For me it was Terraria, Satisfactory, Tetris Effect Master Mode, Minecraft with Mekanism mod & CSGO / CS2 (almost 2000 hours in CS alone).

Edit: There are so many answers that I might only reply if I have something interesting to say. I will read all of your answers though. 🙂

Edit 2: It has become too much for me and I have to disable notifications. Thank you for the massive response and please continue to discuss with everyone here. ❤️ 🫡

      • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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        1 year ago

        It’s amazing how much those games improved with sequels, but the first one on the OG X-Box was still an incredible experience, especially for the time!

        Still a worthy experience I’d say! I could listen to the voice work of that game all day.

        I even really liked the much more action-oriented Conviction. Never played Double-Agent though. Still have Blacklist on my list.

        I miss when the “Tom Clancy’s” monicker was representative of plausible tactical experiences. Sadly I don’t think we’ll ever see intense thinker-games with Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon, or Rainbow Six again. :(

  • squinky@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Dwarf Fortress. I think I have ten thousand hours in the classic game.

    Oxygen Not Included for the same reasons. I really like games where you both design, and are affected by, complex ecosystems

  • VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    Short term: Dishonored and Far Cry 3. I beat Dishonored in a day and then turned around and beat it again. I played Far Cry 3 for like 22 hours straight, took a nap, and then beat it.

    Long term: New Vegas. The same problem with Dishonored, where it was so good I had to turn around and beat it again as soon as I got done. The problem being, there’s hundreds of ways to play through New Vegas. So I put about 11 full playthroughs with all DLC in on the PS3 version. Essentially back to back to back.

  • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Right now I’m really hooked on Lucky Tower Ultimate. I’ve never been this into anything like it before, roguelites mostly bore me, but this game has such a goofy charm and - for an Early Access game - surprisingly deep explorability. It’s my go-to game for picking up my Steam Deck and screwing around for 20 minutes or an hour. I’m still having a ton of fun with it.

  • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Dota without question. CS along with some rts games like zero hour and CoH used to be up there but it’s not even close. Got to a ranked immortal at my peak. Still, was a lot of fun playing with friends and family, so not like it was always a solo activity. Glad I quit though.

    • eezeebee@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Dota without question

      Came here to say this. Over 4 years clean now. There were a lot of good times with the squad. And I guess it gave me a relatively high APM which helps at work.

  • elfharm@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Well I’m old and don’t really game anymore, but for me it was the original Halflife. The story sucked me in, not to mention the fact that I was running it on my brand new PC, which I believe was one of the first Pentium IIIs, so I could run it at the max resolution and the graphics were amazing!. I think it was 1024x768, on a huge 17" CRT monitor!

  • FenrirIII@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I bought No Man’s Sky about a year ago. There’s something comforting in the repeated tasks and exploring. I spend entire days just running around accomplishing nothing.