8 Video Games You Spent 100+ Hours In (And Still Haven't Finished)

8. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Now, obviously there will be some people who finally behooved themselves to finish Skyrim in the 12 years since it first came out, but they're most certainly outliers among the more than 60 million people who own the game.

It's almost comical how many folk have dropped not merely 100 but hundreds of hours into Bethesda's intoxicatingly immersive RPG without actually playing the story to completion.

There are literally entire Reddit threads full of folks "confessing" that they're more than 1000 hours into this thing and yet haven't even once beaten a main story that's no longer than 30 hours long. That's damn wild.

But it's somehow totally understandable, because like most Bethesda games, Skyrim is so, so much more than its campaign, which really feels like an added value proposition than the reason to play the game. And, if we're being honest, the story's not that great anyway.

The real allure of course lies in drinking in this utterly mesmeric world, and that's without even considering how much depth mods have added to the game, nor how many times so many of us have restarted Skyrim each time it's been ported to a new system.