 hours of DOTA 2.
Holy shit. Glad I quit.
- Come back to us comrade. I have over 6000 hours now and it's still great. I've been playing since TI2 though so it's only like 600hr per year average.

Team Fortress 2, i'm on like 2000 hours, which is rookie numbers really, but i joined during the pandemic so, thats why...
- I'm at 5000. Don't play much nowadays, but used to play competitive and go to lans.

Europa Universalis 4. Actually most Paradox games.
- This. I think I have 1.1k hours on steam and probably double that outside of it.
  
  Mine is either Paradox Games although my preferred is CK series. Also, dabble in the Sims. Which I have been told is weird mix.

The game with most hours has to be Minecraft. I don't know the exact amount but it has to be at around 4000 hours.
Second is CSGO with 3600 hours
Third is league of legends with around 3000 hours
Followed by Gmod with 900 hours
Fortnite with 600 hours
Fall guys with 500 hours
And after that it doesn't really make sense to list them
I was very addicted to gaming in my youth .

Must be Civ IV - that whole series makes you lose track of time - start a game and that's the whole weekend gone; even now Civ IV with the Realism Invictus mod feels like it's got tonnes of gameplay still left in it for me.
That said, OpenTTD has been an enduring favourite of mine for the past few years and because of its flexibility it might surpass it in the long-term.
- OpenTTD FTW

And here I was thinking my 360+ hours in BoTW was excessive....
- I forgot about The Nintendo Switch. I have like 700 Hours in BoTW. I don't know how you can see the playtime on the WIIU but since the release of BoTW I played on the WIIU about every day I got the Time to do so.
- Same here! I think I had over 400 hours on botw. Now onto totk, and loving every minute. After reading this thread I just told my husband he should be thankful I'm not into WoW.

Eve online probably well over 15k hours logged actual playtime closer to 10k lots of idle time. Still the most fun I've had in a game and has helped me be more comfortable talking to strangers and lead people IRL

8k hours in Minecraft, 1.4k hours in City Skylines, about 1.2k of those in one city. 😂

Roughly 2.000 hours in Terraria. But Factorio is quickly catching on.

I can't believe the amount of time I have spent playing World of Warcraft. I am a recovering addict.

Minecraft easily. The game doesn't record hours but if I were to guess it would be at least 10k hours.
Second most played game has to be Diablo 2. In Diablo 3; I have 350 hours on one character, 200 hours on another, 125 on another and various temp character that I play during seasons and delete probably another 400 hours there. With all that being said about Diablo 3. I've definitely put more hours into Diablo 2. I would guess at least 3000 hours for Diablo 2
Game with the most hours played on Steam is Town of Salem at 750 hours and then Grim Dawn at 360 hours.

Satisfactory with 752 hours. No mods, either. Most recently is Project Zomboid with 123 hours.

Stardew Valley with about 650 hours
- Time well spent.

I would guesstimate over 12000 hours in world of warcraft
- For perspective, that's like 6 years of full-time employment. I am equal parts impressed and horrified.
  At the very least, that game has cost you over USD 87,000 in those six years in terms of money not earned. (assuming 12,000 hours of minimum wage work).
  
  Yeah but we work to live, not the other way round. Apart from it being about the only way to get a trickle of money coming in, the time spent digging someone else's ditch is the wasted time, not the fun times we have from spending the money.

Slay the Spire 187 hrs and counting. No where near the time I see others have put into single games.
- Are you already playing it with mods? I think that boosts this game quite a lot, especially when talking about pouring hundreds of hours.
  
  More that I just don’t spend as much time playing games these days.
  I really like it however as it is one of a few games in my collection I can just randomly play for a few min and leave or hours at a time.

Dota 6k hours hahaha
- Yeah, at 7k+ hours, my Dota time dunks on pretty much 90% of the people in this thread. And I'm still not tired of it. It's a daily ritual type of game.
  Thing is, the time I put isn't even close to the time of several of the people I've met.

2000+ hours in the original KSP. Still play it occasionally. Tried KSP2. When the itch strikes again, I'll be back in KSP1.

I've got nearly 800 hours into Cyberpunk2077.
\ It'll probably be my goto game until its sequel comes put in a decade or so.
- Considering picking up cyberpunk now that the bugs are gone. Is it that good?
  
  In September the game is being vastly reworked. Lots of the mechanics are being changed. The skill trees are being completely re-conceived. This will likely be it's final form.
  If you get it now and finish a play through by then, sure it'll be worth it.

