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Guides3 min readMay 12, 2026

Track Your PC Playtime Automatically — No Manual Timers

Your games are spread across Steam, Epic, GOG and Xbox PC — and only Steam counts your hours. Here's how to track playtime automatically across every launcher.

If you play on PC in 2026, your library is scattered: Steam here, Epic there, a few GOG classics, Game Pass titles on the Xbox app, maybe Battle.net or EA. Each launcher counts its own hours — and none of them give you a single, honest number for how much you actually game.

Why per-launcher hours lie to you

Steam is great at counting Steam playtime. It knows nothing about your 120 hours in a Game Pass RPG or your GOG playthrough. So the "total" you see anywhere is really just a fraction. If you've ever thought "I don't play that much," your data is probably hiding in three other launchers.

Manual timers don't survive real life

Spreadsheets and start/stop timers work for about a week. The moment you forget to hit "start," the data is wrong — and once it's wrong, you stop trusting it. Tracking only sticks when it's automatic.

Automatic tracking across every launcher

The WListDB desktop app for Windows detects the games you launch across Steam, Epic, GOG, Battle.net, EA, Ubisoft and Xbox PC, and records playtime in the background. No timers, no manual entry. It feeds the same library and statuses you use on the web, so your backlog stays accurate while you just play.

What you get once it's running

  • One real total across all your launchers, not five partial ones.
  • Sessions logged automatically, so finished-vs-played is accurate.
  • A backlog and year-in-review built on data you never had to maintain.

Want your real playtime, everywhere? Get the free desktop app and let it track in the background.

Ready to start tracking your games?