What's the most autistic game addiction you ever had? - Peope who think all games are autistic need not apply

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Games are addictive, we all know this.

But every once in awhile, I find myself saying "I can't believe I lost sleep over this."

Allow me to start with one of my own: I once was addicted to digital Solitaire games for a week straight... with a particular favorite being Windows 98 Solitaire. And this wasn't a long time ago either... it was a year or two ago. It lasted so long that it reached a point where Solitaire was making me nauseous (I don't know how that works).

After that I was like "I can't believe I'm spending so much time on Solitaire of all things. Not even a real game."

I hope that helps get the idea across.

So has anyone else ever had an experience like this, where once the addiction was over (or hell, even while it was happening) you were like "why is this the thing I'm stuck on when I could be off playing anything else?"

Please share your story.
 
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I have a couple for you OP.

First was The Sims. I went to a friends house and he let me have a go. I then proceeded to spend what must have been 4 hours or so saying I'd hang out in just a minute. Still feel kind of bad about that.

The other is a more recent game. Genesis Alpha One. It's a FPS where you have a ship. You fly to different points on a grid, beam up resources to expand your ship so you can beam up more advanced resources. Occationally your ship gets infested with space spiders or you're raided by pirates. It's a dull, uninspired, unpolished game seemingly made from stock assets, but I put 40+ hours into it. Objectively the game sucks, but there's just something pleasing about building up your ship. I think it might be balanced in such a way that you're never too far from an upgrade.
 
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TF2 and WoW without a doubt. I have over 2k hours in TF2 and probably about 1,500 in various flavors and servers of WoW over the years. I would marathon level on fresh servers and waste hours just running around cities looking for pugs. In TF2 for a couple years I had a favorite server where I'd spend like 8+ hours a day until it shut down.

Thank God I've lost my appetite for games lol. Although I still get cravings to go back to some WoW pserver and start a new toon every once in a while, I'm able to stop myself by reminding myself how crazy time intensive it is.
 
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I guess maybe when I was a little kid and I spent huge (though maybe it wasn't that much, everything feels longer as a kid) amounts of time making Age of Empires I and III scenario editor maps.
 
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Elite Dangerous. Had to quit because I was VERY addicted to being a space trucker all day. Not even fighting, just being a fucking trucker. Wasted so many hours in it.
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Elite Dangerous has absolutely flawless aesthetics to the point where just taking off from a station and entering hyperspace is a whole experience of its own. I waffled on buying it for a long time cause from the outside it seemed like there wasn't much game there. then I bought a flight stick, got it on sale and realized that holy shit it is extremely distilled space nerd porn. the engine noises make my wee-wee feel funny.


this game is what we were all hoping games would be like back in the 90s. I would eat a live baby whole if somebody gave this exact treatment to the mech sim genre
 
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Elite Dangerous has absolutely flawless aesthetics to the point where just taking off from a station and entering hyperspace is a whole experience of its own. I waffled on buying it for a long time cause from the outside it seemed like there wasn't much game there. then I bought a flight stick, got it on sale and realized that holy shit it is extremely distilled space nerd porn. the engine noises make my wee-wee feel funny.


this game is what we were all hoping games would be like back in the 90s. I would eat a live baby whole if somebody gave this exact treatment to the mech sim genre
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And I loved it because of that. It just was taking up so much of my time because of that beauty that I had to quit
 
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Definitely Minecraft. Multiplayer is the worst because I'll only stop once hitting the point where continuing to grow my base means coughing up money and/or dedicating an even more horrific amount of time to it.
 
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Stellaris. I have to keep that god damn game uninstalled because I will throw an entire weekend in the garbage just poopsocking on one session. I always play a genocidal machine intelligence (determined exterminator) and take the crisis ascension perk. very few games make playing the supervillain as satisfying as Stellaris.
 
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Farming Simulator. It's fun in its own right but was also a good "brain off" game that could be played while hammered. There exists a great deal of FS groups running their own servers and hundreds of gigs of mods, and I was witness to extreme amounts of autism concerning profit maximization and the neverending quest for more realism. You ever hear grown men get into a screaming match because one tried to mow the ditch grass out of the other's field?

There's one guy I can think of that would easily be able to sustain his own thread here with nothing but his gayops alone, but I got out of all of that long ago and always found the idea of collecting discord screenshots distasteful.
 
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Like many Britbongs I've been addicted to Football/Championship Manager games since I was a kid. If you're unfamiliar you play as a manager of a football/soccer team - you set tactics, buy and sell players, set up training, and then play hundreds of simulated matches. There are thousands of teams you can manage from every continent, and it regenerates players as they retire so you can conceivably play 100's of years into the future. It may sound lame, but once you get into it and get behind a team you're managing it's absolute crack, and most players have countless stories about how they took a team from Lithuania or Scotland or some hellhole to the top of European football or dragged a pub team from some English shithole to the top of the Premiership.

Well while I was a younger my addiction was so extreme (In tandem with my addiction to watching irl football) that I'd look at the player stats that were decided by the developers vast team of researchers and think they got it completely wrong. So I'd go into the editor and modify the stats of thousands of players. Not to give whatever team I was managing an advantage, in fact I'd try and get a sense of equilibrium where I'd modify the stats of entire leagues worth of players where every player was at the level I thought they were, but it was a still a competitive league that more or less reflected the football that was going on irl (One thing about the game is that the researchers do get it wrong sometimes, so you have teams that are absolutely shit hot irl but perform like absolute tards in the game, which always bugged me so I'd want to correct it)

Another autistic thing about me is I'm obsessed with names. There are some names where I think they're lame, and others where I think they're awesome. And so I'd look through all the teams and if there was some like 14 year old youth player who had an awesome name I'd give him huge potential. So that down the line I'd play my game and manage my team and eventually 'Drago von Bismarck' would pop up somewhere as a 16 year old banging in goals for fun and I'd be like 'That guy's name is awesome, I'm glad he's doing well'. Then I'd follow his career (Generally I wouldn't sign these players because I didn't want to cheat, but I always got a kick out of seeing kids that I buffed in the editor achieving their potential, even if they were screwing over my team in the process)

I don't play it as much as I used to, but I'll generally buy the latest editions and put a couple hundred hours into them at a minimum. But idgaf about editing everything anymore



Another quick example is Euro Truck Simulator. I really got into that game back in the day, and I built up a huge trucking empire. But I'd also achievement whore in it, and there was one achivement where you have to explore 100% of the roads in the game (And their system for tracking this is finicky where you may miss a 5m stretch of road someplace in France or there may be one gas station you didn't visit in Austria). I got that achievement. And it's a good thing I did because not only have they released a shit ton of DLC since then which has added god knows how much road to the game, they keep redesigning existing roads so even regions I explored 100% now have maybe of thousands of often tiny modifications that I'd have to drive through in order to get that achievement now
 
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I log into Red Dead Online daily to complete daily challenges. Even if it's something as simple as take a picture. Well, recently I took an hiatus.
 
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i played league of legends on PC and phone for years climbing the elo ladder with no success. better addiction than drugs i tell you. not so great on your mental health tho.

5/7 would recommend (at least arams (all random all mid) are still fun.)
 
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