There are two reasons I was interested in this topic and make this thread:
- I saw a video recently of a german gaming magazine. In it, they analyze the achievements on Steam of different games. The conclusion was: Not even half the people starting a game finish it nowadays. That's true for more or less every game, though to a lesser extent for really short games. Some of the huge games didn't even reach 25% completion rate of people who have played through the prologue.
In addition, many players buy games and then never play them. Well, who would have guessed.
- There were / are a few threads in this forum, in which people list their most played games. Those are some outliers for everybody, but I was wondering how much time people spend on average in the games they start.
So to my questions:
1) Do you finish the games you start? I mean the main story of the game.
2) How much time on average do you spend in your games?
As for help with the second question, there are tools for some accounts (e.g. https://steamdb.info/calculator/ for Steam) which calculate the average time spent in a game you've played at least once.
As for me:
Yes, I finish almost every game I start (at least the campaign). This leads me to have quite a high time spent per game: It's at 55.9 hours/game. Overall, it should be a little higher, considering I do have accounts on other platforms (uplay, origin, battle.net, gog), and almost all of the small, short games I own are on Steam. In addition, I've played some games in admin/offline mode due to technical difficulties starting them in Steam (e.g. Gothic, Thief Gold), so they're listed at <1 hour.