You Can Get Your 'Year In Review' Nintendo Switch Stats Now For 2022

Here is my year in review, I think it’s safe to say I really enjoyed this years games!

Wonder what it says that I played through the entirety of Corpse Factory in the span of two days and it took under ten hours but it was my 15th most played Switch game of the year.

Granted it is pretty dwarfed by a multitude of other things. My top ten were...

Persona 5 Royal (which I just wrapped up yesterday)
Xenoblade 3
Pokemon Legends
Breath of the Wild
Three Hopes
Pokemon Scarlet
Danganronpa 2
N64
Dragon Quest XI
Super Smash Bros.

Though that isn't accounting for the fact I did another run of Three Houses but it was on a different profile.

…I’m a little ashamed how much splatoon 3 I’ve played.

"A Nintendo Account with a certain amount of play activity logged on Nintendo Switch is necessary to enjoy this content."

I guess 175h in XC3, 120h in Legends Arceus, 80 in Violet etc isn't enough for Nintendo lol

I'm logged in with the correct account so I don't know why this doesn't work

This is a really cool feature and it made me remember how good this year was.

My guess is that I played fewer hours than last year, solely because I picked up an Xbox Series S and put a lot of time into that. Having said that, I still played a lot of Switch, so I'll check out the stats during my lunch break.

Only real surprise was the 40 hours in lego DC Supervillains. Other than that everything was expected.

It doesn't let me log into my account for some reason but I know it's probably just gonna be 2 games unless it counts demos. Like 200 hours on XB3 and a few on Pokemon unite

42 Hours with Spiritfarer
35 Hours with the Super NES Online App
26 Hours with Eastward

My top three played Switch games of 2022.

Getting "unable to display content" repeatedly. Oh well.

I can't say I played on my Switch as much this year.

My most played:

Super Mario Maker 2 - 137 hours
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - 69 hours
Pokemon Legends Arceus - 7 hours
Pokemon Scarlet - 6 hours
Splatoon 3 - 6 hours

I need to go and finally beat those Pokemon games and make some more headway in Splatoon 3.

Most played:

Animal Crossing
Pokémon Legends Arceus
Kirby and the forgotten land

My top 3 are no surprise. Xenoblade 3, Monster Hunter Rise, and Pokemon Legends Arceus. Even if rpgs weren't my favorite genre, it'd be hard to beat their runtime given the raw quantity of content they offer.

Awesome! I always look forward to these!

Edit: Here's mine I noticed they don't actually tell you how many hours you've played in total like they did in previous years so I added them up and my total playtime for this year ended up being roughly 594 hours. (208 of that is from XC3 alone lol)

most played were Xenoblade Chronicles 3 at 167 hours, Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope at 51 hours, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe at 38 hours, Breath of the Wild at 22 hours and Kirby Forgotten Land at 16 hours

My top 5 most-played games for the year:

Dead By Daylight (324 hours)
Bravely Default II (47 hours)
Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & the Secret Fairy (46 hours)
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc Anniversary Edition (31 hours)
Fire Emblem: Three Houses (25 hours)

No 2022 releases made it, but at least I finished a bunch of games from my 2021 backlog lol! Next year I'll finally get to Xenoblade Chronicles 3, Triangle Strategy, and Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes.

Tokyo Mirage Sessions (89 hrs), Splatoon 3 (87), Wolfenstein 2 (39). Really cool report, but one complaint - why isn't this accessible in the Nintendo Switch Online app? Sure I can get to it in my browser, but it seems like a logical, simple, relevant addition to the app.

My year mostly consisted of Metroid Dread, Bayonetta 3 and Skyward Sword HD. A few more were peppered throughout with 5 hours or so: Nintendo Switch Sports, Cuphead DLC, Bowser’s Fury.

@nhSnork
Same here.
I'm a bit of a lurker... but I see your 'what are you playing' walls of games every weekend.
We've just played that many games this year that it can't handle it, that's my theory XD

Most played definitely checks out:
FE Three Hopes
Triangle Strategy
Xenoblade 3

Really wish we had the gameplay stats on Switch that Nintendo had on 3DS

So, according to the summary, my top 3 games for 2022 were as follows:

Stardew Valley - 72 hours
Picross S2 - 48 hours
Clubhouse Games 51 Worldwide Games - 32 hours

...Definitely was not too much on the Switch for me this year.

My top 3-
Warframe:495 hours
MHRise:292 hours
NMS:61 hours

@Mr_Gamecube If we assumed the hours on the website of each game are accurate, then you can just add them all up.
EDIT: Just checked mine, and the Switch says 40 hours on Nintendo Switch Sports, but the website says 45. Then again, the Switch does say "40 hours or more", so maybe the website is actually more precise

My top game was naturally my GOTY 2022.

