Gaming

StarCraft 2, specifically related to video games. It’s probably for the best that Blizzard doesn’t track hours in this game.

Emergency 4

Old School Runescape, you always take a break but you come back eventually

I have 500 hours into Cuphead

Super Smash Bros. Melee

Broforce

Contra but hilariously over-the-top pro-america masculinity and police the world mindset to the point of extreme satire, destructible environment, and 50 or so rotating characters all based on different 80s, 90s, and 00s action heros. Every time you beat a level, the whole environment starts exploding, speed metal plays, and your controller flashes red, white, and blue.

Each bro's move set is lovingly built around directional input, primary attack, secondary attack, and special attack (that you have a limited supply of)

The enemies and bosses are so funny, fun to kill, needlessly gory (especially for a game that looks like it is from NES era), and challenging.

After you beat the game, you can play Iron Bro mode. This is the reason I can't quit it. You see, normally you start each level with 1 life, but 4 to 6 bros to rescue, each time changing you into a random bro you've unlocked and giving you another life. Any time you die, you become another random bro you've unlocked. In Iron Bro mode, you start the game as a random bro, but they represent that one life you start with. Each level has 0 to 1 bros in it. When you rescue a bro, you become a new bro and gain a life like normal, but that specific bro is tied to that new life. After each level, your life count stays the same, and you start the level as one of the bros you've unlocked that run, that has not died.

With this, the hope is to slay each level early on that you've mastered through many previous and accrue as many lives as possible, before losing them all once you get to the part of the story you have not mastered. It's unreasonable on normal difficulty and not meant to be beaten on hard difficulty. I can jump in, do my best, do some aspunding things at this point, then die frustratingly and fantastically.

I may never truly stop playing it

I do love to stop in NMS every once in a while and do some exploring. Mine is Castlevania: SOTN. Just love to go back and run through it and listen to the music and enjoy the story over and over.

Borderlands 2... and it's not even close to find another that lives up to how much I enjoy it

Dishonored, No Man’s Sky, Slay the Spire, Stardew Valley

Super Smash Bros on the N64. Perfect party game.

Rdr2 is the only game worthy of perfect

The amount of times I've played the Mass Effect Trilogy LE is ridiculous

State of Decay 2. There are a lot of other games that get occasional love, SOD2 is configured to replay regularly. Whether you want to start fresh, play forever, or restart with all your current toys, it has enough variety, danger, and substance to keep me coming back. Plus, the developer (undead labs) has continued to actively invest, update, and improve the game for years. It's hard to find a studio continue to make such an investment, especially with a limited budget and a non-AAA funded game.

Spelunky 2. Every time I try to quit it, it just drags me back in.

Most Souls titles.

Classic oldies like Jak and Daxter or Ratchet and Clank or Spyro. Something about simple collectable based platformers is always entertaining.

Shooters and the Mechwarrior series.

GBA games like Kirby or Fire Emblem

Sea Of Thieves for me. Might not last "forever" but it always feel different every time I play. Either solo or with friends.

Skyrim is one I go back to time and time again to just unwind and explore.

The Mass Effect series as a whole is another one I replay every now and then, especially Andromeda XD

Yep No Mans Sky is definitely similar for me. Tetris Effect Connected is another one I can always just pick up and play til I’m satisfied.

Red Dead Redemption 2

the binding of isaac. there’s so many items and combinations, characters and unlocks and just a lot of things that no run is the same.

If Board games count, arkham horror living card game

A game that I keep coming back to and bingeing it every so often is Massive Chalice. Idk what it is about it but it's awesome. Honorable mentions are minecraft and Bannerlord.

I think everyone has a game like this. For me it is War Thunder. Got me into pc gaming and never stopped playing it between long breaks

Elder Scrolls 2 Daggerfall for me. Came out before I was even born

I'd say Fallout 4 is a good contender for me.

I don't play it all the time but I keep going back to it.

Mass Effect 2

Civilization 6. Just one...more...turn...

Christmas Nights on the Saturn, it comes out every christmas.

Civ V

Monster hunter world. Not even that I try to stop playing, it's just that good. Fun gameplay loops for me.

Gw2. As an mmo, it respects my time as an adult with adult responsibilities

LoL

Metal gear solid 5, StarCraft 2, Factorio, chess in no particular order

Heroes of the Storm - bc it’s Hots babyyyyyyyy

majoras mask (n64), rythm heaven (nds), fire emblem awakening (3ds), metal gear solid 3 (ps2), jet set radio (dreamcast), astal (sega saturn), crash bandicoot (ps1), pokemon gsc (gameboy), donkey kong (the one with mario, gb), golden sun 1 &2 (gba), art of fighting (Neo Geo), last of us 1 (ps3) and 2 (ps4), Raving Rabbits (wii), Guild Wars 2 (pc)…

… but the most special one: Donkey Country 2 (SNES).

Doom. The 1993 one.

Age of Empires 2. 🛡️⚔️

Total Warhammer 3.

Monster Hunter (all of them).

Warriors Orochi 3.

Something about these games keeps me coming back even when they have objective flaws.

At any time there is usually 1 multiplayer shooter that I pick up and play for years. Right now that is Black Ops: Cold War.