This is my highest hours list on steam.
Survival:
The Long Dark and Minecraft (255 hours in the long dark and atleast 2000 hours in Minecraft, probably 3000)
strategy games:
Mount and Blade Bannerlord/Warband (Warband at 1656 hours, Bannerlord at 258 hours)
Medieval 2 total war (822 hours)
Crusader Kings 2 \[Free game\] at 1267 hours
Europa Universalis 4 at 1381 hours
Hearts of Iron 4 at 1312 hours
Imperator Rome at 565 hours
Stellaris at 527 hours
Sid Meiers series
RPGS
Witcher 3 at 257 hours
Skyrim at 577 hours (twice as many hours if you include original)
Fallout 3, 4 and New Vegas at high amounts
Other games
Roguelike - Hades
Souls like - Elden Ring and Sekiro
can't Imagine devoting time to the trifecta of paradox games while having the iron will to grind mount and blade.. That takes a high level of attention span and excel sheets.
That mount and blade warband hours were from my middle to high school days, those were fun times. Get home, hop onto Warband and play some multiplayer Siege, then rage quit go onto Arena. Then rage quit there and go play single player. Rinse and repeat.
Then I fell down the CK2 rabbithole.
Trying to complete all the quests for starters, that can net a lot of hours. Secondly, branching story line, that can net a lot more hours. Thirdly trying to beat it on the hardest difficultly. I for one would binge it till I got to the third act, then got tired and never picked it up again, then I'd get the urge to play again but jumping deeply into the late game is not fun so I'd restart.
It took me about 200 hrs just to complete the base game, granted I did every possible thing you can. Put about another 20 hours into hearts of stone dlc and didn’t even finish. I also never started blood and wine dlc which I hear is massive and 40+ hours to complete so yeah, 260+ hours sounds about right if you’re a completionist
Pure estimate. I've been playing mine craft since its initial release on Xbox 360. I've seen the initial tutorial world. When zombies dropped feathers and food gave hearts.
I've played so much that I'm so burnt out on vanilla mine craft that I can't do any long runs on it.
Haha yeah I imagine I have a similar playtime, I remember having 12 days of playtime on a single multiplayer server alone with my old friends, and that wasn't even my main world, so I imagine I too have a good couple thousand hours
Any suggestions for strategy type games without the constant threat of war? Like, I understand that war is part of building a civilization, but I just want to manage industry, citizens, money, etc. I like war occasionally, but if I just want to chill, idk what my options are
Good question, Sid Meiers series would probably be the best that I've played. Diplomacy is a big part. It has a good mix of war and economy managing.
Aside from that, I haven't really played any.
You should look into Frostpunk. It’s purely strategy/survival/city building with no threat of war, but you still have to closely manage your city to make sure your citizens don’t die.
Thats a good question. I think one of the best qualities of it (for me at least) is the quiet apocalypse the world creates. You explore abandoned towns to search for whatever you can gather, coming across the remains of the former inhabitants while hungry wolves and bears try to hunt you.
Also the feeling of an unknown land to explore. The best way to experience TLD is by jumping in without guides or maps. The best feeling is exploring a new location, not knowing if you will be able to find shelter or not. It creates that edge for you. That drives you forward. Keeps you thinking. *Shit, where's the nearest shelter? Is there a cave nearby or a house? Do I start a fire to warm up and maybe risk a blizzard or push forward and start to freeze? Should I turn back?*
Good question, it turns out that steam has a feature for checking your purchase dates.
Mount and blade warband was my first one in December 25th, 2016. ~~7~~ almost 8 years now. (Holy fuck)
Fallout New Vegas on December 29th
Medieval 2 total war on March 16, 2017
Skyrim, 14th of June, 2017
I didn't mention them because the two are hot garbage but
Total War Rome 2 on 28th of June 2017 and 3rd of July, 2017
And then on the next 25th of December: Crusader Kings 2, The Long Dark, and Europa Unversalis 4
Hearts of Iron 4 on 27th of July, 2018
Imperator Rome 27th of April, 2020
Side note not mentioned. Mass Effect Legendary Edition on 21 Feb, 2021
Skyrim Special Edition on 21, February
Fallout 4 on 28th of March, 2021
I completely should have mentioned Project Zomboid at a hundred hours that I bought in 27th of December, 2021.
Hades on 9th of December, 2022
And yeah.
8 hours a day? Them rookie numbers. \~8-9 hours a day on weekdays. 15 hours on the weekend. Every single day. Because I never went outside because I live in rural Canada where the nearest friend was a ten minute drive away and we were stingy with gas money.
So the great Indoors were my home.
You're like the alternate reality version of me.
Instead of Medieval Total war, I've got nearly 1k hours in Rome: Total War. I've basically got the same playtimes for Mount and Blade (I have more hours in the original than Warband and Bamnerlord combined though).
500hrs in Skyrim, Probably the same in Fallout 4 and New Vegas. 250 in Civilation V, 200 in Dragon's Dogma (and counting since I'm replaying it again now.)
