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World of Warcraft. Only played for a year back in 2010 but racked up an entire month of time played on my main, not even counting my half dozen alts.
Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) - over 1000 hours logged in flight, countless hours spent learning and researching avionics, checklists, airliners, procedures, hardware, software addons, etc.
I haven’t touched it in years, but I don’t think anything is going to surpass World of Warcraft in hours played anytime soon.
Yup, same ... I don't think I'll ever surpass the 12000+ hours I put into that one ...
Probably Warframe, followed by rimworld. i say probably, because I pirated rimworld because its so expensive with all the expansions, heh. Only got 200 hours logged on steam.
Actually, WoW might be #1 because I played it since I was a kid, theres no hour counter though so I have no idea. Haven't touched it since the blitzchung era tho, and its really hard to even guess
For me it's Minecraft and Space Engineer (1,600 hrs). Maybe 1/4 of the time it's AFK while machines are gathering the work.
WoW is definitely at the top and it will be hard to unseat it even though I don't really play anymore. After that It's likely between Minecraft, Eve Online, or World of Tanks - I don't actually know. The next one I know a number for is Baldur's Gate 3 at over 1400 hours, so that's 5th. I have no idea what order 2, 3, and 4 are though, lol.
Somewhere between 10,000 and 15,000 hours of EQ2 since 2008, across all the characters i made there.
World of Warcraft with over 11k hours. Guild wars 2 is probably 2nd with over 6k. The highest on Steam is Warframe with 2329.
For WoW and GW2, it's basically the same reason. I loved MMO games and the huge world you can explore. I found guilds in both that I vibed with, and still talk with some of those folks today.
For Warframe, the gameplay is top notch IMO. I didn't mind the grind (I was a MMO player, after all) and the selection of warframes and loadouts kept things from getting too stale. I mainly played with one of my friends I met through WoW, and we roped some friends into playing with us from time to time.
I still get the itch from time to time to get into a new MMO to try and relive the experiences I had from previous games, but those days are most likely behind me.
I have over 5000 hours on Skyrim, even though I've never finished the main story.
I have 4000 hours in Wurm Unlimted as tracked by steam. A fantastically wonderful game, that was sadly abandoned by developers, and even more sadly doesnt seem you can find a stable server for anymore because the servers are either weird, scummy places, or eventually implode due to weird admin dramas.
I have two other 1000+ hour games as officially tracked by steam, that i wont mention because i need to pretend it didnt happen for my own sanity, lol.
beyond this are older games that I know I have more time in, but steam was really buggy at the time about tracking played time... like TF2, which I'm sure is my actually most played game, because you can't play that game 5 hours a night, almost every night, for 5+ years, and only have 700 hours played. My real played time is probably in the 5 digits.
Arma 2 (for original DayZ mod/DayZero/Epoch) is probably up there in the 5 digit range too, if steam tracked time properly.
Number is pretty low in comparison to most comments on here, but I have 380 hours in FTL, so there's that lol.
Probably World of Warcraft unfortunately. That was a long time ago though.
My top game is Tabletop Simulator with 365.1 hours. Kinda surprised. But I've been playing boardgames online with my mates weekly since I moved abroad some years ago.
Some really good games have official versions for Tabletop Sim, it's an excellent way to play.
I don't think I'll ever top World of Warcraft when I was a teenager with infinite free time
Destiny 1 and 2. Next would be kingdom hearts 2. Over 400 hours getting to level 99.
Destiny was mine too. Haven't played in a while though. I didn't like D2 as much so I stopped.
Arma 3 with custom mods. 3500hrs... In my defence we were playing in a fairly big clan in team based pvp
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.
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
Rimworld
Lineage 2 when I was a teenager. Roughly 12000 hours.
In my lifetime?
Probably Doom.
I can say with certainly that the game I have played the longest is Warcraft III.
Now the most hours played… phew.. hard to say. It is either Warcraft III or World of Warcraft.
Endless Space 2. 488 hours. It's my comfort game. I wait long enough to forget how to play it, then I play it again.
I'd have to check, and for the older ones I can't, but either something from Bethesda before they forgot how to make games (probably Morrowind, possibly Skyrim or New Vegas) or something from Paradox (either Crusader Kings 2 and 3 or Stellaris), followed by Cyberpunk 2077 (can't keep me away from Night City for long) or something else by either of the first ones. Or Excel; wasted a few thousand hours on that one too.
Factorio. 1600 hours. I admit that is a rookie number.
TF2, 1,9k + 500 (old account) = 2,4k hours
Brawlhalla, 1,5k hours
Steam says PUBG at 1280 hours... I don't know how it hasn't been surpassed yet. Cross-platform I know Halo MCC comes close.
Minecraft would beat them both if I had stats on it though, so many modpack replays.
My answer will likely always be World of Warcraft. I played in my 20s and I played a lot. At some point when I typed /played, the number I got back exceed 1 year of in game time. I vowed never to look again out of shame. I this day I do not know what my total play time is.
The only game I have played enough to rack up a lot of hours is World of Warcraft. I started a few months after launch (after seriously trash talking it and preferring EQ2) and I still play off and on. I really dig the old history stuff in the books like The War of the Ancients trilogy and Lord of the Clans. I don’t really raid or join groups for stuff, I’m a “filthy casual” that chases pets, transmogs, mounts, achievements, and that sort of thing. I play one of the worlds largest MMORPGs in solo mode lol
After that, maybe The Witcher Adventure game on Steam because it’s fun. Or Halo Reach back in the day when I played firefight doubles with a buddy of mine.
I’m not proud of it but most likely League of Legends. It was pretty much the only game I played along with csgo in 2016 when I was a teenager. Dark times. I don’t know how many hours I have in League but in csgo I have 216h which compared to some people here isn’t that much lol.
Easily Kerbal Space Program. I gotta start posting some of my stuff. Got real into SSTOs after a couple thousand hours, now I have a damn fleet of the things. My latest achievement is an SSTO with both a full suite of scientific equipment (including Breaking Ground deployables) and ISRU, and with enough dV to make it almost everywhere in the kerbolar system, refueling and collecting science along the way.
My current goal is to send recovery crafts to bring every space probe back to Kerbin intact. These are dinky little disposable landers thay were meant to transmit science and then be deleted, but now I wanna play an interplanetary crane game and get them back. Clean up my tracking station without destroying any existing crafts.
Either Minecraft or Animal Crossing. Both are far beyond 2000 hours, but I don't know which is ahead.
EVE Online and Valheim.
Islands of Myth.
What got me hooked is really the essence of the game itself. A multiplayer fantasy RPG with a global player base. It's a really cool concept that I've enjoyed in many iterations. EQ, WoW, GW2 etc.
I just never really stopped playing this one. One of the things I love about MUDs is that it's so easy to just have it running in another window. Killing a monster every 4 minutes during the work day. Chatting with folks and organizing groups while literally playing other MMOs.
I don't think that I could play WoW on one screen and GW2 on another with any efficacy and I almost certainly wouldn't enjoy it.
I've also really enjoyed the classes the game offers, the ability to multi class, and the reincarnation system which is similar to modern "prestige" systems. Except I can keep most of my earned exp while choosing an entirely different race and class combination.
MUD communities tend to be pretty great and this one has been no exception.
In regards to the screenshot "Mud age" is the same thing as /played or /age in MMOs. The amount of time spent logged in to the game.
