10 Biggest Video Game Time Sinks

Minecraft is the epitome of addictive games. The "one more block" mantra has decorated t-shirts, posters and mousemats for years, and one of the messages in the loading screen claims that it is less addictive than the entertaining rabbit-hole of a wiki that is TV Tropes.

The original game dropped you in a procedurally generated open world and gave you free reign to do with it what you would. Gather redstone and build an industrial paradise, venture underground to slay monters or carve mountains into a likeness of your own grinning face, the choice is yours. Updates only added more to do, including villagers to trade with and dungeons to explore.

Minecraft is essentially Lego for adults, and it's a nostalgic, rewarding and entertaining experience. The retro graphics, relaxing soundtrack and intermittently therapeutic and stressful gameplay all add to the appeal, but it's the game's open-ended nature and infinite possibilities that make it a real time sink. If you want to build a tower that reaches the top of the world, you can. If you want to cross the sea to find an island to make your own, you can. If you want to build a base in the shape of a skull with lava pouring from the eyes, then damn it, you can.

Minecraft's world is your world, to shape as you see fit. Go nuts.