SteamVault Changelog

Looking up a profile for the first time used to mean staring at a loading screen for 30 seconds or more while we read every game in the library. Now your name and avatar appear straight away with a progress bar, the vault builds in the background, and the page fills in by itself the moment it is ready. Every visit after that is instant, as before. We also checked every game in every collection for online achievements on servers that have been switched off for good: EA shut down online play for GRID 2 and GRID Autosport on PC in November 2025, so those online achievements no longer count toward the GRID collection badge. If you earned them while the servers were up, they stay on your profile.

Two new walkthroughs: Dead Space (the 2023 remake), all 47 achievements including the ten hidden ones, with three chapter-locked achievements flagged as missable for that playthrough (they come back in New Game Plus), and 80 Days, all 35 achievements with every route-based story achievement cross-checked against two community guides. Eight new franchise collections: Jackbox Games (all eleven Party Packs plus the Starter, Naughty Pack, Survey Scramble and the standalone Quiplash, Drawful 2 and Fibbage XL), Supraland, Ndemic Creations (Plague Inc and Rebel Inc), inkle (80 Days, Heaven's Vault, Pendragon, Overboard!, A Highland Song and Expelled!), Hammerwatch, Introversion Software (DEFCON, Multiwinia, Prison Architect), Frog Detective and Zoink (Stick It to the Man!, Zombie Vikings, Flipping Death, Fe, Lost in Random). Two new curated lists: Best Party Games and, for October, Best Psychological Horror Games. Two new Stack these planners: Dead Space, where one fresh Impossible run with only the Plasma Cutter can bank Untouchable, One Gun and Set A Benchmark together (with a warning that the 30-kill weapon achievements cannot happen on that run), and 80 Days, with one record-speed trip that unlocks every speed tier at once, one slow trip for the city counts plus No Banks and No Hotels, and a warning that Turn the Tide of War and Despair in Vienna are opposite choices. An At a glance research pass confirmed INSIDE and Sleeping Dogs as one-playthrough games, with nothing missable in Sleeping Dogs.

Two new full walkthroughs: DOOM (2016), all 54 achievements including Ultra-Nightmare and the multiplayer list, and Devil May Cry 5, all 55 - from the cryptic mission secrets to Bloody Palace and Hell and Hell. Seven new collections: Spirit Hunter, Ace Combat (with the brand new Ace Combat 8), The Outer Worlds, Etrian Odyssey, Scribblenauts, the Infinity Engine Enhanced Editions and Wizardry. Two new best-of lists: Monster-Taming Games and Dungeon Crawlers. New Stack these planners for Dishonored (a ghost, no-kill campaign plus both add-ons) and Ori and the Blind Forest (the One Life run and the completionist save), and Celeste, DOOM and Devil May Cry 5 now show how many playthroughs a 100% takes.

Your votes picked October's three Quests: Achievement Avalanche (earn as many achievements as you can, anything counts), Season of Screams (achievements in 18 horror franchises, from Resident Evil and Silent Hill to Outlast, Amnesia and Five Nights at Freddy's) and Spell "OCTOBER" (games starting with O, C, T, B, E or R). Sign up on the Quests page; anything you've already unlocked since 1 October counts. September's final standings stay up on the Quests page, and the vote for November is open now with ten new candidates, including Weekend Warrior, Franchise Hopper, Rare Finds and Big Game Hunter.

Two new walkthroughs: Black Mesa, all 50 achievements including the seven hidden ones, with chapter locations cross-checked against the Combine OverWiki, and The Last of Us Part I, all 29 achievements (a fully public schema) with collectible counts cross-checked against two trophy guides - one playthrough, nothing permanently missable. Eight new franchise collections: Giant Squid (ABZU, The Pathless), Compulsion Games (Contrast, We Happy Few, South of Midnight), Sam Barlow (Her Story, Telling Lies, Immortality), Fullbright (Gone Home, Tacoma, Open Roads), Housemarque (Nex Machina, Returnal), Square Enix GO (Hitman GO, Lara Croft GO), Super Robot Wars (30 and Y) and Vlambeer (Nuclear Throne, LUFTRAUSERS). Two new curated lists: Best Twin-Stick Shooters and Best Narrative Exploration Games. The achievement catalogue grew by 534 games, mostly recent releases picked up from Steam's own store listings now that the SteamSpy inventory is mined out. An At a glance research pass fixed SOMA, which wrongly said nothing was missable - Endangered Species is lost if you switch off the last survivor's life support before talking to her, and it now carries a missable warning - and confirmed Half-Life 2 and Shadow of Mordor as one-playthrough games. Two new Stack these planners: Slay the Spire, with one run per character build (Silent poison, Silent Shivs, Defect orbs and an Ironclad block run where Barricaded carries Impervious with it), and Black Mesa, where one clean pass through Xen and Interloper can bank six achievements - plus a warning that The Plan and Unquestionably Ethical are opposite Gonarch endings, so save before that fight.

Suggested by Fa in the suggestion box. Every achievement you unlock now earns Rarity Points based on how rare it is: 100 divided by the percentage of players who have it, from 1 point (everyone has it) up to 100 points (1% of players or fewer). So a 50% achievement is worth 2, a 10% one is worth 10, and the one you grinded for a month is worth 100. Your profile Overview now shows your total, this month, this year and your best month. Points now count every game in your library, not just your biggest 60 like before, and the Rarity Points leaderboard uses the new formula too. Hit Refresh on your profile to see yours straight away. Rarity percentages drift slowly as more people play, so your total can move a little on its own over time.

