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.

If MMOs coitn, 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.

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.

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

As a single game, Skyrim.

My top 3:

Steam seems to think I've played chasm for 444 hours, but it must have been left on lol. Steam has me at 150-ish on Hitman 2, one of the nba 2ks, Witcher 3, and Elden ring.

Not Steam, original destiny was like 800.

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.

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.

For a single game it's Factorio. Steam has me at around 1600 hours.

For a series it's gotta be Civilization. I've been playing since I was in fifth grade. I'd go over to my friend's house when he wasn't home to play Civ I. I'd spend entire weekends in college playing Civ II and III. I had to have my GF hide my Civ V disk so I wouldn't miss deadlines. And now I'm on a full playthrough of all the new civs in the latest DLC.

Historically? Hard to say

I had close to a thousand hours in Modern Warfare 3 and Black Ops II back in the day, but i was in middle school and gaming was the main way me and my friends hung out outside of school

If minecraft accounts tracked playtime id be at least 1k there over the years if not much more

On steam I have close to 600 in rocket league, havent played it in a while but thats the most played that i can verify

I've sunk a lot of hours into both guild wars 2 & Warframe. over 5000 apiece, iirc. but they're both MMOs, so that's not that unusual.

the standout for me in grim dawn. I'm at over 2500 hours, which seems just a massive amount for a game that's not an MMO or even am open ended, open world game like skyrim or fallout.

My #1 is most likely rocket league, as i’ve ppayed 500 hours on pc, 300+ hours on switch, and many more years on the ps4 (since launch).

Second is minecraft, (or first, not sure), since i’ve been playing since 2011/2012.

Third is CSGO at 350 ish hours.

Well Steam says I have 10,500 hours in Dota 2, but if I check the total combined time of every match I’ve played in the past decade+ it’s actually only… 4500 hours.

Fuck me that’s a lot of time and electricity wasted.

MMOs were always my thing. I’m almost glad I don’t know exactly how much time I buried into World of Warcraft back in the day. I haven’t touched it in 15 years and it’s probably still in the lead. I play a fair bit of FFXIV these days but not like I did WoW. Asheron’s Call 2 was a big part of my life for a long time but it’s been offline most of my life.

Among recent games I’ve actively played for years, Rocket League and Minecraft are for sure at the top.

Top 3:

• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
• The Elder Scrolls IV: Skyrim
• Pokémon (combined)

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 one 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.)

I played WoW religiously from vanilla until Legion with very few breaks. I think I had over 3 years in game time on my main when I quit, with a few more years spread between alts.

Next would be Path of Exile, 3000 hours and counting.

After that, probably Dota 2 at 1200 hours