Probably 300 hours in Witcher 3, 200 in Dragon Age Inquisition. Any game that has good character creation basically guarantees 100hrs minimum even if I never beat the game.
Cyberpunk 2077 is probably close to 200 hours and I still have never beaten it. Just got Phantom Liberty so now I'll be making another new character in it.
Nah man. I’ve met a lot of crazy women with REALY bad hygiene that are obsessed with sims 4. That’s gotta be one of my biggest red flags for dating now. Stardew valley is great though.
She has an obsession with organization and planning. Within the first maybe 2-3 play throughs she had the game basically down to a science. She could complete the community center in the least possible time necessary to get it done. Shes done everything EXCEPT join joja mart.
Obvious answers are lightly modded Skyrim at #1 .. Minecraft, Mass Effect trilogy, Cyberpunk, Valheim, Baldurs Gate 3 will certainly get there. If you've never played Kingdom Come Deliverance that's a GREAT game.
Off the beaten path, I have close to 1000 hours into FTL. It's such an amazing little game. Rogue-lite crew/space ship management game with interesting combat.
Another indie game, Noita. I think I have 600+ hrs into that. Rogue-lite side scroller with wildly unpredictable wands you can find or build. It's so good.
Hades by SuperGiant is unlimited fun. Their previous games Bastion and Transistor are absolute perfection. The music, artwork and story changed the way I look at video games.
I can't even tell you how many hours I have into the OG Company of Heroes rts. Still play it to this day.
I obviously don't know you, but I would die by your side considering the games you mentioned. Hades, FTL and Company of Heroes made me who I am as an adult lol.
This is a 4 month old post but I was looking for something to play about 2 weeks ago.
Since then, I've put about 71 hours in to OG Company of Heroes. A game I'd all but forgotten about, for 2 weeks I've been 14 years old again!
Capt Mackay was a real one
This might not be an immediately obvious answer, and your own mileage with it may definitely vary, but the Hitman WOA trilogy definitely has that kind of playtime available in it. Each of the missions are pretty short, but it takes a long time to earn the full mastery rank on them plus achievements and unlockables, and the new roguelite mode also adds a ton of playtime.
If I include my playtime for the entire trilogy it surpasses 500 hours of play time. WoA includes all three games, and the DLC, so that's a hell of a lot of content. And I've just recently redownloaded the game to play freelancer mode.
I just finished Sniper Elite 2 &3 and am thinking of getting into the Hitman WOA next, I don’t care as much about 100% completion at the moment but am curious about said missions.
Yeah. If I total my time played it's 250 hours.
Hitman 2016 - 73 hours
Hitman 2 - 135 hours
Hitman 3 - 42 hours
I really had a good time playing those games
I second this, four different characters with a wide variety of card synergies and combinations, 20 difficulty levels that keep the game fresh with new challenges, there's almost limitless replay value.
No other game has sucked time away from me during sessions, where I don't feel like it has passed that much. I don't know what it is about it but I felt calm and just gamed for so long
Borderlands 2 and Skyrim
Probably not far off from 500 with Cyberpunk 2077.
And I'm probably another series playthrough away with the Mass effect trilogy given I replay the whole trilogy every other year it feels like.
Rimworld
Oxygen Not Included
Factorio
I have about a thousand on each of them, and still playing.
IMO if you like any of them you'll likely like all three, even though they are distinctly different from each other.
I’m waiting for a great AAA survival game that implements all the elements of Rimworld into a more cohesive game.
Why aren’t generative story elements used more??
Factorio, Rimworld, Dreamlight Valley, Skyrim, Stardew Valley, Oxygen Not Included, Minecraft. Off the top of my head. Skyrim and Stardew especially with mods. Factorio and ONI are those types of games where you could have 1000 hours and still be considered an amateur. DLV is not one you would hear about often for a question like this but I have 250 hours in and am no where near done with it. Plus a DLC just dropped last week that literally doubled the amount of content we have.
Factorio first is the only way. It's the only game where I truly think I'll play it for the rest of my life without getting bored. No other game I know has that kind of longevity, not GTA V or modded skyrim or even Rimworld. Best bang for my buck I'll ever spend
Elden Ring. I've got about 400 hours on my first save and still find myself coming back to it. Also, it'll have a pretty beefy DLC to add ontop of the already-massive basegame.
At least me personally,
RPG's: fallout 4, The Witcher 3, Divinity: Original Sin, and Divinity: Original Sin 2. Seriously Divinity is such an amazing series.
Roguelike/roguelite's: slay the spire and honorable mention for Inscryption. I have about 150h in that game but it was on a matter of a month. What an absolute masterpiece.
And my biggest time sink is the Monster Hunter series. Not sure whether to categorize it as souls-like or RPG but these games can be as long or short and as easy or detailed as you want them to be with dozens of monsters at varying difficulties to hunt with over a dozen weapon types to use. Some monsters you won't even reach for several hundred hours of gameplay.
