What are your favorite 1000+ hour games?

Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨DuckWrangler9000@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

One thing I have struggled with lately is finding good games to play. I bounce around from game to game trying to enjoy it but it just doesn’t scratch the itch like it used to. For example, one of my favorites was old school RuneScape, but it hasn’t really been giving me the same enjoyment that it used to. So then I would open up World of Warcraft, Destiny 2, just playing a little bit of each game. Think maybe I need some new games to play but it’s tough to find them these days.

So what are your favorite 1000+ hour games?

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Brokkr@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Factorio, it’s fun from the first minute but you’ll still be learning new things after 1000 hours.

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- baldingpudenda@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Me: Ooooooohhhh, ok. I know how logistic networks work. 2 hrs later Me: wtf? Production stopped. Why does this one belt have 5 different materials. Oh…idk how chests work. That’s OK I’ll simplify it until it works. suns up and birds chirping Me: ok, ok. So it’s working, but i dont know why.
  
  800 hrs in and I still underestimate the space I need. Best 30 bucks I’ve ever spent.
  
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- Harrk@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  200 hours in for me and I just learned you can put gates over train tracks. 🤯 Found out by reading the in game manual that I was too proud to read beforehand. So uhm… read the manual.
  
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ALERT@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
cracktorio

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- ouch@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  First at least make sure the poor sod does not have a family!
  
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beerclue@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Project Zomboid, Rimworl, Dwarf Fortress, Stellaris, Starsector…

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- DuckWrangler9000@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  You really like simulators?
  
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  - beerclue@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I… guess? I don’t know how I would classify these games. But they all are able to steal from me 8h in a day, no issue :)
    
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  - fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Story generators. Best kind of games, in my opinion. It’s truly amazing how the interconnection between numerous systems can result in totally unexpected and memorable experiences no scripted game could provide.
    
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asudox@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’ve been playing Tf2 for over 1.5k hours now. I recommend yoi try it out, there’s a reason why that game from 2007 is still not dead.

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- HollowNaught@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  The best war themed hat simulator out there
  
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hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Warframe. Inching closer to 3.000h currently.

It does come in waves, but every once in a while I go all in again and lose myself in the infinite things you can do.

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- Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I think I have 5k hours in and the development style finally got to me in a bad way. I can go into detail if needed, but I don’t feel I need to to anyone with enough time in the game.
  
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- LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  My friends got me into Warframe about 6 months ago. We play together almost every night. We are so excited for the 1999 update.
  
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  - hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Have fun playing :D
    
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AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Per my steam library:

Factorio: 3,375.4 hours

Dyson Sphere Program: 2,505.9 h

Stellaris: 2,236.6 h

Terraria 2,629.9h

Skyrim: 1,239.5 h

I’ve also got a few thousand hours in Just Cause 2&3, as well as several Gran Turismo games and Forza Motorsport games. Morrowind probably has 2-3000 hours, oh and I’m not allowed near Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri anymore.

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- GiddyGap@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  That’s a lot of gaming
  
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  - AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I’m 44 years old, and have been gaming practically since I was born. My parents played D&D, and video games with us kids.
    
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toddestan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The only two games I have that I’ve put more than 1000 hours in are Factorio and Rimworld. I’d highly recommend both.

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Tolstoy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Not a favourite anymore but still beats my second most played games by a factor of 4… Warframe was fun at the beginning and really clicked at about 200hrs. I left after about 2200hrs because I burned out but it still has a place in my heart.

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Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Monster Hunter. The first one I played, MH4U back in the 3DS days, I put 1,000 hours into. That was nearly 10 years ago, and I’m still playing the franchise to this day. Currently finally going through the Sunbreak expansion of Monster Hunter Rise on the PC, and noticing a marked improvement in my mental health over playing other games.

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- reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Also came here to recommend Monster Hunter. If these games grab you, there’s many hours of play in it for you.
  
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mox@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Elite Dangerous is my go-to lately.

It’s different to most other games by not being goal-oriented, except for the goals you set for yourself. No main quest line dictating progress. No mandatory tasks. No win condition. Instead, it drops you into a simulation of our entire galaxy roughly 1300 years in the future, where humanity has mastered hyperspace travel and spread through hundreds of star systems.

I like that it offers a variety of activities to fit whatever mood I might be in on a given day. I can hunt pirates, mine asteroids, engage in a bit of piracy myself, find and collect bio samples, infiltrate hostile settlements, venture into vast unexplored areas of space, discover Earth-like worlds that nobody has ever encountered before, defend humanity against hostile forces, photograph beautiful stellar phenomena, rescue stranded survivors, customize and finely tune my ship to perform beyond its original specs, team up with friends, pledge to a political power and expand their influence, or chill out as a space trucker and haul cargo to earn enough money for my next upgrade. It can occupy all my attention, or just be relaxing entertainment while I listen to music or an audiobook.

It’s an MMO in the sense of having a large game world (galaxy) shared by all players in real time, but PvP is optional. One play mode exposes you to other players, while another limits you to NPC encounters. You can switch between them at will.

