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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.

I've spent a ridiculous amount of time with Balatro, the Steam Deck is Dangerous...

Deep Rock Galactic

Just gotta finish one last assignment...

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.

If by "were" you mean "are", then Balatro.

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

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.

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.

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

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...

Descent, over 20 years ago

Got hooked on Factorio back in 2016. Still am.

Baldur's Gate 3. Before that, I dunno. Outer Worlds, I guess.

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.

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.

To the moon. Played it a few years ago. Cried.

Horizon Forbidden West just released on PC, been hooked on it since then.

Noita! I've stopped playing it now as I more or less achieved everything I wanted to with it, but it really got a hold of me with how much it rewards creative approaches to problems

Dragons Dogma 2

• story: garbage
• storytelling: garbage
• performance: garbage
• CAPCOM: garbage

But I tell you what, the world, exploration and gameplay they've put together, it's all A+.

Dragon's Dogma 2 really has me like that now. I've waited years for this, and for the most part it's everything I expected. I love the new playable race, and I'm excited to try out the new vocations. I have a lot of fun just hunting monsters for other players' followers' quests, and finding things for them to potentially tell their own players about. In some ways it feels better than traditional multiplayer.

Also loving Helldivers 2, but now that I've unlocked almost everything it's no longer all I think about all day.

Kenshi. Just the sheer dynamic ant-farm nature of it made the grind somehow all the more the worth. Even if you cheat and max out all your stats, you can still invent your own narrative in your head for what you think is happening.

Space Engineers. I played that shit for at least one ten hour session and a bunch of six your sessions.

Then I got to a certain point in the game and there was just … no goal. And I sorta lost all my steam.

Technically I still have the goal of “kill as many drones as possible in the never surrender thing”, but I’m focusing on work which I neglected while playing.

Finally played Half-Life 2 recently. Best shooter I have ever played.

Ingress. I was obsessed with it. Couldn't stop playing.

Commandos 3: Destination Berlin The gameplay was so good and I kept imagining about the missions all the time.

Kerbal Space Program, Shadow Empire and Baldur's Gate 3.

Spellcaster University.

It's not the most complex game, but you're given control to build your own set of universities, trying to accomplish the goals given to you. You have a limited amount of time before the Great Evil comes and you have to start over.

Each location has its pros and cons, different graduation classes can give benefits that persist through the run, and all the building is done through picking one of 3 cards themed around what they focus on(Gold for general improvement and random magic things, Mana of particular types for rooms/items focused on that school of magic).

Elderborn. In its own words, a METAL AF SLASHER. Kind of like a first person souls-like. rolled straight out of beating it into a new game+

Yesterday i started playing custom doom wads at night because i wanted to see what new mods where available and lo and behold; i saw the sun rise.

No Mans Sky. Off and on for like 4 years now. But I keep coming back with each new update and I get completely hooked again.

The last game that truly gave me the feeling you described is Lies of P. It was my favourite game of 2023 and the 60 or so hours I put into beating it were very well spent.

majormud

spent forever writing scripts to do all the farming. i kinda miss it, but its no fun without other users and no one else would ever want to play it again

Ghost of Tsushima is so good it almost makes me want to buy my own ps5, but I think I'll stick to borrowing my gf's.

Completely hooked on: Baldur's Gate 3.

Completely hooked on in the past tense and stopped playing: Overwatch.

Ignoring digital releases of card games, which I've loved since I was a kid, it has to be Valheim. I would spend hours and hours making structures like castles and villages, with their own defense mechanisms against monster invasions. It's a wonderful indie game, very pretty for only taking 1GB in storage.

I know I was super late to the party, but I'm genuinely surprised that nobody has said Skyrim, yet.

Before that, Subnautica (both of them).

But I've probably spent as much time in Skyrim as both Subnautica games combined.

Team Fortress 2, for more than 8 years

Stardew Valley

World of warcraft. With season 4 coming out soon and spending time with guildies doing mount achievements, I'm getting hyped for new stuff to do

Crusader Kings 3