Post your top 5 most played PC games, and how much time you've spent on each.

Vindris

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1. WoW - 7,200 hours
2. Elite Dangerous - 1,400 hours
3. Terraria - 900 hours
4. Street Fighter V - 400 hours
5. Factorio - 400 hours
 

XavierMace

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Star Trek Online: 2,768 hours
Stellaris: 801 hours
Endless Legend: 456 hours
Civ V: 350 hours
Warframe: 276 hours
 

SMOGZINN

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The Binding of Isaac. 3482
Terraria 297
Divinity OS 176
Subnautuca 160
7 Days to Die 141

All this just from my Steam, I probably played several thousand hours on World of Warcaft before I quit it, and I have played probably a thousand hours of Diablo 3, and back in the day I had right at 10,000 hours in AustinMUD.

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ImpulsE69

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An interesting thing I've noticed about myself over the years is that in most single player games once I hit around 65 hours I get bored of it and finishing/playing more is a struggle.

Depending on the multiplayer game though I can spend years on a good addictive game. I've never tracked hours as that would make me sad.
 

Stg-Flame

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I'm not going to bother with Steam stats.

Diablo 2: LoD: 10,000+
TES: Morrowind/Oblivion/Brood Wars/Warcraft 2: 5,000+
Medieval 2: Total War: 2,291 (Steam stats)
Borderlands 2: 2,118 (Steam)
Dungeon Defenders: 1,178 (Steam)

Yes I know that's technically 8 but the ones I lumped together all have around the same time on them ranging from the mid 4,000s with WC2: BattleNet Edition and the high 5,000s with Morrowind and Oblivion.
 

WiseUp216

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Binding of Isaac: Rebirth - 1,291
Arma 3 - 490
Fallout 4 - 192
Borderlands 2 - 133
Witcher 3 - 121

Arma 2 and Escape From Tarkov would be number 3 and 4 but those hours are not on Steam.
 

Thebobo

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Don't know the times

1. Everquest - years of wasted time, but fun.
2. Rift
3. WoT
4. B&W II
5. Supreme Commander. 1&11

6. X Plane II - will soon be my number 1
 

[DHT]Osiris

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For Steam:
1) Skyrim: 761hrs (add 127hrs for SE)
2) Mount & Blade: 335hrs
3) Grim Dawn: 265hrs
4) Just Cause 2: 256hrs (surprised by that one)
5) Eve Online: 254hrs
Very very close to it are Stellaris (actively play, will likely move to 4 or 3 before too long), and Morrowind.

Outside of steam, top 3 would definitely be WoW, EQ (not sure in which order, easily thousands of hours each), and Dwarf Fortress, also easily thousands of hours.
 

Ackmed

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1. Tribes
2. JK II
3. Moto Racer
4. Q2
5. UT2003

Tribes is my absolute #1 game of all time. Fastest FPS by far, way ahead of its time. Played competitively, as I did with all games in my top 5 of hours played. Had practices, went to LAN's, was in Beta's, played with the devs in person. I am almost ashamed at how much time I must have spent on it.

No idea how many hours, this was before counters on things like Steam. This was all when I was younger, and didn't have 4 kids, married and in college. Overall though, is probably the Battlefield series. I have played every game a lot. With my PS4 and PC hours combined I am at almost 200 with BF 1 alone. Borderlands is close with 141 hours, Borderlands 2 has 79 hours according to Steam.
 
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EXCellR8

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Steam games:

1. Dirt Rally - 105 hrs (tied w/ Killing Floor 2)
2. Deus Ex: Human Revolution - 99 hrs
3. Dirt 4 - 97 hrs
4. Borderlands 2 - 73 hrs
5. Prey - 72 hrs

On average I'm about 30hrs on other titles but I know that I've spend a couple hundred hours in Destiny 2; before that I think Fallout 3 and BioShock likely held my interest the longest after HL2
 

Zenoth

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Most of the times listed are estimations:

- Diablo II: Lord of Destruction

At around 6 years (give or take a few months).

I bought it in mid summer 2001, played pretty much every day of the week, and every week-ends with very few exceptions for a solid 2 years; then still played very regularly with only a bit more spacing between sessions for another 4 years or so (about 1 year and a half played offline, then moved to B.net for the rest until I finally quit). This case is particular for me. This is the only game in my own history of being a gamer (since around age 9 up to this day) that legit negatively affected my social life and my physical health. I called in 'sick' at work more times than anyone should have even if they had a passionate hobby (thankfully I was done with school by then, even though it was still relatively recent).

