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what videogame do you have the most hours in?

3y 9h ago by lemmy.one/u/Percy in asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Do you count AFK time?

If not, Factorio, with ~500 hours active time.

If so, Clicker Heroes, with 2900 hours, but only about 50 of those were not AFK.

Team fortress 2 for me

For me as well. Just under 5000 hrs. Played etf2l, met some great people, went to some lans. Great game.

Tf2 is up there for me as well! Funny thing is I only started getting good at it in the last year or so. And I’ve been playing since 2012 lol

It’s a toss-up between Richard Burns Rally and Dirt Rally 2. I’ve played a ton of DR2 over the years but since I started playing RBR in 2004 when it came out, it’s quite possible that all my return visits to it add up to more hours overall still…

Dude I love DR2, I play it with a wheel and pedals and a VR headset and it's... Intense to say the least

Have you tried the rally fans version of Richard burns Rally

Yeah! RBR RSF is what I just reinstalled after like a year off due to the death of my elderly Mac Pro tower that I had been using to run windows and play games on lol.

Easily:

  • Rocket League: > 1700 Hours. (Still ranked Diamond though, lol)
  • Team Fortress 2 / Left 4 Dead 1 & 2: sub-1000 hours, each.
  • Subspace/Continuum: over 1000 hours for sure, but nobody counted. Tried jumping back in the game just for fun, i'm back to square one "what's the button to attach?". I was a Trench Wars/Extreme Games pub guy.

EDIT: First post in a two years-old lurking account. Hello, world!

L4D2 and tf2 with a regular group is endless fun. I miss that era of valve games so much

Same here. Just under 1300 hours in Rocket League. Quit after the move to Epic. I'm sure the community is fine, but in my opinion it's on a downward trend now.

There was no real breaking changes since Epic bought Psyonix IMO. Although they quickly retired support for their native Linux and Mac builds after the buyout (that, i'm pissed about. still playing on a virtualized Windows machine with GPU passthrough, but I suspect this is on borrowed time before they ban that). But since then, game went free 2 play with only seasonal cosmetic items you can get. Core gameplay is still fun!

Was a lurker on Reddit, want to contribute more on Lemmy. This seems like a nice easy post to start.

My top 5 starting with most hours:

  1. Fallout 4 + FO4 VR
  2. Fallout NV
  3. Civ 5
  4. Rocket League
  5. Fallout 3

FWIW ... as someone who's gone from lurking to posting in a few places, and in fact in real life at times ... go for it! ... it's fun and makes the place more fun for you and everyone else!

yeah I can already see myself having a bit more fun with it, and it seems to be a little less toxic here. It is difficult finding existing communities to follow though

Wanna play RL? I am not good but I have thousands, just thousands of hours.

I don't really play that much anymore, really only when my brother is bugging me to play. Kind of got burned out on it when I used to play it too much

This is going to sound weird to the Lemmy crowd I'm sure, but Madden NFL 08 on the GameCube/Dolphin

My top three according to steam are:

  1. Stellaris with 1027 hours
  2. Rimworld with 716 hours
  3. Hunt: Showdown with 525 Hours

Although the game I've played the most over all my years and outside of steam is definitely Deus Ex. I've put a lot of time into it exploring the single player, playing the multiplayer, and messing around with mods since it came out in 2001. The same would go for Unreal Tournament 2004 which I easily had over a thousand hours in back in high school, before steam was a thing.

Great choices. Love Hunt and Rimworld and started Stellaris a short time ago. Love it so far!

  1. Dwarf fortress
  2. Nethack
  3. Factorio

No Man's Sky, easy

Did you start playing at launch or did you pick it up later?

Later, much later. Although I have seen it at launch and was already smitten, I didn't have the hardware for it for the longest time. Only started playing around 2021

aww man i wish i could run that game well, i tried running it when i first got my laptop and had dogshit fps unfortunately and my pc got pretty hot.. might give it another try

Mine still gets pretty hot

u remember how big the game is in size? i wonder if it even fits on my partition, kinda wana give it another try and tinker with the settings to see if i can get it working.

