What are your favorite 1000+ hour games?

Submitted ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨DuckWrangler9000@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

One thing I have struggled with lately is finding good games to play. I bounce around from game to game trying to enjoy it but it just doesn’t scratch the itch like it used to. For example, one of my favorites was old school RuneScape, but it hasn’t really been giving me the same enjoyment that it used to. So then I would open up World of Warcraft, Destiny 2, just playing a little bit of each game. Think maybe I need some new games to play but it’s tough to find them these days.

So what are your favorite 1000+ hour games?

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Juice@midwest.social ⁨21⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
I have around 1700 hs in Destiny 2, and close to the same in Bloodborne. Over 1000 hours in the last 2 monster hunter titles. I’ve replayed resident evil 4 and castlevania sotn dozens of times.

So those are my most played games

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Nima@leminal.space ⁨28⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
terraria for me. i keep managing to find new stuff over a thousand hours later.

“Has this item always been here?! no way. REALLY?”

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Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨30⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
Team Fortress 2

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2ugly2live@lemmy.world ⁨34⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
Monster Hunter: Not all at once of course, but it’s a game I keep coming back to. A friend in college introduced me to it on the psp and I was invested. I’ve had some version of it somewhere since, and I don’t think I’ve ever removed it from my psp either.

Overwatch: This is from before the change, but it became a comfort game. There were no chats, and I didn’t have to be in voice chat. I was low level (bronze), but I was content. I still play here and there, but I may get a match or two in before I leave out. Back in the day I could play for hours.

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RobotZap10000@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
Team Fortress 2. There’s just so many different ways to play the game with its combination of classes, weapons and game modes!

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Electric_Druid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
Oxygen Not Included- very detailed colony sim where scientific things like heat exchange, air pressure, etc. are essential for survival. I swear, my next file will be perfect…

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ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
If you like space games, X3 and X4 can probably eat up lots and lots of your time. Space Engineers if you’re less interested in flying, space economics and creating a supply chain (which X lets you) and more in gathering materials and creating all sorts of weird, funny or actually amazing stuff. SE is probably better played with at least 1 other person, possibly more, while X is exclusively single player.

Grand Strategy games can also obliterate your free time. Civilization 5, any Total War game. Hell, Age of Empires 2 can have very long matches if you play on huge maps and people have loved that game for over 20 years.

You can also go for Fallout 4 or Skyrim with extra content mods, like dungeons, quests or areas.

Personally, I’m just past 400h on Palworld, so I’d recommend it as well. I’ve played from start to “finish” some 4 times by now. Official servers will be wiped sometime in December, possibly with a new patch arriving, but you can always play single player and even invite a friend to play on your local save and never lose progress (unless the save gets corrupted, which can happen).

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Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
Civ 6, Fallout 4

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ALERT@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
cracktorio

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- ouch@lemmy.world ⁨38⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
  First at least make sure the poor sod does not have a family!
  
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thisisdee@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Rimworld, and Football Manager (although they last one I played is 2020)

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fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Rocket League

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Brokkr@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Factorio, it’s fun from the first minute but you’ll still be learning new things after 1000 hours.

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- Harrk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
  200 hours in for me and I just learned you can put gates over train tracks. 🤯 Found out by reading the in game manual that I was too proud to read beforehand. So uhm… read the manual.
  
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- baldingpudenda@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Me: Ooooooohhhh, ok. I know how logistic networks work. 2 hrs later Me: wtf? Production stopped. Why does this one belt have 5 different materials. Oh…idk how chests work. That’s OK I’ll simplify it until it works. suns up and birds chirping Me: ok, ok. So it’s working, but i dont know why.
  
  800 hrs in and I still underestimate the space I need. Best 30 bucks I’ve ever spent.
  
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kazerniel@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Guild Wars 2, so far I put 4,800+ hours into it.

I like that it has so many kinds of solo and group content that I can just do whatever I’m in the mood for that day.

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- Silinde@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  After playing for 2000 hours, this one is an easy recommendation from me, too. The game was quite light on endgame content at release, but due to the design of the game, now the vast majority of the game occurs at ‘endgame’ and can be very fun. I love how I can come back after a couple of years, buy access to any content I missed in the meantime and have a character that doesn’t need to grind levels or gear, just jump straight into story mode and get caught up on the story. Even better when you don’t have to worry about making your playtime feel like it needs to be ‘worth it’, since you don’t need to pay monthly to play.
  
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toddestan@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The only two games I have that I’ve put more than 1000 hours in are Factorio and Rimworld. I’d highly recommend both.

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Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
A long time ago now I spent over 10,000 hours on world of warcraft. I wouldn’t really recommend getting into it now though, I think the magic is gone.

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- Silinde@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  After around 16,000 hours, I’ve found WoW to be a lot more fun playing with others than just restricting myself to open world and full-PUG content. The last expansion was decent (story was a bit meh, but gameplay was great) and the current expansion has been okay so far. I just hope they can get balancing right on events going forward, since it’s getting tiring seeing them create a massive artificial grind then walk back on it a week or two later.
  
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hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Warframe. Inching closer to 3.000h currently.

It does come in waves, but every once in a while I go all in again and lose myself in the infinite things you can do.

