Your 'Nintendo Switch Year In Review 2024' Stats Are Available Now

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Balatro at 86 hours
Monster Hunter GU at 82.
...and finally Slay the Spire at 58.

44 games, 344 hours. Tears of The Kingdom was the top at 79 hours, no surprise.

Only 145h this year which is less than TotK alone last year, with the top one being M&L: Brothership with 45h

But not surprising tbh, not that many releases that interested me this year + some of them I played on Steam Deck instead

I'm sure next year it will be a lot more though when the Switch 2, XCX:DE, MP4 and Legends Z-A + unannounced Switch 2 games release

Played 106 games and put in 1,085 hours. My top 3 most played games this year were: Persona 4, Persona 3, and Tears of the Kingdom in that order. It was interesting looking at these stats.

I figured the Apollo Justice trilogy would’ve been in the top 3 for me.

But yeah, I had A LOT of free time this year due to health issues.

I think my overall gaming hours are down this year. It’ll be the first year my Steam library will be Deck free thankfully. If GOG was monitoring that stuff, that would be the only place that saw a huge gain.

3 games and 20 hours for me! Pokémon Let’s Go, Eevee! Plus Shield and Legends Arceus. I still don’t own a Switch for myself. But I’m trying to get one.

Weird year for me. My top 3 is
1. Nintendo 64 App (Paper Mario exclusively)
2. Super Mario RPG
3. 1000xResist

All bangers. 1000xResist is one of my favorite games of the year.

Uh-oh. My annual 'I don't play even 10% of what I buy' self-reflection is upon me. I'll be in a dark room.

With my Switch!

88 games, but only 417 hours. I want and need to be at least doubling that. It has felt like a busy year, non-gaming-wise. I have also been on my Wii U and 3DS a bit too. Been playing Xenoblade Chronicles X recently, so my Switch hours for October and November are pretty paltry.

1. Animal Crossing (129 hrs)
2. Clannad (40 hrs)
3. (gulps) Fortnite (35 hrs)

For my favourite for 2024, it was a toss up, but I've gone with RiME. Didn't play it until this year, and after a suspect opening, I really grew to love it, so it stands out as a memory from this year. Haven't actually finished it yet, but that's just par for the course with me. I'll get to it, ok?

Thanks for 2024 y'all. Here's to a sweet, sweet 2025! Big love 💕😘

128 hours and 36 games, Mario and Luigi Brothership 51 hours, master duel 23 hours, Mario Party Jamboree 12 hours and November 32 hours and may 1 hour

I think I played more this year than than the previous 13 years of my life (minus Fortnite, Rocket League, and Minecraft) COMBINED. 702 hours on Switch, and that doesn't even cover GBA, Wii, 3DS, or Series X. With that said, my top three most played this year are:
1. Splatoon 3 (Side Order definitely helped)
2. GBA NSO (Amazing Mirror, Minish Cap, Zero Mission, LTTP + FS, SMA3, all three F-zeros, and a dash of Fire Emblem)
3. Kirbys Return to Dreamland Deluxe (how did I spend 60 hours on this? Did I and my friends really play Merry Magoland that long?)

My stats are misleading as a lot of my hours are due to my ex having played Persona 5 Royal on my account. 46 games with a total of 577 hours. I should take out around 200 hours due to them to get a more realistic picture, though.

168 hours in Pokémon Unite
130 hours in Pokémon Scarlet
78 hours in YGO master duel.

Personal GOTY pick: Peglin

Let's see:
30 games played over 689 hours
1. Dragon Ball the Breakers: 256 hours
2. Dragon Quest XI S: 151 hours
3. Pokemon Scarlet: 50 hours

Makes sense. Dragon Quest XI was the big game for me this year and Breakers is 50% sitting in queue waiting.

Here's mine:

87 games and 830 hours

Top three:

• Pokémon Scarlet, 208 hours
• Castlevania Dominus Collection, 171 hours
• Legend of Nayuta Boundless Trails, 52 hours

Surprised to see Nayuta is in the top three, I played it in January and didn't think about it again after beating it. it didn't leave a huge impression on me.

Pokémon has so many hours because this was the first time I actually played Gen 9 at all. I waited until I could get the DLC-included physical cart, so I didn't start Gen 9 until this year. I had a great time even if it's not as good as it should have been. Enjoyed it more than gen 8.

And Castlevania.... yeah, I played all three of the Dominus games the moment it came out, got 100% items, souls etc in all games, played all bonus modes including level 1 hard mode in the two games it's in, and then.... I played all three games again, to show them to my sister-in-law who enjoys watching me play games.

The majority of my time gaming this year, aside from Pokémon, was on older PlayStation consoles and not on Switch, so I guess I shouldn't be all that surprised Nayuta came in third place.

This year I played Suikoden and Suikoden II on the PSTV, Suikoden III on the PS3, Suikoden IV and Suikoden Tactics on the PS2.
...Oh, and also I casually spent over 300+ hours on UFO 50 on Steam as well, haha.