One warning: A space ship has more than a few controls to learn, and they’re better suited to a game controller or HOTAS than a keyboard and mouse.

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- KammicRelief@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  hmmmmmm you’re tempting me to get back into this one. I think I have 60 or so hours on it? Not enough to try everything yet, but definitely enjoyed chilling in space.
  
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  - mox@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Seems like a lot of people step away for a while only to return to it. I had hundreds of hours before taking a break, came back with new hardware, and have been playing hundreds of hours more. At this rate, it might end up overtaking Civilization as my most played game.
    
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kyub@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Deep Rock Galactic

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negativenull@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’m amazed nobody has mentioned Kerbal Space Program (first one). That she TF2 are my just 3 played

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- Finadil@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yay, a fellow KSPer! Though I’m just barely over at 1,041 hrs.
  
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Tower@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
No Man’s Sky. A foot deep but a mile wide.

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erin@lemmy.sidh.bzh ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
X4 Foundations… This sucks people life: you start a game when the sun goes to sleep, one second later the sun wake up 😅

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Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
If you’re a Destiny refugee, the most obvious answer is Warframe, which just keeps on getting better and better.

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- DuckWrangler9000@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Does it have multiplayer or is it single player only? Destiny 2 was only really playable because I had a community/clan that I played with actively for the social aspect of it. Horribly boring playing it solo
  
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  - Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    The core story content is single player only. The rest is multiplayer, but unlike Destiny there’s nothing that requires you to form your own group outside of the game, and all the gameplay is designed in such a way that you really don’t need to communicate. You can basically just turn on public matchmaking and get a bunch of humans who might as well be bots for all you’ll have to actually interact with them.
    
    You can play all the content solo if you want to, but the difficulty might get a bit much, especially starting out (there are also certain game modes / mission types that really lean on having a full group).
    
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  - kromem@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    You’ll almost always end up doing missions with other people other than when you intentionally want to do certain tasks solo.
    
    A lot of the game is built around guilds and player to player interactions.
    
    PvP sucks and it’s almost all PvE content vs Destiny though.
    
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  - Pheonixdown@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    There are a few sections restricted to solo only, but it’s not the default, the matchmaking is pretty quick for a random group and there’s a variety of people always looking to form groups for different tasks. One word of warning, people move fast, until you get parkour down, you might just end up running from the start to end of a level if you join groups, they’ll have completed the objectives and be waiting for you to extract.
    
    Clans exist, and each have their own space station called a dojo that’s customized by them (cost is based on size of the clan, as a solo I was able to build up and level a clan on my own).
    
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BURN@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Factorio

The Factory Must Grow

I’m almost 100 hours into my new space age save, and I’ve played nearly 1k hours since I bought it 5ish years ago. By far one of the most enjoyable games I’ve ever played and I highly recommend it to everyone who enjoys sandbox games

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- liquefy4931@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Factorio. It’s the game I always come back to, and I’m always ready to spend 5 minutes playing here and there now that it works so well on steam deck.
  
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Nima@leminal.space ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
terraria for me. i keep managing to find new stuff over a thousand hours later.

“Has this item always been here?! no way. REALLY?”

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- AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Well they keep updating it, so it may not have been there, unless you made a chest sphere and didn’t label the chests.
  
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  - Nima@leminal.space ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    no its just there’s a lot of items in the game. and some you wouldn’t really find unless you were actively searching for them.
    
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thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
L4D2. built a new computer for that game specifically after loving L4D. super fun arcade shooter that will never be uninstalled from my computer.

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- zante@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Unmatched experience
  
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conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
lol the problem with Destiny is they turned it into a treadmill.

Elden Ring can easily take more than 100 hours on your first playthrough, and different builds significantly change your play style.

BG3, similar deal. Subsequent playthroughs are probably going to be accelerated, but there are a bunch of different story choices you can make that feel different, the party members have their own story lines, there’s a special custom character called Dark Urge that’s intended for a later playthrough that has it’s own twist, and you can change the strategy of encounters a lot with different party constructions.

Rimworld calls itself a story generator because you’re going to fail and have people die and whatever, but every game plays out different, there are a good couple scenarios, and there’s expansions and mods you can add on top of that for variety.

Just the first couple that come to mind. I’m not near 1000 hours on any of them, but they all have a lot of content.

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Adalast@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Factorio: 2344 Path of Exile: 2736 Rimworld: 2191 Kerbal Space Program: 1071

I have a bunch of honorable mentions in the several hundred hours ranges that are only not 1k+ because I have severe ADHD and something else became a hyperfocus before they hit that point: Backpack Hero Ark The Last Spell Timberborn Factory Town Dyson Sphere Program Loop Hero Brotato Satisfactory Path of Achra Against the Storm Desynced

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- skizzles@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Commas, please.
  
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  - Adalast@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Honestly, I had it all with line breaks, but it didn’t take. I will fix.
    
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- asmodee59@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Have you tried modded Minecraft ?
  
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Ugurcan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord with some mods took long enough to give up for me.