Factorio
Reaching 1000hours and barely scratching the surface

About 11k hours of EverQuest, 1999-2005. (I still consider it the best time of my life, too.)
- I'm there with you as well. Put thousands of hours in. That game was a pure grind, but was so fun and boring at the same time lol

I'd guesstimate upwards of 5000 hours in Minecraft.
- Same, since 2013 :s

According to Steam:
Monster Hunter Rise, 754 hours
Back 4 Blood, 616 hours
Monster Hunter: World, 581 hours
Cyberpunk 2077, 470 hours
Hitman 3, 288 hours
- My man lol. I have 2000 hours in MH:Frontiers on the PSP back in the day. Only at about 300 between Rise and World though!
  
  Ahh nice. I am 100% a World baby (don't judge!) but I bet if I had discovered MH earlier than World I'd have definitely been hooked.
- You got good taste my friend xd

There are two games that I have spent a considerable amount of my life playing Planetside 2 and Path of Exile.
Planetside 2 released it was exactly the game that I was looking for. The experience of playing in an organised outfit was the best multiplayer gaming I've ever experienced.
Path of Exile is like a sledgehammer of a learning curve. Never had played an ARPG before this but once I got to maps my soul was taken indeed.
Before this left4dead 2 was the game that I had suck many hours into - what a game!
- +1 for Path of Exile, thats indeed a digital form of crack.
- +1 for Left 4 Dead 2. I just want to feel included.
- +1 for planetside. That game was a trip for sure.

According to Steam, Arma 3. But I know for a fact that a lot of those hours were not technically in game because I would spent hours upon hours in Notepad++ scripting for my modules while I had the in-game editor running in the background to alt-tab in an test things every now and then.
TF2 is second, and that's all actual play time, baby.
However, in Ultima Online I spent a good 8+ hours a day, every day, from 1997 to 2003. So probably that; I just have no actual counter for the time put in.

An MMO called Mabinogi, but only because it's literally designed to suck as much time and money away from you as possible without you noticing. Steam says I'm nearing 5,000 hours, but more than half my playtime was from before it was on steam, so it's probably closer to 12,000 to 13,000 hours. I haven't even reached the end game yet.
At this point, I don't really play it anymore. I think from now on I need to start avoiding games that are gonna absorb that much of my time for so little progress. Definitely wasn't mentally healthy because I wasn't even enjoying myself a good way in, I was just addicted.

Overwatch: 964 hours, still Bronze 🥉
Elite Dangerous: 823 hours
Eve Online: 504 hours, all in 2020
Portal 2: 195 hours *Team Fortress 2: 143 hours
Honorable mention: Deep Rock Galactic with 135 hours in the past 4 months since I got the game.
Edit: formatting.

Deep Rock Galactic at around 300h
- Rock and Stone! I have 135 hours in Deep Rock and I've only had the game for about 4 months!
  
  Karl would be proud

World of Warcraft. In RimWorld, I have over 3000 hours logged. World of Warcraft? Conservatively, I would estimate 10,000. I haven't played since 2016, so I can't check, but that's in line with the /played time across several characters.
- I basically lived in Azeroth for about 6 years. No other game will ever come close to the number of hours I played WoW.

About 1200 hours in Destiny 2. My wife and I have about 2000 hours combined in Destiny 2.
I'm afraid to find out how much time I've spent playing League of Legends. Unfortunately the Time Wasted On website only goes back so far, so my stats aren't accurate.

I have so many thousands of hours of rocket league across so many platforms at this point.
Worst part about transferring from console to PC was all my playtime data being lost.
- That was me too! I guessed I had around 2k hours in RL overall, but Destiny 2 has recently just eclipsed 2k hours on just PC. Probably have 2500 in that game total now.

This is actually a good question if I'm answering it entirely based on feels, not actual data.
Biggest game overall, single player plus multiplayer? Halo series. Maybe Destiny 1&2 too.
Biggest PC game? Probably Neverwinter Nights (2002). (This predated Steam, so fuck the statistics anyway.)
Biggest game I'm spending shitloads of time right now? TRAIN SIM WORLD 3.

Please send help.
- Holy shit dude. At 8 hours a day, that's over 3 years of full time play! How do you support yourself?

Kerbal Space Program

Various versions of The Binding Of Isaac

Diablo 2. Heroes of Might & Magic 3 coming next.
I might have more hours @ World of Warcraft, but that's outright drug and wasn't played for most of time voluntarily.

Final Fantasy XI. On and off over the list twenty years I probably have about 3 to 4 years worth of game time. 2 of those years were put in between 04 to 07.

League of Legends. I don't know how many hours I've put into it but I've been playing since pre-Season 5. This season alone I've played around 600 games. It's depressing.
- Same on league, started on OG Aatrox release, thousands of hours in too. NGL, still love the game though. Viego is my go to cosplay for cons!

Minecraft. No clue how many though

Elder Scrolls Online, by far

Tabletop Simulator. In 2020 my weekly gaming group couldn’t meet anymore, until we discovered that solution. We still meet in person occasionally but we have been playing every week online. I’m genuinely not sure how I would have gotten through the lockdowns without it.

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