Two new walkthroughs: Mind Keeper, a horde-survivor roguelite with a fully public schema (all 15 descriptions visible), and Ilysia, an open-world MMORPG covering all 79 achievements bar one with no public description, honestly flagged rather than guessed. Both were added after an exhaustive scan of essentially the entire remaining SteamSpy catalogue beyond what was already tracked - 33,700 previously-uncovered games checked against Steam's live achievement API, and the two above (plus two more added straight to the catalogue) were the only clean, non-adult, non-demo survivors; the achievement catalogue only grew by 4 games this pass as a result, the clearest sign yet of how thoroughly it has already been mined. Four new franchise collections, all VR after a run of rejected flatscreen candidates (Max Payne, F.E.A.R., Gothic, Rainbow Six, Assetto Corsa, Path of Exile and Trackmania all came back with too few achievement-bearing entries to sustain a badge): Stress Level Zero (BONEWORKS and BONELAB), Owlchemy Labs (Job Simulator and Vacation Simulator), The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners, and Arizona Sunshine. Two new curated lists: Best Kart Racing Games and Best Life Simulation Games. A guide-metadata pass researched playthroughs and missables for five games against TrueAchievements, PSNProfiles and Steam community guides - Alan Wake needs 2 playthroughs (Normal plus a dedicated Nightmare run for 14 exclusive achievements), Frostpunk 2 needs its Story mode cleared on all three named difficulties, Raft is a clean 1-playthrough/0-missables game, Two Point Museum has zero missables, and Frostpunk (the original) turned up real conflicts worth knowing even without a clean playthrough count - Unforgiven and We Are In This Together are mutually exclusive endings. Two new Stack these planners: Cities: Skylines II, where eleven single-city achievements (plus two nested pairs) all land in one long-running city, and Planet Zoo, where nine zoo-scoped achievements share the same build.

Two full walkthroughs are live. Grow Home covers all 26 achievements, and it is one of the rare Steam schemas that hides nothing - every description is public, so every guide on that page is anchored to what Steam itself says. Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes covers all 56, with the roughly 45% Steam hides marked as unverified rather than guessed - though research turned up the one that matters most: Last One to Appear needs all 120 heroes recruited before the Storming Castle Harganthia story quest, or it costs you a second playthrough. Six new franchise collections, every game checked for identity, for still being purchasable and for actually having achievements: Titanfall (the mech campaign and its battle royale spinoff), Heart Machine (Hyper Light Drifter and Solar Ash), thatgamecompany (Journey and Flower), Grow Home (Ubisoft Reflections' beanstalk-climbing pair), Turnip Boy and Eiyuden Chronicle. Several other well-known franchises were checked and rejected this pass - old Ubisoft classics like the original Mirror's Edge, Splinter Cell and Rainbow Six Vegas all come back with zero achievements on Steam's live API despite being fan favorites, so no collection for them. Two new curated lists: Best Local Co-op & Splitscreen Games and Best Golf Games. A guide-metadata pass researched missable counts and playthrough requirements for The Witcher 3 (1 playthrough, 11 base-game missables) and Red Dead Redemption 2 (1 playthrough, 4 missables, all tied to Chapter 2-4 camp activities that vanish after Chapter 4). Two new Stack these planners: Gears Tactics, where a single no-death Insane campaign run nests three smaller thresholds inside the big one (chase only Immortal Legion), and Resident Evil Village, pairing its two single-playthrough exploration checklists. The achievement catalogue only grew by 25 games this pass - after scanning essentially the entire remaining SteamSpy inventory (over 33,000 games checked against Steam's live achievement API), nearly everything genuinely new left to find turned out to be achievement-less, which says more about how thoroughly the catalogue has already been mined than about this pass.

Subset Games gets a double bill. Into the Breach joins the guide library with all 70 achievements covered, and FTL: Faster Than Light with all 51 (the three Steam keeps hidden are marked as unverified rather than guessed at). Both come with Stack these planners, and they are mostly about what does NOT stack: Loot Boxes and Chronophobia want opposite things from Time Pods, Lucky Start forbids the shopping that Change the Odds is easiest with, the Engi run can never be your no-drones run, and Battle Royale can never share a run with No Redshirts Here. Six new franchise collections: Death Stranding, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Code Vein, Chrono, the Minecraft spin-offs and The Guild. Two new best-of lists: tycoon and management games, and sci-fi horror. We also re-checked three At a glance boxes against published guides: Tomb Raider (2013) said it had no missable achievements, but Chatterbox is missable, so it now says 1 and has its own guide entry; Mafia: Definitive Edition no longer claims zero missables, because the guides disagree; and Control now shows its verified 0 missables and single playthrough.

Age of Mythology: Retold joins the guide library with all 132 achievements covered, and it is one of the rare Steam schemas that hides nothing - every single description is public, so every guide on that page is anchored to what Steam itself says rather than to anyone's memory. Where a description does not say in a single match, the guide says so out loud instead of asserting a cumulative counter as fact. Two Point Museum is live too, all 49, with the eight Steam hides marked as unverified rather than guessed at. Both games picked up Stack these planners. The best one is the Age of Mythology blood plan, which spots that three achievements share a prerequisite nobody notices: Wet Ground counts visible blood pools, Cleansing Rains clears them, and Seeing Red requires every blood pack setting to be enabled - so turn them all on first and do the three in one match. There is a nesting worth knowing as well: reaching the villager build limit with Dwarves only also awards the plain villager limit achievement, so chase the harder one. Seven new collections: Hand of Fate, Way of the Samurai, Avernum, Geneforge, Deadly Premonition, BIT.TRIP and Mad Games Tycoon - every game checked for identity, for still being on sale, and for actually having Steam achievements. Two new curated lists: Best Visual Novels on Steam and Best Co-op Horror Games on Steam. And a research pass corrected four games that were quietly claiming no missable achievements when they have some: Ori and the Will of the Wisps now names three, Dave the Diver one, Paper Trail three, and Death Stranding now correctly warns that Growth of a Legend needs Hard difficulty. The achievement catalogue grew by 822 games as well.

