Wow! That’s the funny thing about games. I remember being so stoked about HommIV coming out, and even HommV, but buying them and being sorely disappointed. At the time I was unaware of the phrase “jumping the shark” but that’s totally how it felt.
Similarly, I never really got into the Civ games, and most people I’ve met either preferred Homm or Civ. I did like Age of Mythology quite a bit though.
Yeah, I had that with MOO 1 & 2 (which I loved), then MOO3 was released. They’d managed to make it less enjoyable to play than a spreadsheet (& I’m an accountant)…
Well homm IV was the first game of the series i played and there are some features in there i just can’t live without! I first got to civ games at civ V and i liked it okay and civ VI was decent as well.
Steam says I have ~4.6k hours in Path of Exile, but I have moved to the standalone client a while ago… so I assume I’ll be around 5.5k hours there now.
Well this is a fun list, so I’ll throw mine in there too. Kind of a fond trip down memory lane in a way.
Total War Warhammer II: 1,253 Hours
Grim Dawn: 822 Hours
Last Epoch: 481 Hours
With PoE coming in a close 4th at 423 Hours. Most games are in around 140-200 hours. Despite only about 200 hours, I would have to say Witcher 3 is probably my favorite game in my library. I only played it through once, though, but man what a game.
Mind you, this is only Steam. I had by far the most hours in WoW (raided all the way from vanilla through to Lich King, before I stopped playing it for good), and D2 is probably right behind it. The countless hours of boss runs that I did in D2 just can’t be counted, and that was a game I actually played with my dad and brother too, so that gave it a bit of extra mileage as well. Cow Level farming, moo!! Too bad Activision bought blizz, and pretty much devoured its soul.
I don’t play much on Steam. Out of this, my most played games are Diablo 3 (over 2000 hours), Overwatch (unknown duration), StarCraft 1 (solo) and 2 (solo and cooperative). And in the past, mainly the whole “Age of…” series, the three WarCraft, the whole “Might & Magic Heroes” series.
Divinity Original Sin 2 : 322hrs
Might&Magic X Legcy : 274hrs
Last Epoch : 101 hours
Obviously PoE would be wayyyyyyy ahead of all these if I used it via steam, but I don’t.
The game I played the most is still Everquest, though (Around 800 days played I think? Hard to say since I have the days played for each characters but some characters were boxed).
I don’t really use steam even though I have around 250 games on it (major backlog lol). If I am counting based on total hours it would go…
3) Path of Exile - 4kish hours or so, many afk
2) Diablo 2 - Played this for like 4 straight years easy
Heroes of Might and Magic 3, quite possibly the greatest game ever made and I still play it. I do not even want to know the hours sunk into it. I skipped half of my grade 12 around 20 years ago playing this game
Last Epoch - 40 hours… which isn’t that bad since I bought the game on March 6th, but didn’t have too much time (1-2 hours a day) to play until the 12th I have a feeling LE will climb the ranks quite fast.