Reflections on a Steam Account

Give me steam
And how you feel to make it real
Real as anything you've seen
Get a life with this dreamer's dream

Ok, this thread is to celebrate/mourn your Steam collection, encourage people to try their unplayed Steam gems and to just reflect on Steam itself.

I wasn’t an early Steam adopter because I always preferred to have the physical media. At least that way I could resell/trade games with people. In fact, I think my very first Steam game was Empire: Total War, which is a bad way to start out a Steam account because that game sucked. I was so mad that this was a Steam game because I couldn’t trade it to someone else. But over the years, the ease of using Steam and the awesome Steam sales have made me a convert. I bet 3/4ths of my purchases are now made on Steam and I look forward to the sales every year. I'm fully a Steam convert. In fact, I've noticed that even good games that are on other platforms - Amazon, UBI's Launcher, Origin, Stardock and even just stand alone games - don't ever get played as much as my Steam games. Yeah, I know I can add non-Steam games to my account...I'm just too lazy to do so.

With all that in mind, it's time for the award show!

The Hall of Fame - The 100 hour club:

• Civilization V (246 hours played)
• Skyrim (202)
• Football Manager 2010 (151)
• Mass Effect 2 (121)
• Terraria (118)

Awesome games. If the bunch, Skyrim is probably my favorite on the list. Terraria remains the best $3 I ever spent. Oh, and Tom Chick can suck it about Civ V. Since I have a Hall of Fame, then I should have a...

The Wall of Shame – The less than 1 hour club (but actually played):

• Drakensang River of Time (29 minutes)
• Alpha Protocol (58 minutes)
• Fate of the World (40)
• Ghost Master (22)
• Gratuitous Space Battles (43)
• Grotesque Tactics (48)
• Overlord (48)
• Shadowgrounds (24)
• Warhammer: Dawn of War II (46)

Some of these I should actually get into. Which leads me to...

Eternal Purgatory: Game that Should be Played but Never are:

• Drakensang – Good reviews, decent graphics and it’s an RPG. It should be right up my alley, yet I’ve had it for a year and haven’t played it. Why am I planning on buying Amalur when I have this?
• Grotesque Tactics – Looks moderately interesting and I like TBS games. Is the intro just too “goth” for me?
• Warhammer: Dawn of War II – I’m not a huge TBS fan, but this looks good.
• Cities in Motion (3 hours played) – Is it just me, or did they manage to suck all the fun out of this…not to mention the controls are weird.
• Trine – 68 entirely unremarkable minutes thus far, yet everyone praises this game.

This is the "twilight" of the Steam account. I look at these, go "yeah, I should play that" and promptly load something else. Of course, if there's a Purgatory, then there's gotta be....

The 9 Hells: Games that Roast in the Fire of Eternal Scorn (or just bad values):

• Risen – 6 hours of gameplay, yet I remember it as just a grind. I must have missed something on this game, but I know I’ve started it twice trying to get into it to no avail. I think I spent cost to $20 on this.
• Alpha Protocol – 2 hours of buggy gameplay fighting the PC controls. I gave up. I don’t care it only ran me $7.
• Empire: Total War – The game that started it all. I have 48 hours into this game, trying mods, patches and everything else to get some enjoyment out of it. I’m not quite sure I ever did. At $50, this one claims the lowest pit of hell.
• Fallout: New Vegas – 68 hours of gameplay should count for something. But since the game cost me $50 and the guide ran another $25, it was a big entertainment investment and the whole time I was playing, I kept thinking that Fallout 3 was a better game.
• Frozen Synapse – I got only 7 hours from this one-trick pony that cost me $15. It does that trick very well, but that wasn’t enough for me. The elevator mission was the final straw.
• Just Cause 2 – 67 minutes of motion sickeness. Thank goodness it was only $5.
• King Arthur – I can’t believe this game got so much buzz. It didn’t make it two hours with me. Not a good use of $10.
• Sword of the Stars (plus expansions) – I tried. I really did. For 7 hours I tried. Even though it was $5 or $10, I just never got any fun from this title.