So yeah, a lot of off-switch gaming happened this year for me.

I'm surprised Zelda Echoes of Wisdom doesn't even show up anywhere . I beat that game 100%, I thought that would've taken up more time than a game like Nayuta, but I guess not.

I’m getting annoyed. Mine is refusing to load and keeps saying “error” 🙃

I did not realize I sunk nearly 100 hours into Persona 5 Royal. That is ALOT for me.

I somehow played 106 games this year. Half of those are probably NSO games though, that I played for under an hour. I racked up 580 hours with almost half that on Alien Isolation and Dragon Quest XI. And 60 hours on the Doom 1&2 collection.

For my game of the year, it's a tough one. Both Alien and DQXI are all time greats for me. I'm leaning towards DQ but that's because I'm playing it just now. But AI was such a unique experience , that I think I have to go for that.

@Darkri74345 Same

@PepperMintRex When I filter my most played games on Switch, some of the titles near the top surprise me. I feel like I never spent that much time with them. While others I thought I had played a lot, are further down the list.

I’m actually always surprised by how little I played. I used to play around 30 hours a week… now I’m older, have kids and stuff. I played 458hours in the year. An average of less than 9 hours a week. My most played games was TotK, at 77 hours. Second most played game was the Apollo Justice trilogy at 33 hours (I didn’t even finish the second game yet). These are very interesting stats, I always enjoy looking at these.

126 games and 329 hours, and switch is only one of several systems I played this year

Thanks for the link Ollie.

124 games, 163 hours...because I set my Nintendo account up with Exophase to track my playtime and had to open up every game I'd previously played to log it on there. I would estimate I only played around 25-30 games to any meaningful extent myself.

I put 46 hours (and 36 minutes) into Shadows Over Loathing, 18 hours into Nintendo World Championships, and 17 hours (and 34 minutes) into Animal Well for my top 3, though since the end of November, my NWC playtime increased to 21 hours and 18 minutes. Animal Well is still in third, but Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble will probably beat it by the year's end. Also sunk some time into Mario Kart, Smash, and Jackbox that wasn't logged.

As far as I can tell, Exophase just reads the data Nintendo tracks, but only displays in full if you have Parental Controls enabled, and isn't at all risky to use. I'd definitely recommend it if you want to track playtime in greater detail and alongside games on other platforms.

Yesss, finally! My OCD brain lives for this stuff.

I played 77 different Switch games this year for a total playtime of 958 hours.

This actually seems less than most other years but I've started playing quite a bit of 3DS again and also have a PS5 now.

My three most-played games were:

1. Disney Speedstorm - 90 hrs.
2. Hogwarts Legacy - 73 hrs.
3. Nintendo Switch Online: N64 - 69 hrs.

I fell off hard from Disney Speedstorm as the monetization has gotten ridiculous, but it was a lot of fun for a while.

My most-played month was in May, in which I logged 132 total hours.

My favorite game of 2024 was Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door.

Only 97 hours this year.

My top games were LoZ: Echoes of Wisdom, Dark Deity and Super Mario RPG.

I have spent most of my gaming time this year on PS5 and older consoles like Genesis and Sega CD. Though, I just picked up Victory Heat Rally, so that may change a little bit.

Mary Skelter 2: 109 hours. Was absolutely convinced I'd hate it, but here we are. Just now on the finale chapter, too!

Harvestella: 89 hours. I love this game and will probably start a new playthrough soon.

261 Hours total play time over 56 games.

Most Played Games:

1. Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition - 83 hours
2. Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door - 37 hours
3. The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom - 30 hours

Added with my PS5/PS4 time, that is 1083 hours. Compared to last year 2023 on switch with total time of 586 and combined time with PS5/PS4 of 1207. Definitely a drop in switch time.

Balatro: 400
Does it sound like I have time for anything else?

But for the record, Splatoon 2 is second with 59 hours and Mario Kart 8 is third with 44.

Odd, I don’t have Brothership on my list even though I know I played that more than Echoes of Wisdom.

It looks like I played 106 games totaling 444 hours played. 3 top games were the usual XC, Vampire Survivors, and Metroid Prime. Interesting some newer games didn't make the list.

@DwaynesGames It seems like it cut off in mid-November. My totals on my console list are greater than those on the Year in Review.

Played 206 hrs on Switch this year

Played 7 games

Tears of the Kingdom: 134 hrs

Metroid Prime Remaster: 29 hrs

Sonic Frontiers: 18 hrs

My favorite game I picked was Sonic X Shadow Generations. Completed Shadow Generations now on Sonic Generations for the first time. Absolutely excellent game.

TotK is massive so probably continuing that one next year, hopefully complete it too. Played Metroid Prime Remaster in the beginning of the year never played a Prime game before really enjoyed it hoping for a remaster for the other two and looking forward to Beyond too. While I completed the base game for Frontiers last year, I hadn't completed the Final Horizon DLC so completed that over the summer.

