A typical working year is approximately 2,000 hours, just for context.

That is nuts.

Leaving a game running in the backvround while doing other things still adds up

one of my steam friends has a program that farms steam hours, just for the shock factor

I have over 1,900 hrs on Deep Rock Galactic.

The key is persistence.

Rock and Stone! oT

i have 1200h in skyrim, 1000 of which i clocked in because as pre-teen who was yet to learn that being trans is a thing i unknowingly used it to escape dysphoria. can't feel bad if i'm spending most of my days as male cat, the chosen one at that!

Steam just tracks how long the program is running. My old rig played Dark Souls 3 24/7 sometimes because the .exe file would glitch and stay open until I manually terminated it. I averaged 168 hours a week coming back from a 2 week vacation once.

I honestly don't get it. I've been playing the same game for about three months of real time now and clocked in about 120 hours. I didn't play anything else and and it's consuming most of the time I have to myself. The game is Witcher 3.

Now, that means every 1000 hours would take me 25 months or just over two years of playing a game exclusively. Probably more since my data above includes my Christmas vacation, which was quite lengthy. No single game is good enough to take such a big place in my life. I could play so many shorter better games.

I'm sorry but I want to take a slight tangent to show just how high my power level is when it comes to this shit.

I was interested in tracking my game time on my games in years well before Steam was a thing. We had a family computer and a printer.

Some are expecting an excel spreadsheet, which was absolutely possible, and I'll come back to that, but no. I was maybe 8 years old and my solution was to print off an entire page of numbers, cut each of them out individually, then every time I played a game, I'd place the next number inside the CD case.

Naïve me thought printing up to 20 would be enough, but once I went over that, I simply kept the 20 in the case and added another number inside.

Years later - in my teens in the mid-00's - I was obsessed with Pro Evolution Soccer. This is where the excel spreadsheet came in. I logged every single game, the result, the date I played the game, colour coded the results red/yellow/green to show loss/draw/win respectively, won trophies, and a bunch of other stats.

I didn't move on to Steam properly until the start of the 2010s. Since then my biggest game is 2016's Motorsport Manager, which has logged in 1720 hours, followed by Civ V which has 1122 hours since I started playing in 2017.

My current time sink is Football Manager. I have played over 500 hours in little over a year. Anyone who has played FM knows those are rookie numbers.

I quit League some half a year ago after 10 years of playing. I can see now how impossible it seems to play that consistently when you just consume different games rather than having a single title.

It's a completely different experience.

As a side note, what's up with all the people saying "I played a game", just say what game it is, we are all nerds in here.

The only game I have that many hours in is because I left it open the whole day while I was working to take 5 minute breaks to play it.

My friend just shared this with me:

Easy! Just fall asleep while trying to squeeze in some gaming before bed. Pretty sure time on the title screen or a ‘kicked due to inactivity’ notification will count towards those hours.

At least half of my Elite Dangerous hours were slept through.

I've got a couple games with stats like that; and I do play them a lot... but I think a big slice of the time is that I often leave the game open basically all day while dipping in and out to do other things.

The play time is ticking up, but I'm having lunch, or doing laundry, or clearing the house or whatever; and I come back to the game when I'm done.

I leave the game running at night while I sleep

How many hours yearly do people work?

Assume 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year. That makes 2000 hours a year. So yeah, how do people pull through with this?

Warframe is a hell of a drug.

uh, factorio just hits the neurons right, idk what to tell you.

Minecraft just hits my autism where it hurts. I'm a simple man, you entertain my neurons, and i will be happy.

Forget to turn the launcher off and your computer off a few times and it adds up.

Some people are also lucky enough to have a bullshit job and still be remote.

I have like 3700 hours in factorio, but I also leave it running when I’m not around… like an idle game

Leaving *Commandos" on pause when I don't play racks up hours it seems 🤷🏼‍♀️

Rust can take while to load. I swear a few hundred of those hours were AFK.