Steam Replay, Valve’s every year roundup of the place all the hours spent enjoying video games within the Steamy position have long gone, has emerged from its hidey-hole over again. 2025’s version is out now – you might have most probably already observed it in the event you’ve hopped into Steam since the day prior to this afternoon. Amid all of the bits telling you that you have spent 1000 hours enjoying Umamusume: Lovely Derby so far, the once a year file’s dished out some contemporary stats about how previous the video games everybody around the platform’s consumer base has been enjoying this yr are.
To get slightly navel gazey for a 2d, those Replays in most cases stand greater than the rest to strike a cord in me how a lot doing this task most often warps the sport enjoying conduct of myself and my friends clear of the norm. For example, 28% of my non-public playtime this yr was once spent on video games which got here out in 2025, a good chew greater than the global reasonable of 14% around the entirety of the Steamaverse. For context, that is additionally with some new releases I have spent a large number of time with this yr – The Outer Worlds 2 leader amongst them – no longer having been counted as a part of that general because of circumstance dictating I did not put my hours into them by the use of my non-public Steam account.
That 14% determine throughout all Steam customers is most effective down a unmarried share level from remaining yr’s general of 15%, with 2023 and 2022’s figures sitting at 9% and 17% respectively. So, issues very a lot glance to have settled right into a mid-teens ball park. The sport playage this yr’s rounded out by means of 44% of our collective time being devoted to video games that have been out for one to seven years and 40% being devoted to video games 8 years or older.
The ones remaining two additionally most often stack up beautiful in a similar way to earlier years, although there was once a beautiful bizarre flip-flop when it comes to the most important majority from 64% of the older lot to 52% in favour of the one-to-seven crowd from 2022 to 2023. Unfortunately, the knowledge does not return any more than that, let by myself to pre-2008 so lets see what those numbers gave the impression of previous to the primary of the roughly ten million monetary belt-tightenings we’ve got all lived thru since that time.
Anyway, as a palette cleanser following that maths, here is a very tragic non-public factoid. Ultimate yr, I controlled a longest streak of 69 consecutive days firing up a recreation on Steam. It was once utterly unintentionally that this ended up being the intercourse quantity, I swear. This yr, I be apologetic about to tell you that my longest streak ran to 97 days, which – except for inferring a fairly extra dire state when it comes to my skill to pull myself clear of my keyboard – isn’t a humorous quantity.
And what’s lifestyles if you are no longer by chance racking up humorous numbers each time conceivable?
