For me it was Terraria, Satisfactory, Tetris Effect Master Mode, Minecraft with Mekanism mod & CSGO / CS2 (almost 2000 hours in CS alone).
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Depending on what kind of addiction behavior you might look at, it’s been different games.
For the ‘I think about it all the time, and wait for my next chance to get back to it,’ an old Minecraft modpack called Per Fabrica Ad Astra was the best. It was the full knapping flint tools through visiting other planets stack, with a good progression tree, so I was thinking about designs for an oil refinery when I should have been sleeping, trying to complete ‘just this one last thing’ when I should have been going other places, and forgetting to eat because I was making an in-game kitchen.
If you’re talking more the ‘The world has me beat, so I’m reaching for my…’ style, a favorite depressant, Hardspace: Shipbreaker is that. I beat it long ago but I still go back and just do a shift or several when even gaming is ‘just too much.’
And if it’s more the style of a stimulant, BPM: Bullets Per Minute. It’s a great way to hit a high speed flow state. Boom boom chik, boom boom chik
I have around twentythousand hours in the counterstrike franchise. I played source semi competively, and was moderator on massive 64player severs. nowadays i play occasionally because CS2 just doesn’t do it for me anymore.
Faster Than Light
The Witcher two and three
Morrowind and Skyrim
Back in the day i played Battlefield 1942 Desert Combat where I was a top10 player. Also a ton of Unreal tournament.
Heartstone also comes to mind.
Cant forget minecraft
oh Guild Wars…damn put some hours in as well.
Right now I quite enjoy Mechabellum, and im starting to get too sucked in again.
Asheron’s Call hit me at just the right age. That was my mmo. I remember people going on about WoW like it was the most incredible thing, but it always felt like a hollow world to me.
I tried many other mmos over the years but none of them ever hit like the first one.
I think I was really just chasing that sense of wonder I felt at my first one, which is increasingly hard to capture as you move forward through life.
I played destiny 2 for six years straight.
I finally stopped playing early this year due to burn out.
Now I’m playing Diablo 4 which is a dead game btw.
Mindustry
Rust. Its a horribly addicting game thats ruined many lives. Also, Frostpunk.
And Terraria most recently.
Balatro
deltarune, tf2, and uh… hsr or pgr.
I was in university and had just passed my midterms and as a treat for myself picked up both KOTORs. Mainlined that shit.
First was RuneScape, that lasted a month or so. Next was Civ V, that was a couple weeks. I learned my lesson.
Most games that spark a Tetris Effect with me, where I’m still playing them in my mind while I’ve put them down hours ago, are industrial automation games. So the likes of Factorio, Satisfactory, Captain Of Industry.
Valkyrie Chronicles, I legitimately called off work sick for 2 days when the game came out on ps3.
Diablo 2, Skyrim, BL2, BL3, Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, Valheim, V Rising, Oblivion Remastered, D3, and now Helldivers 2. Roughly in order.
Star wars galaxies, RuneScape, Minecraft, destiny 2, red dead redemption, dark souls 3, elden ring, bloodborne, and currently dayz