Well it's still procedurally generated, so it's bloody enormous. But I think it's gotten more resource hungry after the VFX updates

ouch.. u reckon i can find the 1.0 on tpb or smt? (oh wait shit i just remembered it had like a redemption arc which added alot of great things in an/some updates after release so that might not be optimal). man i been wanting to play this game for years, to think i finally got a laptop and still cant do it properly xD.. it is what it is ig

It's worth another shot now, they've optimized a bit since launch. It's really such a good game (after all updates) once you get past the initial grind and money becomes basically infinite.

Grah! Greetings, interloper!!

Eheu! Greetings, traveler-entity!

Team Fortress 2, with over 2100 hours logged. More back on the Xbox 360 copy and when it was free during the Mac Update.

Tf2 too for me. I played almost 5000 hrs. Not counting two side accounts I made for collecting halloween stuff/ playing incognito. Played some etf2l and went to some lans. Was a good time!

Fallout 4

Wish they would make F:NV in the F4 engine

There's a mod team that's kind of doing that, last I checked they were still active and had made significant progress, but with this kind of thing it's always a toss-up on whether or not it will ever actually be finished. Fallout 4 NV, Project_F4NV on Twitter

Yeahhhh I used to follow that but I think we’ll get Elder Scrolls 6 first tbh

Yeah I mean these huge mods/enthusiest re-writes always seem to end up stalling and dying, but this one seems to be one of the more promising ones I've heard of. Unpopular opinion but I much prefer the Fallout setting/universe to Elder Scrolls, idk why but the fantasy/magic genre has just never really been my jam

If we just talk about the last few years:

  • 0 A.D has been very fun, although I play offline because I'm casual af :) Has all the things I liked about Age of Empires and more, and I've been building from source so it gets improvements every week.
  • Xonotic has had an excellent community whenever I've gone online, so can recommend.
  • Mindustry is a blast

There is a soft spot in my heart for SuperTuxKart too, despite the current project leadership.

yoo i tried xonotic for the 1st time today, was absolutely epic. also tell me more about the supertuxkart situation?

Haha Xonotic is a blast to drop into, and the online community were great (partly because they want new players to stay ;), one even taught me how to properly use the grappling rope in CTF online mid-game. I'm more used to Call of Duty 'run-and-gun' gameplay than Halo or anything with more tactical movement, so someone experienced in this kind of game would have even more fun. It's worth pointing out that all the games I mentioned (and it's only partly coincidence) are Free and Open Source Software ("FOSS") which is community developed rather than commercially developed, similarly to Lemmy, Mastodon and others.

Alright here's a quick rant for you:

The SuperTuxKart situation is a bit annoying, in mid-2019, a large chunk of the core staff stood down or left, including the lead, the co-project leader for 10 years and the social media manager. Two new leaders were elected (Alayan and Benau), and in the next couple of years Alayan has apparently disappeared.

Benau is a good dev, but not a good people person. They often give trollish replies in the main chat room antagonizing people who are reasonably annoyed and then laughing at them, I've seen them call two different volunteers 'trolls' and alienate them, people who very obviously weren't malicious and did nothing but politely suggest actually useful and applicable improvements or contribute amateurish addons and ask why one wasn't approved. Add on top of that randomly posting Musk and Donald Trump reaction stickers constantly in regular conversation. And the icing on the cake is that they're too dismissive of suggestions to accommodate to artist who are less technically experienced. They'll accept merge requests if someone has volunteered and made those technical or documentation improvements ready to add, sure, but it's about a 0 on their priority list. And this isn't trivial, it's probably the critical important task: I've talked to an industry professional 3D artist and teacher who couldn't get the tools working and was unable to contribute after (allegedly, I don't know the details) not getting any help in the chat room. With the improvements later made by someone else to the tool setup process, this person probably would have made the major, much requested improvements they had set out to make (like the redesigned overworld map).

