# Top 3 most-played Steam games **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** video-games-e-games\ **Created:** [February 2, 2022, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-3-most-played-steam-games/958820 "2022-02-02T23:01:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2022, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-3-most-played-steam-games/958820/21 "2022-02-03T02:18:34Z")
> [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](#): > > I truly enjoyed the game, but it got to the point where fully half of the quests were bugged. Really disheartening to do all the work and not get the reward. Also, two of the quest areas were desert, which was at least one too many in my mind. . .but the New England town with the Lovecraft theme was just wonderful. I want more of that. Both the Egypt zones were not enjoyable. I guess if you really, really, really like sand they are fun. The parts that have you go down into ruins and explore aren’t so bad either. But anything in the desert is pretty monotonous. I don’t know of many quests that are bugged at the moment. They’ve been pretty good about fixing bugs, and rebalanced combat recently (2020) in a way that (to me at least) was a massive improvement. I’ve really enjoyed the game more since then. My own Hammer/Blade build I run is a lot smoother. On the other hand, they seem to have given up on new content. South Africa was added in 2018, which was to be followed by the Congo… And nothing was added since then. April of this year will be the 4-year anniversary since the last new area was added. That’s longer than the lifespan of some MMORPGs. They do still have new missions added now and then, especially around holidays. The Valentine’s event (which should be coming back any day now, I believe) is relatively new. They added more to scenarios. But the story hasn’t advanced in forever. For the most part, the game is in eternal maintenance mode, which isn’t good for an MMO. Once you do everything there isn’t anything left to look forward to. I’m doing the item grind still. Not all of my gear is maxed out yet, and I still can’t get into the top-tier raids and stuff, so I have reasons to play. But it’s a bummer that I finished the story a long time ago and there is no more of it to do. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2022, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-3-most-played-steam-games/958820/22 "2022-02-03T02:30:43Z")
Space Engineers: 2634 Cities Skylines: 2291 Oxygen Not Included: 1146 Which is not surprising as those games are like 8 years old (including early-access Beta). Plus they can kind of run in the background on autopilot while I multitask on other stuff. Runners up are DayZ with 390 and Rimworld with 162. After that I have a bunch of games I played a bit or not at all. ---
**Author:** ![omenran](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omenran/32/3318_2.png) [@omenran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omenran)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2022, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-3-most-played-steam-games/958820/23 "2022-02-03T02:36:26Z")
For me on Steam it’s \*Planetside 2 - 489 hours \*Team Fortress 2 - 448 \*Fallout 4 - 323 But my real winner is Guild Wars (1), which I have around 4400 hours on. ---
**Author:** ![DMC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dmc/32/18049_2.png) [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2022, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-3-most-played-steam-games/958820/24 "2022-02-03T02:42:11Z")
No Man’s Sky - 506 Terraria - 473 Rimworld - 304 ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2022, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-3-most-played-steam-games/958820/25 "2022-02-03T02:43:18Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I don’t know how there is 34 hours in that, it should be more like 4 hours. I looked through more of my library. One game which I know I played once for a few minutes (I downloaded it, it wasn’t very fun, and I never played again) says I have played for more than 12 hours. Clearly there is something wrong with the statistics of my Steam profile. So, I can probably just ignore whatever is in there, it is obviously wrong. ETA: There is another game that I played for a few minutes and uninstalled because the graphics were horrible. I apparently have 6 achievements in it and 7 hours played. I’m now wondering if someone hacked my Steam account and has been playing my library. ☹ I do have “Steam Guard” so you’d think that would be difficult for someone to do. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2022, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-3-most-played-steam-games/958820/26 "2022-02-03T02:49:26Z")
> [@Terminus\_Est](#): > > XCOM 2 may be skewed by how slow the load times are for me, so I’ll throw in: > > Crusader Kings II - 417.8 h CK2 may be skewed by not counting the 50 hours of Youtube tutorials you need to watch before playing 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2022, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-3-most-played-steam-games/958820/27 "2022-02-03T02:55:16Z")
Divinity Original Sin 2 - 249.9 h Wasteland 2 Director’s Cut - 242.9 h Mass Effect Legendary Edition - 235.3 h ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2022, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-3-most-played-steam-games/958820/28 "2022-02-03T03:10:43Z")
Crusader Kings II – 7613 hours Europa Universalis IV – 2356 hours Stellaris – 2030 hours Crusader Kings III – 312 hours I think I see a pattern… I don’t trust the actual hours played, because I think Steam counts time even when you’re not at the keyboard. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2022, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-3-most-played-steam-games/958820/29 "2022-02-03T03:18:38Z")
