10 Most Severely Addictive Video Games Of The Last 10 Years
1. Animal Crossing: New Horizons
This game is one of the only reasons America got through 2020 without completely falling into the sea.
Animal Crossing has always been addicting, but New Leaf found a way to make the series truly inescapable by giving the player real responsibility via making the player the mayor rather than just being another resident.
New Horizons takes this to a whole different level, by giving the player an entire island to cultivate, populate with villagers, and build a community from the ground up. And the way the game breaks all of that up into a hundred tiny little tasks, makes an otherwise daunting goal far more manageable, keeping the player engaged even further.
The best part is how the game accomplishes this all while asking nothing from you but your time. There are so many more addicting games than the ones on this list that have come out the past decade, but I wanted to showcase the ones that hooked you in honestly, without any predatory microtransactions or live service !*$%. And Animal Crossing: New Horizons is the pinnacle of that.