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1800 hours and counting on Path of Exile. With how major game updates are scheduled, either I'm sitting it out for months or it's all I play, depending on if the expansion interests me. This pattern has been going on since I joined the open beta in 2013.
The large variety of builds, extremely vast endgame, and very high power ceiling means that there's always more stuff to play and more improvements you can make.
Most hours were probably EverQuest up to planes, counterstrike around 1.5-1.6, and TF2. I've had 200-300 hours in a few other games & series (elder scrolls series, dark souls series, final fantasies, etc) but those would all be well over 500. The first two were as much the community guild/clan as the game, the last was just a time in life where I was able to spend a lot of time on games.
It's either Genshin Impact or Animal Crossing New Horizons (it's Genshin Impact by like 1000h more lol)
Probably FIFA but I haven't played in years.
I only have the numbers for games from Steam, so my actual longest played game is probably the old version of Dwarf Fortress.
I also typically don't have the attention span to keep playing a single game for hundreds of hours so the longest I see in my Steam library is just under 200 hours.
Aether Way would actually be higher in the list because I played an earlier version of it before it came to Steam.
WoW, it'll never be close.
But more recently, Rimworld, Deep Rock Galactic, Golf With Your Friends, Sea of Thieves, the Witcher.
I've put in 100s of hours on RDR2 and Elden Ring, but my newest game would probably be Ball X Pitt
Definitely one of the Guitar Heros
God of war
Super Mecha Champions, when the servers were still online. Such a fun game, genuinely fun gameplay.
Second place is either Stellaris, Helldivers 2, or Halo CE.
Maplestory, even though I haven't played it in a decade or so.
More recently, it would be Anno 1800.
Dont have the information to hand, but Rappelz (f2p MMO that may or may not still exist), Halo (if a whole series counts) and Slay the Spire are all contenders for the top spot.
Probably LoL or Rocket League. LoL keeps getting worse tho barely any play time recently. GunZ the duel had a lot of playtime back in the day and came back recently in my heart. fgunz.net
mmmm. I mean that would be tough. When I was doing mmo's I would be logging in in the morning and evening doing event grinds plus taking time to play more extensively and I did that for years. I take forever to play games though so I put in plenty with cyberpunk and elden ring and final fantasy and baldurs gate. oh and that harry potter. You know though it has to be the mmos because again that was like years and really it was a rare day I did not at least log in to touch base on some sort of grind thing. So either champions online or star trek online.
Morrowind, Skyrim, Minecraft and Final Fantasy Tactics (different modded PS1 Versions mostly) must be the games with the most hours for me. I must have 1000+ hours in each of those, well maybe only 600ish in Tactics.
New Vegas is around 470 for me. FO4 is a close second at 460. But I probably spent way, way more time in Battlezone 2, possibly MechWarrior 3 as well. Maybe Rollercoaster Tycoon. Those were in my peak gaming era.
Thousand of hours in Clan Lord. It got me through some rough teenage years.
I have over 1000 hours in Skyrim, but thats also over steam, PS4, and switch. Still haven’t finished the game but I've got like 6 different characters lol. I just hit 109 hours in BG3 last night, stuck on the couch with a bum leg helped with that! I only just started act 2 last night as well. AC Valhalla/origins/odyssey probably has close to 500 hours, with witcher 3 getting up there too. Not sure on those though since they're on PS4. Valhalla is the only game I've actually finished, ever.
I like to wander and do the side quests, see every bit of the map, sort and sell my stuff. I don’t play a lot so when i do get to sit down and play I like to immerse myself in the setting.
Minecraft, Fallout 4, Skyrim, probably Warcraft 3 and Starcraft 2 in my younger years
If Minecraft counted playtime, over 1000 hours. Otherwise, Stardew Valley at about 500 hours.
3k+ hours in d2 before ps5 dropped only added maybe 100 hours before bungie made me hang it up
Multiple 999:99 timers in pokemon since red and blue
Probably League of Legends or Minecraft. Most played with hours tracked is Counter-Strike
DayZ 2750 hours. I'm still rubbish.
Measured, it would be CoD MW2 (the original) with over 30 days, played across 2 years
Unmeasured, easily Championship Manager (later changed to Football Manager). In one year I'd over 40 days but I was still in school back then. If I added up all the years together it would be an unbelievable number. I played it pretty much daily from about 1997 until 2004. Then picked up Football Manager from around 2005 until 2008 (I stopped as online FPS took over)
Latest version I have played is FM2022 but barely played the more recent ones in comparison to the older versions. I still play the old one from time to time, thanks to Nicks Patcher
I have maybe more hours in WoW, but I cannot see my playtime without installing it again.
