Backloggd is a site for tracking video game playing. My end-of-year recap is at backloggd.com/u/dalelane/recap which is the best place to look at it, but I’ve made a copy here.
I played 122 games in 2025. I played at least one video game on 320 days of the year.
Those numbers surprise me a little… how is that possible?
101 of those were just regular games, with 21 expansions, remakes, and DLCs making up the total number.
I try and review and rate games once I’ve completed them – these are the ratings I gave, and the six games I gave the highest rating to.
Some of my ratings are out of kilter with the rest of the community…
The Switch and Switch 2 together make up 46.2% of where I’ve played games this year.
The Playdate is next at 25.6%, then my iPad at 11.1%, and my Xbox at only 8.5%. (My Xbox really didn’t get a lot of love last year!)
After that, it’s a mixture of retro gaming, but not as much as previous years.
I was surprised to see games released in 2025 making up 18.9% of what I played… but over half of that are the games from Playdate Season Two. I don’t play a lot of console games the year they’re released.
Everyone loves badges.
My year in gaming… the colour-code is perhaps a little counter-intuitive. The lighter the colour, the more games I played that day. The darker the colour, the fewer games I played. With black / dark-grey days being when I didn’t play any game.
The bright white spots are the days I played a lot – unsurprisingly, those are holiday weeks.
Games that I played the most, in terms of number of days played:
How many different games I played each month, with the game I played the most at the top:
My completion rate feels a little low… mostly because there are a bunch of games that I’m still in the middle of and intend to complete – but didn’t finish before the end of the year.
Balatro got a little addictive for a bit! 🙂
I played nearly 98 hours of Cyberpunk in 2025. It’s amazing.
Fulcrum Defender was a little easy on the first release, but a post-release update rebalanced it a bit and added additional difficulty levels. It’s still a great game.
And here they are… the games I played in 2025 – in order of when I first played them in 2025.
These year-in-review reports are often not available for long beyond Christmas, so I’m using my blog as somewhere to save them. I’m tagging them with 2025-year-in-review as I get them.
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