Xenoblade 3 at 133 hours.
Xenoblade 2 at 99 hours.
Splatoon 3 at 98 hours.

I expected to play a lot more Splatoon this year, but I burned out on the game fast, sadly.

Let's see...
1. Minecraft 144hrs
2. RPG Maker MV 139hrs
3. Pokémon Shining Pearl 88hrs
4. Super Mario Maker 2 85hrs
5. Pokémon Shield 85hrs
So... Not too dissimilar to last year then. (Says alot about my gaming habits tbh) But honestly, I enjoy being able to look back on what I've played and hope Nintendo continue to do this.

My most played game is one I'm yet to finish 😅
That would be Xenoblade 3 at 70 hours. And Ringfit Adventure and Legends Arceus come in second and third, though I imagine Splatoon 3 is right behind Arceus and is likely to overtake it soon.
RPG was my most played genre.
Overall a very good year for switch, only 2017 and 2019 would be better in my opinion. Next year will have Zelda, pikmin and Fire Emblem so.... Who knows that could outdo it 👍

Aside from Splatoon 3 (80 hours) I’ve had an atypical year due to IRL events. So SNK vs. Capcom Card Fighters Clash and Don’t Starve are my 2 and 3. And honorable mentions are Earthbound (NSO), Groove Coaster Wai! Wai! Party!!!!, DOOM (2016), and Dragon’s Lair Trilogy. I have XC3 but I haven’t opened it yet because of bad timing. That would have been my #2 easy.

Well... Total playtime of my games on Switch is 245~ hours... It's less than in the last year! I'm disappointed... My top 3 games are:
1. Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc - 56 hours.
2. UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH Exe:Late[cl-r] - 39 hours.
3. BLAZBLUE CENTRALFICTION Special Edition - 37 hours.

My most played were Catherine Full Body, Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, and Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc. I forgot to check how much playtime there was in each of these, and I'm not going back to that page. It took me ages to get it to work properly, so I'm not sure which was played the most.

Persona 5 Royal @ 83hrs....and I'm not even halfway done yet., woo boy...

trying to remember if there was a year review with more interesting details before

oh it scrolls if you click on the sides on some

Xenoblade 3
Octopath traveler
Banjo Kazooie
Majoras mask
Kirby in the Forgotten lands
Mario + rabbids 1
Donkey Kong Tropical freeze
Mario kart 8

It says my most played games of 2022 were Darkest Dungeon, Lego Worlds, and Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition. Huh, I guess.

My most played Switch games this year were Hollow Knight and Breath of the Wild, which really shows what a weak year it was for big new releases this year (or at least ones of interest to me).

Ok, so according to the review, my top five most played games are:
1. Pokémon Legends Arceus (53 hours)
2. Kirby and the Forgotten Land (41 hours)
3. Super Mario Maker 2 (40 hours)
4. Nintendo 64 - Nintendo Switch Online (40 hours)
5. Will You Snail? (15 hours)
Honestly not that bad! Top two are no surprise, and Mario Maker 2 was kinda my comfort food at the beginning of the school year, so that also makes sense. As for why my number 5 has only 15 hours in it, well not much came out for switch that I really wanted to play, and all the stuff I did get and play (the Toree games, Turnip Boy, The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe) were quite short. Also, I spent the majority of November and December playing Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story and Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam on the 3DS, and the results don't take into account all the Dicey Dungeons and Celeste I'm about to play. Honorable mention goes to Cuphead, which only got 14 hours, but I spent those 14 hours playing the DLC with my dad, which makes them some pretty special 14 hours!

The Australian one only displays 3 for each category. Seems a bit arbitrary. But my 3 for "played right after release" includes both my GOTY (Olli Olli World) and the game which opened my eyes to the fact that there is literally zero quality control on the e-shop (Super Clown 2). Now that I think about it, I'm disappointed that it didn't include the absolute worst game of the year (Animals Transport Simulator, for which the controller doesn't even work).

I am around 553 hours…I think my time went down. Yep I was around 866 hours last year. Well done me… I think.

Oops my most played games were Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 at 77 hours and Yoga Master at 22 hours. I would turn in my hardcore gamer badge if I wasn't someone who just plays a lot of games in short spurts. Enjoying replaying Portal 2 right now. This was a fun year.

Xenoblade chronicles 3 was expected( to be my most played game). Only 8% of my games this year were strategy games. That's a problem....I need more strategy games! I do feel like last years year In review was more personal than this year though.

I don't understand why we can't get stats on the Switch itself other than the vague ones.

