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

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Think they mean 2d as in your basically walking on a map whereas in satisfactory it's a 1st person world with height.

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Slay the Spire

There are a bunch of games that I'll get super into, play for a while, then be finished with.

Slay the Spire taps perfectly into every compulsive center of my brain to make me keep playing. Like, we talk about 'addictive' games usually just as ones you like a lot... this is the first time I started to see it closer to actual addictive (though not actually a serious thing for me). It's such a sweetspot for my habits, I feel like I'd just keep saying 'one more run' so consistently, hours, days would evaporate. It kept me busy, to the detriment of doing other things.

You get on a good run, better keep going. You lose a run, might as well just start a new one and see if you have good opening luck. There's rarely a point that feels like "I should stop", until some IRL obligation comes up.

I still go back to it often when I just want an enjoyable way to kill time, or do something while I watch videos/tv on the side.

Other games with roguelike elements tap into this feeling too, like Balatro, Vampire Surviors, or Hades. But STS is where it felt strongest to me.

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Oof BG3 was so dangerous for me... When I first got it I played from dusk untill dawn, after that everytime I booted up the game, one blink and suddenly 5 or 6 hours had gone by, very difficult game to put down.

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I have been consistently playing EverQuest for 26 years now. I'm not sure it's a phase.

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Another answer for me is Super Smash Bros. Melee (but could probably apply to many multiplayer games).

Normally I'd always engaged with it in person, at events. But when I started playing online, it was almost too much of a good thing.

On the Internet, your next match is always 15 seconds away. You get beat, you go 'I can do better, just give me another chance'. You win, you're on a high, you don't ever want to stop.

The game has that perfect push and pull (at least when you're playing someone anywhere near your level) that just builds compulsion. You're constantly engaged in decision making or quick button pressing each moment, and it just feels satisfying.

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Timberborn is my drug of choice right now. But every few months I have a No Man's Sky relapse.

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As others have said slay the spire took over a few days off my life as did dicey dungeons, and Stardew valley.

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JFC I thought I was the only one that remembers that name, but you blew me tf out the water by still fucking playing!

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Morrowind was my big single player addiction. Oblivion and Skyrim were cool but they just never hit quite right.

Multiplayer I was heavy into Halo and Rappelz (some Korean MMO). I woke my brother up by sleep-playing halo, sat in front of the TV wiggling my thumbs on air, and shouted "THEYVE GOT THE FLAG". And would frequently have dreams where the conversation is being held in a floating chat box from rappelz.

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I have 3000 hours in satisfactory and I refuse to believe it is an addiction

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Definitely animal well. When I played it out was the coolest sense of discovery that I had ever felt playing a game, and it kept going for so long. I would play it whenever I had a spare minute, especially if I had an idea for a puzzle. I'm not great at normal puzzle games, my brain just doesn't work like that, but I love exploration and easy puzzles and animal well really scratched that itch for me in a way no other game has.

Aside from that, I wouldn't be surprised if I had like 10,000 hours in Minecraft, since that's pretty much the only video game I like to play, and I've been playing it for almost ten years. Not an addiction though, I only play when I have the time and the desire.

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Bruh Factorio is a fantastic game

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Spent 4,000 hours on Dota 2. Finally kicked the habit and Valve goes and drops Deadlock

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None of them.

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Factorio. At my worst, I was seeing conveyor belt patterns in my sleep.

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Morrowind.

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Unfortunately Fortnite. The Jak series. I guess that's it. I'll edit if I think of more.

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First it was Call of Duty in the mid 2000's. Then it was WoW. It all culminated in EVE Online. Untold hours spent in those games.

I have zero game addictions now. It just doesn't hit like it used to.

I'm more into stuff like Dwarf Fortress, Cogmind, and Caves of Qud now.

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No doubt, it's a fun game, but not $30 fun.

Then again, my idea of game prices is a bit skewed. I don't think ANY game is worth $60. I buy all my games on sale, and for most of them, I wait until they're $20 or less before I buy.

At a full price of $30, I'd expect to eventually find it on sale for $5-10 if I waited long enough. But the developers don't plan to ever lower the price, which is a big negative for me. If I didn't get a copy for free, I'd probably still not own it.

As far as gameplay itself, I'm annoyed at the random swarms of bugs attacking my factories. I just want to build and create, but having to also defend from attack and then repair my stuff afterward... that makes Factorio frustrating for me. But that's my own personal opinion, I know that's what makes the game fun for so many others.

That's why I like Satisfactory so much. The wildlife is only aggressive if you bother them, and there aren't packs of them roaming around. You can relax and enjoy the atmosphere and get lost in your build process without being bothered.

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I spent a full year of my life playing Grim Dawn.

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