Thursday, December 29, 2022
My Steam 2022 review
Steam sent me a review of my year on that platform. I don't know what the cutoff date for that was, but I did play Against the Storm and Baldur's Gate 3 this month on Steam, and they aren't listed. Also, there seem to be a few mistakes, like Wartales being listed as "First played in 2022", when I already blogged about it in 2021, and got far more hours in it played than the last place in that list suggests.
I was also a bit surprised by the comparison between me and the average Steam user:
I unlocked 14 times more achievements than the average player? Wow, I must be a hardcore power gamer! But the biggest shortcoming is that Steam can only count the games I played on Steam. I mentioned in a comment on the previous post that I played 20 hours of Timberborn this year, but that was on Epic. And there were a number more of games either on Epic or on Xbox Game Pass for PC that I played, which Steam couldn't count. Not to mention my Nintendo Switch and my iPad. So the review of a single platform is kinda cute, but very incomplete to paint a full picture of my gaming habits.
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FAQ at the bottom says:
What dates of playtime are included?
Steam Replay 2022 includes all of your play time between the first second of January 1 and the last second of December 14 (GMT).
For me, 99% of my gaming is on the PC through Steam, so this is a very accurate reflection of my habits. Although for the effort they've put into it, there's nothing exactly surprising in it. I'm well aware of what I played in the past year and roughly how much. The spider graph of genres is perhaps the most interesting thing there.
What dates of playtime are included?
Steam Replay 2022 includes all of your play time between the first second of January 1 and the last second of December 14 (GMT).
For me, 99% of my gaming is on the PC through Steam, so this is a very accurate reflection of my habits. Although for the effort they've put into it, there's nothing exactly surprising in it. I'm well aware of what I played in the past year and roughly how much. The spider graph of genres is perhaps the most interesting thing there.
Yeah I noticed some oddities as well, in terms of average vs. what I put in. I enjoyed that it said I had played 248 games this year, though 90% of those were me firing up and testing out different games on the Steam Deck for a few minutes. The thing I found interesting was the graph that showed play time by month....I had three months last year where my game time went through the roof, and correlated well with when I knew I had also played games on other platforms (I spent an equal amount of time on PS5 and Switch, for example, that I do on Steam). The net take away was that apparently I have a lot more game time/interest in February, August and October for some reason. If that turns in to a pattern over time I'll have to see if I can identify why those months are the Big Gaming months.
I think that's a bit like my end of year Reddit review. I post on there a couple of times a week, most comments only get a few upvotes, and yet I was in the top 3% of users apparently. I think we over-estimate how much people actually engage and play stuff.
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