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. ❤️ 🫡
Fallout. I played 1 and 2 back when they first came out. Great games, great writing, seditious humour ad a real feel of a world.
But then came 3, FNV, and 4. Each of those I played through as my default ‘helpful stealth archer’ character, then a second time as ‘evil melee’ character, and then again to make sure I had maxed out each faction and got each ending. And then again, because I loved it, and again to collect all the bobbleheads, magazines, etc.
I’m in my late-50s. I’m already slowing down my career in preparation for retirement, and now I work as a freelance consultant which means I have some control over my working hours. I can’t wait for Fallout 5. I will be probably take at least two weeks off work to binge the shit out of it.
Less so with Elder Scrolls 6, but I’ll be taking at least a week off to play it when it drops.
Fo4 has to be in my top five for hours spent. The settlement building is what ends up taking most of my time, but I also obsessively reworked my modlist until I felt I had achieved a brutal level of realism, which means scrounging up the shit to build my settlements takes long hours of unforgiving scavenging.
I play video games to relax so I often play on easy, but you know I’ll do at least one survival runthrough of a Fallout game.
Ooh, to reinstall or not to reinstall?