Head on over to your SG Steam stats page and scroll down to the bottom graph (Playtime per Genre). Hover over each of the categories and find the largest difference between your playtime (in red in my example) and the "average" (in grey).

In my case, I spend 12 percentiles more time in strategy games than the average SteamGifts user, then 8 percentiles
more in "Indie" games. Clearly I play a lot less action games than the average (-20 percentiles) - that's probably because I'm not very good at them! :D

No particular reason for this - just interested to see how people differ.

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Which genre do you play more than most?

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Action
Adventure
Casual
Early Access
Indie
Massively Multiplayer
Racing
RPG
Simulation
Sports
Strategy

Adventure (35/15%), Indie (27/20). The other noticeable difference is Action (8/24), the difference would have been considerably higher if I didn't idle free stuff for cards (shame on me, yeah).

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action & indie @ 19% here, so indies the top one played more then avg.

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i'm 24% indie but only 16% action

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Indie (29%/14%), then Early Access (12%/3%) then Racing (12%/3%). All from Action Henk. :D

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Walking simulators like 80% of my time and it's not even in the poll :(
But for what is in the poll.
Adventure 30/9

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My stats are weird (or I am an anti-SG user)
RPG 18% avg 9%
Indie 17% avg 14%
Adventure 16% avg 10%
Strategy 13% avg 9%
Casual 10% avg 5%
Simulation 8% avg 5%
Only major category I don't play more is action 15% avg 28%

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your stats just like mine, so are we not normal ? :p

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Apparently Action, Indie, RPG and Adventure.
but most of my playtime is in Action (and indie)
probably all from Terraria

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Action games coming in at 24%.

But then again I always liked some good action. ^^

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Indie by 12%, followed by Simulation. Wtf I don't even have a simulation game

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Why is there no distinction between shooter and action?
I don't really play shooters, but like other action games.

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Indie(8%), RPG(7%), Strategy(4%), Early Access(1%), Massively Multiplayer(under 1%)

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Indie-Adventure. Funny.
I'd say Rocksmith.

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27% Strategy (AVG 9%) -> 18% more
10% MMO (AVG 3%) -> 7% more
9% Casual (AVG 5%) -> 4% more
13% RPG (AVG 9%) -> 4% more

19% Action (AVG 28%) -> 19% less

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Indie - more on 10%,
Massively Multiplayer - 6%,
RPG - 4%,
Early Access - 4%,
Casual - 4%,
Simulation 1%
Action less on 16% =)

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27% RPG vs 9% average

On the other hand 14% action vs 28% average

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I definitely play more racing than most people. All the GRID games, DiRT 3, Little Racers Street, Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed. I have 100% achievements in BlazeRush, Super Toy Cars, Toybox Turbos (as soon as I get someone to do just one online race with me).

It is the only genre I've consistently sought out in my backlog, and one of the few I've tried to look through entirely in the store during a sale.

My stats page only says 2% me vs. 1% average, the same as sports. By raw ratio, those two win, along with casual which is 10% to 5%. Other genres like Action, Indie, and RPG have clear margins.

However, other than games like L4D2, PAYDAY 2, Killing Floor series, and Saints Row series (co-op FPS and TPS), which (individually for the first two games) collectively have a huge chunk of my hours, by my own anecdotal assessment of my experience, it's really racing that I've sought out more than other users. It's just that I've never got into the online components very much of any of them.

Edit: on my stats page, while my percentages add up to 100% (I am aware that they don't have to add up to 100 exactly because of rounding), the average user only adds up to 88%. That ain't right.

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Top 3 I play more than most:
-Racing (+23%)
-Indie (+7%)
-Casual (+3%)

Top 3 I play less than most:
-Action (-12%)
-RPG (-4%)
-MMO (-3%) [Funny enough, my playtime percentage on this category is 0%]

The other categories are within 1% of average.

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The biggest differences compared to average in my stats are in Racing (16%, avg. 1%) and Sports (14%, avg. 1%). High percentage in Racing doesn't come to me as surprise, but I also assume Rocket League is playing a big role in both categories.

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Unsurprisingly "Adventure" games, 35% versus 15% average. I've probably played 75% of all well known adventure games, though my Steam library only holds a very small percentage of them.

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You need to scroll a bit more for the Playtime per Genre graph.

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Haha, oops :p Unsurprisingly yet again "RPG" games, mainly Skyrim and Fallout :D

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Action +11%
RPG +8%
Simulation +4%
Racing +1%
Everything else is either on par or worse.

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Biggest gap for me is Adventure, with 31% vs. 10% (play per genre) and 22% vs 15% (spent per genre).

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RPG (23% vs 9%), because contrary what people claim in polls, very few people actually play RPGs, even the really simple dumbed-down ARPG subgenres that are so fashionable since 2002 or so.

Adventure (22% vs 10%), although I have a feeling that those HOGs contribute to the most, since

Casual (10% vs 5%) is quite high as well.

On the other hand, simulation, racing, and early access are practically non-existent on my play time.

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RPG & Strategy both 17% vs 9%

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