I’m the guy who is consistently picking up old games that he’s always wanted when they go on a steam sale years later for single digits. So I’m constantly three or four (or more years) behind. And I don’t really mind because I’m always a single player who doesn’t enjoy any form of online multiplayer.
So do I care that I only last month picked up EU4 and a bunch of DLC for cheap, not one bit. Same for Civ 6.
I’ll happily chug away at my old games that no one cares about anymore.
Seems reasonable to me. What percentage of games on steam have been released in 2024? Gotta be a smoll percentage. Actually, 15 percent seems pretty high now that you mention.
“A whooping 15 percent” seems like a better title.
Factory gamers were eating good this year.
I don’t know what factory I am supposed to grow this week.
Space. Obviously space.
i always wait until the games are actually done (and priced reasonably), and that means nowadays that yeah, no 2024 games.
Headline says ‘only’, but the article says that’s actually an increase from last year.
of course it is; 0% of players in 2023 played games released in 2024.
Well technically with early access games, it would be >0%. Although they didn’t know that back in 2023…
Hell, I’m surprised it is over 10% with how many of the most popular games have been around for years.
My guess is that Palworld and Helldivers 2 carried a good chunk of that time. I was going to mention Factorio Space Age, but it would just track time for base game. Satisfactory has been in early access for a long time, but officially released 1.0 this year as well, I wonder how that’d count.
Even one of the biggest releases of this year was a DLC to Elden Ring, which means the actual game is still a few years old
I hope this article isn’t because the industry might consider shifting to a complete subscription model, I really can’t afford the rising cost of new games on release or overpriced subscription models.
Looking through the sale trying to find ANY game that holds an interest for me… Any suggestions? Seems like a lot of trash lately.
Great games that came out in 2024:
- UFO 50
- Peglin
- ANIMAL WELL
- Balatro
2024 games that I haven’t tried yet but seem promising:
- Pepper Grinder
- Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom
- Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
- Rabbit and Steel
- Another Crab’s Treasure
- Felvidek
All are in no particular order. Dunno if you’ll like those but these ones come to mind :)
Rabbit and Steel
I haven’t had a chance to properly play it in coop, but I tried Rabbit and Steel and it is really fun.
Thanks! Bought and played a lot of UFO50 already, I liked it. Bought and loved Balatro as well! I’ll have to look into the others. Thanks again!
No worries! I’ve just realized you were asking for games on sale (reading is hard ugh…) so hopefully the ones you want will be discounted mb ^^’
Another Crabs Treasure.
Oof. Wanted to love it. Wanted it to be SpongeBob like but with dark souls but timing is weird. The game is buggy. Fights don’t feel satisfying and it’s somehow too fast and too slow but people keep telling me to just turn on God mode and it will be fun… But then it’s not a game it’s a power trip.
I would skip it. I think it got hyped up the way that Stray did without being a great game just a great concept to talk about.
Damn, that’s sad. Since I already have tons of games I want to play I’ll probably never end up getting it then. Thanks for telling me :/
I know, I was so disappointed. But hey there is not a shortage of other fun games to play!
STALKER 2 is okay. Yeah I aint got nothing else besides high grade Slav jank.
Same. Yesterday I searched through Switch, PS5, GoG and Steam to find something to play during the holidays.
I think I’ll just track down the Wii game “The Last Story” I never got to play.
That’s because most new games either suck the butt or made by assholes, or both
I’m surprised it is that high.
I think all I played this year was Helldivers 2
One sale just ended and there’s another… Where am I supposed to get time to play when I’m busy buying them?
And that’s a biased statistic. My recap shows I spent 1% of my time playing games released in 2024 when I know, for a fact, that I didn’t. Upon further investigation, I found that it was counting my play time in Palworld as 1% even though it still shows as “0 minutes” because I literally only opened it to check that it worked.
STALKER 2 is the only new game I think I bought this year
I want to get Still Wakes the Deep but for what is apparently a pretty short game I’ll be waiting for a better discount. that’s about the only 2024 game I’ve been interested in
Only recent games I’ve bought are helldivers 2, battlebit, and ready or not. All went bad sadly
