Patient Gamers

Does EVE online count? 1k+ hours, only dipped my toes into null sec a few times. Mostly spent in low sec blowing up expensive things.

Terraria. I am like 100 hours in and I don't even know where all that time went. Also Factorio. That game had me waking up after late night sessions being like "who built all this?" :P

Edit: Oh and also Subnautica. Love subnautica, but after I got the cyclops and did some exploring I felt satisfied and haven't looked back. And Satisfactory, very fun. Got the little dune buggy and was just like "Welp, I'm gonna go play something else!"

Rimworld and Skyrim.

Skyrim, same reason as everyone, I've finished most guilds though (yeah, not you, Companions).

Rimworld I just can't be arsed to work towards any of the endings, playing thematic colonies with mods is where it's at for me.

Witcher 3, Oblivion and Skyrim. I always get caught up doing the sidequests. And I don't even play around with mods (yet).

Rimworld. The game has an end, but it really isn't worth getting to. The journey is the best part.

Skyrim for the same reasons.

Satisfactory 1200+ hours, and I usually end up rethinking my setup around the time I get to Aluminum production and never stay to finish things. I much prefer the beginning and middle of the game. I'm weird, though, I do the one big base thing.

Quake I have no way knowing how many hours I played LAN Quake after work with coworkers. Started with the alpha release. Eventually I did Quake World. I've sunk a lot of hours into the single player game, too, but not nearly as many.

Thinking about it, I rarely finish games, even when I love them.

• ALttP
• Final Fantasy VIII
• GTA: SA
• GTA VI
• RDR2
• Skyrim
• BOTW

Dota 2

Another World. Since it was released I keep coming back to it. Next time I'll finish it!

Until last week it was BotW. Like my switch I bought it on the release day and had a blast. But somehow I never finished it, there were always some "only this one thing before I go beat the boss". It took TotK to finally push me to finish it.

My second big game is Space Engineers. I currently sitting at around 2500h and still having fun, still having ideas. I'm just to easily entertained by "space ship go boom" But technically one can't even finish the game, because of it's sandbox nature.

Steam tells me I've played ~100 hours of Monster Hunter World and I didn't even finish the story of that.

I’ve got around 1000hrs combined in the Big Ant cricket games (Don Bradman, Ashes, Cricket 19, etc) and I know they can’t strictly be completed I have almost no trophies from any of them. I just fucking love batting for days and days.

Classic roguelikes. Been playing Nethack for about 20 years, Crawl (DCSS) about 10 and Brogue more recently. Have yet to ascend in any of them.

I've played every historical Total War game up to Attila, and I've only ever beaten the campaign on Shogun 2 and it's DLC Fall of the Samurai. I always get tired of the faction I'm using and restart as another one in the early-mid campaign of the other games.

Stellaris because I keep getting wiped out.

#OxygenNotIncluded, I've got 1500 hours in it and I still haven't gotten to oil, let alone launched a rocket.

Chrono Trigger

Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town. I have big completionist and FOMO tendencies in games like that and get super distracted with trying to do all the things before advancing the storyline. Similarly, Pokémon: Legends of Arcaeus.

Many of the games I play are open ended or sandboxes. I genuinely don't think I've completed a game fully since FFIX on the PS1. It doesn't help that my partner plays through games as quick as possible and I see numerous spoilers.

Maybe Hoi4? I've never gotten to 1948 after 2000 hours.

Hollow Knight, I have over 200 hours and am yet to ever beat the Watcher Knights.

• X-COM: UFO Defense: My current run of this I'm finally in the end game. Been playing on and off for about 15 years now and this recent playthrough is the furthest I've ever gotten.
• Factorio: Well this one no longer counts because I did 'beat' it just a few days ago. I've had a thousand hours in the last 6.5 years of playtime and only got around to launching a rocket earlier this week.
• Morrowind: This one is also historical but in high school I played this one a LOT before even starting the main quest. I was just so captured by the world (still am, play it to this day). It took me hundreds of hours over several playthroughs before I finally had a run where I was like 'okay fine I'll do the main quest'.
• Baldur's Gate: I actually have a lot of regret over this one but I'm working to remedy it now. When I was younger I played this for an obsessive amount of time, I got a character up to the final battle, but I couldn't pull it off. Then I went to college, the game was forgotten about, and I'm only in the last couple years firing up another run to hopefully complete it. I'd estimate with past and current time about 300hr of playtime.
• Terraria (kinda): I've definitely defeated the final boss in Terraria, back when that was Wall of Flesh. And I've defeated more 'final' bosses since then. The most current final boss, Moon Lord, remains undefeated though.

Bit on the weaker side, but I've sunk over 100 hours into Factorio and not once have I launched the rocket. I'm something of a perfectionist myself, which makes it tough to not want to start over.

Problem is, when I start over I've got a huge wall to climb to get back to where I was.

I think I have 50+ hours in Dark Souls III, and never went past the Abyss Watchers. Either I get frustrated and quit for months, or I have a technical issue and my save is lost. Then I start a new save, rinse and repeat.

I also have 200 hours in Binding of Isaac, still play it regularly, but will probably never truly finish it. I'd be happy to reach the final final boss at least once, but the last DLC is really hard.

There are other games I never finished after many hours of course, but those are more open-world/free-roam games, so I don't really count them.

Portal2, It took me 2 years to finish this game. It just gives me motion sickness every time I play portal2.

Sonic 1. I got it as a kid when it came out, and still go back and play it occasionally. But I've never played through the whole game in a sitting.

I have for sonic 2 and 3 many times, though. For some reason never 1.

Honourable mention: skyrim

Dangerous Dave is a classic as well, though I never gave it a good effort. Looks like you can play it in-browser on archive.org. What a world.

Dragon Quest 11. I really enjoyed it for the first 20 hours, but after my save got corrupted I lost the motivation to start over. A few months ago I fixed the corrupted save file and was able to continue, but I just feel overwhelmed by it. Still a great game. Witcher 3 was interesting, but the combat never really stuck with me. Too many things to remember, and I died a lot pretty early on (first 10-15 hours). Not sure if I'll ever go back.