GOG gamers get extra achievements than Steam customers

I do not love giving my knowledge to corporations, however boy oh boy I positive do like it after they repackage it again to me within the type of a enjoyable yearly evaluate. GOG–which is beneath new possession—has joined the likes of Spotify, Steam, PlayStation, Xbox, and even digital financial institution Monzo, to supply us the prospect to see what number of video games we performed, what number of achievements we earned, and what number of hours we spent residing out different lives.

GOG shared the information of this new function earlier in the present day on X. It is referred to as GOG Yr 2025, and it offers a breakdown of the way you performed. My favorite a part of the function is not the information on the video games I performed, however how lengthy I’ve had my GOG account. It has been lively for six years, again earlier than I used to be even a videogame journalist. I used to be nonetheless at college ending my Grasp’s diploma.

I requested across the PC Gamer workplace (I despatched a DM in Slack) and it seems our staffers want to make use of GOG for retro video games like Dino Disaster–which GOG lately introduced again to life—and The Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall. They will be getting their pension funds quickly.

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What’s fascinating is that it appears players on GOG get extra achievements than these on Steam. The common quantity for GOG is 14, whereas the median on Steam is 11. It is essential to notice that common and median are alternative ways of measuring giant knowledge units, so it isn’t an ideal comparability, but it surely’s cool to see nonetheless.

As for the overall variety of video games performed, Steam seems to have crushed GOG, with a median of 4 video games per participant in comparison with a mean of two.4 for the DRM-free storefront. Once more, these aren’t good mirrors to one another, but it surely’s nonetheless helpful to know.

A giant distinction between the platforms is that GOG reveals your complete playtime in addition to the typical throughout all customers (137 hours) whereas steam solely provides you percentages of how a lot of your complete time every sport took up. Perhaps Gabe is saving us from outing ourselves after we no-life a brand new replace.

If you wish to get your GOG Yr 2025 for your self, you possibly can select whether or not or to not share the knowledge with your folks or maintain it personal, simply in case you are ashamed of what number of hours you’ve got put into designing your corvette in No Man’s Sky this yr—like I’m.