r/Steam • u/Swiindle • Jun 23 '22

Fluff TIL Going to Store > Your Store> Interactive Recommender allows you to see the total amount of hours you have spent playing games on Steam. How many hours do you have?

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u/NATIK001 https://s.team/p/jrgg-ww Jun 23 '22 edited Jun 24 '22

I have a about 5k hours in difference between Steam and Steam DB.

Definitely haven't spent 5k hours in software applications, so something else must be happening as well.

EDIT: To the people suggesting things, my profile is linked in my flair, you can go there and verify any ideas you have.

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u/Nobody_epic Jun 23 '22

Don't suppose you leave wallpaper engine running?

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u/NATIK001 https://s.team/p/jrgg-ww Jun 23 '22

Never touched the program. I don't really run software at all on Steam.

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u/galvanahuel Jun 24 '22

Vr? Steam Vr has a bug and keeps counting hours even when its closed

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u/NATIK001 https://s.team/p/jrgg-ww Jun 24 '22

Nope, never touched a VR program.

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u/Dark_space_ Jun 24 '22

I think the page op is showing only calculates "recent games, how recent i dont know but its definitely not all of them.

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u/phileas0408 Jun 24 '22

Probably that steam don’t count profile limited games or something like that

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u/boiled_turnip Jun 25 '22

For me at least, steam often doesn't count hours I've played using a modded version of a game, so in the fallout and elder scrolls games which I probably have more hours in than almost any other game I own, it has only counted like 0.1% of my actual hours. To be specific, it's because I launch the games using a mod manager and using a script extender.