For me it was Terraria, Satisfactory, Tetris Effect Master Mode, Minecraft with Mekanism mod & CSGO / CS2 (almost 2000 hours in CS alone).
Edit: There are so many answers that I might only reply if I have something interesting to say. I will read all of your answers though. 🙂
Edit 2: It has become too much for me and I have to disable notifications. Thank you for the massive response and please continue to discuss with everyone here. ❤️ 🫡
I’d say the first one that really got me was Roller Coaster Tycoon when I was a kid. It got to a point where I was playing so much that my dreams were all in isometric grid form. Mostly about park designs, but even other dreams were set in that reality.
After that, it was WoW for my first 3 semesters of college. I didn’t go to class most of the time and got academic suspension for a year. After that I was very cautious with MMOrpgs. Never got too invested into a guild again.
Asheron’s Call hit me at just the right age. That was my mmo. I remember people going on about WoW like it was the most incredible thing, but it always felt like a hollow world to me.
I tried many other mmos over the years but none of them ever hit like the first one.
I think I was really just chasing that sense of wonder I felt at my first one, which is increasingly hard to capture as you move forward through life.
Rocket league. Scrolled all the comments and slightly disappointed to not find this one :/
This was a game I was truly addicted. Uninstalled it many times recognising it as an addiction but kept coming back to it. I feel lucky that I could break out of it. It was THAT addictive. Around 1200-1300hrs on that game.
I was in university and had just passed my midterms and as a treat for myself picked up both KOTORs. Mainlined that shit.
World of Warcraft. I don’t even try to think about quitting anymore.
Modded Factorio. I did 450 hours of pyAnodon’s recently and it just broke me. I didn’t win the game. I feel like I lost at it and life.
It seems impossible to manage the side products properly. Ridiculous amount of materials that are all interrelated means that if you are low on one thing, it is very hard to fix it because you need the thing to work to make anything.
Too many recipes means it is very difficult to make modular, adaptable designs to copy and paste. Advanced recipes seem better, but they end up just exacerbating the issue even more.
Factorio. I blinked and a month went by the first time I played it. It ruins my sleep schedule like no other.
Absolutely love it
There is a reason we call it Cracktorio
Your iron plate production is looking a little lackluster there, bud
Have you tried invading and exploiting the resources of multiple planets to keep up your green chip addiction?
Steel pan music
I can’t enjoy Factorio… It just feels like I’m at work. I don’t even think I’ve finished the tutorial levels yet.
Wait, you guys are enjoying it? (Source: 500 hours of gameplay)
I resisted it for a while for the same reason. But after a few hours it felt like the best parts of working :)
After playing Satisfactory I thought I’d love factorio too, but somehow never really got into it.
Maybe try again? I played satisfactory at first and thought factorio looked stupid, but having a roboport network for the first time felt soo goooooood
I had the same experience, but the other way around. I started losing interest in Satisfactory after I found out the map was static.
Honestly, the good thing about that is that everything is hand crafted. So exploring is really rewarding IMO. A good example is an area where you find tons of power slugs.
I can appreciate that. Maybe I’ll revisit my spaghetti base one day and try to finish.
My friend was the same way, largely due Factorio being in 2D. He was able to get into Satisfactory due to it’s 3D nature.
Oh I don’t care about the graphics at all, as long as I know what I’m looking at. I should try again.
Think they mean 2d as in your basically walking on a map whereas in satisfactory it’s a 1st person world with height.
I played Factorio first and since my friends are “done with Factorio” (not sure what’s wrong with them but I think I need new friends) I agreed to play satisfactory with them. It was fun for a couple of hours then it just started tobuild up rage inside of me because of so many strange or stupid design decisions the devs made. When we got to trains and I started building that was when I hit my rage limit and boiled over. My god those stations are huge and the unloading was the most stupid shit ever. Then all the small finicky tricks you can do to slim your builds… And this you want to learn/do since blueprints are small. Don’t get me started… Never started the game again after we were done but have a couple of hundred more hours in Factorio since then :)
Most games that spark a Tetris Effect with me, where I’m still playing them in my mind while I’ve put them down hours ago, are industrial automation games. So the likes of Factorio, Satisfactory, Captain Of Industry.
I once calculated my Minecraft hours across all platforms I’ve played on and it’s over HALF A YEAR. I was like mega addicted in middle school, I still play often.
servers SUCK now though, they’re all pay to win and have custom texture packs that look horrible :(
the best one I’ve found (that isn’t private) is UltraVanilla, and I actually found it from firefoxes “Minecraft Indy wiki redirect” plugin which crashed once and there was a little box on the side which mentioned the server bc the person that made the plugin is an admin of the server. When I joined the discord I had already interacted with several members from other modding discords.
As far as I know im the ONLY person that checked it out due to that popup lolI don’t play on that server because some friends made a different (private) server.
I love this thread, so many people passionate about their experiences with games makes me happy.
And Terraria most recently.
Factorio, Europa Universalis IV, Victoria 3, Baldur’s Gate 3 when it was new, and special shout-out to Outer Wilds which hooked me unforgettably
Diablo 2, Skyrim, BL2, BL3, Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, Valheim, V Rising, Oblivion Remastered, D3, and now Helldivers 2. Roughly in order.
About 20 years ago I played world of warcraft every day and every awaken hour of the day or just about. School was over and I lived with my parents and was “looking for work”. Let’s just say that I played vanilla so much that I had guild members calling in the middle of the night to get together for world boss killing.
Since then I have realized that is not how to go about in life and last time i really got stuck was with Factorio.
Valkyrie Chronicles, I legitimately called off work sick for 2 days when the game came out on ps3.
