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. ❤️ 🫡

  • emb@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    Slay the Spire

    There are a bunch of games that I’ll get super into, play for a while, then be finished with.

    Slay the Spire taps perfectly into every compulsive center of my brain to make me keep playing. Like, we talk about ‘addictive’ games usually just as ones you like a lot… this is the first time I started to see it closer to actual addictive (though not actually a serious thing for me). It’s such a sweetspot for my habits, I feel like I’d just keep saying ‘one more run’ so consistently, hours, days would evaporate. It kept me busy, to the detriment of doing other things.

    You get on a good run, better keep going. You lose a run, might as well just start a new one and see if you have good opening luck. There’s rarely a point that feels like “I should stop”, until some IRL obligation comes up.

    I still go back to it often when I just want an enjoyable way to kill time, or do something while I watch videos/tv on the side.

    Other games with roguelike elements tap into this feeling too, like Balatro, Vampire Surviors, or Hades. But STS is where it felt strongest to me.