Fan snapshot context (top of a recent list): Minecraft ~19.6%, Fortnite ~16.1%, GTA V ~14.3%, PUBG ~12.5%, Pokémon GO ~10.7.
Reference only: https://rankiwiki.com/archives/3955
Share the one title that actually kept you playing the longest in 2025, and the single factor that made it stick (pacing, updates, systems, or community).
Blue Prince took a solid month-and-a-half of my life and a good part of my little remaining sanity.
I know some people got annoyed by the RNG but I felt like we were afforded enough control over it by the end, and peeling back the mysteries and solving the insane late game puzzles was just so satisfying. I also really quite liked the moment-to-moment gameplay of drafting.
i always see this “you can control it” thing but nobody talks about how your ability to control the rng is dependent on the rng to unlock. it took 15 hours for me to see a single thing that allowed me to change probabilities, and by that point i had already rolled credits. i didn’t get basement access until day 40. the rng really fucked with me, until i gave up. at that point i had 6 start money, and no extra start steps. i didn’t know that was in the game. it wasn’t that i missed stuff either, i solved every puzzle i got clues for, if the rng allowed it.
It does play out differently for different people, but for me it was like this: first half of the playtime I had so many things to investigate at once that I didn’t care about RNG because every run was making progress on something. Late game when I started needing specific things I had already had time to unlock RNG control.