There's a spot open in the 9 hells and the Christmas Sale is coming up.

Fact That Interests Only Me – When it comes to indie games and Steam, I don’t have a lot of luck. I have a bunch of games I’d consider “indie”- Avadon, Defense Grid, Dungeons of Dreadmor, Fate of the World, Frozen Synapse, Gratuitous Space Battles, Grotesque Tactics, Greed Corp, LIMBO, Orcs Must Die, Terraria, Trine…and the only ones that I enjoyed were LIMBO (3 hours of gameplay) and Terraria. The rest haven’t kept my attention for very long.

Games That Really, Really Need to be on my Steam List - Torchlight II, Hegemony Gold.

My Hall of Fame:
Shogun 2 with 1005 hours
Company of Heroes with 346 hours. And I played lots more CoH before I moved to playing it on Steam.

Hall of Shame: (I see mine in hours, not minutes?)
SW: Force Unleashed (0.2) - all of that time spent unsuccessfully trying to get the game to run.
Crysis Wars (0.2) - all of that time spent unsuccessfully trying to get the game to either create or log in to a gamespy ID account.
Blacklight Retribution (0.3) - after going through the tutorial I was never able to actually launch into a game.
X-Com Enforcer (0.5) - because it's X-Com Enforcer

Purgatory: Some day I will get to these
Binding of Isaac
Bastion
Bioshock 2
Braid
Half Life 2 Eps 1 & 2
Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
Lone Survivor
Space Pirates and Zombies

9 Hells: Stuff I just didn't like
Gratuitous Tank Battles (4.1) - loved GSB, love tower defense, but this did nothing for me.
Frozen Synapse (5.3) - tried so hard to love this but couldn't
Total War Battles Shogun (6.3) - truly good game framework marred by awful design to bully you into microtransactions to make your units better.

I have hundreds of games on Steam that meet these qualifications, so I'll just cherry pick a few.

The Hall of Fame - The 100 hour club:

• Skyrim (220) - Fastest 200 hours ever
• Spectromancer (122) - This number will be getting significantly higher once the latest expansion hits Steam
• Might And Magic: Clash of Heroes (115)
• Civ 5 (109) - Always meaning to return to this, but never do

Honorable Mentions: Mostly due to split platforms

• Dark Souls (85 on Steam, 110 on xBox 360)
• Frozen Synapse (85) - I was having a ball right up until I stopped playing. The only reason I stopped in the first place was because I got banned from Qt3 for a while and that made it a chore to coordinate games with everybody I played against, plus a Qt3 ladder had started right about that time and it would have been difficult to partake in any of that crap given the situation.
• Ticket to Ride (77) - I enjoyed the board game and all, but this is still about 50 more hours than I expected to get out of it.
• Fallout 3 (53 on Steam, 300ish hours without Steam) - I originally bought a boxed copy of the game and played the crap out of it. I picked up the Steam version becuse it was the GOTY version with all the DLC. I spent 53 hours playing through the DLC before I set it aside (for Skyrim).
• King's Bounty (200ish) - If you combine both Steam and non-Steam installations.

The Wall of Shame – The less than 1 hour club (but actually played):

• Terraria (0.8) - Didn't like the controls
• Dungeon Siege 3 (0.8) - Something better came along
• Fallout: New Vegas (0.4) - I didn't realize how utterly burned out I was on this franchise until I tried to play this one on the PC. I also owned it on my 360 and played it a bit, but I disliked the controls and sold it, then picked this one up in a sale. I'll return some day.
• AI War (0.2) - I got the feeling I'd need to spend a lot of time learning this game. I haven't wanted to do that just yet.