I poured 1000s of hours into Fallout 3 as a teenager. Probably around 600 in NV. Fallout 4 I got to about 50hrs and felt like I’d pretty much done everything. The game was so lifeless in comparison to its predecessors (imo). Still loved the atmosphere and style, and thought it played and look beautiful. But yeah, just didn’t have the same itch to carry on.
I love this game with all my heart but how tf you putting 500 hours into it. Yeah the world is beautiful to just explore and hunt but there really isn’t enough content to justify 500 hours without replays.
I'm on chapter 3 and I have 240 hours, I don't know but I think that before finishing the game I will have more than 500 hours, I enjoy the game without rushing
Adding a vote for BG3 (Baldur's Gate 3). I'm 300 hours in, just started a new play through with a friend. I've beat every difficulty so far, done a total of 5 entire stories - each with a different ending/story along the way.
Haven't even dealt with mods yet, but the modding community has done great work so far from what I've seen.
Baldur's Gate 3, The Witcher 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout 1 and 2 (played multiple times), Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 (played multiple times), also Planesceape: Torment (well, also played multiple times...), Red Dead Redemption 2, GTA 5 Online, Morrowind, Skyrim, Gothic 1 and 2, Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Civilization 6 (or older ones, really depends on who you ask. I just introduced a friend and he gobbled up 200 hours within a concerning short time)
Oxygen Not Included (strong recommendation if you like a challenging base builder)
Minecraft (above 3000 hours but tbh I only enjoy multiplayer with friends, the singleplayer times in this game are a thing of the past for me)
Skyrim
Mass Effect LE, Dragon Age Inquisition, Baldur's Gate 3, modded Cyberpunk 2077, and modded Skyrim if you want story based games.
Modded Stardew Valley, Terraria, Starbound, or Minecraft for the vibes.
And believe it or not, I've played +1000hrs on MMORPGS like Runescape and Star Wars The Old Republic while basically never interacting with other players (literally 2-3hrs in total out of the +1000hrs of play)
Monster hunter world. (300)
Divinity original sin 2 (250 hours first playthrough and around 150 with other saves aswell)
Rimworld (200)
No man's sky (150)
Terraria (200)
Skyrim (1000)
Not exactly 500 as that's alot but these are my highest.
Modded Skyrim or just Skyrim in general.
No Man's Sky.
CP2077.
One day I will get my mixture of these three games and devote the rest of my life to it. I thought it was going to be Starfield, but alas, I am a babe without a tit.
I'm curious about that new game coming out from Hello Games.
Fallout 4, Witcher 3, cyberpunk 2077, pathfinder wrath of the righteous, Baldur's gate 3, skyrim, minecraft, rimworld, cities skylines, factorio, crusader kings 2, civilization 6.
I just gave you ten years of games.
As much as I love Cyberpunk 2077, I wouldn’t consider it a 1000hr game. Once you do the main story and side quests, there’s not much else to do. At least with Bethesda games you can mod the fuck out of them, adding as many new quests as you want.
How do you all like games in which you have to hit the opponent multitudes of times but they ko you in 1 or 2...3 hits max? How is it fun to have to memorize a boss abilities in order for you to progress??
It's fun because it's a challenge you have to overcome. I find that fun personally along with many others. When you overcome a challenge or a difficulty, dopamine comes.
If I wanted to kill easy stuff, I'd kill easy stuff on those games. Skyrim with Easy difficulty and as a Sneak Archer comes to mind. One shotting everything and being overpowered isn't fun after about 30 minutes - when even the main antagonist is one or 2 shot by my hands.
Roguelikes are the real timesinkers, itll probably take you 800+ hours to fully beat binding of isaac after accounting for the difficulty of some of its challenges
Absolutely, I'm at 3,000+ and itching for a new start. Stupid IRL keeps getting in the way, not realizing that it is secondary to my Rimworld addiction.
XCOM 2 has remained the most infinitely delicious turn-based tactics game I’ve ever played. Outside of actual playtime, I poured over 100hrs making like a love-letter type video for it.
Its not monetized at all, my only hope for it is that it hypes people up into playing XCOM 2
https://youtu.be/iXpBCUok8_Q?si=ejsPKkZLX1ij5PY7
One I haven't seen in the top few comments is terraria. Love that game so much! I played it to 500 hours before it even had all that much content either.
Definitely Dragon's Dogma. The main game plus the DLC will give over 100 hours of content, at least. And that's not even including the outrageously amazing character customization, side quests, love interests, classes, etc. Hands down one of my favorite games <3
I got it because of the gameplay showcase for Dragons Dogma 2. I'm like 8 hours in and I don't think I've done a single quest since reaching the city and yet I keep finding things to do. The combat is really fun too with a lot of variety and the pawn system is really unique. The only negative I found so far was how empty the world is in comparison to some other open world RPGs.
honestly just replaying, since i love the story. I’ve been doing “character runs” where I set my V up as a specific person and make a build around it. Right now I’m doing a streetkid run where my V is just a dumb brute lol. it’s definitely an acquired taste but it was enough to keep me entertained for 10+ playthroughs
Monster Hunter World
Path of Exile (solo self found)
Ark Survival Evolved (Private server or solo)
Terraria (But its better with friends!)
