• glimse@lemmy.world
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    The game in my Steam library with the most hours played is…PAYDAY 2.

    But I didn’t actually play a thousand hours of it. In the late 2010s, the heat in my condo barely worked and our self-managed association refused to acknowledge it because “nobody else [was] having problems with their heat.” I had all the windows plasticed up with heavy blankets literally nailed to the wall. I had to abandon the living room and bedroom entirely. I emptied the smallest room (12x10) and moved my mattress and desk in there…In addition to the playpen for my two rabbits that took up the rest of the free space.

    You might be wondering what that has to do with PAYDAY 2. Well…the game revved up my video card to max on the main menu so my PC became a supplementary heat source at night…

    Good times. Thanks, PAYDAY devs!

    ETA: In the spring, the guy who handled yardwork noticed the flowerbed was kind of sinking on one side of the building. That’s when they discovered a leak in the radiator line…small enough that 11 units didn’t notice but big enough for the water pressure to not reach the farthest unit from the boiler…the unit I owned…

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      The only game on my phone! Great game.

      Probably not nearly close to top hours though. I haven’t even beaten it once yet.

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      Great game, it and the original Pixel Dungeon were my most played phone games for years.

      Another high quality mobile experience I can’t recommend enough is Slice & Dice. Gameplay is quite different from Pixel Dungeon, but it’s basically replaced all other phone games for me. Been playing it almost continuously now for the past 3 years.

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    When I was a teen I played WoW from vanilla through Cata… Had over a full year of in game /played time on just my main.

    …and I made a lot of alts.

    100% full-blown addicted.

    Blizzard is actually the one example of enshittification that I can actually be thankful for - I didn’t really ever quit; they just stopped supplying my drug of choice. They definitely had the power to keep me enthralled, but instead shifted to a younger and younger target audience as I was ofc aging the opposite direction.

    The Kung-Fu-Panda xpac trailer was finally my cue to accept that my dealer wasn’t going to provide that fix anymore.

    Then I started making healthy life decisions discovered Ark >_<

    Edit - …Ark owned my life for a bit, too:

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    The Bethesda RPGs: Skyrim, Morrowind, Fallout series (although most of the hours probably into NV, which wasn’t actually Bethesda).

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      I have crazy high hours on Skyrim because I replayed it in French and Spanish. It is a very fun way to get the cheapest language immersion ever (though your vocabulary becomes a little, um, specialized)

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        Votre français est très bon, mais vous avez un accent étrange. D’où venez-vous ? (“Your French is very good, but you have an odd accent. Where are you from?”)

        “Skyrim.”

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    Minecraft, Factorio, Satisfactory and Dyson Sphere program have the most real playtime, but idle games have the top slots.

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    EverQuest was my jam back in the day. It ruined highschool for me. Nearly 5 straight years of farming and raids.

    I wouldn’t do anything different though. I met some awesome people that got me through the awkward years of high school when the internet was still somewhat new.

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    My list of multiple hundreds/thousands of hours include, in no particular order;

    • Minecraft (unknown, been playing since browser alpha demo)
    • Skyrim (600)
    • Rocket League (4000)
    • Fall Guys (1500)
    • Stardew Valley (unknown, play multiple saves a year on different platforms)
    • Vampire Survivors (400)
    • No Man’s Sky (1200)
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    the binding of isaac: rebirth. steam claims ~800 hours, but with the time I played offline, its probably closer to 1300-1400

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      I finally picked up Repentance after putting around 300 hours into Antibirth. I’m completely addicted again. Jacob & Esau is such a struggle for me

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        Repentance was such a huge expansion. And it’s getting updated again shortly!

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    Dota 2. I barely enjoy it, but it’s hard to find games that a friend group will agree to consistently play.