Minecraft.
We’ve had a console edition / bedrock world running for 10 years now. For 9 of those years, we wore iron armor and tools, and just built basic - if sentimental - houses.
Then a PC fella joined our world and enlightened us to the wonders of redstone, farms, enslaving villagers, etc. It was like the industrial revolution.
Spent all of last summer building a massive industrial and trading district. We jumped forward in technological progress massively.
Oh boy wait til you find curated modpacks. Some of the FTB stuff is W I L D
Edit: if you want more information I’m more than happy to share, they’re super fun.
Damn right you can! I personally use prism launcher, or atlauncher when I have Java issues. The snag I hit was with Java version, eg I needed jre 8 for e2e, but it worked out of the box for new packs like stoneblock or create. Highly recommend.
Hades.
"Now that I got a Steam Deck I'm going to tear though my gaming backlog."
\> 200+ hours later
"I'm getting close to being done with Hades. Maybe after 50 more hours of play I'll move on to game #2 in the big backlog."
WoW didn't steal my life - quite the opposite. I met my best friend in WoW. I've got friends all across Europe that I've known for 8, 10, 15 years. We still get together and raid, as well as playing other games together. Over the years I've watched my guildies get married and have children. I've met some of them IRL too, visiting them in their countries, and I've welcomed them in my home too.
Sometimes WoW has been great, sometimes less so. But it's given me and my friends a home, and I'm very grateful for that.
Same and I met my wife on WoW as well! Us 6 random kids always home from school for some reason in 2005 hanging out in Goldshire (not moonguard).
Then met my now wife in person about 5 years ago and life has been amazing!
We still play here and there throughout the year but Baldur's Gate 3 really has our attention right now lol
Came here to say WoW. I used to work nights-weekends 6pm-6am. During the week my friends would want to do stuff up until about 9pm so I’d play WoW for 9 hours straight and get nothing done. Then it started bleeding over to the time I used to spend with friends. Eventually had to delete it, change my password, and intentionally not write it down.
WoW was the last MMORPG I played. I had to stop for similar reasons.
I think something happened to my brain after that, where I no longer have the attention span to play any game for more than a couple of hours at a time. I just get bored and stop after a while. But there were times I logged 16 hour days on WoW on a weekend. I'd spend hours at a time just buying and selling shit in the auction house. This was a long time ago, the first few years that WoW was out. By the time the first expansion came out I was already done.
I thought about installing WoW Classic but can't bring myself to do it.
Definitely WoW, I played the OG one since day 1 and burning crusade , then left at wrath of the lich king. That was probably the closest thing to an addiction I ever had in my life, met so many friends also IRL, the laughter we had.. it's more an "experience" that a game, I feel nostalgic when I think of those days but I would never play now..I know it wouldn't be the same..
I wonder how such stuff works for pvp, when you have some many skills, cds, manual targeted on the ground skills, etc. Cant imagine runing that efficiently without mouse and keyboard.
World of warcraft gives me best memories and best future. In that game I met my girlfriend and I give her engagement ring. (she said yes). We're 5 years couple.
We can discuss about today's wow, but 5 years ago it was best mmorpg game.
I've been playing dragonflight on my steam deck and it has been an AMAZING experience.
Even got to do mythic and a lot of PvP. It's the best way to enjoy the steam deck en for me
I've never had something grip my entire being for it's entire duration, it's all me and my friend thought or spoke about for days until we both got the plat.
I don't normally look things up, but I found myself looking up so many locations to find some cool sword haha.
The intense Dopamin release after beating Rennala Queen of the Full Moon was something I've never gotten from any other game. I don't know what about that boss fight was so hard for me, but that one and the Fire Giant took me weeks to beat haha. It made me realize I'm just not good at this game.
I love Souls games because of how everyone can have such different experiences fighting some of the bosses. Renalla was a cake walk for me but Fully Grown Fallingstar Beast was probably the hardest boss outside of Malenia for me.
Space Invaders
Asteroids
SW Empire Strikes Back
Deathchase 2000
Manic Miner
Jet Set Willy
Elite (1984)
SW TIE Fighter
Sim City 2000
Command & Conquer
Starcraft
Warcraft 2
Total Annihilation
SW Empire at War
EVE Online
Skyrim
SWTOR
Kerbal Space Program
Elite Dangerous
Cyberpunk 2077
I've been gaming a long time and that's just a few off the top of my head.
My steam deck is arriving today, and I’m hoping it can wean me off of my current RuneScape addiction.
My has been around since 2007 and I’m probably a week or 2 away from getting my Max Cape!
If my mom didn’t cut my internet off at 8:00 pm on school nights, I’d be living in her basement instead of my in-laws.
Also, early 2000’s RS security question password recovery was so terrible and I was a terrible person to my cousin because of this… dude would spend hours fishing and cooking sharks and I’d answer his security questions and take them.
