Today, Steam users receive their “Steam Replay,” which provides an overview of the games and genres they explored on Steam in the past year. But there’s a catch: the player’s “Steam Family” can also see what they have been up to. Hopefully, you were well-behaved or at least honest with your parents.
This is the function: “Steam Replay” is a statistical summary of your gaming year 2024, as spent on Steam. The lengthy list shows you:
- In which months you played particularly a lot or a little
- Which achievements you unlocked
- How you compare to other users and much more
A graphical representation also shows your tendencies as a player, what types of games you prefer – for me, those were 2024 Grand Strategy Games and surprisingly JRPGs, I must have had a slip-up. With the statistics, you can wonderfully see the phases you had as a player.
This was my JRPG slip-up this year:
Adult members of your Steam Family can view the recap
Here’s the catch: Players can normally freely decide with whom to share this statistic, because perhaps not everyone should know that they’ve spent so much time gaming or even checked out the “Adult Games” categories.
But unfortunately, the FAQ states that all “adult members” of a Steam Family have access to the data of other players – only children do not have these privileges.
If someone was indeed naughty in 2024 and spent significantly more time gaming than Mom and Dad believe, because they told them that their studies are going well and that the bachelor’s degree is just a matter of time, they might get in trouble.
The influencer Reeze is said to have told his parents for years that he was studying computer science and working towards his degree, but had long mentally departed from studying (via YouTube).
And perhaps you wouldn’t want to explain under the Christmas tree what the 34% playtime in “Adult Games” really means.
One who got into trouble for showing an “Adult Game” live on Twitch is this young man: Twitch bans xQc for clicking things without thinking