@OorWullie The list probably isn't accurate. If you ever bought a new Switch like an OLED and transferred all your data, it still resets the internal play time to zero. So, if you played Mario Kart 8 for 200 hours, transferred your data to a new system, and then played Hello Kitty Island Adventure for five minutes, Hello Kitty would be on top and Mario Kart would be on the bottom.

I think the Switch also starts erasing old play times after a certain amount of time has elapsed. I remember checking my play time for Breath of the Wild and watching it decrease day by day, as it just starts deleting the oldest records after a few years. It's really weird, shortsighted, and annoying.

I actually got up with Nintendo's customer support about it a few years ago. They actually took it really seriously, as I kept getting calls from Nintendo over the next several months asking additional questions to get a better understanding of the situation. Someone at Nintendo HQ was actively troubleshooting this. But eventually, they stopped contacting me, and we never got a firmware update that addressed this.

So yeah, your play time is likely very misleading.

This year, I decided to do somewhat of a restart with my backlog. My life has kinda been hell in a handbasket, and I ended up dropping out of gaming for a bit because of it. Eventually, I decided I would journal all of the games I played, how long I played them, what I would rate them, etc. Honestly, this little project has re-invigorated my love of gaming, so it's really cool that I can finally (properly) take part in this end-of-year tradition.

Anyway, preamble aside, my top 3 most played games were:

Persona 5 Royal - 146 Hours
Pokemon Violet - 107 Hours
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door - 46 Hours
(A lot of 'p' games XD)

Royal was definitely the longest stretch of time I spent playing a game this year, I started in January and finished it in March.

Pokemon is understandable, I ended up 100%ing the base game, and almost everything in The Teal Mask. That said, I ended up dropping The Indigo Disk. Not sure why, I think it was just a bit too grindy and failed to maintain my interest. Maybe I'll head back to finish that in 2025. Could be a nice way to pass the time till Legends Z-A (Then again, I wouldn't be opposed to replaying Legends Arceus.)

I'm honestly surprised with Thousand-Year Door. Definitely didn't feel like I played that game for very long. Honestly, my memory of playing it is a bit of a blur, though I did play it during a bit of a rough patch in my personal life. I really should go back and play it with a clear mind, I don't think playing while grumpy really helped me fall in love with the game.

As for my favorites, it's honestly a close competition. So I'll just list my top 5, in as close to an order as I'd give them.

#1 - Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo
#2 - AI: The Somnium Files
#3 - Persona 5 Royal
#4 - Master Detective Archives: Rain Code
#5 - Limbo
(#1 & #2 are very close, but Paranormasight barely tops it.)

53 Games and 1,677 hours. My most played game was Tears of the Kingdom.

My Switch play time this year ended up being the lowest of the three platforms I play on (Switch, Xbox, and Steam).

22 games for 242 hours total.

1. Splatoon 3
2. Tetris 99
3. Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door

Everything's about in line with what I expected, though a small part of me hoped Tetris 99 would be number one, cause it would be funny. Hopefully, those numbers are a little higher next year, maybe with a mysterious new device of some sort to play on

180 hours,23 games. Thousand year door was the most played at 48 hours. TOP game tears of the kingdom although I hardly played that this year. But for memory alone it got to be 2022 tears of the kingdom.

I don’t really like that N64 app can count as a game (I bet that people who use their switch for streaming have it even worse)

But if I take that off my top three are
1. Fire Emblem: Three Houses
2. Persona 5: Royal
3. Persona 4: Golden

So I really just was a type of person this year smh.

23 games, 660 hours, my most played games:

1: The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak - 127 hours
2: Trails Azure 115 hours.
3: Trails Zero 80 Hours .

@EarthboundBenjy I liked Nayuta, but I agree that it wasn’t any sort of masterpiece. It’s exactly the kind of digestible video gaming that I crave!

It also (hopefully) portends more Falcom PSP ports!! Getting Ys 6, and 7 would be incredible

@ScalenePowers, still waiting for Cold Steel 1 and 2 to make the jump to Nintendo consoles.
I wish so much Falcom would port all their games to Nintendo.

284 games and 1711 hours. As usual, pretty much portability.jpg... and yegads, 402 hours of this spent in Isaac alone? Yeah, and 1000+ hours total.💀😆 That said, I'm getting through the Tainted Jacob sheet now, so this saga should be ending soon. It probably accounts for "action" and "shooting" topping my genre stats, too.

488 hours, top 3 were Tokyo Mirage Sessions, Unicorn Overlord & Xenoblade Chronicles 3, but I think Unicorn was my favourite of the year.

Not sure yet, but at a guess my most played will be
Mario and Luigi Brothership, The Thousand Year Door and Mario RPG.

1. Hollow Knight
2. Shadow Man
3. Animal Well

90 more hours of Animal Crossing, everything else was on PC.

