Recently, a player on the international Reddit forum shared a special achievement, claiming to have completed every Steam game in their account library. The post quickly ignited community discussion, hitting home with the common situation among many players who frequently add games to their libraries ("+1") but rarely play them.
This player's library contains only 20 titles, but the lineup is highly prestigious, including long-form AAA titles and premium indie games such as Elden Ring, Baldur's Gate 3, Titanfall 2, Disco Elysium, and the Metro series. Many of these single titles require dozens of hours to complete.
In the comments section, netizens compared their own game libraries. Many have been aggressively adding games to their libraries during sales and free events for years, accumulating hundreds or even thousands of titles. Completing them all would require non-stop gaming for a decade. Some players joked that for multi-branch, multi-ending titles like Baldur's Gate 3, achieving a perfect completion alone consumes a massive amount of time.
Nowadays, many players' Steam libraries have become "digital relics," where the joy of purchasing games far outweighs the actual playing. This player's move to clear out their entire inventory has been seen by netizens as a rare achievement, sparking widespread discussion about game hoarding versus actually playing games.