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

My Darkest Dungeon addiction has resurfaced as a 4GB reverse engineered client has enabled larger saves and mods to be downloaded without crashing. God help me.
 
Not as frequently as in college years, but I do that thing where every once in a while a game consumes every second of free time and all of my thoughts. Most of the time they're decent games or at the very least challenging and a little rewarding.

And then there's fucking Nom Nom Galaxy. It was free, it's a shitty game about resource management and making alien soup, and it took over my life once to a comical degree. Possibly the most exceptional thing I have ever gotten obsessed with, and I never even finished the game. I just played the terrible soup game (badly, at that- I suck at resource management and RTS type shit) every night for several months and then as suddenly as it got me I was free and never touched it again. All the things that I could have been doing with that time but nope, alien soup factory go brrrrr.
 
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Townscaper of all things is my personal addiction. Making little hamlets or huge etsates has led to me dumping hours into that game. I wish the dev would update it.
 
The Yakuza games. I used to buy every game since 4 on release and 100% them. I stopped doing that with 7, didn't like the genre change.

Total War, but especially the original Rome. That one is pretty much my comfort game, I can always go back to it when I don't wanna play anything else. Started playing it when I was still in school and I still complete at least two campaigns a year now that I recently entered my 30s.
 
I have an unhealthy amount of hours in Rainbow Six Siege, It was the first game I ever bought when I got my PC and I refused to buy another one cuz at the time it was like $40 and I was broke. R6 ended up being the only game I played for about 3 years cuz I was a stingy fucker, I got pretty good at it until I realized I had over 2k hours and decided to quit for about a year.

I tried to get back into it late 2023 and got shit on in just about every lobby cuz of all the new maps and ops they added (plus i was out of practice).

I also got really addicted to Sea of Thieves during COVID and put in around 250h. Thing is nobody I knew had the game or had any interest in getting it, so for the better part of 6months I played a game meant for 2-4 players solo.

Again I ended up getting pretty good at it but once I completed the quest line to get the gold curse [basically complete the main story with every achievement], I didn't know what to do next and kind of lost interest.
 
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Last winter I spent a lot of my, ”everythings frozen, can't work” time in Subnautica packing a sub full of lockers with floaters. Then I cruised to all the Leviathan spawn points and filled their faces with floaters so they'd be stuck at the surface and any attempt they made to kill me would result in them breaching and flying across the map in a very dramatic fashion.

Enjoy floater prison, stalker reaper.
 
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I like modded Minecraft.

I like Pokémon.

What happens when you put the two together?

This.
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Over the course of three weeks.

And I haven't even reached the End yet.

Please send help.
 
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I made a conscious decision to never play RimWorld again because I swear to god I could physically feel the dopamine pumping through my brain while playing it. Serious Tetris effect too where I just saw little bean people moving around in my head cooking meals and cleaning up blood while I was trying to sleep.

In the same way, I also used to play modded Total War Rome repeatedly and deep into the night to the point where the only thing I saw in dreams and waking moments were phalanx formations changing in size and shape while being lined up over and over.

In general I try to stick to games that I will definitely get tired of after a couple hours a day like War Thunder or Battletech. Although the last time I played a game of Battletech it lasted for 6 hours straight and we didn't even finish the match.
 
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Warframe for sure. I autistically grinded for over 2000 hours. I was close to owning all the non MTX things at points. I'm way behind now though as I have stopped playing. To be fair it was also kind of my go to thing to play while listening to podcasts or videos as you don't really need to pay attention to anything unlike most games I play.
 
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The Omega Mode addition to Ultra Street Fighter 4 towards the very end of its cycle. It was like a little sneak peak into SF5, and just an excuse to add a bunch of new shit that absolutely wasn't balanced or intended to be.
Wasn't very popular, but it's the version of SF4 I dumped the most hours into during the games life cycle.
 
Here to Gawk said:
OP, it's not just you. Plain old Windows Solitaire probably beats everything else I've played by a few hundred hours.
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Yep. Solitaire was my digital fidget spinner. Before I upgraded my OS I had over 35,000 games played in a five year period.

