I honestly loved Forspoken. I even bought a second physical copy in case something happens to the original.

Did y'all hear about Rain World ?

Nethack. 100% this is Nethack.

Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts and Sword of the Stars 2.

part of Sword of the stars 2 is even now it sometimes gets so laggy that you can't finish a game. You just at some point declare that you've snowballed enough and can't be beat anymore.

Hundreds of hours.

Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts is at least getting better now that the devs have abandoned it and modders are taking over.

Deep Rock Galactic is a very good game that doesn't deserve this slander (except Season 3 which has given me actual nightmares)

Spelunky 2

All I see are awesome game recommendations, thanks everyone! Except for Stardew Valley.. that's my game. I love it but I hate it for reasons mentioned already.

What's wrong with Rust?

I mean, when you remove the toxicity, it's a great single-player game.

Ignore the thousands of hours I have in the game.

Space Station 13 on the BYOND client. Someone has a space station 14 play test available on steam right now and I'm desperately trying not to get into it

For me, HC WoW

Battlefield 2042. 5k hours.

Fuck, there's enough games that I got addicted to in this thread that I'm scared I've got the tism

This one particular rp server on San Andreas Multiplayer

Elder Scrolls Oblivion.

Like I hate it, it was a disappointment when I got it (maybe even more than Skyrim). I wanted Morrowind 2, I got “oh, the LOTR series is popular because of the film, why not flatten our setting into generic medieval fantasy?” instead of my jungle city with dragons flying around the canals.

The main plot is stupid, most of the faction plot lines are stupid (Mannimarco is probably one of the most embarrassing bosses in a video game of all time). Shivering Isles and Knights of the Nine showed that there were still some capable writers at Bethesda, but Horse Armor probably got a lot more profit for much less effort. (And now, they’ve figured that they don’t even have to do that and can just resell what modders do.)

Despite how much I hate the game, I’ve sank thousands of hours into it - not just playing it, but modding it. Installing the mods of others, making and releasing my own. I have a dream of someday making a total conversion mod which would fix all of the things I hate about the main story and the landmass and the dialogue and the lack of roleplaying opportunities… to the point where I’ve also spent hundreds of hours making small stabs at the project.

I listen to other people play the game and talk about the game and complain about the game all of the time. I watch more hours of people playing Oblivion than Morrowind - which is the game I actually like and think is good!

Edit: Plot of Morrowind - complicated political intrigue, analysis of colonialism, and subversion of the “Chosen One” narrative, where you could make a very strong argument that the main character is a government agent sent to “fulfill” an indigenous prophecy to destabilize the region politically and further centralize the Empire’s control over Tamriel.

Plot of Oblivion - Mehrunes Dagon is now basically the Christian Devil (flanderizing the very interesting morality of the Daedra in lore). Your job is to fight all the evil cultists who want to bring him back for basically no reason, like even in their “paradise” they’re getting tortured for funsies. No one has motivations other than being bad guys or good guys. (See also how the Mages Guild portrays necromancy as “the bad magic” which was a religious thing in Morrowind but canonically seen as morally neutral elsewhere before they became the generic baddies you slaughter in dungeons and caves.)

Tarkov. 16k hours. More time than most streamers.

Garry's Mod back when spacebuild still existed. Fun stuff especially all the Stargate add-ons.