Steam recently put out their year in review. If you know me, you know I LOVE metrics. In what is one of the best years in gaming in the last decade, I played 67 games on Steam with 52 of them being new. The only other console I have is the Switch which I do play on occasionally but I mainly game on the PC.
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My top games were not surprisingly Baldur’s Gate 3 with over 200+ hours, Fall Guys which I played every month of the year, and Disco Elysium and RE4R.
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Not much of a surprise to those that know me that survival horror was my top genre of the year. I always do love a good mystery and strong narrative with a side of dark humor. Rhythm probably comes from games like Hi-Fi Rush. I did not play a lot of open world survival craft but I did dip my feet into Subnautica and Valheim which are not really my type of game. I dropped both of them quickly.
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This bar chart of my playtime by month is interesting if only to me because it shows where my focus was during those months. Jan and Feb I was living in St Pete FL and was basically a recluse spending most of my day playing games in my apartment when I wasn’t out enjoying the weather or doing Uber. I also played a lot of backlog titles during this time, including Disco Elysium.
March I spent a good chunk of time with my family and planned my return trip to CT. April I was back in CT and spent a lot of time learning about AI art and writing a book which extended into May.
June-July I was gaming almost exclusively on my Switch playing Zelda and a few other titles. It wasn’t until Baldur’s Gate 3 released in August that I got back into gaming on my PC and continued through the fall with my longest streak being 64 days in a row!
Now to close out this short blog post with a zoomed out snapshot of the games I played this year. I hope 2024 is a slower year if only so I can catch up on the games I still didn’t get to play in 2023!
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