Now, look, Benau is a bit stressed handling more roles than they should have, and that probably doesn't help, but they're the lead decision maker for a lot of things and very active in the chat and feedback channel so they're important when it comes to people's impression and experience. It's toxic to behave like this in a room for a family-oriented game. I mean, it would be toxic for a FPS too, but I'd just expect better from this genre of game. And when you're a volunteer driven project, that can be enough to kill it. There's certainly lost potential when experienced artists leave.

goddamn that sucks, personally i dont play the game actively (it was one of my first linux games tho, was super impressed with how much it had to offer from being able to download cars and maps and like minimodes or whatever), i really hope projects like this find their way and keep growing cus itd be such a shame to watch it fall into obscurity due to poor handling. especially ones that have been around as much as stk. thx for the insight!

Minecraft, there are so very many modpacks out there and i have played a lot of them, not to mention multiplayer servers such as hypixel. Really quite a lot to do there. Probably the second game would be League of Legends. and in third place we have Garry's Mod, each of these games probably with 4000+ hrs each.

I can't remember 95% of what I did on EVE Online for the like 3 months I feverously played it, but it's sitting as my highest played game. Though I guess there was a lot of afk mining going on. For actually always active gameplay it's terraria. If I logged minecraft hours, it would probably be up there.

Shoutout to the oddball Graveyard Keeper being in my top 5. It's really not a game with enough content to play 200 hours, but I did it anyways. Finished my...5th? full ending + DLC run a few months ago.

Unreal tournament 99. Probably more than 10,000 hours. I used to play it so so much. Nothing else even comes close

That's 1 year and 52 days of pure playtime.

Or, if you play 3h/day, 9 years, 7 weeks

Yep, I play 3+ hours a day most days when I was really into it. Did that for close to 10 years. Then on and off for the next 10. So ya, it's somewhere in that ballpark

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Same for me.l, I've played since Alpha 1.1 and put likely thousands of hours in over the years. As for games where I actually have logged hours to look at on Steam, it's Space Engineers.

Enemy Engaged series, I had about 800 on one save game at one point, but I've had many new ones since then.

Quake 3 Arena, uncountable. Possibly thousands.

GTA Online on PS3 about 1000 I think.

Destiny... I dunno but a lot (I have platinum), possibly also over a 1000.

GTA IV, played it through about 10 times so possibly 300-500.

gta online mentioned #swag shoutout rockets and insurgents and weird ass fanmade stunt races

That's why I specifically mentioned PS3, that was pretty down to earth, no rocket-powered cars or stunt races.

Seems like it's TF2, but I haven't touched it in years. TF2, Garry's Mod, and Payday 2 were probably the only games I played for most of my pre-teen years, but nowadays I've been dipping my toes in a bunch of different stuff, even if it's not for very long. The one with the most recently would probably be Yakuza: Like a Dragon, by virtue of being crazy long.

Minecraft played it since I was a kid, too bad it never tracked any playtime, tracked CSGO 2k hours.

Fallout New Vegas for sure. On Steam I have 467 hours logged and I played probably another 150 hours on Xbox 360 back in the day. If it wasn't so hard getting Vortex working on Linux I'd be starting another 30+ hour save today.

After that is Project Zomboid with 460 hours but I feel that's less shocking in a sandbox game.

DotA 2. It's a prison you can never escape from.

Same, always go back to it. Think I’m close to 2k hours.

Steam claims it is Terraria with 118h, followed by Satisfactory with 78 and Tabletop Simulator with 66. But I've also sunk around 150 into Breath of the Wild on the Switch. And I have no idea about how many I got together playing WoW from 2004 until 2005 before I pulled the plug on it due to conflicts with my studies, but I'm pretty sure it's more than that 😬

They’re all games from when I was a kid and had more free time- so Garrys Mod, Half-Life 2 and Portal take the cake

Per Steam: 1138 hours in New World, which is surprising only because I thought No Man's Sky was going to crush it. Apparently not! Only 784 hours there, but since I've returned to it as my game of choice lately, there's room to grow.

[edit] oh man, I forgot Pokémon Go. I can't figure out how to get hours on there but probably a bunch.

Steam shows my most hours are in Planetside 2, I did play almost daily for a couple years with a good outfit.

Second most hours is Arma 3, tons of time spent there in single and multiplayer. Recently got back into it with the "JMs Of Order and Peace" Star Wars mod and the Dynamic Recon/Combat Ops missions.

