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Which games made you go into an "addiction phase"?

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  • buboscandiacus@mander.xyzB [email protected]

    I've been playing and DMing D&D sessions on Neverwinter Nights for two decades

    How does that go 👀 ?

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    Oh, it's a blast.

    I'm on a custom-built persistent world with a few staff members who build and script. Players just log in with their characters like a mini MMO and when I'm logged in as a DM, they can't see me, but there's a menu where I can make placeables, monsters, items, or visual effects appear, and I can 'possess' creatures and NPC's and make them talk. It's really very cool.

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      For me, this only happens in story-based games. The most recent was Expedition 33. It’s also the first time a videogame has ever made me cry. What an incredible ride that was.

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      I love Expedition 33 so much!

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        So many. To list some that aren't in the top comments:

        Foxhole - This one gets to a point where it becomes an obligation. It feels like work that I'm not getting paid for. And still I'll easily get sucked into defending a town or advancing a front for days on end between periods of burnout, checking statuses at work and staying up way past my bedtime, decimating my sleep schedule and productivity in the process.

        Don't Starve Together - My partner and I took a week off and were supposed to go camping but we ended up playing this too late the night before we were supposed to leave. We woke up really early to pack the car and it took about five minutes for us to go, "nope, this ain't happening". So instead we spent the entire week locked in our apartment playing DST from the moment we woke up to the early hours of the morning and living off of our camping provisions.

        League of Legends - I played a lot of LoL back in its early days. My dorm had awful internet so when I came home for the summer it was pretty much all I would do all day every day. It brought out a bad side of me. Losing felt awful and winning was never satisfying enough. I've been clean from LoL for over 10 years now. Sometimes I still think about downloading it but I've so far kept the strength.

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        I love that DST story, very cool!

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        • fryd@sh.itjust.worksF [email protected]

          For the entirety of high school I only played Team Fortress 2, League of Legends, and Melee. I have 2000+ hrs in TF2 and probably more in the other two. Then in college I was on the Overwatch team and played in the college league, I have a bit under 5000 hrs in that.

          No games I have come close to that kinda play time and none probably will since I have less time to game and I’ve kinda been losing interest in gaming in general.

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          Community server TF2 was the absolute peak of game-playing in my life. I was laid off from a job in the late ‘00s and just played on a server with a bunch of people I loved for 40+ hours a week. I found a shady key guy I would send money to and he’d give me keys for a buck a pop. Got an unusual towering pillar that eventually bought me an index, a million years later.

          Love that game.

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            I probably have more hours in Diablo 2 than any other game.

            I didn't buy the remaster because I value having a life now.

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            Diablo 2 and Ragnarok Online are tied as my most played games. I did buy the Diablo 2 remaster and it exceeded my expectations in every way and I lost so many hours into it…

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            • nebula@fedia.ioN [email protected]

              I never got used to the slow combat, unfortunately, but that's on me.

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              That’s funny, cuz world has crazy fast combat compared to older Monster Hunter games hahaha

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              • nebula@fedia.ioN [email protected]

                For me it was Terraria, Satisfactory, Tetris Effect Master Mode, Minecraft with Mekanism mod & CSGO / CS2 (almost 2000 hours in CS alone).

                Edit: There are so many answers that I might only reply if I have something interesting to say. I will read all of your answers though. 🙂

                Edit 2: It has become too much for me and I have to disable notifications. Thank you for the massive response and please continue to discuss with everyone here. ❤️ 🫡

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                Dwarf Fortress. I think I have ten thousand hours in the classic game.

                Oxygen Not Included for the same reasons. I really like games where you both design, and are affected by, complex ecosystems

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                • nebula@fedia.ioN [email protected]

                  For me it was Terraria, Satisfactory, Tetris Effect Master Mode, Minecraft with Mekanism mod & CSGO / CS2 (almost 2000 hours in CS alone).

