No. 11 of 20 ·Game Playtime Trackers

Gameplay.Science

Web

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One barScore 5.3

Gameplay.Science is ranked #11 of 20 in game playtime trackers on Freedom251. It runs on Web.

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Purpose: Gameplay.Science is an open-source internet platform that enables researchers to study the effects of video games using player-donated behavior data.
Research audience: The platform is designed to help independent researchers access gameplay data without requiring direct participation by game platforms.
Data donation: Players can donate digital trace data to independent scientific investigations via Steam, Discord, or GDPR requests.
Account linking: The project describes account integrations in which players sign in to accounts such as Xbox or Steam and authorize automatic access to gameplay data.
GDPR requests: The project describes GDPR requests as a way for UK and EU players to obtain data held by a gaming company and share it with researchers.
Steam authentication: A study using Gameplay.Science says participants authenticate their Steam ID through the official Steam authentication API using OpenID.
Data collected: The study describes Gameplay.Science collecting incremental playtime per Steam game, totaling the previous hour's playtime each hour.
Security and access: The study says the data was stored on encrypted servers accessible only to the research team.
Notable data requirement: The study says participants had to make their Steam gameplay details publicly available.
Web platform: A 2026 comparison page lists Gameplay.Science as web-based and lists Steam and Xbox as supported gaming ecosystems.
Headquarters: Oxford, UK

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