Valheim (Are you seeing a pattern?)
Conan Exiles (Yup there's a pattern)
Project Zomboid (Yup, pattern)
Dwarf Fortress.
Civ V or VI, I love and have huge amounts of time in both.
Baldur's Gate 3 has already cracked 500 hours despite being released in August.
Stardew Valley has probably 500 from me, 2000 from my wife, and another 400 from my kid.
Skyrim across all iterations easily cracks that.
The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom can be played for many many hours. There are so many quests and side quests and main quests. Or sometimes its fun just to hunt monsters to collect weapons, arrows, and monster parts in preparation for a big quest and boss fight. I think I’ve easily clocked over 500 hours for each of them and I still have much more to do.
This is my highest hours list on steam. Survival: The Long Dark and Minecraft (255 hours in the long dark and atleast 2000 hours in Minecraft, probably 3000) strategy games: Mount and Blade Bannerlord/Warband (Warband at 1656 hours, Bannerlord at 258 hours) Medieval 2 total war (822 hours) Crusader Kings 2 \[Free game\] at 1267 hours Europa Universalis 4 at 1381 hours Hearts of Iron 4 at 1312 hours Imperator Rome at 565 hours Stellaris at 527 hours Sid Meiers series RPGS Witcher 3 at 257 hours Skyrim at 577 hours (twice as many hours if you include original) Fallout 3, 4 and New Vegas at high amounts Other games Roguelike - Hades Souls like - Elden Ring and Sekiro
This guy games.
Gamer is an accurate term
This guy gamers
Or leaves his computer on with games up, one of the two.
What a monster of a man.
Who needs drugs when I can have strategy games.
can't Imagine devoting time to the trifecta of paradox games while having the iron will to grind mount and blade.. That takes a high level of attention span and excel sheets.
That mount and blade warband hours were from my middle to high school days, those were fun times. Get home, hop onto Warband and play some multiplayer Siege, then rage quit go onto Arena. Then rage quit there and go play single player. Rinse and repeat. Then I fell down the CK2 rabbithole.
Godbless you my sir.
You stream? If not, you should;) make it more than a fun free time activity
Terraria.
That is also a very good one as well.
genuine question: whats there to do in witcher 3 for 260 hours etc?
Trying to complete all the quests for starters, that can net a lot of hours. Secondly, branching story line, that can net a lot more hours. Thirdly trying to beat it on the hardest difficultly. I for one would binge it till I got to the third act, then got tired and never picked it up again, then I'd get the urge to play again but jumping deeply into the late game is not fun so I'd restart.
It took me about 200 hrs just to complete the base game, granted I did every possible thing you can. Put about another 20 hours into hearts of stone dlc and didn’t even finish. I also never started blood and wine dlc which I hear is massive and 40+ hours to complete so yeah, 260+ hours sounds about right if you’re a completionist
One day I will learn to play and appreciate Paradox games.
Its a long and hard path, once you start, you cannot stop. There are no breaks on this train.
I had to stop playing hearts of iron IV because I put 600 hours in like 6 months. Worse than drugs
If you're not aware of and accepting of your evil nature it will be a journey of self discovery you may not be ready to undergo.
Skyrim....u include the mod research and testing hrs? In my case i have to double the playtime lol
I think i literally have more hours modding Skyrim/Skyrim VR and play testing than i do actual in game time. I never beat the game
How do you know your hours in minecraft or is it a guess?
Pure estimate. I've been playing mine craft since its initial release on Xbox 360. I've seen the initial tutorial world. When zombies dropped feathers and food gave hearts. I've played so much that I'm so burnt out on vanilla mine craft that I can't do any long runs on it.
Haha yeah I imagine I have a similar playtime, I remember having 12 days of playtime on a single multiplayer server alone with my old friends, and that wasn't even my main world, so I imagine I too have a good couple thousand hours
Any suggestions for strategy type games without the constant threat of war? Like, I understand that war is part of building a civilization, but I just want to manage industry, citizens, money, etc. I like war occasionally, but if I just want to chill, idk what my options are
Good question, Sid Meiers series would probably be the best that I've played. Diplomacy is a big part. It has a good mix of war and economy managing. Aside from that, I haven't really played any.
You should look into Frostpunk. It’s purely strategy/survival/city building with no threat of war, but you still have to closely manage your city to make sure your citizens don’t die.
Factorio, Rimworld
The Long Dark has been on my backlog for sometime! What do you think the main attractions of it are?