Currently, ~457 hours. Not even 500 hours... Disappointing. 😔
Most played game of the year is Fate/stay night REMASTERED – ~165 hours in, according to Switch itself.
I'm counting my overall playtime by myself.

I put 700 hours into the Binding of Isaac this year.

Next closest was Darkest Dungeon with 60 hours.

I uh... really like Isaac

@ScalenePowers
...Hopefully not the PSP version of Ys 6 lol. Have you tried it? That version runs awfully. The framerate is like a slideshow at times.
I played it because it has minigames not in the other versions, and I wanted to see what was up with them. (The minigames are also awful).

The PS2 and PSP versions of Ys 6 were done by Konami, and I don't think Falcom has any rights to the Konami-specific content (the bonus dungeon on PS2, the minigames on PSP, the English-translated script in both). ...If Ys 6 is gonna be ported, it'll likely be the Steam version since Falcom owns everything in that one.

Agreed that an Ys 7 port would be great. And a Celceta port too while we're at it!

@nhSnork Tainted Jacob was such an unfun character. Tainted Lost was worse but not by much

I'm convinced I haven't touched my switch for more than a couple hours this entire year - just no new games I was interested in on it in particular in 2024 - so I'm VERY curious to see the actual stats.

@xenobladexfan They are available on Switch. Only in Japan, however. And, only in Japanese. 😔

990 hours on 97, wow!
Most played are Pokémon Scarlet + Expansion Pass (104 hours), Baten Kaitos I & II Remaster (100 hours) and Splatoon 3 + Expansion Pass (87 hours).

37 games,
920 hours for me

1. Octopath Traveler II - 145 hrs
2. Chained Echoes - 86
3. Shogun Showdown - 67

Happy Gaming and good luck everyone

Most played:
1. Triangle Strategy
2. Unicorn Overlord
3. Tactics Ogre Reborn

I lost my Switch to my Mother, last year, during the house move. (Her ps4 was packed away, she "borrowed" the Switch, and now I don't have a Switch!!)
Apparently "I've" played 273 hours of Puyo Puyo Tetris, this year, and not much else!!
... All year I've been playing the "should I buy a Switch or wait it out for the Switch 2" game.

@Vyacheslav333 I know but surely couldn't Xseed games just use their English translation for Switch, weird thing is, Cold Steel 1&2 are published by NIS America on PS Vita, pal regions.

My #1 was Balatro at 305 hours. #2 Monster Hunter Rise #3 Vampire Survivors
No surprises there

@Manxman64 and Tainted Jacob is at almost constant risk of turning into Tainted Lost himself... minus the item quality boost.💀 The only perks are Dark Esau's convincing contact damage to enemies (although it proved too tedious for me to orchestrate on purpose) and devil deal exploits. I've already scraped through Beast and Mother, both with an early C-Section which allows you to focus on maneuvering, but I can't deny starting every new run with a temptation to sit and reroll the first floor all the way into a gnawed leaf. I even dropped a prior Mother run over halfway through because its Soy Milk and Tech X synergy proved amusing... but ultimately still in need of more focused shooting than what you can afford in context.

With luck, though, I cautiously hope to complete the game (or at least the last sheet) before January. The unlocked item mop-up, like the Afterbirth+ one before it, can be done with just Lost for devil deal exclusives (if any) and Azazel for the rest.

@JSC016 im sorry to hear that! I hope youre doing well now.

Most played games:
Fire Emblem Engage
Persona 4G
Pokemon Shield

This was a slow year compared to the last 2 years, but I'm amazed at my Engage playtime. Cool to see it the most played game 2 years in a row.

Played 400 less hours this year compared to last year. Played 1084 hours this year.

Most played game each year for me:
2021 Dragon Quest XI S
2022 Pokemon Legends Arceus
2023 Fire Emblem Engage
2024 Fire Emblem Engage

Can't remember the earlier years, think I remember Smash Ultimate getting most played at one point.

Most played game was Splatoon 3. I also donated to my cursing jar more than ever. Wonder if there's a connection.

Final Fantasy VI and 1000yr Door were my most played games. Not surprised but I do think brothership will top FF VI.

@epicgamner Thank you! Indeed I am.

66 games, 406 hours. Most played games: Persona 5 Royal, Theatrhythm Final Bar Line and SteamWorld Heist II. All 3 at 50 hours or so.

This year had two months where I barely touched my Switch. July had 3 hours because I was in Japan for the first half of the month and November had 3 because I just haven't been in the mood lately. I was excited for multiple August/September releases and the only one I actually finished was SteamWorld Heist II. Zelda and Emio took a backseat meanwhile I haven't even touched Investigations 2 yet.

