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.
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.
Warframe. The grind sucked me in hard. Was a lot of fun too. I have accumulated 3300 hours.
Probably Morrowind at this point. Lately I've been doing a new modded save with Ashfall to give a new and ever-present twist to the core gameplay. Can't believe stuff like it still comes out for a game from 2002.
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.
- Dwarf fortress
- Nethack
- Factorio
I've got almost 700 hours in osu! but I'm pretty sure I'd have more hours in Super Smash Bros. Melee by now. Hard to say for sure since I can't effectively track it
I haven't played it in a year, but I do have 1928 hours in Europa Universalis IV.
Destiny 2, although I played for like a year total and stopped playing in 2020
I jump around games quite a lot and don't generally stick with one for tons of hours -- but I think Stardew Valley with over 200hrs is probably my highest. That game can definitely be addicting.
My top three according to steam are:
- Stellaris with 1027 hours
- Rimworld with 716 hours
- 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.
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.
I just hit the max (999 hours, 59 minutes) in yo-kai 3 for 3ds a few days ago.
This is going to sound weird to the Lemmy crowd I'm sure, but Madden NFL 08 on the GameCube/Dolphin
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.
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procrastination and Minecraft
Dota. Fuck that game! Other than that, WoW, Rust and Arma3/DayZ.
I have like 137 days in GTA Online and I’ve barely played it in like 2 years
GTAV if you count the time spent AFK grinding virtual cash... (1200hrs total)
Age of Empires 2 DE for most active time. (532hrs, plus an additional 216hrs with HD version)
The Binding of Isaac, roguelikes are inherently replayable and mods make it even moreso
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 😬
It will probably always be World of Warcraft. No time these days to match that on a single game, not by a long shot.
The Sims 4 by a quite substantial margin. It's not what I would call my favourite game. But it is one that I come back to again and again and again.
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.
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.
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.
Probably RuneScape, then followed by Counter Strike Source.
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.
Still a complete newbie with my 2900 hours in RimWorld.
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.
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.
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.
Probably Minecraft or LoL. But it has been a long time since I played them. Nowadays, I mainly just play indie roguelikes.
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.
I put in about 2000 matches worth of games in league of legends within about a year when i started playing it at 2014. but since about 2016 i only put in about 500 games at most, kinda quit playing it. Also put in at least like 3k+ hours into world of warcraft, and alot of time into minecraft and around 1k in FFXIV too
Persona 5, including Royal. Across PS3, PS4/5, and PC, I think my collective time spent playing the game is 1000+ hours. I have no life and need to touch grass.
WoW, LoL, and Kerbal. The only one I don't regret the time with is Kerbal lol
Doom, then Halo on xbox, now Minecraft on PC
4.2k and increasing in dota. Send help
It's probably only 500-1k hours, but Minecraft; on PC, Xbox, switch, android phone, iPad with Xbox controller, solo, modded , the main bulk on Nintendo switch with friends or internet strangers (getting new updates to the nether was really fun to explore but haven't played a whole heap recently) [ I was born in 1988]
500 hours in Hollow Knight thanks to the randomizer and other amazing mods.
Probably Minecraft, if you count modded instances of.
DayZ, so much fun to be had.
Stronghold Kingdoms with roughly 2000 hours. Though most of the time it is idling in the background.
Most active playtime probably League of Legends.
Weirdly, Battlefield 4. It was the only game I was very good at (top 1000 for skill), and since then the BF games have been less inspiring - also it seems as I get older there's less time I can commit to playing games.
Would be Minecraft for sure then GTA5 and speedrunners
Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer. For me still the best horde mode and lots of fun.
I'm a little shocked to not see Civ on here anywhere. Across IV, V, and VI I've probably got several thousand hours. Then I saw Minecraft down there somewhere and I was like yeah....probably that.
I mean it's not tracked, but I've tried and run through almost every major modpack since finding the Yogscast around 11-12 years ago now, and at least once a year gone back to it.
The Binding of Isaac. Its hard to tell exactly, but I have about 600 hours across the versions on steam. I also have a handful of hours on 3ds and a handful of hours on Switch.
Its just a game I can keep coming back to. Every time its something a little bit different. The skill ceiling is high. The moment to moment gameplay is great. I do wish it was a touch less scatalogical just so it would be an easier recommend to others.
The Sims 3 and it's not even close. Currently displays ~500 hours but I've had to reinstall a couple times, it's actually closer to 1500
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.
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.
Of all time, probably STALKER Call Of Pripyat.
The original STALKER game was a huge deal for me in gaming, and I played it until Call Of Pripyat came out and was improved in so many ways that I wanted. One of my earliest ever games was Fallout 1, and the STALKER games really captured the oppressive and bleak survival and horror elements from that game that I didn't really feel in Fallout 3 or FNV (I like those games, but they are very different vibes than Fallout 1). STALKER games are places where you really aren't special and the open world can be a truly scary place.
