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Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases (www.gamingonlinux.com)

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[–] caut_R@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

I played like three games from this year. PEAK, MH Wilds, MK World.

The joy of playing older games is that they run well since they‘ve had years of patches and there‘s been years of faster hardware to power through most of the lack of optimization. And they‘re about a quarter the price. For running four times worse, new games also certainly don‘t look four times better.