What video game genres induce hyperfocus in you? (lemmy.zip)

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Maybe this doesn't need to be said but this is a different question to which video game genres do you enjoy. For example, I enjoy playing Dota 2. Every few months or so, I'll play it for a couple of weeks and put it back down. I'll never play more than two or three matches and I feel 'present' for the duration.

Paradox grand strategy games (especially EUIV), however, I can start playing at 7am and in a blink of an eye it can be 11pm and I won't have eaten or used the toilet or anything. I can do this for multiple days in a row. Furthermore, I don't often feel like I'm 'enjoying' it. I'm just consumed by it.

I'm intrigued to hear whether or not anyone recognises this difference in themselves. If you have any insight as to why you're consumed by some games and not others, I'd be very interested.

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[-] jetsetdorito@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Transport Fever 2

[-] faercol@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

Oh my god, same. Tycoons, City Builders like Transport Fever or Cities Skyline. I don't play them for months or years, then I spend like a week playing for hours and forgetting time, then I stop again for months

[-] Micromot@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

Factorio does this for me, you just forget time and suddenly it's 3 am and you are about to finish yellow science but you could still optimize a lot.

[-] runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

City builders and colony builders are major time sinks. Anything with micro-tasks. I just need to finish this one building, I just need to finish this prisoner recruit, I just need to ... And then it's 3 am and you have to wake up at 6 for work. Civilization games do this to me too.

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Anything that has set turns or levels with natural points to pause. The short time commitment make it easier to "one more turn" my way into playing for hours.

XCOM 2 is phenomenal for this.

[-] WatTyler@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

Every time I've tried to play XCOM EW or XCOM 2 I'm having a great fun time, and then it seems a new Alien type drops which just wrecks my shit out of nowhere and I get so angry that I quit and don't come back.

If I were good at video games, they'd have no doubt ruined me as PDS games have.

[-] subignition@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago

I can barely put down Ace Attorney style games. I love experiences where I get to unravel a mystery.

It's also really easy to spend a long time grinding in old school Maple. Just monotonous enough to be soothing, just active enough to keep my attention on it.

[-] InquisitiveApathy@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Rimworld, Against the Storm, Dwarf Fortress, and other similar games.

Any game where there is no clear end and continuous engagement and problems to solve is dangerous for me.

[-] BodePlotHole@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Samurai Gunn

[-] therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

Menu Simulators like Warframe and Path of Exile

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

Really big and complex games like Rimworld and the Paradox or Hooded Horse games can really suck me in.

[-] superduperpirate@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

4X games, specifically any of the Civilization games I’ve played (everything but SMAC & Civ: Beyond Earth).

MMORPG, specifically Elder Scrolls Online.

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[-] Eiri@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Rogue-likes, especially if each run is long. Man, the number of times I booted up One Way Heroics for "just a quick run" and realize hours later that I should've gone to bed long ago.

[-] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

Splatoon

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