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kyub@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Deep Rock Galactic

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beerclue@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Project Zomboid, Rimworl, Dwarf Fortress, Stellaris, Starsector…

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- DuckWrangler9000@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  You really like simulators?
  
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  - beerclue@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I… guess? I don’t know how I would classify these games. But they all are able to steal from me 8h in a day, no issue :)
    
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Skunk@jlai.lu ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Kerbal Space Program

I’m well above a thousand hours on the first game. Then all my flying sims (MSFS, Xplane, DCS, Elite Dangerous) also have a very high hour count. But for civilian airliners most of those hours are spent AFK in cruise.

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Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Monster Hunter. The first one I played, MH4U back in the 3DS days, I put 1,000 hours into. That was nearly 10 years ago, and I’m still playing the franchise to this day. Currently finally going through the Sunbreak expansion of Monster Hunter Rise on the PC, and noticing a marked improvement in my mental health over playing other games.

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- reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Also came here to recommend Monster Hunter. If these games grab you, there’s many hours of play in it for you.
  
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callouscomic@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Elder Scrolls Online, as long as you find a good group of friends.

I also nearly have 1000 hours in MGSV Phantom Pain.

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Tolstoy@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Not a favourite anymore but still beats my second most played games by a factor of 4… Warframe was fun at the beginning and really clicked at about 200hrs. I left after about 2200hrs because I burned out but it still has a place in my heart.

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Ugurcan@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord with some mods took long enough to give up for me.

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- Somsphet@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Star wars mods make it really fun
  
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asudox@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’ve been playing Tf2 for over 1.5k hours now. I recommend yoi try it out, there’s a reason why that game from 2007 is still not dead.

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- HollowNaught@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  The best war themed hat simulator out there
  
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PunchingWood@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’ve also mostly enjoyed online multiplayer games, but I play a bit of everything. I think these are the games I’ve played most in order it must be:

World of WarCraft - Been at it since a year or so after it originally launched. Played a lot of Guild Wars 1 before that, and also lots of other MMO games before and in between, but WoW is the one I always keep coming back to. Longest break must’ve been like 6-7 years around the Cataclysm expansion, and then back at it at the end of Legion. It’s on the back burner now again because of another mediocre expansion, but I still check it out occasionally. I think I must’ve sank at least 5000+ hours (probably way more) into this game over the past 20 years.

Elite Dangerous - Been backing it since Kickstarter, had high hoped for the game and it was fun while it lasted. But I lost all hope in Frontier in managing this game. They’re only focusing heavily on microtransactions, currencies and paid early access content now. Must’ve been about 1500-2500 hours or something, but I’ve been out of this one for a couple of years now. I had high hopes for the future of this game, but Frontier is a master of promising glory and delivering disappointment.

Squad - Last, but certainly not least for me, around 1400 hours playtime (including the testing branch client). Got into this game right when it launched into early access on Steam. Was very tired of the themepark rides that Battlefield and CoD were turning into, but didn’t want to commit to Arma’s milsim style either. Squad fits in between perfectly. Also one of the greatest game communities I’ve got the pleasure to be playing with, never had so much fun with completely random strangers. The mandatory voice-chat really ties it together to create amazing and fun moments. This game really taught me that voice chat in games can actually be good, and not just kids spitting insults.

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Matshiro@szmer.info ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Right now I can’t recommend it because streamers and reddit made the game kinda trash, but Path of Exile. On steam I have 3k hours and I played on original launcher 5-10 more times longer.

I hope poe2 will make Poe great again.

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mox@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Elite Dangerous is my go-to lately.

It’s different to most other games by not being goal-oriented, except for the goals you set for yourself. No main quest line dictating progress. No mandatory tasks. No win condition. Instead, it drops you into a simulation of our entire galaxy roughly 1300 years in the future, where humanity has mastered hyperspace travel and spread through hundreds of star systems.

I like that it offers a variety of activities to fit whatever mood I might be in on a given day. I can hunt pirates, mine asteroids, engage in a bit of piracy myself, find and collect bio samples, infiltrate hostile settlements, venture into vast unexplored areas of space, discover Earth-like worlds that nobody has ever encountered before, defend humanity against hostile forces, photograph beautiful stellar phenomena, rescue stranded survivors, customize and finely tune my ship to perform beyond its original specs, team up with friends, pledge to a political power and expand their influence, or chill out as a space trucker and haul cargo to earn enough money for my next upgrade. It can occupy all my attention, or just be relaxing entertainment while I listen to music or an audiobook.

It’s an MMO in the sense of having a large game world (galaxy) shared by all players in real time, but PvP is optional. One play mode exposes you to other players, while another limits you to NPC encounters. You can switch between them at will.

One warning: A space ship has more than a few controls to learn, and they’re better suited to a game controller or HOTAS than a keyboard and mouse.

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negativenull@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’m amazed nobody has mentioned Kerbal Space Program (first one). That she TF2 are my just 3 played

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- Finadil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yay, a fellow KSPer! Though I’m just barely over at 1,041 hrs.
  
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thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
L4D2. built a new computer for that game specifically after loving L4D. super fun arcade shooter that will never be uninstalled from my computer.

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- zante@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Unmatched experience
  
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stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Trackmania 2020. Great example of a game that is simple in concept but super deep in skills that you can both play super casually at your own pace or super competitively. Plus there is a great community and endless content to play.

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