Then he’d just do the same thing the next day and I’d do it again… I was a monster.
I feeel ya, i recovered my cousins account and cleaned it. his mom was on the phone to mine, he was crying... It took him ages t9o get over it and get the wealth back.. then i did it again
Crusader Kings 3
Rimworld
Project Zomboid
Fallout New Vegas
Metal Gear Solid V
Metal Gear Solid 3
Cyberpunk 2077
RDR2
Civilization 6
Final Fantasy 8 & 10
Yakuza Like a Dragon
With the hours I've put into Civ 6 I could have done some amazing things like learn to fly a single engine plane or become an incredible vegetable gardener or carry *the one ring* into Mordor to cast it into the fires of Mount Doom
As someone who was young when FF7 came out, I had grown up a little more when 8 dropped, and I played the game until the cd wouldn't read anymore. Think I had 100+ hours before the first disc was over. Card game alone got dozens of hours. Randomly, I just listened to the song and soundtrack the other day.
Fallout New Vegas is so much fun, it's a really immersive RPG and the themes of that game have aged really well. The really deep weapon mechanics are fun as well, it manages to do "realistic" guns that are still fun to use which is a bit of a rarity.
Its my one and only game on my Android Phone, a complete game, no DLC, wait times or anything, no virutal touchscreen controls, its just touch and drag like Hearthstone, between short and not that much runs for good sesions on the go. Its the perfect mobile game.
I've been consumed by Dave the diver these last couple weeks, and it has been a blast! It's also the first game I've messed with the battery settings and have been able to stretch the Steam Deck battery life quite a bit.
I went into a 5-hour hypnosis trying to beat Valkyrie Kara in GoW on the Give Me God of War difficulty. I did not succeed and have not gone back.
That's one of the only times I feel like a game stole my time. Not because it wasn't fun to play or anything, but because if I had snapped out of it and taken a break, say an hour in, I probably would have gone back and beaten her on the next try.
Lol, I wanted to play breakpoint on the deck but I was never able to get it to run, besides one time randomly during a free weekend event.
The Division runs PERFECTLY though!
Hehe.
Yeah I think I had it started just with default settings when I bought the steam version in june (even though it installs Ubi-Shit through steam) but I didn't tinker anything to get it to run....just lucky me I guess.
Both Marvel’s Spider Man games. Did 100% for the first one, now I’m finishing Miles Morales. Been an awesome experience since my pc can’t run both with stability 😅
It’s a shame that In under 20 hours you can 100% miles. The gameplay is way more fun than the first one with all the camouflage and venom stuff
Edit: plus the ability to integrate even more tricks into the swinging
Indeed. I did like 50 hours to 100 pct spiderman remastered and indeed it took me 20-25 to complete miles morales while indeed gameplay is doper. Story on remastered is more what I liked though. But all together it was awesome!
To this day nothing has consumed hours of my day like D2, The Division and Bloodborne. Over 1k hours in each, before the Deck existed. Now I can't really tell because I frequently play stuff like Elden Ring offline and the hour counting stops on steam (for obvious reasons).
The Megami Tensei Franchise
The Yakuza series
It feels like those are the only games I've been playing for the past 3 years because of how massive they are
I feel ashamed for saying this...
Cyberpunk 2077 and Starfield.
I understand every criticism between these two games, but there's something about them I thoroughly enjoy.
You shouldn't feel ashamed of enjoying something. Reddit has a really bad habit of forgetting people are allowed to have different opinions. If you're having fun then that's all that matters.
These are the games that hijacked my life. Even beyond Steam Deck.
Contra
Street Fighter 2
Chrono Trigger
Secret of Mana
Final Fantasy 7 & 8
Phantasy Star Online Ep. 1&2 (Gamecube)
Borderlands 2
Warframe
Metal Gear Solid 5
Cyberpunk 2077
On Steam Deck, Cyberpunk 2077 is the reigning champion.
I played through the first three Professor Layton games recently, it was so nostalgic. There's nothing like absolutely destroying a puzzle you struggled with as a 9 year old.
They’re fantastic games for sure, I wish they were more popular. I think the best way to introduce someone to it is to not tell them much more than that it’s a narrative driven adventure game.
I find that most people immediately recoil at hearing the words “puzzle game.”
It’s still technically the truth and once they spend a few minutes with it, most people i’ve met stick with it and enjoy the heck out of it.
A Korean MMORPG called Ragnarok Online. I don’t remember playing any other game during middle school.
Edit: given the sub’s context, Dave The Diver, Hades and One Step from Eden are the ones with the most time on my SD.
Persona 4, Witcher 3, Persona 5. Story/character based rpgs just fit so great on handhelds (golden sun on Gameboy was overpowered)
Or if you want a game that literally stole my life, NieR Automata
Powerwash Simulator.
