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Steam Replay 2024: Discussion topic
Your Steam Replay for 2024 is now out!
If you're on the mobile app, hit Menu > New & Noteworthy > Steam Replay
Share your link (if you want to) or summarize your results. Tell us all about your most-played games, your year of gaming, and any other thoughts or highlights.
Man, every time I look at hours played it always seems to be games which I don't have a particularly strong opinion on which have bloated numbers, and the games I remember really well and have fond memories of clock in way lower.
For example, my highest play count games this year were Stormworks and Hydroneer. Honestly shocking. I forgot I even played Hydroneer this year (it was fine) and Stormworks only stuck with me because I spent so long being annoyed at it more than anything else.
Then I go down the list and stuff that barely even clockls are games like Colony ship and Drova, both of which I had a great time with and felt like I had many hours in. Apparently not!
I'm not sure how I feel about spending so much time in games I barely remember. I guess its hard to judge at the time, it's easy to identify in hindsight.
I'm on the same boat. I think some things that contribute to feeling this way is that some of those games are actually longer, and they're more of something to do to keep entertained, kind of like putting on the TV and watching whatever is on. Whereas the shorter games were much more interesting and tailored experiences. Another way to look at it from my personal perspective is that I tend to tolerate alright games hoping they get good, and get really invested in good games so I tend to go through them relatively quick.
I'm curious about the methodology behind the spider graph. Although it claims to show "the kinds of games you spent the most time in", I wonder if its based on discrete number of titles, not weighting by play time. My highest category was action roguelike, which honestly surprised me and didn't fit the games I spent the most time with at all. I did try out a lot of random demos this year though, many of which might fit that description.
Wow this is probably the first time in a decade that Europa Universalis 4 isn’t in my top two games (usually neck and neck with whatever that year’s football manager is). After nearly two thousand hours in EU4 over the years I’ve moved on to completely different games:
Football Manager 2024
Crusader Kings 3
Victoria 3
lol but for real though I feel almost sad. Just so weird seeing this without that game right at the top. Hope EU5 hooks me the same way when it comes out in a year or two.
Edit: on further inspection seems like it was pretty much a tie for second place. 24% playtime for FM, 13% for CK3, then 12% for Vic 3 and EU4 with Victoria barely edging it out since I’ve been playing it a lot lately. Can you tell I like strategy games?
No surprises here. Balatro, Celeste, and Slay the Spire livin' large. Too bad it can't capture the non-steam games I tried, even though they were added to and launched via the Steam library. A little funny/sad to see games that I tried and refunded.
edit: It doesn't have a link to my 2023 recap but it does for 2022. Anyone know how I can dig that up?
edit2: nvm, seems this is a somewhat common issue, and someone in the comments of the announcement page pointed out the year is in the URL and I can just switch the 2024 to 2023 to get it.
40 games played (30 new)
556 achievments unlocked (51 rare)
Top games by time spent: Islands of Insight, The Talos Principle 2, Dungeons of Hinterberg (does not include FF7 Rebirth of course)
Spider graph most to least: Puzzle platformer, Metroidvania, VR, Action Roguelike, Tabletop, Robots (?)
Beat Saber was played throughout the year.
54% of my playtime was with a controller, including on Tchia, Biomorph, Eastward, Supraland Six Inches Under (all reviewed here I think).
Regrets: 0!
Yup, here we go.
Star Wars KotOR 1&2 in January and February, then 200 hours of Witcher 3, mixed in is American Truck Simulator throughout the year where I drive Rubber Duck's truck (from movie Convoy) and it seems there'snonpickup of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order in November (20 hours) and none of Jagged Aliance 3 that I play now (30 hours so far).
All the other games are one time play or tryout or a just a few hours. The summary shows how I get the time to play - using Stea Deck playing for a few minutes here and anither few minutes there with longest sessions being in the evening when kids go to sleep.
