For me it was Terraria, Satisfactory, Tetris Effect Master Mode, Minecraft with Mekanism mod & CSGO / CS2 (almost 2000 hours in CS alone).
Edit: There are so many answers that I might only reply if I have something interesting to say. I will read all of your answers though. 🙂
Edit 2: It has become too much for me and I have to disable notifications. Thank you for the massive response and please continue to discuss with everyone here. ❤️ 🫡
Factorio. At my worst, I was seeing conveyor belt patterns in my sleep.
historically: gmod. recently: oxygen not included.
Oh shit, how could I forget gmod. Those were good times.
Over two thousand hours in ONI, so I feel ya…
Some hurdles are so hard to overcome, I tend to give up at one point.
Tetris Effect Master Mode
Have you tried Tetris The Grand Master 4? Came out a just a few months ago.
I’m sorry/you’re welcome.
Nope and I don’t know if that’s a good idea. I remember practicing double and triple tspins for hours and hours. 😅
They will record full replays automatically you can use to practice and there’s an “undo” button in some modes where you can trade time to fix a mistake.
One of usssssss
Oh god, oh no, please don’t do this to me.
Many in the past, but the most recent is Project Zomboid. That game would quickly take away decades of my life if I let it.
There’s many, even from your list. Recently Deadzone: Rogue.
Never heard of it, might have to check it out when I’m home at my PC again. 🙂
The worst for me was elder scrolls: oblivion. I played it on xbox back when it came out. I played nothing else for about 18 months. I must have had thousands of hours by the time it got old.
Morrowind for me.
Dammit I meant Morrowind! I’m getting old.
Minesweeper. I’ve had a period where I played it 3 hours a day. Eventually forced myself to delete it from my phone.
Souls games.
I played Elden Ring a lot and loved it.
I started a little after Dark Souls 2 came out, pushed by a friend. Liked it after a while, it took a bit to get used to it.
Then went DS1, loved it to bits. Used to sit by “hard” bosses, put sign down and help random players trough, usually for hours on end.
Went back to DS2 and did a lot of coop and PvP. Soul memory was a pain.
Was there at DS3 launch, same plan but started to do invasions too. Still my most loved of the souls games.
Between DS3 and ER, did demon’s souls, loved it too although I find it a bit janky.
By Elden Ring I was there at launch, doing both the game and coop/PvP. Did the DLC. Have not touched the latest game, Nightreign.
I kinda need a story, item descriptions, NPCs, lore, figure out stuff, etc. to enjoy a souls game.
I can understand Nightreign although it’s not for me.DS 2 is probably the worst game to start with 😅. Glad to hear you stuck with it and enjoyed most souls games. I have also not played nightreign and don’t really intend to.
Factorio. I blinked and a month went by the first time I played it. It ruins my sleep schedule like no other.
Absolutely love it
I can’t enjoy Factorio… It just feels like I’m at work. I don’t even think I’ve finished the tutorial levels yet.
After playing Satisfactory I thought I’d love factorio too, but somehow never really got into it.
I had the same experience, but the other way around. I started losing interest in Satisfactory after I found out the map was static.
Honestly, the good thing about that is that everything is hand crafted. So exploring is really rewarding IMO. A good example is an area where you find tons of power slugs.
I can appreciate that. Maybe I’ll revisit my spaghetti base one day and try to finish.
Maybe try again? I played satisfactory at first and thought factorio looked stupid, but having a roboport network for the first time felt soo goooooood
My friend was the same way, largely due Factorio being in 2D. He was able to get into Satisfactory due to it’s 3D nature.
Oh I don’t care about the graphics at all, as long as I know what I’m looking at. I should try again.
There is a reason we call it Cracktorio
Football Manager. A damn spreadsheet game 😭
I get it, I also spent tons of hours in these pointless incremental / number go up games. 😅
Minecraft, holy shit, I have a singleplayer, creative world that I spent hours every day building on for 8 years or so.
That map is gigantic, and I even saved it from a hard disk crash
Is that a vanilla world, or how have you gone that long without your world hitting lag death? I mod the fuck out of my worlds, so I generally don’t get more than 3-6mo before the game starts to become unplayable.
100% Vanilla world, no extra tools or mods
Have you kept it on the same version of vanilla MC for the last 8 years? Or do you upgrade to newer versions periodically?
When a new version came, I upgraded
Warframe. I have been clean for years now, but the itch never really goes away
Battle pass shit aside, I really like Apex Legends. Probably has some dark patterns but still I really like their gunfights.
i liked it for the same reasons but matchmaking is ass. i’m either playing against professionals or morons with no inbetween.
either that or the skill floor on that game is way too high for me to really enjoy it casually.
I kept getting just LASERED then I realized people playing with controllers get aimbot at medium or close range, and I’m using a keyboard and mouse like a pleb.
.
The hard part is the skill gap - it’s not like the pros are a little better than you and you can maybe eke out win. They absolutely dominate you.
I describe them as gusts of wind because they blow in so fast and aggressively we’re dead before we can react
If Apex could stop that experience from happening I’d honestly still play it
Once I played counter strike, all other shooter games died for me. I love the comparaison: “if valorant [or other FPS’] was a designer drug, counter strike would be uncut cocaine.”
The movement and gunplay is really fun. I dip in and out every so often.
Shattered Pixel Dungeon. Spent years on that one.
is Evan on Lemmy? he seems like a lemmy kinda dude
He operates /c/pixeldungeon@lemmy.world :D
I always played wizard 🧙 One of the few great open source games for android.
For me, the frequency of which character I played is probably huntress>wizard=assassin>warrior. But I kind of fell out of the loop when evan (the dev) introduced a whole new class 😅
Dark Souls 1 and Hollow Knight
Oh, I should add Pokemon Unite too, although I’m not very proud of that one…
I didn’t even know that game existed 😅 I guess everyone has their guilty pleasure games.
Saying Hollow Knights soundtrack slaps is a big understatement. Love that game. The song Dirtmouth gives me chills everytime.
Oh me too! The songs for Greenpath and Resting Grounds give me such a peace… and i can’t help myself but drop at least a tear every time I hear the Sealed Vessel theme, is just so beautifully tragic.
Christopher Larkin is a genius composer. I hear the first note of dirtmouth and instantly get goosebumps everywhere.