I hated the Win 10 versions because they crashed and had shitty ads, so I don't play Solitaire anymore.

I was hooked on a couple of other games.

In high school I got so into Populous for the SNES I'd play until I passed out from exhaustion, and since I was a teen those sessions would sometimes last longer than 36 hours.

I got really into XCOM2: War of the Chosen to the point where sometimes I'd get to watch the sun come up, though that happened with Civilization 5 and Rimworld also. I used to spend hours writing retarded backstories for my XCOM2 characters.

I lost an entire summer to MajorMUD and I regret it.
 
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The two would be a Star Wars fps game and a GBA MegaMan game.

I played both for years, the fps game had online multiplayer and I would play it everyday for hours. I was the only player who noticed you could animation skip and would use that to cheese for years and I never told anyone until I quit. But the online servers were already pretty dead.

The other game had a "card" mechanic and each card had a 4-6 "code/letter" variant that could only be used together with other cards or the same code during each round. You could have 2 folders/decks and a limit of 4 for each card regardless of code per deck. So naturally I wanted to have 8 of each card in each code + 1 as a place holder for my deck. There were easily over 300+ cards in the game and each had multiple codes. Some cards could only be awarded if you beat the game, and others would only exist in the other version of the game (like Pokemon game versions). I came close to gettingi it, but I never finished it. I think I still have my save file.
 
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When Chrono Trigger got ported to the DS I went ham. Tried to get every ending, fill the item and enemy logs, and do all the extra content. I burned out needing one more enemy, five more items, and six more endings. Was fun, but I haven't touched the game since. Shame too, I really like that one.
 
Rune Factory 4. I picked up that digital heroin again recently. It’s charming enough to let it slip, but man Arc 3 is a nightmare hell. I’m stuck in a warm up loop where I’ll cycle through the barn, grab all the resources, raise levels, and make a mental note of the next batch of monsters I need to tame. Then I’ll cycle through the farms, managing the Soil Level, Quality, and growth multipliers (and the fucking Defense), prepping all the crops to be max level so I never have to worry about Greenifier+ ever again. While doing that, I’ll clear the fields out of all debris, grinding out wood and stone for upgrades. Then I’ll either cycle through the town to make sure I’m upping everyone’s relationship to 10 (fuck you Doug) and checking for easy requests to up my Prince Points (currently grinding out to 32000 for the free baths order) and hopefully catch either Lin Fa or Xiao Pai at the Inn so I can actually raise my bathing skill (which is critically important, as it’s one of the skills that raises max RP and that shit matters long term) and catch everyone before they start bathing; or I’ll jump into Idra cave so I can grind out enough lv. 10 Gold Ore that I’ll never have to worry about it again.

Unless it’s a festival, in which case I’m doing bare minimum until 1100 and jumping into whatever the festival is, and unabashedly save scumming to ensure I get first place so I can maximize the amount of tourists in town (Fuck you Dylas and fuck every fishing festival).

The game is nothing but insane grinding and plate spinning and all of its necessary to even have a chance to touch the actual final dungeon. If you have no idea what you’re doing, the game will rock your shit. But if you know what you’re doing, you can get to Arc 3 in a year. I’m now stuck in the worst Request stage, where it’s tedious shit like “get Pineapple Juice” (a high level recipe I luckily got from trade) or “grow Crystal Flower” (there are 4; 1 for each season, and you can only get the seeds for them at one specific place gatekept halfway thru Arc 2 and only in that particular season). So progress is slowed to a total halt. You also need to fill out the full shipping list, which has quite a few rare items (there’s a crafting recipe that changes every season and you need to craft it in the season to get it and ship it, THEN you need a copy of every season to craft again into a separate craft item). It’s actually insane. It’s all necessary so you can unlock what is essentially New Game+ and you can stand a chance to play the game on the hardest difficulty.

I didn’t even mention how absolutely insane the crafting system is and how fickle and integral it is to actually play the game.
 
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