Here are the game stats from Games on Demand at Gen Con 2014. Thanks to Jeremy Friesen and our many great hosts for keeping track of the information between seating times and doing the data entry after the show.
We had many great games this year, and the breadth of games that ran is always more exciting to see than the high number of sessions for the most popular games. Many of the games are late-playtests of new games or hacks of other systems that were combined with that games’ numbers. You can expect to see these again more prominently at next year’s show!
It’s also worth noting that while Monsterhearts and it’s variants had the highest number of sessions this year, adding Fate Accelerated Edition and Fate Core together would put them at the top. It was a big year for Fate all around!
First up, the daily and hourly stats of games run and players seated. In total we ran around 310 games for 1452 players.
Day | Games | Players |
Thursday | 48 | 207 |
Friday | 94 | 426 |
Saturday | 132 | 652 |
Sunday | 36 | 167 |
Hour | Games | Players |
10:00 AM | 60 | 266 |
12:00 PM | 40 | 195 |
2:00 PM | 58 | 268 |
4:00 PM | 47 | 218 |
6:00 PM | 42 | 195 |
8:00 PM | 44 | 223 |
10:00 PM | 19 | 87 |
Next, the stats on live action games, which were an exciting new addition at this year’s show. You can expect to see more of those next year as well.
LIVE ACTION / FREEFORM
Revived | 2 |
The Tribunal | 2 |
Hirelings | 1 |
Juggernaut | 1 |
M v M | 1 |
The Climb | 1 |
Uwe Boll’s X-Mas Special | 1 |
Villa Air-Bel | 1 |
TABLETOP
Monsterhearts | 19 |
Dungeon World | 16 |
Fiasco | 16 |
Fate Core | 13 |
Apocalypse World | 8 |
Dread | 8 |
Fate Accelerated | 8 |
Torchbearer | 8 |
Danger Patrol | 6 |
Night Witches | 6 |
Dark | 5 |
Hope Inhumanity | 5 |
Magical Kitties | 5 |
Ryutaama | 5 |
Sagas of the Icelanders | 5 |
The Quiet Year | 5 |
The Warren | 5 |
Monster of the Week | 4 |
Shinobigami | 4 |
Swords without Master | 4 |
Trash Planet! | 4 |
Zombie Cinema | 4 |
Atlas Reckoning | 3 |
Cat | 3 |
Companions | 3 |
Do: Pilgrims | 3 |
Dragonknights! | 3 |
Dream Askew | 3 |
Dudebros & Douchebags | 3 |
Feng Shui 2 | 3 |
Lady Blackbird | 3 |
Little Wizards | 3 |
Mythender | 3 |
No Country for Old Kobolds | 3 |
Our Last Best Hope | 3 |
Psi*Run | 3 |
Pulse | 3 |
Samsara | 3 |
Souls of Steel | 3 |
Tenra Bansho Zero | 3 |
Traveller | 3 |
13th Age | 2 |
Abstract Dungeon | 2 |
Always/Never/Now | 2 |
Amidst Endless Quiet | 2 |
Burning Wheel | 2 |
Deeds & Doers | 2 |
Dog Eat Dog | 2 |
Dresden Files | 2 |
Durance | 2 |
Headspace | 2 |
Heroine | 2 |
Hollowpoint | 2 |
How to Be Human | 2 |
Immortals: Ancient Secrets | 2 |
Inspectres | 2 |
Legacy of the Slayer | 2 |
Leverage | 2 |
Nanoworld | 2 |
Short Order Heroes | 2 |
Sparks Nevada | 2 |
Technoir | 2 |
The Shab-al-Hiri Roach: Hogwarts | 2 |
Urban Shadows | 2 |
Variance | 2 |
1001 Nights: Campfire | 1 |
3:16 | 1 |
Achipelego | 1 |
Amikkka | 1 |
Atomic Robo | 1 |
Carolina Death Crawl | 1 |
Cortex+: Justifiers | 1 |
D&D Moon Marsh | 1 |
Dawningstar | 1 |
Dogs in the Vineyard | 1 |
Drowning & Falling | 1 |
Firefly | 1 |
In a Wicked Age: In a Wicked Empire | 1 |
Marvel Heroic RPG | 1 |
Match: Equinox | 1 |
Nights Black Agents | 1 |
Numenera | 1 |
Ocean | 1 |
Odyssey | 1 |
Penny for your Thoughts | 1 |
Steal Away Jordan | 1 |
The Princes’ Kingdom | 1 |
Translucent University | 1 |
tremulus | 1 |
Vast and Starlit | 1 |
Western City | 1 |