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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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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It shows almost all my play time is in new releases but thw only reason for that is that hella my games got free remaster upgrades that are entirely separate titles on Steam. They're not really new releases, IMO. I didn't even pay for them; they were given/replaced for free and without even being asked (in some cases, this is important because what they replaced was better than what they replaced it with).

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

They do this to stay in the top of the lists, pushing down actually new games from smaller studios.