Every gamer has at least one guilty pleasure game. There's nothing wrong with these games, but they're the games that bring them comfort. Guilty pleasure games are titles that people pick up and play hours of, even though they've got hundreds of hours in that game already.

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They're the game that players pick up even though they've got half a dozen titles that have yet to be played. Sometimes it's just nice to turn one's brain off and indulge in something familiar. And that's part of what makes guilty pleasure games so great – as even years later people are still coming back.

10 Pokemon Go Feels Like Catching Pokemon In Real Life

Eggs and Rare Candy in Pokemon Go

Pokémon Go was a worldwide sensation for an entire summer. But Niantic is still developing new content for the game, which means that it is still a success. Sure, not everyone is still going around breaking into people’s yards to catch a Magmar, but people are still invested in this world.

And it's easy to understand why: people like the idea of real-life exploration crossing over with video games – a unique, symbiotic experience. When it comes to getting people invested, Pokémon Go is the best AR game on the market at the moment.

9 The Sims Lets People Create Fun Scenarios In A Realistic World

Sims studying in the university library

The Sims remains one of the most popular sandbox titles on the market. Electronic Arts has been releasing Sims games since the early 2000s, and fans continue to eat it up. It plays into the inherent nosiness of people, being allowed to just set people up in different environments and watch how it plays out.

At this point, The Sims 4 has been out for seven years and has gone through almost a dozen expansions, ranging from snowy areas to living on tropical islands. Are things going to eventually turn into a mess somewhere during a game session? Absolutely, but that’s half the fun.

8 Minecraft's Sandbox Crafting Is Addicting

Minecraft

Minecraft changed the entire gaming landscape. Sandbox titles had always been around, but Minecraft made people realize how much money there could be in games that sold themselves on being able to truly do anything. Players travel throughout their world looking for materials to build and create what they want for hours on end.

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The success of the Minecraft franchise resulted in Microsoft buying it for $2.5 billion. For reference, Disney only paid $4 billion for Marvel. Since then the franchise has only become more successful, inspiring Square-Enix to make an entire knockoff that was basically just Minecraft, and for Super Smash Bros. to sneak the game’s main character in.

7 Animal Crossing Is Nintendo's Best Comfort Game

New Years Day ACNH

Animal Crossing has turned into a massive franchise for Nintendo. Whatever popularity it had before, it was elevated to a new level with the release of Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

Finally able to get a portable Animal Crossing with gorgeous graphics, people spent an entire year getting lost in this world. Should they be upset that Tom Nook keeps giving them ridiculous loans they have to pay back? Of course, but has that ever stopped anyone from getting lost in the world and trying to figure out how to get certain visitors on and off their island?

6 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Is Still Explored By People A Decade Later

Entering a tavern where you meet a Daedric Prince Skyrim

People can't kick their Skyrim addiction even a decade after its release. Bethesda made a beautiful game with a massive world that players can spend hundreds of hours just exploring. This game affected popular game culture for years, as the “arrow to the knee” meme proliferated even outside of video games for a bit.

These days, what keeps people playing this is that Bethesda keeps porting Skyrim to anything that will run it. Even now, someone is likely installing The Elder Scrolls V to give the game another playthrough.

5 Grand Theft Auto V's Online Mode Is Unmatched

Sandy Shores in Grand Theft Auto 5

Grand Theft Auto V is one of the greatest games of all time. And what’s not even up for debate is that it’s the most successful, as it’s sold over 140 million copies. And yet despite that, the game just keeps selling. Rockstar created an amazing base game, but that’s not what keeps people coming back to the title.

The GTA Online mode is just too well-done. From the constant support that grants players endless new content to tinker with, to the PC-focused GTA Roleplay, there’s just too much to do in this game.

4 Call of Duty Is A Rite Of Passage For Many Gamers

Call of Duty Warzone Black Ops

Anyone who plays first-person shooters has played Call of Duty at least once. The franchise is one of the largest in the West, and they’ve been putting out a new installment every year for a decade.

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Call of Duty has long gotten stale for many, but it’s still too addicting to pass up. Whether it's running through Nuketown on Team Deathmatch or hopping into multiple games of Warzone, there’s just nothing like hopping into a match of CoD with friends and raging about how bad the skill-based matchmaking is.

3 Fortnite Is The Ultimate Crossover Game

How Fortnite Chapter 3’s New Items Shake Up the Game in Interesting Ways

Don’t listen to anyone that says Fortnite is just for kids. Yes, it's colorful. And yes, Epic Games’ shameless appropriation for their emotes means most people won’t understand that the dances didn’t originate on Fortnite. But that doesn’t mean it’s not an addicting game.

Fortnite stands out from other battle royales thanks to its ability to create instant cover to hide behind and re-focus during a gunfight. Plus Epic’s incredible popularity has allowed them to make deals to bring in everyone to the game. Want to have Naruto Uzumaki and Superman on the same team? Fortnite might be the only game to make that happen.

2 No Man's Sky Makes Everything Feel Possible In Its Worlds

Key art for No Man's Sky's Frontiers update.

Hello Games released one of the best space exploration games ever with No Man’s Sky. Years later, the game is still receiving expansions that add to the world. Players can build their underwater stations or buy giant robots. They can buy a freighter and travel across the stars.

Players can even travel from star system to star system, crashing local economies by selling a surplus of Cobalt and buying it back for a fraction of the cost. However players choose to play, it’s the reason people keep coming back to No Man's Sky, even years after the game’s launch.

1 Genshin Impact Has Waifu And Husbando Characters For Everyone

The cast of Genshin Impact

Genshin Impact isn’t good for anyone. Though it's free to play, the game’s mechanics will eventually convince people to pay more money. They’ll either be playing for their favorite waifu, or they’re about to start paying for weapons to beat the higher-leveled content.

And no one will ever think about it, because Genshin Impact is a great game otherwise. Its massive world is a joy to traverse and take in because the artists did some amazing work. There’s also so much story players can get lost trying to figure it out, never mind figure out what they plan to do next.

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