Only 15% of all Steam users' time was spent playing games released in 2024
Only 15% of all Steam users' time was spent playing games released in 2024

Steam's end-of-year review of what we play and how we play makes for some interesting reading.

Only 15% of all Steam users' time was spent playing games released in 2024
Steam's end-of-year review of what we play and how we play makes for some interesting reading.
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Headline says 'only', but the article says that's actually an increase from last year.
of course it is; 0% of players in 2023 played games released in 2024.
Well technically with early access games, it would be >0%. Although they didn't know that back in 2023...
So we had time travel all this time huh? Excuse me, I'm gonna go play a game from 2723 >!Star Citizen!<
Bold of you to assume that's gonna get released, let alone that early
I played like 20 hrs of satisfactory last year lol.
However the joke was good so imma let it slide.
This time.
/s
Hell, I'm surprised it is over 10% with how many of the most popular games have been around for years.
Even one of the biggest releases of this year was a DLC to Elden Ring, which means the actual game is still a few years old
My guess is that Palworld and Helldivers 2 carried a good chunk of that time. I was going to mention Factorio Space Age, but it would just track time for base game. Satisfactory has been in early access for a long time, but officially released 1.0 this year as well, I wonder how that'd count.