1. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive - 142 hours

2. Divinity: Original Sin - 70 hours

3. Spelunky - 56 hours

4. Dark Souls - 54 hours

5. Dark Souls 2 - 42 hours

6. Left 4 Dead 2 - 36 hours

7. Payday 2 - 33 hours

8. FarCry 3 - 32 hours

9. Saints Row: The Third - 28 hours

10. Bioshock Infinite - 20 hours

If we included other platforms I have... several thousand hours on Halo 3 and probably a couple hundred on the 360 version of Dark Souls.

I don't own ten Steam games. Here's my top 6:

1. Terraria - 26 hours
2. Sentinels of the Multiverse - 15.3 hours
3. Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut - 8.5 hours
4. Portal - 4.2 hours
5. Bad Rats - minutes
6. Axiom Verge - fewer minutes

I just bought Axiom Verge last night. I suspect it'll be creeping up the list.

I do most of my real game playing on console so my computer is mostly an indie machine, but here goes:

1. Sid Meier's Civilization 5 - 104 hrs. (No surprise here. Civ is the main reason I have a computer to game on occasionally)
2. Terraria - 101 hrs. (add another 100 or so on console after it went Games with Gold)
3. The Binding of Issac - 89 hrs. (double that with Binding: Rebirth on my Vita)
4. Fallout: New Vegas - 53 hrs. (Add at least another 300 or so hours from console)
5. One Finger Death Punch - 32 hrs. (Thank you Vinny)
6. Galactic Civilizations 2 - 31 hrs. (Like Civ, but old and in space)
7. Little Inferno - 23 hrs. (What? I like fire.)
8. Total War: Shogun 2 - 23 hrs. (Should play more, a shamefur dispray)
9. Game Dev Tycoon - 22 hrs. (Fallout 4 went over damn well when I made it)
10. Cook, Serve, Delicious - 20 hrs. (Sometimes I just need to cook some Ryan Davis burgers.)

My most hours spent I'd wager is probably Fallout 3 on console. It's somewhere above 600 hours. I can't think of a game I likely spent more time in.

1. Team Fortress 2 - 342 hrs.
2. Spelunky - 163 hrs.
3. Civ 5 - 94 hrs.
4. XCOM - 91 hrs.
5. Borderlands 2 - 85 hrs.
6. Super Meat Boy - 64 hrs.
7. Dark Souls - 58 hrs.
8. Sleeping Dogs - 46 hrs.
9. Left 4 Dead 2 - 41 hrs.
10. Terarria - 35 hrs.

1. Team Fortress 2 - 1,167 hrs on record
2. Warframe - 330 hrs on record
3. Borderlands 2 - 117 hrs on record
4. Dragon Age: Origins - 117 hrs on record
5. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - 110 hrs on record
6. Dota 2 - 90 hrs on record
7. Marvel Heroes 2015 - 81 hrs on record
8. DARK SOULS™ II - 78 hrs on record
9. Fallout 3 - 62 hrs on record
10. The Sims(TM) 3 - 49 hrs on record

I guess I was really into the Sims for a while there. Everything else is pretty standard.

1. Crusader Kings 2 - 532 hours
2. Football Manager 2010 - 489 hours
3. Football Manager 2012 - 475 hours
4. Clicker Heros - 335 hours
5. Pro Cycling Manager 2012 - 134 hours
6. Skyrim - 113 hours
7. Victoria 2 - 97 hours
8. Mass Effect 2 - 89 hours
9. Dragon Age Origins - 87 hours
10. Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game - 79 hours

Only others above 50 hours are Europa Universalis IV & Civ V. Pretty glad I got over my Football Manager fixation. Took me 2 decades but I got there.

I'm pretty sure a lot of people will have a decent amount of time stacked up in WoW, or other MMO's, from back in the day. I know I sure as hell did.

@sweep: Yep! I probably put over 10,000 hours into that game (WoW) over the course of 7 years or so. Don't know for sure because of how many characters I deleted over my "career" but it was pretty much all I did for a huge chunk of time as a teenager with no obligations and the ability to sleep just a few hours a night and get by in school. Crazy to think what else I could have done with that time...

Anyways, here's mine. I tend to jump around games a lot, as I enjoy playing everything I can get my hands on to have a wide base of impressions, so none of my games are too crazy.

1. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - 139 hours (which I feel I barely touched, honestly)
2. Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition - 128 hours (all achievements, plus several challenge playthroughs)
3. Marvel Heroes 2015 - 110 hours (most of that recently, as I got back into it)
4. Borderlands 2 - 90 hours
5. Final Fantasy XIII - 89 hours (all achievements, what a fucking nightmare)
6. Path of Exile - 79 hours
7. Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition - 72 hours (easily put in twice this number with a physical copy before getting this version)
8. Fallout 3 - 62 hours
9. Aion - 57 hours (only a month's worth of play, laughable to see it on this list)
10. Sleeping Dogs - 57 hours (shocked this isn't higher)

I can think of a few games that should be on this list but aren't for various reasons: Deus Ex: Human Revolution, between the normal version and the Director's Cut; Mass Effect 2, which I owned physically and played TONS of; and FFXIV, due to my crazy insistence on always starting over each time I resubscribe. It's rare that a game grabs me enough to get me to play it a second time, so those games tend to be some of my favorites.

1. Team Fortress 2 - 492 hours.
2. Wargame: AirLand Battle - 215 hours.
3. Warframe - 150 hours.
4. Skyrim - 129 hours.
5. Total War: SHOGUN 2 - 125 hours.
6. Mount & Blade: Warband - 120 hours.
7. Counter-Strike: Source - 110 hours.
8. Fallout: New Vegas - 97 hours.
9. Terraria - 87 hours.
10. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive - 85 hours.

God I miss AirLand Battle multiplayer. So good.

Easily over 8,000 hours logged in EverQuest. Nothing else even comes close to this.

Skyrim: 149 hours

The Witcher 2: 145 hours

The Witcher 3: 125 hours

Far Cry 3: 103 hours

XCOM: Enemy Unknown: 102 hours

Far Cry 4: 79 hours

Tribes: Ascend: 75 hours

Total War: Rome II: 72 hours

Grand Theft Auto V: 69 hours

Divinity Original Sin: 63 hours

• Garry's Mod - 227 hours
• Skyrim - 157 hours
• Borderlands 2 - 67 hours
• Borderlands Pre-sequel - 42 hours
• Borderlands - 30 hours
• Oblivion - 20 hours
• Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army II - 10 hours
• Dragon Age Origins - 7 hours
• Portal - 5 hours
• Half-Life 2 - 4 hours

Mine isn't as hard-core as most of these lists, I need to play more on Steam!

Final Fantasy XIV is easily mine with nearly 3000 hours.

@sweep: Totally! Perhaps my title was a bit misleading but I really was just curious about the Steam library itself since it's so nicely presented and standardized even if it's not all inclusive. I too have by far the most time in WoW, and good chunks in Minecraft and Diablo 3.

• Terraria: 397 hours (1.3 update on Tuesday will probably get this one well over 500 hours)
• TESV: Skyrim: 104 hours
• Borderlands 2: 99 hours
• Marvel Heroes: 76 hours (not really sure how this one happened, guess a lot of afk time)
• Spelunky: 63 hours
• Tower Wars 62 hours
• Super Hexagon 61 hours
• Rift 60 hours
• Dark Souls 59 hours
• Super Meat Boy 56 hours

This list isn't really telling the whole story though, most of my playtime on PC has been outside of Steam. 3-4000 hours in WoW, well over 1000 hours in Hearthstone, and a ton of time spent with older PC games like Championship Manager (the series that later turned into Football Manager) and Heroes of Might and Magic 3/4. All the Souls games would probably place between Terraria and Skyrim on the list along with Spelunky if all platforms counted as well.

I am actually surprised at the fairly low numbers (apart from Terraria) on this list.

Edit: Somehow forgot about Minecraft when talking about PC games. I easily sunk 1000s of hours into that one as well. If we go by hours watched instead then Starcraft 2 easily wins, I have watched way (way) too much of that game, but barely played it at all.

1. Skyrim - 204 hours
2. The Witcher 3 - 100 hours
3. Divinity: Original Sin - 65 hours
4. Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel - 61 hours
5. Starbound - 59 hours
6. Defiance - 50 hours
7. Borderlands 2 - 47 hours
8. Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning - 45 hours
9. Far Cry 3 - 44 hours
10. Sleeping Dogs - 42 hours

That 204 hours of Skyrim is about double the amount I played on the PS3. Also I have no idea what I played so much Defiance for.

Uh...

