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uh, factorio just hits the neurons right, idk what to tell you.

Minecraft just hits my autism where it hurts. I'm a simple man, you entertain my neurons, and i will be happy.

Rust can take while to load. I swear a few hundred of those hours were AFK.

one of my steam friends has a program that farms steam hours, just for the shock factor

Steam just tracks how long the program is running. My old rig played Dark Souls 3 24/7 sometimes because the .exe file would glitch and stay open until I manually terminated it. I averaged 168 hours a week coming back from a 2 week vacation once.

Leaving a game running in the backvround while doing other things still adds up

i have 1200h in skyrim, 1000 of which i clocked in because as pre-teen who was yet to learn that being trans is a thing i unknowingly used it to escape dysphoria. can't feel bad if i'm spending most of my days as male cat, the chosen one at that!

I have like 3700 hours in factorio, but I also leave it running when I’m not around… like an idle game

The only game I have that many hours in is because I left it open the whole day while I was working to take 5 minute breaks to play it.

My friend just shared this with me:

A typical working year is approximately 2,000 hours, just for context.

That is nuts.

I have over 1,900 hrs on Deep Rock Galactic.

The key is persistence.

Rock and Stone! oT

I leave the game running at night while I sleep

In college I would study between rounds of civ and binding of isaac. These days I'll use a rougelike or stardew or something as something to do while listening to an audiobook when the weather isn't fit for biking

I honestly don't get it. I've been playing the same game for about three months of real time now and clocked in about 120 hours. I didn't play anything else and and it's consuming most of the time I have to myself. The game is Witcher 3.

Now, that means every 1000 hours would take me 25 months or just over two years of playing a game exclusively. Probably more since my data above includes my Christmas vacation, which was quite lengthy. No single game is good enough to take such a big place in my life. I could play so many shorter better games.

The only games I have over 1000 hours in are games that I've owned for more than 10 years and are online. TF2, Counter-Strike, Arma 2 and 3, Rocket League...

I love Souls games and have played the shit out of every single one; but they average 300-500 hours of total playtime.

I'm sorry but I want to take a slight tangent to show just how high my power level is when it comes to this shit.

I was interested in tracking my game time on my games in years well before Steam was a thing. We had a family computer and a printer.

Some are expecting an excel spreadsheet, which was absolutely possible, and I'll come back to that, but no. I was maybe 8 years old and my solution was to print off an entire page of numbers, cut each of them out individually, then every time I played a game, I'd place the next number inside the CD case.

Naïve me thought printing up to 20 would be enough, but once I went over that, I simply kept the 20 in the case and added another number inside.

Years later - in my teens in the mid-00's - I was obsessed with Pro Evolution Soccer. This is where the excel spreadsheet came in. I logged every single game, the result, the date I played the game, colour coded the results red/yellow/green to show loss/draw/win respectively, won trophies, and a bunch of other stats.

I didn't move on to Steam properly until the start of the 2010s. Since then my biggest game is 2016's Motorsport Manager, which has logged in 1720 hours, followed by Civ V which has 1122 hours since I started playing in 2017.

My current time sink is Football Manager. I have played over 500 hours in little over a year. Anyone who has played FM knows those are rookie numbers.

I quit League some half a year ago after 10 years of playing. I can see now how impossible it seems to play that consistently when you just consume different games rather than having a single title.

It's a completely different experience.

As a side note, what's up with all the people saying "I played a game", just say what game it is, we are all nerds in here.

Warframe is a hell of a drug.