Does the steam deck track playtime while in sleep mode

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I could have sworne if doesn't, but steam is now saying I have almost 300 hours in the last two weeks in kingdom hearts 1.5/2.5. That's simply not possible. I have only been playing since last week and have only just reached the final boss of the first game. No way in hell is that almost 300 hours. I have quit the game much, just put my deck to sleep when I stop, but I thought that didn't continue to track in game playtime? Like wtf

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Title: Yes it would, and this is not specific to Steam Deck either. Just tested by starting a game on my desktop PC, putting the system to sleep for 5 minutes, waking up the PC and quiting the game and seeing its playtime increased by 5 minutes. I.e., simply "playtime += currenttime - starttime".

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anytime you launch the game exe, it counts as time "played" until you click on "stop" in the steam launcher. it has always been this way.

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Steam could supposedly hook into a sleep notification though and stop/adjust its playtime timer.

Probably rife with potential for abuse...

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Originally posted by pckirk:

anytime you launch the game exe, it counts as time "played" until you click on "stop" in the steam launcher. it has always been this way.

It's just so weird I've never noticed this before.