I can absolutely relate to the first two, both of which gobbled up a tremendous amount of my time. I only uninstalled the latter (HoMM3) pre-maturely though (after finishing the Crag Hack campaign and the campaign with Gem and the centaur people), but that was because I saw no way in hell that I could actually play through all of the single player content in any reasonable amount of time. Disciples 2 I managed to finish, all 5 campaigns (undead is the strongest I think) as well as several scenarios. For at least two years now I've been trying to forget about the game, so that I can play through it all again! Probably my favorite TBS game overall

Faster Than Light. There's no story to complete and you just keep generating star systems....

Not sure if it counts, but I uninstalled The long dark early alpha (the first one they released to the public) because I spent far too much time on those very bare bones of a game. Got to the point where I could exploit the starvation status effect to minimize my calorie intake and stretch my strategic beef jerky reserves.

I usually do skirmishes personally, the campaigns are often times hobbled by weird changes in the difficulty curve.

Heroes of Might and Magic 3 is so addictive I should uninstall it, honestly.

But I can't. For me it's one of those games that's so addictive I can't uninstall it. :P

Civ V. really enjoyed it, wouldnt stop playing it so I got rid of it.

Endless Legend. I'm not a fan of the 4x genre so this surprised me a lot. I've tried Civ. V, but I didn't liked it one bit, but then came this game, and my nights were never going to be the same. I uninstall and install it again every few weeks because I can't get enough of it. Don't know why it's so addictive, probably because of the fantasy setting, or probably else, but it's my first and my last 4x game that I will enjoy. Don't need another one of this genre.

Fixed that for you! ;-)

I really don't see how uninstalling a game is supposed to keep me from playing it, especially if I'm in addict mode. I suppose if I deliberately trashed assets gained over 10's of hours of play that would be a drag, but that also wouldn't stop me. In fact I do that deliberately all the time. If the game was a 20 GB download and I removed every trace of it locally that might be something of a hurdle that couldn't be jumped in a couple of minutes. But then again I shop at GoG so I'm not exactly inclined to leave my library floating around in some cloud.

No, I'm just going to play what I'm going to play. Usually about 80 hours in I've had my fill and move on.

Truth. Anywhere from one third to one half of the games currently on my desktop are ones I could safely remove (i.e., haven't done anything significant in them in months)...but then I might miss them, and think about trying them out again, and then I'd just have to go to the trouble of installing them once more...and anyway, they aren't taking up much hard drive space...nah, I might as well just leave them installed.

I'll do even better. I decided not to buy and install World of Warcraft at all, as I foresaw I might become seriously addicted to it. Especially considering its monthly payment system, I would have hated myself for paying monthly for a game I can't stop playing. Maybe less guilt if it was a free-to-play game, like TeamFortress 2. I knew a couple of guys who seemed to be seriously addicted to WoW, and they were the kind of persons who wouldn't otherwise play much games, especially on PC.

It is a bit of shame though, as I feel that never having played WoW means I haven't experienced possibly the biggest PC gaming phenomenon ever. Oh well, at least I have seen the South Park episode about WoW, maybe that counts.


On one laptop I have Plants vs Zombies installed, and I seem to get stuck with it for the rest of the day if I run it (and it is hard to resist). I think I've played that game through like four times already, and still wanting to play. Too addictive, I don't like most other tower defense games I've tried (Fieldrunners 1-2 etc., they usually just bore me after awhile).

I say Clicker Heroes. It's like Adventure Capitalist, pure evil. Good thing that I uninstalled in time.

So it isn't just me...

Thought I'd bump this in case anyone else wants to add to the discussion

GTA San Andreas for me. Maybe I should mess around for a few minutes right now.