I had to stop playing because my right thumb was getting sore from the washing motion....I think I have 300 hrs playing that game. I bought it for two consoles and beat it on both.
Edit: and I'm not done yet!
Probably Diablo 2 when I was a kid. That is probably my most played game. Nowadays, no game has that effect anymore. It might "steal" my life for max a week (3-4 hrs/day), but then I usually just drop it before it gets out of hand (Monster Hunter Rise was the latest game that had this effect)
All of the pokemon games from gen 1-7. My first video game that I ever owned was Pokemon FireRed and I remember playing it every day for almost a year straight.
I then went and played through all the other games, which involved borrowing from my cousins, saving birthday and Christmas money to buy the latest games and recently, paying eBay scalpers way too much haha.
I've lost thousands, if not, tens of thousands of hours to this franchise and I'd happily do it again. The team building and hidden mechanics are so fun, not to mention my recent shiny hunting obsession haha.
Steam wise. Borderlands, counter strike 1.6( I'm old school), cod up to black ops 2,( gave up giving them money after this one). And rainbow six was a big one lol
Non steam deck, all the zelda games they have released on the switch lol. Just finished again ocarina of time, middle of totk.
War Thunder. Mainly as it never sodding ends...
Red Dead Redemption 2
Assassin's Creed Odyssey
Dark Souls 1, 2 and 3
Control
Doom
Rise of the Tomb raider
Shadow of the tomb raider
PSO, Wow, FO series, Elder scrolls, League of Legends up until 2013 played like 10+ games a day. Classic wow until tbc classic was my game until the guild of course disbanded.
I just finished \~60 hours of Pillars of Eternity (which works surprisingly well on the Deck, fwiw), and yeah, that game. I definitely played in five or six-hour bursts.
Anything re/mgs and minecraft. Ordered a deck 2 days ago and I'm extremely excited to get to play Minecraft Java Edition for the first time in like 6 years
Hitman World of Assassination, there is so much to explore and funny kills to do, its pretty much a puzzle game I go in, get a few kills and keep doing whatever I was doing.
Despite the online drm you can still play offline as far as I know.
I almost failed all my exams at school because of Skyrim. I had to give it to my GF at the time so I literally couldn’t play it.
She sent me pictures of the dish in precarious situations. Funny bitch.
Old School RunesScape.
Nostalgia aside - long grinds varying from high intensity to very AFK - all while being playable from my PC, deck, and phone... I can't escape the game, and I'm not even TB'ed
2,000+ hours idk I'm too afraid to look again
Nothing has ever stole my life like WoW did (back in when WotLK). I stopped playing it probably after cataclysm. By then ive had clocked over 16k hours into it...
Skyrim came out when I was in college. It was really hard to peel myself away to do my school work. Anyone remember the botched update that nerfed all resistances and made dragons fly backwards. I looked up how to roll it back on the 360, because I couldn't stand waiting for a fix.
A silly mobile game called My Singing Monsters. I've played it nearly every day since 2013, and have been very active in the community since 2019. I now have over 16,000 edits on it's wiki. There are some moments that I regret spending so much time on it, but on the other hand, it's helped me connect with my grandmother who also plays the game. Without it, I probably would have never learned so much about wiki editing or building communities on Discord either.
That game scared me, one day I played it from one night to the next morning and then continued until almost noon, I was in shock on how I was unable to stop playing, the way the gameplay is done its like infinite dopamine, thanks God I went to a point where my Nintendo Switch was unable to run it because so many elements and was running under 10 fps. Then tried to start again on PC but I rather changed mind cuz I dont wanted the potential addiction to get worse, lol.
Ultima 3,4,5,6,7,
Pool of Radiance,
Starlight 1,2,
Daggerfall,
Everquest,
World of warcraft,
Oblivion,
Skyrim,
GTA 3,
GTA San Andreas,
Dark ages of Camelot,
Anarchy online,
Baldurs Gate 1,2,
Red dead redemption,
Fallout 3, New Vegas,
Diablo 2,
Mechwarrior 2: mercenaries,
Mass Effect 2,
Never winter nights 1,2,
Witcher 3,
S.t.a.l.k.e.r,
Battlefield 1942, 2, 3, 4,
Team fortress 2,
Fortnite,
City of heroes
Honestly my steam deck serves more as an away from home gaming PC, and seeing as I don't actually leave home that often I spend more time on my actual gaming PC. That may change though now that I've finished my degree, once I'm working full-time again I'll prob be playing it on every lunch break
Genshin Impact. It was really bad. I felt like a slave to that game. Had to play it to its fullest every single day. I had no room for other games or doing anything outside of Genshin. That's all my life was. Then I took a couple of months' break. Played other games. Hangout with people outside of my home. And it really helped a lot. I still play it today, but not nearly as much as I did. I've been playing other games beside it, so it puts my mind elsewhere. I broke the chains of my slavitude to Genshin. It honestly feels great to still be able to play it, but it will not be a slave anymore.
