How I spent my time with video games in 2020

It's starting to feel like at the end of every year I either say I played more games than the year before or I spent more time with games than the year before. (See my 2019 write-up for evidence.)

For 2020, both statements are true. Big surprise considering how locked down everything was last year, right?

Speaking of surprises, it may surprise some of you to learn that Animal Crossing: New Horizons wasn't the game I played most in 2020. In fact, I didn't even put 100 hours into it. I gladly poured hundreds of hours into previous entries, so bouncing off this one so quickly shocks me, too.

Not at all shocking to me is that I spent more time with SaGa Scarlet Grace: Ambitions than I did with any other game last year. Even after I finished this most recent SaGa sequel, I didn't want to stop playing it. And although I nearly started a second playthrough right away, I convinced myself to move on to something else (The World Ends With You, I believe) before that happened.

As for the rest of my most-played games of 2020, feast your eyes on the following stats:

• SaGa Scarlet Grace: Ambitions (Switch) — 97 hours, 40 minutes
• Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch) — 95 hours, 30 minutes
• Pokémon Shield (Switch) — 80 hours, 55 minutes
• The World Ends With You (DS) — 39 hours, 15 minutes
• Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate (Switch) — 36 hours, 00 minutes
• Paper Mario: The Origami King (Switch) — 34 hours, 15 minutes
• Void Terrarium (Switch) — 33 hours, 35 minutes
• Raging Loop (Switch) — 29 hours, 50 minutes

• Deadly Premonition Origins (Switch) — 29 hours, 15 minutes
• Animal Crossing (GameCube) — 22 hours, 50 minutes
• Destiny Connect: Tick-Tock Travelers (Switch) — 22 hours, 15 minutes
• Heroland (Switch) — 20 hours, 30 minutes
• Moon (Switch) — 19 hours, 05 minutes
• Disaster Report 4: Summer Memories (Switch) — 17 hours, 15 minutes
• Kirby Mass Attack (DS) — 13 hours, 20 minutes
• Clubhouse Games (Switch) — 12 hours, 40 minutes
• Hey! Pikmin (3DS) — 12 hours, 35 minutes

• Again (DS) — 12 hours, 20 minutes
• Super Princess Peach (DS) — 11 hours, 50 minutes
• Mad Rat Dead (Switch) — 10 hours, 20 minutes
• Alice in Wonderland (DS) — 7 hours, 20 minutes
• Yomawari: Night Alone (Switch) — 7 hours, 05 minutes
• Time Hollow (DS) — 6 hours, 30 minutes
• Part Time UFO (Switch) — 6 hours, 05 minutes
• Cruel Bands Career (Switch) — 4 hours, 35 minutes

How did all of you spend your time with games in 2020? Feel free to share your own play-time stats, or simply list your most-played titles, in the comments section of this post.

See also: how I spent my time with games in 2018, 2017, 2016, and 2015