Your personal year in gaming (2023 now)

[Antimatter]

Steam Replay is now a feature. It presents a wrap-up of each player's time on Steam in 2022. Available at this link: https://store.steampowered.com/replay?src=6&snr=1_2108_9__2107

Of course, I don't always play only on Steam, but still, it's a good feature. So I'm sharing my results and looking forward to yours.

What this page doesn't show are other highlights, such as personal GotY, biggest surprise, biggest disappointment, etc, but it's understandable--as those are not related to statistics. Feel free to add such highlights!

My personal's GotY is Metal: Hellsinger, for my other picks, see the Steam Awards thread.

 

[shmity72]

 

[shmity72]

missleading though because for the last 3 months i've been launching eso from without steam.

 

[O_Bruce]

Skyrim was played this year via Steam family sharing because I lost a bet with my girlfriend

Also, of course, Steam data don't show the entire story. For example, it doesn't show the insane playtime in Diablo 2 Resurrected. I'll share some data, and this year's progress on my Holy Grail challenge (find every set and unique item in-game):

 

[alice_ashpool]

I like how it cunningly conceals hours played to make sure do do not play less video game.

44% wrath of the righteous.

 

[Urdnot_Wrex]

Longest streak, unsurprisingly, was during a sick leave .

No surprise that the majority of games I have played are 1-7 years old, but the percentage of new games surprised me quite a bit. Yay for statistics!

I didn't know "cats" was its own category, but yeah that was because of Stray.

What I don't know is if the statistics count the time played in offline mode, probably not.

 

[Antimatter]

Steam Year in Review 2023 is available now, yay! Just click this button to see your own report. I love the graph and numbers they show there.

I'll share a few snippets from my report, please share yours!

14 days of playing BG3 non-stop, yay. I wonder how that would look for people like @Black Elk for example.

Played 10 new games in 2023, and that's only on Steam, and not counting all the numerous demos. And 26 Steam games overall (again, this doesn't include demos).

My favorite genres (funny that there is no RPG there, wow):

 

[O_Bruce]

I feel like damned traitor:

64% time played on Monster Hunter, 18% time played on other Monster Hunter, 6% time played on Baldur's Gate, and BG2, which I am supposed to finish at some point isn't even concluded. On the other hand, the 69 played sessions are noice.

On Steam, I have played in no new titles released in 2023

It seems the most time played were in cooperative games (I think Monster Hunters can count an those) and fantasy games. Surival? What? Surprisingly, something as specific as Dungeon and Dragons is mentioned! Also, fighting games. Strange that apparently "Fighting games" and "2D fighting games" count as separate categories for the reason I cannot comprehend.

Now, I almost felt proud in myself that I started playing less from June onward... Only for me to realize that D4 released in June. Silly me, I won't be getting more productive with my time anytime soon.

 

[O_Bruce]

Noice percentage ratio on Elder Scrolls Online

 

[Antimatter]

I'm really enjoying seeing your records. It shows how diverse gaming is, and how different tastes can be. Yet, all of them are united under gaming.

 

[BelgarathMTH]

I could log into Steam and post mine, but it would be wildly misleading, because of massive hours I spend per year in World of Warcraft and Might and Magic 6-7-8.

I've also spent a lot of time this year playing original Baldur's Gate 1 from GoG in offline-backup mode, i.e. directly downloaded to my computer and played with no client running.

 

[m7600]

Yep, I second what @BelgarathMTH said. I play most of my games without Steam. I only use my Steam account if I can't get a certain game to run on Ubuntu in any other way, which is the case with MTG Arena. But if I can use an emulator like Wine or Lutris to run a game, then I avoid using Steam.

 

[alice_ashpool]

steam saying "my dude you have got to find a new habit"

 

[Black Elk]

Predictably lol

That August spike though. Like from deadsville board-town, to fully in it again. I must have saved a little something in the tank for release, but I swear I don't know, cause pretty sure BG1 still had more overall sessions in 23 haha.

 

[m7600]

steam saying "my dude you have got to find a new habit"

You could:
1) Start a Vlaakith fanclub,
2) Organize a Githyanki vs Githzerai soccer match,
3) Berate people like me for saying "soccer" instead of "football",
4) All of the above (I'm out of ideas)

 

[shmity72]

I could log into Steam and post mine, but it would be wildly misleading, because of massive hours I spend per year in World of Warcraft and Might and Magic 6-7-8.

I've also spent a lot of time this year playing original Baldur's Gate 1 from GoG in offline-backup mode, i.e. directly downloaded to my computer and played with no client running.

Me too. I don't even launch ESO with steam any more a stand alone client is one less hoop to go through.