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Most of them? I have played hundreds of hours of Dysmantle, and before that I played hundreds of hours of Minecraft and before that Raft and before that terraria and before that vulcanoids, and before that ...

Minecraft and Factorio.

Both mixed in a little IRL depression and I was living vicariously through Steve or making factories.

I have 3000 hours in satisfactory and I refuse to believe it is an addiction

Civ, Balatro.

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 “this will be dumb” then kept going and going and going

Some older games that I’d probably power through now but at the time cheating/save states/youtube wasn’t 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 you’d play it like 6-7 times at least

Duke Nukem 3D.
Then Quake I and II.
I'm still playing the latter many times a week.

Slay the Spire

There are a bunch of games that I'll get super into, play for a while, then be finished with.

Slay the Spire taps perfectly into every compulsive center of my brain to make me keep playing. Like, we talk about 'addictive' games usually just as ones you like a lot... this is the first time I started to see it closer to actual addictive (though not actually a serious thing for me). It's such a sweetspot for my habits, I feel like I'd just keep saying 'one more run' so consistently, hours, days would evaporate. It kept me busy, to the detriment of doing other things.

You get on a good run, better keep going. You lose a run, might as well just start a new one and see if you have good opening luck. There's rarely a point that feels like "I should stop", until some IRL obligation comes up.

I still go back to it often when I just want an enjoyable way to kill time, or do something while I watch videos/tv on the side.

Other games with roguelike elements tap into this feeling too, like Balatro, Vampire Surviors, or Hades. But STS is where it felt strongest to me.

Monster hunter world, by a long way

I have never left the Terraria addiction. Mods have made that significantly worse haha.

Warframe. I have been clean for years now, but the itch never really goes away

Neverwinter Nights and Planeshift are the two that come to mind

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.

Football Manager. A damn spreadsheet game 😭