1. Plants vs. Zombies - 46 hours
2. Bookworm Adventures 2 - 33 hours
3. Peggle Nights - 33 hours
4. Far Cry 2 - 32 hours
5. Audiosurf - 29 hours
6. Orcs Must Die! 2 - 29 hours
7. Super Meat Boy - 26 hours
8. Yosumin! - 26 hours
9. Aquaria - 22 hours
10. SEGA Classics - 21 hours

Yeah.

1. Dark Souls 2 156hrs

2. Left 4 Dead 2 135hrs

3. Left 4 Dead 94hrs

4. Call of Duty Black Ops 78hrs

5. Fallout 3 59hrs

6. Fallout New Vegas 51hrs

7. Shadowrun Returns 51hrs

8. Wasteland 2 35hrs

9. Orcs Must Die! 35hrs

10. Darksiders II 29hrs

Right now i'm playing new vegas DLCs, So i'm pretty sure it will jump to 5 in a couple of days.

1. World of Warcraft - After adding up the time, I have played 87 Days, 15 hours, 12 minutes. This is my second account. My first one (2005-2009) had at least 100 days. (No way to confirm).

9. Darksiders - 43 hours if you can't see the picture.

10. South Park: The Stick of Truth - 41 hours right below Darksiders.

My number 1 is Civ V with 435 hours, but that's only because Steam didn't exist when I was in high school. I can't even imagine how much time I put into Warcraft III.

Too lazy to post the rest. but I play most non-strategy games on console.

A cursory look through these lists shows Civ 5 has to be the clubhouse leader in terms of duder time. Not surprising really. That game is like crack

1. Final Fantasy XIV: ARR - 357 hrs
2. Dota 2 - 258 hrs
3. Magic: The Gathering - DotP 2013 - 40 hrs
4. Magic: The Gathering - DotP 2012 - 27 hrs
5. Rift - 21 hrs
6. The Binding of Isaac - 17.7 hrs
7. Warhammer 40000: DoW II/Chaos Rising - 17.6 hrs
8. Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor - 14 hrs
9. FTL - 12 hrs
10. Civ 5 - 11.8 hrs

1. Dark Souls II (289 hrs)
2. Left 4 Dead 2 (271)
3. Batman: Arkham City (149)
4. Alien: Isolaton (105)
5. Left 4 Dead (73)
6. The Evil Within (71)
7. Grand Theft Auto IV (62)
8. Max Payne 3 (55)
9. Resident Evil 4 (44)
10. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (41)

My number 1 should be Dark Souls by far, but I didn't play it with Steam until much later, by which point I had long lost interest.

1. Garry's Mod (357 hrs)
2. Team Fortress 2 (165 hrs)
3. Saints Row: The Third (83 hrs)
4. Fallout: New Vegas (77 hrs)
5. Saints Row IV (77 hrs)
6. Dota 2 (53 hrs)
7. Borderlands (50 hrs)
8. Fallout 3 (44 hrs)
9. The Witcher 2 (41 hrs)
10. Sleeping Dogs (30 hrs)

my sad list:

Darksiders II: 24 hours
Hitman: Absolution: 23 hours
Batman: Arkham Origins: 23 hours
Batman: Arkham Knight: 17.2 hours
Bioshock Infinite: 16 hours
Team Fortress 2: 13.8 hours
The Walking Dead: 13 hours
I Am Alive: 10.5 hours
Spec Ops: The Line: 8 hours
The Wolf Among Us: 7.6 hours

Definitely have way more hours on TF2, I played it almost non-stop for a year before they started counting hours. Also my thousands of hours playing CS 1.4/1.5 are not on here :/ and I mostly played Oblivion on my 360 and Morrowind on my original xbox.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim 169 hrs
Team Fortress 2 - 108 hrs
Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures - 61 hrs
RIFT™ - 37 hrs
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - 28 hrs
The Longest Journey - 25 hrs
Torchlight - 24 hrs
Legend of Grimrock - 18.0 hrs
Hack, Slash, Loot -15.9 hrs
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind -15.3 hrs

I'll post my Steam list in a bit, but here are a few non-Steam PC games that would absolutely make the top 10:

• Final Fantasy XIV
• Final Fantasy XI
• Guild Wars 2
• The Sims 4
• Civilization IV
• Tropico 4
• Fallout 3
• SimCity 4

A few of these are available on Steam, but I bought retail copies that aren't linked to Steam, so hours are not tabulated there. (I hadn't added them to Steam as non-Steam games.)

