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It's either Elite Dangerous or Warframe.
*checks* uhhhh... Elite Dangerous.
1935 hours, and we played a while outside of Steam running the launcher directly, so let's call it 2000 hours. Elite itself also tracks hours played (in a weird "weeks/days/hours" format for some reason), but we'd have to actually open it and log in and everything to find out.
-- Frost
I think the game with the highest playtime for me is Final Fantasy XIV with around 1,2k hours. That's only Steam though, I'm sure Minecraft is way, way higher than that.
You ok over there?
Don't worry, I haven't played in over a year now.
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Late to the party, but for me Endless Sky: https://github.com/endless-sky
As far as I know, it's the only open source and crowed developed game out there.
If you remember EV series, it's basically that. But better and under constant development.
Endless Sky looks cool. Definitely going to give it a try.
My two favorite open source games are Thrive and Cataclysm DDA
Thrive is an evolutionary survival game. Similar to Spore, you start as a single-cell microbe. You gather nutrients, evade dangers, and evolve adaptations. Eventually, you can progress to the multicellular stage, then macroscopic, etc. up to spacefaring. Currently everything after multicellular is placeholder, but the cellular gameplay is fun and has enough viable strategies to make replaying interesting. https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive
Cataclysm DDA is a zombie-survival rogue-like simulation game. You start as a single survivor and need to scavenge for food, shelter, and protection. If you like games that focus on system/simulation complexity over visuals (e.g. dwarf fortress) I'd recommend this one. For example, the vehicle system allows you to build custom vehicles, which can be anything from a dinky wooden bicycle to a monstrous RV-turned deathdozer+mobile base-on-wheels. https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA
I bought Spore for my kids when it came out but wound up playing it far more than them!
Spode demanding tribute to their religion again? Oh no! I destroyed all your cities and turned your planet into a nature preserve so you can never come back.
I had mixed reactions about Spore. The ambition/breadth of gameplay was impressive. The creature creator was impressive, and it was fun to see other people's creatures show up in-game. I was disappointed at the shallowness of individual stages, how little earlier stages affected later stages, and the tediousness of space. I think without the pre-game hype, the balance would have been more positive feeling than negative for me, but I mostly remember it as few gems wrapped in disappointment.
My eldest son shares your views entirely.
Games are short (5 mins). Queues are short (less than 1 min). Cross platform. Runs on Linux. Controller support (preferred). Easy to understand, but high skill ceiling. Amateur leagues are fun. Keeps my reflexes sharp. Can turn chat off. A decent esports scene.
I'm sure when I last checked GTA5 on PS4 was sitting at around 1500 hours.
MW2 back on 360 was sitting at around 35 days according to the multiplayer leaderboards.
Minecraft.
It doesn't keep track in general, but I've had multiple worlds go over 1000 hours individually.
Depends how we're counting. Actively playing is probably WoW, but I have so many hours in Factorio, as i would just leave it running overnight. Had a server up for friends also, so probably have close to 1k hours of the game being open, but definitely feel like i wasn't actively playing as much as WoW. Just to how many years i put into playing WoW.
Yeah, I don't think I'll ever focus on one game enough to catch up to my time in WoW. I had one character with over one year /played and I was also the type that had multiple raiding alts. Tbf, some portion of that time was afk or just shitchatting in IF/Org.
Did not care much for the expansion, just didn't like the game play. Didn't even finish it, so it is almost all base game and mods.
Trackable? Terraria at just over 1,350 hours plus another 147 in tmodloader since it moved to steam 7 Days to Die at 711 Binding of Isaac at 572
Untrackable? Probably Breath of Fire 2, Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, or maybe Secret of Mana I play a randomizer of one of them almost every night before I go to bed or when I'm bored.
Civilization VI with the right mods is insane. Just a shame the multiplayer is so ridden with desync, and the newer ones suck.
Rimworld
Most definitely continuum/subspace. It's been a long time, but I think the last time I checked it was around 16k hours. That said, it had a chat client that you usually left open in the background. So how much of that is actual play time I don't know.
Minecraft, played since beta 1.5 (sometime like 2011 or 2012 ish). I probably have 3k or 4k hours in it
Terraria, cant calculate entirely because kid me pirated the early versions but I'd guess 2k or so between vanilla and modded
League as well unfortunately. Met some cool people from it through my 3k or so hours
The only other game above 1k is TF2
Probably still MW2 2011 I think I had a total of 50d playtime across both of my accounts lol.
Not me but a friend of mine has 10+ IN GAME YEARS in Everquest. Apparently he has been playing with his dad since he was 4 or 5 lmfao. I don't understand it but I respect it.
I had to convert that to hours to make it comparable, holy fuck that's almost 88,000 hours 😵
Elite: Dangerous
You can sink a ludicrous amount of time traversing a 1:1 scale galaxy even with FTL.
Elite Dangerous at about 1300 hours. I do wonder if anything from the ps2 days beats that, with more time and fewer games, but I doubt it. Been playing for 6 years
World of Warcraft, split between a vanilla private server and official Classic. I have a character on each with over 150 days of playtime (although significant chunks of that are leaving the game open while doing other things, and also programming addons while otherwise afk at the bank).
While not in 1000+ hours like others, but I have 700± hours in both Terraria and factorio.
I wish I had a total hours count for all the combined Pokemon games; I got Pokemon Blue when I was in middle school and spent just an unfathomable number of hours in it. I'm not sure if that, plus all the time I spent later in Gold, Sapphire, HeartGold, Black, Black 2, screwing around with romhacks, comes to more than my highest known amount of time logged in a video game, which is around 2,600 hours in Dota 2.
Final Fantasy XIV and it's not even close... need to grind to get my girl new outfits
I've been playing since mid-2020 now and mostly spend my time either playing the story, doing side-content or making pretty screenshots of new glamours
I have been playing Unreal Tournament (1999) since 2000. It is impossible for me to tally up those hours.
Guilty Gear Strive? I remember playing a lot of skyrim too. Anything past 2k hours kinda gets lumped together
Red light, green light
About to play a couple more rounds now on my way to the grocery store