Show us a picture of your top 5 games on Steam at current time on Linux.
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Please forgive me for a couple of my top 5 playtime games. I'll slowly replace a couple of them with new ones. This also isn't perfectly accurate, as I've got a lot of other games outside of steam that should be in the top 5, including Witchfire and realistically probably Minecraft from so many years ago.
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I tend toward GOG over Steam, and for certain genres prefer PS5 over PC, so this is not really accurate.
By all rights, Borderlands 2 should be even higher as I also played it on Xbox 360, Cyberpunk 2077 has at LEAST 150 hours, as it's the only open world game I ever got really interested in just running around in, and the Disgaea franchise is absent, even though I've put hundreds of hours in there, too, because it always launches on consoles first, and while I buy the PC copies, I don't put nearly as much time in. Genshin Impact is another that would certainly be higher than most if not all here, but it's not on Steam.
Also, I've DEFINITELY put more time into FFXIV than anything listed here, using a direct purchase copy rather than Steam, and in ye olde days would've had a terrifying number of hours in WoW, though I haven't touched it other than poking my head in since 2009.
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Yup .... Hunting .... Fishing ..... Survival and Pool ....now where is that "wascally wabbit" .....
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@Frog . What... no Frogger? 
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I'm an FPS gamer, so most of my games are FPS. Classic Doom turned me into a shooter gamer back in 1993-1995.
For Nostalgia...
For Awesomeness...
For F.E.A.R...
What FPS gamer could forget about Halo?
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Hummmm not familiar with that one ... have to look it up .... hope it ain't like "Wack-a-Mole" ..... LOL
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Looks like I found it on this website ......
Looks like fun except I'm more like a turtle playing this one .... seems like I do remember this from way back when ....
Thanks zab ....
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I used to be an FPS gamer, starting with Wolfenstein 3D, so even farther back than Doom. Somewhere along the way, they started to expect too much of me for me to have fun. I'm not quite sure when pure FPSes (as opposed to those with loot/RPG elements like Borderlands) stopped attracting my attention. I do know it was well before 2016, because Doom 2016 was such a surprise that I liked it.
You already played 168 hours of PoE II 
That's, uh... actually even worse when you consider that the last time I actually put any time in was more than a month ago. I don't like the direction they're taking the game in some important respects, but I soldiered on into the endgame before stopping.
I started PoE II because I like this Diablo-like games, but I quickly found out I was too noob for it. 
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I also notice a lot of new modern games require quick reflexes, and quick decision making. When were young, all that comes natural, like kids and their cell phones.
When we get older however, our reflexes get slower, and its difficult to understand the complexity of these modern AAA games. Its literally the reason why I've given up on some games, I'm just not good enough for some of them.
Yeah. I recently noticed that I've begun enjoying puzzle-like games (including those in AAA titles, like God of War and Uncharted). I was never a fan of fast-paced games (though I did play my share of COD missions and Far Cry). Single-player campaigns and story-driven games are more right up my alley.
Though it may not be obvious from my top 5, particularly on Steam where I never played my MMOs, I'm extremely big on cooperative play, and basically anti-competitive.
PoE? Almost entirely played with a friend.
Borderlands 2? Almost entirely played with a friend.
AC: Odyssey? Yeah, no, no coop there.
PoE 2? More single player than 1, but still slanted heavily toward coop.
Even Civ and other 4X games, I play coop with a friend.
Off the list, I played MMOs from 1999 to 2005 significantly solo when not doing group-mandatory content, but from 2005 until just last year, my MMO play has been almost entirely coop.
Dark Souls 3? Coop, start to finish. Same with Elden Ring. (Admittedly, I was carried in those two, but we beat every boss, minus Midir in Dark Souls 3--I was too much dead weight there.)
The game directors are obsessed with the idea that for combat to be meaningful, it has to have a good chance of being BS. That's not how they'd phrase it of course, but they want most packs of mobs to be threatening, and balancing that is extraordinarily difficult even without the massive build flexibility PoE gives. It's next to impossible to know how sturdy a player will be, or what their damage output will be like. They can have expectations based on their own play, but those expectations may not be the same as the players'. In fact, they recently stated that as long as your resistances are at 0%, you should be fine. Anything past zero was a bonus. I don't even know what game they're playing; with my resists near cap, incoming damage is still obnoxious. The fact that they don't consider denial of progress sufficient penalty for death makes it that much worse: In the endgame, you lose exp, keeping you from getting points to spend on your character that might solve the problem, you lose items that you spent time preparing to make your play more efficient (or if you were attempting a trial or map, you lose the item that allowed you to attempt a trial or map at all), and on and on.
I'm actually patient enough stubborn enough to accept most penalties, but when the general difficulty for most builds is obnoxious, I just can't. I'm paying attention and will give it another try if/when it looks like it's going somewhere. It'll be kind of ironic if the game is actually made better by the fact that GGG got bought out by a Chinese megacorp: Tencent's going to want their money, and if it's hard enough only niche players are paying, demands the devs are ignoring on their high horses will come down from above.
If you want a Diablo-like in the meantime, I recommend Last Epoch, or if you want something that plays slower but has a more dated presentation, Grim Dawn. Grim Dawn was my first major kickstarter backing at $250. It's by the same people who did Titan Quest and its first few expansion or two.
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