> [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](#): > > You’re evil. . . EEEEE-VIL! Tempting me back to FO4 with Lovecraft mods, when you know mods have been my undoing time and time again. > > EEEEE-vil. – quickly checks, finds SDMB has no Karma system, has quiet, relieved sigh – ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2022, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-3-most-played-steam-games/958820/30 "2022-02-03T05:05:54Z")
Arma 3 - 331 hours Far Cry 5 - 271 hours Ghost Recon Wildlands - 143 hours I have 127 hours in MSFS 2020 but most of that is downloads and updates. ---
**Author:** ![Kimble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimble/32/19185_2.png) [@Kimble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimble)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2022, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-3-most-played-steam-games/958820/31 "2022-02-03T10:01:28Z")
I’m mostly on consoles and free Epic games recently, so these are old and not played too recently: Skyrim: 145.5 hours Terraria: 143.4 hours Stardew Valley: 106.2 hours (Animal Crossing: New Horizons is somewhere in the 800s, but obviously not on Steam.) ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2022, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-3-most-played-steam-games/958820/32 "2022-02-03T11:32:46Z")
Final Fantasy XV: 229 hours Fallout 4: 223 hours Fallout New Vegas: 223 hours ---
**Author:** ![sohvan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@sohvan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sohvan)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2022, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-3-most-played-steam-games/958820/33 "2022-02-03T16:02:52Z")
Total War Warhammer II 791 hours Civilization IV 391 hours Slay the Spire 241 hours I’ve played Civ IV more originally on a non-steam version, but I’m not sure it would go above Warhammer II even if I included those hours. ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-3-most-played-steam-games/958820/34 "2022-02-04T00:00:45Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > Crusader Kings II – 7613 hours > Europa Universalis IV – 2356 hours > Stellaris – 2030 hours > Crusader Kings III – 312 hours > > I think I see a pattern… > > I don’t trust the actual hours played, because I think Steam counts time even when you’re not at the keyboard. It does. Play time is the amount of time the app is opened for, not the time you actually spend playing it. If you pause for an hour, that’s still an hour play time. ---
**Author:** ![Limmin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f04885/32.png) [@Limmin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Limmin)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-3-most-played-steam-games/958820/35 "2022-02-04T00:12:36Z")
Top 3: Fallout 4, 1648 hrs Faming Simulator 2015 427 hrs + FS13 253 hrs + FS17 252 hrs + FS19 149 hrs = 1082 hrs Skyrim SE, 374 hrs + Skyrim 528 hrs = 902 hrs …since 2014, when I became unemployed and apparently addicted to such games. I played Kerbal Space Program for countless hours before I repurchased it through Steam. Probably in the hundreds of hours. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-3-most-played-steam-games/958820/36 "2022-02-04T01:27:14Z")
1. Rocksmith 2014 - 630 hours 2. Age of Empires II - 36.2 hours 3. Doom 3 - 28.8 hours 4. Myst - 7.3 hours I use Steam for Rocksmith (still love it) and when I get a hankering to play a videogame (not very often), you can tell I’m stuck in the past. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-3-most-played-steam-games/958820/37 "2022-02-04T01:47:55Z")
Civ 6: 2,253 hours Civ 5: 1,093 hours Stellaris: 808 hours ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-3-most-played-steam-games/958820/38 "2022-02-04T04:42:19Z")
Borderlands 2 3300 Fallout4 1402 Skyrim 1012 +Skyrim Special edition 260 = 1272 and if that doesn’t count Borderlands the Pre-sequel 1052 Those numbers really aren’t very accurate for the Borderlands games. For whatever reason I found them very easy jump in-jump out while I was waiting for things to happen on that system, which was a server as well. So sometimes when I jumped out, it was days(occasionally weeks) before I jumped back in, but the game app was running the whole time. The weird thing is there were a lot of games I thought I really liked, but when I went through the list just now, only had 50-75 hours. And these weren’t games I had on other platforms earlier. Hmm. ---
**Author:** ![SomeDeadSinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@SomeDeadSinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SomeDeadSinger)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-3-most-played-steam-games/958820/39 "2022-02-04T06:24:54Z")
I don’t know second and third, but I definitely know the first - Grim Dawn - 4,893 hours. A truer successor to Diablo 2 than Diablo 3 could ever hope to be. Outside of Steam, I can’t be sure, but I expect the original Deus Ex has a huge number of hours invested. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-3-most-played-steam-games/958820/40 "2022-02-04T07:15:11Z")
Crusader Kings 2 - 1,450 hours. Grim Dawn - 1194 Skyrim (not counting special edition) - 688 There are a few more in the 500-600+ range. Off Steam I am sure I had a shit ton in the three Diablos, Titan Quest, the earlier Total War games (through Napoleon), the first CK and Europa Universalis I-III (never got into IV). Not to mention even older 4x games like Civ II (my first serious obsession) and the MoO series. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-3-most-played-steam-games/958820.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-3-most-played-steam-games/958820.md?page=3)