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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.
Lineage 2 when I was a teenager. Roughly 12000 hours.
No way to really check but I'm pretty sure it's Minecraft. Played it since the very first public build, it's been less and less each year the past few years but it has to be over 5000 hours total. Got over 2000 hours in Warframe, Destiny 2, Rocket League and over 1000 hours in No Man's Sky, Terraria, Starbound, Halo 1, 2, 3 and Reach. There's surely one or two games more that I'm not remembering ATM and over 500 hours in many, many others.
Yes, I play games a lot, and a lot of games.
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.
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.
EVE Online and Valheim.
It could be WoW, it could be LoL it could be Genshin Impact. The only one that's tracked it ~1050hrs in Warframe but I really doubt its beating any of the above three.
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.
Arma 3 with custom mods. 3500hrs... In my defence we were playing in a fairly big clan in team based pvp
I don't have specific numbers since some of these games were played on various platforms or outside of environment which keeps track of play time. Still, these are the things that come to mind in regards to where I spent most of my game time.
I'm putting each title into a spoiler to avoid a huge wall of text. I tend to get a bit rambly when talking about games, sorry.
Civilisation V
I never played IV and I don't really like VI, Civ V however managed to grab me in a way few other 4X game could. I haven't played it in a few years but I still remember the feeling of "one more turn" - this stuff is addicting.
The Division (both games)
I was curious about the story concept for the first game but didn't like the idea of a modern shooter with bullet spongy enemies so I avoided it for a good few years before giving it a shot. When I did jump in however, my initial hesitation evaporated pretty quickly as the atmosphere of winter New York grabbed me 100%. There are still times where enemy tankiness or firepower can be annoying but that's mostly end game issues and something I can deal with if I lock in.
I probably have more playtime in the second game by this point but I still think there are some things the first game did way better than the sequel (writing, atmosphere, enemy factions, some skills, cosmetics). It's why I tend to alternate between the two whenever I'm in the mood for more TD.
Girls' Frontline
Came for girls with guns, stayed for the story. It's a gacha game, which I know many people might scoff at, but it's from the time when the monetisation practices and tactics where very different to the current landscape (there's no premium pulls, paid weapons or anything like that, the only thing you'd really spend your money would be skins - if you want).
Gameplay is pretty simple (build your squads, traverse node based stages, partake in semi-autobattler combat and complete objectives) but it's pretty enjoyable for the most part. It also does a great job of combining stage challenges/difficulty with what's happening in the story (something its sequel is simply unable to do due to a modern, dupe based character gacha and progression).
We're two weeks from the final main story event of the game, which after more than 7 years of playing feels somewhat bittersweet. It was a fun journey though.
Gothic 2
Played it multiple times, never finished it - usually because I got distracted or just had my fill of fun.
I actually like the Gothic series more than any of the Elder Scrolls titles. These games feel somewhat more alive and immersive to me, to the point that even the unusual control scheme, preset protagonist (I really like making my own characters) or lack of "forever fun" aren't enough to make me lean the other way. There's some "magic" in Gothic that's missing from TES games for me, even if they're great in their own right.
I finally managed to finish the first game a few months ago so I hope I'll do the same with this one "soon". I'd like to scratch it off of my backlog, if only to give myself some closure in that regards.
Skyrim
I don't really like Skyrim. I find it to be pretty shallow and boring in its vanilla state and the only reason I spent as much time on it as I did is mods. I pretty much use all Elder Scrolls and (modern) Fallout games as a base for a modern life-sim experiences where I just do whatever I feel like at the time - anything except for being the hero. So yeah, it's just a backdrop but I guess it counts.
I wish Cyberpunk 2077 had as big modding scene as Skyrim. It's another title I like to use for my "be whoever, forget the story" playthroughs and one I vastly prefer in pretty much every aspect.
Team Fortress 2
I haven't touched it in years but it's still one of my most played multiplayer titles ever (or at least it feels like it). I tried going back to it a few times over the years but modern TF2 is simply not the same. I also really don't care for PvP these days so while I was curious about the classic mod/rework released some time back, I never even gave it a shot. I think I had my fill of competition.
There are probably a few more titles with similar play times but I don't want to make it look like I had no life as a kid (I didn't). I love games man.
Put a lot of hours into Paradox Interactive games
Borderlands 2, 1200+ hrs. Only game I was comfortable playing multiplayer without getting anxious and the 14 steam friends I have over the years are all BL2 players.