Now onto the Steam list:

1. Sid Meier's Civilization V - 471 hrs
2. Saints Row: The Third - 58 hrs
3. Kerbal Space Program - 45 hrs
4. Cities: Skylines - 45 hrs
5. Cities XL 2011 - 40 hrs
6. Prison Architect - 40 hrs
7. Tropico 5 - 38 hrs
8. Saints Row IV - 35 hrs
9. Starbound - 33 hrs
10. Cities XL 2012 - 23 hrs

I'm sure some of that Civ V time was spent AFK, but I don't usually let it idle for hours at a time.

1. Pinball Arcade - 122 hrs on record
2. Divinity: Original Sin - 116 hrs on record
3. Arma 3 - 98 hrs on record
4. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - 97 hrs on record
5. Arma 2 - 74 hrs on record
6. Jagged Alliance - Back in Action - 69 hrs on record
7. Grand Theft Auto V - 60 hrs on record
8. Fallout: New Vegas - 59 hrs on record
9. Project CARS - 55 hrs on record
10. Rocksmith - 53 hrs on record

Kind of interesting. I haven't played TF2 in fucking years, and SolForge I stopped playing a long time ago as well. (And really, a lot of that is probably AFK time).

PoE / Dark Souls II / Dark Souls all probably have more time played on them as well. Dark Souls II since it doesn't count the new SoTFS version, and The original Dark Souls since I technically played it on PS3 first. I also played PoE for a while before it came to steam.

Wait, if I use the link in the OP (changing to my own Steam ID of course) I get a different looking list than if I go to my profile and show all games (sorted after hours played).

Seems like if I follow the link in the OP it only shows the games I've played the most in the past 6 months or so, whereas if I go to my profile, it shows the games I've played the most since they started counting playtime in 2011. Also, Elite: Dangerous is missing from both lists, despite my playtime with it being 19 hours.

From the OP list:

1. Cities: Skylines (24 hrs on record)
2. Marvel Heroes 2015 (17.9 hrs on record)
3. VoidExpanse (7.0 hrs on record)
4. Broforce (4.4 hrs on record)
5. Interstellar Marines (1.6 hrs on record)
6. Train Simulator 2015 (1.3 hrs on record)
7. Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues (0.8 hrs on record)
8. Subnautica (0.4 hrs on record)
9. Nosgoth (0.2 hrs on record)
10. Reflex

And this is the list from my profile page:

1. EVE Online (178 hours on record)
2. Star Trek Online (120 hours on record)
3. PlanetSide 2 (55 hours on record)
4. Defiance (45 hours on record)
5. Rise of the Triad (43 hours on record)
6. EverQuest II (43 hours on record)
7. Ravaged Zombie Apocalypse (38 hours on record)
8. Blacklight: Retribution (37 hours on record)
9. SimCity 4 Deluxe (33 hours on record)
10. ACE COMBAT™ ASSAULT HORIZON Enhanced Edition (31 hours on record)

1: Warframe (374 hours)

2: Champions Online (298 hours)

3: Sword of the Stars (233 hours)

4: Left 4 Dead 2 (178 hours)

5: Star Trek Online (148 hours)

6: Supreme Commander 2 (119 hours)

7: Company of Heroes (114 hours)

8: Mount & Blade: Warband (102)

9: Team Fortress 2 (85 hours)

10: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (82 hours)

Curious to see TF2 on there. I didn't like it that much, but played it because the group I played L4D2 with would jump into it. Same group played Champions Online for a bit, but most of that time is me going solo.

It should be noted that the CoH and SC2 times are pretty much all playing co-op with a friend of mine. Good times.

1. Team Fortress 2- 223 hours
2. Sid Meier's Civilization V- 112 hours
3. Garry's Mod- 86 hours
4. The Binding of Isaac- 68 hours
5. Puzzle Pirates- 66 hours
6. Sid Meier's Civilization IV- 43 hours
7. Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag- 38 hours
8. APB Reloaded- 35 hours
9. Marvel Heroes- 30 hours
10. Audiosurf- 30 hours

Obviously, these times aren't as high as quite a lot of other peoples', I think partly because I play plenty on consoles as well, but also I think I'm the type of person who's more into playing a lot of different kinds of games as opposed to pursuing one for ages. Team Fortress 2 is just a really well-made multiplayer however, the Civ games are compelling, Garry's Mod is the kind of game you can keep coming back to and never do the same two things twice in, and Binding of Isaac has been one of those games it's easy to play a little bit of over many days.