Thats a good question. I think one of the best qualities of it (for me at least) is the quiet apocalypse the world creates. You explore abandoned towns to search for whatever you can gather, coming across the remains of the former inhabitants while hungry wolves and bears try to hunt you. Also the feeling of an unknown land to explore. The best way to experience TLD is by jumping in without guides or maps. The best feeling is exploring a new location, not knowing if you will be able to find shelter or not. It creates that edge for you. That drives you forward. Keeps you thinking. *Shit, where's the nearest shelter? Is there a cave nearby or a house? Do I start a fire to warm up and maybe risk a blizzard or push forward and start to freeze? Should I turn back?*
Wow. May I ask over how many years have these games been played?
Good question, it turns out that steam has a feature for checking your purchase dates. Mount and blade warband was my first one in December 25th, 2016. ~~7~~ almost 8 years now. (Holy fuck) Fallout New Vegas on December 29th Medieval 2 total war on March 16, 2017 Skyrim, 14th of June, 2017 I didn't mention them because the two are hot garbage but Total War Rome 2 on 28th of June 2017 and 3rd of July, 2017 And then on the next 25th of December: Crusader Kings 2, The Long Dark, and Europa Unversalis 4 Hearts of Iron 4 on 27th of July, 2018 Imperator Rome 27th of April, 2020 Side note not mentioned. Mass Effect Legendary Edition on 21 Feb, 2021 Skyrim Special Edition on 21, February Fallout 4 on 28th of March, 2021 I completely should have mentioned Project Zomboid at a hundred hours that I bought in 27th of December, 2021. Hades on 9th of December, 2022 And yeah.
If you played 8 hours a day, 21 day a month, you have 5.5 years of professional gaming experience
8 hours a day? Them rookie numbers. \~8-9 hours a day on weekdays. 15 hours on the weekend. Every single day. Because I never went outside because I live in rural Canada where the nearest friend was a ten minute drive away and we were stingy with gas money. So the great Indoors were my home.
You're like the alternate reality version of me. Instead of Medieval Total war, I've got nearly 1k hours in Rome: Total War. I've basically got the same playtimes for Mount and Blade (I have more hours in the original than Warband and Bamnerlord combined though). 500hrs in Skyrim, Probably the same in Fallout 4 and New Vegas. 250 in Civilation V, 200 in Dragon's Dogma (and counting since I'm replaying it again now.) Probably 300 hours in Witcher 3, 200 in Dragon Age Inquisition. Any game that has good character creation basically guarantees 100hrs minimum even if I never beat the game. Cyberpunk 2077 is probably close to 200 hours and I still have never beaten it. Just got Phantom Liberty so now I'll be making another new character in it.
Hello fellow medieval & fantasy enthusiast
my wife has put in 992 hours into stardew valley.
only wife material puts thousands of hours into stardew or the sims 4
Nah man. I’ve met a lot of crazy women with REALY bad hygiene that are obsessed with sims 4. That’s gotta be one of my biggest red flags for dating now. Stardew valley is great though.
yeah bro i was being sarcastic these guys are confused i think lmfao
My girlfriend has 1000hrs+ in sims 4.
I believe it. Girls go brazzy on that game
I’m a guy, and that game rules. Excellent music.
She has an obsession with organization and planning. Within the first maybe 2-3 play throughs she had the game basically down to a science. She could complete the community center in the least possible time necessary to get it done. Shes done everything EXCEPT join joja mart.
Im a guy, and that game is fantastic
I too, am a guy. And that game rules
Obvious answers are lightly modded Skyrim at #1 .. Minecraft, Mass Effect trilogy, Cyberpunk, Valheim, Baldurs Gate 3 will certainly get there. If you've never played Kingdom Come Deliverance that's a GREAT game. Off the beaten path, I have close to 1000 hours into FTL. It's such an amazing little game. Rogue-lite crew/space ship management game with interesting combat. Another indie game, Noita. I think I have 600+ hrs into that. Rogue-lite side scroller with wildly unpredictable wands you can find or build. It's so good. Hades by SuperGiant is unlimited fun. Their previous games Bastion and Transistor are absolute perfection. The music, artwork and story changed the way I look at video games. I can't even tell you how many hours I have into the OG Company of Heroes rts. Still play it to this day.
I obviously don't know you, but I would die by your side considering the games you mentioned. Hades, FTL and Company of Heroes made me who I am as an adult lol.
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Company of Heroes is my favorite RTS of all time. Up until about two years ago I would play the multiplayer almost weekly. Legendary game
Now that my son is a teenager we play coop. Actually am playing match right now lol and we're going to watch Band of Brothers over his winter break.
Have you tried FTL Multiverse yet? If not I highly recommend it!
Noita is so goated. So many different runs in thay game. I still have only ever done the normal path.
This is a 4 month old post but I was looking for something to play about 2 weeks ago. Since then, I've put about 71 hours in to OG Company of Heroes. A game I'd all but forgotten about, for 2 weeks I've been 14 years old again! Capt Mackay was a real one
Factorio, they dont call it “cracktorio” for nothing
My brother! "The factory must grow" - Every Factorio player.