Since my memory has a hard time with chronologically ordering and I can't say what I played 3 years ago or 3 months ago if I was in the same location, and many games I play are older games I got in deep sales, I actually am often surprised by these lists.

Some of my most played, in order of most hours played:
Plants vs Zombies
Phantom Doctrine
Bravely Default 2 that I only got recently
Zombie Army 4
Wreckfest
Torchlight 2
Disco Elysium
Ys VIII during the trial
Moonlighter
Nier Automata
...

The ones I remember playing this year and really love, but were just a single play through and not that long, just to add to the list:
Eastward
The Wild at Heart
Death's Door
Strange Brigade
Sifu
Yoku's Island Express
Chicken Police
Alan Wake - yes, the "unplayable port", bought at the ridiculous accidentally wrong price in the Mexican eshop at launch, thouroughly enjoyed playing it in handheld

And then there's a lot I thought I played this year but apparently didn't. This year was over in no time (well, I guess about the same 365-ish days as most years...). It was winter, then a lovely summer of walking and sunbathing and walking some more, barely being inside, and now it's winter again. And I need to remind myself that everything before last winter is over a year ago already. And I have a pile of big RPG's waiting... Winter is a good time to tackle one of them I suppose.

@NintendoByNature One of my most played ones is a turn based tactical shooter like X-Com, it's Phantom Doctrine. It has a cold war setting, and is often on sale for 2€, just like the occult western themed turn based strategy game Hard West by the same developers, one of my most played games one of the past years. I did 2 back-to-back playthroughs of Phantom Doctrine for a total of 163 hours apparently, and it has great stealth and shootout mechanics. Hard West also has both, stick up situations and all out bullet ricochet-ing shoot outs, and even sometimes those awesome moments where you can ricochet kill an enemy out of sight because his shadow gave away his position. If that's your thing, really recommend them. I also played Narcos, went in with low expectations, but really enjoyed it with all of its flaws. And Wargroove is a fantastic Advance Wars style game with swords and dragons and stuff, truly awesome. I suppose you already played X-Com 2 then, but if not, it's been on sale for 5€ I think it was. Just saying, maybe you can find some strategy games you missed out on for cheap this way.

@Shambo thanks for the thoughtful reply! I haven't played xcom as I heard it doesn't run the best but im willing to try it out. I'll also wishlist those three games, so thank you very much!

Why do they do this every darn year but don't expand the program to other regions!? I friggin the idea and every bloody year I see this article and hope to God that I can now do it and every damn year I found out "oh sorry bumhead this isn't supported in your region sorry not sorry"

Over 200 hrs in Xeno 3, 120 in Triangle Strategy and 110 in Pokemon Legends.

Great year for RPGs.

Apparently, my most played games are...

Pokemon Legends: Arceus
Pokemon Scarlet
Super Smash Bros.: Ultimate

Most played, FF7 - 69 hours, Arceus - 61, …Violet - 20. Nothing else over a few. That’s the power of Elden Ring.

2022 - TOP 5 MOST PLAYED GAMES

1. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (195 hrs)
2. Snk vs Capcom Card Battle Clash (45 hrs)
3. Dicey Dungeon (40 hrs)

I feel so embarrassed looking at mine, I straight up do not like Apex Legends but it's my most played game of the year because I every month or so I would get addicted to it.

My top 5 (days / hours):
5. Rocket League (66 / 48)
4. Dicey Dungeons (32 / 60)
3. FE: Three Houses (20 / 76)
2. Slay the Spire (19 / 80)
1. Pokémon Legends: Arceus (126 / 374)

There's Arceus, and then there's everything else.
It's remarkable that Slay the Spire and Dicey Dungeons were that engaging, going by average time per session. Not really surprising, though, as those are fantastic games.

My top 10 are
1. Apex Legends 93 hours
2. Skyrim 65 hours
3. Warframe 44 hours
4. Overwatch/2 44 hours
5. Ark Survival Evolved 41 hours
6 Dying Light 35 hours
7 Doom Eternal 23 hours
8 Crysis 2 15 hours
9 World War Z 14 hours
10 Nier Automata 14 Hours

Man l guess I really like triple a ports huh

@nhSnork Same here : /

My top 3 were:

Pokémon Legends: Arceus - 58hrs
The Great Ace Attorney Collection - 43hrs
Animal Crossing: New Horizons - 42hrs

So, no one game I spent a crazy amount of time on, but there were a fair few that I spent 20-25 hours on (Bayo 3, Pokémon Violet, Paper Mario:TOK, etc.) so it probably evens out in the end.