Eh I've shared my link last year before so here's mine!
https://s.team/y24/jnbgttm?l=english
I love that Slay the Spire is still in my 1 spot considering ive done everything there is to do in the game at this point but I can't stop going back. Probably also spurred by the fact that I was showing new people how to play the board game around that time.
Eager to hear your thoughts on Metaphor so far.
I liked it a lot! I'm a big fan of Persona 5 Royal and also played Persona 3 Reload earlier this year and I think it feels like a good next step from that formula. I really loved the class/archetype system a lot and also had a great time going through the story. The metaphors are definitely very heavy handed, and I really liked the way it went. Feels a bit apt in these times in America too lol.
I don't think a heavy handed metaphor detracts from the story either, I think it gives it a bit less wiggle room for misinterpretation, while also allowing the writers to explore more deeply in certain aspects of their writing.
Purposefully keeping everything vague to avoid spoilers, but I finished it in about 80 hours if I remember correctly!
Stardew Valley, Satisfactory & Red dead 2 are my top 3, and I want to say last year it was Stardew Valley, Factorio & Red dead 2. SDV the wife and I play religiously and 1.6 was just amazing, as was playing the game again not modded to hell and back again. Probably my favorite game of all time, as an adult with limited time and too much stress its just such a calm experience (I say that as if I don't play to min/max the shit out of things, but still...). Satisfactory scratched the logic puzzle itch, a bit of a pain to build in but awesome none the less. RDR2 I finished last year, a masterpiece of a game for sure, but I was playing it an old arse PC with a 1070 - After getting a big upgrade Ive been playing back though with everything at ultra. Holy hell what a great looking game.
Also of note, the Steam median for games play is only 4?! I had 28 this year and felt like I didn't play that many new or different games.
Three of the five top controller games in my Replay list don't have controller support. That's a testament to the use I get from Steam Input.
I wish someone at Valve cared about Steam Input and the people who use it, because it's actually pretty important, and there are a lot of painfully ignored issues.
So, my most played game was Forza Horizon 4 with 46.1 hours, apparently 9% of my gaming for the year. Back of the napkin math says that's 513 hours... Disappointingly low all things considered.
But I managed to play 117 games (57 new) with 55% of that time being on my Steam Deck. So I got that going for me.
Mine is interesting to me
Early year I was coming down from Starfield in June, picking away at maxing out my character before Shattered Space landed, picked BG3 back up, got way into Vampire Survivors, and got most of the way through Portal Revolution. The system metrics don't really track because I see nearly half of my playtime on Windows, but I've been using Linux near-exclusively since February, but Geforce Now since August, which may be why.
The metrics seem right, at least.
Pretty boring, but that's new dad life for ya. Lots of gaming with the buddies
https://s.team/y24/vdmwrcm?l=english
Here's my 2024 review.
The game I played the most (at least via Steam) was Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy at 301hrs (a lot of that is AFK time). As the name suggests, it's a collection of three games. I've played all these before on the DS/3DS, so I thought it'd take me a month or two to get through them all. Nope. Literally took me til Dec 1 to finish, even though I played it every month.
In reality, the game I probably played the most is FFXIV, but I don't use the Steam client. I've had an account since 1.0, so I've always used the non-Steam client. I don't want to know how many hours I've put in to FFXIV this year.
44% of my playtime this year was devoted to 2024 games. Unusual, given that I tend to play a lot of games that have been out for awhile. In 2023, only 7% of my playtime was with games released in 2023. Back to this year, that's because of Ace Attorney and Helldivers 2. The latter I only bought in September. Though the original Ace Attorney games came out years ago. So it's only technically a game that came out this year.
Altogether, played 44 games this year, up from 37 in 2023, but down from 46 in 2022. And I even did the Tildes Backlog Burner last month. Hmm.
59% of gaming was on Windows, 40% on Steam Deck, and MacOS hanging in there with 1% of total playtime. Need to do more gaming on my MBP apparently.