Total Games played: 58
Hours Played: 506
Top 3 games played:
1. Stardew Valley - 191 hours
2. Vampire Survivors - 87 hours
3. Dragon Quest Monsters - The Dark Prince -75 hours

Terrible Switch year for me 48 hours as no new big Nintendo Studios AAA games, true first party.
2024
PS5 197
Series x 130
Switch 48

What a difference to 2023 when Switch was top with over 250 hours, the year of TOTK and Mario Wonder big AAA from Nintendo Studios.

Hoping the Switch 2 will bring big AAA from Nintendo in house studios on release day.

340 hours total, with TTYD number 1. No big surprises here, but I love the feature.

284 hours this year compared to last year's 654. And 74 of those hours were for work lol.
Most played was otherwise Unicorn Overlord, which I also put as my favorite.
Part of the reason for the drop is my PS5 going from 45 hours in 2023 to 450 hours this year due to Eldin Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree and Granblue Fantasy Relink (among other games).

I think I actually played a similar number of games on Switch. They were just shorter.

Top 3:

1. Pokémon Legends Arceus. 284 hours
2. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. 104 hours
3. Animal Crossing: New Horizons. 92 hours.

Total of 82 games and 666 hours (awesome total ) in 2024.

And yes, I can't wait to see Pokémon Legends Z-A next year

Top 3:
Splatoon 3 (479 hours)

Game Boy Advance - Nintendo Switch Online (Mainly The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past + Four Swords) (39 hours)

The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (38 hours)

694 total hours

Other details:

First game this year: Master Detective Archives: RAINCODE
Most Played Month: January (89 hours)
Most played game in months January - September: Splatoon 3
October: The Legend of Zelda Echoes of Wisdom
November: Mario & Luigi: Brothership
Top Genre: Action (48%) & Shooter (42%)
Favorite Game: The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom

Also, Mario & Luigi: Brothership probably could have cracked the top 3 if December counted because I’m really cracking through that game and its way lengthier than I presumed.

• Most played in past years:
  2019: Octopath Traveler
  2020: Ring Fit Adventure
  2021: Warioware: Get it Together!
  2022: Splatoon 3
  2023: Splatoon 3

TotK on top. Barely touched anything else. I kind of like it like that. My goal next year is to play fewer games on all three consoles (not less play time).

I had 696 hours between January and November, so I'm over 700 hours for sure. My most played game was Splatoon 3, at over 170 hours. Which is funny, because that was my in-between game, since I beat 50 other games this year. I'd say my favourite 2024 game was Pizza Tower, but in terms of just an overall game that I happened to be playing in 2024, then Splatoon 3, as my numbers show for it.

Ah, I just looked it up again, and my Top 3 were:

1. Splatoon 3 - 176 hours
2. Unicorn Overlord - 59 hours
3. Powerwash Simulator - 54 hours.

My most active month was July. Probably because of Powerwash Simulator. That game had me insanely hooked for a month.

I just keep getting an error message for some reason, though I'm guessing my top for the year is probably going to be Pokemon Scarlet. Not really any games I've put a ton of time into this year but shiny hunting time adds up.

I played most in 2024 (sub-titles are a must!)
1. Mario+Rabbids: Sparks of Hope
2. Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince
3. Master Detective Archives: Rain Code

Enjoyed the most
1. Mario+Rabbids: Sparks of Hope
2. Pricess Peach: Showtime!
3. Metroid Prime Remastered (not yet finished and might be replaced later by Kirby and the Forgotten Land)

64 games and 239 hours. Definitely much less since I got my Steam Deck. Top games are Smash Ultimate, Overlord Escape from Nazarick, Emio, and Mario Kart.

@FishyS I expected much higher number from you based on the weekend topic

Forty-nine games and [cough] 1,067 hours.

I play a fair amount of retro games with my Expansion Pack membership, and I've also been playing a lot of Mega Man this year.

October was my lightest month at only 79 hours played. 😅

(January was 106. 😬)

Factorio 74 hours
TOTK 44 hours
Nine Sols 21 hours
PoP: TLC 16 hours
Skyrim 88 hours.

My 4th playthrough of Skyrim, this time as a dual dagger assassin. More fun than stealth archer.

Seems I haven't spent much time on my Switch this year. 160 hours compared to 570+ on PS5. The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero was my most played, I'll be playing Trails to Azure next year sometime.

I played 80 games and 1030 hours.

My most played games were:

1. Splatoon 3
2. Fire emblem Engage
3. Endless Ocean Luminous

I managed to play 47 games and put in 1,094 hours this year.
And my most played games this year were
1. BOTW
2. Guardian tales (dunno how that happened :/)
3. Citizens unite (mostly level grinding)
And Most of my game time was in March.
And my favorite game this year was Age of calamity which I actually started playing back in October during our trip.

Also my third most played genre this year was RPG’s (my #1 most played genre this year was action)… definitely gonna have to fix that. 😅

@Dirty_Croc
The Switch is the perfect TRPG machine.
Waiting forever for that Final Fantasy Tactics remaster...

