Steam Replay is Valve's annual year-in-review: a personalized recap of your gaming year, in the spirit of Spotify Wrapped. Launched in 2022, it arrives in late December covering January through December of that year, and it reliably floods social feeds with people discovering they played one deckbuilding roguelike for 43% of their waking lives.
What Replay shows
- Top games by hours played, with your percentage-vs-other-players percentile.
- Top genres and categories you gravitated toward.
- Session patterns — when in the year and roughly when in the day you played most.
- Fun comparisons — how your stats stack against the broader player base.
The catch: it's retrospective and annual
Replay compiles completed calendar years and publishes once, in December. There's no mid-year view, no month-by-month drill-down, and no way to fix the fact that it only counts what Steam's backend measured. Past editions remain viewable for a limited window, but the experience is fundamentally a once-a-year reveal — not a tool you can check in March.
A live alternative: continuous heatmaps
Everything Replay summarizes — hours per day, streaks, top games — can be tracked *as it happens* by diffing Steam's public playtime data daily. MySteamStats does exactly that: paste your profile once and it snapshots your account automatically, building a GitHub-style heatmap of your year that's current every morning, not every December. Free tier tracks daily; Pro tightens it to every six hours.
Frequently asked questions
When does Steam Replay come out?
Late December each year, covering that calendar year. Valve announces it on the Steam news hub when it goes live.
Can I see Replays from previous years?
Past editions stay accessible for a while after release, but there's no permanent archive — another reason to keep independent tracking.
Does Replay include private profiles?
Yes — Replay is computed from Valve's internal data for your own account, so it works regardless of your public privacy settings.
Put your own numbers on the board
Look up any public Steam profile for hours played, library value, inventory worth and a playtime heatmap — free, no sign-up.