Steam Replay, Valve's annual report on where all the hours spent playing games on Steamy went, has come out of hiding again. The 2025 edition is now available – you've probably already seen it if you've been on Steam since yesterday. Among all these bits telling you that you spent 1000 hours playing Umamusume: Beautiful Derby Currently, the annual report provides the latest statistics on how old the games played by all platform users this year are.
To draw attention to the navel for a second, these replays usually cost more than anything to remind me how much doing this work tends to skew the gaming habits of me and my peers from the norm. For example, 28% of my personal gaming time this year was spent on games coming out in 2025, which is decently higher than the global average of 14% across the entire Steamaverse. For context, this also applies to some of my new releases. spent a lot of time with this year – The Outer Worlds 2 The main one is that since I was not included in this amount due to circumstances, I did not invest my hours into them through my personal Steam account.
This figure of 14% among all Steam users is only one percentage point lower than last year's figure of 15%, and the figures for 2023 and 2022 are 9% and 17%, respectively. So, it looks like things got better in my teens. Playing time increased this year, with 44% of our collective time devoted to games released between one and seven years old, and 40% to games released eight years and older.
The last two also stack up broadly the same as previous years, although between 2022 and 2023 there has been a rather strange reversal in terms of the vast majority, from 64% for the senior party to 52% in favor of the one-in-seven group. We've been through everything since that moment.
In any case, if you follow this math as a palette cleanser, here is a very tragic personal fact. Last year I managed the longest streak of 69 days running a game on Steam. I swear it turned out to be a gender number completely by accident. This year, I regret to inform you that my longest streak was 97 days, which, aside from being slightly more severe in terms of my ability to look up from the keyboard, is not a fun number.
What is life if you don't randomly hit funny numbers whenever possible?
