Patient Gamers @sh.itjust.works oce 🐆 @jlai.lu 3 days ago

Patient gamer badge of honor on the Steam Replay 2024

0% new: from 2024 (average 15%)
0% recent: from the last 1–7 years (average 47%)
100% classic: older than 8 years (average 37%)

I am helped by being limited to an 8 years old notebook laptop currently.

The 5 games I have played this year, all for the first time: Stardew Valley, The Darkeness II, Star Wars Battlefront II 2005, Outlast, Oblivion.

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That's actually the retro gamer badge of honor
- Yup, this is actually pretty amazing
If dwarf fortress was recognized as a classic game I'd be right there too
- I have the "Dwarf" category as one of my top genres. I'm so happy it's now a tag for games.
  
  I just realized this identifies what you'd consider the peak of gaming, a metroidvania dwarven deckbuilding action roguelike
  
  Rock and stone over here too.
- I'd call it a classic
I was surprised to have 9% on new games.
- Balatro skewed my numbers
- I thought my 11% was competitive until I realized that after 15 years of hoarding most games I would buy I already own. Congrats on your victory.
This is how budgeting works. Wait for the “old” sale so it’s cheaper money wise. Wait for the first few patches to roll out so you don’t spend that other precious commodity, time, on anything other than actual gameplay.
In defense of my 12% new games, a lot of that is Humble Bundles fault
- I get so many “new” games either through Humble Choice or bundles that patient for me is really just waiting for it to show up there (which might even be within a year of release). Sometimes I’ll buy stuff brand new but there I use my Humble Discount.
I played new games on the Switch, but that was about it.

I got Mario RPG and Mario Wonder last Christmas. What can I say? Haha
I'm only at 3%, which was one new game only, Stalker 2.

I think the only other game I got at release in a long while was Cyberpunk 2077. I usually wait until the sales.
- Stalker 2 and Cyberpunk on release are for the “patient(ly waiting for patches) gamer”..
  
  Is me!
Nice.

3% - new

85% - recent (last 1-7 years)

12% - classic (older than 8 years)

I played 50 games (many with very little playtime, I was just testing on my Steam Deck), so I'm not sure where the 3% comes from (is that one or two games?). But I played CIties: Skylines II just before it hit 1 year. I'm also surprised that I don't have more in "classic," because I played a lot of pretty old games, and I think many are right around that 7-year old mark.
I'm confused why the number says 0%, but there's clearly a small bit of the circle graph that indicates new release playtime.
- It's a design choice to display empty categories.
- No, it's just a design choice to display empty categories.
  
  So passionate about it you said it twice!
Congrats
That 15% number is reassuring. Huge majority of Steam users are patient gamers!
- It could be that they bought a game from launch last year, but it's a captivating game and they kept playing it this year. Especially online games.
My patient gaming badge has been ruined by Stalker 2 and Path of Exile 2 :(
- It was Cities: Skylines II. I said I'd buy it once they fix the issues, and that point was a couple months before 1 year after launch for me.
  
  That said, mine says 3% of my games were "new," but I played 50 games. The math doesn't math...
Only game I've played this year. Hundreds of hours though (I have a few friends who I play with usually weekly)
- Hell ya! I'm the same way with TF2. There just aren't any newer games that I think come close at all to being as good as the original. I'll gladly keep sinking ~400 hours a year into a game released in 2007 as long as I have the time and other people continue to play the game aswell
Damn, that's quite the badge of honour! I had to check mine but because of the new Steam Family Sharing I tried out a bunch of new games that I never bought myself.
Same!! I was like, yesss!!
99% of my playtime in the 2023 year In review was TF2, and I'm sure it will be the same in 2024. I am a patentint gamer because I only play the original and BEST team shooter game.

Losers playing sub par tf2 clones like marvel rivals and overwatch
in my defence of new games, couple of the Early Access ones i've seen grow beautifully with meaningful quarterly updates and clear dev maps. i'm especially happy with Enshrouded and i feel like with a full release the current price will double as it's already a massive world and the map is half filled

(similarly how i got satisfactory in early access in a cheap af bundle and now the game is like double the price of the bundle it was in)
In the past three years, the only time I hadn't got that badge was the year vampire survivors came out.

But no fair. It was a pretty retro game and only c9st like three bucks.

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