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It's either Elite Dangerous or Warframe.
*checks* uhhhh... Elite Dangerous.
1935 hours, and we played a while outside of Steam running the launcher directly, so let's call it 2000 hours. Elite itself also tracks hours played (in a weird "weeks/days/hours" format for some reason), but we'd have to actually open it and log in and everything to find out.
-- Frost
I think the game with the highest playtime for me is Final Fantasy XIV with around 1,2k hours. That's only Steam though, I'm sure Minecraft is way, way higher than that.
Games are short (5 mins). Queues are short (less than 1 min). Cross platform. Runs on Linux. Controller support (preferred). Easy to understand, but high skill ceiling. Amateur leagues are fun. Keeps my reflexes sharp. Can turn chat off. A decent esports scene.
What a save!
Did not care much for the expansion, just didn't like the game play. Didn't even finish it, so it is almost all base game and mods.
T H E F A C T O R Y M U S T G R O W
I I keep getting stuck once I get to blue science packs. I usually play without enemy spawns.
This isn't a recent photo but also I havent played much since switching to PC sims
Final Fantasy XIV and it's not even close... need to grind to get my girl new outfits
I've been playing since mid-2020 now and mostly spend my time either playing the story, doing side-content or making pretty screenshots of new glamours
I haven't touched it in years, but I don't think anything is going to surpass World of Warcraft in hours played anytime soon.
Next up would be Monster Hunter World and Dark Souls III with 2000+ hours each.
I actually just started playing it again after a nearly 2 year long break too, so that can't possibly turn out to be a bad life decision.
If the 10,000hrs is correct then your Dota expert now.
I definitely wouldn't say that, but it was kind of surprising how after that long of a break without playing any similar games I completely still had the muscle memory for it.
I’ve got over 2500 hours in Civ VI, and probably double that or more for all previous versions of Civ
Late to the party, but for me Endless Sky: https://github.com/endless-sky
As far as I know, it's the only open source and crowed developed game out there.
If you remember EV series, it's basically that. But better and under constant development.
According to Steam it's Terraria with over 1200 hours. I bought it in 2012 and have replayed it regularly alone and with friends.
My second place isn't even close, and it's not actually a game. I bought Aseprite during the summer sale last year to see if I could stumble my way to something resembling visual art and I have about 250 hours logged, though I think a lot of that is me leaving the app open overnight.
I don’t have an exact number but if I had to guess it’s Minecraft. Over all those years, quite a few hours must have added up. I think that has to be much more than any of my Steam games.
Rimworld
Minecraft.
It doesn't keep track in general, but I've had multiple worlds go over 1000 hours individually.
Skullgirls, for sure. Steam has me at over 1800 hours, but I've also played at locals and tournaments. It had 14 characters for the longest time, but now it's got 18, and the ways you can combine them are nearly limitless, so there's a high chance one of its most powerful strategies hasn't even been discovered yet even though it's now 14 years old. Now and then I'll see a tournament match where someone brought out something brand new that I've never seen before, and I love it for that.
No Man's Sky 1556.5hrs
Eve online, 11.6k hours. Much of that time was running multiple clients too. It's a young persons game, I no longer have the time.
Red light, green light
About to play a couple more rounds now on my way to the grocery store
Elite: Dangerous
You can sink a ludicrous amount of time traversing a 1:1 scale galaxy even with FTL.
I don't have specific numbers since some of these games were played on various platforms or outside of environment which keeps track of play time. Still, these are the things that come to mind in regards to where I spent most of my game time.
I'm putting each title into a spoiler to avoid a huge wall of text. I tend to get a bit rambly when talking about games, sorry.
Civilisation V
I never played IV and I don't really like VI, Civ V however managed to grab me in a way few other 4X game could. I haven't played it in a few years but I still remember the feeling of "one more turn" - this stuff is addicting.
The Division (both games)
I was curious about the story concept for the first game but didn't like the idea of a modern shooter with bullet spongy enemies so I avoided it for a good few years before giving it a shot. When I did jump in however, my initial hesitation evaporated pretty quickly as the atmosphere of winter New York grabbed me 100%. There are still times where enemy tankiness or firepower can be annoying but that's mostly end game issues and something I can deal with if I lock in.
I probably have more playtime in the second game by this point but I still think there are some things the first game did way better than the sequel (writing, atmosphere, enemy factions, some skills, cosmetics). It's why I tend to alternate between the two whenever I'm in the mood for more TD.
Girls' Frontline
Came for girls with guns, stayed for the story. It's a gacha game, which I know many people might scoff at, but it's from the time when the monetisation practices and tactics where very different to the current landscape (there's no premium pulls, paid weapons or anything like that, the only thing you'd really spend your money would be skins - if you want).
Gameplay is pretty simple (build your squads, traverse node based stages, partake in semi-autobattler combat and complete objectives) but it's pretty enjoyable for the most part. It also does a great job of combining stage challenges/difficulty with what's happening in the story (something its sequel is simply unable to do due to a modern, dupe based character gacha and progression).
We're two weeks from the final main story event of the game, which after more than 7 years of playing feels somewhat bittersweet. It was a fun journey though.
Gothic 2
Played it multiple times, never finished it - usually because I got distracted or just had my fill of fun.
