Games that make you lose track of time.

[Bocaj2000]

FTL has been doing me in. It is so calming that I stop caring what time it is. Then I die... and find out that sever hours passed.

 

[Starik20X6]

The king of this for me is Animal Crossing. There's always something that needs to be done. Deliver this, take that to the museum, harvest fruit, catch fish, sell unwanted gear, buy new gear, write a letter, plant a tree, cut down a tree, design an outfit, talk to friends, catch a bug, get a haircut... Add that to the fact that there is literally no endgame and you get a massive time-sink.

 

[ShinyCharizard]

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Welcome to the Escapist forums!

Anyway, on topic...

Two games in particular come to mind for me. The first is Counter-Strike. Back when I was in high school I played a lot of Counter-Strike. For a while I even played it competitively (I was never anything special, but I was able to buy a used car with my tournament winnings when I got my driver's license). I'd sit down at my computer with the intention of only playing a couple rounds before bed, but I'd make up excuses to keep on playing rather than going to sleep. Oh, that round was pretty short, I think I've got time for another... oh man, now I'm doing ridiculously well, I'll just stick around until the next map... hey, I love this map, I think I can stay up just a bit longer for a couple more rounds... wait, is that my goddamn alarm clock going off?

The second game was Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2. This was another game that I played competitively for a while. At one point I regularly ranked within the top-10 players on the tournament ladder, and I was so focused on increasing that rank that I actually managed to outright miss Thanksgiving dinner with my family. They weren't pleased.

Thank you.
I recently purchased CS GO and I've found myself losing hours to that.It's a very enjoyable online game. I find it much more intense than either battlefield or COD. Though I've still got a ways too go before I could be considered good at it .

 

[Occams_Razor]

For me, it always seems to be any RTS that has a turn-based, campaign map element to it. Most specifically it was Rome and Medieval 2, both from the Total War Series. Games like this always, always pull me into the "one more turn" or "one more battle" or "if I can just take this one last city" that keeps me going for hours without realizing it. Lots of time sunk in to both of those...

 

[Fantasylord]

No More Heroes
Devil May Cry 3
Persona 4
Catherine
Starwars The Old Republic
If I want to play any of these games but I have a work-shift, or classes, or homework to deal with I generally don't bother turning on my systems bc I know I will lose track of time and get nothing done. This happens a lot lately considering I am in college and still working as well which eats all of my time.

 

[Aiiooo]

D3 does make me lose track of time especially when busy farming for good items.

 

[Ambient]

Dragon's Dogma managed to make me sit and play it for a whole freaking day without really noticing.
'I just need to find this for my Sorcerer...and that...and that and that too!'

 

[mooncalf]

The day I got Morrowind I started playing about 3pm and the next time I looked at my clock it was 5am. I'm not sure if it was the *next* morning.

 

[username sucks]

Another vote for minecraft. One time I intended for thirty minutes of play, then I looked at the clock and saw that it had been 7 hours, and looked at the game and saw that I had dug a square room at bedrock level that I couldent see the end on and that I had a total of 5 double chests completely filled with stone. And the next day I accidentally deleted that world before I could build anything with said stone.
Also, when I finnally got up from that session i tried to open the bathroom door by hitting it. That hurt.

Still totally worth it.

 

[l0ckd0wn]

I'm going to have to go ahead and say Civ 5 as well... But a few others that come to mind:

Diablo 2
Counter Strike when it was a mod, years and years ago...
TF2
BF3 with high ticket counts... Hours disappear...
Dungeons of Dredmor
Fallout 3
ES3: Oblivion
TrackMania United
The original UT years ago... don't play anymore.
Terraria - REALLY REALLY makes time disappear, especially when you can just load a new world over and over again to gain stuff...

captcha: carry a towel? I *never* forget to bring a towel...

 

[Fluffythepoo]

Anything with a 8-12 hour campaign (or that i think will have an 8-12 hour campaign.. like bioshock) ill play through with no regards to the time.. there is a sort of preemptive acknowledgment that ill be up all night and some schedule adjustments are made accordingly.. but once i start the only real indication that time has passed is that the sun is coming up

or wow back when i had time to play mmos.. oh highschool

 

[NinjaSniperAssassin]

Fallout 3 and New Vegas, Oblivion, Skyrim, Persona 4 all do it on occasion (read: when I have no plans that force me to keep track of time).

Persona 3 Portable does it almost every time, as long as I'm sitting somewhere comfortable. I woke up at 8 one morning, started to play, next thing I know it's 2:30 and I have to leave for work in 10 minutes.

But Borderlands 2 DOES do it every time. It's gotten so bad that I can't play if I have plans later on. It's not good. I have a problem.

 

[The Rascal King]

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance leaves me wondering how the shit I managed to waste 2 hours having fun managing my party and only fighting two small battles in that time frame.

The game is a time machine that only goes forward, I'm telling you.

 

[TheTJackson]

The Elder Scrolls or Mass Effect Series. I can honestly drain hours immersed in either universe without noticing the time. It's a pity that ME3 came out near the start of my Year 11 exams

 

[renegade7]

Dwarf Fortress...if you let it, it can and will annihilate entire days.

 

[Violator[xL]]

Basicly most turn based games (Civ, Total War), hitting the 'next turn' button thinking it's the last one can be so deceptive.

 

[Simon Pettersson]

Many games.
Hearts of Iron 3
Crusader Kings 2
Agarest generation of war zero
Way of the samurai 4
Tokyo Jungle

Oddly enough Sims 3 doesn't ... I get bored of it fast.

 

[Beautiful End]

*Ahem*

Minecraft.

Enough said.

...But seriously, it's one of those games where I keep playing until "I finish exploring this cave" or "I get back to my house" or "just one more block". Next thing you know, it's already 3am.

Like now.

 

[AngloDoom]

Minecraft, but since I've started playing hardcore mode most of my play time is me spending all night crying in a ditch, armed to the teeth, stabbing the crap out of any flicker of movement, then dying anyway out of seemingly harmless situations.