Two full walkthroughs are live. Planet Zoo covers all 38 achievements, and it is one of the rare Steam schemas that hides nothing - every description is public, so every guide on that page is anchored to what Steam itself says rather than to anyone's memory. Dragon's Dogma 2 covers all 54, with the seven achievements Steam hides marked as hidden instead of guessed at, plus a warning both major trophy guides agree on: the quest A New Godsway is a point of no return and most of the list cannot be earned in that save afterwards, so keep a backup before it. Two achievements are flagged as missable during normal play - the timed Gigantus kill, which disappears once Main Quest 15 resolves, and the Sphinx riddle set, which one wrong answer ruins. Eight new collections: Panzer Corps, Eugen Systems, Terry Cavanagh, Lucas Pope, Avalanche Studios, Samurai Shodown, WWE 2K and Mike Bithell - every game in them checked for identity, for still being on sale, and for actually having Steam achievements. Two new curated lists as well: Best World War 2 Strategy Games and Best Dinosaur Games. And the Stack these planner reaches two more games: Euro Truck Simulator 2, where one clean five-delivery Heavy Cargo chain earns three achievements at once because the three-job one nests inside the five-job one, and Oxygen Not Included, where committing to a ranching colony that never plants a crop covers six at once. Both planners also say what does NOT combine, which is half their value - the two Driving Academy streaks in ETS2 name different modes and cannot be one run.

Two full walkthroughs landed: all 66 achievements for Ghostwire: Tokyo and all 47 for Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, both written from the live Steam schema with the hidden ones flagged as unverified rather than guessed. Seven new collections: Paradox Grand Strategy, Tango Gameworks, Insomniac Games, Deck13 Interactive, Yomawari, Facepunch Studios and Crate Entertainment. Two new best-of lists too - Best Western and Cowboy Games and Best Viking and Norse Games. PowerWash Simulator and Left 4 Dead 2 both picked up Stack these planners, and the Portal 2, Bendy and the Ink Machine, Ghostwire and Rift Apart guides now show a researched missable count and playthrough count at the top.

Starfield joins the guide library with all 82 achievements covered, base game and Shattered Space. Its Steam schema publishes every description, so each guide is anchored to what Steam itself says the trigger is - and where it does not say (the source of Quantum Essence, the rank 4 legendary chain, the Unity inventory retrieval), the guide says so rather than guessing. Balatro gets two stack plans built on a pair of nestings worth knowing before you start: the three score achievements stack, so a hand worth 100,000,000 chips also clears the 1,000,000 and 10,000 versions, and the three stake achievements stack too, so one Gold Stake win earns Low, Mid and High at once. The conflicts matter as much - Big Hands and Tiny Hands are opposite deck states, and Speedrunner wants the opposite of the long greedy run everything else needs. Five new collections: Destroy All Humans, Door Kickers, Tormented Souls, Marvel vs. Capcom and Sabotage Studio. New curated list: Best Flight and Aerial Combat Games. Also researched this pass - Lies of P now states 16 missable achievements, and Starfield one.

The contact form has worked in one direction since it launched. Messages arrived, they got read, they got acted on - but the only return path was the optional email field, and almost nobody fills that in, so a lot of people wrote in and heard nothing back. That was not us ignoring you. There was no reply button. Now there is: a reply lands in your notification bell, and the full text shows on your Notifications page. It works for anyone signed in, which is everyone who sends from an account - no email needed. If you sent something in the past weeks and never got an answer, this is why, and some of those are getting answered now.

Victoria 3 joins the guide library with all 141 achievements covered - unusually, its Steam schema hides nothing, so every guide is anchored to the real in-game description. Frostpunk 2 gets three stack plans built on facts you would otherwise learn the hard way: the Story difficulty tiers nest, so one Captain run earns all three New London achievements; each Tale nests inside its own harder variant; and the eight faction Utopias are mutually exclusive, so Got Milk? and Apex Predator can never share a run. Five new collections: Thunder Lotus, Daniel Mullins Games, Sloclap, Nomada Studio and Motion Twin. New curated list: Best Roguelite Shooters. Also researched this pass - Disco Elysium now states two playthroughs and It Takes Two one, both cross-checked against two guides each.

TF2 has 520 achievements, more than any other game on the site, and the usual advice is to pick a class and grind. The new walkthrough takes a different angle: 18 Stack These plans that group achievements which genuinely complete in the same session. The Engineer defensive nest covers twelve at once, because holding a sentry under fire IS Built to Last, Building Block, How the Pests Was Gunned and nine others - and because placing your teleporter entrance and exit next to each other means one Spy sap trips both ends, turning Quick Draw into a single motion. The Heavy one-life stack takes six. The best plan is the first: World Traveler looks brutal, needing a full round on six specific maps, but the trigger is a round-win event with you present at the start - it does not check that you won or who else was there, so five more achievements come out of the same six rounds. Plans also state what does NOT stack: shields and stickybomb launchers share a slot, so the demoknight and sticky-trap sets can never be one session. Several entries correct things the achievement descriptions get wrong - Beat Me Up Scotty is not an Eyelander perk, critical stickies do not count toward Pipebagger, and the Sydney Sleeper cannot earn Self-destruct Sequence.

The Forums page listed Batman: Arkham Origins with 2 threads, Mad Max with 1 and Diablo IV with 1 - and every one of those forums opened completely empty. Nothing was lost: the threads were stored correctly the entire time, and the site was simply refusing to show them. The forum page wrapped its thread lookup in a second layer of caching inside a page that was already cached. The outer layer meant the page almost never re-ran, so the inner layer never got a chance to refresh, and it kept serving an empty result it had recorded back when that game had no threads yet - surviving every deploy since. One of the hidden threads was a member flagging that Arkham Origins can no longer be 100 percented, which is the report that led to today's collection fix. It had been sitting there, visible to nobody, for over a week. The redundant layer is gone.

Today's guide is Sid Meier's Civilization VII - all 37 achievements. Civ VII is unusual in publishing every single description with nothing hidden, so every entry here is written from Firaxis' own wording rather than hedged, and the Legacy Path Triumph requirements are deliberately left to the in-game panel because they have been patched more than once. It ships with three Stack These plans, and the third one names the thing that actually shapes a Civ VII completion: 24 of the 37 achievements are Win the modern age as a specific leader, and you pick one leader per game, so they can never be stacked with each other - 24 separate games is the arithmetic floor. The one free saving is to fold the Deity run into a leader you still need, since Playing God names no leader and no victory type. Five new collections: Enigmatis, King Arthur, The Sinking City, Phantom Brave and Giana Sisters. A new best-of list, Best Heist Games on Steam, from PAYDAY 2 and its four-figure achievement list down to a physics comedy about robbing places as a duck. And three guides had their at-a-glance facts researched and corrected: SpongeBob Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated is now confirmed to have nothing missable, while Two Point Hospital and Guacamelee had their missable counts deliberately left blank, because the two trophy guides for each flatly contradict one another and a confident wrong number is worse than an honest dash.