I actually like the Gothic series more than any of the Elder Scrolls titles. These games feel somewhat more alive and immersive to me, to the point that even the unusual control scheme, preset protagonist (I really like making my own characters) or lack of "forever fun" aren't enough to make me lean the other way. There's some "magic" in Gothic that's missing from TES games for me, even if they're great in their own right.
I finally managed to finish the first game a few months ago so I hope I'll do the same with this one "soon". I'd like to scratch it off of my backlog, if only to give myself some closure in that regards.
Skyrim
I don't really like Skyrim. I find it to be pretty shallow and boring in its vanilla state and the only reason I spent as much time on it as I did is mods. I pretty much use all Elder Scrolls and (modern) Fallout games as a base for a modern life-sim experiences where I just do whatever I feel like at the time - anything except for being the hero. So yeah, it's just a backdrop but I guess it counts.
I wish Cyberpunk 2077 had as big modding scene as Skyrim. It's another title I like to use for my "be whoever, forget the story" playthroughs and one I vastly prefer in pretty much every aspect.
Team Fortress 2
I haven't touched it in years but it's still one of my most played multiplayer titles ever (or at least it feels like it). I tried going back to it a few times over the years but modern TF2 is simply not the same. I also really don't care for PvP these days so while I was curious about the classic mod/rework released some time back, I never even gave it a shot. I think I had my fill of competition.
There are probably a few more titles with similar play times but I don't want to make it look like I had no life as a kid (I didn't). I love games man.
Borderlands 2, 1200+ hrs. Only game I was comfortable playing multiplayer without getting anxious and the 14 steam friends I have over the years are all BL2 players.
Approaching my first 1000 in Elite:Dangerous. Got myself a Fleet Carrier and a Squadron and I feel like I’ve just started the mid-game. It’s a seemingly endless game world.
I think my highest is still Kerbal Space Program by a country mile, and that's only what Steam itself counted and doesn't count the at least similar number of hours I likely spent in pre-release versions back when I was first downloading it directly from the devs with no Steam version in sight. So the real numbers are probably somewhere in the 4 to 5 thousand hours range. Dwarf Fortress is probably pretty far up there too but like KSP those hours mostly aren't recorded anywhere. Factorio, Avorion, Starbound, and Terraria are also shockingly high, into the thousands, and a bunch of others like Stardew Valley, Sims 3, X3TC, X4, Empyrion, and Stellaris are knocking on the door of the thousands too. But nothing comes close to KSP for me.
There's also a few I'm surprised are not higher up: Subnautica, Satisfactory, Oxygen Not Included, The Long Dark, ARK Survival Evolved, Rimworld, Astroneer, Slay The Spire are all games that I feel like I've played an absolute ton of, which spend a lot of time living rent-free in my head, but the numbers don't actually show that I've played them that much, low hundreds of hours at most, some only in the high tens. No reason to believe that Steam's numbers aren't accurate here, so I can only conclude that those games are somehow denser and provide similar gameplay value in a shorter play session with less time investment, because yeah my brain has devoted a lot of pathways to some of those.
Not me but a friend of mine has 10+ IN GAME YEARS in Everquest. Apparently he has been playing with his dad since he was 4 or 5 lmfao. I don't understand it but I respect it.
I had to convert that to hours to make it comparable, holy fuck that's almost 88,000 hours 😵
According to steam, Factorio.
Non-steam games would probably be Dwarf Fortress, but i have no idea how many 100s of hours I have in it
World of Warcraft, split between a vanilla private server and official Classic. I have a character on each with over 150 days of playtime (although significant chunks of that are leaving the game open while doing other things, and also programming addons while otherwise afk at the bank).
More than 800 in Dark Souls 1
Dead Cells, with 1300hrs total (I have hit a wall at 3BC I haven't been able to pass, but it's still fun), and Grim Dawn with 1600hrs (but including non-official content like the user-run seasons). Current runner-ups are Sulfur and Witchfire with around 250hrs both.
Factorio and RimWorld are actually within 4 hours of each other right now, at just over 900 hours each.
No way to really check but I'm pretty sure it's Minecraft. Played it since the very first public build, it's been less and less each year the past few years but it has to be over 5000 hours total. Got over 2000 hours in Warframe, Destiny 2, Rocket League and over 1000 hours in No Man's Sky, Terraria, Starbound, Halo 1, 2, 3 and Reach. There's surely one or two games more that I'm not remembering ATM and over 500 hours in many, many others.
Yes, I play games a lot, and a lot of games.
Squad is by far the most with about 3.5k hours. I dont really like playing other games online nowadays but Squad really hits the sweet spot of 80% social 20% gameplay.
The rest of the list is probably Megadrive, N64 and Dreamcast stuff :D
Probably spent waay too much in Starcraft, Homm3 and AoE2 over the years, but recorded by steam time tracker Elite: Dangerous has been top and it's not even close, with about 5000h. Fml.
Guilty Gear Strive? I remember playing a lot of skyrim too. Anything past 2k hours kinda gets lumped together
Final Fantasy XI. I actively played from April 2004 to November 2011, and casually from around 2019 to 2021. My playtime in game says something like 500ish days, although that would include time I was logged in but not actively playing, but honestly that wouldn't account for much time, so it's still a fairly accurate representation.
Rocket League and Minecraft would probably be the next closest games, I think each somewhere in the neighborhood of 2000-3000 hours.