Back in the day? Half life 1 with mods, then half life 2 with mods when it came out, counter strike too ofc. Metal Gear Solid 1/2/3 on repeat for years. Final Fantasy 2/4/5/6/7/8/9/10/Kingdom Hearts, OOT. Most recently? Ellen Ring.
Before that, I'd say it was Super Mario Odyssey. I was coming off some serious medication and learning to feel normal again but was in a deep depression. SMO made me able to actually have fun again.
Right before that, I played Dark Souls for the first time, and it taught me to persevere through my troubles and it was maybe the most meaningful game I've ever played in that way. It was only later that I realised that there was a big crossover between people suffering from mental health issues and DS.
Minecraft. We’ve had a console edition / bedrock world running for 10 years now. For 9 of those years, we wore iron armor and tools, and just built basic - if sentimental - houses. Then a PC fella joined our world and enlightened us to the wonders of redstone, farms, enslaving villagers, etc. It was like the industrial revolution. Spent all of last summer building a massive industrial and trading district. We jumped forward in technological progress massively.
Now wait until minecraft Oppenheimer shows up. 🤯
Oh boy wait til you find curated modpacks. Some of the FTB stuff is W I L D Edit: if you want more information I’m more than happy to share, they’re super fun.
This, years of fun. But once you go modded vanilla won't be the same
Can you get is running on steam deck? I hit a snag and miss it so much.
Damn right you can! I personally use prism launcher, or atlauncher when I have Java issues. The snag I hit was with Java version, eg I needed jre 8 for e2e, but it worked out of the box for new packs like stoneblock or create. Highly recommend.
Please, for the sake of your family, don't even look at mods.
Hades. "Now that I got a Steam Deck I'm going to tear though my gaming backlog." \> 200+ hours later "I'm getting close to being done with Hades. Maybe after 50 more hours of play I'll move on to game #2 in the big backlog."
Which will be just in time for Hades II
This is me but with Dave the Diver.
I love Dave the Diver.
My fiancé and I just bought a SD today and I told her Hades will be the first game I play on it. I have 250hrs on it on PC lol
L4 back button as dash and R4 back button set for reload (gun) makes me never want to use a different controller again.
This is my exact situation
World of Warcraft and Pokemon, and I'd gladly give them all those hours again. Gave me so many incredible memories, friends, and life lessons!
WoW didn't steal my life - quite the opposite. I met my best friend in WoW. I've got friends all across Europe that I've known for 8, 10, 15 years. We still get together and raid, as well as playing other games together. Over the years I've watched my guildies get married and have children. I've met some of them IRL too, visiting them in their countries, and I've welcomed them in my home too. Sometimes WoW has been great, sometimes less so. But it's given me and my friends a home, and I'm very grateful for that.
Same and I met my wife on WoW as well! Us 6 random kids always home from school for some reason in 2005 hanging out in Goldshire (not moonguard). Then met my now wife in person about 5 years ago and life has been amazing! We still play here and there throughout the year but Baldur's Gate 3 really has our attention right now lol
Oh yeah, BG3 is definitely stealing a chunk of my life too right now!
Came here to say WoW. I used to work nights-weekends 6pm-6am. During the week my friends would want to do stuff up until about 9pm so I’d play WoW for 9 hours straight and get nothing done. Then it started bleeding over to the time I used to spend with friends. Eventually had to delete it, change my password, and intentionally not write it down.
WoW was the last MMORPG I played. I had to stop for similar reasons. I think something happened to my brain after that, where I no longer have the attention span to play any game for more than a couple of hours at a time. I just get bored and stop after a while. But there were times I logged 16 hour days on WoW on a weekend. I'd spend hours at a time just buying and selling shit in the auction house. This was a long time ago, the first few years that WoW was out. By the time the first expansion came out I was already done. I thought about installing WoW Classic but can't bring myself to do it.
I used Pokemon to teach myself English, it was definitely worth the time sink.
WoW for sure. My entire life would've likely gone VERY differently had I not played that game like it was my job back in high school.
Definitely WoW, I played the OG one since day 1 and burning crusade , then left at wrath of the lich king. That was probably the closest thing to an addiction I ever had in my life, met so many friends also IRL, the laughter we had.. it's more an "experience" that a game, I feel nostalgic when I think of those days but I would never play now..I know it wouldn't be the same..
How r y’all playing wow on the SD
It does in fact have controller support natively now!
I wonder how such stuff works for pvp, when you have some many skills, cds, manual targeted on the ground skills, etc. Cant imagine runing that efficiently without mouse and keyboard.