Persona 5 for me, next is probably BOTW. I have nothing on you guys though. I seldom play any game over 150 hours. I get tired of it by 80 or so, so I'm doing everything I can to wrap it up shortly after that. I wish I didn't get so tired of a game. I'd save a lot of money if I enjoyed playing them longer.

Elite, by far. Though that was long a ago. Elite isn't the game it used to be. :(

It's Elite for me as well (though Skyrim is a close second). I'm thinking of taking a peek back in at some point, but it doesn't really have the same appeal anymore.

EU4 lol, and by far. At least that's among I have hour counters for. I'd guess I've played more Minecraft because I played that sooo much when I was younger and still sometimes do occasionally.

Crusader Kings 2/3 and Deep Rock Galactic!

#ck2 #ck3 #DeepRockGalactic

ADOM

did not expect to see ADOM here, but it makes sense. It's probably the oldest still maintained game mentioned here.

It's also super fun and its quirks make it an excellent choice for something you can sink your teeth into while you're in the hospital

Kerbal Space Program. 900+ hours and all I've done is land on the mun.

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Hard to tell since not a lot of them are tracked. But Steam says I have 1300 hours in Warframe, and 1100 hours in Final Fantasy XIV. Those numbers should probably be higher, since I've played both of those more on other clients. If I had to guess, I'd say Diablo 2, Quake 3, and EVE Online.

aw man finall fantasy tactics a2 on the nintendo ds, i have so many memories with this game, a relative of mine sold it to mom when i was a kid cus he grew out of it (the nds) and she gave it to me, found a bunch of fun stuff packed into the custom flashcart thing and tried all of them, the game at hand i had no idea how to play each time i tried it, until one time i tried a different approach and actually got past the first fight it put me into xD ended up spending weeks upon weeks playing it and it genuinely made my childhood.. until my lil brother deleted one of the files needed for the custom firmware thing. fast forward till present day, bought nintendo ds's like 2 yrs ago and i play it everynow and then :) can confidently say i got at least 1500, maybe 2000 hrs in it, each playthrough can vary from 60-200+

Currently Elden Ring. I suspect this will be replaced by Assetto Corsa Competitzione in the future.

Payday 2, CS:GO and probably LoL - played that a lot when I was younger.

probably Terraria and Mount&Blade

Probably CS:GO, but maybe TF2. I played a ton of TF2 in my college days both on Xbox 360 and PC. More recently (starting in about 2016 and continuing until this day) I play CS:GO pretty regularly. I was playing Overwatch from 2017-2022 as my main game but OW2 changes made me leave pretty quickly so I'm back to playing mostly CS:GO. Skyrim might be up there as well since I have played it a lot over the years.

  1. SMITE
  2. Guild Wars
  3. Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
  4. Overwatch

The original GW is such an awesome game!

It was. Our clan created a guild, and playing together was great too.

Have you actually looked at it / started it years later again though? Back then the graphics and stuff were great. And Nostalgia makes you think it still is. But… yeah, it's quite dated. :D

Wolfenstein is fantastic! The trickjump community is still relatively active too which is nice!

I played with weekly training and scrims which was a lot of fun. Being able to enjoy good and great teamplay in a class and objective based shooter is great.

We also did various events over the years which was a lot of fun. Like a rifle tournament.

The fast and skilled movement was great too. We had a trickjump server too.

Terarria - by far. Been playing it before it was even launched (leaked alpha) and it has by far the most play time per unit cost in my steam library.

NGU Idle...400 hours...I really like idle games haha

Counter Strike: Source, maybe even Minecraft with different Techpacks

Hast to be World of Warcraft + Classic. I don't have exact numbers but the last time I tallied it all up it was well beyond 2.5k hours.

iRacing and I don't want to know how many

  • Diablo II
  • Animal Crossing (Gamecube)--

Slay the Spire, over 1000 hours on steam plus more on Android.

Oh man that's a good call, I've got Slay the Spire and Stardew Valley on PC, Android, and Switch and have played a lot on all three platforms.

Have you checked out Downfall? Massive user made mod that's pretty much a second game.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1865780/Downfall__A_Slay_the_Spire_Fan_Expansion/

Garry's Mod, I'm just shy of 6k hours.

