The Games I Play

I have been tracking my gaming for a long time now, and now I have consolidated everyting. Over the last few days I have backfilled the lifetime totals from my Steam account (which I have had since 2009), extracted my 15 year old Activity Log data from my 3DS as well exporting monthly totals from my Switch. In total, it comes to roughly 4,600 hours across 535 games. I obviously like slow, single-player, low-stress affairs. The cosy life-sims for pottering: Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley. The traditional JRPGs for questing, such as Pokémon and Dragon Quest. And a city-builder-and-strategist streak: Cities: Skylines, Civilization, Football Manager, Tropico, Two Point Hospital amongst others. Broken down by franchise, a handful of long-running series do most of the heavy lifting. Pokémon is my most-played thing ever at around 520 hours, then the wider Mario family (platformers, karting, Smash and the rest) at about 455, Animal Crossing at 355, Dragon Quest at 250 and Zelda at 170.…