[2024] My Played Hours Are Wildly Exaggerated

It's technically not played time, it's run time.

Leave the game open to go make dinner or coffee or run to the bathroom, click to run the game but forget about it in the background and go to bed hours later, have it paused in the background while you chat with a friend, spend ages sorting your mods or trying to roll that perfect pawn or find the right map seed - it all counts toward that timer.

Originally posted by Bosh: I have played over 6500 hours. Your 17.8 hours are utterly meaningless.

At one point, you also only had 17.8 hours. We all were new, we all had to start somewhere.