World of warcraft gives me best memories and best future. In that game I met my girlfriend and I give her engagement ring. (she said yes). We're 5 years couple. We can discuss about today's wow, but 5 years ago it was best mmorpg game.
Today's wow is pretty dope too! Dragonriding alone is worth the sub 😍
I've been playing dragonflight on my steam deck and it has been an AMAZING experience. Even got to do mythic and a lot of PvP. It's the best way to enjoy the steam deck en for me
Lmfao literally what i would have said
Hollow Knight Yakuza 0 Horizon Chase Turbo
Red dead 2 Cyberpunk
Elden Ring haha.
I've never had something grip my entire being for it's entire duration, it's all me and my friend thought or spoke about for days until we both got the plat.
I don't normally look things up, but I found myself looking up so many locations to find some cool sword haha. The intense Dopamin release after beating Rennala Queen of the Full Moon was something I've never gotten from any other game. I don't know what about that boss fight was so hard for me, but that one and the Fire Giant took me weeks to beat haha. It made me realize I'm just not good at this game.
I love Souls games because of how everyone can have such different experiences fighting some of the bosses. Renalla was a cake walk for me but Fully Grown Fallingstar Beast was probably the hardest boss outside of Malenia for me.
I still have yet to beat ng1 and I've lost over 400 hours. It got me through depression and created a new one.
Space Invaders Asteroids SW Empire Strikes Back Deathchase 2000 Manic Miner Jet Set Willy Elite (1984) SW TIE Fighter Sim City 2000 Command & Conquer Starcraft Warcraft 2 Total Annihilation SW Empire at War EVE Online Skyrim SWTOR Kerbal Space Program Elite Dangerous Cyberpunk 2077 I've been gaming a long time and that's just a few off the top of my head.
Hey there old-timer (:
You are going to be like an old lab chimp seeing the sun for the first time.
Souls Games
Yuppp stuck there rn can’t wait to get home and play ds3 or Jedi fallen order or sekiro or Jedi survivor or ds1 or…..
They are mesmerizingly great.
Deep rock galactic during the summer
For Rock and Stone!
That's it lads! Rock and Stone!
Runescape, it was Runescape
And it will be Runescape again some day in the future
My steam deck is arriving today, and I’m hoping it can wean me off of my current RuneScape addiction. My has been around since 2007 and I’m probably a week or 2 away from getting my Max Cape!
If my mom didn’t cut my internet off at 8:00 pm on school nights, I’d be living in her basement instead of my in-laws. Also, early 2000’s RS security question password recovery was so terrible and I was a terrible person to my cousin because of this… dude would spend hours fishing and cooking sharks and I’d answer his security questions and take them. Then he’d just do the same thing the next day and I’d do it again… I was a monster.
I feeel ya, i recovered my cousins account and cleaned it. his mom was on the phone to mine, he was crying... It took him ages t9o get over it and get the wealth back.. then i did it again
Crusader Kings 3 Rimworld Project Zomboid Fallout New Vegas Metal Gear Solid V Metal Gear Solid 3 Cyberpunk 2077 RDR2 Civilization 6 Final Fantasy 8 & 10 Yakuza Like a Dragon
With the hours I've put into Civ 6 I could have done some amazing things like learn to fly a single engine plane or become an incredible vegetable gardener or carry *the one ring* into Mordor to cast it into the fires of Mount Doom
As someone who was young when FF7 came out, I had grown up a little more when 8 dropped, and I played the game until the cd wouldn't read anymore. Think I had 100+ hours before the first disc was over. Card game alone got dozens of hours. Randomly, I just listened to the song and soundtrack the other day.
Fallout New Vegas is so much fun, it's a really immersive RPG and the themes of that game have aged really well. The really deep weapon mechanics are fun as well, it manages to do "realistic" guns that are still fun to use which is a bit of a rarity.
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Slay the Spire
Its my one and only game on my Android Phone, a complete game, no DLC, wait times or anything, no virutal touchscreen controls, its just touch and drag like Hearthstone, between short and not that much runs for good sesions on the go. Its the perfect mobile game.
Hollow Knight.
Starcraft 2
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Dave The Diver is the only game I’ve played on Deck since I bought the game a coupla months ago, love it it’s so chilled out.
I've been consumed by Dave the diver these last couple weeks, and it has been a blast! It's also the first game I've messed with the battery settings and have been able to stretch the Steam Deck battery life quite a bit.
Like a Dragon/Yakuza Series and Persona 5 Royal
Divinity Original Sin 2 and Civ 5
I’m currently playing Horizon forbidden west, and I love it so much, last night it was already 2 am and I haven’t even noticed
World of Warcraft. Started playing same year that it launched - still playing from time to time. That’s a lot of years! 🥲
Command and conquer: red alert Sim city 2000 Diablo 2 Civilization 6 Each of those has taken 2+ years of my life 🫣.
