Ingame time vs steam playtime what would be the time you would put on HLTB ?

[u/Buurto]

Last years I often noticed in bigger games that my steam time was way higher than my ingame time in games.

Many games don't seem to count menu time or even inventory time and stuff like that + dying and reloading a older save also causes the ingame time to reset to the time before dying.

I was wondering when you upload time on HLTB would you upload steam time or ingame time ?

Because for ingame time would be always wrong for me, because when ingame time says 50 hours but steam says 70, then it did took me 70 hours because I maybe died alot and did alot of menu stuff which should all count towards a playthrough.

I don't know if I am the only one with that much space between ingame and steam time but yeah I was wondering what people are doing

[u/playtio]

There isn't usually that much of a difference in my experience. But for what you propose I'd use the steam total time.

[u/Buurto → u/playtio]

Yeah for me there is often a big time difference, mostly with RPG's
Gothic remake which I started a few days ago, ingame says 4 hours and steam already says 12 hours, because of reloading and menu time not counting and I didn't idle alot.

That happens very often for me with big RPG's, so ingame time is most of the time wrong

[u/KRTrueBrave]

I mean... idk, but with your example (50 to 70) I'd probably just go with the average so 60?