Probably Civ 3. I've been playing off and on for over 20 years. I've played hundreds of hours of several other games, but civ 3 has to be the peak
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League of Legends, and nothing comes close to my time spent on it
Trackable? Terraria at just over 1,350 hours plus another 147 in tmodloader since it moved to steam 7 Days to Die at 711 Binding of Isaac at 572
Untrackable? Probably Breath of Fire 2, Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, or maybe Secret of Mana I play a randomizer of one of them almost every night before I go to bed or when I'm bored.
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Don't worry, I haven't played in over a year now.
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Factorio! 2k hours :)
While not in 1000+ hours like others, but I have 700± hours in both Terraria and factorio.
Elite Dangerous at about 1300 hours. I do wonder if anything from the ps2 days beats that, with more time and fewer games, but I doubt it. Been playing for 6 years
- Guild Wars 2 with 5,004 hours since 2015 :)
- Guild Wars 1 with 2,507 hours since 2018 (yes, I started it after sequel; also spent a few weeks afk farming, so probably a few hundred hours less)
- Genshin with 2,248 hours since 2021
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.
Endless Sky looks cool. Definitely going to give it a try.
My two favorite open source games are Thrive and Cataclysm DDA
Thrive is an evolutionary survival game. Similar to Spore, you start as a single-cell microbe. You gather nutrients, evade dangers, and evolve adaptations. Eventually, you can progress to the multicellular stage, then macroscopic, etc. up to spacefaring. Currently everything after multicellular is placeholder, but the cellular gameplay is fun and has enough viable strategies to make replaying interesting. https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive
Cataclysm DDA is a zombie-survival rogue-like simulation game. You start as a single survivor and need to scavenge for food, shelter, and protection. If you like games that focus on system/simulation complexity over visuals (e.g. dwarf fortress) I'd recommend this one. For example, the vehicle system allows you to build custom vehicles, which can be anything from a dinky wooden bicycle to a monstrous RV-turned deathdozer+mobile base-on-wheels. https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA
Allow me to introduce you to BAR. (Also open source)
That looks really good and will scratch the ancient Starcraft itch. Thanks!
I've played it. It's much more like Total Annihilation and Supreme Commander.
God I miss the heyday of playing TA online.
Team Fortress 2
Same, i haven't touched it in 10 years but it's all my top played game from my college days. Poetically followed by Sims 4 but my hours are skewed since my spouse and i both play it on the same account.
I had about 700 hours played in high school, I picked the game back up ~2021 and am now up to 2,000 hours. Working from home helped with that alot, although I haven't played in 2 or so months.
Put a lot of hours into Paradox Interactive games
I'd have to check, and for the older ones I can't, but either something from Bethesda before they forgot how to make games (probably Morrowind, possibly Skyrim or New Vegas) or something from Paradox (either Crusader Kings 2 and 3 or Stellaris), followed by Cyberpunk 2077 (can't keep me away from Night City for long) or something else by either of the first ones. Or Excel; wasted a few thousand hours on that one too.
Stellaris.
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 😵
Diablo 2. No idea how many hours, easily over 3k for sure.
No other game I played come close to this amount, closest is probably 600 or 700 hours. I got so many 50-400 hours games.
Rimworld
Probably Warframe, followed by rimworld. i say probably, because I pirated rimworld because its so expensive with all the expansions, heh. Only got 200 hours logged on steam.
Actually, WoW might be #1 because I played it since I was a kid, theres no hour counter though so I have no idea. Haven't touched it since the blitzchung era tho, and its really hard to even guess
Guilty Gear Strive? I remember playing a lot of skyrim too. Anything past 2k hours kinda gets lumped together
Minecraft.
It doesn't keep track in general, but I've had multiple worlds go over 1000 hours individually.
Mine would also be Minecraft and probably the Creeper World series.
Both have been around for a while and are extremely relatable and have strong communities that keep them going and feeling new.
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).
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Elite: Dangerous
You can sink a ludicrous amount of time traversing a 1:1 scale galaxy even with FTL.
I'm on the Distant Worlds 3 expedition. I've been relying on the carrier shuttling to keep pace. I wanted to try flying myself form waypoint 12 to 13. Something like 8,000ly in a week. I'm still heading to my second POI along the way, 4kly from wp 12, 4kly to poi 2, and then it's another 4kly to wp 13. I've been going 7 days out of 10 available before they go to wp 14. They're all undiscovered systems so it's hard to convince myself to just honk and scan and leave without at least mapping bio signs... For science. And just like that, it became a family road trip "vacation"
I'm no noob, either. 1300 hours and several of prior 5-10kly exploration trips. 50ly jump range and the neeeeed to scan
I wish I had a total hours count for all the combined Pokemon games; I got Pokemon Blue when I was in middle school and spent just an unfathomable number of hours in it. I'm not sure if that, plus all the time I spent later in Gold, Sapphire, HeartGold, Black, Black 2, screwing around with romhacks, comes to more than my highest known amount of time logged in a video game, which is around 2,600 hours in Dota 2.
Rimworld
Elite Dangerous. Instead of paying attention to my uni classes I was hauling freight to Robigo and slamming people with a hull-maxxed federal dropship.
Sure, but that's cheating... you can finish most other games on a second computer during a trip to Hutton Orbital...
I got Hutton Orbitalled once.... Worst time ever.
Definitely Skyrim, across multiple editions and platforms. And I’m proud to say I never sank into the stealth-archer habit. Armored mage FTW muthafucka!
My favorite is my pugilist who believed magic was a hoax. There was something very satisfying about punching a dragon to death then while absorbing it's soul some random fuck in one of the Northern cities tried to fight me because i chose the dialog box that wasn't racism. Piledriver.
I have over 5000 hours on Skyrim, even though I've never finished the main story.
Does that include the time spent downloading mods and trying to avoid conflicts with wrye bash..?
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