11 Addictive Video Games You Had To Stop Yourself Playing
3. DotA 2
When a game has a user-base who's average time put into the game verges on around 1000 hours, you know there's something either incredibly wrong, or incredibly right. Players of the incredibly-involving 'massive online battle arena' game will most likely tell you it's a bit of both and that DotA is a harsh, demanding and cruel mistress - yet it doesn't stop them coming back to it over and over again. For any who have never played - or caught the rumblings of the franchise's prowess as the first televised eSport last month - the best way to describe what the allure of DotA 'is', is to image that first rush you got when you played something like Command and Conquer for the first time. Flying across the map as some all-seeing eye that's also performing a million tasks at once as your army moves underneath and you deal with the opposition is what separates the major league players from the newcomers. Even though the barrier for entry is up there with the Olympian high-jump, for those who have devoted the time to the series they'll tell you that there's just no other experience quite like it.