What are your most-played games on Steam, and why have you spent so many hours on them?

You can sort your Steam library in various ways. Via release date, or size on disk, or percentage of completed achievements. One option seems to exist just to give you an existential crisis: Sort By Hours Played.

While it’s not going to record all the hours you put into MMOs with their own launchers or games you played GOG or Epic or whatever, there is still likely to be something on your list that makes you think about ways those hours could have been better spent, whether on a more enriching activity, or just on a more fulfilling game.

Nick Evanson, Hardware Writer: 1,1780 hours in Hearts of Iron 4. It’s a love-hate thing and it’s all about the ridiculous achievements. I’ve been trying for years to get 100% but every time I get to around the 75% mark, a new DLC comes out and I’m back to square one. One day Paradox will stop updating it and I’ll finally be in with a chance of getting them all. Until then, it’s just an endless slog of working through strategies to get a certain achievement and hating myself for doing it.