What do you usually play in there?

I haven’t played regularly in a while but I was deep into Half-Life 2 Roleplay.

I currently have 2500h in space engineers.

i don't want to think about the amount of time ive wasted on league of legends. it's doubtlessly over 5000 hours at this point

Something about mobas, always a new hero to try and every game is a new experience in some way. Perfect balance of strategy and execution for me.

Currently No Man's Sky, but in all time, probably Skyrim or Oblivion

16/16/16

Team Fortress 2, then Red Dead Redemption 2

Untraceable answer, probably World of Warcraft. Between playing TBC and WotLK on release, to revisiting during Legion, and then playing Classic and WotLK Classic I have probably sunk more hours than I would really like to know.

According to Steam my most played game is The Elder Scrolls Online which really surprised me, that's not what I would have guessed. Terraria is second, and that I could have guessed.

I have 5500 hours in a little indie game called Altitude. Very fun if you decide to give it a try, although multi-player is really dead if you don't know when people play

Oh I used to play that game quite a lot quite a few years ago

oh wow, didn't expect that. most people have no idea what it is :)

I lost the account that I played it on years ago and have no way of getting it back because no proof of purchasing stuff. I have 2 hours on my current account though

yeah, it's completely free so making a new acc is just easier. hope you had some fun with it.

For me it was Final Fantasy Tactics (PSone). 300+ hours. All my characters were Lvl 99 and Job level 8 in almost all jobs. I remember seeing the "character" bios and prince Orinas (he was 1 year at the game's begining) was around 15~16 years old.

@Percy According to Steam, it's #TF2

Eve Online but a lot of it just spent 'station spinning'.. Other than that Arma 3 and Dark Souls 3.

EVE Online... I have at least a thousand hours in that game. I haven't played in years, but no game since have satisfied the same depth of mechanics and unique community.

Probably Everquest 2, even though I haven't played it in years.

I got 12750 hours on my Old School RuneScape ironman, probably another 10000-15000 hours across all my other accounts the past 20 years :P then I have good 5000 hours on CSGO and 2500 in Final Fantasy 14 online.

In case you were wondering, 12,750 hours is 531 days. About a year and a half straight. If you played as a full time job 40 hours a week that is over 6 years.

Probably Minecraft

Warhammer: Total War 2.

The Witcher 3. It's probably the only game that I've played to completion more than twice.

For some reason, Saints Row: The Third with only 71.6 hours. But untracked, it's most likely Call of Duty Moderna Warfare 2 (the original)

Elden Ring, The Division 2, by far. Then probably Assassin's Creed Valhalla. I couldn't believe I sunk 165 hours into Elden Ring. *Edit - I forgot about GTAV. I've played it 3 times plus tons of side missions and random stuff, so that's probably up there at 300ish

Probably FFXIV even though I don't play it anymore. After that it's probably MHW

World of warcraft by a wide margin

Currently? None, don't have time; :(.

All-time? Starcraft. That wasn't a game to me. That was a philosophy of life back in the day when it was still all the rage in South Korea.

I'm super excited for immortal: gates of pyre

Seems to take all the good ideas from StarCraft and refine them.

Looks like I've got something new to look into. I never really stopped playing them as I've gotten older. They just quit making them like they used to. Times change, unfortunately.

Yeah, it's made by the modding community for sc2, and i'm super pumped, they really do listen to the community for suggestions and whatnot too, I just wish they were on matrix instead of discord.

Thanks a lot. I’ve never heard of them. I’ll be sure to check it out.

Oldschool runescape, after that probably a football manager game

CS:GO, followed quite closely KSP.

Although Super Monkey Ball 2 on GameCube I suspect handily beats either.... but I can't track it lmao.

About 1.5k hours in Apex Legends.

Portal 2. Minecraft a close second place.

Probably Minecraft, but can't track hours on that at this point. Tracked would be overwatch, over 500+ hours at this point

Probably Masters Of Orion 2, been playing it semi regularly since release in '96.

Second place would be the original xcom from '94, though I've played it less since the remakes came out.

