My top 3:

1. RimWorld

2. Skyrim

3. No Man’s Sky

If MMOs count, EVE Online at well over 12,000 hours over the last 20 years.

If not, nethack has probably consumed close to 1000 hours of my life.

Guild Wars & Guild Wars 2

Deep rock galactic. 1500 hours. 😬

Rock and stone!

Steam says Borderlands 2, but I must’ve accidently left it running or somethingbecause I definitely haven’t played it that much.

Next would be Sunless Seas and Frostpunk at around 200 hours which sounds about right.

Almost certainly World of Warcraft. I don’t think I even liked it for most of the time I spent playing it. I’ve been annoyed about the overall direction since basically Cataclysm, and IMO Burning Crusade laid the foundations for most of my major complaints, although I didn’t realize it at the time. I have decided that I’m opposed to the “expansions add a new tier of everything that invalidates old content” model of expanding games. If creating diverse content that is still enjoyable at level 60 is too hard, then maybe games just don’t need to be expanded indefinitely past their original level caps.

seems like the only game I ever play these days is the Halo Master Chief Collection… just play through all 6 campaigns then start over again

That would be:

Dota 2

Warframe

Path of Exile

Skyrim

Mass Effect 3

Dragon Age: Origins

Apex Legends

Im not sure about total hours…

But several thousand in WoW. Back during release and for at least 5 years i played like 8 hours per day on avg. I would guess.

I would estimate 10000 - 12000 hours. Maybe a bit more.

I dont play it anymore though.

The game i have most time played on, on steam, would be Gfim Dawn. That game is amazing.

According to Steam I’ve spent 5121 hours on Fallout 4.

Warframe, just hit over 2k hours. I have a plethora of other games that are over 300 hours each like Rimworld, Fallout NV, etc

Off of what I have record of - Stardew Valley. 387 hours on Steam, just over 200 hours on my Switch, and my current file on my phone is at 87 hours - not including previous files that I do not have anymore.

That being said, there are games that I bet would be up there as well but they don’t record time so I have no way of knowing.

Minecraft, which has over 200 hours on my Switch alone despite most of my play time being on PC or my phone.

Starcraft: Brood War Super Smash Bro. Melee. I don’t play these two much, anymore, but when I was young and didn’t have much else of a life, these took up an incredible amount of my time.

Mine should be Monster Hunter with roughly 2-3 k hours across the series. But single-game most played hours should be Final Fantasy XIV with a little more than 1.5k hours.

To be honest: Im not proud of any of this. Most of the time was accumulated when I was much younger and I wish I would’ve had the courage to engage in meaningful encounters with other people instead. Gaming used to be my main escape mechanism, which helped me get through some rough times, but held my personal progress behind by a good margin. A little playing on the side won’t hurt though, nowadays.

I guess I can’t know for sure, but I’d say it has to be Minecraft. I wish there was a way to see the hours I’ve spent in the Java Edition of the game. If it’s not Minecraft though, my second guess would be Rocket League. When I add up the hours across the platforms I’ve played on, it comes out on top by a small margin.

For a single game it’s Factorio. Steam has me at around 1600 hours.

For a series it’s gotta be Civilization. I’ve been playing since I was in fifth grade. I’d go over to my friend’s house when he wasn’t home to play Civ I. I’d spend entire weekends in college playing Civ II and III. I had to have my GF hide my Civ V disk so I wouldn’t miss deadlines. And now I’m on a full playthrough of all the new civs in the latest DLC.