Batman: Arkham Origins still lists 11 multiplayer achievements, and the servers behind them went dark on PC in April 2024 - only community-run servers remain. That quietly made the whole Batman: Arkham badge impossible for everyone, the same way Hitman Absolution did last week. Origins is now marked as unable to be fully completed: it stays in the collection with the reason on the card, but it no longer counts toward the badge or drags down the collection average. To be clear about what this is and is not - if you earned those achievements back when the servers were up, or on a community server, Steam recorded them and your profile still shows them. The flag only decides what the badge asks of everyone else. Thanks to downunderstumbler on Discord, who asked the question that turned this up.

Today's guide is The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered - all 60 achievements, and unusually for a game this size, not one of them is hidden, so every entry here is written from Bethesda's own wording rather than hedged. It ships with three Stack These plans, and the middle one is the reason to read them: Duke of Mania and Duke of Dementia are mutually exclusive outcomes of a single Sheogorath conversation, which is why they are the two rarest achievements in the game - but they do not need a second playthrough, just a manual save made immediately before that dialogue. The Arena ladder and the Court of Madness ranks both nest, so one unbroken run up each collects the whole set. Five new collections: the Toplitz Dynasty survival-builders, Endzone, Internet Cafe Simulator, Project Warlock and Youtubers Life. There is a new best-of list, Best Pirate Games on Steam, from Sea of Thieves down to a pirate deckbuilder with 124 achievements. And the game catalogue grew by 2,908 titles today after switching the harvest to Steam's own has-achievements filter, which turned out to find far more than the old source was still returning.

Today's content run adds a full Green Hell walkthrough: all 68 achievements, written from the game's own achievement descriptions, with the seven hidden story entries marked unverified rather than guessed at. It also gets two Stack These plans, and the second one is the useful kind - a single 25-day King of the Jungle run where Vegan, Pacifist, I Made It and Keeper of the Flame all land together, with a clear warning about the six achievements that would break it if you tried them in the same save. Five new collections: New Blood Interactive, The Chinese Room, Dungeons, Farm Together and Drug Dealer Simulator. There is a new best-of list, Best Mech Games on Steam, covering ten machines from Armored Core VI down to Gundam Breaker 4. And a correction worth naming: Lies of P was claiming zero missable achievements, which is flatly wrong - two independent trophy guides count sixteen - so that claim has been removed rather than replaced with a number we cannot verify against the Steam list.

Each collection page was a list of games and little else. It now opens with the facts you would want before committing to a franchise: how many games, how many achievements between them, which game is the biggest, which is the hardest on our 1 to 10 scale, and how many of them have a hand-written walkthrough. Underneath the list there is a row of links straight to those walkthroughs. If a collection contains a game that can no longer be 100 percented, like Hitman Absolution with its shut-down Contracts servers, the page now says so at the top along with the reason, and confirms the badge is still earnable on the rest, rather than leaving you to work that out after buying it. All of this comes from data the site already had, so the pages are no slower.

The collections hub had quietly become the heaviest page on the site. It rendered all 444 collections with every game inside every one of them, expanded, with a cover image each: 1,765 images and about 1.4 megabytes of page on a single screen. On a phone that is a slow, expensive load, and since five new collections land every morning it was getting worse rather than better. It now shows one card per collection with the game count, your completion bar and a badge marker when you have earned it, in a grid you can actually scan. The games themselves live on each collection's own page, which is where you were heading anyway. Search still finds a game inside a collection even though the games are no longer drawn on the page, so looking up Blood Money still takes you to Hitman. Sorting by progress, A to Z, and the VR toggle all work as before.

Poladrin asked for this in the suggestion box: the follow feed said someone unlocked 7 achievements in a game, which tells you they played but not what they did. It now names them - up to three per entry, newest first, with the rest rolled into an and 4 more. It costs nothing extra to run, which is why it could ship straight away: the achievement names were already resolved during the profile rebuild that produces the feed entry, and were simply being thrown away when the unlocks were grouped by game. Three names rather than all of them is a deliberate limit, not laziness - every entry is copied into the feed of each of your followers, so a thirty-achievement session would otherwise write a wall of text into a lot of lists at once. Entries already sitting in feeds were written before this went live and have no names stored, so they keep showing as a plain count until they scroll off; new activity has the names from here on.

Hades II is now guide-backed - all 50 achievements written up against the live Steam schema, which for once hides nothing: every description is public, so the at-a-glance box is fully verified rather than hedged. Nothing is missable, because it is a roguelike where every region and Prophecy comes round again on the next run, and there is a real grind behind the 10,000 Kudos, 60 Minor Prophecies and fully upgraded Arcana. The seventeen achievements that just say Fulfil the Prophecy of some name are deliberately not guessed at - they point you back at the in-game Fated List, which is the only authoritative source for what each one actually wants. DOOM Eternal gets a stack planner, and it is one of the more expensive traps on the site to fall into: twelve of its achievements are scoped by their own descriptions to a single save slot, so starting a fresh campaign resets your progress toward all of them at once. Use mission select instead. Three of the twelve nest and pop for free on the way - one Slayer Gate inside all Slayer Gates, one Praetor perk category inside every perk, one crystal upgrade inside a full one - and the two Ancient Gods campaigns get their own plans, with five new DLC guides written so their badges actually render. Five new collections, every appid checked for identity, for still being purchasable and for actually having Steam achievements: Coffee Stain, Mimimi Games, Frontier Developments, Inti Creates and Bohemia Interactive. Hearts of Iron, Victoria, Poppy Playtime, Wreckfest, Assetto Corsa, Gothic, Call of Juarez and Prison Architect were all researched and dropped, each because only one game in the series has Steam achievements. A new curated list, Best Vampire Games on Steam, runs from V Rising and Vampyr through the Soul Reaver remaster and Blood West down to BloodRayne. Missable and playthrough counts were researched for three more games: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 needs only one run and has exactly one missable, the Lumiere Mime; A Plague Tale: Requiem has nothing permanently missable thanks to chapter select; and Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden needs a second partial run for its two mutually exclusive endings. Plus 696 more games added to the achievement catalogue.

