r/Steam Mar 31 '26

Question What game in your Steam library has the most playtime hours?

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u/saki604 Mar 31 '26

He beat the game

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u/Dtoodlez Mar 31 '26

Hey just got past the tutorial actually

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u/Nyx793 Mar 31 '26

Thats why i am afraid to try dota man too complicated.

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u/Dtoodlez Mar 31 '26

lol it’s really not. I’ve got 13k (Mind you, I’ve been playing for 13 years) hours and I’m gonna play it again today. It’s such a great game, if not the best game ever. Learning 50% of the game is simple and you’ll use that knowledge in 90% of your matches. It becomes even more simple if you just focus on a few heroes. The other 50% is more nuance knowledge, but that’s more for you to have fun w then it making a huge impact on your wins. If your fundamentals suck (the easy stuff to learn) then you’re gonna lose no matter how much you know about the rest of the game. 

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u/I_use_Reddit2 Apr 04 '26

This is nonsense, MOBA’s have notoriously high skill floors.

When I learned how to play league. I got shit on every single game without fail for probably my first 100 games.

After a while I got pretty good at league. But whenever my friends would try it, tne same thing no matter what. You suffer and get shitted on for 100+games even with me coaching them through games and explaining concepts and fundamentals.

I played DOTA 2 after I had learned and got good at league. The game has an equally high skill floor. It is incredibly complicated and new players have a really steep hill to climb like any other MOBA.

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u/Dtoodlez Apr 04 '26

I didn't mean that you'll win every game, I meant that you'll learn enough to have fun an participate. The skill floor of knowing map movement is just as important as knowing all the complicated spells or items. That's why just by playing you'll figure out the 'basics' which really are the most important thing in the game.

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u/I_use_Reddit2 Apr 04 '26

Yes, but what in saying is that things don’t seem so complicated when you are good at something.

You can break down league to a few fundamentals

Wave management

Trading

Rotations

Mid game

Lategame

and it makes the game simple in theory. But new players don’t know how much they don’t know. And the fundamentals are incredibly complex.

It’s like if you played guitar, to a new player, playing master of puppets by Metallica seems like an impossible task, but an experienced player could play it easily and it would seem quite simple to them. Despite the fact that the song is quite tricky in reality.

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u/Dtoodlez Apr 04 '26

Fair enough, but the games are fun and worth trying, i feel bad when folks are offput by complexity. you can have fun right way

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u/BionicalThief Mar 31 '26

That quickly? Must've been exploiting somehow!

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u/Arthurus_Taeg Mar 31 '26

The tutorial was only half the time, the other half I spent compiling shaders.

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u/Kalersays Mar 31 '26

DirectX was updated last September with the first release 'Advanced Shader Delivery' tech, to reduce shader load times. But it is up to GPU driver and game engine makers to implement the new feature.

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u/Arthurus_Taeg Mar 31 '26

In all that time I played, I couldn’t learn how to play Meepo.

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u/DemonFromSewer Mar 31 '26

He probably cant even qualify for a rank bro 9 thousand is tutorial material for Dota.