Smash bros as a collective whole, nearly uncountable hours across each one.

For a single game maybe XCOM 2012? I played thousands of hours in that.

Something around 900+ hours in Stellaris. From playing as a Egalitarian/Xenophile United Nation of Earth, fighting in a federation for justice across the Galaxy to... A race of Xenophobic/Religious Sentient Plants that are enslaving every living being and turned the human species into livestock 😇

Probably Minecraft. I have no way of checking, but I've played a LOT of that, just randomly getting the itch over the years and spending a few day here and there I'm sure adds up.

Hollow Knight. There’s just so much to do for a $20 game. Especially if you’re trying to reach 112% completion rate. If you like Metroidvanias, I highly recommend it.

Sorry if this is a dumb question but how do you reach 112% completion of something? (haven't played hollow knight)

No that’s not a dumb question at all! It’s from the DLCs which is separate from the full 100% game. The DLCs add 12% more completion.

The free DLC they released added content. The added achievements, collectibles etc make up the extra 12%. Why they didn't re-scale everything back to 100% I don't know.

One of the Civ’s probably. Let’s say Civ 6

Definitely Dota2 with around 1350. Diablo2 might be close if you sum my hours from original and resurrected.

Just Cause 3. It's just wild fun action and I like tethering enemies to helicopters.

I only started a few months ago, but I'll soon be beating my records in the Elder Scrolls Online.

On PC I think it is World of Warcraft easily. Followed by the EA Sports Football Manager.

On console, it will be any Final Fantasy, followed by another one and yet one or two more.

Insurgency, about 200 hours. Not too impressive I'm sure.

Probably Heroes & Generals (rip). Probably 2000+ hours.

AOS 0.75/Openspades

Destiny 2, although I played for like a year total and stopped playing in 2020

Around 2100 hours in DayZ and I still suck at PvP. 😁

It's been years now since I last logged in, but Eve Online. Thousands upon thousands of hours warping between gates. Sometimes I miss it, but then I remember the times I would set the alarm clock to get me up in the middle of the night so that I could join in on Corp/Alliance ops and I'm like nope. I enjoy the healthy lifestyle I have now.

Silent Hill. I played it multiple times on the PS1, attempting to get all the endings, continued to play it on PS2 and at least once or twice a year since. I play it on my PS Vita, my laptop or my phone these days. I sometimes have all 3 going at different stages of the game. Something just calls me back to Silent Hill...

I easily have thousands of hours in call of duty 1 for PC. I played scrims a lot through mIRC. My xfire profile tracked most of that, although that doesn't exist anymore. Runner up would probably be Guild Wars 1 with a few thousand hours. Life before responsibilities was a wild time

Kerbal space program for me, think I managed to play 18 hours in a single day once. Been a while since I last played it tho

Age of Empires 2. Played it all the time with friends when Covid started.

Realistically, Civ 5. But Civ 6 isn't that far behind.

Skyrim. There is a distinct lack of Skyrim in here. I find this odd...

I was expecting Skyrim to be one of the top!

Elder Scrolls Online.

Understandably not everyone's favorite game. But unlike most MMO's I've played, the game has a fun (enough) game play loop, with the best dungeons I've ever seen. Creative, dynamic bosses.

Oxygen Not Included or Crash Bandicoot 2 back when I had a PS1.

WoW by a long shot. I’m guessing around 10k hours in total. I’ve mostly quit by now due to time constraints, but I recognize that when I do play, I neglect lots of other things.

Steam tells me 4 games over 1000 hours. I had 6136 hours in Crusader Kings 2 when I stopped playing in 2020. 1018 in CK3 but I don't play it anymore either. 1132 hours in Project Zomboid. 1210 hours in SCUM. Back in the day I put in a stupid amount of hours in Everquest and WoW though.

I'm terrible at project zomboid. I've been meaning to play it with my friends but they just don't get on anymore

I'm terrible too lol I only play on PVE servers. Big update 42 is coming down the pipe soon(ish), might be a good time for you all to pick it back up.

I have over 1.1 thousand hours in Portal 2

Speed runner?

Nah, I just like playing the quality community test chambers over the years