My Civ 5 experience was similar. Steam has me at 800 hours though I don’t count all of that since some was AFK. But 5 was just so addicting to me.
One of the later expansions kinda ruined it for me oddly enough but there was a time when I could just devote an entire weekend to it.
I tried 4 and 6 and neither worked for me at all.
I have a couple hundred hours in rocket league from playing with friends around ~2020. Was a ton of fun, even if I never managed to get any good at it. 🤣
Well the top contender for me is FFXI by a mile. But naming an MMO in a thread like this almost feels like cheating.
My next game after that would be Hades 1 with 421 hours.
Good for them. People expect the world from devs these days. It’s especially galling with a game like Peak that is less than 10 bucks.
Heyyy, fellow FFXI player! Those were excellent time periods to play imo. I too took a break around the abyssea era (2010/11 I think?) but came back again around 2016.
I feel like the late 20-teens were almost a second golden age in terms of available content to play and community.