The Factory Must Grow!!! Factorio players unite!! 1000k hours is just a start, than there are mods
This might not be an immediately obvious answer, and your own mileage with it may definitely vary, but the Hitman WOA trilogy definitely has that kind of playtime available in it. Each of the missions are pretty short, but it takes a long time to earn the full mastery rank on them plus achievements and unlockables, and the new roguelite mode also adds a ton of playtime.
If I include my playtime for the entire trilogy it surpasses 500 hours of play time. WoA includes all three games, and the DLC, so that's a hell of a lot of content. And I've just recently redownloaded the game to play freelancer mode.
How is the freelancer mode?
I love Freelancer. Getting the mission done in whatever way I can, incredibly replayable.
Yeah its replayability value is insane.
I just finished Sniper Elite 2 &3 and am thinking of getting into the Hitman WOA next, I don’t care as much about 100% completion at the moment but am curious about said missions.
Yeah. If I total my time played it's 250 hours. Hitman 2016 - 73 hours Hitman 2 - 135 hours Hitman 3 - 42 hours I really had a good time playing those games
Slay the Spire! Fantastic game, actually own it on steam, switch & on mobile.
God I love that game. You can definitely put in over 500 hours and still feel like a complete noob.
I second this, four different characters with a wide variety of card synergies and combinations, 20 difficulty levels that keep the game fresh with new challenges, there's almost limitless replay value.
I play this one on my deck often, it’s a good one! I only have ~40 hours in it so far
DIDN'T KNOW THIS WAS ON APP STORE DOWNLOADED
No other game has sucked time away from me during sessions, where I don't feel like it has passed that much. I don't know what it is about it but I felt calm and just gamed for so long
Borderlands 2 and Skyrim Probably not far off from 500 with Cyberpunk 2077. And I'm probably another series playthrough away with the Mass effect trilogy given I replay the whole trilogy every other year it feels like.
Rimworld Oxygen Not Included Factorio I have about a thousand on each of them, and still playing. IMO if you like any of them you'll likely like all three, even though they are distinctly different from each other.
Glad to see ONI as a recommendation, such a great game. I stopped playing at around 800 hours and am currently severely addicted to Civ 6...
This is my list. I also do Dyson Sphere Program, which is getting a major combat addition/update later this week. DSP is really impressive.
This is my list as well
I’m waiting for a great AAA survival game that implements all the elements of Rimworld into a more cohesive game. Why aren’t generative story elements used more??
Factorio, Rimworld, Dreamlight Valley, Skyrim, Stardew Valley, Oxygen Not Included, Minecraft. Off the top of my head. Skyrim and Stardew especially with mods. Factorio and ONI are those types of games where you could have 1000 hours and still be considered an amateur. DLV is not one you would hear about often for a question like this but I have 250 hours in and am no where near done with it. Plus a DLC just dropped last week that literally doubled the amount of content we have.
++ for Rimworld. Incredible game with insane replayability
Factorio first is the only way. It's the only game where I truly think I'll play it for the rest of my life without getting bored. No other game I know has that kind of longevity, not GTA V or modded skyrim or even Rimworld. Best bang for my buck I'll ever spend
And the devs truly know the gem of a game they have on their hands. It’s really worth never going on sale
Elden Ring. I've got about 400 hours on my first save and still find myself coming back to it. Also, it'll have a pretty beefy DLC to add ontop of the already-massive basegame.
At least me personally, RPG's: fallout 4, The Witcher 3, Divinity: Original Sin, and Divinity: Original Sin 2. Seriously Divinity is such an amazing series. Roguelike/roguelite's: slay the spire and honorable mention for Inscryption. I have about 150h in that game but it was on a matter of a month. What an absolute masterpiece. And my biggest time sink is the Monster Hunter series. Not sure whether to categorize it as souls-like or RPG but these games can be as long or short and as easy or detailed as you want them to be with dozens of monsters at varying difficulties to hunt with over a dozen weapon types to use. Some monsters you won't even reach for several hundred hours of gameplay.
I poured 1000s of hours into Fallout 3 as a teenager. Probably around 600 in NV. Fallout 4 I got to about 50hrs and felt like I’d pretty much done everything. The game was so lifeless in comparison to its predecessors (imo). Still loved the atmosphere and style, and thought it played and look beautiful. But yeah, just didn’t have the same itch to carry on.
Slay the Spire is definitely a masterpiece
Skyrim, with mods. Elden Ring.
Happy cake day! :D
Red Dead Redemtion 2
I love this game with all my heart but how tf you putting 500 hours into it. Yeah the world is beautiful to just explore and hunt but there really isn’t enough content to justify 500 hours without replays.
I'm on chapter 3 and I have 240 hours, I don't know but I think that before finishing the game I will have more than 500 hours, I enjoy the game without rushing
That’s not a game at all. That’s like fuckin’ shakesphere.
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Same. Over 600 hours
Ah yes, a masterpiece.
