Steam Game Playtime Tracker

What Steam Game Playtime Tracker is

Steam Game Playtime Tracker is a Windows desktop tool that records time spent in Steam games. It scans game manifests in the Steam installation directory to find game names and executable files, then monitors game processes in the background. Playtime totals are available for today, this week, and overall. The app can remain in the system tray, where its menu provides a ranking of today’s playtime. Its interface has dark, light, blue-white, Morandi pink-gray, and silver-gray themes. Records are saved locally in data/playtime.json and remain after the program restarts. The v1.0.0 release provides a Windows 10/11 64-bit ZIP package that runs without installation; the project also says it can be packaged as a standalone EXE that does not need Python. Running from source requires Python 3.8 or later and a configured Steam installation path. The README advises running the EXE as Administrator for process reading and data writing. Playtime may be inaccurate if a game’s process name differs from its Steam manifest entry. The project is described as an open-source learning project for personal, non-commercial use, and commercial profit is prohibited.