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Yep, I actually own 7,255 games on Steam. I’ve played 23% of my library. I regret nothing. (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 day ago by atomicpoet@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world
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Why do I play all these games? Because it’s important that they’re played.

Because every game is a story, a world, a moment in time crafted by someone who cared enough to create it.

Because each one teaches me something new—about design, about culture, about myself.

Because in a sea of pixels, there’s magic waiting to be found.

And because, honestly? Sometimes I just want to escape, explore, and lose myself in different worlds.

So yeah. I own thousands of games, and I’ll keep playing them.

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[–] simop_jo@lemmy.world 11 points 12 hours ago

Steam summer sale final boss

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

How's Robocop?

[–] Toneswirly@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Damn, I thought I had a lot. Just checked and its only 500, with about 60 sitting in the "backlog"

[–] Sophocles@infosec.pub 36 points 1 day ago (6 children)

The comments of this thread give off major Reddit energy. Sure the post is a little fedora-lordish but why not add meaningful input by discussing the value of games and their stories like the post suggests, rather than bashing a stranger for no reason other than hypercriticalism?

It's not a crime to enjoy something. Just because someone has a differing view does not make it a wrong view. And honestly if I get downvoted, it kinda proves that lemmings just critisize others and hate when someone is critical of them. Hypocrisy at its finest.

I too have chosen to spend a good chunk of my money on games, and came to, you know the "games" lemmy instance, to talk about them. That's not hyper-consumerism, its me finding happiness in a world where there's not much to be happy about. Like op said, it's a way to escape, explore, and lose yourself.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Exactly!

And it's highly unlikely that OP is playing 100% new-releases, especially w/ that 200+ installed games, so they're probably getting a bunch of those well below store price (i.e. through bundles and whatnot). I have several hundred games, many of which I haven't played, and most of those came in a bundle that included a couple games I did play (and the total price was significantly less than the retail price of the games I did play).

I'm guessing that's OP's case, and given how many they claim to have played, I'm guessing they have a lot of time to play games.

[–] atomicpoet@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

You are correct. I have never once bought a new release on Steam.

Black Myth: Wukong tempted me. But I did not cave to temptation.

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[–] sleepmode@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

Very similar to my account.

[–] janNatan@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm curious, what's your highest play time on a game? Or maybe top 3 even.

[–] atomicpoet@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

Sure, here’s my top three by hours spent:

  1. Spelunky - 92.2 hours
  2. Legends of Solitaire: Curse of the Dragons - 58.9 hours
  3. Civilization V - 50.2 hours
[–] oji@lemmy.world 63 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I actually own

The funny thing is, you don't own them.

[–] atomicpoet@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (26 children)

Say what you will, every game I’ve bought—I can still play. And I’ve been buying Steam games for over a decade.

Meanwhile, none of my GameCube discs work on my Switch.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can still play them on your GameCube or Wii though, or take copies of the discs and play them on anything that runs Dolphin

[–] kadup@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

While you're not wrong, by that logic, it's actually fairly trivial to take my Steam downloads drive and run it on any computer even without my Steam account.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Does that work? I always assumed games with DRM wouldn't work if they couldn't authenticate to your Steam account.

[–] kadup@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

It works in the same way that dumping your GameCube games and running them on Dolphin works... It's quick and easy, but it's against the ToS and requires breaking DRM.

Steam's DRM is weak, and in some interviews some Valve developers even gave hints that this is on purpose. Many Steam games will simply run without Steam if you just double click the .exe in the install folder, and the vast majority that only rely on Steam's DRM can be opened by running a free "Steam Emulator" software that pretends to be an active Steam account with a correct license.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A lot of Steam games don't have any DRM, and most of the rest are pretty easy to strip.

Give it a shot sometime. Completely quit out of Steam, turn off your internet, and try running some of your older Steam games directly from the Steam folder.

I do this somewhat often when my kids are on my other computer playing games on my account and I still want to play something. It's a little trickier on Linux since you need something to run the Proton/WINE layer, so I mostly stick to Linux-native games in that pretty rare case.

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Family share is actually great for this now.

It used to be that if anyone in the group was playing any game it would lock you out of playing anything else on the main account without kicking them off.

But they eased up on it now so you can both play at the same time as long as you aren't playing the same game at the same time.

So just make a burner account for you or for your kids and family share the library to it and now you don't even have to go offline unless everyone in the house wants to play BG3 simultaneously.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 17 hours ago

Really? I haven't tried that since they revamped the sharing thing. I have three accounts, one for me, my wife, and one my kids share, and they're all linked. Most of the time my kids use my account, but I can easily change that if it'll allow simultaneous play (on different games).

Thanks for the tip, I'll try it out!

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[–] mohab@piefed.social 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why do I play all these games? Because it's important that they're played.

Well, evidently not since you're actively ignoring about 77% of them 😂 And who boasts about their hyperconsumerism on fucking Lemmy of all platforms 😂

[–] atomicpoet@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Wrong. Not ignored—not played yet.

[–] tal 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Not ignored—not played yet.

Journal, July 3, 2025:

The day opened with a round of Barbie Project Friendship.

I then followed it up with survival horror Amnesia: The Bunker from survival horror specialists Frictional Games.

Next on the list was gay dom/sub dating sim Blood Domination.

Then hard milsim Command: Modern Operations.

I wound down with some relaxing time in art toy Zen Trails.

I have always been partial to variety.

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[–] linrilang@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

23% played? That’s basically 100% by Steam standards. You’ve officially made it.

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[–] oyzmo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I have more fun browsing and buying games, than playing 🙈🙈😅

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