Bannerlord is now guide-backed, with all 50 achievements written up against the live Steam schema. It is an unusually honest game to guide because every single description is public - nothing is hidden - so the at-a-glance box is fully verified rather than hedged: no permadeath run, no difficulty-locked achievements, and eight of the fifty are multiplayer-only, which is worth knowing before you start. Two full campaigns are the floor, because Freedom and Long live the Empire are the two mutually exclusive endings of the main quest, though a save kept before the choice will do. ARC Raiders gets a stack planner, and the most useful thing in it is a warning rather than a shortcut: three of its return-to-Speranza achievements need different exits, so Into Thin Air and Not Over Till It's Over cannot share a raid with anything else. The other two plans are genuinely efficient - one loaded raid covering seven achievements if you build the loadout before you drop, and a single trip to the Practice Range for two free ones. Five new collections, every appid checked for identity, for still being purchasable and for actually having Steam achievements: Beholder, all four of the apartment-block surveillance games; Azure Striker Gunvolt, eight games including the Luminous Avenger and Mighty Gunvolt spin-offs; Construction Simulator; Call of the Wild, pairing theHunter with The Angler; and Red Candle Games, which is Detention and Nine Sols - Devotion has never returned to Steam so it is left out of the badge rather than making it unearnable. Ace Combat, Hearts of Iron, Gothic, Trackmania and Kerbal Space Program were all researched today and dropped, each because only one game in the series has achievements. A new curated list, Best Cyberpunk Games on Steam, runs from Cyberpunk 2077 and the two Deus Ex games through Ghostrunner and The Ascent down to VA-11 Hall-A and Satellite Reign. Missable and playthrough counts were researched for three more games: Left 4 Dead 2 and Pizza Tower both have nothing missable and need no second run, and Titan Quest needs three full campaigns because Legendary difficulty only unlocks after Normal and Epic. Plus 2,867 more games added to the achievement catalogue.

Today's content pass adds a full Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT walkthrough covering all 77 achievements, written against the live Steam schema. 46 of them have real published descriptions and got proper write-ups; the other 31 are hidden, and rather than guess at their triggers they are marked unverified with a pointer to community guides, which is the same honesty rule the rest of the library follows. The at-a-glance box for it is worth reading before you start: two of the achievements say New Game Plus in their own descriptions, so the 100 percent needs a second run, and the Legends co-op mode carries several more. Five new collections: Larian Studios, Rockstar Games, Naughty Dog, Subset Games and Fallen London, every appid checked for identity, for still being on sale, and for actually having Steam achievements. A new curated list, Best Samurai and Ninja Games, sits alongside it. Double Dragon Gaiden gets a stack planner, including the genuinely useful warning that its four Mission 4 boss achievements conflict with each other - you need separate runs, so fold the two endings into two of them rather than replaying six times. Batman: Arkham Asylum is now flagged with its two missable achievements, and Fallout: New Vegas is marked as a one-playthrough game because the faction endings can be reloaded from a save rather than replayed. Plus 2,299 more games added to the achievement catalogue.

Another sharp collection report. Rusty Lake only had the four games with Rusty Lake or Cube Escape in the title, which turns out to be the wrong test entirely: Cube Escape Paradox was already in the collection and has neither. The real criterion is the studio, so the collection now holds every game Rusty Lake has developed and released on Steam. Added: Cube Escape Collection, The Past Within, Underground Blossom, Servant of the Lake, The Mr. Rabbit Magic Show, Samsara Room and The White Door. Two of those are free, which is fine, and every one was checked for a real appid, current availability and its own achievement list before going in. The reporter flagged Samsara Room themselves as the one most arguable, being closer to a spiritual predecessor, but Steam lists Rusty Lake as both its developer and publisher, so by the collection's own rule it belongs. The description has been rewritten too, since saying the collection spans the Rusty Lake and Cube Escape games is what made the title look like the test in the first place.

Poladrin asked whether you could follow people and get an activity log of what they are earning, and you can now. There is a Follow button on every profile and a new Your Feed page under the More menu, showing recent unlocks and 100%s from everyone you follow, grouped by game so thirty achievements in one session is one line rather than thirty. One honest caveat, stated on the page itself: SteamVault rebuilds a profile when someone looks at it rather than polling Steam constantly, so activity appears when that member's profile next refreshes and can lag a little behind Steam. That is the same reason the leaderboards and quests update the way they do. Under the hood the feed is built the boring way on purpose. Rather than looking up everyone you follow each time you open the page, which would mean a site running a scan across dozens of profiles on every view, each new unlock is written once into the feeds of that person's followers. Opening your feed is then a single read no matter whether you follow three people or two hundred. That distinction is exactly what caused a very expensive week in July, so it was worth getting right the first time.

The Long Dark is now guide-backed, with 47 achievement guides covering every achievement whose Steam description is public. The other 40 are the hidden Wintermute story achievements, and rather than guessing at their triggers the guide simply does not cover them - the note at the top says exactly that, because a confident wrong answer is worse than no answer. It also gets the biggest Stack these planner we have written for a survival game: five plans covering 22 achievements, built entirely around the fact that most of the list is scoped to a single game. The day-count ladder nests completely - one run that reaches 1000 days without Cheating Death also grants the 1, 10, 50, 100 and 500 day achievements on the way, so there is only ever one number worth chasing. The planner also flags two real conflicts. Pacifist and Silent Hunter are scoped to the FIRST days of a run, so they have to be started at day zero, and every hunting achievement is locked out of that window. Living Off the Land is the sharper trap: overlapping it with Pacifist forces a plants-only 25 days, so it belongs after the Pacifist window closes, not inside it. Arrow kills do not break Silent Hunter, which is why the bow-hunting stretch can run from day 26 to day 50 without ending the streak. Five new collections join the badge list: Grim Legends, three Artifex Mundi dark fairy-tale adventures; Remothered, both Italian stalker-horror games; For The King and For The King II; the WW1 Game Series, with Verdun, Tannenberg and Isonzo; and The Book of Unwritten Tales. Every appid was checked three ways - correct identity, still purchasable, and actually has Steam achievements - which is why Ace Combat, Assetto Corsa, Kerbal Space Program, Wreckfest, Supreme Commander, Panzer Corps, Hyper Light and Outward were all researched and then dropped, each for leaving only one qualifying game. There is a new curated list too, Best Looter ARPGs on Steam, running from Grim Dawn and Diablo IV through Titan Quest and Path of Exile down to Book of Demons and Wolcen. Missable and playthrough counts were researched and added for Dishonored 2, which has 12 one-shot mission achievements across a two-run 100 percent, Pacific Drive, which has 2 but does not need a second full run, and Sea of Stars, now confirmed to have none at all since the patch that unlocked Well Read. The achievement catalogue also grew by 2,534 games.