                  Edit: There are so many answers that I might only reply if I have something interesting to say. I will read all of your answers though. 🙂

                  Edit 2: It has become too much for me and I have to disable notifications. Thank you for the massive response and please continue to discuss with everyone here. ❤️ 🫡

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                  Old School Runescape. I have multiple characters, but started from scratch a month ago, already have 250 hours of play time on it.

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                    You gotta check out elite dangerous then.

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                    Added to the wishlist

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                    • nebula@fedia.ioN [email protected]

                      For me it was Terraria, Satisfactory, Tetris Effect Master Mode, Minecraft with Mekanism mod & CSGO / CS2 (almost 2000 hours in CS alone).

                      Edit: There are so many answers that I might only reply if I have something interesting to say. I will read all of your answers though. 🙂

                      Edit 2: It has become too much for me and I have to disable notifications. Thank you for the massive response and please continue to discuss with everyone here. ❤️ 🫡

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                      I saw a lot of factory games in other comments but I didn't see my drug of choice : Captain of Industry.
                      The process chains are really complex and you can't just throw space at a problem. I played for 24 hours straight once without getting up from my chair.

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                        Oh, it's a blast.

                        I'm on a custom-built persistent world with a few staff members who build and script. Players just log in with their characters like a mini MMO and when I'm logged in as a DM, they can't see me, but there's a menu where I can make placeables, monsters, items, or visual effects appear, and I can 'possess' creatures and NPC's and make them talk. It's really very cool.

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                        Are those sessions open ? I would very much like to try that !

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                        • nebula@fedia.ioN [email protected]

                          For me it was Terraria, Satisfactory, Tetris Effect Master Mode, Minecraft with Mekanism mod & CSGO / CS2 (almost 2000 hours in CS alone).

                          Edit: There are so many answers that I might only reply if I have something interesting to say. I will read all of your answers though. 🙂

                          Edit 2: It has become too much for me and I have to disable notifications. Thank you for the massive response and please continue to discuss with everyone here. ❤️ 🫡

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                          If we’re talking actual legit addiction, to the point of finding it hard to quit, Skyrim and Pokémon (first four generations). Any other game, no matter how much I love it or how many hours I’ve got, I could put away and not touch for a while. When I first got into Skyrim, I played it nonstop for about 3 or 4 years, hours a day every day. After around 5k hours I finally had a hard drive failure which corrupted a save file and I finally took that as a sign to stop playing. I actually stopped playing video games entirely for a while to make sure I didn’t go back to it. About a year ago I figured I’d reinstall it and play again for a bit, immediately sank 50 hours in and uninstalled it before I fell into that rabbit hole again.

                          Pokemon is similar, though not as bad. But any time I revisit a Pokemon game I have to go through all the games in the first four gens, get super into it with dozens of tabs on individual Pokemon and stats and such, and then I have to stop myself, otherwise I’d probably do the same thing as Skyrim. As a kid growing up I was properly addicted to that series, and as an adult it still hasn’t gone away.

                          There’s lots of other games I’ve had tons and tons of hours into, but I could hang them up and move on. Skyrim especially but Pokemon too are actual addictions for me.

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                          • nebula@fedia.ioN [email protected]

                            For me it was Terraria, Satisfactory, Tetris Effect Master Mode, Minecraft with Mekanism mod & CSGO / CS2 (almost 2000 hours in CS alone).

                            Edit: There are so many answers that I might only reply if I have something interesting to say. I will read all of your answers though. 🙂

                            Edit 2: It has become too much for me and I have to disable notifications. Thank you for the massive response and please continue to discuss with everyone here. ❤️ 🫡

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                            Elite. Lode Runner. Castles of Dr. Creep. Boulderdash.

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                            • nebula@fedia.ioN [email protected]

                              For me it was Terraria, Satisfactory, Tetris Effect Master Mode, Minecraft with Mekanism mod & CSGO / CS2 (almost 2000 hours in CS alone).

