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

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.

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!

1. Dwarf fortress
2. Nethack
3. Factorio

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

No Man's Sky, easy

Fallout 4

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

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

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.

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…

Persona 5 for me, next is probably BOTW. I have nothing on you guys though. I seldom play any game over 150 hours. I get tired of it by 80 or so, so I'm doing everything I can to wrap it up shortly after that. I wish I didn't get so tired of a game. I'd save a lot of money if I enjoyed playing them longer.

Minecraft, there are so very many modpacks out there and i have played a lot of them, not to mention multiplayer servers such as hypixel. Really quite a lot to do there. Probably the second game would be League of Legends. and in third place we have Garry's Mod, each of these games probably with 4000+ hrs each.

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.

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.

Minecraft played it since I was a kid, too bad it never tracked any playtime, tracked CSGO 2k hours.

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

Steam claims it is Terraria with 118h, followed by Satisfactory with 78 and Tabletop Simulator with 66. But I've also sunk around 150 into Breath of the Wild on the Switch. And I have no idea about how many I got together playing WoW from 2004 until 2005 before I pulled the plug on it due to conflicts with my studies, but I'm pretty sure it's more than that 😬

Per Steam: 1138 hours in New World, which is surprising only because I thought No Man's Sky was going to crush it. Apparently not! Only 784 hours there, but since I've returned to it as my game of choice lately, there's room to grow.

[edit] oh man, I forgot Pokémon Go. I can't figure out how to get hours on there but probably a bunch.

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

Fallout New Vegas for sure. On Steam I have 467 hours logged and I played probably another 150 hours on Xbox 360 back in the day. If it wasn't so hard getting Vortex working on Linux I'd be starting another 30+ hour save today.

After that is Project Zomboid with 460 hours but I feel that's less shocking in a sandbox game.

Steam shows my most hours are in Planetside 2, I did play almost daily for a couple years with a good outfit.

Second most hours is Arma 3, tons of time spent there in single and multiplayer. Recently got back into it with the "JMs Of Order and Peace" Star Wars mod and the Dynamic Recon/Combat Ops missions.

Elite, by far. Though that was long a ago. Elite isn't the game it used to be. :(

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.

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

ADOM

EU4 lol, and by far. At least that's among I have hour counters for. I'd guess I've played more Minecraft because I played that sooo much when I was younger and still sometimes do occasionally.

aw man finall fantasy tactics a2 on the nintendo ds, i have so many memories with this game, a relative of mine sold it to mom when i was a kid cus he grew out of it (the nds) and she gave it to me, found a bunch of fun stuff packed into the custom flashcart thing and tried all of them, the game at hand i had no idea how to play each time i tried it, until one time i tried a different approach and actually got past the first fight it put me into xD ended up spending weeks upon weeks playing it and it genuinely made my childhood.. until my lil brother deleted one of the files needed for the custom firmware thing. fast forward till present day, bought nintendo ds's like 2 yrs ago and i play it everynow and then :) can confidently say i got at least 1500, maybe 2000 hrs in it, each playthrough can vary from 60-200+

Crusader Kings 2/3 and Deep Rock Galactic!

#ck2 #ck3 #DeepRockGalactic

• Diablo II
• Animal Crossing (Gamecube)--

Terarria - by far. Been playing it before it was even launched (leaked alpha) and it has by far the most play time per unit cost in my steam library.

Garry's Mod, I'm just shy of 6k hours.

NGU Idle...400 hours...I really like idle games haha

Hard to tell since not a lot of them are tracked. But Steam says I have 1300 hours in Warframe, and 1100 hours in Final Fantasy XIV. Those numbers should probably be higher, since I've played both of those more on other clients. If I had to guess, I'd say Diablo 2, Quake 3, and EVE Online.

Slay the Spire, over 1000 hours on steam plus more on Android.

I currently have 2500h in space engineers.

Team Fortress 2, then Red Dead Redemption 2

Probably CS:GO, but maybe TF2. I played a ton of TF2 in my college days both on Xbox 360 and PC. More recently (starting in about 2016 and continuing until this day) I play CS:GO pretty regularly. I was playing Overwatch from 2017-2022 as my main game but OW2 changes made me leave pretty quickly so I'm back to playing mostly CS:GO. Skyrim might be up there as well since I have played it a lot over the years.

Payday 2, CS:GO and probably LoL - played that a lot when I was younger.

Hast to be World of Warcraft + Classic. I don't have exact numbers but the last time I tallied it all up it was well beyond 2.5k hours.

Kerbal Space Program. 900+ hours and all I've done is land on the mun.

Edit: Spelling

probably Terraria and Mount&Blade

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

Counter Strike: Source, maybe even Minecraft with different Techpacks

iRacing and I don't want to know how many

Currently No Man's Sky, but in all time, probably Skyrim or Oblivion

i don't want to think about the amount of time ive wasted on league of legends. it's doubtlessly over 5000 hours at this point

Currently Elden Ring. I suspect this will be replaced by Assetto Corsa Competitzione in the future.

Currently? None, don't have time; :(.

All-time? Starcraft. That wasn't a game to me. That was a philosophy of life back in the day when it was still all the rage in South Korea.

