World of Warcraft Classic, there's always something to do.

Uplink. I always go into it expecting to get bored after a few minutes. Then I find myself hacking into a bank, then some company's LAN, and then the story starts. I still haven't gotten to the end of the story because life gets in the way, but I still play on and off regularly since my mom bought me the CD back in 2000 or so. I still remember having to convince her that it wasn't real hacking.

Civilization IV! Just one more turn...

Foundation. So chill. ((;--))

many over the years. Terraria, Stardew valley...

But Factorio (with K2+SE mods) is worst of them by far. No matter how much I promise myself to "only scratch this one little item off my TODO list before sleeep, shouldn't take more than 10 minutes", it always ends in "is it morning already?" moment.

Solve one issue. Meanwhile solve 10 other small issues that take priority while doing the first one (like defending from bugs on some faraway planet where I don't have them wiped yet. Rushing to train stuck in depot with leftover cargo, before it pollutes my whole factory. Tracking down where the pollution came from and making sure it doesn't happen again. Fixing iridite import that stopped importing - again. Fixing core miner block stuck because it finally overfilled it's containers for uranium...). Then, finally dealing with the first thing usually opens up other interesting recipes or toys, and the cycle continues.

Worst thing, the save file has 700 hours in it (many spent with just notepad and calculator while the game ran in background), and it's still fun. There are still new things to try or improve. The TODO list must grow! (factory too, I guess)

I've been playing Solitaire since Windows 3.11.

Subnautica. most recently. I plan to just explore the beautiful environments for thirty minutes and next time I look at the clock 6 hours have passed. Though I have the same issue with any game where you build either buildings or civilizations, I'm looking at you Alpha Centauri, just one more turn my foot!

Since this is a contest related to world/city building game, then I want to talk about my first time trying a game from PS2 era called "METROPOLISMANIA"

When I tried the game for the first time, I was thinking about playing it for 30 to 60 minutes because I thought it's just a basic kiddie game, oh how wrong I am.

The game started as you being a mayor to an empty land, where you start putting various kind of building lots according to the need of people in the town. Started with housing for newcomers, making roads and then business lots for them to start their business. You listen to people demands all the time like when they need certain facilities. The best part? The more you interact with your citizen the closer they're to you, and when they became friend, they can even recommend someone to move in or even having specific skill that's in demand to move in to our city!

The game became addicting because we keep building what needed and we keep interacting with everyone and pretty much building a network of friends. Soon your city became big and prosperous. I only stopped playing the game when the city is so massive the PS2 having a hard time running it. I wish it get a remake to make it run on modern PC or console with bigger capacity so it doesn't crash when it got too big. Also with better graphic.

On PC, I always think I can get away with a few minutes of Football Manager, organising my club's next big transfer, but it always drags on to hours. The same used to happen with LMA Manager on consoles, now I lose hours playing Stardew Valley and the Witcher 3 on Xbox, often wandering around the environments, discovering new things and admiring every detail and taking my time at my own pace. I still hope for a sequel to LMA Manager today.

Dorfromantik looks like the right balance of challenge and reward just like Peggle used to!

Judging by my time played...this would make a long list.

Lately it's been Hexcells Plus / Hexcells Infinite. I've replayed them both multiple times.

In this case I have to mention a game called Furi. It's an eagle's eye view boss rush game. Each fight is wildly different and will challenge your reflexes in new ways. Its pace varies from "pretty fast" to "Holy frick Barry Allen is that you???" It's absolutely brutal at times, but you will overcome each fight with enough dedication. You're gonna keep dying, but everytime you do, you'll have more experience and want to give it that "one more go". Very rewarding.

Furi is one of my favorite games for just this reason. I love games that are tough in a way where you’ll only overcome it by teaching yourself (Celeste and Furi are both good examples of this). Furi is extremely difficult (especially on Furier difficulty), but it’s rewarding and made me keep wanting to come back to it.

The card game FreeCell.

I guess This War of Mine. I'll have a few minutes free so I say "I'll play just one night's scavenge" and suddenly I've gone and done a week's worth. Totally don't mean to do it - especially when you made a simple mistake and one of your characters get majorly depressed from it - you get sucked into looking after your characters and the time just flies by.

Playing on the PC is a ritual for me. I never sit down to play if I know I don't have the time. Playing on the phone is a completely different situation. Many of those games on the phone are designed to give quick rewards in the beginning, and then gradually slowing down, forcing you to buy in-game stuff to increase efficiency. Until I realise that, I usually put a lot of time into that game, often more than planned. There are exceptions, though. Euclidea, Hitman GO and Lara Croft GO were games I don't feel shame to mention.,which robbed me more time than planned. I would also gladly play Dorfromantik on the phone.

SnowRunner -- it is peaceful, but challenging