author: Kull
Give Me My Life Back! Games In Which We Spend The Most Time
A dozen, several dozen, several hundred – we often quit a game long before the end credits, but there are some productions that we just can't get enough of. We have prepared a list of games which are the longest-lasting games for the users of Steam.
Table of Contents
- Give Me My Life Back! Games In Which We Spend The Most Time
- Football Manager 2019
- Hearts of Iron IV
- RimWorld
- Total War: Rome II
Football Manager 2019
- Release Date: November 2, 2018
- Average Steam user time in game: over 280 hours
- Network gameplay: yes
- Mod support: none
We would expect that FIFA would appear in this list. Still, it's not popularity, but the average number of hours spent with a given game that is our criterion, and in this respect, the Football Manager series is undisputedly the king. Anyone can play "FIFA" with a friend over a beer - but to sit over tables and graphs all evening? Look for young talent and buy stars from other football clubs? Analyze the entire league and make important choices based on that? These are tasks that few can handle.
This is indeed the case - according to SteamSpy, the 2019 edition is owned by less than 350,000 people on Steam, which is quite a modest result compared to FIFA. However, the Football Manager 2019 community is extremely dedicated to this title, and it's not hard to find reviews on Steam from players who have spent, say, one and a half thousand hours with the title. And while this won't be clear to everyone ("after all, my favorite RPG has actual content, not some tables"), the statistics leave no doubt. How about checking out what all the fuss is about?
Ark Survival Evolved
- Release Date: August 29, 2017
- Average Steam user time in-game: over 230 hours
- Network gameplay: yes
- Mod support: yes
A helpless hero ends up on an island where a big threat awaits him - about 100 species of dinosaurs - from pterodactyls to tyrannosaurs. Ark Survival Evolved is a dream come true for Jurassic Park fans, while also bringing back nightmares about open-world confrontations with prehistoric monsters. Fully-fledged survival. Of course, we have ways to defeat these beasts, but without grind and crafting we can't do it, and the biggest threat usually turns out to be other players.
The production has become wildly popular, although it has not been reviewed well. Among recent reviews on Steam, positive ones are only 44% of the whole. There must be something to the dinosaur hunt though - the high score reported by SteamSpy didn't come from nowhere. The question is, does the game really grow on you with time, or do we get so used to it that we begin to accept its many shortcomings?
The Elder Scrolls Online
- Release date: April 4, 2019
- Average Steam user time in game: over 170 hours
- Network gameplay: yes
- Mod support: yes (typical MMO interface changes)
An attempt to bring sensational The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim online and make it into an MMORPG has been rather successful. Initially requiring a monthly subscription, today TESO is available for a one-time fee with optional microtransactions. And for many, that was enough to spend hundreds of hours in the game.
The reasons why gamers spend so much time with this title are easily seen. The game combined the immense popularity of The Elder Scrolls series with the classic, addictive MMO formula. Daily grind, search for rare items, guild trips - if only people had as much time again as they did when they were young...
Add to this the fact that the game is regularly expanded with new content, which opens up new provinces of Tamriel for the players. So far we've already received the Morrowind or Murkmire DLCs, among others.
Grand Theft Auto V
- Release date: April 14, 2015
- Average Steam user time in game: over 160 hours
- Network gameplay: yes
- Mod support: yes (but not in network mode)
Each new installment of the Grand Theft Auto series is a big celebration for gamers. Rockstar has been delivering exceptional open-world productions with lots of firefights and chases and expressive characters for years. But it's not the missions that keep us wandering the streets of the subsequent parts for so long. The most important thing here is freedom, so you can't deny yourself "just another hour or two" before turning off the computer. GTAV came back a few years ago with just that freedom.... and something else.
There's no denying it - shooting at the police, spectacular escapes, wreaking havoc, or sometimes, for a change, trying to stick to the traffic regulations can draw you in for dozens of hours. "Five" however, introduced a network mode to this proven formula that took it all to the next level and proved to be a huge success. Joint heists and races, hunting other players, collecting money for an apartment with a garage for sports cars - it is easy to zone out and turn off the game only in the early hours of the morning. Add to this the fact that Rockstar intensively and regularly expands GTA Online with new content, which certainly has an impact on the number of hours spent on servers by the statistical player.
