I haven’t stopped playing Overwatch since it came out, still getting on with friends 2 or 3 nights a week and putting in a few hours (and I’m still awful lol). I also still log on to Battlefield 1943 from time to time to get in a few matches.
I also collect retro games so there is a good bit of time there. If anything I’ve struggled to find new games that I’d want to play more than something older and cheaper. I just picked up Dark Messiah for like 2 bucks and its amazing, hard to justify a $60-70 purchase when you can find deals like that on older but still great games.
I saw a lot of the playtime goes to still updated online games like Fortnite and Apex, but I wonder if part of it is that as time goes on there is a bigger pool of games to play. Sure there will always be cutting edge graphics and gameplay, but many people wouldnt be able to tell which indie dropped in 2010 and which dropped in 2024.
I love my board games and story generators so things like Rimworld, Stellaris, Civilization 5, and Project Zomboid keep showing up in my recently played list.
I learned about the genre of story generators from Rimworld. I love run-based games like that becuase you never know what to expect. The dev of the roguelike Cogmind still plays it on stream all the time even though hes been developing it for a decade! With sufficient randomness there can always be one more run :^)
I just learned about Cogmind by watching DoshDoshington. His latest video talked about it and it looks nuts.