A member pointed out that Hitman: Absolution cannot be completed any more: its Contracts multiplayer servers were shut down in 2018 and roughly eight achievements went with them. That quietly made the entire Hitman badge unearnable, and held the collection under 100% for everyone, through nobody's fault. Collection games can now be marked as unobtainable with a reason. Such a game stays listed, because a collection is meant to be a complete record of a franchise, and it now carries a chip saying it cannot be 100%'d with the reason on hover, but it is excluded from both the badge requirement and the completion average. The Hitman badge is earnable again on the other three games. This is the same principle as the existing rule against adding delisted games: a badge nobody can earn is worse than no badge at all. There is a community hook that restores Absolution's Contracts mode, but that means running third-party binaries and is not something a badge should depend on. Separately, The Walking Dead (Telltale) gains the three standalone seasons alongside the Definitive Series, since they are separate Steam releases with their own achievement lists and are all still on sale.

The corrections box on collection pages went up yesterday and downunderstumbler immediately filled it with the kind of gaps a script would never find. Neptunia was the big one: the collection only held the four games whose titles start with Hyperdimension, which meant thirteen Neptunia games were missing, including Megadimension VII, Super Neptunia RPG, Sisters VS Sisters, Game Maker R:Evolution and spin-offs as far out as Neptunia Shooter and Riders VS Dogoos. It now has seventeen games. Sword Art Online gains Echoes of Aincrad and the Accel World crossover. Batman: Arkham gains Arkham Origins Blackgate, plus Arkham VR tagged as VR so it stays a bonus rather than blocking the badge. Demon Slayer gains Sweep the Board, the party game rather than a Hinokami title. My Hero gains All's Justice. Thief Simulator gains Crime Simulator, the roguelike spin-off from the same studio. Every one of the eighteen was checked on Steam before it went in: correct appid, still buyable, and has achievements. One report was not actioned and is worth explaining: Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is genuinely Arkhamverse and genuinely Rocksteady, but the collection is called Batman: Arkham and its badge is meant to mean you have completed the games where you play as Batman. That is a judgement call rather than a rule, so it stays out for now and is open to argument.

A full 106-achievement walkthrough for Euro Truck Simulator 2 is live. This is the cleanest source material we have had in a long time: every single one of the 106 descriptions is public, so there is not one hidden achievement to hedge and nothing in the guide is guesswork. Where a requirement depends on the game's XP or economy formulas rather than something the description states, the guide says so instead of inventing a number. The DLC situation is spelled out up front, because the schema itself does it - dozens of achievements end with a literal 'requires this DLC' tag, so you can see what a full clear would actually cost before you commit. Seven genuinely one-minute achievements are flagged as quick wins. Five new collections join the badge list: Cricket, with all six Big Ant games from Don Bradman Cricket 14 through to Cricket 26; Cooking Simulator; Thief Simulator; Autobahn Police Simulator; and Dakar Rally. Every appid was checked three ways - correct identity, still purchasable, and actually has Steam achievements - which is why Hearts of Iron, Wargame, Assetto Corsa, Slay the Spire, Victoria, Titan Quest, PC Building Simulator, Wreckfest, Hyper Light and Poppy Playtime were all researched and then dropped for leaving only one qualifying game each, and WWE 2K was left out because only two of its games are still on sale. The Cooking and Thief collections both include their VR entries, tagged as optional bonuses so a headset is never needed for the base badge. There is a new curated list, Best Truck and Driving Simulators on Steam, running from Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator through SnowRunner and MudRunner to Dakar Desert Rally. Marvel Rivals gains a Stack these planner with two plans and one useful negative finding: almost every achievement in that game names a specific hero, and you can only play one hero at a time, so hero achievements cannot be stacked at all - but the four with no hero attached all land in a single Arcade match played with a friend, and Onslaught! nests inside Hela's, Blade's and Black Panther's map-specific KO streaks, so it never needs chasing on its own. Missable and playthrough counts were researched and added for DREDGE and Ori and the Blind Forest, and DREDGE is confirmed as a single-save 100 percent because the game returns you to the point of no return after an ending. Sifu is confirmed to have no missables, and its playthrough count is deliberately left blank because published guides disagree on it. The achievement catalogue also picked up 215 brand-new Steam releases, including Moonlighter 2, Onimusha: Way of the Sword, The Blood of Dawnwalker and NBA 2K27 - catching new games early is the whole point, since a guide written before anyone else covers a game is the one that ranks.

