Share your Steam library psychological debt. Or not. Whatever

Continuing the discussion from Valve is not your friend, and Steam is not healthy for gaming:

To avoid derailing that topic too far, and also so that it doesn’t get lost.

I’ll Start:

https://steamdb.info/calculator/76561197963133553/?cc=us

820(!) games, 691(!!) unplayed.

Somehow I’ve played over 100 hours of the original Plants vs. Zombies.

Game I should probably play more: Axiom Verge

Game I should probably start: Kentucky Route Zero

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https://steamdb.info/calculator/76561198103076183/

Best games I haven’t played are probably:
Far Cry 3
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
Injustice: Gods Among Us
anything Tom Clancy

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Me

https://steamdb.info/calculator/76561198004781677/?cc=us

Not really accurate since I have a program that farms cards from games. I then use said cards to get credit to buy more games.

Currently I have 541 games :astonished:

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Mine is very unimpressive:

https://steamdb.info/calculator/76561198025197090/?cc=us

If there was one for Xbox or PS it would be a far different story.

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Hahaha.

/me looks at massive stack of games

Yeah. Backlogs exist. But I think us game hoarders are doing future gamers a service by archiving copies of games that will no longer exist in five, ten years. (Try finding an original copy of GTA: SA now - it’s hard)

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Here we are:

https://steamdb.info/calculator/76561198045785310/?cc=us

I’ve actually spent far less - either from bundles, freebies, giveaways or using Steambucks from trading cards (I have to give Valve credit there, for creating something fundamentally useless like trading cards and finding a way to make money from it).

Then of course there’s my Playstation backlog, GOG/Origin/Uplay accounts and who knows what else…

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https://steamdb.info/calculator/76561197971551121/?cc=us

I’m getting pretty good VFM there. I have really latched onto a few games.

I also noticed it thinks I spent 2 minutes playing Half-Life 2… but I’ve been through the campaign three times, and then once more in the enhanced edition.

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Seems most people spent 5$-10$/hr? That doesn’t sound so bad, really. People bought a lot of duds in the good ole days, too.

Edit: actually, wait. If I played 128 hours and paid $207, how does that turn into an average price of $8.55 an hour? Shouldn’t it be only $1.60?

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I can’t help but think that a perverse metric could be derived from the total time played, over hours lived. A true ‘proportion of life wasted’ score. :wink:

(Of course, my inner optimist points out that time spent on leisure, active entertainment, and ‘recharging the mental batteries’, is in no way actually wasted. But that’s less fun :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:)

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(and then I’d have to estimate the fraction of my life lost to nethack. Awkward.)

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nethack isn’t a waste of life, cuz when you die you just start over

oh wait

you mean real life

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And sometimes generate a bones file.
Wait. ‘re-al life’…?

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Nethack is the best. I played the hell of it in High School, on the school PCs and on my DS.

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That’s some speed run! :scream:

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Have you heard Rob Balder’s ditty?

http://www.partiallyclips.com/filk/nethack/

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here’s mine. As you can see, I have saved BUNCHES from doing bundles and sales.

I give them props for that. I have gotten enough cards that I converted to Steambucks that I could probably have gotten GTA V at full price without paying any actual money.

Oh yes, I have that same issue. I do like that GOG allows you to link to Steam now. Just wish more publishers were down with that.

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https://steamdb.info/calculator/76561198017205644/?cc=us

ETA I have one idle game that is a metric fuckton of the hours.

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Hmm, biggest single contributor to the hours on record is Kerbal Space Program. Spaceflight takes time…

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the idle game meh…
but wow near 1000 hours of TF2? you think I wouldn’t suck so much at it by now.

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Been playing Company of Heroes “2” a lot.
I downloaded and started the Talos Principle this weekend. It’s a bunch of nicely skinned logic puzzles, dressed up in this really pretentious narrative. So far.

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