Dungeon Master on the Amiga 500 was probably the first, followed by the SSI silver-box Krynn series. Moving over to IBM-compatibles, Sim City ate a ton of my time. SC2k, various AD&D games, and eventually FPS games (especially Team-Fortress-Likes) came to eat up wayyyy too much of my time. My first MMO was FFXI and it ate about every waking moment I was not otherwise occupied. At work, I was looking up gear locations, mobs spawns, etc. and talking on forums. I would later go on to work in the MMO space and played a lot of them for work. Rift: Planes of Telara from alpha until the (first?) major revamp was the last game to really do that to me. Ever since, I will get briefly addicated to games, but nothing lasts... and that's probably good with everything else I have going on. I do get super into Skyrim once ever couple years, though, and put an unhealthy amount of time into it.
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Have you played Factorio? Based on what games you posted, I think you'd like it.
I'm at like 650 hours and it still feels fresh, challenging, allows for creative and logical thinking
For the entirety of high school I only played Team Fortress 2, League of Legends, and Melee. I have 2000+ hrs in TF2 and probably more in the other two. Then in college I was on the Overwatch team and played in the college league, I have a bit under 5000 hrs in that.
No games I have come close to that kinda play time and none probably will since I have less time to game and Iβve kinda been losing interest in gaming in general.
Mu online.
I remember one summer break I slept 2 hrs a day and played while eating. Basically my life revolved around that game. I got to top of the server and realized wtf am I doing. I kind of glad it happened because it was the start of breaking free from addiction.
Factorio, Dyson Sphere Program, Derail Valley Simulator, Terraria, and Vintage Story.
Valkyrie Chronicles, I legitimately called off work sick for 2 days when the game came out on ps3.
Minesweeper. I've had a period where I played it 3 hours a day. Eventually forced myself to delete it from my phone.
Space Engineers right now. The Scrapyard scenario really gets me.
Lots, chrono trigger, ffvi-x, Mario 64, basically every yakuza game, sekiro, breath of the wild, a ton more. Embarassing ones sometimes like that power washing game because I got it for free and was like βthis will be dumbβ then kept going and going and going
Some older games that Iβd probably power through now but at the time cheating/save states/youtube wasnβt easily accessible (gamefaqs existed but text based walkthroughs hit much different). Like the ps1 survival horror games: resident evil 1-3, silent hill, Dino crisis, parasite eve, etc. when you know what to do most of those can be run through in a few hours but in 1997 on the original hardware (no save states) and at best a txt file faq to guide you if you get stuck it would take some time to figure it out. Then with ones like re2 that had multiple routes and endings youβd play it like 6-7 times at least
Team Fortress 2 and Splatoon
I have probably over 3k hours on Splatoon. I can't stop. I'm S+8 fwiw
Sad to say league
Less sad to say hades. Incredible game that I have preemptively already told my partner she won't see me for a week after hades 2 comes out
After ten thousand hours in league I realised there's actually ten idiots in each game not nine
Warframe, I have more than 3000 hours on it but I haven't touched it in years
Spent 4,000 hours on Dota 2. Finally kicked the habit and Valve goes and drops Deadlock π
Morrowind.
Unfortunately Fortnite. The Jak series. I guess that's it. I'll edit if I think of more.
Definitely animal well. When I played it out was the coolest sense of discovery that I had ever felt playing a game, and it kept going for so long. I would play it whenever I had a spare minute, especially if I had an idea for a puzzle. I'm not great at normal puzzle games, my brain just doesn't work like that, but I love exploration and easy puzzles and animal well really scratched that itch for me in a way no other game has.
Aside from that, I wouldn't be surprised if I had like 10,000 hours in Minecraft, since that's pretty much the only video game I like to play, and I've been playing it for almost ten years. Not an addiction though, I only play when I have the time and the desire.
Anno 1404, Hades, the recent Hitman series, and now also Satisfactory. Help.
Skyrim, Demon's Souls
Duke Nukem 3D.
Then Quake I and II.
I'm still playing the latter many times a week.