…will you show me yours? My Steam ‘Year in Review’ for 2024 contained a few surprises. For instance, I was somewhat taken aback to discover that I’d fired up Tabletop Simulator 208 times last year, and, for 49 consecutive days during the summer, played something Steamy every day.
If Tabletop Sim wasn’t such a bally useful tool for testing home-made board and card game designs, I doubt it would have ended up my most played game of last year. That distinction would have belonged to either Microsoft Flight Simulator or Virtual Pool 4.
It took serious determination, but, after 94 hours of obsessive cueing, I finally managed to break my VP4 addiction on August 20th.
Bearing in mind the amount of time I spent with Railroader, Train Sim, Diesel Railcar Sim, TSW and the like, in 2024, I’m baffled as to why there wasn’t a ‘trains’ spike on the above spider graph.
Doubtless Tally-Ho Corner would have been a much less interesting place last year, if I hadn’t dabbled with either (Steam can’t seem to make up its mind) 68 or 81 demos.
Ridiculously, Steam insists I played just one demo during 2023, so perhaps – when it comes to trials – the stats aren’t to be trusted.
Did your Steam Replay startle? Did it prompt any soul-searching or new year resolutions?
A) They’re calling it ‘Steam Replay’ again because they want it to sound like the screen recording function.
(You have it as it ought to be in the first paragraph and wrong in the last, or the other way round)
B) Steam tightened up on their definition of ‘Demo’ in late-summer, I seem to recall.
I can’t remember the ins and outs, or how it was meant to game the system, but I think it had something to do with all the Prologues, and Forewords, and Chapters 1s…
Some games have demos, but if you search Steam for that option (as opposed to Game, DLC, etc.) then it doesn’t find them.
My headline figure is 96 demos; lower down it says 71.
C) I managed 127 Achievements (23 rare) across 13 games.
None of them were memorable.
D) I also have 2 Discussion Posts, but 5 Badges.
I think it must be Discussions Started as I’ve made more posts than that; I remember starting one, but the second is a complete blank.
CMBN 33%, Manor Lords 27%, ATG 13%, CMFI 6%, Workers and Resources 6%. Weirdly it says I played Manor Lords in VR. I do own a Quest 2 (for flight simming), but it never occurred to me to use it for ML.
Apparantely, I played 17 games and 21 demos.
67% of playtime was Dominions 6, with the second and third spot going to games from my wife and kids (sims 4 and putt-putt).
I acquired an impressive 88 days streak with Dominions 6, due to the asynchronous multiplayer (pbem).
No real surprises apart from some demos I totaly forgot I ever tried.
154 games
655 achievements
264 day streak
Fisher Online, Total Warhammer 3, Hexcells Infinite the top 3
Pretty insane 1196 achievements here courtesy of Lines X (plus the free version) accounting for 590 and 317 respectivly. The year of inflation i guess.
Terra Invicta (91h), HoI4 and War Thunder.
10 demos/ 51 games