Asklemmy

Do you count AFK time?

If not, Factorio, with ~500 hours active time.

If so, Clicker Heroes, with 2900 hours, but only about 50 of those were not AFK.

Team fortress 2 for me

Factorio at about 600 hours. The factory must grow.

Eve Online but a lot of it just spent 'station spinning'.. Other than that Arma 3 and Dark Souls 3.

Probably Minecraft

Warframe. The grind sucked me in hard. Was a lot of fun too. I have accumulated 3300 hours.

WoW by a long shot. I’m guessing around 9k hours in total. I’ve mostly quit by now due to time constraints, but I recognize that when I do play, I neglect lots of other things.

EVE Online... I have at least a thousand hours in that game. I haven't played in years, but no game since have satisfied the same depth of mechanics and unique community.

Was a lurker on Reddit, want to contribute more on Lemmy. This seems like a nice easy post to start.

My top 5 starting with most hours:

1. Fallout 4 + FO4 VR
2. Fallout NV
3. Civ 5
4. Rocket League
5. Fallout 3

I jump around games quite a lot and don't generally stick with one for tons of hours -- but I think Stardew Valley with over 200hrs is probably my highest. That game can definitely be addicting.

Probably Morrowind at this point. Lately I've been doing a new modded save with Ashfall to give a new and ever-present twist to the core gameplay. Can't believe stuff like it still comes out for a game from 2002.

1. SMITE
2. Guild Wars
3. Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
4. Overwatch

Fallout 4

I got 12750 hours on my Old School RuneScape ironman, probably another 10000-15000 hours across all my other accounts the past 20 years :P then I have good 5000 hours on CSGO and 2500 in Final Fantasy 14 online.

It’s a toss-up between Richard Burns Rally and Dirt Rally 2. I’ve played a ton of DR2 over the years but since I started playing RBR in 2004 when it came out, it’s quite possible that all my return visits to it add up to more hours overall still…

I just hit the max (999 hours, 59 minutes) in yo-kai 3 for 3ds a few days ago.

If we just talk about the last few years:

• 0 A.D has been very fun, although I play offline because I'm casual af :) Has all the things I liked about Age of Empires and more, and I've been building from source so it gets improvements every week.
• Xonotic has had an excellent community whenever I've gone online, so can recommend.
• Mindustry is a blast

There is a soft spot in my heart for SuperTuxKart too, despite the current project leadership.

Destiny 2, although I played for like a year total and stopped playing in 2020

Team Fortress 2, with over 2100 hours logged. More back on the Xbox 360 copy and when it was free during the Mac Update.

1. Dwarf fortress
2. Nethack
3. Factorio

Easily:

• Rocket League: > 1700 Hours. (Still ranked Diamond though, lol)
• Team Fortress 2 / Left 4 Dead 1 & 2: sub-1000 hours, each.
• Subspace/Continuum: over 1000 hours for sure, but nobody counted. Tried jumping back in the game just for fun, i'm back to square one "what's the button to attach?". I was a Trench Wars/Extreme Games pub guy.

EDIT: First post in a two years-old lurking account. Hello, world!

This is going to sound weird to the Lemmy crowd I'm sure, but Madden NFL 08 on the GameCube/Dolphin

My top three according to steam are:

1. Stellaris with 1027 hours
2. Rimworld with 716 hours
3. Hunt: Showdown with 525 Hours

Although the game I've played the most over all my years and outside of steam is definitely Deus Ex. I've put a lot of time into it exploring the single player, playing the multiplayer, and messing around with mods since it came out in 2001. The same would go for Unreal Tournament 2004 which I easily had over a thousand hours in back in high school, before steam was a thing.

I haven't played it in a year, but I do have 1928 hours in Europa Universalis IV.

Probably RuneScape, then followed by Counter Strike Source.

The Binding of Isaac, roguelikes are inherently replayable and mods make it even moreso

I think its Dragon's Dogma at this point.

Dota. Fuck that game! Other than that, WoW, Rust and Arma3/DayZ.

procrastination and Minecraft

Seems like it's TF2, but I haven't touched it in years. TF2, Garry's Mod, and Payday 2 were probably the only games I played for most of my pre-teen years, but nowadays I've been dipping my toes in a bunch of different stuff, even if it's not for very long. The one with the most recently would probably be Yakuza: Like a Dragon, by virtue of being crazy long.

They’re all games from when I was a kid and had more free time- so Garrys Mod, Half-Life 2 and Portal take the cake

I can't remember 95% of what I did on EVE Online for the like 3 months I feverously played it, but it's sitting as my highest played game. Though I guess there was a lot of afk mining going on. For actually always active gameplay it's terraria. If I logged minecraft hours, it would probably be up there.

Shoutout to the oddball Graveyard Keeper being in my top 5. It's really not a game with enough content to play 200 hours, but I did it anyways. Finished my...5th? full ending + DLC run a few months ago.

Enemy Engaged series, I had about 800 on one save game at one point, but I've had many new ones since then.

Quake 3 Arena, uncountable. Possibly thousands.

GTA Online on PS3 about 1000 I think.

Destiny... I dunno but a lot (I have platinum), possibly also over a 1000.

GTA IV, played it through about 10 times so possibly 300-500.

Persona 5, including Royal. Across PS3, PS4/5, and PC, I think my collective time spent playing the game is 1000+ hours. I have no life and need to touch grass.

I put in about 2000 matches worth of games in league of legends within about a year when i started playing it at 2014. but since about 2016 i only put in about 500 games at most, kinda quit playing it. Also put in at least like 3k+ hours into world of warcraft, and alot of time into minecraft and around 1k in FFXIV too

Unreal tournament 99. Probably more than 10,000 hours. I used to play it so so much. Nothing else even comes close

GTAV if you count the time spent AFK grinding virtual cash... (1200hrs total)

Age of Empires 2 DE for most active time. (532hrs, plus an additional 216hrs with HD version)

It will probably always be World of Warcraft. No time these days to match that on a single game, not by a long shot.

Skyrim. There is a distinct lack of Skyrim in here. I find this odd...

DotA 2. It's a prison you can never escape from.