My top 3:

1. RimWorld

2. Skyrim

3. No Man’s Sky

If MMOs count, EVE Online at well over 12,000 hours over the last 20 years.

If not, nethack has probably consumed close to 1000 hours of my life.

Steam says Borderlands 2, but I must’ve accidently left it running or somethingbecause I definitely haven’t played it that much.

Next would be Sunless Seas and Frostpunk at around 200 hours which sounds about right.

Garry’s mod by a wide margin. I’ve been playing for more than 10 years and accrued around 2000 hrs

According to Steam I’ve spent 5121 hours on Fallout 4.

Guild Wars & Guild Wars 2

Probably Minecraft. But I haven’t spent an insignificant amount of time in Garry’s Mod either.

I guess I can’t know for sure, but I’d say it has to be Minecraft. I wish there was a way to see the hours I’ve spent in the Java Edition of the game. If it’s not Minecraft though, my second guess would be Rocket League. When I add up the hours across the platforms I’ve played on, it comes out on top by a small margin.

seems like the only game I ever play these days is the Halo Master Chief Collection… just play through all 6 campaigns then start over again

As a series, most certainly Pokémon. Young me played the Silver version countless times back in the day. I still do the odd ROM hack now and then.

As a single game, Skyrim.

For Steam specifically, it’s:

• Hades (214hrs)

• Octopath Traveler (111hrs)

• Skyrim (94hrs)

I should have guessed it would be Hades, but I’m really surprised to see Octopath up there instead of Slime Rancher, which somehow is way down there even though it feels way more fun. Since when has fun made something seem longer?

In general, without question:

• The Sims (played semi-religiously for almost a decade til the file became too big for my crappy laptop to risk adding any more GB to)

• Skyrim again (starting over just isn’t the same once you’ve hit lvl 81, and I am grieving)

• Disgaea (bought 3 separate times because my sibling kept selling it to buy other things, and then a fourth when I got out on my own. Conservatively, I have beaten that game a minimum of 9 times. Would play again.)

The biggest one I can look at the numbers at id Warframe with about 1,500 hours.

Though I have a lot more than that in League of Legends when you count SR, ARAM and TFT together. I have like 5k Aram Games, which would be probably about 9k-10k Hours on its own.

I like games I can just pause and walk away from for a bit. Or just play while watching videos. So the hour counts are never really accurate. But I can safely assume in the past few years its Rimworld. It’s my game I can play while doing other stuff. But if I crank up the speed it’s engaging enough to focus on if I want to.

Lifetime totals it may be Minecraft though, I usually go back to it every few years. The urge comes and goes.

Mine should be Monster Hunter with roughly 2-3 k hours across the series. But single-game most played hours should be Final Fantasy XIV with a little more than 1.5k hours.

To be honest: Im not proud of any of this. Most of the time was accumulated when I was much younger and I wish I would’ve had the courage to engage in meaningful encounters with other people instead. Gaming used to be my main escape mechanism, which helped me get through some rough times, but held my personal progress behind by a good margin. A little playing on the side won’t hurt though, nowadays.

Single game would be Skyrim, series would be Pokemon or Harvest Moon. I haven’t put a significant amount of time into a game or series in a loooooong time :/