What game did you spend the most time on?

[Tavar]

As the title says: What game did you spend the most time on in total? For me, this question is surprisingly hard to answer given the lack of time keeping in older titles. I think it's probably a Blizzard RTS as I spend a lot of time in Warcraft III (including DotA), Starcraft and Starcraft 2. However, Diablo 2 is a strong contender as is Baldur's Gate 2 as multiple play throughs quickly rack up a lot of time.

 

[Falksi]

Hard to say for definite as mine are spread over several systems, some of which don't measure game-play time, but at a guess I'd say my top 5 most played are:

• X-Com '94
• Baldur's Gate 2
• Afterburner 2
• Phantasy Star 4
• Star Control

EDIT: Total War: Rome would be in with a shout too

 

[Bester]

About a thousand hours on all Dark Souls combined.
Then ~300 hours on BG2 playthroughs.

 

[Gandalf]

World of Warcraft - played it for 7-8 hours everyday for 10 years.

It's about 29216 hours, I think.

 

[KörangarTheMighty]

Guild Wars 1 - About 6000 hours since 2008. (Probably about a third is idling in Kamadan.)
Crusader Kings II - About 2500 hours since 2013.
Conan Exiles - About 1600 hours from 2017 - 2021.
League of Legends - About 3000 hours since 2010.
War Thunder - About 700 hours since 2014.
LotRO - Probably about 1000 hours over the course of five months in 2011-2012.
Halo: Combat Evolved on PC - Unknown. I was an admin in a Racing clan and spent a degenerate amount of time playing from 2005-2009. Xfire used to track the hours, I reckon about 2000 or so.

 

[Tarkleigh]

I just checked and it seems like I have played over 48 days (1152 hours) of Path of Exile, so I would tentatively declare it the winner. Other games I had in mind were:

• Baldur's Gate 2 - I did several playthroughs and it is a very long game
• Planescape Torment - also pretty long and my favorite RPG of all time, so I replayed it a lot
• Warcraft 3 - Played this all the time as a teenager
• System Shock 2 - I must have replayed this 10 times or more, however it is pretty short compared to the others
• Darkest Dungeon - This was one of the first games that popped into my mind, however GOG only shows 30 hours played which seems too low, maybe some statistical error

I can't find reliable statistics for most of these games as this simply was not a thing back in the day. Also, time played and how often I played something are very different things. For example, I played Prince of Persia Warrior Within a lot but it is so short, it does not stand a chance against the other titles. On the flipside, two playthroughs of Cyberpunk 2077 already consume 155 hours but I never even considered the game for this list

 

[luj1]

Around 20.000 hours in Warcraft III's DotA and Dota 2 combined

I think between 5.000 and 6.000 in Guild Wars

As for single player probably Diablo II Lord of Destruction

 

[Martyr]

top 5 would have to be, in no specific order:

Star Wars
- Jedi Knight
- Jedi Academy
- Battlefront (2004, mostly multiplayer)

Civilization 2

Jagged Alliance 2

next 5 for a top 10:
probably Dark Souls 2, Daggerfall, Master of Orion 3, 7.62 High Calibre and for sheer number of replays Temple of Elemental Evil.

 

[Abu Antar]

Without a doubt in my mind, it is Championship Manager 01/02.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

no clock at hand, but it must be elite 2. i played it for like 7 years (but during a phase of my life when i was never at home), my pilot was several centuries old, maybe over a millennium.

 

[Blutwurstritter]

1. HoMM3 - Loved the game as teenager, and still do now. Still return to it once in a while.
2. Warcraft 3 + fun maps - The only game I ever played online. Stopped playing it around 2010, and thanks to modern Blizzard decisions I'll probably never return to it.
3. Half-Life + mods (CS was still a mod when I was playing it) <- I think I played the single player campaing only a single time, but CS, The Specialist, Day of Defeat, Sven Coop, etc. made it easily the most played LAN party game.
4. BG2 + mods <- At least 6-7 full runs with various mods over the course of time, and it is still my favorite rpg.
5. Age of Wonders III <- I keep returning to this once in a while, and a single map can take multiple hours. That must have added up over ~10 years.

 

[octavius]

One of these:
Doomdark's Revenge
HoMM 3
Diablo 2

 

[Saint_Proverbius]

Space Engineers
Dwarf Fortress
Fallout (There was a period of time in college that I would come home, play Fallout start to finish in an afternoon after class, then do homework)
QuakeWorld Team Fortress
Total Annihilation

 

[Gregz]

EQ
WoW
Diablo II
Counter-Strike

 

[Iucounu]

The Long Dark is the longest documented one, but I've also played Stalker and Ghost Recon (the original) almost exclusively for 5+ years each.

 

[NecroLord]

I guess it's either Morrowind or Daggerfall.

 

[GoblinMerchant]

Runescape
EUIV
New Vegas
Morrowind

 

[POOPERSCOOPER]

Starcraft for sure when I was a kid. There was so many times my parents threatened to cut the power cable of my computer if I didn't do some homework.

 

[Gilius Thunderhead]

More than a thousand hours in Vicky 2, definitely, because I've been playing it every year for nearly a decade now. Definitely less than that for all the others.

 

[spectre]

ADOM, Civilization 4, Heroes of Might and Magic III, XCOM: Terror from the Deep.
Also, sadly, Magic the Gathering. Thankfully, I haven't gotten into MMORPGS, but I blew many hours on War Thunder.

 

[Machocruz]

Rookie numbers compared to some of you, but:

State of Decay 2 - 757
Civ V - 201
Bad Company 2 - 195
Terraria - 176
PoExile - 142

Demon's and Dark Souls are in the 100-200 range, but I don't own those games anymore to check.
Dwarf Fortress might be the second highest after SoD2, but I lack numbers.
Street Fighter Alpha 3 has to be up there, definitely across the 3 Alphas.

 

[gabel]

Guild Wars
Quake 3
Trackmania United/Nations Forever
Starcraft
SimCity 4
Forza Motorsport 4

 

[Dr Skeleton]

Gotta be either Diablo 2 or HoMM3. I haven't played either in years, but I know I eventually will again sometime.

 

[Catacombs]

Xfire used to track the hours

I miss Xfire.

 

[Zlaja]

1. Neverwinter MMO (the only MMO I ended up playing extensively for years)

2. Morrowind (still gutted that I can't throw the empire out of Morrowind)

3. Diablo 2 (yes, I'm a degenerate)