#player-behavior

#player-behavior

Thousands of games are released every year, with numbers increasing recently thanks to an explosion of indie games across all platforms. That means there's more opportunity than ever to find something new and unexpected among the latest releases, but for a lot of players, the comfort of a few familiar games wins out. Newly released statistics show that, at least on consoles, the biggest games of 2025 were exactly the same as 2024's top titles. Do those figures point to an industry in crisis.

Alongside your own stats and details, Steam Replay measures you against the average Steam user, and in doing so reveals some extraordinary statistics about how people really play games. So where the page tells you about how many achievements you unlocked this year, it'll compare that to the median of just 11, or how the average longest streak of days on which games are played is only 6.

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Speaking to The Game Business, design director Jens Andersson said the aim was to make The Great Circle "the most accessible MachineGames game so far," and it being on Game Pass meant that anyone with a membership could give it a shot. The data coming back to MachineGames showed that Game Pass players would "jump in for five minutes and they drop out."