According To Steam, The Average PC Gamer Writer Played 72 Games...
This week I've been: Defending Hades 2's honour in the Game of the Year awards, failing.
Last week I was: Appreciating player housing in MMORPGs.
So—the Steam replay for 2025 debuted recently, giving every Steam user a more granular look at their gaming habits. And I, being a data-minded person, wondered: If you were to assimilate (most of) the staff of PC Gamer into one horrifying flesh-blob, what would our combined stats look like?
Coincidentally, I have had a lot of my expenses requests for lab equipment rejected recently. Phooey.
I have, however, got some interesting numbers to share with some disclaimers: I did not get the entirety of the PC Gamer staff in my net—just a decently representative sample of 19. Apparently Christmas is a busy time of year for a gaming magazine. Boo. Secondly, this is a culmination of our Steam replays: Some of us play games on Epic or GOG, like philistines.
Either way, here's our average stats: The average PC Gamer writer has played 72 games this year—though with a pretty interesting discrepancy between our highest and lowest gamers. Our highest games-player, Joshua Wolens, booted up a whopping 134 titles, while our lowest sits at 28.
It should be noted here, however, that Steam doesn't apparently take much stock in how LONG you play these games. As Josh says: "I have a great habit of seeing a game in my library, downloading it, then launching it once and going 'actually, no'".
In other words, it's entirely possible that the lowest-ranking members simply stuck with fewer games for longer. Or maybe Mr. Wolens was simply on his "grindset, gamemaxxing". His words, not mine.
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Not accounting for duplicates, however, that leads to a lump sum of 1,235 games played across 19 staff members. Not too shabby. Our achievements were also pretty hefty, coming in at an average of 558 (Wolens once again pushed up the score, here) and a lump sum of 9,497 across the people I could force into filling out this thing.
Source: PC Gamer