It's also the only game ever that forced me to act against it to help myself get out of my addiction. I simply looked at the disc one day (LoD's) and snapped it in two and threw it in the garbage bin. So I don't know the number of actual played hours, at all. I wouldn't want to know. The real answer is: too much. It's my personal record to this day I believe. I did play other games (listed below) a good amount, sure; but never again like I played D2 LoD.

- Allods Online

At around 2 years (give or take a few months).

That's the first MMORPG I invested myself into seriously, time and money-wise. I had heard of and tried a few other MMOs prior to Allods but at the time the very concept of "MMORPGs" was still relatively recent for me, even though it had been around for a long time already; it just wasn't a genre in gaming that I had payed much attention to on an individual basis. If my memory serves me right I started to play it around summer 2010 (can't recall exactly what brought me to the game but I do remember it being, or "going" F2P in an update that had been advertised to some extent and I probably just happened to read about it, it was free and I had nothing else to play maybe at the time; so I gave it a try).

I played it also very regularly, joining guilds (not many though), doing guild activities, doing end-game raids and such; typical 'engaged' and dedicated MMORPG player who had no life at that time (I was unemployed then, and wasn't looking for work that much either; it was a weird period in my life too but I'll skip those useless details). I played it very regularly for about one and a half year, then I started to slow down my play frequencies and session duration. I would let the guild leader know ahead of time I would not go to certain raids or guild fights and I almost stopped random grinding in end-game zones. The gameplay itself started to get boring and the blatant P2W iron fist that the game was at its core eventually served as one of the big final nails in the coffin for me. Among other reasons, but also including bad decisions from the devs (in my book anyway) with overall just bad updates made me quit entirely.

I do remember quitting in early 2012 (around February I think) and took the opportunity to sell my account (which I had spent about $400 on, which itself was absolutely nothing compared to some individuals who were known at the time in specific "high-end" guilds to have spent absurd amounts of money going well into the 30K to 40K and no I'm not exaggerating).

- TERA

At around 3 years (give or take a few months).

Some time then had passed since my venture into MMORPG territory and between Allods and Tera I had only played a little bit of Guild Wars 2 if I recall correctly. However, GW2 didn't ultimately hook me enough to stay (to this day I still own the game but I have never made it to character level cap a single time; my highest level was about 68 or 69 which if I remember is literally 1 or 2 levels away from actual cap). So one day I saw previews and reviews of that new "Tera Online" game, which at the time was on a subscription model but a short week-end long 'open beta' popped in.

So I downloaded it to give it a try and was absolutely blown away by the physics and dynamics-based real time combat system. It was such a day and night difference between it and Allods' archaic tab-targetting with auto-aiming enemies and constantly lock-on to your movements that I absolutely had to give it a try. And, on the plus side, the game was genuinely very pretty to look at (those Koreans have their way with scenery, architecture, character designs and styles). And the soundtrack was in large part composed by none other than Inon Zur (also Dragon Age composer; and on a side note Tera's OST has a bunch of tracks that absolutely have that Dragon Age structure and 'flair' to it).

I genuinely really enjoyed the first year and a half or so (even more than Allods, actually way more so). However, by around the second year kicked in the game unmistakably started to change for the worse (gameplay wise, dungeon design wise and so on), and its "dress up simulator" nature and silliness personally pissed me off more than anything else. The game had legit bad ass costume designs originally for all races with some sexy-yet-universe-fitting ones for those who liked to see a bit more skin on their toons; all of it was in good taste with great artistic design choices. But after a certain threshold of tolerance I couldn't stop ignoring those otherwise awesome characters running around cosplaying neon-bright animals and using barbecue items for weapons with a grill for a shield.

But past the stupidity for aesthetics the gameplay started to suffer as well (especially end-game) and the severe drop in general difficulty to "alleviate" leveling up, along with actual removal of content (rather than to improve it) acted as final punches to my gut. I had to quit, and did. That time around, however, I didn't sell my account (harder and less common to do for that game, was still done though but I didn't bother to; and contrarily to Allods I didn't spend as much on that one anyway).


- Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer

At around 1,600 hours.

I could check on my Origins account but I still remember the number fairly well. I hated the campaign, but genuinely really loved its multiplayer. I played it daily for months, probably more than a year actually. I still play it from time to time to this day (maybe once or twice a month). And there's not much to talk about here really. It's just ME3's MP. I can only say that I didn't think (really) that Andromeda's MP would (or could) be worse. But it was. Still to this day I think that ME3 MP has been one of the best cooperation-based online action-focused game I've played.

It was simple, didn't have too many layers of complexity, wasn't P2W (literally never spent a single penny on it and unlocked absolutely everything there was to unlock and leveled up everything that could be leveled up) was overall well balanced and despite some technical and A.I. issues here and there was rather polished for what it was in the end (just a "branch" off the campaign that served more of an experiment for the franchise at that point than anything else). Just loved it. I still like it today and would still recommend it. The players base has of course massively dropped but it's still technically active and possible to find lobbies and people.

- Team Fortress 2

At around 1,500 hours (give or take a few dozens I suppose).

It's similar in time played to ME3 MP and a bunch of other online multiplayer-focused games I dedicate a nice chunk of time for (others would be the likes of Quake 3 Arena on the Dreamcast, UT99 on PS2, UT2004 on PC, Left 4 Dead; and a few more). But I'm specifically listing TF2 because at the time when I got it (Orange Box during its week of release, still have the retail box too) I thought it was the absolute best multiplayer game I had ever played in my life. And to honest, it was for some time too. It was a genuine gem of a game with superb Pixar-like art style like I had never seen before (especially not for an online game). It was just charming and its characters were memorable (it helped to give them each a personality with those short CGI presentations; "CGI Shorts" in the veins of Blizzard's Shorts for Overwatch before that stuff came, Valve at the time were probably ahead of the curve).

But yeah, it's TF2, everyone knows what it is so there's not much else to add here. I did stop playing it entirely but not because I "hated" it at any point. I just had my fill and moved on, but I have no regrets; absolutely loved my time playing it.

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Now I could go on and on. There's of course the hundreds of single player games I played a lot of from 8-bit years and platforms to now, but I picked the ones above since those really have been cases where I was literally doing marathon sessions on a regular basis. I mean if I accumulate all my time ever that I have played the Super Mario Bros games it would probably amount to a solid thousand hours or even more across all the years and various games but, indeed, it would take many games to reach that point; not to mention that I never, ever spent 6 or up to 10 hours sessions playing either those games or even any other memorable and personal Hall of Fame games that I hold near and dear to my heart. There's indeed a clear distinction between loving a game but "just" playing it 30 or 40 hours, and dedicating yourself to a game and playing it for months almost without pause.
 
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bfun_x1

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1. Counter Strike:Source 2000 hours
2. Battlefield 2 : 1500 hours
3. Battlefield 1942: 1000 hours
4. Titanfall: 700 hours
5. City of Heroes: 600 hours
 

Chaotic42

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No idea on times, but I'm guessing:

WoW
Diablo 1
Battlefield 2
Modern Warfare 2
Battlefield 1942
 

urvile

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Doom
Goldeneye 007 (deathmatch & single player)
Doom 64
Half Life 2
Halo Co-Op

As for actual hours are you serious? I didn't keep a log. :p
 

DeathReborn

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Diablo 2 LoD - Best part of 7 years
Civilization 2 - Best part of 5 years

Steam Listed...
Football Manager 2016 - 1,828 hours
Warlock Master of the Arcane - 1,751 hours
Windward - 1,273 hours
Football Manager 2017 - 1,248 hours
Civilization 4 - 1,065 hours
 

Midwayman

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1. Tribes

Tribes is my absolute #1 game of all time. Fastest FPS by far, way ahead of its time. Played competitively, as I did with all games in my top 5 of hours played. Had practices, went to LAN's, was in Beta's, played with the devs in person. I am almost ashamed at how much time I must have spent on it.

Shazbot! I always loved the spinfusor the most. I did some of the UI and texture work on that one. :D

For me
1) Battlefield series. I think I've done well over 1k hours on each one since they started logging
2) Ultima online probably. It was when I was in college and nearly got myself kicked off the college modem pool
3) WoW. That was a serious addiction for about 2 years
4) From steam- Divinity Original Sin 1 and 2 with about 200hrs each.
5) from steam- Shadow Run with about 150

I feel like most of the games I got really into aren't steam games though so its hard to get numbers.
 
