What games did you find extremely engaging?

What games did you find so engaging that you couldnt let go of the keyboard/controller and sacrificed your school or work time by sleeping 4 hour or less a day just to beat the game?

I'd get a headache with only 4 hours of sleep and wouldn't be able to enjoy the game.

I do find puzzle games to be super engaging be it Portal, Antichamber, The Talos Principle etc.

I found Red Dead Redemption to be extremely engaging and entertaining. The story, the gameplay, and the score is 10/10 - a true masterpiece by Rockstar.

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Yesterday, I had four hours of sleep played RD till about 3to4 am on my PC, woke up at 8 am, and playing it again right now after work at 11 pm.

I don't feel exhausted with just 4 hours of sleep, rather I feel excited playing this game. I just can't let go of the controller, the story is so engaging.

I hope to play RD2 on my PS5 after completing RD1. But I don't know if the second part is as fun as the first. Let's see.

Halo 3. I beat it in two sittings.

• Most of the Total War games.
• Most of the Civ/Sid Meier games.

"One more turn" syndrome is very real. You look at the clock, it's 11PM, you say "one more turn", you look back at the clock...it's 4 AM.

Also:

• Stellaris
• Factorio
• Satisfactory
• Cities: Skylines

Hearts of Iron III

Detroit: Become Human

Fallout New Vegas

DCS World

Yep. All those games can evaporate time.

Always some further goal to work towards.

I found portal 2 to be surprisingly engaging.

And all the total war games, but I take that as a given.

Monster Hunter

ELECTRON ZARAFTOR just released @ epic games store, playing as the AI drone "sam" and the aliens robot and rebecca, the drone programmer who has been kidnapped by the aliens, the drone is equipped with the latest technology of the army, starting from thermal vision and electric devices detector to the onboard weapon.

Rebecca will discover the reason of her being kidnapped, the ELECTRON ZARAFTOR.

The latest aliens technology, used to open a gate between places on any time.

Fighting aliens and solve deferent kind of problems, hacking devices and go through dangerous environments to find Rebecca is the main goal, until she handles her own survive.

The game is already on forever sale as the original price was 55$, but the final price upon launch is now 24.99$

The settings made to be simple as it just high, medium or low, smooth playing is what the team focused on beside a next gen graphics

The interface of the game contain none of what we used to see on other games like health bar or ammo, as it a new era of gaming without remind the player that he/she playing a game, but a movie.

So if Rebecca got shot, you can figure it out the health not by the level of the health bar but you will find Rebecca limping and screaming.

The game is on epic games store only for now, until further notice.

https://store.epicgames.com/p/electron-zaraftor-751dfc

I never sacrificed anything to play a video game but I loved Metal gear solid on PS1. I loved playing it and loved doing speed runs after I was done with the game. I can't think of another game that I fell in love with so much. FFX comes close to that level for me as well.

Honestly? The only game that would fit "sorta" what you are describing is LineAge 2 way back in the day (I think it was Chronicle 4), but it was one time only after I realized that I've been at it for 6 hours and it was 3 AM in the morning...

Other than that, probably Mass Effect trilogy, Dragon Age: Origins, Witcher 3, Read Dead Redemption II (but nothing that I would have to sacrifice sleep over).

I just finished RD, and what a gem 💎 of game. It's 4 am now, and I have to work tomorrow.

Now, back to the old routine of playing just at the weekends. This game was extraordinary that I had had to sacrifice my sleep to enjoy