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Baldur's Gate 3, four playthroughs back to back, two of em multiplayer. I still play it every now and then when I want to continue my honor run.

Besides that, Rimworld. Nearly 4k hours.

I am utterly shellshocked by how much I'm enjoying Helldivers 2. It's been a very long time since I've daydreamed about going home to play but I just can't wait to blast some bugs with friends most days. It's like I'm 10 again

Ive been playing a lot of read dead redemption lately.

I'm still playing Starfield. I'm 120% the targeted audience. It helped me go through depression.

I'm a 45 years old dude, and I started creating a comic with my character in Starfield, by taking screenshots and adding speech bubbles with Figma. I didn't know I had it in me.

As far as I'm concerned, Starfield is self-care.

Deep Rock Galactic

Just gotta finish one last assignment...

I've spent a ridiculous amount of time with Balatro, the Steam Deck is Dangerous...

Got hooked on Factorio back in 2016. Still am.

Helldivers 2, currently. I'm hooked on the progression and acquisition of all of the unlockables, but it's the moment to moment gameplay that keeps me wanting to hunt all the loadout options I probably won't use anyway.

Baldur's Gate 3. I just can't get enough. When I'm too tired to play myself I'm watching streams of other people playing. Sometimes I get fed up for a few days but so far it has always pulled me back in.

The "worst" for me was in 2006 with the release of Gothic 3. I had saved up for a powerful new PC and taken two or three weeks off work to play. I played deep into the night. Then deep into the morning. Then deep into the day. Then deep into the evening. Until my sleep schedule was aligned with my regular schedule again at the end of my holidays.

You'll laugh.

Bus simulator: Ultimate
Android game that will toast your phone, but it's pretty nice. It has a multiplayer too and a 2nd hand market where people bid on used buses. Naturally this means it's best to attempt to put a bus for auction in specific hours, and bid in others.

Some of the longer routes take well over an hour in real world.
One effect on me, which is also true for trains and busses in real life, is that it makes me sleepy pretty quickly.
Low frequency sound of the engine, trees moving past, road lanes quickly zipping past, you're just staring in front while doing minor adjustments and falling asleep.
I should not drive in real life.

Completely hooked on would be Dark Souls 3. Right now I'm playing The Witcher 3, and while it's good, it makes me want to boot up DS3 - less talking more fighting

If by "were" you mean "are", then Balatro.

Outer Wilds

Currently hooked on Factorio.

Before that, Baldur's Gate 3.

Before that, Factorio.

Probably WoW tbh. I don't play anymore and don't recommend it, but WoW with friends/guildies at its peak is unparalleled. You can't wait to log on and reconnect with everyone.

I gotta go with Cyberpunk : i waited until very recently to start playing (didn't have a beefy enough computer before) and man am I hooked. The universe feels complete, and the characters feel real to me : truly a fantastic game

satisfactory on my 8th full playthrough and the game is not even 1.0 yet

~~Fac~~Cracktorio

Dragons Dogma 2

• story: garbage
• storytelling: garbage
• performance: garbage
• CAPCOM: garbage

But I tell you what, the world, exploration and gameplay they've put together, it's all A+.

Few games have captured my attention like XCom2, and it's last expansion.

I often find myself playing something new while also wishing it was XCOM 2...

Currently Horizon: Forbidden West. So glad the PC port only took 2 years this time around rather than 5 for the first one (or however long it was)

Descent, over 20 years ago

My own work in progress game, an arcade style deckbuilding game with meta-progression.

The current release doesn't include the last part but the next update will introduce it.

It's so fun to try to get a high score, and the randomness gives me the "just one more go" feeling.

Baldur's Gate 3. Before that, I dunno. Outer Worlds, I guess.

Crusader kings 3, aka Sims for psychopaths.

To the moon. Played it a few years ago. Cried.

No Mans Sky. Off and on for like 4 years now. But I keep coming back with each new update and I get completely hooked again.

I totally binged Alan Wake 1 in like 2 days. Then spent a while enveloped by Alan Wake 2! Part 2 really got the AAA treatment. It was funny, spooky, actiony. Lots of stuff to explore, the characters play differently.

I also didn't realize Control was part of the story, so now I gotta go play that!

Noita! I've stopped playing it now as I more or less achieved everything I wanted to with it, but it really got a hold of me with how much it rewards creative approaches to problems

Kenshi. Just the sheer dynamic ant-farm nature of it made the grind somehow all the more the worth. Even if you cheat and max out all your stats, you can still invent your own narrative in your head for what you think is happening.

Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart

It has a special place for me because a long time ago, when I was younger, I had R&C Size Matters as the only game on my PSP and that's because I bought the PSP in a bundle

And that was the only R&C game I played until Rift Apart and that shit hit me like that scene in the end of Ratatouille mfer

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

Horizon Forbidden West just released on PC, been hooked on it since then.

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

Spellcaster University.

It's not the most complex game, but you're given control to build your own set of universities, trying to accomplish the goals given to you. You have a limited amount of time before the Great Evil comes and you have to start over.

Each location has its pros and cons, different graduation classes can give benefits that persist through the run, and all the building is done through picking one of 3 cards themed around what they focus on(Gold for general improvement and random magic things, Mana of particular types for rooms/items focused on that school of magic).

Ingress. I was obsessed with it. Couldn't stop playing.

Noita - for the longest time the addiction was something along the lines of not letting this 'simple' game beat me, and damn does it beat you...

Then I finally had my first God run breaking the reroll machines and oh my fuck it's like crack. I've been chasing that dragon ever since.

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"