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.

World of Warcraft. I don’t even try to think about quitting anymore.

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

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.

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.

RTS games for me, particularly WarZone-2100 & Earth-2150

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

I love this thread, so many people passionate about their experiences with games makes me happy.

Skyrim, Demon’s Souls

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.

Old School RuneScape. I don’t know what it is, but it’s like crack. I cannot stop playing it.

League of legends, yes I am a toxic person

GW2. When i first started playing it many moons ago, I couldn’t stop playing it! It was so addicting.

Project Zomboid. I have over 1000 hours of playtime. I always come back to this game.

Gemcraft, I always have to make it to the end… even if it takes forever