Steam's 2023 Year in Review breaks down exactly how you blew the past 12 months on videogames

pcgamer.com:

2023 is almost at an end, and if you find yourself wondering what you've done with yourself over the past 365 days, the Steam Year in Review is here to fill you in with a rundown of the games you played, the achievements you earned, and other bits of gaming-related trivia.

Of course, this likely isn't the whole story: Most of us have spent at least a little time horsing around in games on GOG, the Epic Store, and whatever other online storefronts you frequent. But we all spend a lot of time on Steam, and so for the average person this is the real tale of the tape.

Steam's Year in Review page covers covers pretty much everything of note, from the games you played the most over the year to how you compare to the median Steam user, the percentage of new releases versus older stuff you got into, and even minutiae like how many new friends you added, badges you earned, guides you've written, and more. 

There are even graphs showing when you committed to your top games: I was big on Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodhunt through April and May, for instance, got sucked into System Shock through June and July, discovered Pentiment in August, fell into Atomic Heart in October, and wrapped up the year with The Talos Principle 2—which, for the record, I'm still playing.

For those committed to complete accuracy, note that the Year in Review obviously comes up a little short of a full year, covering everything you've played from January 1 to December 14, and it doesn't include any playtime accrued when you were offline, because you had Steam in offline mode or your internet was crapped out for one reason or another. It also excludes «non-game software,» as well as any time spent in games «that are unreleased, in preload, in prelease, or