A player has over 37,000 games on Steam, but he spent 99.8% of his playtime in two games that are more than 10 years old.
What kind of gamer is this? On Steam, there is a player who most likely owns more games than he could ever play. The account is named “Sonix” and has 37,496 games. In addition, there are 20,930 DLCs.
Unfortunately, we cannot provide a detailed overview of the user’s game collection, as Steam fails to access the extensive library and only delivers an error message.
The public Steam profile at least reveals a few of the games that were played on the account – including some indie gems like Don’t Starve Together, Tohu, and Cult of the Lamb. He also checked out Baldur’s Gate 3, Death Stranding, and Black Myth: Wukong for a few minutes.
A huge Pile of Shame from 37,000 games
Which 12-year-old game is he playing? The website SteamLadder.com gives us a glimpse into the user’s playtime. Sonix is said to have spent around 6,606 hours in Dota 2. This accounts for 94.99% of his total time spent on Steam.
Additionally, he spent 336 hours in the hero shooter Team Fortress 2, which accounts for 4.83% of his total playtime.
Therefore, while Sonix has invested roughly 6,942 hours (99.82%) in Dota 2 and Team Fortress 2, the playtime for the remaining 37,494 games is limited to a total of 0.18%. That’s about 12.5 hours.
However, we cannot assess how accurate the statements from SteamLadder.com are. As it is a third-party site, there may be discrepancies with the actual playtime. For instance, the game “Alien Swarm,” which Sonix supposedly played for 551 hours according to Steam, is missing there.
“Pile of Shame” translates to “Stapel der Schande” in German and describes a collection of games that have been purchased but never played (through). Sonix seems to be somewhat of a game collector. There are probably not many players who have a larger Pile of Shame. However, Sonix is not the only Steam user who buys games and does not play through them. With the money that Steam users have wasted on games, one could buy Bethesda twice
