Patient gamers might be interested in this news.
Most of my 2025 was Silksong actually, but for only $20 it felt like a patient gamer moment!
Not surprising
1% for me and I could not even tell which game(s) because I do not own anything released this year. I’m guessing they count demos/playtest.
I do have 7 2025 games on my wishlist though, but no reason to pull the trigger on any of them before summer/winter sale 2026.
I think I bought one game from 2025 this year. Two-Point Museum. Great value. I’ve had a blast with it.
I’ve no idea what AAA releases have come out this year, and I don’t particularly care. They tend to be garbage anyway.
Yeah and?
Like, let the players get to their backlog. Good opportunity while the prices appear to be the same no matter the age of the game most times.
I mean if people aren’t buying new games it’s def a bag thing for the developers and publishers. Feel however you want about them but modern AAA games don’t get made without crazy investments. Hell even AA games are starting to eat 10s of millions.
What does that have to do with gaming backlogs?
Oh, nothing, judging from that downvote.
If they are investing huge amounts of money and not seeing a return on that investment, maybe they will stop churning out microtransaction slop if it keeps failing.
Probably not, but one can hope.
If they aren’t buying them yes, but this looked at what people are playing.
I was so disappointed with Dune: Awakening. I should have listened to my gut, because I knew it wasn’t going to bring anything new (enough) to the survival formula. I bought when it first came out, I’ve only played it for like 3 hours total.
Interesting, I had the opposite reaction. The game was very addicting and fresh to me and I’ve played most survival games that’s out there
Like a true patient gamer I didn’t play a single game from 2025.
Respect.
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Silksong??
I had some financial troubles recently, so I have not been buying any AAA games for over a year but I have bought some new little games here and there like Peak or some free to play games so my new release percentage is 22%
54% is 1 to 7 year old games.
24% is 8 years or older.
Still rocking Elite Dangerous.
Played Pathfinder, the second one. Replayed Neverwinter Nights 1&2. Did a Legendary ME run through, because, why not? A sprinkling of Stellaris throughout, no recent expansion adds.
Checks out.
The prices are off the rails lately, and the games are not as good. I can’t justify $100 for a game alongside the electric bill and groceries.
I started Wrath of the Righteous in January and still haven’t finished it :/ But I’m over 160 hours in and close to the end.
I played some other games in between, but I’m kinda impressed you beat so many beasts of games.
Same, 80% of my gaming was on older releases. The only game I played released in 2025 was an indie TD game called Dungeon Warfare III, mostly because I played and loved I and II.
Count me in. The only 2025 game I got is THPS3+4 which is a remaster of a 2 decade old game(s). The only reason I got this game is because I was a hardcore fan of THPS series and my favorite one was 3 on PC.
Dungeon Warfare is a great tower defense series, just like you i can only recommend it - haven’t tried the third one yet tho.
Wait there are new games coming out still? I thought everyone was just working on their pile of shame.
I mean, Clair Obscur and Silksong both came out this year, and they’re fantastic.
But if we’re talking triple A stuff? Uh… Not a clue. I wanna say there was a Battlefield game?
I’d be more curious to see what percentage of game sales were for 2025 titles versus older.
I think that would paint a truer picture of player behaviour, and whether there are any fundamental shifts in trends.
The only 2025 game I recall buying is Darkenstein 3D. Simple and fun, just the way I like.
It’s free?
Checks Steam
So it is. My bad. So that means I bought nothing this year. 😅
I played like three games from this year. PEAK, MH Wilds, MK World.
The joy of playing older games is that they run well since they‘ve had years of patches and there‘s been years of faster hardware to power through most of the lack of optimization. And they‘re about a quarter the price. For running four times worse, new games also certainly don‘t look four times better.
The only new game ive played this year is Ball X Pit and it is phenomenal and runs flawlessly for a game that is less than 3 months from having been released. I hope they keep adding onto it
Other than that i don’t think ive played any games newer than 2020 or maybe even before
Yeah, 3% of mine was new releases! 8% was from 1-7 years, and 89% was 8+. It’s not because of the cost of games or upgrades though, I just don’t care about most of the new games that come out. I already have games I like to play!