Eternal Purgatory: Game that Should be Played but Never are:

• Deus Ex 3 (0.0) - This game has been sitting uninstalled for over a year now, just waiting.
• Civ V (109) - I played it a lot when I first picked it up, and have been meaning to return ever since (especially since I have a whole bunch of new DLC I haven't touched yet). It's been sitting there untouched for over a year now. I loved the game, no idea why I can't force myself to play it more.

• Darksiders (6) - I've been playing the crap out of the sequel, but never put much time into the original. Depending on how burned out I am on the franchise when finishing pt 2 I should go back and actually play this one.
• Saints Row: The Third (29) - I spent 29 hours just ignoring the main quest and merely sandboxing, then Skyrim came out. I've been telling myself to go back for a year now.

The 9 Hells: Games that Roast in the Fire of Eternal Scorn (or just bad values):

• Dragon Age: Origins (29) - I tried, and I tried. Oh, god, how I tried. I hate this game. I hate everything about this game. Fuck this game. I paid full price for this heaping pile of anal leakage, and I regret every penny of it. It doesn't help matters that the game tries to trick me into buying DLC by giving me quests I can't finish, and fucking with my inventory space. And it really doesn't help that it doesn't have one single likable character in the damn thing besides the dog. God I hate this game.
• RIFT (29) - This is the dullest most grindiest MMO I've ever played. 29 hours spent in one fucking zone (excluding the tutorial). technically sound, stupendous even, but the gameplay and world itself, so, so bad. So terribly bad. I only paid $7 for this, but it's the hours I spent playing it I regret the most.
• Blood Bowl (6) - Turns out that not knowing (or caring) one single thing about the game of football makes this game pretty uninteresting to me. It was truer to football than I imagined it would be, I wish I had my money back for this one.
• Stellar Impact (2) - I didn't spend much on this, but it pisses me off that it's online only and there's no playerbase. I didn't realize it was online only (and long abandoned) until after I purchased.
• Dishonored (9) - Hate this game. Bought it new at release. I don't like any of the NPCs (and their storylines), I don't like the quests, and I hate the stealth & combat system. I'm not saying it's a shitty game at all, but it is so totally not for me, even though I'm generally a big fan of he genre.

We have very different tastes, kerzain, but I'm curious - why so many hours in what looks like a simplistic card game (Spectromancer) and what was considered to be a relatively poor translation of a board game (Ticket to Ride)?

I could smack you around for RIFT. I like that one. Oh, and if you're going back to Civ V, get the expansion.

It's an easy game to jump in and play for an hour or so and get a few matches in against my wife when our schedules align. We've owned the game for over a year (or two?), and we probably put in a few hours a week (some much more than others). It adds up.

I've always enjoyed CCGs, maybe not to the degree that tournament lovers who structure their lives around Magic: The Gathering do, but enough to get a ton of replay out of it. It's my favorite CCG (if you can even call it that, since there's no collecting, no boosters, etc). It's a very well done streamlined CCG for the PC.

I haven't heard it referred to as poorly translated before. It's another game my wife and I can get in to and get out of in a relatively short amount of time. There's a popular online component for this one, but I only play the thing against the wife. Again, the time adds up. Unlike games like Skyrim, Fallout 3 or Diablo 3, this wasn't all done in a short period over the course of many long sittings, but rather short matches here and there over the course of many months.

Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes also falls into this category. All excellent 1v1 games with short matches. Tower Wars would be getting up there by now too if we didn't get involved with Guild Wars 2.

I own the expansion too, it and a bunch of DLC have been sitting unplayed. All my time spent with the game so far has been with vanilla.

These are just my Steam games though, it doesn't take into account games like Tribes Ascend etc.

Ah, good reasons for putting in that many hours - multiplayer with the wife!

Er, that could have some very different connotations, couldn't it?

you know your culture from your trash

There's no such thing as a Steam game I won't ever play. I will give equal time to each of my steam children. It just hasn't all been sorted out yet. Some day...

Motion to disqualify, 950 of those hours were loading screens.

For me, Most Played:

Sword of the Stars at 122 hours (which is why I'm so :( about the second one)
Borderlands 2 at 113 hours.


