Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases

By Liam Dawe - 17 Dec 2025 at 11:16 am UTC

Last updated: 17 Dec 2025 at 11:39 am UTC

Valve have released Steam Replay for 2025, showing off some interesting stats about your gaming and how it stacks up against everyone on Steam.

Interestingly, this year they note that only 14% of gaming was "spent by all Steam users in new releases (games released in 2025)". That's actually down a single digit percentage from last year, but continues to show that with the onslaught of over 19,000 games from 2025 that a lot of people continue playing through their older games. According to the stats 44% of playtime from all Steam users were for releases from the last 1-7 years, and 40% playtime from all Steam users was spent on releases from 8 or more years ago.

Valve's stats don't include time spent in offline mode or when you're without internet.

Mine has been quite skewed back to Desktop Linux due to ARC Raiders, Dune: Awakening, and Overwatch 2.

What did you spend the most time on across 2025?

Check out your own on Steam Replay.

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

Tags: Misc, Steam, Valve

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1xok 3 hours ago

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Quoting: 1xokMaybe on some visit? I don't have Windows either, but I played at a relative's.

Almost no one in the family has a Windows PC. There is an old, half-broken laptop. I wouldn't enter my data there either.

In my case I think it's more likely that Steam detects Proton as Windows in some cases.

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Philadelphus 2 hours ago

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71% of my playtime this year was RimWorld (36%), Team Fortress 2 (23%), and Stellaris (12%), all of which are over a decade old*. 7% of my playtime was games released this year, which I think might all be from Ark Nova (the digital version).

*RimWorld only released on Steam in 2018 so Steam apparently counts it as "recent" (1–7 years old) rather than "classic" (8+ years old) in the breakdown, but I had pre-alpha access from the original Kickstarter in 2013 and was playing it years before it officially released.

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