Also, nice to be able to actually do this for once

@Parker55 I'm ashamed of how much I've played and I'm only S+0. Lol

@Mr_Gamecube Yes, I think the online review overstates the hours for some games.

My most played is World Of Tanks Blitz for 971 hours and played it on 307 days. That's over 3 hours a day, and know I don't play it that much. I would say the average is 2 hours or even 2.5 hours, so 800 hours would be the limit, which is still a lot! Total time since August 2020 is 2135 hours.

Tetris 99 is at 78 hours, which could be right. I have 525 hours total.

Of games bought this year, Double Dragon 4 at 17 hours (Switch says 15), N64 Online 14 (10) and Shredder's Revenge 13 (10).

This has probably been the year I've played games the least. Not my favorite year for games as my most-anticipated ones were letdowns.
1. Rune Factory 5 - 139 hours
2. MH Rise - 101 hours
3. Splatoon 3 - 62 hours
4. Pokemon Violet - 59 hours
5. Pokemon Legends Arceus - 55 hours

I'm so glad this is a thing. I wish all the consoles did a year-end report like this!

Top 3 Most Played were BOTW, Picross S7 and S8; that sums me up xD

Played BOTW on Wii U at launch and just got it for Switch last Xmas, need to finish it again before TOTK

It was nice year for my Switch, even it's not my main console. Thanks for nice new games as SMT V, Xenoblade 3 and nice old games like Diablo 3 and Dark souls, that I bought in second and third time (on handheld console now).

But I see, that that statistic mostly incorrect. I played much more time in SMT V and I not played in party games in this year. I not even own them. Is that possible that Kirby and the Forgotten Land and The House of the Dead Reamke is party games for Nintendo?

Wow! I knew I had played less this year, but wasn't expecting it to be quite so low. I bought the Switch day one and have been playing more each year all the way up to and including Animal Crossing. Every year since then, it's less and less - by any measure. Less purchases. Less hours played. Less eshop downloads. Less online play.

Seems to me Nintendo are holding back major AAA games for the next Switch console. That's the only explanation for us still to be missing all new 2D Mario, 2D Zelda and Donkey Kong. Pandemic has no doubt messed up their timelines, but the lack of top quality content has completely backfired on me, as I'm spending way less time and money and I can't be the only one!

@Nanami_Ataraxi perhaps.😆 I was also beginning to wonder if the system just struggled to process my stats across two regions (since I switch my main account from Europe to US earlier this year), but today it has finally cooperated. Heads-up to @FettucciniAlf here just in case as well.

Anyway, the summary estimates Isaac, Xenoblade 3 and Warframe to be my three most played ones this year. Xenoblade goes without saying (as I've observed before, it's the first game I ever racked up over 100 hours in the first month), Warframe also checks out as one of my steadiest freemium routines (much courtesy of the Nightwaves) and Isaac has seen me claw my way forward quite a bit this autumn, including an unholy amount of Greed attempts and a ton of daily runs that finally yielded me the last related unlock.😏

@NintendoByNature None of them look particularly amazing, or even just good up close, and they have their stutters at times, but I can't say that it ever lowered the quality of the gameplay, as it is all turn based. Also, now that I think about it some more, the two Valkyria Chronicles games available on Switch are absolutely amazing, and they do have some real time aspects within a turn based system, and can also be gotten pretty cheap often, I even think the bundle on the Mexican eshop is (or recently was) cheaper than either game separately. Either way, both games have my highest recommendation. And the Mario and Rabbids ones, but I'm quite sure you heard about those and if you're interested in the genre, you probably played them

I love the genre, it gives me larger battles to fight and several characters to build, while still giving me time to think about my next move. But I must admit I also only recently played X-Com 2 for the first time. I tend to be sceptical about very popular games, but I can see why many consider this to be kind of the one game all others are to be compared to. Not my personal favourite ( prefer the cold war and occult western setting from the two I mentioned, and the actual combat of Valkyria Chronicles, and I loved some unique aspects of Narcos), but definitely very good.

Oh and then there's that John Wick game. It's a good game, but definitely look it up first, it's an interesting twist on turn based strategy with great potential (and only one player character, being John Wick), but it has a lot of flaws and it doesn't all come together into something satisfying to me. If the replays looked smooth it would have a satisfying ending to each level, and that would have been enough to make it GOOD. BUT they don't.

@Shambo awesome stuff! I have VC4, and played both rabbids game, love them! Still need to actually try VC4 though. Maybe ill just bite the bullet on the large DL for xcom 2. Thanks again!

I think my top 3 we're a good respresentation of the games I like:
1. SSBU
2. MHRise
3. XCOM 2