Crusader Kings 2/3 and Deep Rock Galactic!
#ck2 #ck3 #DeepRockGalactic
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.
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.
Currently Elden Ring. I suspect this will be replaced by Assetto Corsa Competitzione in the future.
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+
- Diablo II
- Animal Crossing (Gamecube)--
Payday 2, CS:GO and probably LoL - played that a lot when I was younger.
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.
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.
I currently have 2500h in space engineers.
Minecraft played it since I was a kid, too bad it never tracked any playtime, tracked CSGO 2k hours.
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
Team Fortress 2, then Red Dead Redemption 2
iRacing and I don't want to know how many
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.
Counter Strike: Source, maybe even Minecraft with different Techpacks
NGU Idle...400 hours...I really like idle games haha
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.
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.
probably Terraria and Mount&Blade
Kerbal Space Program. 900+ hours and all I've done is land on the mun.
Edit: Spelling
Oldschool runescape, after that probably a football manager game
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
In my old gamer life probably Mario Kart 64 in my new gamer life I restarted after working Endless Space 2 or Go/Baduk (if you some up all clients for that game)
World of warcraft by a wide margin
AOS 0.75/Openspades
Realistically, Civ 5. But Civ 6 isn't that far behind.
According to Steam it's Path of Exile (610 hours on Steam, probably 400 on standalone client Id reckon) followed by FFXIV (500 hours on Steam, probably 200 on standalone from ARR launch)
Overall it's probably Phantasy Star Online -- between GameCube, PSOv2 PC and Blue Burst I've probably lost 4000 hours.
Also Street Fighter IV but that's not trackable since my gameplay is split between multiple consoles, offlines at friend houses and time at locals and tournaments.
If I had to guess I've got probably 2,000 hours in SFIV.
Around 2100 hours in DayZ and I still suck at PvP. 😁
Just Cause 3. It's just wild fun action and I like tethering enemies to helicopters.
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...
League of Legends + TFT for me. I've played since season 3 for LoL and for TFT, I grinded so many games to hit challenger before I quit.
Definitely Dota2 with around 1350. Diablo2 might be close if you sum my hours from original and resurrected.
It's probably Minecraft even though it doesn't track the hours
I've played it since Minecraft pocket edition on my iPod 4 before the world generation was infinite lol. This was back in like 2011-2012 probably
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.
City of Heroes and FFXIV I'm sure Everquest is up there too, but I'm sitting at about 4000 hours on each of these. Guess I'm a sucker for a good MMO 🙃
One of the Civ’s probably. Let’s say Civ 6
Warhammer: Total War 2.
It's between the multiple Pokemon games, and Fortnite haha
The battlefields combined probably, well over 3000 hours at this point. If not combined then 1000+ hours in battlefield 4. The rest 2k hours divided between bf3, 1 and 5.
World of Warcraft (TBC, WotLK, Classic, Classic TBC) probably wins out by a large margin, followed by Dota 2.
Probably Eve Online. I don't play it anymore, but I sunk a ton of hours into those spreadsheets.
Now at least I get paid while working with spreadsheets.
Minecraft, and most tragically, several thousand hours in World of Tanks before I overcame my addiction.
Currently I don't have a PC so I'm not really able to play games but my highest playtime is in Portal 2. In my opinion, it is the best game ever made.
About 1.5k hours in Apex Legends.
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.
I only started a few months ago, but I'll soon be beating my records in the Elder Scrolls Online.
Probably Minecraft, but can't track hours on that at this point. Tracked would be overwatch, over 500+ hours at this point
Probably Everquest 2, even though I haven't played it in years.
1,900 hours in Terraria, Hella fun game. There is no way I could rack up a play time like that now though, being an adult sucks. Too much of my time is taken up by cooking, cleaning, working, ironing etc :(
Portal 2. Minecraft a close second place.
Insurgency, about 200 hours. Not too impressive I'm sure.
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
Individual games seem to top out at the 200 hour mark for me, with Monster Hunter world being followed by Elden Ring and 7 Days to Die.
Steam tells me it should be a little below 700 hours for Dark Souls 1/2/3 and Elden Ring combined, (with the uncounted hours on switch and others probably closer to 800 for the whole series)
But, I've easily got over 1000 hours in all Monster Hunter games across Wii, 3ds and PC.
I'm still hot garbage in each of these though^^
Probably Heroes & Generals (rip). Probably 2000+ hours.
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 😇
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.
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
Age of Empires 2. Played it all the time with friends when Covid started.
Oxygen Not Included or Crash Bandicoot 2 back when I had a PS1.
Mordhau. I'm still shit.
The Witcher 3. It's probably the only game that I've played to completion more than twice.
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.
Probably FFXIV even though I don't play it anymore. After that it's probably MHW
It definitely used to be world of Warcraft, but it might be rocket league now.
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)
