As a New Years Resolution, I was supposed to spend less money on games this year. In 2024, I spent around $450 on games, so I resolved to mostly play what was in my library this year, but so far, that hasn't panned out. It seems that a few of us are struggling, but I felt like it deserved a thread of its own and I was curious to see if I could collect all my data from various places I purchase games and see what I've bought and what I spent, starting in January:
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
Well, there we have it. I'm pretty much on track to keep up with my yearly spend of about $400, given we still have 3 or so months to go in the year. I'm a little disappointed I didn't stick with my resolution, but ultimately not too sad I've spent the money that I did. I feel like I've gotten a lot of fun from what I did buy, with only a few stinkers in there that I don't care too much about. And to my credit, most of the stuff I've bought has generally been pretty cheap, with KCD2 being the most expensive one at $64 for the Deluxe Edition and the next highest being Tempest Rising at only $39.99.
How have the rest of you done? Did you have a resolution to spend less? Play less? Do you feel defeated or generally content with what you've bought?
January
- Untitled Goose Game (This was for my kids)
- Aliens: Dark Descent
- Outward Definitive Edition (Haven't even played this)
February
- 3DMark
- Postal 2 (Not played)
- Postal 2: Paradise Lost (Not played)
- Ropuka's Idle Island
- Omikron: The Nomad Soul (Not played)
March
- Blood West
April
- Schedule I (Refunded)
- R.E.P.O.
- Erenshor (Not played)
- Wings of Prey: Special Edition (Not played)
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
- Tempest Rising Deluxe Edition
May
- Panzer Corps 2 (Not played)
June
- Arma 3
- Arma 3 Apex
- Arma 3 DLC - Spearhead 1944 (Honestly, I dislike all these. I only bought them to play with friends)
- Cubic Odyssey (Refunded)
- Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (Not played)
July
- Blasphemous (barely played)
- Lossless Scaling (An upgrade for the Steam Deck)
- Death Stranding: Directors Cut (Wish I hadn't. Had the base version on Epic for free, but thought I might play it and I wanted all the content. But I don't care for it all that much)
August
- Vomitoreum
- Subnautica: Below Zero (Not played, but my kids have already played a ton)
- Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition
- The Cat Lady (Not played)
- Broodstar (Already owned on Steam)
- Crusader: No Remorse
- Crusader: No Regret
- Robocop (not played)
Well, there we have it. I'm pretty much on track to keep up with my yearly spend of about $400, given we still have 3 or so months to go in the year. I'm a little disappointed I didn't stick with my resolution, but ultimately not too sad I've spent the money that I did. I feel like I've gotten a lot of fun from what I did buy, with only a few stinkers in there that I don't care too much about. And to my credit, most of the stuff I've bought has generally been pretty cheap, with KCD2 being the most expensive one at $64 for the Deluxe Edition and the next highest being Tempest Rising at only $39.99.
How have the rest of you done? Did you have a resolution to spend less? Play less? Do you feel defeated or generally content with what you've bought?