Which games made you go into an "addiction phase"?
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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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οΈ π«‘Stardew Valley. I have it on my computer and switch. I even made myself a perfection guide.
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Path of Exile. And by extension Path of Building.
I've only played like 8 leagues (each league is around 3 months long) and I have almost 5k hours :/.
Usually if I decide to play a league, i will make sure I have no obligations for an entire month and then I will take the first week of the league off work.
Have you tried Last Epoch?
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is Evan on Lemmy? he seems like a lemmy kinda dude
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Dota without question. CS along with some rts games like zero hour and CoH used to be up there but it's not even close. Got to a ranked immortal at my peak. Still, was a lot of fun playing with friends and family, so not like it was always a solo activity. Glad I quit though.
Dota without question
Came here to say this. Over 4 years clean now. There were a lot of good times with the squad. And I guess it gave me a relatively high APM which helps at work.
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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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οΈ π«‘14 years I've been wandering about.
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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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οΈ π«‘wrote last edited by [email protected]Fallout. I played 1 and 2 back when they first came out. Great games, great writing, seditious humour ad a real feel of a world.
But then came 3, FNV, and 4. Each of those I played through as my default 'helpful stealth archer' character, then a second time as 'evil melee' character, and then again to make sure I had maxed out each faction and got each ending. And then again, because I loved it, and again to collect all the bobbleheads, magazines, etc.
I'm in my late-50s. I'm already slowing down my career in preparation for retirement, and now I work as a freelance consultant which means I have some control over my working hours. I can't wait for Fallout 5. I will be probably take at least two weeks off work to binge the shit out of it.
Less so with Elder Scrolls 6, but I'll be taking at least a week off to play it when it drops.
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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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οΈ π«‘Warframe, I have more than 3000 hours on it but I haven't touched it in years
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well said! I should check out Enshrouded. I just bought Factorio after finally learning it never goes on sale, lol. and then immediately got lost in two other gangs, now doing a fourth Stardew Valley playthru
also fyi there's no hyperfocus type of ADHD; that's just a broad effect of executive dysfunction
wrote last edited by [email protected]I just bought Factorio after finally learning it never goes on sale, lol.
I always try to buy games on sale, so I've been avoiding Factorio on principle. Their developers refuse to lower the price because they feel there no point in setting a price for a game, then discounting it every once in a while to draw in new players. They believe it's a $30 game, so they want everyone to pay $30 to play it, period.
Fortunately, I won a Steam key for it in a raffle, so I got it for free. And I'm glad, because I don't feel it's worth even $30. It's not a bad game, but I personally would've paid $10-15 max for it.
fyi there's no hyperfocus type of ADHD; that's just a broad effect of executive dysfunction
True, but explaining the nuances of ADHD in a thread that's not specifically focused on it is complicated. Especially since we're still trying to define the vague differences between ADHD, autism, ADD, and a few other cognitive disorders. Some things are merging under umbrella terms (e.g. ADD doesn't really exist anymore; it's now a form of ADHD) and other distinctions are getting blurry, with too many cross-over symptoms to clearly define. Much easier to just point out that one of my greater symptoms of ADHD is hyperfocus.
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100% Vanilla world, no extra tools or mods
Have you kept it on the same version of vanilla MC for the last 8 years? Or do you upgrade to newer versions periodically?
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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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οΈ π«‘Terraria was like absolute heroin for me.
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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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οΈ π«‘I bought No Man's Sky about a year ago. There's something comforting in the repeated tasks and exploring. I spend entire days just running around accomplishing nothing.
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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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οΈ π«‘Hades, I spent like 6 months playing almost nothing else. Platinumed it and still couldn't get enough, and I'm not even that good at it!ΰ²₯_ΰ²₯ I managed to get to 25 heat I think.
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Factorio, Dyson Sphere Program, Derail Valley Simulator, Terraria, and Vintage Story.
I didn't expect Vintage Story to suck me in as hard as it did, but now I've clocked in 40 hours since I bought it a few weeks ago.
Great game, though finding an iron vein was a pain.
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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.
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οΈ π«‘Eve online
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Have you kept it on the same version of vanilla MC for the last 8 years? Or do you upgrade to newer versions periodically?
When a new version came, I upgraded
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Oh I don't care about the graphics at all, as long as I know what I'm looking at. I should try again.
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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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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οΈ π«‘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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For a while it was Elite Dangerous. Reached triple Elite, then eventually Odyssey drops and I stopped playing. After Elite was Baldurs Gate 3. Bg3 was the fastest 1000+ hours Iβve ever dropped in a video game
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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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.
οΈ π«‘I have been consistently playing EverQuest for 26 years now. I'm not sure it's a phase.
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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.
οΈ π«‘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.
