{"id":5791,"date":"2026-01-01T13:25:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T13:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5791"},"modified":"2026-03-14T21:10:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T21:10:42","slug":"2025-in-gaming-backloggd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5791","title":{"rendered":"2025 in gaming (Backloggd)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Backloggd is a site for tracking video game playing. My end-of-year recap<\/a> is at backloggd.com\/u\/dalelane\/recap<\/a> which is the best place to look at it, but I’ve made a copy here.<\/p>\n

I played 122 games in 2025. I played at least one video game on 320 days of the year.<\/p>\n

Those numbers surprise me a little… how is that possible?<\/p>\n

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101 of those were just regular games, with 21 expansions, remakes, and DLCs making up the total number.<\/p>\n

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I try and review and rate games<\/a> once I’ve completed them – these are the ratings I gave, and the six games I gave the highest rating to.<\/p>\n

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Some of my ratings are out of kilter with the rest of the community…<\/p>\n


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The Switch and Switch 2 together make up 46.2% of where I’ve played games this year.<\/p>\n

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!)<\/p>\n

After that, it’s a mixture of retro gaming, but not as much as previous years.<\/p>\n

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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<\/a>. I don’t play a lot of console games the year they’re released.<\/p>\n

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Everyone loves badges.<\/p>\n


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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.<\/p>\n

The bright white spots are the days I played a lot<\/strong> – unsurprisingly, those are holiday weeks.<\/p>\n

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Games that I played the most, in terms of number of days played:<\/p>\n

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How many different games I played each month, with the game I played the most at the top:<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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Balatro got a little addictive for a bit! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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I played nearly 98 hours of Cyberpunk in 2025. It’s amazing.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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And here they are… the games I played in 2025 – in order of when I first played them in 2025.<\/p>\n


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These year-in-review reports are often not available for long beyond Christmas, so I\u2019m using my blog as somewhere to save them. I\u2019m tagging them with 2025-year-in-review<\/a> as I get them.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[613],"class_list":["post-5791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-misc","tag-2025-year-in-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5791"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5873,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5791\/revisions\/5873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}