A full 80-achievement walkthrough for Against the Storm is live, written against the live Steam schema. This one is unusually solid ground: every single one of the 80 descriptions is public, so there are no hidden achievements to hedge and nothing in the guide is guesswork. The achievements that need the Keepers of the Stone or Nightwatchers content are labelled as DLC up front, because the schema itself tags them that way. It ships with a four-plan Stack these planner, and the best find in it is pure nesting - every difficulty achievement in this game is worded 'or higher', so one Royal Woodlands win at the top of the ladder pays out the entire ladder beneath it, six achievements from a single settlement. The other plans cover one long exploration win worth five counters, one needs-focused settlement where Paradise contains both Higher Needs and Feeding The People, and one Coastal Grove expedition run. Two honest warnings are built in: Homesick, which wants a win inside five years, pulls directly against the exploration plan and should be its own short run, and Defying the Crown and Like a Machine flatly contradict each other since one bans completing orders and the other requires three. Five new collections join the badge list: Wonder Boy, Conan, Warhammer Age of Sigmar, Pro Cycling Manager and Tour de France. Every appid was checked three ways - correct identity, still purchasable, and actually has Steam achievements - which is why Rainbow Six, Assetto Corsa, Hearts of Iron, Ace Combat, Grounded, Mirror's Edge and Titan Quest were all researched and then dropped for leaving only one qualifying game each. There is a new curated list, Best Lovecraftian Games on Steam, running from Darkest Dungeon and DREDGE through to Stygian and The Sinking City 2; World of Horror was researched for it and cut for having no Steam achievements at all. A full metadata audit across every guide game came back with zero contradictions, and missable and playthrough counts were researched and added for Cities: Skylines and Dyson Sphere Program.

A full 68-achievement walkthrough for Metro Exodus is live, written against the live Steam schema. Fifty-eight of the sixty-eight descriptions are public, so those guides are grounded in the game's own wording; the ten hidden ones say plainly that we have not verified their trigger rather than guessing at it. The achievements belonging to the SAM'S STORY and THE TWO COLONELS chapters are labelled as DLC up front, so nobody starts chasing them without the content. It ships with a four-plan Stack these planner built on what the descriptions themselves scope to a single run: one careful SAM'S STORY pass covering eight achievements at once, one THE TWO COLONELS pass covering six, a TAIGA level plan, and a New Game+ plan for the two achievements that cannot be earned on a first playthrough. The TAIGA plan carries an honest warning - Forest child asks you to finish the level without attacking anyone or being noticed, so if you are not confident the statue and the tea party detours keep you unseen, do the ghost run clean and pick the other two up separately. Playthroughs is set to 2, the floor that published road maps agree on, and the missable count is deliberately left blank because those same guides disagree on it, which is more useful than a confident wrong number. Five new collections join the badge list: Double Fine, covering both Psychonauts games, Brutal Legend, Costume Quest and the LucasArts remasters the studio restored; Asterix and Obelix with all eight of its Steam games; Nightdive Studios and its KEX-engine remasters; the CAVE bullet-hell shooters; and The Smurfs. Every appid was checked three ways - correct identity, still purchasable, and actually has Steam achievements - which is why Hearts of Iron, Wargame, Assetto Corsa, Prison Architect, Gothic, Wreckfest and New Blood Interactive were all researched and then dropped for having only one qualifying game each. There is a new curated list, Best Post-Apocalyptic Games on Steam, running from Metro Exodus and New Vegas through to Wasteland 3 and Dying Light. Playthrough counts were also researched and added for Titanfall 2 and Resident Evil Village.

A full 50-achievement walkthrough for Dishonored 2 is live, written against the live Steam schema. Forty-one of the fifty descriptions are public, so those guides are grounded in the game's own wording; the nine hidden ones are campaign-progress unlocks and say plainly that we have not verified their trigger rather than guessing at it. It ships with a five-plan Stack these planner built around the conflicts the achievement list itself proves: In Good Conscience and Empire in Chaos are directly exclusive, and so are The Royal Protector and The Empress, which is what forces two playthroughs rather than one. The planner lays them out as a quiet Corvo run carrying every mission-scoped collectible, a loud Emily run carrying every kill-based achievement, and a single manual save that gets you both halves of the Dust District decision without a third run. Ghostly and Alternative Approach are flagged as nesting inside Shadow and Clean Hands, so they cost you nothing extra. Five new collections join the badge list: Carmageddon, Legacy of Kain, BLUE REFLECTION, Dark Deception and Pathologic - every appid checked three ways, for correct identity, for still being purchasable, and for actually having Steam achievements, which is why Titan Quest, Thief, Rainbow Six, Max Payne, Hearts of Iron, Wreckfest, Trackmania and Master of Orion were all researched and then dropped for having only one qualifying game each. There is a new curated list, Best Time Loop Games on Steam, running from Outer Wilds and DEATHLOOP through to In Stars And Time and Blue Prince; Twelve Minutes and Elsinore were cut from it for having no Steam achievements at all. The achievement catalogue grew by 631 games, drawn mostly from recent releases. Missable and playthrough counts were also researched and added for Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Hi-Fi RUSH and PowerWash Simulator.

A full 58-achievement walkthrough for DmC: Devil May Cry is now live, written against the live Steam schema - every one of the 58 descriptions is visible on this game, so nothing in it is guesswork, and the achievements that need the Vergil's Downfall content say so up front. Two independent road maps agree it has no missable achievements thanks to mission select, and that a genuine 100 percent needs five separate campaign clears, one per difficulty, so both numbers now show in the At a glance box. Five new collections join the badge list: Raiden, the vertical shoot em up series; Shiro Games, covering Northgard, Wartales, Darksburg and the Evoland games; Ninja Theory, which pulls Enslaved, DmC and both Hellblade games together; Rise of the Triad; and Nights of Azure. Every appid was checked three ways - correct game, still purchasable, and actually has Steam achievements - and Call of Juarez and Assetto Corsa were dropped after that check left them with only one qualifying game each. There is a new curated list, Best Shoot Em Up Games on Steam, with ten verified picks from Ikaruga and Mushihimesama through to CYGNI and DRAINUS. Ghostrunner also gets a Stack these planner covering seventeen achievements across four plans, including a conflict warning most guides miss: the three single-level challenge runs ban killing, upgrades and Surge respectively, so they cannot be combined with the ability-kill achievements or with each other. Ghostrunner and Enter the Gungeon were both researched and confirmed to have no missable achievements.