                              Edit: There are so many answers that I might only reply if I have something interesting to say. I will read all of your answers though. 🙂

                              Edit 2: It has become too much for me and I have to disable notifications. Thank you for the massive response and please continue to discuss with everyone here. ❤️ 🫡

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                              At different times:

                              Luanti (AKA Minetest)

                              0AD

                              Sauerbraten

                              Battle for Wesnoth

                              Shattered Pixel Dungeon

                              and further back:

                              Action Quake 2

                              WipeOut 2097 (AKA XL)

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                              • nebula@fedia.ioN [email protected]

                                For me it was Terraria, Satisfactory, Tetris Effect Master Mode, Minecraft with Mekanism mod & CSGO / CS2 (almost 2000 hours in CS alone).

                                Edit: There are so many answers that I might only reply if I have something interesting to say. I will read all of your answers though. 🙂

                                Edit 2: It has become too much for me and I have to disable notifications. Thank you for the massive response and please continue to discuss with everyone here. ❤️ 🫡

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                                Original World of Warcraft.

                                I put years into that game. Then I started a family and I just had to quit.

                                If my gf (now wife) played we'd probably never get anything done.

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                                • nebula@fedia.ioN [email protected]

                                  For me it was Terraria, Satisfactory, Tetris Effect Master Mode, Minecraft with Mekanism mod & CSGO / CS2 (almost 2000 hours in CS alone).

                                  Edit: There are so many answers that I might only reply if I have something interesting to say. I will read all of your answers though. 🙂

                                  Edit 2: It has become too much for me and I have to disable notifications. Thank you for the massive response and please continue to discuss with everyone here. ❤️ 🫡

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                                  RuneScape: I can’t believe I played the game after the removal of free trade. It was such a poorly run game, and I’m can’t believe anyone still plays it anymore. It’s unbelievable how arrogant mod MacDonalds was, and that I only quit in 2011 after I got scammed trying to sell the account.

                                  League of Legends: this is another case of really great game, but incredibly poorly managed. Having Phreak be the balance lead just feels like shit, and made me feel like shit because I kept playing thinking it’d get better. This is a very global, very competitive game that was balanced around competitive play and optimizing spectator happiness. You can guess just how fun it was to play a character that was deemed “unfun to watch in worlds” and get absolutely gutted by Phreak’s team. The opposite was also hilariously true… they buffed certain characters so they’d sell more skins or because spectators like watching them. I finally quit after having to swap my main because they nerfed or reworked it and left me playing something else several times.

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                                    Civ, Balatro.

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                                    both games have made me look up and go "wtf the sun went down hours ago!?"

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                                    • nebula@fedia.ioN [email protected]

                                      For me it was Terraria, Satisfactory, Tetris Effect Master Mode, Minecraft with Mekanism mod & CSGO / CS2 (almost 2000 hours in CS alone).

                                      Edit: There are so many answers that I might only reply if I have something interesting to say. I will read all of your answers though. 🙂

                                      Edit 2: It has become too much for me and I have to disable notifications. Thank you for the massive response and please continue to discuss with everyone here. ❤️ 🫡

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                                      Space Engineers right now. The Scrapyard scenario really gets me.

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                                      • ace_garp@lemmy.worldA [email protected]

                                        At different times:

                                        Luanti (AKA Minetest)

                                        0AD

                                        Sauerbraten

                                        Battle for Wesnoth

                                        Shattered Pixel Dungeon

                                        and further back:

                                        Action Quake 2

                                        WipeOut 2097 (AKA XL)

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                                        really cool games fr

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                                        • nebula@fedia.ioN [email protected]

                                          For me it was Terraria, Satisfactory, Tetris Effect Master Mode, Minecraft with Mekanism mod & CSGO / CS2 (almost 2000 hours in CS alone).

                                          Edit: There are so many answers that I might only reply if I have something interesting to say. I will read all of your answers though. 🙂

                                          Edit 2: It has become too much for me and I have to disable notifications. Thank you for the massive response and please continue to discuss with everyone here. ❤️ 🫡

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                                          Haha, yeah I have my eyes on Balatro, but have refrained from getting it, because of that.

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