Commandos 3: Destination Berlin The gameplay was so good and I kept imagining about the missions all the time.

Cyberpunk 2077 when it was released. And then panam made me cry ( ._.) And that scene inside the robo is burnt into my brain xD

I kinda didnt even realise alot of the bugs, cause I really enjoyed the story. I remember seeing the trees through the walls but the immersion/ my imagination was strong enough to mask them .D

Yesterday i started playing custom doom wads at night because i wanted to see what new mods where available and lo and behold; i saw the sun rise.

Ghost of Tsushima is so good it almost makes me want to buy my own ps5, but I think I'll stick to borrowing my gf's.

Stardew Valley

Finally played Half-Life 2 recently. Best shooter I have ever played.

Elderborn. In its own words, a METAL AF SLASHER. Kind of like a first person souls-like. rolled straight out of beating it into a new game+

Kenshi, and I still am. Before that it was Stellaris. Singleplayer sandbox with modding is basically what does it for me.

Elden Ring (again) I go back and forth between many games

Modded minecraft

majormud

spent forever writing scripts to do all the farming. i kinda miss it, but its no fun without other users and no one else would ever want to play it again

I know I was super late to the party, but I'm genuinely surprised that nobody has said Skyrim, yet.

Before that, Subnautica (both of them).

But I've probably spent as much time in Skyrim as both Subnautica games combined.

SimCity 3K - played it for YEARS, was involved heavily into the modding communities and basically thought of nothing else.

Even after pouring thousands of hours into the game, I don't feel like it was wasted time.

SIFU, the "git gud" gameplay really makes me dream about being a kung fu master lol.

The gameplay is so damn fun that I actually don't mind getting my ass beaten... That much.

I think there are two answers to this.

The most recent game I was completely captivated by and just obsessed with was Subnautica. I was deep into it in 2022.

The most recent one I spent a long time playing is Satisfactory, I started my most recent run in mid-December and completed it a week or two ago. Satisfactory didn't quite grab me the way Subnautica did in terms of loving this world, but I get into it. I had a goal of 100% full clearing it including buying all the trophies before it was out of early access, so I did.

You spelled current wrong.

Right now it’s brawlhalla, free smash clone on steam.

“Just one more game”

Cross Code for me. Ended up putting like 60 hours into it in about 3 weeks while in university and working part time. I could not put it down.

Doom Eternal

GTA 4 modded the new dxvk update made it run amazingly on PC

Team Fortress 2, for more than 8 years

Runescape/Old school runescape

Been playing since 2009. Sure I've taken breaks, sometimes multiple years, but I always return.

The old saying is true, "You never quit runescape, you just take breaks"

Modded Factorio and elden ring.

The last game that truly gave me the feeling you described is Lies of P. It was my favourite game of 2023 and the 60 or so hours I put into beating it were very well spent.

Age of calamity is most recent. Not so much for the gameply but i got hugely into the BOTW lore and seeing everything before it got nuked to shit latched onto my obsessive little heart.

PC gaming, War for the Overworld

A link to the past, I couldn’t put that down once I started it

Crusader Kings 3

The Finals has been my default game — if none of my friends are playing anything else — since it launched

Like a Dragon : Infinite Wealth

Right now, Death Stranding.

Edit: I went back to look at the reception of this game from at its release. It did great at the VGAs, but general consensus on Reddit and other forums negative. I also remember how much The Giant Beastcast shat on that game (I stopped listening to them pretty soon after that too, but for unrelated reason).

Desperados 3. I've put in close to 100 hours on it and I'm just 4 achievements away from completing all its challenges. I'm so bummed its developer had to close down a few months ago because their games are criminally underrated and are from a very niche genre.