This isn't a recent photo but also I havent played much since switching to PC sims

I actually just started playing it again after a nearly 2 year long break too, so that can't possibly turn out to be a bad life decision.

Rimworld

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.

Next up would be Monster Hunter World and Dark Souls III with 2000+ hours each.

Stellaris.

I’ve got over 2500 hours in Civ VI, and probably double that or more for all previous versions of Civ

Well the top contender for me is FFXI by a mile. But naming an MMO in a thread like this almost feels like cheating.

My next game after that would be Hades 1 with 421 hours.

Slay the Spire without doubt 2.5k on steam plus some switch and mobile.

If you group the Trackmania games those do come close, and maybe Minecraft but I have barely touched that game in the last decade and no way to check hours from back then.

Probably WoW or LoL. I don't play either of those anymore and probably never will again, but I doubt any game I play would ever come close again.

According to Steam:

1. Modern Warfare 2 OG, not remaster - 411
2. Dragon Age Origins - 245. Makes sense considering how many times I restarted lol
3. Baldur’s Gate III - 215. Pretty sure that's mostly one playthrough.
4. Trails of Cold Steel III - 178. Holy fuck is this game long! I'm only just now in the finale.
5. Slay the Spire - 169. That's way off though for sure. I have it on Steam, mobile, and Switch.
6. Elden Ring - 153
7. Persona 5 Royal - 136. I was not prepared for how long this game is.
8. Divinity Original Sin - 127. I restarted a lot.
9. Path of Exile - 116
10. And of course, Skyrim. 105, but I've never actually finished it even once.

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

According to Steam it's Terraria with over 1200 hours. I bought it in 2012 and have replayed it regularly alone and with friends.

My second place isn't even close, and it's not actually a game. I bought Aseprite during the summer sale last year to see if I could stumble my way to something resembling visual art and I have about 250 hours logged, though I think a lot of that is me leaving the app open overnight.

Destiny 2. sigh. Before that it was Grim Dawn. Probably going back to that.

Probably Civ 3. I've been playing off and on for over 20 years. I've played hundreds of hours of several other games, but civ 3 has to be the peak

Diablo 2. No idea how many hours, easily over 3k for sure.

No other game I played come close to this amount, closest is probably 600 or 700 hours. I got so many 50-400 hours games.

League of Legends, and nothing comes close to my time spent on it

SimTower. I have spent too much time there

Dead Cells, with 1300hrs total (I have hit a wall at 3BC I haven't been able to pass, but it's still fun), and Grim Dawn with 1600hrs (but including non-official content like the user-run seasons). Current runner-ups are Sulfur and Witchfire with around 250hrs both.

4k hours on Geometry Dash. It's very addicting to play and or beat the community's hardest levels.

I have over 5000 hours on Skyrim, even though I've never finished the main story.

Well and truly over 10K hours in World of Warcraft, and I last played until midway through Shadowlands.

But I was also playing it pretty consistently since the two week open beta before it first launched - so yeah.

Factorio and RimWorld are actually within 4 hours of each other right now, at just over 900 hours each.

I don’t have an exact number but if I had to guess it’s Minecraft. Over all those years, quite a few hours must have added up. I think that has to be much more than any of my Steam games.

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.

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.

I don't get much screen time - work and other hobbies - but I've somehow got over 300 hours in cyberpunk. Also, I'm fairly new to it at the mo, but I could see myself putting a lot of hours into mewgenics.

runescape more than i like to admit. before the eoc/falador protest i played sparingly, because of school. then around 2018, i started playing during an event then found i could make more gp by selling form the shops to ge, which help funded bonds, and i did it for severalyears til i got burnt out from rs, and i only play it sparingly. i am a casual bosser, im not good at fighting the harder ones with too much complexity/movements.

i know people dint like TH/mtx, they couldve just got rid of the xp lamps/stars that were causing the problems. rs threw a fit and removed everything like minor daillyscapes.

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.

Eve online, 11.6k hours. Much of that time was running multiple clients too. It's a young persons game, I no longer have the time.

Battlefield on PlayStation, hands down

Played 2, 3, 4, 1 (don't ask, I didn't make the numbering) and 5 to death on a wide variety of play Station models. Would log some average of 10 hours per week, every week, for since BF2 started and BF5 ended

According to steam, Factorio.

Non-steam games would probably be Dwarf Fortress, but i have no idea how many 100s of hours I have in it

No Man's Sky 1556.5hrs

Skullgirls, for sure. Steam has me at over 1800 hours, but I've also played at locals and tournaments. It had 14 characters for the longest time, but now it's got 18, and the ways you can combine them are nearly limitless, so there's a high chance one of its most powerful strategies hasn't even been discovered yet even though it's now 14 years old. Now and then I'll see a tournament match where someone brought out something brand new that I've never seen before, and I love it for that.