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Everquest Online Adventures and then City of Heroes.

For EQOA I had 3 CRT tvs and five PS2s with an account for each one going for a couple of years straight. I worked on the road at the time. I was in a different hotel every two months and lugged that around with me. I was in a guild, led raids, powerleveled my and other people's alts.

City of Heroes was similar. Three accounts, I met my ex wife there, was a prominent member in one of the largest Super Groups in the game. I was there from the first couple months of the game until it shut down.

When I found out about the CoH private servers I went back and caught myself slipping right back to the old ways so I haven't touched a multi-player game since.

Dungeon Master on the Amiga 500 was probably the first, followed by the SSI silver-box Krynn series. Moving over to IBM-compatibles, Sim City ate a ton of my time. SC2k, various AD&D games, and eventually FPS games (especially Team-Fortress-Likes) came to eat up wayyyy too much of my time. My first MMO was FFXI and it ate about every waking moment I was not otherwise occupied. At work, I was looking up gear locations, mobs spawns, etc. and talking on forums. I would later go on to work in the MMO space and played a lot of them for work. Rift: Planes of Telara from alpha until the (first?) major revamp was the last game to really do that to me. Ever since, I will get briefly addicated to games, but nothing lasts... and that's probably good with everything else I have going on. I do get super into Skyrim once ever couple years, though, and put an unhealthy amount of time into it.

Skyrim, Demon's Souls

RTS games for me, particularly WarZone-2100 & Earth-2150.

The fact that you get a base of operations to return to & has Picture-in-picture mode is a unique thing

Mindustry

Anno 1404, Hades, the recent Hitman series, and now also Satisfactory. Help.

First was RuneScape, that lasted a month or so. Next was Civ V, that was a couple weeks. I learned my lesson.

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.

Crash bandicoot 3 was my first heperfocus game. I played that game until I finished all levels, first time I did that my entire life. Second one was Skyrim. I played it so much!! I clocked over a thousand hours on the vanilla game, and I played more modded than vanilla, I can't tell how much I played in total because steam didn't track my modded playthrough. Then there was super Mario Galaxy (I got every star except the stupid thrash bombing one and I'm still so fucking mad about it). My most recent ones are monster hunter world (plus DLC) and current is monster hunter wilds, I've already 100% it and am in the process of crafting every single armour and weapons

last one was dave the diver. Loved it

The Cluefinder series, Minecraft beta from 1.4 to 1.6, BOTS, Secret of the Solstice, Realm of the Mad God, Skyrim, Mindustry, FTL, and currently CS2 and PokeRogue. Though I'm sure I'm forgetting at least one.

Depending on what kind of addiction behavior you might look at, it's been different games.

For the 'I think about it all the time, and wait for my next chance to get back to it,' an old Minecraft modpack called Per Fabrica Ad Astra was the best. It was the full knapping flint tools through visiting other planets stack, with a good progression tree, so I was thinking about designs for an oil refinery when I should have been sleeping, trying to complete 'just this one last thing' when I should have been going other places, and forgetting to eat because I was making an in-game kitchen.

If you're talking more the 'The world has me beat, so I'm reaching for my...' style, a favorite depressant, Hardspace: Shipbreaker is that. I beat it long ago but I still go back and just do a shift or several when even gaming is 'just too much.'

And if it's more the style of a stimulant, BPM: Bullets Per Minute. It's a great way to hit a high speed flow state. Boom boom chik, boom boom chik

Hitman: Codename 47

Old School RuneScape. I don't know what it is, but it's like crack. I cannot stop playing it.

Team Fortress 2 and Splatoon

I have probably over 3k hours on Splatoon. I can't stop. I'm S+8 fwiw

Gemcraft, I always have to make it to the end... even if it takes forever

I have around twentythousand hours in the counterstrike franchise. I played source semi competively, and was moderator on massive 64player severs. nowadays i play occasionally because CS2 just doesn't do it for me anymore.

Faster Than Light

The Witcher two and three

Morrowind and Skyrim

Back in the day i played Battlefield 1942 Desert Combat where I was a top10 player. Also a ton of Unreal tournament.

Heartstone also comes to mind.

Cant forget minecraft

oh Guild Wars...damn put some hours in as well.

Right now I quite enjoy Mechabellum, and im starting to get too sucked in again.

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

Rhythm Doctor

Barotrauma, I checked it out on a free to play weekend a few months back and have been hooked since

Lots of tinkering and the modding community is extensive, best played with friends but the single player is good too

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