A selection of under 1 hour but tried:
Starpoint Gemini: someone told me this would be awesome, but the controls are shit.
Star Ruler: For some reason when I start this, I just go play Sword of the Stars instead.

Would you mind expanding on this? I can see not liking Blood Bowl for a variety of reason, but it being true to football strikes me as strange, since AFAICT it doesn't play out at all like a football game.

I don't know anything about football, so it feels a lot like real football to me, but with orcs and goblins. I just don't like throwing or catching the ball (and trying to micromanage all my little dudes to protect the catcher/thrower guys etc). I guess it turned out that I'd rather it just be a hex based wargame.

I only have nine games on Steam. They are:

Crusader Kings 2
Dungeons of Dredmor
FTL
Jagged Alliance 2 & Unfinished Business
Just Cause 2
Mount & Blade: Warband
Space Rangers 2: Reboot
The Walking Dead
XCOM

I only regret buying The Walking Dead.

My backlog is also pretty small.

-Battlefield Bad Company 2 496 hours - I think I only reached the MultiPlayer level cap at about 450 hours, mad as that sounds
-Crusader Kings 2 123 hours - I have never felt more of a conniving bad-ass than when I was plotting who I would have to murder, marry and bribe to get my grubby hands on Sicily whilst listening to the Predator Soundtrack
-Team Fortress 2 118 hours - I can't even remember the last time I played this.
-Empire Total War - I was so annoyed at this game when it came out that I finally stopped lurking the Other Place and actually made an account to moan. Of course the waiting period put the kibosh on that.
-Skyrim 100 hours - Undoubtedly there will be another hundred to follow when I get around to the DLC
-Terraria 81 hours accumulated in the startlingly short few weeks I played it.

Stuff that I feel so stupid about buying that I made a special Mistake category for them to hide in:
CS GO
GalCiv 2
Mount and Blade Collection
AI War: Fleet Command.
They're not so much bad, just wholly unappealing to me. I knew literally as soon as I'd payed for M&B that I'd just bought a game I'd never play.

Honorable mentions:
Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten 20 hours. A tower defense rpg game with enough story to move you through the different levels. Fun but I'm not sure why.
FTL 56 hours.Like all the best bits of a Star Trek episode were condensed into a computer game.

Hall of Fame:
Team Fortress 2 - 170 hours (+ at least another 150 hours that Steam didn't track)
Fallout: New Vegas - 136 hours (I haven't even finished all the DLC)
Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead - 111 hours (about half of that was DayZ + add another 50 hours for vanilla Arma 2)
Skyrim - 102 hours (I played it exclusively for month when it came out, but I haven't touched it since)

Games released this year with more than 40 hours played that I haven't finished yet:
Dark Souls - 53 hours (Fuck you Ornstein & Smough!)
Borderlands 2 - 48 hours (Fuck you timed delivery quests. I think I only have 1 or 2 story quests left.)

Purgatory or "A random selection of games I'd like to play more of someday":
Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War II - 17 hours (I still want to finish this and play the expansion.)
Saints Row: The Third - 14 hours (The wacky hijinks wore me down, but I still want to see all the craziness)
Total War: Shogun 2 - 7 hours (I really like it, but sometimes I have a hard time getting into "big" strategy games)
FTL: 6 hours (+ another 10 hours in Offline Mode. I mostly played the beta and haven't put much time into the final version.)
Torchlight 2: 4.5 hours (I like what I've played so far more than Diablo 3, but someone gifted it to me randomly so I haven't felt much urgency to play more.)

Free to Play game I've played the most of:
Tribes: Ascend - 29 hours

Having so many games on Steam (400+) has made me realize that I don't care about finishing every game, and I'm happy if I get 5-10 good hours out of a game. It's also made me realize that I'm a lot more likely to finish a game that I pre-ordered or bought day one, but I only tend to do this for games I'm really looking forward to, so maybe it just means that I'm more likely to finish games that I'm excited for. In any case, I could probably stop buying games for 5 years and still not be able to finish everything.