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mikeymikec

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StarCraft 2 (probably the largest amount of hours)
XCOM EU / EW, XCOM2 / WOTC, Skyrim / SE plus expansions, between 200-600 hours for each
Witcher 3 HoS BaW, probably 200 hours
UFO: Enemy Unknown: probably 200 hours or so I'd guess.

I'd have to reboot into Windows to check the exact figures... unless there's some way to log on to the Steam website and get that information? No idea.
 

Griffinhart

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Top 5... Not so easy to determine but

1. Between EverQuest and EverQuest 2, tens of thousands of hours (literally) I actively played from 1999 to about 2016, give or take.
2. Between Company of Heroes 1 and 2, probably close to 1000 hours.
3. Various versions of Civilization since the original, thousands of hours over 27 years since its release.

While I have spend hours playing other games over the years, none come close to these three.
 

local

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Known hours.

Hearts of Iron III - 610
Stellaris - 505
War Thunder - 419, with about twice that much outside of Steam.
Hearts of Iron IV - 374
Crusader Kings II - 333

Unknown hours.
EQ - couple thousand.
Dwarf Fortress - easily a thousand.
World of Tanks - Several hundred to a thousand.
World of Warships - Several hundred.

I do tend to jump around a lot. I spend about 20-40 hours per week depending on my weekends but I can easily play a different game every day. Recently I have been heavily into Xenonauts with the X-Division mod due to backing Xenonauts 2 and looking forward to Phoenix Point next year.
 

Artorias

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I've got a really wide spectrum here.

  1. Team Fortress 2(4040 hours). Got this with the Orange Box and played it through my high school/college days. Lots of fond memories, haven't played it really in a few years though.
  2. GTAV Online(1473 hours). This is currently one of two online games I play. Just going around collecting and building the empire.
  3. Dark Souls 1 Prepare To Die Edition(859 hours). My second favourite game of all time. Finished it more than 10 times, filled all characters slots, and participated in all of the PVP it has to offer. Put it to rest a couple of years ago.
  4. CS GO(844 hours). Classic shooter.
  5. Football Manager 2012(825 hours). Football is one of my passions and this game is a huge extension of that.
  6. Football Manager 2014(786 hours).
 

cmdrdredd

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No idea how many hours I had in Diablo 2 or Final Fantasy XI Online when I played that. Must be measured in real years lol. Also don't know how much I have played The Witcher 3 or GTA5. Then you have to consider the arena shooters I used to play daily back in the late 90s.
 

Ackmed

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Shazbot! I always loved the spinfusor the most. I did some of the UI and texture work on that one. :D

I am glad to meet someone on the team. I know that skiing wasn't intentional, but made the game so great. So damn fast. Faster than any other FPS. MA's with the spinfuser were amazing, chaingun was too ping dependent. And I was a HPB at the time. 200mbs for the entire game, and so damn awesome. I only wish I enjoyed games like that nowdays. So far aheads of its time.

I can still remember the voice commands for most of the... VEI!
 

DigDog

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1. Blacklight Retribution (FPS)
Hours not known as it didnt have steam integration, but i spent every waking hour between august 2012 and august 2015 on it, i would say at least 30h/w, so around 5000h in these 3 years, after which much less, maybe 10-15h weekly. I still play it occasionally but now it's garbage.
2. QuakeLive
Again pre steam, played nonstop 2010-2012, then again 2016-present,but only about 10h/w. Upwards of 2000h.
3. Dark Age Of Camelot
Six months at 6h/day, then i set myself a challenge to do lev1->lev50 in one session, played for idk how much with brief crash-out interruptions, and then i quit. About 1k hours.
4. Minecraft
Single-player only. I played through the golden age of MC and loved every second, but the regular save-file corruption soured it in the end, plus the dodgy design choices. 1k hours or more.
5. Angband
My latest craze, been dedicating at least 2h/day now plus some extended streches when i got time. Probably at 500h now, climbing.
 

Oyeve

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1. Skyrim - well over 2000 hours
2. GTAV - well over 2000 hours
3. Quake - a bazillion hours
4. UT - well over a bazillion hours
5. Doom - well over a bazillion hours