Something around 900+ hours in Stellaris. From playing as a Egalitarian/Xenophile United Nation of Earth, fighting in a federation for justice across the Galaxy to... A race of Xenophobic/Religious Sentient Plants that are enslaving every living being and turned the human species into livestock 😇

Smash bros as a collective whole, nearly uncountable hours across each one.

For a single game maybe XCOM 2012? I played thousands of hours in that.

I easily have thousands of hours in call of duty 1 for PC. I played scrims a lot through mIRC. My xfire profile tracked most of that, although that doesn't exist anymore. Runner up would probably be Guild Wars 1 with a few thousand hours. Life before responsibilities was a wild time

Kerbal space program for me, think I managed to play 18 hours in a single day once. Been a while since I last played it tho

Age of Empires 2. Played it all the time with friends when Covid started.

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

Elder Scrolls Online.

Understandably not everyone's favorite game. But unlike most MMO's I've played, the game has a fun (enough) game play loop, with the best dungeons I've ever seen. Creative, dynamic bosses.

Oxygen Not Included or Crash Bandicoot 2 back when I had a PS1.

About 1.5k hours in Apex Legends.

Portal 2. Minecraft a close second place.

Probably Minecraft, but can't track hours on that at this point. Tracked would be overwatch, over 500+ hours at this point

Probably Minecraft. I have no way of checking, but I've played a LOT of that, just randomly getting the itch over the years and spending a few day here and there I'm sure adds up.

Hollow Knight. There’s just so much to do for a $20 game. Especially if you’re trying to reach 112% completion rate. If you like Metroidvanias, I highly recommend it.

I only started a few months ago, but I'll soon be beating my records in the Elder Scrolls Online.

On PC I think it is World of Warcraft easily. Followed by the EA Sports Football Manager.

On console, it will be any Final Fantasy, followed by another one and yet one or two more.

Insurgency, about 200 hours. Not too impressive I'm sure.

Probably Heroes & Generals (rip). Probably 2000+ hours.

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

It's been years now since I last logged in, but Eve Online. Thousands upon thousands of hours warping between gates. Sometimes I miss it, but then I remember the times I would set the alarm clock to get me up in the middle of the night so that I could join in on Corp/Alliance ops and I'm like nope. I enjoy the healthy lifestyle I have now.

Untraceable answer, probably World of Warcraft. Between playing TBC and WotLK on release, to revisiting during Legion, and then playing Classic and WotLK Classic I have probably sunk more hours than I would really like to know.

According to Steam my most played game is The Elder Scrolls Online which really surprised me, that's not what I would have guessed. Terraria is second, and that I could have guessed.

@Percy According to Steam, it's #TF2

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

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.

Probably Everquest 2, even though I haven't played it in years.

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.

Probably Minecraft

For some reason, Saints Row: The Third with only 71.6 hours. But untracked, it's most likely Call of Duty Moderna Warfare 2 (the original)

Elden Ring, The Division 2, by far. Then probably Assassin's Creed Valhalla. I couldn't believe I sunk 165 hours into Elden Ring. *Edit - I forgot about GTAV. I've played it 3 times plus tons of side missions and random stuff, so that's probably up there at 300ish

World of warcraft by a wide margin

Silent Hill. I played it multiple times on the PS1, attempting to get all the endings, continued to play it on PS2 and at least once or twice a year since. I play it on my PS Vita, my laptop or my phone these days. I sometimes have all 3 going at different stages of the game. Something just calls me back to Silent Hill...

Warhammer: Total War 2.

WoW by a long shot. I’m guessing around 10k 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.

Definitely Dota2 with around 1350. Diablo2 might be close if you sum my hours from original and resurrected.

Probably Masters Of Orion 2, been playing it semi regularly since release in '96.

Second place would be the original xcom from '94, though I've played it less since the remakes came out.

Probably FFXIV even though I don't play it anymore. After that it's probably MHW

The Witcher 3. It's probably the only game that I've played to completion more than twice.

For me it was Final Fantasy Tactics (PSone). 300+ hours. All my characters were Lvl 99 and Job level 8 in almost all jobs. I remember seeing the "character" bios and prince Orinas (he was 1 year at the game's begining) was around 15~16 years old.

I have 5500 hours in a little indie game called Altitude. Very fun if you decide to give it a try, although multi-player is really dead if you don't know when people play

AOS 0.75/Openspades

Just Cause 3. It's just wild fun action and I like tethering enemies to helicopters.

One of the Civ’s probably. Let’s say Civ 6

CS:GO, followed quite closely KSP.

Although Super Monkey Ball 2 on GameCube I suspect handily beats either.... but I can't track it lmao.

Oldschool runescape, after that probably a football manager game

Realistically, Civ 5. But Civ 6 isn't that far behind.

Around 2100 hours in DayZ and I still suck at PvP. 😁

Steam tells me 4 games over 1000 hours. I had 6136 hours in Crusader Kings 2 when I stopped playing in 2020. 1018 in CK3 but I don't play it anymore either. 1132 hours in Project Zomboid. 1210 hours in SCUM. Back in the day I put in a stupid amount of hours in Everquest and WoW though.

I have over 1.1 thousand hours in Portal 2