10 Video Games Ruined By Excessive Grinding

10. RuneScape

While on one hand RuneScape is one of the more accessible MMORPGs on the market, it's also one of the most intensely grind-heavy, such that countless players have joked over the years about it basically being a second job.

RuneScape offers separate levelling progression systems for each of its many skills - from combat to mining, woodcutting, and cooking - and while some clearly find these repetitive gameplay loops relaxing, they're tailor-made to make progress as painstakingly slow as possible.

Even for the grindy standards of most MMOs, RuneScape requires a zen-like level of patience and commitment, and for many working adults the colossal time investment simply won't be worth the scant rewards.

Considering it can take over 150 hours to master just one of the game's 28 skills, that's a ton of repetition, in service of a game whose world isn't nearly interesting enough to warrant so much of your life - especially when there are so many great games out there.