RogueSix wrote on Dec 19, 2023, 15:13:

Bodolza wrote on Dec 19, 2023, 14:12:
Two games played. I almost always have Steam off-line, and looks like it doesn't track usage when off-line.

That's right. There is a FAQ at the bottom of the Year in Review page saying...

Does Steam Year In Review include offline time?

No, Steam Year In Review does not include any playtime played in offline mode or when disconnected from internet.

It's a real shame, as I clocked at least 200 hours in emulated Breath of the Wild on my Steam Deck this year, but Steam tracks exactly zero of that. There is a Steam Deck plugin for tracking offline hours (PlayTime I think?), but it would be better to have the shortcut profile display hours played as well. I'm guessing Valve specifically does not track play time on non-steam games as a sweetener for steam keys or valid Steam-purchased games, but why they don't track offline games is maybe due to card farming or profile levelling?
I really need to install that plugin.

Bodolza wrote on Dec 19, 2023, 14:12:
Two games played. I almost always have Steam off-line, and looks like it doesn't track usage when off-line.

That's right. There is a FAQ at the bottom of the Year in Review page saying...

Does Steam Year In Review include offline time?

No, Steam Year In Review does not include any playtime played in offline mode or when disconnected from internet.

91 games and 555 achievements with 42 days active streak (thanks to the slow period at work). I thought I would be below the bar and I'm well above.

Uh wow the median for unlocked achievements is 16, I have 199 and it was a light year where I spent a ton of time on the consoles. They really need to clear out the 1 game accounts lol.

Two games played. I almost always have Steam off-line, and looks like it doesn't track usage when off-line.

Agent.X7 wrote on Dec 19, 2023, 12:04:
https://s.team/y23/mrvdvb?l=english - Here's mine. I love this feature. Be nice if PlayStation did this too. Especially since I can see Feb, March, and April my playtime bottomed out on Steam, but I know that's because I was playing Spiderman/Miles Morales, Hogwarts, Jedi Survivor, and the Horizon DLC on Playstation. Similiarly, December is halved because I am splitting my game time between Cyberpunk on Steam and Avatar on PS5.

Nintendo Switch seems to be doing their first version of this as well, and it has quite a nice layout. Not quite as detailed as Steam's, but it does boil the info down to some nice little graphics that you could share on other platforms. It's fun!
My top games have a lot of inflated session data since I spend so many hours installing mods, launching to check it works, then closing to add more. Then troubleshooting adds another half dozen or more game starts. So where CP77, FF7R, and Witcher 3 have 100+ sessions, Elden Ring (not-modded) has half those session numbers, but about the same hour count.

https://s.team/y23/mrvdvb?l=english - Here's mine. I love this feature. Be nice if PlayStation did this too. Especially since I can see Feb, March, and April my playtime bottomed out on Steam, but I know that's because I was playing Spiderman/Miles Morales, Hogwarts, Jedi Survivor, and the Horizon DLC on Playstation. Similiarly, December is halved because I am splitting my game time between Cyberpunk on Steam and Avatar on PS5.

I find it interesting that I met so many people playing Counter-Strike back in the day. I was on that game very early, playing with the guys making it on janky servers and graduated to playing on a local server run by a guy who worked at Time Warner. (Who I am friends with still.) Most of us moved on to Star Wars Galaxies and then WoW and then we kind of drifted. (I mean, it's been almost 30 years...) BUT, I still see some of those guys online and they are STILL PLAYING CS. Blows my mind. CS was great at the time, but it's so dated.

eRe4s3r wrote on Dec 19, 2023, 04:24:
The only actual baffling info out of this is that the Steam Median for games played in a FUCKING YEAR is FOUR

Heck I am an extremely picky player (31 games in a year, huh) being nearly 9x above the median is insane. Vampire Survivors, BG3, AC6 and Starfield already fills that. Ok, that is a month of gaming. And the other 11 months people just play Wallpaper Engine?

Well, Steam is the mainstream gaming platform (de facto monopoly). There are literally hundreds of millions of accounts, run by filthy casuals who only ever play a single game/app like, yes, Wallpaper Engine or Dota 2/PUBG/CoD/CSGO/CS2/GTA V/Apex or whatever else is the F2P FOTM/FOTY.

BTW, I almost matched your "score". 32 games here and many of them were Steam Next Fest demos.

I'm retired so I spend hours each day playing.
131 games (many are short, also quite a lot unfinished, as I may leave and retake games after a time) .
At the same time this doesn't contemplate loads of fan levels played in some.

449 achievements, with 140 rare (don't care about them, didn't knew)
Write light walkthroughs for future replays.
Use my own C.E. tables and hacks to alter velocity, stamina, avoid bugs, etc, so I play *fast*.

eRe4s3r wrote on Dec 19, 2023, 04:24:
Funny info this gave me, I 100% beat AC6 in just 6 sessions.

That's pretty impressive. I think it took me six sessions just to beat Balteus.

The only actual baffling info out of this is that the Steam Median for games played in a FUCKING YEAR is FOUR

Heck I am an extremely picky player (31 games in a year, huh) being nearly 9x above the median is insane. Vampire Survivors, BG3, AC6 and Starfield already fills that. Ok, that is a month of gaming. And the other 11 months people just play Wallpaper Engine?

But yeh, 31% of the entire years playtime is BG3, not surprising.

Funny info this gave me, I 100% beat AC6 in just 6 sessions.

Sidenote: Steam didn't even notice, but BG3 was my most played game ever if we go by playtime per day. But I can't bring myself to play past Act 2 ending anymore. Even with all the updates, Act 3 utterly drains my motivation. So yeh

Rhialto wrote on Dec 18, 2023, 20:54:
I'm impressed to discover that while I thought I would be on the bottom of the list, I've played a grand total of 6 titles in the year while the overall average is 4 titles! Only 4? Dang! I thought everyone was playing like 20 different titles a year.

I'm guessing a lot of accounts with only a F2P game on it are lowering that average. I was surprised I was above the average considering most of what I've played this year are games I bought from GOG.

I had a slow Steam gaming year compared to previous years. 21 new games, 35 differrent games played. My "go to" was Slay the Spire. The 2 months leading up to Diablo 4's release I was playing Wolcen so its up there in time as well. Couple of fun time wasters those two.

jacobvandy wrote on Dec 18, 2023, 22:52:
What's up with completely omitting real numbers in regard to hours played?

They don't want people to rethink their life. Bad for business .

123 games played for me. Almost 3k achievements unlocked. If anything, the more #s you have, the more of a loser you are, rofl.

What's up with completely omitting real numbers in regard to hours played? Everything is just a percentage of your total playtime (which is never mentioned), and number of sessions (a completely worthless measurement).

Like okay, BG3 was my number one game on Steam this year, and it's popular enough that they manually entered a unique one-liner for its banner, 'If you said you spent all that time in Act One we'd believe you.' What time? 13% of my total? Let me just go cross-reference that with the stats visible in my library view, I guess...

8 games for me. 72% of my playtime was in Hades.

I'm impressed to discover that while I thought I would be on the bottom of the list, I've played a grand total of 6 titles in the year while the overall average is 4 titles! Only 4? Dang! I thought everyone was playing like 20 different titles a year.