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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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[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Garry's Mod. Basically a gateway drug to hobby animation, and in some ways not so far off from the modding tools used to make it.

If you've watched stuff like Heavy Is Dead, they're usually made with it. Some more professional-looking stuff is instead made in "Source Filmmaker".

[–] negativenull@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I'm amazed nobody has mentioned Kerbal Space Program (first one). That and TF2 are my most played

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[–] crestwave@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Don't Starve Together scratches the MMO itch for me. It's not an MMO, but there are public servers where you can hop in and hang out, raid bosses and whatnot. I have ~4k hours in it now.

[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Minecraft FTL Destiny 2

[–] GetKebab@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] DuckWrangler9000@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Do you like the latest updates? The way the game is headed?

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Not a huge fan of the sets and how the bonuses work, but it's still pretty straightforward and better than the old armor system. Everything else is great. Magazines are a little weird in a split group because we typically have one person go into loot perks, but magazines drop based on the skills of who loots the container, but it gives access to crafting recipes to people who otherwise wouldn't have them because they were previously skill level locked.

Have done at least one fresh run through major updates since a16 and the game has never gotten worse, in my opinion. The new pois are amazing. As well. Oh and the trader system is fixed and quest leveling overhauled, rewards improved, and progression made transparent. A little glitch in multiplayer though, last I played.

[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

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.

(To give an idea of the simulation's scope: Around 85 million systems have been recorded by players so far, and those are a vanishingly small fraction of what's out there. Space is big.)

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 rival 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 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. I use button combinations for almost everything beyond basic flight controls, since there aren't enough buttons on a controller for everything.

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[–] erin@lemmy.sidh.bzh 14 points 4 days ago

X4 Foundations... This sucks people life: you start a game when the sun goes to sleep, one second later the sun wake up 😅

[–] Ugurcan@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord with some mods took long enough to give up for me.

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[–] stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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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[–] Tower@lemm.ee 12 points 4 days ago

No Man's Sky. A foot deep but a mile wide.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 days ago (8 children)

If you're a Destiny refugee, the most obvious answer is Warframe, which just keeps on getting better and better.

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[–] greendreams@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

The Binding of Isaac

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 6 points 3 days ago

Rocket League

[–] Skunk@jlai.lu 7 points 3 days ago

Kerbal Space Program

I’m well above a thousand hours on the first game. Then all my flying sims (MSFS, Xplane, DCS, Elite Dangerous) also have a very high hour count. But for civilian airliners most of those hours are spent AFK in cruise.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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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[–] kazerniel@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Guild Wars 2, so far I put 4,800+ hours into it.

I like that it has so many kinds of solo and group content that I can just do whatever I'm in the mood for that day.

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[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

lol the problem with Destiny is they turned it into a treadmill and stopped putting the work into character and level design.

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.

[–] LavenderDay3544@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago
[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Team Fortress 2

[–] thisisdee@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Rimworld, and Football Manager (although they last one I played is 2020)

[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)
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[–] ooli@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

5k hour in Tales of Maj Eyal :https://store.steampowered.com/app/259680/Tales_of_MajEyal/

Beat it in every difficulty once.. except the last one. Half of my time must be on trying that.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Factorio, Warframe, Minecraft, Dota 2. However, the only two I'd still recommend are Factorio and Minecraft. Warframe's grind seems to have finally burned me out for good, Dota 2 is bad. You're not gonna have fun with Dota 2. The game concept is good, but like most competitive online games, the community fucking sucks.

In addition to Factorio and Minecraft, try Voices of the Void, The Long Drive, WEBFISHING, and Balatro.

Edit: oh yeah, and personally I have both Sims 2 and Sims 4 w/ all DLC (yeah, I toootally bought all the dlc) installed on my steam deck. Both fun games with their own ups and downs. Sims 2 is great vanilla, Sims 4 is great when heavily modded. Don't bother downloading the F2P version of Sims 4 from Origin if you're wanting to mod it with stuff like sacrificial's mods. Those'll break with every major update (and sometimes minor updates too!) and you can't pause updates anymore. So, you'll have to find alternative methods.

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[–] Pheonixdown@lemm.ee 9 points 4 days 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?

[–] sag@lemm.ee 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Minecraft. Probably have around 5000+ hours I think. Playing since I was 10(now 17). So, many wasted hours on Anarchy Servers and Ranked Bedwars.

[–] bighatchester@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

I just started playing in the last few months. I bought it for my son and didn't expect to be that interested in it and now I can't stop playing.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 4 points 3 days ago

If you like space games, X3 and X4 can probably eat up lots and lots of your time. Space Engineers if you're less interested in flying, space economics and creating a supply chain (which X lets you) and more in gathering materials and creating all sorts of weird, funny or actually amazing stuff. SE is probably better played with at least 1 other person, possibly more, while X is exclusively single player.

Grand Strategy games can also obliterate your free time. Civilization 5, any Total War game. Hell, Age of Empires 2 can have very long matches if you play on huge maps and people have loved that game for over 20 years.

You can also go for Fallout 4 or Skyrim with extra content mods, like dungeons, quests or areas.

Personally, I'm just past 400h on Palworld, so I'd recommend it as well. I've played from start to "finish" some 4 times by now. Official servers will be wiped sometime in December, possibly with a new patch arriving, but you can always play single player and even invite a friend to play on your local save and never lose progress (unless the save gets corrupted, which can happen).

[–] Screamium@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

Slay the Spire

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 6 points 3 days ago

Morrowind. Although it's more like play a few hundred hours every five years for me.

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't think I've ever played a game more than 200 or 300 hours.

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