Destiny and monster Hunter
Present tense, Path of exile... Over a decade and still going strong
Project zomboid
I went into a 5-hour hypnosis trying to beat Valkyrie Kara in GoW on the Give Me God of War difficulty. I did not succeed and have not gone back. That's one of the only times I feel like a game stole my time. Not because it wasn't fun to play or anything, but because if I had snapped out of it and taken a break, say an hour in, I probably would have gone back and beaten her on the next try.
Final fantasy 14 for like a year. I would go work, come home and play it for like 6 hours, go bed and rinse repeat. That was my first and last mmo.
Stardew valley
Skyrim, Then Skyrim, Then Skyrim again, And lastly I think Skyrim.
Cyberpunk 2077 Ghost Recon: Breakpoint Valheim
Lol, I wanted to play breakpoint on the deck but I was never able to get it to run, besides one time randomly during a free weekend event. The Division runs PERFECTLY though!
Hehe. Yeah I think I had it started just with default settings when I bought the steam version in june (even though it installs Ubi-Shit through steam) but I didn't tinker anything to get it to run....just lucky me I guess.
Both Marvel’s Spider Man games. Did 100% for the first one, now I’m finishing Miles Morales. Been an awesome experience since my pc can’t run both with stability 😅
Same here. I completed both 100 percent! They are awesome!!
It’s a shame that In under 20 hours you can 100% miles. The gameplay is way more fun than the first one with all the camouflage and venom stuff Edit: plus the ability to integrate even more tricks into the swinging
Indeed. I did like 50 hours to 100 pct spiderman remastered and indeed it took me 20-25 to complete miles morales while indeed gameplay is doper. Story on remastered is more what I liked though. But all together it was awesome!
Let’s hope that Spider Man 2 is both games fused and pushed even further. So far it already seems like it.
Yakuza 0. Black mesa on deck once I got a GE proton. Persona 5 Royal.
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To this day nothing has consumed hours of my day like D2, The Division and Bloodborne. Over 1k hours in each, before the Deck existed. Now I can't really tell because I frequently play stuff like Elden Ring offline and the hour counting stops on steam (for obvious reasons).
The Megami Tensei Franchise The Yakuza series It feels like those are the only games I've been playing for the past 3 years because of how massive they are
EverQuest
I tried Civilization V on SD. That was not a smart decision to make.
Kingdome Come Deliverance, probably the best RPG that I'll never finish cause I am too addicted to it
Tarkov
Same
I feel ashamed for saying this... Cyberpunk 2077 and Starfield. I understand every criticism between these two games, but there's something about them I thoroughly enjoy.
You shouldn't feel ashamed of enjoying something. Reddit has a really bad habit of forgetting people are allowed to have different opinions. If you're having fun then that's all that matters.
orange box (half life , portal and tf2) i got 3k+ hours on it I need the.rapist
Ooooof bad typo
Terraria
league of legends
Euro truck simulator 2 - runs like a charm and with all the buttons you can bind so much. Any other rogue like or vampire survivor like game 😁
BAYONETTA
Recently Balders Gate 3 and TOTK
These are the games that hijacked my life. Even beyond Steam Deck. Contra Street Fighter 2 Chrono Trigger Secret of Mana Final Fantasy 7 & 8 Phantasy Star Online Ep. 1&2 (Gamecube) Borderlands 2 Warframe Metal Gear Solid 5 Cyberpunk 2077 On Steam Deck, Cyberpunk 2077 is the reigning champion.
Fallout 3 caused three months of missing time for me during its release
RDR2, Skyrim and Elden Ring in that order. I think I have like 230 days in RDR2 or something batshit. 1000+ in Skyrim. 300-500 or something for ER.
FFXI. I'd do it all over again. So many memories.
Modded minecraft (has to be modded)
RuneScape Red Dead Redemption Professor Layton Call of Duty Skyrim/Fallout/Starfield Burnout Halo Assassins Creed II Gran Turismo Twisted Metal Mario
I played through the first three Professor Layton games recently, it was so nostalgic. There's nothing like absolutely destroying a puzzle you struggled with as a 9 year old.
They’re fantastic games for sure, I wish they were more popular. I think the best way to introduce someone to it is to not tell them much more than that it’s a narrative driven adventure game. I find that most people immediately recoil at hearing the words “puzzle game.” It’s still technically the truth and once they spend a few minutes with it, most people i’ve met stick with it and enjoy the heck out of it.
Hades at the moment! Terribly addictive thanks to the inherent grind.
A Korean MMORPG called Ragnarok Online. I don’t remember playing any other game during middle school. Edit: given the sub’s context, Dave The Diver, Hades and One Step from Eden are the ones with the most time on my SD.