1. Team Fortress 2 - 338 hours
2. SimCity 4 Deluxe - 297 hours
3. Terraria - 212 hours
4. Borderlands 2 - 85 hours
5. Audiosurf - 74 hours
6. Just Cause 2 - 61 hours
7. Borderlands - 57 hours
8. Sleeping Dogs - 51 hours
9. Dead Island - 47 hours
10. Watch_Dogs - 46 hours

That's the list. If I were to add games before I used Steam, add another thousand hours to SimCity 4 and pop The Sims in at number 2. Also I'd slip the RollerCoaster Tycoon games into the top 5. As for Watch_Dogs, don't judge me. I think that game is alright, but Cities: Skylines will probably knock it off by the end of the year.

1: Football Manager 2012 420 hours

2:Football Manager 2013 349 hours

3:Football Manager 2015 307 hours

4:Football Manger 2014 241 hours

5:Football Manager 2011 103 hours

6:Civilization 5 57 hours

7:Company of Heroes 51 hours

8:Football Manager 2010 48 hours

9:MLB 2K10 46 hours

10: Final Fantasy 8: 36 hours

I like Football Manager

Dota2 - 1,575h

Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War 2 - 100h

Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition - 86h

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - 64h

Clicker Heroes - 59h

Dark Souls II - 56h

Warframe - 54h

Borderlands 2 - 51h

Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition - 51h

Path of Exile - 46h

1).DARK SOULS™ II

223 hrs on record

2.)Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition

144 hrs on record

3.)Starbound

129 hrs on record

4.)The Binding of Isaac

110 hrs on record

5.)The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

91 hrs on record

6.)Spelunky

85 hrs on record

7.)EVE Online

82 hrs on record

8.)RIFT™

79 hrs on record

9.)Far Cry® 3

75 hrs on record

10.)DayZ

42 hrs on record

1. Garry's Mod (801 Hours)

2. Borderlands 2 (176 Hours)

3. Spore (125 Hours)

4. The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth (115 Hours)

5. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (108 Hours)

6. Terraria (105 Hours)

7. NBA 2K15 (80 Hours)

8. Euro Truck Simulator 2 (40 Hours)

9. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (31 Hours)

10. Tower Unite (29 Hours)

PLEASE do not judge me for the amount of time I have spent playing NBA 2K15 or Euro Truck Simulator 2. To me, those games do not compare to games I actually love such as Fallout: New Vegas, Oblivion, Civilization III and V, and the original Borderlands. Also, Garry's Mod was my first game on Steam, where I spent all of my time in the RP servers before they became cancerous and sandbox mode. RIP GMod Tower and JailBreak

1. Path of Exile: 4,175 hr

2. Dota 2: 1,863 hr

3: PUBG 146 hr

4: Pillars of Eternity: 112 hr

5: Dragon Ball FighterZ: 108

6: Super Hexagon: 94 hr

7: Secret World: 93 hr

8: Dragon Age Origins: 93 hr

9: XCOM 2 85hr

10: Witcher 3 Wild Hunt: 81

Man I did not realize that I played that much PUBG last year.

• Crusader Kings 2: 666 hours
• Europa Universalis IV: 233 hours
• Stellaris: 135 hours
• Fallout New Vegas: 133 hours
• Total Warhammer 2: 130 hours
• Total Warhammer: 111 hours
• The Witcher 3: 95 hours
• Total War Rome 2: 69 hours
• Divinity Original Sin 2: 64 hours
• Assassin's Creed Origins: 56 hours

Apparently I enjoy strategy games.

Most of my big hour games are on console or from before playing on Steam. I am using my PC more and more now though, so I expect this to change a little.

1. PUBG - 81 Hours

2. XCOM2 - 70 hours

3. Civ V - 70 hours

4. Total War: Rome 2 - 62 hours

5. Total War: Warhammer - 49 hours

6. Pillars of Eternity (unfinished) - 48 hours

7. Stardew Valley - 45 hours (plus about the same again on Switch)

8. Divinity: Original Sin (unfinished) - 43 hours

9. Hitman - 40 hours

10. XCOM: EU - 31 hours (plus at least 60 hours on console)

Nearly 3 years later and these are still the top 10.

