I’ve also been playing games that haven’t been released yet.
Has there ever been an extraction shooter that released?
That’s because most new games either suck the butt or made by assholes, or both
Factory gamers were eating good this year.
Same with simulators in general like flight/military/factory/etc
I don’t know what factory I am supposed to grow this week.
Space. Obviously space.
Factorio released an expansion and Satisfactory hit 1.0 after a long (and excellent) early access campaign. Dobwe count either as a 2024 game?
I think all I played this year was Helldivers 2
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I’m surprised it is that high.
I hope this article isn’t because the industry might consider shifting to a complete subscription model, I really can’t afford the rising cost of new games on release or overpriced subscription models.
Usually TF2 is up here too depending on the seasonal update rotation.
Up from 9% last year tho…
There’s a huge backlog of PC games and a lot that just play their favorites and that’s it.
9% played 2024 games in 2023?
I basically only have games that cost less than $5 on a sale. The prices for new games are ridiculous generally. $100 for something that will take a year to get the bugs fixed? Only suckers buy new games.
There are pros and cons to everything. You get to play before the game gets spoiled in GOTY podcasts. You can play a multiplayer game when the most people are playing, before the game has been “solved”.
Multiplayer games are the only ones I buy new, but as I grow up, I find myself turning to multiplayer games less and less in favor of good story and single player experience.
Patient Gamers represent!
I want to get Still Wakes the Deep but for what is apparently a pretty short game I’ll be waiting for a better discount. that’s about the only 2024 game I’ve been interested in
I actually played a fuck ton of new games and early access beta tests this year (34% of all playtime according to steam replay)
i always wait until the games are actually done (and priced reasonably), and that means nowadays that yeah, no 2024 games.
Headline says ‘only’, but the article says that’s actually an increase from last year.
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.
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
And that’s a biased statistic. My recap shows I spent 1% of my time playing games released in 2024 when I know, for a fact, that I didn’t. Upon further investigation, I found that it was counting my play time in Palworld as 1% even though it still shows as “0 minutes” because I literally only opened it to check that it worked.
Seems reasonable to me. What percentage of games on steam have been released in 2024? Gotta be a smoll percentage. Actually, 15 percent seems pretty high now that you mention.
“A whooping 15 percent” seems like a better title.
I’m the guy who is consistently picking up old games that he’s always wanted when they go on a steam sale years later for single digits. So I’m constantly three or four (or more years) behind. And I don’t really mind because I’m always a single player who doesn’t enjoy any form of online multiplayer.
So do I care that I only last month picked up EU4 and a bunch of DLC for cheap, not one bit. Same for Civ 6.
I’ll happily chug away at my old games that no one cares about anymore.
I started Civ6 this year too, got it for like 10 dollarydos
