How to use Steam achievement manager to increase play hours?

[L]

I've seen a statistics feature in SAM but using it was kinda weird but I have seen people increase play hours really fast using SAM. Anybody can help?

[Ben Lubar]

Unless the game specifically tracks playtime in user stats (and keep in mind, if you edit aggregated stats, you're vandalizing public data) there's no way SAM can change your playtime for a game.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

You have to idle them using SAM, Idle Daddy or Archi's SC Farm. There's no way to magically add hours.

[TheLevelCap]

You can literally just open SAM and the game you want to increase hours. Just let the achievements windown open or minimized while you do other things in your life. You can even open multiple windows of the same game to boost hours faster.

I know it works bcoz I use it to pass the "2 hours refund" faster and get my cards so I can sell them and buy other games.

Just don't use it in games like CS2, it was so funny to spot cheaters trying to look legit with their 4,000 bosted hours and literally 0 service medals, or 200h in the past 2 weeks, like, who plays this game 14h a day? 😅