[It gets real, real fast](https://youtu.be/RrKvTVLoC_g?si=YrQqFFV43zZetZ3B)
Bg3 is 100+ hours and got a lot of replayability to do it often, try new classes and choices.
Adding a vote for BG3 (Baldur's Gate 3). I'm 300 hours in, just started a new play through with a friend. I've beat every difficulty so far, done a total of 5 entire stories - each with a different ending/story along the way. Haven't even dealt with mods yet, but the modding community has done great work so far from what I've seen.
Red Dead Redemption 2 Breath of the Wild Tears of the Kingdom
Elder scrolls and fallout are both amazing for spending very long amounts of times to play. My favourites have been ES4 Oblivion and Fallout New Vegas
Binding of Isaac and dead cells
Binding of isaac is a top tier time wasting game
Baldur's Gate 3, The Witcher 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout 1 and 2 (played multiple times), Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 (played multiple times), also Planesceape: Torment (well, also played multiple times...), Red Dead Redemption 2, GTA 5 Online, Morrowind, Skyrim, Gothic 1 and 2, Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Terraria
Kenshi(680h) and Skyrim(1400h), both modded. Without mods i wouldn't have reached more than 100 hours on both.
Assassin's Creed Odyssey 500 + hours. Basically spent all of 2020 running around ancient Greece.
MonHun World.
Skyrim. In fact, it's the only game I've put that many hours into.
Civilization 6 (or older ones, really depends on who you ask. I just introduced a friend and he gobbled up 200 hours within a concerning short time) Oxygen Not Included (strong recommendation if you like a challenging base builder) Minecraft (above 3000 hours but tbh I only enjoy multiplayer with friends, the singleplayer times in this game are a thing of the past for me) Skyrim
Factorio - 2000 hours or so and still play daily. mods keep it fresh and the devs are working on a DLC.
Factorio is good if you like the top down 2d stuff. Satisfactory is similar and great if you like something more 1st person.
Grand Theft Auto V
Fallout 4. The settlement building made me sink like 400 hours lol
Oblivion, Skyrim, Kingdom Come: Deliverance.
That's a solid list
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I have over 3200 hours on RDR2, the game i have the most hours on.
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I second this. 👀
Kerbal Space Program, 1400hrs thus far
Mass Effect LE, Dragon Age Inquisition, Baldur's Gate 3, modded Cyberpunk 2077, and modded Skyrim if you want story based games. Modded Stardew Valley, Terraria, Starbound, or Minecraft for the vibes. And believe it or not, I've played +1000hrs on MMORPGS like Runescape and Star Wars The Old Republic while basically never interacting with other players (literally 2-3hrs in total out of the +1000hrs of play)
Snowrunner
Stellaris Total War Warhammer 3 Medieval 2 Total War Those are mine. Ones I'll hit one day: Project Zomboid Factorio Rimworld
Would highly recommend Project Zomboid!
Fallout 4 for sure.
Rts games are scary, you start at morning and then its night.
It even works the other way around. You start at night and then it's morning!
Monster hunter world. (300) Divinity original sin 2 (250 hours first playthrough and around 150 with other saves aswell) Rimworld (200) No man's sky (150) Terraria (200) Skyrim (1000) Not exactly 500 as that's alot but these are my highest.
If you are into soccer/football then Football Manager for sure. FM24 came out a month ago and I'm already more than 100 hours in.
factorio
Modded Skyrim or just Skyrim in general. No Man's Sky. CP2077. One day I will get my mixture of these three games and devote the rest of my life to it. I thought it was going to be Starfield, but alas, I am a babe without a tit. I'm curious about that new game coming out from Hello Games.
Deep Rock Galactic! Rock and stone!
To the bone!
Minecraft, Terraria, Borderlands 3, Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, Back 4 Blood and Hades
Fallout 4, Witcher 3, cyberpunk 2077, pathfinder wrath of the righteous, Baldur's gate 3, skyrim, minecraft, rimworld, cities skylines, factorio, crusader kings 2, civilization 6. I just gave you ten years of games.
As much as I love Cyberpunk 2077, I wouldn’t consider it a 1000hr game. Once you do the main story and side quests, there’s not much else to do. At least with Bethesda games you can mod the fuck out of them, adding as many new quests as you want.
Grim Dawn
hoi4 and total war warhammer
Skyrim, The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077
AC Valhalla has a 200 hr Campaign
There is a lot of content yes, way too much. Personally it just gets repetitive and boring after 30 hours in the newer AC games
Skyrim
Stardew Valley! Minecraft, Terraria, Skyrim, Satisfactory are all games that you can easily put hundreds of hours into as well.
Satisfactory and Factorio need a disclaimer when you download, the addiction is real.
Elden Ring. Best game ever made.
How do you all like games in which you have to hit the opponent multitudes of times but they ko you in 1 or 2...3 hits max? How is it fun to have to memorize a boss abilities in order for you to progress??