100 Hour Club

Dota 2 - 305 hours

... That seems to be it.

I am not going to bother with the Wall of Shame. It is probably quite long, as I am quite shameful, but Steam is also not very good about tracking time played. It shows The Wonderful End of the World at 0.4 hours, and I've definitely played more than that.

Hall Of Fame - 100+ hours

• Super Monday Night Combat - 194 hours - This is my DOTA
• Sword of the Stars II - 146 hours - Should be closer to 20 hours actually played starting last month instead of checking patch updates
• Supreme Commander 2 - 115 hours - So many weekends of compstomping
• Sword of the Stars - 100 hours - Add another 150 playing beta versions

Hall of Shame - <1 hour

• Atom Zombie Smasher - Couldn't save everyone, put it down
• Crusader Kings II - Picked up a Paradox Pack on Amazon for cheap and never played the games
• Fallout New Vegas - Bugs!
• Far Cry 2 - No excuse
• Mount & Blade: With Fire and Sword - It saddens me I've played more War of Roses than this
• The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom - I think Anno 2070 took up this game's time
• Tales of Monkey Island - Turns out I don't like adventure games

Huh, turns out I don't have a single game with 100+ hours, though it certainly felt like there should be. I'm going to cheat a bit though, and say:

100-Hour Club:

• X3:TC and X3:AP combined: 111.4 hours

I'm not really much of a space-combat jockey, so the more hands-off, fleet-level approach you work towards kinda appealed to me. Now if they can just work out some of the UI and AI kinks...

Time-wasters 'R Us:

• Skyrim: 90.4 hours
• Terraria: 68.2 hours

Pretty self-explanatory, there's a lot to do in both of them. I actually cut Skyrim short though, as I could have spent a lot longer in it, the intention being that I'll go back and do the rest of the stuff I missed in a new playthrough once there's plenty of DLC, expansions, and mods.

If I Had 36 Hours In A Day:

• Dark Souls - 1.7 hours
• Anno 2070 - 0 hours - partly deterred by the thought of starting down that DRM road
• XCOM: Enemy Unknown - 5.4 hours
• Saints Row The Third - 0.3 hours
• Civ 4/5 - 4.3 hours total - Either one, I haven't even had enough time to make a proper opinion on V yet...

I really wish I had more time for these, but I keep getting distracted by shiny things...

Missed Opportunities - should have played more, but it's probably too late now

• Worms Reloaded/Revolution - 1.8 hours
• Blood Bowl - 0 hours
• Dungeon Defenders - 0.9 hours
• Race07 and it's gazillion addons - 1.7 hours
  • I like fiddling around in racing sims, but it would probably be more worthwhile with some actual players...
• Football Manager 2010/2011 - 0 hours
  • "Hey, this year's version is on sale, I should give it a try sometime..." One year later: "Hey, this year's version is on sale..."

Decent enough games, but it doesn't feel like it'd be worth the bother single-player and the multi's passed me by.

What Was The Point? - <1 hour played and no intention to go back

• Tropico 3 - didn't even play once before Tropico 4 came out
• Magic The Gathering: Duels of the Planeswalkers - 0.1 hours - I don't even like CCGs!
• Tom Clancy's *.* - Fine games, I'm sure, but why do I have so many of them, barely touched?

Oh God What Was I Thinking:

• Wasteland Angel - 0.3 hours
  • I think I'd even already seen a negative video review and still wound up picking it up in a sale somehow...
• The Baconing - 1.0 hours
  • I really should have learned my lesson from the previous XBLA entries.

And way too many that I can't even categorize because I haven't even given them a close look yet...

Counting only games with more than 10 hours since I get a ton of games in Steam sales that I only play briefly...

