The kind of game you daydream about while at school or work because you can’t wait to come home and play some more.
Baldur’s Gate 3, four playthroughs back to back, two of em multiplayer. I still play it every now and then when I want to continue my honor run.
Besides that, Rimworld. Nearly 4k hours.
Ah Rimworld. What are other games except brief distractions from more Rimworld?
It’s honestly a neverending stream of new stories. There’s new, quality mods nearly every day.
Have you yet done the “all gnomes” playthrough?
Not yet! Waiting on a friend, we’re doing an all-barbarians playthrough, so we were thinking halflings. It’ll probably get very messy.
All-Barbarians is a classic! Maxing out strength and putting zero effort on mental traits was my favorite playthrough on Fallout games.
Not sure of if that’s what it means though, but playing as a group of massive angry toddlers sounds like a grand time.
Deep Rock Galactic
Just gotta finish one last assignment…
ROCK AND STONE!
I’ve gotten to the point I just browse the servers list. Help
WE FIGHT FOR ROCK AND STONE!
I’ve spent a ridiculous amount of time with Balatro, the Steam Deck is Dangerous…
Was just telling my friends, had one of those instances where I lost a run, so I closed the game with the intent of going to go so something else, then found myself opening it again 2 minutes later… so addictive
I get angry at the game and instead of turning it off, I switch decks…
I’ll have to try balatro after I finish minishoot.
I really enjoyed the game, until it came to beating it on the harder difficulties. I lost steam when I had all the decks unlocked except for the ones that require bearing the higher difficulties. I did normal, and the next harder one.
Use the checkered deck lol it’s like cheat mode for the higher stakes.
Helldivers 2, currently. I’m hooked on the progression and acquisition of all of the unlockables, but it’s the moment to moment gameplay that keeps me wanting to hunt all the loadout options I probably won’t use anyway.
Baldur’s Gate 3. I just can’t get enough. When I’m too tired to play myself I’m watching streams of other people playing. Sometimes I get fed up for a few days but so far it has always pulled me back in.
The “worst” for me was in 2006 with the release of Gothic 3. I had saved up for a powerful new PC and taken two or three weeks off work to play. I played deep into the night. Then deep into the morning. Then deep into the day. Then deep into the evening. Until my sleep schedule was aligned with my regular schedule again at the end of my holidays.
I remember being like that with Morrowind.
I gotta go with Cyberpunk : i waited until very recently to start playing (didn’t have a beefy enough computer before) and man am I hooked. The universe feels complete, and the characters feel real to me : truly a fantastic game
I love this game. I got it at launch and never had a problem, and I’ve played like two complete 100% games already before the dlc, now on my third one.
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The main quest was really good imo. I thought the voice acting and animations were great. Goes for the whole game really but it made you feel like you were in an action movie at times.
Played original game about a year after release and loved it. Expansion came out and didn’t get far. Enemies take 80 rounds to kill. All weapons seem like junk. The crafting and “loot” drops are too much maintenance for me to really enjoy.
If by “were” you mean “are”, then Balatro.
You’ll laugh.
Bus simulator: Ultimate
Android game that will toast your phone, but it’s pretty nice. It has a multiplayer too and a 2nd hand market where people bid on used buses. Naturally this means it’s best to attempt to put a bus for auction in specific hours, and bid in others.Some of the longer routes take well over an hour in real world.
One effect on me, which is also true for trains and busses in real life, is that it makes me sleepy pretty quickly.
Low frequency sound of the engine, trees moving past, road lanes quickly zipping past, you’re just staring in front while doing minor adjustments and falling asleep.
I should not drive in real life.Few games have captured my attention like XCom2, and it’s last expansion.
I often find myself playing something new while also wishing it was XCOM 2…
If you haven’t played Phoenix Point yet put that on deck.
Completely hooked on would be Dark Souls 3. Right now I’m playing The Witcher 3, and while it’s good, it makes me want to boot up DS3 - less talking more fighting
Come back to DS3! Plenty of people invading and praising the sun on PC…
DS3 is my favorite. I have to fight the urge to play it again fairly regularly. It’s an oddly soothing game to play.
Descent, over 20 years ago
20 years? What, in the 80s?
lol, 20 years ago was 2004; but yes, I’m old.
Got hooked on Factorio back in 2016. Still am.
Friend gifted me this game just a few weeks ago. It gained more prominence in my dreams than i am willing to admit
What are you in bed dreaming for? Don’t you have some iron throughput to upgrade?
Factorio is one of the few games that cause the Tetris Effect for me.
To the moon. Played it a few years ago. Cried.
My own work in progress game, an arcade style deckbuilding game with meta-progression.
The current release doesn’t include the last part but the next update will introduce it.
It’s so fun to try to get a high score, and the randomness gives me the “just one more go” feeling.
It’s a good sign. Usually, the project I work on (no matter what they are, be it an edited video, a website etc.) just get boring in the end because of how much time I spend on them.
I feel that way about my high effort YT videos that don’t even get more views than my low effort ones.
Metrics on modern centralised algorithmic social media are absolute BS. Views and general interactions are about what hooks people, not about the quality of the creations. I recommend turning them off in your client whenever possible, gonna make your life better.
That’s part of what turned me off from YT. I can feel like a neverending treadmill to create content to grow the channel, even when I’m busy doing projects for university.
Probably WoW tbh. I don’t play anymore and don’t recommend it, but WoW with friends/guildies at its peak is unparalleled. You can’t wait to log on and reconnect with everyone.
