HowLongToBeat: Elden Ring is the most played and most abandoned game of 2022

According to HowLongToBeat, Elden Ring is the most played but also most abandoned game of 2022. Nearly 6,000 gamers reported that they have completed the Soulsborne game, while around 263 gamers indicate that they no longer want to continue playing the game.

Based on statistics from HowLongToBeat Elden Ring is by far the most played game released in 2022, above Stray, Pokémon Legends: Arceus and God of War: Ragnarök, among others. At the same time, there was no game that, according to statistics submitted by members, was played more often than the notoriously difficult action RPG. Elden Ring would have been abandoned at least more than twice as often as Tunic, Pokémon Legends: Arceus and Vampire Survivors, it was noted Kotaku originally op.

The figures should be taken with a small grain of salt, because gaming platform HowLongToBeat uses statistics submitted by members to approximate how long it takes to complete a game. There was no game released in 2022 that, according to members, was abandoned more often than Elden Ring, but it is impossible to say which share of gamers came to admit their apparent loss on the platform and who suffered in silence or only temporarily put the game away.

According to the platform, Elden Ring was also the most common game in the user backlog, received the most user reviews and, on average, turned out to be the longest game from 2022. HowLongToBeat takes into account the playing time of the main story, side quests and a complete playthrough of the game. the calculation.