Sid Meier's Civilization V - 704 hours
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - 121 hours
Defense Grid: The Awakening - 98 hours
Torchlight - 62 hours
King's Bounty: The Legend - 58 hours
Fallout: New Vegas - 43 hours
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Retribution - 41 hours
Deus Ex: Human Revolution - 28 hours
Dishonored - 24 hours
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - 19 hours
Dungeon Siege III - 18 hours
Darksiders - 16 hours
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Chaos Rising - 13 hours
King's Bounty: Crossworlds - 12 hours

Also, I try to avoid getting games on Steam since I don't want the additional DRM, so some heavy hitters like The Witcher 2 and Torchlight 2 aren't listed here.

Amateurs!

1000+ hour club:
Sid Meier's Civilization V - 1294 hours (and that's not counting the 27 hours on the press version...)

100+ Hours club:
Sid Meier's Civilization IV - for some reason Steam wasn't counting, but I know... oh, how I know.
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization - same
Mass Effect - 102 hours (including replaying due to crashes, still not completed...)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Multiplayer - 160 hours
Anno 2070: 337 hours

Runners Up:
Tropico 4 - 72 hours
Tropico 3 - 97 hours
Call of Duty: Black Ops Multiplayer - 39 hours (interestingly enough both CoD MW2 and CoD BLOPS SP is clocked at exactly 6 hours for one playthrough I guess...)
Borderlands 2 - 89 hours
Defense Grid: The Awakening - 49 hours
Team Fortress 2 - 77 hours
Magic the Gathering: Duels of the Planeswalkers - 96 hours

Hmmm:
Total War: Shogun 2 - 7 hours
Orcs Must Die 2 - 7 hours
Napoleon: Total War - 12 hours
Half Life 2: Episode one - 104 minutes
Half Life 2: Episode two - 0

That's impressive...or a serious cry for help. I'm not sure which. :)

If I had Civ IV on Steam, I'd be right there with ya. I've probably got 1,500+ hours on that one.

Probably the latter, considering I still can't beat the AI on Emperor (and considering it's rated WORST. GAME. EVAR! by Tom Chick, Esq.)

However, some of the hours might be me just keeping the game running in the background between bouts.

I bet my lifetime MOO2 hours are over 3k, but obviously not Steam. :)

Hall of Fame
1. Mass Effect 2 - 141h
2. Dragon Age 1 - 113h
3. Civilization IV - 110h
4. Skyrim - 95h
5. Spacechem - 85h

Spacechem is probably so high because I left it running while I tried to figure some of those puzzles out. Number 6 is Borderlands 2.

Hall of Shame
1. Alien Swarm - 0.1h. I dunno, I just didn't like the controls.
2. Gratuitous Space Battles - 0.2h. Wait, you mean I don't actually control the battle? Deleted.
3. S.T.A.L.K.E.R - 0.3h. I installed it, wanting a shooter, but when I realized how RPGish it was, I stopped and just never went back to it.
4. World of Goo - 0.5h. Definitely one of those one-trick ponies.
5. Jamestown - 0.8h. I liked it, but became annoyed at how much it wanted me to replay old levels in order to progress.

Hall of Fame

• Super Monday Night Combat - 769 hours (I got into the early beta/alpha and played it constantly for months)
• Monday Night Combat - 439 hours (started at release, quit when they announced SMNC)
• Civilization V - 163 hours (only Civ game a few friends would play)
• Skyrim - 126 hours
• Borderlands - 115 hours

Eternal Purgatory

• Dungeon Defenders
• Portal
• Fallout: New Vegas
• Dungeons of Dredmor

Wasted Money

• Space Pirates and Zombies

Remaining Libary

• Borderlands 2
• Left 4 Dead
• Left 4 Dead 2
• Terraria
• Torchlight 2

They're hours, not days, Charles. I mean really, sheesh.

Community (Category) -> Profile (Sub-Category) -> Games (Link on right side) -> All Games (Tab) -> Sort by Played Time

Nancy Drew: The Model Mysteries?