250 hours total, top 3 are Tetris 99 (72 hours), Paper Mario TTYD (42 hours) and Echoes of Wisdom (30 hours)

Aaaaa... Played a few games academically this year.

Souldiers, samurai bringer, going under, venba, rabiribi, children of zodiarcs, and octopath traveller 2 were dope!

Glad my stats aren't crazy, these reviews make me feel a odd.

15 games, 480 total hrs
Top 3 most plyed:
Unicorn Overlord @182 hrs
Xenoblade 3 @68 hrs
FE Engage @67 hrs

I assume as with the other services that do this that December gaming is lost to the void. Your 11/12 of a year in Review?

Whatever arbitrary cut off date they set is brutal. It says I only played Crypt Custodian for 2 hours. Nope, I finished the game earlier this month after over 15 hours. Then I’ve also gone back to Splatoon 3 to dabble in Side Order, but again that hasn’t registered. It means my stats aren’t really truly reflective of the year, which is a shame

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 with 129 Hours.
Red Dead Redemption with 40 hours.
Paper Mario TTYD with 31 hours.

Total of 265 hours which was less that Zelda TOTK last year.

@Burning_Spear Thanks! They should do this in January to cover the entire year.

I don’t think that’s a question that needs to be answered…

88 games and 564 hrs.
Top 3 games:
Ace Attorney Apollo Justice Collection- 172 hrs
Ace Attorney Investigations Collection- 102 hrs
Easy Come Easy Golf- 39 hrs.

779 hours over 56 games. Animal Crossing up top at 95. F-Zero 99 at 82, then GBA at 55. Pretty decent.

23 games, 160 hours overall. Not much, but I do play a lot on PC.

1: TotK (41 hours)
2: Pokémon: Let’s Go Eevee! (31 hours)
3: Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (31 hours)

Must try harder next year as my Switch backlog is full of RPGs.

51 Games, 466 Hours

Most Played:

Pokémon Scarlet - 138 hours
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond - 70 hours
Super Mario Party Jamboree - 41 hours

Top Genre: RPG

Top Month: August - 64 hours
Lowest Month: March - 3 hours

Favourite Game of 2024: Cat Quest III

I still don't get the verification code from Nintendo.
I have checked the Spam / Junk folder but still nothing.
Did I miss something?

558 hours across 31 games this year. My top 3 most played are,

Zelda TOTK - 84 hours
Fire Emblem Warriors Three Hopes - 63 hours
Splatoon 3 - 59 hours

Add thst to my 1600 hours on PS5 and I've played over 2000 hours of gaming this year..... 😅

Most played = Balatro at 291 hours!! Oh dear, oh dear.

My top 3 most played games were:
Great Ace Attorney Chronicles with 88 hours
Unicorn Overlord with 85
Tokyo Xanadu with 49

2024 was a very different year for me on a personal level, lots of changes and it definitely shows in my game time lol.

This year on my switch I played a total of 119 hours and didn't even play any new releases outside of the beginning of M&L Brothership.

By comparison:
2023 - 578 hours
2022 - 594 hours
2021 - 804 hours
2020 - 2077 hours
2019 - 1016 hours

54 Games and 621 Hours. Sounds like a lot, but really I only play a couple hours a night at most.

Most Played:
Disney Dreamlight Valley - 311 hours
Hogwarts Legacy - 58 hours
Yooka-Laylee - 31 hours

Top Genre - Adventure

Top Month - March 125 hours
Lowest Month - October 26 hours

Favorite Game - Dreamlight Valley

I had like 340 hours and the only non-otome that topped a month was Arzette in July, and you know what, good for her. It's a great game and I'm happy it was the one non-"narrative adventure" (as the wrap-up put it, haha) I really put time into this year.

Alright, amateurs... 71 games, 1,031 hours. IN MY DEFENSE, my account is a shared account with my son, so it includes his Minecraft habit and my Diablo 3 habit. A ton of that time was couch co-op, which I will never feel bad about.

I had 796 hours in total.

My top 3 games were:
1. Splatoon 3 (639 hours)
2. TotK (49 hours)
3. Splatoon 2 (19 hours)

372 hours played this year, up from 282 hours last year!
My top 3 games were
1. Dead By Daylight (171 hours)
2. Fortnite (77 hours)
3. Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy (24 hours)

I had a lot of fun playing Switch this year. I wish I had really gotten into Unicorn Overlord earlier in the year because it would easily be in my top-played games if December was included.

61 games, 1433 hours.
1. Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (334 hours)
2. Unicorn Overlord (181 hours)
3. Xenoblade Chronicles (178 hours)
Discovering the Xenoblade series was definitely the highlight of 2024 haha, expect Xenoblade Chronicles 3 to be at the top of the list for 2025!

@springer17 Love this as a top 3! Tokyo Mirage Sessions is one of the games I'm most wanting to get that I don't own yet, hope you enjoyed!