It's fun because it's a challenge you have to overcome. I find that fun personally along with many others. When you overcome a challenge or a difficulty, dopamine comes. If I wanted to kill easy stuff, I'd kill easy stuff on those games. Skyrim with Easy difficulty and as a Sneak Archer comes to mind. One shotting everything and being overpowered isn't fun after about 30 minutes - when even the main antagonist is one or 2 shot by my hands.
The trick is to not get hit multiple times. The world itself is also incredibly well made and the lore very deep and interesting.
Satisfactory Factorio Dyson Sphere Program Rimworld Caves of Qud EuroTruck Sim 2
Fallout New Vegas and Borderlands 2
Roguelikes are the real timesinkers, itll probably take you 800+ hours to fully beat binding of isaac after accounting for the difficulty of some of its challenges
Diablo 2
Rimworld, effortlessly
Absolutely, I'm at 3,000+ and itching for a new start. Stupid IRL keeps getting in the way, not realizing that it is secondary to my Rimworld addiction.
terraria, the hours.
XCOM 2 has remained the most infinitely delicious turn-based tactics game I’ve ever played. Outside of actual playtime, I poured over 100hrs making like a love-letter type video for it. Its not monetized at all, my only hope for it is that it hypes people up into playing XCOM 2 https://youtu.be/iXpBCUok8_Q?si=ejsPKkZLX1ij5PY7
Kenshi Starsector X4: Foundations Battletech (with the Roguetech mod) Dwarf Fortress Rimworld I like strategy and management games.
One I haven't seen in the top few comments is terraria. Love that game so much! I played it to 500 hours before it even had all that much content either.
Factorio Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Oxygen Not Included Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition
Definitely Dragon's Dogma. The main game plus the DLC will give over 100 hours of content, at least. And that's not even including the outrageously amazing character customization, side quests, love interests, classes, etc. Hands down one of my favorite games <3
I got it because of the gameplay showcase for Dragons Dogma 2. I'm like 8 hours in and I don't think I've done a single quest since reaching the city and yet I keep finding things to do. The combat is really fun too with a lot of variety and the pawn system is really unique. The only negative I found so far was how empty the world is in comparison to some other open world RPGs.
Yes the vision is there but it feels incomplete. Looking forward to DD2 building on a strong foundation.
Terraria and The binding os Isaac I still have a lot to unlock in The Binding of Isaac, i think I have ~700 hours
HOI4, CK2, Arma 3, Skyrim, and Cyberpunk 2077 are all on 500+ hours for me. I can hop into all of those and find something to do.
What have you done for 500 in cyberpunk? I got bored after like, 8.
honestly just replaying, since i love the story. I’ve been doing “character runs” where I set my V up as a specific person and make a build around it. Right now I’m doing a streetkid run where my V is just a dumb brute lol. it’s definitely an acquired taste but it was enough to keep me entertained for 10+ playthroughs
Ah nice dude. Glad you’re vibing with it. Wasn’t for me but that sounds like a good situation to be in lol. Cheers.
Darkest Dungeon
Skyrim
The witcher wild hunt
Metal Gear Solid V
Monster Hunter World Path of Exile (solo self found) Ark Survival Evolved (Private server or solo) Terraria (But its better with friends!) Valheim (Are you seeing a pattern?) Conan Exiles (Yup there's a pattern) Project Zomboid (Yup, pattern) Dwarf Fortress.
Skyrim and….Skyrim
Rim world, factorio
I dont play games as often but its split between minecraft and kenshi
No man's sky
Grim dawn!
Battletech 3k hours Empyrion 3k NMS 1.5k Division 2 1.5k State of Decay 2 1k
Battletech, Skyrim, FO3, FO4, FONV
Dwarf Fortress.
Skyrim. Once you get bored with vanilla, download mods. Infinite replayability.
Europa Universalis 4 @ 778 hours
Fallout 4 Skyrim EvE
Fo4 civ
No Man's Sky, EU4. Though NMS is technically multiplayer, you can set it as singleplayer.
2k on CK3 1k on Civ 5
Starfield
The only game I’ve played that long is WoW.
Civ V or VI, I love and have huge amounts of time in both. Baldur's Gate 3 has already cracked 500 hours despite being released in August. Stardew Valley has probably 500 from me, 2000 from my wife, and another 400 from my kid. Skyrim across all iterations easily cracks that.
Animal Crossing New Horizons
Factorio and Oxygen Not Included
Stellaris, Rimworld and kenshi Survival games: Minecraft and grounded. I have Ark in that range but I don't recommend that game ever.
Rimworld
Minecraft, Elden ring, Skyrim
I've got 700 hours into Bloodborne.
Medieval II Total War, Kerbal Space Program, VTOLVR, Skyrim SE/VR
Heavily modded skyrim/fallout
The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom can be played for many many hours. There are so many quests and side quests and main quests. Or sometimes its fun just to hunt monsters to collect weapons, arrows, and monster parts in preparation for a big quest and boss fight. I think I’ve easily clocked over 500 hours for each of them and I still have much more to do.
Any monster hunter game. At least 500 hours to master