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I think most here are too generous with the term addiction.
I had to uninstall Hearthstone years ago, because I compulsively played it multiple hours every single day, despite not really having fun playing it anymore. It was either grinding to get cards or tilting on ladder. That's what I would call an addiction.
Edit: After Hearthstone I played a lot of Slay the Spire and after that Marvel Snap. Never more then I enjoyed it, so I wouldn't count those.
I'm not sure if I should tell you to try Balatro, or to stay far away from it...
Cracktorio
Dota without question. CS along with some rts games like zero hour and CoH used to be up there but it's not even close. Got to a ranked immortal at my peak. Still, was a lot of fun playing with friends and family, so not like it was always a solo activity. Glad I quit though.
Dota without question
Came here to say this. Over 4 years clean now. There were a lot of good times with the squad. And I guess it gave me a relatively high APM which helps at work.
Path of Exile. And by extension Path of Building.
I've only played like 8 leagues (each league is around 3 months long) and I have almost 5k hours :/.
Usually if I decide to play a league, i will make sure I have no obligations for an entire month and then I will take the first week of the league off work.
Morrowind.
Nothing will ever hook me as badly as Kerbal Space Program did. If I wasn't at work, I was playing Kerbal for five years straight. No breaks, didn't play anything else during that time. Once I got RealSolarSystem and RealismOverhaul working, you couldn't pry me away from the computer. I put in aver 10,000 hours, easily.
Spent 4,000 hours on Dota 2. Finally kicked the habit and Valve goes and drops Deadlock π
Definitely animal well. When I played it out was the coolest sense of discovery that I had ever felt playing a game, and it kept going for so long. I would play it whenever I had a spare minute, especially if I had an idea for a puzzle. I'm not great at normal puzzle games, my brain just doesn't work like that, but I love exploration and easy puzzles and animal well really scratched that itch for me in a way no other game has.
Aside from that, I wouldn't be surprised if I had like 10,000 hours in Minecraft, since that's pretty much the only video game I like to play, and I've been playing it for almost ten years. Not an addiction though, I only play when I have the time and the desire.
First it was Call of Duty in the mid 2000's. Then it was WoW. It all culminated in EVE Online. Untold hours spent in those games.
I have zero game addictions now. It just doesn't hit like it used to.
I'm more into stuff like Dwarf Fortress, Cogmind, and Caves of Qud now.
For a while it was Elite Dangerous. Reached triple Elite, then eventually Odyssey drops and I stopped playing. After Elite was Baldurs Gate 3. Bg3 was the fastest 1000+ hours Iβve ever dropped in a video game
Oof BG3 was so dangerous for me... When I first got it I played from dusk untill dawn, after that everytime I booted up the game, one blink and suddenly 5 or 6 hours had gone by, very difficult game to put down.
Warframe, I have more than 3000 hours on it but I haven't touched it in years
Factorio, Dyson Sphere Program, Derail Valley Simulator, Terraria, and Vintage Story.
The worst for me was elder scrolls: oblivion. I played it on xbox back when it came out. I played nothing else for about 18 months. I must have had thousands of hours by the time it got old.
I probably have more hours in Diablo 2 than any other game.
I didn't buy the remaster because I value having a life now.
Diablo 2 and Ragnarok Online are tied as my most played games. I did buy the Diablo 2 remaster and it exceeded my expectations in every way and I lost so many hours into itβ¦
I bet I have thousands (thinking 5000+) hours on the original counterstrike. Steam says I have like 12.6 hours. Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
Another answer for me is Super Smash Bros. Melee (but could probably apply to many multiplayer games).
Normally I'd always engaged with it in person, at events. But when I started playing online, it was almost too much of a good thing.
On the Internet, your next match is always 15 seconds away. You get beat, you go 'I can do better, just give me another chance'. You win, you're on a high, you don't ever want to stop.
The game has that perfect push and pull (at least when you're playing someone anywhere near your level) that just builds compulsion. You're constantly engaged in decision making or quick button pressing each moment, and it just feels satisfying.
Mu online.
I remember one summer break I slept 2 hrs a day and played while eating. Basically my life revolved around that game. I got to top of the server and realized wtf am I doing. I kind of glad it happened because it was the start of breaking free from addiction.
I spent a full year of my life playing Grim Dawn.
For the entirety of high school I only played Team Fortress 2, League of Legends, and Melee. I have 2000+ hrs in TF2 and probably more in the other two. Then in college I was on the Overwatch team and played in the college league, I have a bit under 5000 hrs in that.
No games I have come close to that kinda play time and none probably will since I have less time to game and Iβve kinda been losing interest in gaming in general.
I was supposed to be working on a project the day terraria released on Steam. I ended up playing it for like 9 hours straight
Right now I'm really hooked on Lucky Tower Ultimate. I've never been this into anything like it before, roguelites mostly bore me, but this game has such a goofy charm and - for an Early Access game - surprisingly deep explorability. It's my go-to game for picking up my Steam Deck and screwing around for 20 minutes or an hour. I'm still having a ton of fun with it.
Dwarf Fortress.
I would constantly miss meals and sleep to keep playing. Sometimes multiple days at a time. Went like 36 hours without eating or sleeping until someone popped into vent and asked what I was up to and after hearing me talk about the Fortress the asked when the last time I ate was...