Randomly my top played game was Batman Arkham Knight, then prince of Persia, then dead cells. I didn't think I enjoyed Arkham Knight but I played 34 hours worth...

Not a big year for Switch for me.

My top 3 were
Monster Rancher 1/2 (21 hours)
Mario & Luigi Brothership (16 hours & counting)
Super Nintendo app (10 hours, mostly a combination of DKC and earthbound)

I bought Unicorn Overlord on Xbox because no one else would. Clocked 95 hours on there which is definitely my most played game across all consoles.

Curious to see how my Steam numbers turn out since I also spend a lot of time on the deck.

57 games 281 hours. I think my play time is going down.

Which is good. Trying to play less.

My top three games played this year are...

1. Coromon
2. Nexomon
3. Super Smash Bros.: Ultimate

Unicorn Overlord for me! Most played and favorite.
Next was TotK and then, annoyingly, SSBU (my nephews play it on my account; I don’t even play!). Tactics Ogre: Reborn would have been my third as it’s one I keep coming back to when I complete other games.

@Bex_Tries I loved it, played it on Wii U but never ended up finishing it. It's worth tracking down.

@LavenderShroud I just finished Sword and loved it, how did you like it? And what did you think of the other two in comparison?

I'm trying to figure out if I'm going Arceus or final Fantasy 8 as next game! 😂

@Vortexeo that's a serious change in gaming habits! Was it for something good, or a conscious choice? Or just not enough there to keep you hooked?

@themightyant Incredible games, profound and perspective-altering, honestly. I feel like an overall more positive person in life afterwards! The first two games have instantly vaulted into first and second on my all time favourite games.

Really enjoyed Future Redeemed, took an hour or two to get going but really took off and hit emotionally in moments, some fun gameplay twists from the main game. I'll be starting the XC2 Torna DLC in January, excited for that! Then 3, then X, can't wait. But yeah, replaying them is something I'm looking forward too as well eventually.

@springer17 I see physical copies of it available for the Switch at £50, I've waited to see if it ever gets a discount, but I'll be fine picking it up for that when a gap opens in the backlog Looks really fun

@garfreek Shield is. Lacking in a lot of areas. I have watched my brother play through it twice. I am enjoying it for what it is though, don’t get me wrong. I think I might prefer Let’s Go more and liked the little bit of Shining Pearl I played. Arceus is really fun to me since it’s so different from the other Pokémon games.

I’ve racked up about 1300 hrs of playtime. The joys of being in unemployment for the most part of the year. Hours have gone right down now I’m back at work.
Balatro takes the win at 257 hrs.
Second place goes to Unicorn Overlord at 160 hrs
Third Place goes to SMTVengence at 130 hours.
The rest of the games are made up of all the brilliant action platformers we’ve been blessed with this year, Pizza Tower, Volgarr, Pepper Grinder, Shadow of the Ninja to name a small few.

@themightyant I did not get all blades sadly, I tried for a while though! I'm a slow player in general so the hours did pile up, but I do explore every corner of every area that I can, which takes time. And all blades I had, which was most, I took the time to 100% all of their affinity charts, which took a while! If I didn't have so many other games to play, would have no issue starting again and playing another 300 hours haha. Agreed on the music, I'll be walking down the aisle at my upcoming wedding to a song from XC2, so there's that! ("A Place in the Sun", if you were interested)

I spent more hours finishing off Tears of the Kingdom this year than I did clocking Echoes of Wisdom. I'm Zelda'd out. From now on it will be mainly indies and Rocket League until the Switch 2 comes to shake things up again.

This never worked for me. Always says I need to log into an account with significant (enough) hours played. Which... I do. It just never shows anything. Spent countless hours playing this year so what gives?

Oh my.

669 hours, most played:

#1 The Binding of Isaac: Repentance (87 hours)
#2 Unicorn Overlord (87 hours)
#3 Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition (86 hours)

I guess I'm one of those "80-hour RPG" guys. Although my total amount of time in TBOI runs in the hundreds as it's my "Go-to-game" whenever I'm in between bigger games and I still haven't even managed to finish one save file in all these years of playing...

@Enigk This is my pet peeve with these things. Hopefully the December stats will be added later, but it's really just bad form. They should do the year in review things in January, when nothing happens and that could add at least something to look back to at the start of the year. Aw well..

Super ashamed to admit that my most played game was New Denpa Men at a whopping 101 hours. I did enjoy my time in it, but I am very happy that I successfully weened off of it. I completely quit playing a little while back and am happier as a result.

I even spent like 15 bucks on it, but I don't feel that bad about that, since that's basically the price of a cup of coffee these days.

@Pillowpants You could get Mario Wonder for Xmas and complete it before New Year and it would be nowhere on your stats which is disappointing. All these things seem guilty of this and not just gaming round ups.