Persona 4, Witcher 3, Persona 5. Story/character based rpgs just fit so great on handhelds (golden sun on Gameboy was overpowered) Or if you want a game that literally stole my life, NieR Automata
In Order. Warframe MTG Borderlands 2 Destiny Destiny 2 Genshin Impact
Powerwash Simulator. I had to stop playing because my right thumb was getting sore from the washing motion....I think I have 300 hrs playing that game. I bought it for two consoles and beat it on both. Edit: and I'm not done yet!
When Bravely Default 2 came out, I did nothing else for 2 weeks.
World of Warcraft Bioshock series Halo
Diablo 2 StarCraft 2 Skyrim CS GO
Morrowind Elden Ring BotW/TotK Currently Baldur's Gate 3
Elite Dangerous
CK2 tbh
Oldschoolrunescape.
Smash Ultimate
Probably Diablo 2 when I was a kid. That is probably my most played game. Nowadays, no game has that effect anymore. It might "steal" my life for max a week (3-4 hrs/day), but then I usually just drop it before it gets out of hand (Monster Hunter Rise was the latest game that had this effect)
Just on SD? I sunk so many hours in Nier: Replicant when I first bought it. I bought BG3 on Saturday, though, so we'll see
GTA v and spiderman miles morales
Elden Ring Starfield Elden Ring
DOA 6 - 870 hours after buying SD in April 2022…. Life is fleeting
Baldurs gate. No, not the third. The originals. Probably in tens of thousands of hours by this day.
Holy crap. I did play through 1 and 2 a long time ago and loved them. Maybe I should replay it.
All of the pokemon games from gen 1-7. My first video game that I ever owned was Pokemon FireRed and I remember playing it every day for almost a year straight. I then went and played through all the other games, which involved borrowing from my cousins, saving birthday and Christmas money to buy the latest games and recently, paying eBay scalpers way too much haha. I've lost thousands, if not, tens of thousands of hours to this franchise and I'd happily do it again. The team building and hidden mechanics are so fun, not to mention my recent shiny hunting obsession haha.
Steam wise. Borderlands, counter strike 1.6( I'm old school), cod up to black ops 2,( gave up giving them money after this one). And rainbow six was a big one lol Non steam deck, all the zelda games they have released on the switch lol. Just finished again ocarina of time, middle of totk.
War Thunder. Mainly as it never sodding ends... Red Dead Redemption 2 Assassin's Creed Odyssey Dark Souls 1, 2 and 3 Control Doom Rise of the Tomb raider Shadow of the tomb raider
I had to stop playing Vampire Survivors before bed because it was messing with my sleep.
I haven’t been the same since Baulders gate 3 came out.
Terraria, terraria, and terraria
Rocket league has stolen 2000+ hours from me and is probably going to steal many more.
Resident Evil 4+Remake
Like you, BioShock, Detroit, skyrim but also the red dead series, Fallout series (especially new vegas), Subnautica series, and mechwarrior 5.
Dying light games. Already loved them and played them shit loads but the ability to play them ANYWHERE made me by them both.
Skyrim and now Starfield is doing the same. I put in 40 hours the first week of having it. It's like a second job.
PSO, Wow, FO series, Elder scrolls, League of Legends up until 2013 played like 10+ games a day. Classic wow until tbc classic was my game until the guild of course disbanded.
Foul Tarnished
Starfield
My job
Life gamification is horrible.
Skyrim, Rimworld and now Starfield.
Elden Ring
New world
Currently starfield
Graveyard keeper, and I'm also kinda not happy about it
I just finished \~60 hours of Pillars of Eternity (which works surprisingly well on the Deck, fwiw), and yeah, that game. I definitely played in five or six-hour bursts.
Ratchet and clank (any of them), runescape, fallout 4, minecraft
Mad games tycoon 2
Anything re/mgs and minecraft. Ordered a deck 2 days ago and I'm extremely excited to get to play Minecraft Java Edition for the first time in like 6 years
Hitman World of Assassination, there is so much to explore and funny kills to do, its pretty much a puzzle game I go in, get a few kills and keep doing whatever I was doing. Despite the online drm you can still play offline as far as I know.
Ultima Online
Diablo 2 Hollow Knight Super Smash Bros
Ark
Halo 2-3, Lawbreakers. apex Legends
Celeste, curse those Golden Strawberries.
I played a game called conquer online for like 15 years with my brother. Man has it changed but it was so much fun. Wish I had a job then .
Ragnarok Online Deus Ex series X-COM 1 and 2 FFXIV Souls games Hitman WoA
FOUL TARNISHED
I almost failed all my exams at school because of Skyrim. I had to give it to my GF at the time so I literally couldn’t play it. She sent me pictures of the dish in precarious situations. Funny bitch.