Skyrim.

FTL
Fallout 3 (mod this puppy)
Terraria
Walking Dead (last episode was released today)
At least one of the King's Bounty series

Do you play games? Or just buy 'em to collect?

All right, here's mine. I have tons of games that I've never played, but here are the awards:

Hall of Fame
Civilization IV (224 Hours)
Borderlands 2 (131 Hours)
Fallout: New Vegas (111 Hours)
Crusader Kings II (106 Hours)

Honorable Mentions
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (71 Hours and I still haven't beaten the main quest.)
Just Cause 2 (64 Hours)
Torchlight (39 Hours)

Lost Time (a.k.a. Games I've definitely played way more through Steam than Steam says I have.)
Half-Life 2 (0 hours)
Team Fortress 2 (0 hours)
GUN (0 hours)
Left 4 Dead (2 hours)
Fallout 3 (5 hours)
Prey (0 hours)
Psychonauts (0 hours)

Purgatory
Dead Space 2
The Walking Dead
Serious Sam 3: BFE
Total War: Shogun 2
Alan Wake
The Witcher

Wall of Shame
Frozen Synapse (46 Minutes)
Audiosurf (28 Minutes)

9 Hells
AaAaAA!!! - A Reckless Disregard for Gravity
The Maw
The Path

It's interesting to see the opinion disparity on Fallout: NV.

It's in my 9 Hells, Kerzain's Wall of Shame, Rorschach's Wall of Shame and JRave's Eternal Purgatory, yet it's one of the top played game for Lum, XenoCrash and Dufresne.

Hello pot? This is Charles. You're black.

It's only on my wall of shame (rather than my 100+ wall) because I tried to piggyback it on 30o+ hours of Fallout 3 and realized how burned out I was on that series for the time being. I'll get to it eventually.

Hall of Fame

1. Civilization IV Beyond the Sword: 735.4 hours (I've also probably clocked in over 1500 hours if you include the hours before I had it on Steam
2. Civilization V: 359.3 hours
3. Team Fortress 2: 204.1 hours
4. AI War: 129.1 hours (it really is a cool game once you learn it)
5. Europa Universalis III: 104.1 hours

Honorable Mention

1. Fallout 3: 62.4 hours
2. Far Cry 2: 54.7 hours
3. Killing Floor: 49.3 hours
4. Borderlands (2): 41.6 (41.3) hours

The Game That Everyone Has Because It Came In A Humble Bundle But Probably Haven't Played Yet But Really Should Try It

1. Hammerfight: 12.5 hours

Hall of Shame

1. Gish: a few hours. This was the first non-valve game I bought on Steam way back when everyone though Steam was the worst thing to ever happen to computer gaming. Wow what the fuck was I thinking, I hate platformers and this is the most frustrating platformer in the world.
2. Darwinia/Multiwinia. I like RTS games but this is also one of the most frustrating gaming experiences. It was hyped at Rock Paper Shotgun so I bought it on sale.
3. Hegemony: Phillip of Macedon. What A Mess. Probably a good game in there, but I lost interest really fast.

I only have one game at over 100 hours - Europa Universalis 3 at 164.4
Then Skyrim - 54.1
Terraris - 49.8

Then nothing over 30. I guess most of my gaming is not on Steam.

Stuff I want to get to some day (and might):

Fallout New Vegas - 0.6
Sword of the Stars - 0 (would have been in the next category but the Broken podcast and this thread kicked it up a notch)

Stuff I want to get to some day (but probably won't):

The Witcher - 5.3
Frozen Synapse - 1.5
Atom Zombie Smasher - 0.2
Might and Magic Clash of Heroes - 0.1
Avadon the Black Fortress - 0
Far Cry 2 - 0

The 9 Hells: Games that Roast in the Fire of Eternal Scorn (or just bad values):

Limbo - 0.4. Fuck you, Limbo.

Yay, I'm not alone. Although I have 1.9 hours listed for Ep One.