It's WoW. I don't even want to know how much WoW I've played.
Probably WoW or LoL, but I'm not going to login to either to check because I switched to Linux and have been boycotting blizzard for over a decade.
Either Minecraft or Animal Crossing. Both are far beyond 2000 hours, but I don't know which is ahead.
Approaching my first 1000 in Elite:Dangerous. Got myself a Fleet Carrier and a Squadron and I feel like I’ve just started the mid-game. It’s a seemingly endless game world.
I think my highest is still Kerbal Space Program by a country mile, and that's only what Steam itself counted and doesn't count the at least similar number of hours I likely spent in pre-release versions back when I was first downloading it directly from the devs with no Steam version in sight. So the real numbers are probably somewhere in the 4 to 5 thousand hours range. Dwarf Fortress is probably pretty far up there too but like KSP those hours mostly aren't recorded anywhere. Factorio, Avorion, Starbound, and Terraria are also shockingly high, into the thousands, and a bunch of others like Stardew Valley, Sims 3, X3TC, X4, Empyrion, and Stellaris are knocking on the door of the thousands too. But nothing comes close to KSP for me.
There's also a few I'm surprised are not higher up: Subnautica, Satisfactory, Oxygen Not Included, The Long Dark, ARK Survival Evolved, Rimworld, Astroneer, Slay The Spire are all games that I feel like I've played an absolute ton of, which spend a lot of time living rent-free in my head, but the numbers don't actually show that I've played them that much, low hundreds of hours at most, some only in the high tens. No reason to believe that Steam's numbers aren't accurate here, so I can only conclude that those games are somehow denser and provide similar gameplay value in a shorter play session with less time investment, because yeah my brain has devoted a lot of pathways to some of those.
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.
Elite Dangerous. Instead of paying attention to my uni classes I was hauling freight to Robigo and slamming people with a hull-maxxed federal dropship.
Sure, but that's cheating... you can finish most other games on a second computer during a trip to Hutton Orbital...
I got Hutton Orbitalled once.... Worst time ever.
I'm not sure which one I have more hours in, but it's either Mechwarrior Online or the Mass Effect trilogy.
Dota 2 is the most I have logged at around 3000 hours, but I don't have any friends to play with and don't want to deal with randoms, so almost all of it is against bots. Even though the bots are garbage, there's still so many creative, silly ways to play that game and ridiculous builds that are fun to try and see if they work.
Super Smash Brothers (64 and melee) is probably the most of all time though. Any time I pick up a new 2D game, I find myself comparing it to SSB in terms of mechanics. The way you control your characters in that series is the most innovative and compelling concept I have ever seen in a game. If I ever have the time to make a game myself, I would probably heavily model it based on that control scheme.
I also have to give a shoutout to Streets of Rogue, which is a fairly obscure rogue-like that deserves a lot more attention IMO. Another very replayable game with many fascinating play styles and ways to complete missions. It's on Steam and it's fantastic, I would highly recommend it.
Enter the Gungeon is another game I have high playtime on. It took about 40 hours before it started becoming fun, but man, it's awesome once you finally figure out how to properly dodge enemies and make the most of your weapons and items.
Streets of Rogue and Enter the Gungeon are really solid. Also recommend.
GTA 5 (online)
Both editions on PC amount to 2300 hours
Outside of that:
Mario Kart 7 on my 3DS
Mario Kart DS
I'm with you in Runescape. By far my most played game since coming back to osrs in 2018.
I keep taking breaks, but always come back. Many periods I've played more than my full time job, and I still haven't done nearly everything.
More than 800 in Dark Souls 1
Definitely The Binding of Isaac Rebirth. ~800 hours.
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 1 and 2.
I replay them both multiple times a year and make sure I get as close to 100% each time.
I wish The Old Republic would've failed as a subscription because I whole heartedly believe it's the sole reason we'll never get a KotOR 3.
Probably spent waay too much in Starcraft, Homm3 and AoE2 over the years, but recorded by steam time tracker Elite: Dangerous has been top and it's not even close, with about 5000h. Fml.
Squad is by far the most with about 3.5k hours. I dont really like playing other games online nowadays but Squad really hits the sweet spot of 80% social 20% gameplay.
The rest of the list is probably Megadrive, N64 and Dreamcast stuff :D