Influence of Playtime on Games

The data for this visualization was gathered from howlongtobeat and steamspy through a respective Python library. Games with low user engagement or with missing data were omitted.
Please scroll down slowly and enjoy exploring the influence playtime has on a game.

Genres

Almost all genres have their games' main stories take 2 to 15 hours. MMOs seemingly play by different rules with a median of 62 hours to beat.
Hovering over a genre gives you additional info. Go find out which genre has the cheapest games!

Adventure Games

Adventure Games have the steepest correlation between rating and time to beat. The trendline is so steep that it goes beyond 100% for long games.
Hover over the data points. Can you find a game you already know?

Racing Games

Racing game players do not seem to care about the length of their games.

Sports

This time, sports games are the outlier. For all other genres, the trend was between neutral and positive. However for sports games, it seems that the longer the main story is, the worse of a reception it gets.

All Games

Genre selection is now unlocked. You can filter by genre by clicking on the legend on the right.

Price

Cheaper games tend to be shorter with one genre being an exception...

MMO Prices

...MMOs tend to be longer the cheaper they are. Probably because free MMOs tend to use every trick imaginable to keep users engaged and are made longer by adding meaningless content.

Feel free to explore

You can now freely change the x or y axis and search for specific games. Also clicking on a game will take you to its store page on Steam.