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Steam’s Year-in-Review Feature Returns

December 17, 2025 1 view
Steam’s Year-in-Review Feature Returns With a Fresh Look at Your 2025 Gaming Habits

Valve has officially launched Steam Replay 2025, giving PC players a detailed (and sometimes brutally honest) snapshot of how they spent their gaming time this year. The annual feature, now a familiar favorite across gaming communities, compiles your playtime, top titles, input habits, and other personal stats into a clean, shareable package.

A Closer Look at Your 2025 Playtime

Steam Replay covers your activity from January 1 through December 14, 2025, offering a near-complete picture of your gaming year. As soon as you open the report, you’re greeted with your total hours logged, your most-played genres, and how many days you actually booted up a game – numbers that can either inspire pride or prompt a moment of reflection.

This year’s Replay also highlights how you play, showcasing metrics like keyboard vs. controller usage or how many new games you added to your library (and, perhaps more importantly, how many you actually played). While music services like Spotify popularized the year-end wrap-up trend, gaming platforms have enthusiastically adopted it. PlayStation launched its own wrap-up last week, and Nintendo, Xbox, and even Twitch now offer similar retrospectives.

What Steam Replay 2025 Shows

Your Top Games and Genres

Just like previous years, Steam Replay ranks your most-played games and reveals how much time you devoted to each one. Whether you spent the year grinding competitive matches, exploring RPG worlds, or idling shamefully in farming sims, the Replay lays it all out.

Many players are already sharing their results across social platforms, comparing hours spent in rising hits like PeakRepo, and cult favorites such as Lethal Company, which continued to hold attention through 2025.

Playstyle Insights

Replay 2025 expands on behavioral stats, showing:

  • – What percentage of your library you actually touched
  • – How many achievements you unlocked
  • – Your keyboard vs. controller preferences
  • – Daily consistency and longest play streaks

It’s a reminder that Steam isn’t just counting what you play – it’s analyzing how you play.

How to Access Your Steam Replay

Seeing your own breakdown is simple. Players can:

  • – Visit Valve’s official Steam Replay webpage, or
  • – Open the Steam client and click the Replay 2025 banner featured on the store page

Within seconds, you’ll have a full summary ready to view or share with friends, rivals, and anyone curious about how many hours you actually spent on that one game you swore you “only play sometimes.”

Limits and What Doesn’t Count

Steam Replay does come with a few restrictions. It will not include:

  • – Time spent playing offline
  • – Preloads or prerelease builds
  • – Unreleased or disabled games
  • – Sessions where Steam was not connected to the internet

So if you spent hundreds of hours in a game during a rural Wi-Fi outage, the official record may be slightly kinder – or harsher – than reality.

Looking Ahead to 2026

With the Steam Machine gaining traction among players who prefer a console-like experience, next year’s data could look very different. Playtime habits, input stats, and device preferences may shift as more players blend PC flexibility with living-room comfort.

Steam Replay 2025 not only captures a year of personal gaming history but also reflects broader trends in how and where people play. Whether you’re proud of your stats or stunned by them, it’s a fun reminder of how much the platform’s ecosystem evolves each year – and how deeply games shape our routines.