Log gaming hours?

[Anomaly1964]

Other than manually keeping the time, is there a program you can use to log the hours it took you to play/beat a game and on what level(easiest to hardest)?

 

[ShreddedWheat]

Some of my steam games tell me how many total hours I have put in.

 

[simonizor]

What you are asking for would require a lot of coding to be able to adapt to every game and see what level you're playing it on, etc. Steam logs how long you've played any game that you bought through Steam. That's about as close as you're gonna get. Xfire will do the same thing for any game, I believe, but I really didn't care fore Xfire.

 

[The Green Bean]

Raptr is quite cool... It merges Steam and Xfire as well as provide its own service.

 

[shortylickens]

I'd just as soon not know.

 

[Anteaus]

Fortunately most games these days come with some sort of play clock. All the games I'm playing right now do. I just hit hour number 60 in Just Cause 2. Maybe I shouldn't say that out loud

 

[SaDiZTiKStyLeZ]

XFire. Raptr. Steam

XFire has screenshots, videos & live streaming.
Raptr is cool if you want to track console stuff. But lack of screenshots & videos, among a few other features, is why I haven't made full conversion yet.

 

[AstroManLuca]

Steam tells you but I'm not sure there's any way of getting more detail unless the game itself offers that sort of tracking. I know Forza 3 (Xbox 360) tells you specifically how much time you've spent in various areas - in menus, driving, tuning, painting, in the auction house, etc. Most games that track your playing time still count it even if you're paused in a menu for an hour while you do something else.

I never understood how people could estimate how long games were. I couldn't tell you the difference between a 6-hour game and a 10-hour game. Figured those were always complete wild guesses; there's no way to keep an accurate record without manually doing it yourself and writing it down, which I'm sure almost no one does.