(World of Warcraft - 10k+)

1. Warframe - 3,454 hrs on record
2. Starbound - 808 hrs on record
3. Fallout 4 - 391 hrs on record
4. Dungeon Defenders - 381 hrs on record
5. DARK SOULS™: Prepare To Die Edition - 283 hrs on record
6. DARK SOULS™ II - 247 hrs on record
7. Borderlands 2 - 208 hrs on record
8. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - 204 hrs on record
9. METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN - 198 hrs on record
10. DARK SOULS™ III - 148 hrs on record

⊙︿⊙

Got a tripple draw for 1st place. Also this list is very far from what my favorite games are.

1. PUBG - 52h

2. Arma 2 - 52h

3. Left 4 Dead 2 - 52h

4. Fallout 3 - 43h

5. Divinity Original Sin - 39h (still playing)

6. Mount & Blade Warband - 37h

7. Bioshock Infinite - 33h

8. X-COM: Enemy Unknown - 31h

9. Borderlands - 30h

10. GTA: IV - 29h

TF2 - 141 Hrs

Skyrim - 127 Hrs

Tom Clancy's The Division - 120 Hrs

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege - 119 Hrs

Borderlands 2 - 105 Hrs

Assassin's Creed: Origins - 77 Hrs

Left 4 Dead - 60 Hrs

Fallout 4 - 54 Hrs

CS: GO - 52 Hrs

PUBG - 52 Hrs

Interesting that I have 54 hours logged in Fallout 4 and have almost no recollection of what occurs in said video game.

I'm not a big online player so my list isn't that impressive but anyway:

1. XCOM: Enemy Unknown (58 hours)
2. Batman: Arkham Asylum (57 hours)
3. Dead by Daylight (57 hours)
4. Hitman: Absolution (52 hours)
5. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (51 hours)
6. Left 4 Dead (49 hours)
7. Batman: Arkham Knight (48 hours)
8. Team Fortress 2 (47 hours)
9. Fallout 4 (38 hours)
10. DOOM 2016 (36 hours)

Add me on Steam if you want.

This is somewhat misleading though as I played all the really heavy hitters (Witcher trilogy, Mass Effect trilogy, Dragon Age Origins, Baldur's Gate II) elsewhere.

Also, I haven't played TF2 in a very long time (around the time it went F2P, I think).

Team Fortress 2 -- 193 hrs

Torchlight -- 130 hrs

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim -- 124 hrs

Just Cause 2 -- 90 hrs

Torchlight II -- 87 hrs

BioShock Infinite -- 55 hrs

Terraria -- 53 hrs

Grim Dawn -- 43 hrs

Puzzle Quest -- 41 hrs

Saints Row: The Third -- 40 hrs

1. Civilization V: 108 hours
2. XCOM 2: 61 hours
3. GemCraft - Chasing Shadows: 57 hours
4. Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony: 57 hours
5. The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth: 56 hours
6. XCOM: Enemy Unknown: 34 hours
7. NieR:Automata: 33 hours
8. Kingdom Rush Frontiers
9. Hitman: 27 hours
10. Kingdom Rush: 25 hours

This says two things: 1) How most of my Steam experiences are shorter experiences and 2) How most of the longer games I have in my library I never finished :(

If this was a Top 10 of my most played games in general, Civ V would be towards the bottom, if it even cracks the Top 10, as those games are either made by Blizzard or are on consoles.

Annotated for fun:

1. DOTA 2 - 145 hours: This is bullshit. I've probably played DOTA 2 for 2-3 hours, but I really do enjoy watching The International and have since TI3 thanks to one Brad Shoemaker. This is really a measurement of how much time I've wasted during the work week of watching TI while at my home office desk.

2. XCOM 2 - 92 hours: This feels right as my honest-to-god most played game. I'm mainly a console gamer, except for exclusives or games that start on PC like this, and strategy games feel better to me on PC. That said...

3. Saint's Row IV - 54 hours: I have no fucking memory of ever playing this on PC. I apparently did, but I definitely played 60-70 hours on Xbox 360 and then again on One. I loved Saint's Row 3 and 4, so it's not inconceivable I played this again on PC...but man was this a surprise.

4. Stardew Valley - 51 hours: This was another one I read and said "yeah, that feels right." Also a game I've played a ton of on PS4, and I'll do the same on Switch too.

