Number of games whose "last played" date falls in each year
Year
Games
2016
8
2017
0
2018
9
2019
5
2020
11
2021
22
2022
11
2023
12
2024
14
2025
23
2026
16
Note: this only counts how many games had their "last played" date
fall in a given year — it does not mean that's when the hours were
actually played. Steam's own API only exposes total lifetime hours,
hours in the last two weeks, and a last-played timestamp; it does
not break hours down by year. So for a game played over a decade,
like Dota 2's 2836 total hours, those hours weren't all "played in
2026" — it just happens that the most recent session landed in 2026.