Black Desert Online unfortunately, I have over 5k active hours and was truly addicted during a bad time in my life. After that Kerbal Space Program which I have far fewer regrets over, probably my favourite game of all time, I’m still mad about ksp2
I’m still mad about ksp2
If you're not aware, Kitten Space Agency:
Kitten Space Agency (KSA) is a space flight simulation game in early access being developed as a spiritual successor to the Kerbal Space Program (KSP) franchise. The game's inception was largely influenced by the development freeze of Kerbal Space Program 2 following the sale of Private Division by Take-Two Interactive. Multiple KSA developers were previously notable KSP modders.
My top two are Dota 2 (1520h) and CS 2 (800h), but since I have quit competitive games, I'll mention the third place: I have 598 hours on Fallout 4.
No idea. Homm2. Homm3. Disciples 2. Age of Empires. Age of Mythology. Warcraft2/3. Mu online. WoW. Counter-Strike. Rift. Warframe. Neverwinter. Star Trek Online. Apex Legends.
I played them a lot. At least 1k hours each across the years. Why? Some were fun, some were what my friends played and some were addictive.
A game sometimes clicks, not always for the right reasons.
Mu online. Damn that's a name I haven't heard in a long while. I was never any good at it but remember me and a few school friends played it for a while back in like 2006ish.
Yeah, that was about the time i played too. It was popular among the cohorts and i stuck to it for couple of years. I had it running for hours day or night and it added up.
As huge of a gamer as I am (or was?) I am sad to say I never expected this in a million years, but its by far Fall Guys... been playing it since its 2020 release basically every day or every other day since with maybe only a few weeks missed when times were busy. The appeal? It's super simple, fun, and a great game to play with friends. At the beginning we had like 12 people playing this for a solid year. Fell to about 8 people on and off for the next few years, and the last few years I still got about 5 people who play. On average we will have 3 of us per night playing for an hour to 2 hours. It's not even fully about the game, it's an excuse to relax and talk to friends which is easier to do with a game that doesnt require strategy or communication. Either way my end of year highlights show its been my #1 played game every year with about 400 to 500 hours a year just in that game. We have tried to find something new, but it's just never the same.
Steam has Train Valley 2 as my most hours by far (3544). But a lot of those hours are from minimizing the game, and leaving it running overnight, so probably closer to 2000 hours.
This is mostly due to the Steam Workshop / community maps, as there are hundreds of them and new ones get added constantly, so it's a great game that I can play quick sessions while watching something on TV at night, or eating lunch at my desk.
Red Dead 2 has 2400+, but 2200 of that is on Xbox, and it's the main thing I play on Xbox, so I'm not sure if that's actual gameplay time, or just "game running but just sitting at the main menu" time (which would be a lot of hours).
Oxygen Not Included is over 600 hours, and I haven't even added any DLC, so I see that getting a bunch more hours when I have time.
I don't do multiplayer games, so Elden Ring I think is at the top for me at around 200 hours. Although, if you looked on Playstation it would probably be one of the Spider-Man games because my kids use my account to just play them as a sandbox.
Destiny and Destiny 2, although Binding of Isaac is a distant 2nd (or 3rd).
I would think probably Diablo 2 over the course of my childhood, although it's hard to tell. It might be EVE Online, I was very much into that for a few years between 2010-2015 or so. And it's not exactly a game you play casually, or at least I didn't. Over the last decade it's probably been Football Manager. 17 is the iteration I have the most hours in but I probably have a thousand hours combined across multiple editions across the last ten years.
EDIT: I actually managed to exorcise Dota from my memory, probably because of all the accumulated misery it has accrued. Yeah, that's the one. Easily the most hours combined over Dota 1&2.
There's no way for me to time it out because I got it before Steam existed, but it has to be in the thousands of hours range. SimCity 4. I got the Deluxe Edition just after the Rush Hour expansion came out. Played it everyday for hours on end from then to college. Just over 12 years time. I didn't stop until Cities Skylines 1 came out. I put 500 hours into that then dropped off because it's just not the same.
It's the one game that nobody has ever truly replicated. There's attempts and successors out there, but none of them hit like SC4 did. The aesthetics, modding community, music, all make that game so fresh yet nostalgic. It really had everything you could want from a modern City Building game. It was so much more than a city painter too. The advisors, policies, taxation, abandoned buildings, all of it conveyed a living city way beyond imaginable. Every attempt of a modern city builder game is missing the soul that SC4 had.
Either Quake or DayZ... Possibly TF2...