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- Somsphet@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Star wars mods make it really fun
  
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stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Trackmania 2020. Great example of a game that is simple in concept but super deep in skills that you can both play super casually at your own pace or super competitively. Plus there is a great community and endless content to play.

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- Ketram@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I want to do this so bad because I see cup of the day stuff and think “man that sounds fun” and then I remember it is a subscription (as far as I understand) and I lose interest.
  
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  - stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Yes it is a subscription to access the servers. But you also get a ton of access to other content forever (all the past campaigns and TOTD tracks released) so the value is still pretty damn good. Considering I’ve got 2000 hours in the game since release and it has in total cost me about the same as a normal game I’m not going to complain about it being a subscription.
    
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Pheonixdown@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Path of Exile.

I’d say I’m a fairly mid-tier player, get better with each season I play, the breadth of mechanics and depth of complexity is mind breaking. I’ve only played like 2000 hours though, I’ll get it all figured out eventually… Right?

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icecreamtaco@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Why do they have to be 1000 hours? Go onto Steam/gog/eshop/etc during the Black Friday sales and buy a few dozen 40 hour games for $5 each

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Electric_Druid@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Oxygen Not Included- very detailed colony sim where scientific things like heat exchange, air pressure, etc. are essential for survival. I swear, my next file will be perfect…

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Screamium@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Slay the Spire

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LavenderDay3544@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Stellaris

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aluminium@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Sims 3, Skyrim, Fallout 4

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msage@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Dota 2.

I’ve played Dwarf Fortress, Stellaris, yet I still find Dota to be the most complex game ever.

It sucks that it’s a multiplayer game, and you need people to play it well with you, but when it works, it’s amazing.

Everything in it has layers of usability, usually componded by the everything else in the game - hero abilities, items, map, neutrals, even the stupid trees play a large role in the game.

I’ve spent hundreds of hours studying the mechanics, and I still don’t grasp everything.

I played a lot of DotA too, but that doesn’t have a playtime counter. But I have over 3000 hours in Dota 2.

My second favourite game is OpenTTD. It’s just so satisfying to optimize the train network and add another 100 trains to it. I’ve tried Factorio, but for some reason that did not scratch that itch.

Or some roguelites, like Slay the Spire (or the Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend), Synthetik (haven’t tried second one yet), they are always fun.

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- DuckWrangler9000@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Great list! I’ve tried Dota 2 as well, it’s definitely extremely complex and addictive but not my kind of game, I just cannot thrive and enjoy that sort of game. Same goes with League of Legends. Just not my cup of tea.
  
  I am a little curious about Stellaris though. That game seems so incredibly complex, like, what about it is The draw for people? I’ve heard so many people talk about it and has so many freezy steam reviews but when I first tried it as a demo, it seemed so absurdly complex That my head was spinning. Like I had no idea what the heck was going on. I’m not sure how to enjoy it I guess
  
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  - msage@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    LoL sucks, it’s like a shallow copy of DotA. I’ve played around 300 hours, it’s very silly in comparison.
    
    Stellaris is kinda easy once you figure out that expanding is the No1 priority for the entire game. Expand, build ships - nobody will be able to stop you.
    
    There was always a need for a ‘tall’ empire - so you don’t expand, but focus on your small part of the galaxy - but so far it’s always crushed by the expanding ones.
    
    Once you get stargate tech, it’s 24/7 war. For even more territory.
    
    Right now I remembered a game that never was really finished, Stardrive, where you could design your own ships down to the electrical wiring. It had layouts with sections, and you could fill it up to your liking. It was a shame that ground troops could finish the game in minutes.
    
    Sometimes I feel like 4X games are usually more suited for roleplaying than actual challenge of micromanagement.
    
    Anyway, I have a huge jam on my main line in OpenTTD, gotta fix my intersection again.
    
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  - Takios@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    It’s a mix of strategy and role-playing. Sure if you want to survive on higher difficulties, you probably need a build that is meta. But on medium difficulties or lower you can pretty much roleplay your empire as you like and there’s many mechanics in the game that help with this. Your empire can be a democratic haven for all, a mega corporation, a machine hivemind forcefully assimilating organics into its network…and much more.
    
    There’s also a great exploration aspect of the game. Your exploration vessels regularly find anomalies that tell a neat little story and provide bonuses to your empire (which can range from a small resource bonus to making one of your leaders immortal).
    
    Of course, there’s also the power fantasy. You start with just one planet, but you will quickly expand throughout the galaxy. You can then wage war against other empires, build a federation together with them or convince the galactic community to crown you as Emperor of the entire galaxy. But the game also regularly throws adversaries at you if the AI empires are starting to become no match for you, may it be one of the space fauna suddenly becoming extremely hostile or a Great Khan uniting a marauder horde and demanding everyone to become their vassal.
    
    It is also rare that a bad outcome leads to a straight loss. Losing a war (usually) does not doom your empire but you only lose a bit of territory or get vassalized, both giving you ample opportunities to build up your strength again or make allies to stand together against an enemy.
    
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theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Team Fortress 2

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