The vacation season is right here and alongside the continuing Winter Sale, Steam has introduced us one other present: Steam Replay 2024. Also often known as Year In Review, this function offers each consumer an in depth take a look at their 12 months on the platform. It has been round for a couple of years now and is all the time an fascinating learn, particularly if you evaluate your personal stats to others.
One statistic featured in Steam Replay this 12 months is the proportion of playtime for brand spanking new, much less new, and ‘traditional’ video games – displaying the numbers for all Steam customers as properly. And from that, we are able to see that brand-new video games are the least widespread of the lot.
Steam customers are spending most of their time in older video games
Looking on the stats for brand spanking new releases, latest favorites, and traditional video games, we are able to see that almost half of all playtime was spent in video games launched within the final 1-7 years. However, as we are able to see, video games over 8 years outdated are nonetheless massively widespread.
- New Releases (video games launched in 2024): 15%
- Recent Favorites (releases within the final 1-7 years): 47%
- Classic Games (releases from 8 or extra years in the past): 37%
You could discover this solely provides as much as 99%, so it appears like 1% has been misplaced in some form of rounding.
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As you may see from our personal stats above, we principally didn’t play any video games older than 8 years, however we’re an outlier contemplating we spend our time benchmarking the newest {hardware} on the newest video games in our testing lab.
However, it’s price noting that we did spend 8% of whole playtime in Counter-Strike 2 (certainly one of our go-to benchmark video games) which can not technically depend as a sport older than 8 years, however we really feel it most likely ought to contemplating it’s basically an up to date model of CS:GO. The sport’s launch day continues to be listed as 2012 on the shop web page, so it appears possible our 0% stat is solely being rounded down.
In any case, talking of Counter-Strike, it’s these sorts of video games as a service (or reside service) titles that assist drive nearly all of folks’s playtime on Steam. Many customers stick with what they know and what they’ve invested money and time into. Looking on the most performed charts at the moment, you’ll discover older video games corresponding to Dota 2, PUBG, Grand Theft Auto V, Rust, and War Thunder nonetheless extremely related.
The latest launch of video games like Path of Exile 2 and Marvel Rivals will definitely assist enhance the ‘new releases’ playtime numbers, whereas different single-player experiences from this 12 months corresponding to Black Myth: Wukong and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle will possible come and go as soon as, although Wukong participant numbers stay robust to today.
