Among the fun personal tidbits, Valve also revealed that only 15% of playtime "by all Steam users" was spent in games that actually came out in 2024, and so, 85% of everyone's playtime was dedicated to things that came out in 2023 or prior.

But the really interesting stuff is on the macro scale, as it shows that Steam users spent just 15% of their total playing time in games that launched in 2024. 47% of the total playing time on Steam was spent on games released in the last one to seven years, while a sizeable 37% of time was spent in games that have been out for eight years or more.

Steam Replay 2024: 15 per cent represents a notable increase from the 9 per cent of playtime spent on newly released games in 2023.

Steam Replay revealed that only 15% of playtime on the platform was spent on games released in 2024, but that's actually an increase from last year.

Steam Replay has arrived, and with it comes the news that the percentage of playtime spent by all Steam users in new releases (i.e., games released in 2024) was only 15%—a relatively meager number that would suggest the majority of gamers on Valve's platform are far more interested in older,