Hi,

Some time ago I posted a question for GOG statistics (see this post) and because the existing user statistics were not satisfying I started to collect the number of games, achievements and played hours of users in this forum. And because somebody else might be interested in this information, I share it here.

There is no guarantee that these lists are correct because I don't have access to internal GOG data. I only used the public available information of a limited number of users.

Top 10 - Games (March 26 2022)

Bocze 4166
Kiddo.Butai 3919
Gersen 3833
Genoan 3826
Antarian 3667
MurfalloMurfallo 3644
maks877 3471
SCPM 3452
Kevin04 3411
sbaylus 3340

Top 10 - Achievements (March 26 2022)

Aslaat 8298
SCPM 7247
megatherion888 6712
pen2x 5112
Enebias 4633
Alexim 4354
Thunker 3935
Paraharaha 3609
omega64 3448
PyL_ 3412

Top 10 - Played Hours (March 26 2022)

K1ller 53099
acsiiqdy 51016
deanphoto 15830
per1gr1n 14541
Jon 13101
WhackMAll 12460
KamPa 11921
huan 11865
OldGator5 11457
caladirIantor 11444

Many greetings!

it is alos not correct as you are only collecting data from the gOg users who use Galaxy. there are several users that are here just beacuse the they can play without the client. it is almost impossible to extrapolate the true numbers, as we do not know the % of users that use Galaxy or not.

well, theres that and zero mention of this being opt-in

Very interesting. Thank you for sharing. I could see GOG having official section dedicated to rankings based on these stats. With an Off switch in the privacy settings.

Curious that someone owns 4166 games but the support site says the store only has 3864 games. I vaguely recall some recent announcement that mentioned more games than that in the store.

Thanks for that. I love statistics and always respect people who are willing to contribute.

no, we do not know if it is half or not. if it was half, it would be easy, just duobble it up. it can be 1/2, or a1/3, or 3/4, or 1/10, we just don't have the information.

Impressive work. :) There is one more GOG employee for your list of Top 10 most owned games - Kiddo.Butai with 3919 as of writing:
https://www.gog.com/u/Kiddo.Butai Bocze is also a GOG employee and owns many upcoming games and tools not available to the public. :)

It isn't even close to be correct.
Just in this thread roughly 1/3 deactivated their profile. You don't got any data at all from them. Regardless if they use galaxy behind the curtain or not.
And accuracy of the data of the others is still in question, because the data is only tracked when galaxy is active.
The only thing you can see as "true" is the number of games.

I don't know if these users want to be called out openly in the forum either...

Thanks for the lists, I also like statistics. I find them interesting, even if they're incomplete due to the limited public information. Here's another big collector you missed:
https://www.gog.com/u/Antarian

I've always hoped GOG would do a news post similar to the one they did in 2015, when they reach another milestone - but it doesn't look like it'll happen:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/achievement_unlocked_1000_digital_boxes_06a98

To give you an idea of how "accurate" your statistics are:

Look at the user K1ller. His "hours played" amount to 53099.
Now, 53099 hours divided by 24 hours (= a day) are: ~2212.5 days.
2212.5 days divided by 365 days (= a year) are: ~6.06 years.

The user K1ller is a registered GOG user since July 2015.
Add six years to July 2015 and you are in July 2021...that was eight months ago.

Which means, the difference between the time the user is registered here, and the hours he "spent playing" during this time, amounts to eight months.

8 months divided by 6.06 years = 1.32 months/year.
How many days are that?
1.32 months times 30 (= the mathematical month) = 39.6 days/year.
And how many hours are that?
39.6 days times 24 hours (= a day) = 950.4 hours/year.
And that accumulates to how many hours a month?
950.4 hours divided by 12 (= months/year) = 79.2 hours/month.
Ok, one last time: how many hours per day would that be?
79.2 hours divided by 30 (= mathematical days/month) = 2.64 hours/day.

So - that's 2.64 hours on average per day, during the last six years, that the user K1ller did NOT spent with gaming.

Now, how credible would you rate this number? Good point. Though one must add, that these GOG members do share their stats willingly with (the interested part of) the public.
All AgentAndre did, was to save others the work to click on each of these users' profiles.

Even with regular games it is possible, I think. Consider only all these games removed from the store, demos of limited availability etc. Also some positions of GOG catalogue are actually bundles (as Ultima 1+2+3, some adventure games split into chapters etc.) which are unpacked after purchase and create >1 position in user's library.

Except for having accidentally left the tracking on when I first used Galaxy for multiplayer, there wouldn't be much to see from looking at my profile. That stuff has been turned off for years. When I asked GOG to delete what was there, they refused.

There are three official numbers available in regard to the amount of games on GOG:

1) the number of games mentioned on the support page: 3864

2) the number of games mentioned on the store's page: 4187

3) the number of games mentioned on the store's page plus DLCs and extras: 6142

I assume, due to GOG's weird habit of counting the same game multiple times, simply because they are available in several editions, the amount presented on the support page is the most accurate one, since the support for any game is independent from "Game X" also being available as part of "Edition Y" and "Edition Z".

You also have to consider how many games they might own that are no longer available.