How I spent my time with video games in 2021

Although I played and finished a lot of games in 2021, I didn't spend as much time with those games as I did with the games I played and finished in 2020.

Last year, for example, I put more than 80 hours into three different games. This year, my most-played game topped out at just over 75 hours.

Despite that, I'm plenty happy with how I spent my time with games in 2021. In particular, I'm happy that four Vita games made the cut this year, as did three DS games and one 3DS game. I failed to finish the 3DS game (Etrian Mystery Dungeon), admittedly, but that's how it goes sometimes.

I'm much more bummed about the fact that I only managed to put three-ish hours into Shin Megami Tensei V between its release and the end of 2021. I didn't dislike the time I spent with this Switch RPG, so my current indifference to returning to it has me stumped.

Who knows, maybe I'll finish it in the new year and it'll appear in my eventual "how I spent my time with games in 2022" post.

• Labyrinth of Refrain: Coven of Dusk (Switch) — 75 hours, 30 minutes
• Bravely Default II (Switch) — 72 hours, 20 minutes
• Dungeon Encounters (Switch) — 43 hours, 25 minutes
• SaGa Frontier Remastered (Switch) — 32 hours, 40 minutes
• Airship Q (Vita) — 28 hours, 35 minutes
• Gnosia (Switch) — 24 hours, 45 minutes
• Shiren the Wanderer 5+ (Switch) — 24 hours, 30 minutes
• Spelunky (Switch + Vita) — 24 hours, 25 minutes

• Ripened Tingle’s Balloon Trip of Love (DS) — 23 hours, 40 minutes
• Poison Control (Switch) — 16 hours, 50 minutes
• Gravity Rush (Vita) -- 14 hours, 40 minutes
• Pikmin 3 Deluxe (Switch) — 14 hours, 15 minutes
• Pac-Man 99 (Switch) — 11 hours, 50 minutes
• A Kappa’s Trail (DS) — 10 hours, 40 minutes
• Captain Toad (Switch) — 10 hours, 30 minutes
• Deltarune Chapter 1&2 (Switch) — 8 hours, 40 minutes
• Mon Amour (Switch) — 8 hours, 05 minutes
• Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir (Switch) — 8 hours, 00 minutes

• Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind (Switch) — 6 hours, 55 minutes
• Tearaway (Vita) -- 6 hours, 50 minutes
• Etrian Mystery Dungeon (3DS) — 6 hours, 00 minutes
• Umurangi Generation Special Edition (Switch) — 6 hours, 00 minutes
• Princess Debut (DS) — 5 hours, 20 minutes
• Liquid Kids (Switch) — 3 hours, 45 minutes
• Shin Megami Tensei V (Switch) — 3 hours, 45 minutes
• Overboard! (Switch) — 3 hours, 25 minutes

How did you spend your time with games in 2021? Feel free to share your own play-time stats, or simply list your most-played titles, in the comments section below.

See also: how I spent my time with games in 2020