My steam replay this year wasn’t an accurate telling of the games I played, because most of my games are not on steam. There’s Wurm Online – does have a steam client, but I don’t use it since my characters are not grandfathered in. Only newly created steam characters can play through that client. Then there’s World of Warcraft, also not a steam game. Probably my actual most played game this year, though EVE Online might be close.
I hear we didn’t play new games in 2025, but instead opted to play older ones. That is absolutely correct in my case, new games made up 2% of my playtime. In fact classic games came in at a whopping 94% which makes sense since again, EVE Online? Classic.
A lot of games that made the list (for me at least) were idle games, since I tend to leave them running for a few days at a time. Euro Truck Simulator 2 was also pretty high on my games played list. No surprises there, I love it. I think I’d love it more if I had a wheel to play it with, but for now I’m still holding off. I’m just not good at playing with a controller.
EQ2 did also start making the list, but not until later in the year, so it didn’t have as big an impact as I was expecting. Wobbly Life is there since I play that with the family, and a few new games like Whisper of the House, and Urban Jungle. Enjoyed them both. Project Zomboid is also listed, I played that briefly, along with Necesse. Erenshor, Date Everything, Tropico 6, Captain of Industry – lots of games, just not a lot of time, unfortunately. Life has kept me pretty busy this year, and I haven’t really had a lot of time for gaming. Plus, other hobbies keep fighting over that elusive ‘time’ and this year (for the first time in forever) art in all of its various forms was at the forefront.
So here’s to 2026. May it be filled with as much, or as little, gaming as you wish.
A Pixel Nomad 