Only 15 games and 179h this year, although it's realistically nowhere near that as apparently my second most played game was Pokemon Violet (46h), which I've never played. Guessing my son has been using my profile to play through the game again and trade to his account. 79h on .stitch was my most played, second (that I actually played) was Lumines Remastered at 17h.

@Enigk Yeah, the same goes for Spotify and Goodreads. They all seem to neglect December. Thankfully, you can see monthly stats in the parental app, which is also a bit weird. I miss the days when you had actually good stat apps, like on the 3DS!

@Dirty_Croc Thanks for the suggestion, they're on my wishlist for some time now, both on Steam and the eShop. I might get them this time, just have to assess the damage on my budget by today's Steam Winter Sale...

@Pillowpants
The Binding of Isaac is digital crack. Recently picked it up again to try and clear some more marks. Pretty sure it’s my most played game of all time now

@Neckcrane TBOI has ruined so many games for me because of how well designed it is. I sometimes try other Roguelikes and they rarely come close to what I've come to expect from the genre. I learned a lot from playing the game over the years and still only have about 7 characters 100% complete...

@LavenderShroud Thanks!!

@garfreek it wasn't necessarily intentional, I think just a lot happened in my personal life. I had finished grad school earlier this year and after I graduated my motivation to play drastically dropped. I guess I wasn't prepared for how directionless life could feel after finishing school 😂

Spent a lot of time this year trying to make new friends, try new hobbies, etc. Really planning on picking gaming back up again next year though 👌

@Vortexeo Oh that's such a good idea! Taking up new hobbies really helped me connect with people and make some of my best friends!

Good luck, and congratulations on finishing school! 💪🥳

10 games and 225 hours. Most played were Splatoon 3, Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door and Minecraft.

35 Games with 705 hours!

The most played:

Snowrunner (176 hours)
Hogwarts Legacy (98 hours)
Hades (69 hours)

I played more games this year due to focusing more on the backlog. I thought for sure Sifu would have been up there, too. I never would have ever thought Snowrunner would be on any list for me. Took a random chance with it and it took me by surprise. Put the backlog on ice and all I played was Snowrunner.

@Pillowpants I completely agree, TBOI was one of the first roguelikes I’ve played and I’ve been chasing the dragon ever since. It introduced me to a whole genre and I have pretty much every decent roguelike/lite going but they still don’t deliver what Isaac can. I think the only comparable roguelikes in terms of replayability and quality are Slay the Spire and Monster Train. I know they’re very different games to Isaac but very well designed games/roguelikes.
Keep chasing those marks friend, there’s a great Isaac guide on app stores which is my goto.

@themightyant Thanks! Yeah, I thought the track was lovely to fit the occasion.

I'd love to have all blades but such is the system, still great fun. Hopefully get some different ones next time. But first, Torna!

My brain just goes crazy for this type of stuff.

I was at 33 games for 327 hours.

1. Breath of the Wild - 33 hours (I know I'm late but I just adore this game.)
2. Star Wars KOTOR - 32 hours (Childhood nostalgia, a nice port, and had to 100% with a min/max run)
3. Mario Kart 8 - 27 hours (fairly self-explanatory and my mother LOVES MK8)

Tried to play games roughly equally rather than going deep on a game or two. We'll see if I do that again this coming year!

@gcunit I absolutely loved rime. Played it on steam t years ago

40 Games, 1127 hours

Top 3

Pokémon Scarlet: 736 h
Pokémon Violet: 146 h
Zelda TOTK: 70 h

Top month: January with 200 hours
(Played a lot Scarlet with the 2nd DLC release)

From January to June I played about 847 h with an average of 141 hours per month (lowest month April with 102 hours).
Then at the end of June I started playin a lot of Pokémon GO.

So from June to November I played 273 h with an average of about 55 h (lowest: July 36 h, highest: November 71 h).

Atm I'm playin SMT V:Vengeance, Scarlet and Violet (daily, simply my comfort games^^), also a bit TOTK and from time to time PKMN Legends Arceus.

38 Games, 756 Total Hours

My Top 3 games 2024
1. Trails of cold steel 3
2. Fire emblem engage
3. Brawlhalla

Kicked off 2024 with ACNH on January 1st, 12am!

• 33 Games & 359 Hours

Most-played games:

• ACNH, 133 hours
• TOTK, 93 hours
• Pokemon Scarlet, 67 hours

Gaming Style:

• 30% Character Driven
• 28% Action
• 21% Role Playing
• 20% Adventure

And my Game Of 2024:

Animal Crossing New Horizons.
2024 was a busy year, and ACNH still is the perfect companion app for me. This game truly has defined my entire Nintendo Switch generation.

I'm not even sure if the next Animal Crossing on Switch 2 will fill the same role, and whether or not I will continue that kind of daily check-in once ACNH fades away completely. It really has been quite a unique game fitting this particularly era of my life like nothing else. The closest I can compare was when I was a child playing Pokemon every day.

Happy Christmas to everyone, and a Happy New Year!