There are people who have hundreds of games gathering dust in their library on Steam. And then there’s an 84-year-old who has her life together.
The title image is a symbolic image via Pexels.
What is the aunt playing? As the user stockinheritance reports in a post on Reddit, he happened to walk by his aunt’s PC and stumbled upon her Steam account. The attached image shows that there are exactly 3 games in the lady’s Steam library:
- Chuzzle Deluxe, a kind of match-3 puzzle similar to games like Candy Crush
- Mahjong Deluxe, which is based on the well-known Chinese game
- Solitaire Forever II, which is presumably a sequel to the card game Solitaire Forever
The image also shows that the aunt has already spent 1,472 hours in Chuzzle Deluxe, with just over 10 in the past two weeks.
Perhaps the aunt could try some Mahjong streams on Twitch?
Oh, is this how one should actually use Steam?
What does the community say? Users on Reddit are humorously responding to the post, which currently has over 60,000 upvotes (as of February 28, 2025).
- kakeup88: “I bet she could take us all 1v1 in Mahjong.”
- FunctionGreen6143: “I chuckle at the fact that she marked one of her three games as a favorite so it wouldn’t get lost in her library.”
- convolutedThinker: “She is the only one using Steam correctly.”
- slugdonor replies: “No backlogs, no FOMO [Note: Fear Of Missing Out, the fear of missing out], just 1,500 hours in Chuzzle Deluxe.”
However, there are also users who question the gaming skills of the senior. One says she must have had the game open for a week until she realized where the music was coming from.
Others point out that the playtime is indeed realistic if the 84-year-old is only spending about 5 hours in the game per week according to her current playtime. Then she could have reached 1,500 hours in about 5.5 years.
Chuzzle Deluxe, however, was released back in 2006 – so there was plenty of time over the 965 weeks since then to accumulate such playtime.
The 84-year-old exemplifies that you don’t have to jump on every sale on Steam, no matter how tempting the green discount boxes may glow. Unfortunately, not all gamers have that much self-control: With the money that Steam users have wasted on games so far, one could buy Bethesda twice