5. RimWorld - 28 hours: I had a torrid love affair with RimWorld when it entered Early Access. I like a LOT about this game, some of it rubs me the wrong way, and part of me always wants to go back to it. Related insight: my day job is as a project manager, so that probably eplxains why I enjoy this game when I do play but don't think of it first when I think "I should sit at my desk and unwind."

6. Battletech - 28 hours: This is going to be up there with XCOM 2 in no time. While they're different strategy and tactics games in application, I love the management layer they both have, unit customization, and I play/played both of them VERY SLOWLY.

7. The Novelist - 21 hours: This is a cool little narrative-focused game from a former Irrational developer, Kent Hudson. I was surprised I put 20+ hours into it, but I did really enjoy my time playing it.

8. Civilization V - 18.8 hours: It's Civ.

9. Borderlands 2 - 17.3 hours: Another game I've played waaaaaaay more of on console, but I picked this up cheap on a sale since it truly is one of my favorite games of all time - let's say top 20. I"m pretty sure I played the Gunzerker class on PC and nowhere else.

10. Shadowrun Returns - 16.8 hours: Our first repeat developer, Harebrained Schemes! I really like this and want to find time to play the sequels.

11. Drox Operative - 14.9 hours: Including this since DOTA 2's inflated hour count means it doesn't really deserve to be on the list. Also, I discovered this game through the (Jeff and Ryan?) Quick Look here on GB. It's a really cool little game with neat ideas (Diablo like gameplay, in space, with proc-gen quests and faction rep? Hell yeah!) and fair-to-middling implementation and some wonky controls. A game I go back to every year or so and spend an hour getting reacquainted with controls and systems and then leaving for something else.

Honorable Mention: Pillars of Eternity - 8.6 hours: This is actually down at #14, but after playing an hour in the past three years I picked it back up with the release of the sequel. In a month, I imagine this will be around #5?

I already posted here 2 years ago, but it's kind of neat in a time capsule kind of way to do it again. Half my list has actually changed!

• Dota 2: 1400h
• Ultra Street Fighter IV: 806h
• Street Fighter V: 478h
• Battlerite: 369h
• Dark Souls: 232h
• Team Fortress 2: 178h
• CS:GO: 118h
• Rainbow Six Siege: 118h
• PUBG: 114h
• Tekken 7: 100h

So Dota remains hard to beat but powerful challengers Battlerite and SFV moved quickly up the list. And my burnout rate for competititve shooters seems to be around the 115h mark lol.

Also amusing to note that Tekken edged in and made sure none of my top ten is a double digit hour count anymore. Woop woop?

As far as other games that could compete on this list. I've definitely played 300h or so of Diablo 3. And I'm pretty damn sure League of Legends is my most played game by a long shot. It's hard to get exact numbers, but I would absolutely estimate 3000h. Bayonetta/DMC4 across different versions would probably also qualify to be low on the list at least.

Huh, mine is a little weird to me:

1. XCOM 2 - 176 hours
2. Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion - 127 hours
3. XCOM - 124 hours
4. HITMAN - 117 hours
5. Stellaris - 82 hours
6. Fallout 4 - 79 hours
7. Fallout New Vegas - 77 hours
8. Metal Gear Solid V - 76 hours
9. Dishonored - 72 hours
10. Skyrim - 71 hours

In the 60-70 hour range the list goes and goes though. What is the magic threshold where we determine a play-time is representative of a pattern?

The reason I say it's weird is because my memories of playing games and enjoying them isn't 100% correlated in the list. In other words, games that I remember as far more impactful don't necessarily have high playtimes. I know for a fact I have DCS World playtime in the 600+ hours but I still have more memories of playing Dodonpachi Resurrection, which has 30 something...

Anyway, fun experiment. Guess i'm a stealthy tactics RPG guy?

There is a definite theme to my list, might be tough to spot though

• Football Manager 2015 - 623 hours
• Football Manager 2014 - 497 hours
• Football Manager 2013 - 474 hours
• Football Manager 2012 - 432 hours
• Football Manager 2016 - 241 hours
• Football Manager 2017 - 197 hours
• Motorsport Manager - 114 hours
• FTL - 50 hours
• Civilization V - 46 hours
• XCOM: Enemy Unknown - 42 hours

I do the vast majority of my gaming on console but damn looking at the numbers here I have sunk an absurd amount of time into Football Manager games. If Football Manager games were on Steam prior to 2012 I'm sure they'd fill all of the top spots going right back to 2006.