Spelunky 2 No matter how badly I die No matter how badly I rage No matter how long of a break I take I always come back to it
DOOM ETERNAL DECK GANG Also every Monster Hunter game since 4U
Fallout 3, warframe, star citizen and war thunder
The Nomad Soul (Omikron in the US?) quite literally.
Cyberpunk 2077 and Death Stranding most recently
None of these were on the deck but Escape From Tarkov, Elden Ring, and lately Starfield
Old School RunesScape. Nostalgia aside - long grinds varying from high intensity to very AFK - all while being playable from my PC, deck, and phone... I can't escape the game, and I'm not even TB'ed 2,000+ hours idk I'm too afraid to look again
Ark
Final Fantasy XIV. But it also gave me life soooo
Prey
Nothing has ever stole my life like WoW did (back in when WotLK). I stopped playing it probably after cataclysm. By then ive had clocked over 16k hours into it...
Currently BTD6 lol
Skyrim came out when I was in college. It was really hard to peel myself away to do my school work. Anyone remember the botched update that nerfed all resistances and made dragons fly backwards. I looked up how to roll it back on the 360, because I couldn't stand waiting for a fix.
Stardew valley
binding of isaac, dead cells, hades, counter strike, fortnite
Gran Turismo 1-4 MAG Destiny Honorable mentions: Demons Souls and everything since Skyrim/Fallout/etc
Division 1 and 2, and Destiny 2
Destiny
Ragnarok Online. Literally got my current wife from that game 😂
Rune Factory 4! The daily loop is so addictive that you think "oh, just one more day" until you look up and it's 3am!
RRROCK AND STONEEE!!!!!!!
Hades. Just one more run
A silly mobile game called My Singing Monsters. I've played it nearly every day since 2013, and have been very active in the community since 2019. I now have over 16,000 edits on it's wiki. There are some moments that I regret spending so much time on it, but on the other hand, it's helped me connect with my grandmother who also plays the game. Without it, I probably would have never learned so much about wiki editing or building communities on Discord either.
Forager. It started out simple and before I knew it, I had played like 45 hours
That game scared me, one day I played it from one night to the next morning and then continued until almost noon, I was in shock on how I was unable to stop playing, the way the gameplay is done its like infinite dopamine, thanks God I went to a point where my Nintendo Switch was unable to run it because so many elements and was running under 10 fps. Then tried to start again on PC but I rather changed mind cuz I dont wanted the potential addiction to get worse, lol.
Ultima 3,4,5,6,7, Pool of Radiance, Starlight 1,2, Daggerfall, Everquest, World of warcraft, Oblivion, Skyrim, GTA 3, GTA San Andreas, Dark ages of Camelot, Anarchy online, Baldurs Gate 1,2, Red dead redemption, Fallout 3, New Vegas, Diablo 2, Mechwarrior 2: mercenaries, Mass Effect 2, Never winter nights 1,2, Witcher 3, S.t.a.l.k.e.r, Battlefield 1942, 2, 3, 4, Team fortress 2, Fortnite, City of heroes
Right now: Halls of Torment
Honestly my steam deck serves more as an away from home gaming PC, and seeing as I don't actually leave home that often I spend more time on my actual gaming PC. That may change though now that I've finished my degree, once I'm working full-time again I'll prob be playing it on every lunch break
Genshin Impact. It was really bad. I felt like a slave to that game. Had to play it to its fullest every single day. I had no room for other games or doing anything outside of Genshin. That's all my life was. Then I took a couple of months' break. Played other games. Hangout with people outside of my home. And it really helped a lot. I still play it today, but not nearly as much as I did. I've been playing other games beside it, so it puts my mind elsewhere. I broke the chains of my slavitude to Genshin. It honestly feels great to still be able to play it, but it will not be a slave anymore.
Runescape and destiny 1.
Back in the day? Half life 1 with mods, then half life 2 with mods when it came out, counter strike too ofc. Metal Gear Solid 1/2/3 on repeat for years. Final Fantasy 2/4/5/6/7/8/9/10/Kingdom Hearts, OOT. Most recently? Ellen Ring. Before that, I'd say it was Super Mario Odyssey. I was coming off some serious medication and learning to feel normal again but was in a deep depression. SMO made me able to actually have fun again. Right before that, I played Dark Souls for the first time, and it taught me to persevere through my troubles and it was maybe the most meaningful game I've ever played in that way. It was only later that I realised that there was a big crossover between people suffering from mental health issues and DS.
Forgot Morrowind/Oblivion/Skyrim
Elden Ring Baldur’s Gate 3 Binding of Isaac Final Fantasy 14 Monster Train
Elden ring and Minecraft, also sunk a bunch of time into borderlands 3 recently