Thirty-four votes were cast for September and the top three are now running: Spell SEPTEMBER, One-Percenter and Backlog Buster. One-Percenter is the harshest quest yet - only achievements under one percent global unlock rate count, so Bronze is a single achievement and Gold is six. Backlog Buster returns after winning in August. August's three quests have ended, and rather than disappearing the way they used to, they now sit on the quests page as a final results block with the top three finishers on each, because grinding out a medal and then having nothing to look at the next morning was a poor reward. Your medals were always permanent and always counted on your profile, but the standings that earned them were being thrown away. Voting is now open for October with a nine-quest slate. It leads with Season of Screams for spooky season, which counts achievements across eighteen horror franchises - Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Dead Space, Outlast, Amnesia, Alien, The Evil Within, Layers of Fear, Five Nights at Freddy's, The Dark Pictures, Little Nightmares, Fears to Fathom and more, seventy-two games in total. Two brand-new challenge types join it: Daily Grind, which scores the number of separate days you unlock something on and rewards consistency over binges, and Franchise Focus, which scores your best single-franchise haul and rewards going deep instead of wide. Backlog Buster is deliberately rested after two straight wins to give the rest of the slate a chance.

Smart Play had its own hand-written list of stackable games that had drifted a long way from the real Stack these planners on the walkthroughs - only six of its thirty-four entries matched a game that actually has a plan, and thirteen games with proper verified plans were missing from it entirely. Worse, several of its blurbs stated things the guides deliberately refuse to state, like a Deity win in Civilization VI awarding every lower-difficulty win achievement, which is not verified. Reading one thing on your profile and the opposite on the walkthrough is not much use to anybody. Smart Play now pulls from the verified plans first and falls back to the old curated tips only for games that do not have one yet. Cards backed by a real plan carry a green verified plan badge and link straight to the full checklist on the walkthrough instead of the game page. The handful of remaining curated tips that asserted difficulty nesting have been reworded to say community reports rather than stating it as fact, and the tab now explains the difference between the two up front.

Civilization V now has a walkthrough covering its scenario achievements, and both Civ games have Stack these planners built from what the achievements actually say rather than from guesswork. The best find is in Civ V's Mongol scenario, where the five Khan achievements are explicit nested tiers - the descriptions literally read on the King or harder, on the Emperor or harder, and so on - so a single Deity win awards all five at once and there is no reason to play the lower difficulties. That same scenario also hides a trap: Khaaan! requires running OUT of time, which is the opposite of winning, so it can never share a run with the ladder and needs its own throwaway game. Fall of Rome gets a Vandals run that takes Rome by boat and then Constantinople, landing four achievements from one game, with a note that Pax Romana Aeternum cannot join it because that one requires playing as Rome rather than against it. Wonders of the Ancient World gets a plan that points out three of its four generic achievements ride along with any leader win, so only the leader itself is ever a reason to replay. Civilization VI gains six more plans of the same kind, including an Egypt game that needs Nubia present and a formal war declaration rather than a surprise one, a Scythia game that needs Persia present and a city deliberately given up so it can be retaken, and both halves of the Gifts of the Nile scenario where only one achievement in each pair carries the Deity requirement. Every stacked name across all nineteen games with plans now verifies against the live Steam list, and each one has its own guide underneath.

A full 98-achievement Tempest Rising walkthrough is live, and it comes with five Stack these plans built around the thing that actually decides whether a skirmish achievement is possible: which faction you are, and sometimes which faction the ENEMY is. Every unit named in an achievement was checked against the published faction rosters rather than guessed at, and two of those checks changed the answer. The Hijacker is a GDF specialist, not a Dynasty one, so Whats mine is mine belongs in the GDF run. And two achievements are not faction requirements at all but matchup requirements: Western BBQ wants Ignitor Corps killing Field Scouts, and Clay Pigeons wants Missile Troopers killing Combat Drones - Ignitors and Missile Troopers are Dynasty, Field Scouts and Combat Drones are GDF, so you must play Dynasty against a GDF opponent. Set the AI to Dynasty and neither one can ever trigger, which is the usual reason people give up on them. The other plans group one long Dynasty skirmish, one long GDF skirmish where Intel income is the real limit on both turret achievements, one faction-neutral economy match where the construction sites you queue for silos and air pads are the same ten that Multitasker counts, and one 1v3 that pairs Last Man Standing with a Hard skirmish win. Where something could not be confirmed it says so - the campaign difficulty achievements do not claim that beating Insane also awards the lower tiers, because that is unverified, and Participation Trophy is hidden with no published description so its trigger is left explicitly unknown rather than invented.

The Alters gets a full 63-achievement walkthrough. 55 of them publish a real Steam description and every write-up is anchored to it; the eight hidden ones are marked unverified rather than guessed at, because several of them clearly sit behind story choices you cannot take back. Its at-a-glance box also ships with a researched playthrough count of two - TheGamer, Gamepressure and the Steam 100 percent guide all agree you cannot get every Alter created in a single run, and the ending achievements are mutually exclusive. Five new collections, all studio bodies of work: FromSoftware, Team Ninja, Frictional Games, Spiders and 11 bit studios. Two franchises were researched and rejected the same day - Rainbow Six, because only Siege of the six games on Steam has achievements at all, and Gothic, because only the remake does. A new Best Beat Em Up Games list ranks eleven side-scrolling brawlers from Streets of Rage 4 to Scott Pilgrim, with each note calling out what the completion actually costs. Raft gets two Stack these plans, and the useful finding is that its counts are for things placed at once rather than built in total, so dismantling cropplots or storages to reclaim materials will undo the achievement you were working toward; the eight hunting ladders are pure nesting, so only the Expert number is worth chasing. Guide metadata also gained researched numbers for Dishonored, which needs one Low Chaos and one High Chaos run and has six genuinely missable achievements, and for Cyberpunk 2077, which every road map puts at a single playthrough provided you keep saves before the point of no return. 779 more games joined the achievement catalogue.

Hollow Knight: Silksong gets a full 52-achievement walkthrough, sitting alongside the Hollow Knight guide already on the site. Thirty-six of its achievements publish a real Steam description and every write-up is anchored to it, including the exact wording trap on Completion - you have to reach 100 percent AND then finish the game, not just hit the number. The sixteen hidden achievements are marked unverified rather than guessed at. Five new collections, all studio bodies of work: Landfall Games, Remedy Entertainment, Arkane Studios, Bloober Team and the Surviving colony-survival games. The original Surviving Mars and Assetto Corsa Competizione were both researched and rejected the same day, the first because it has been delisted in favour of Relaunched and an unbuyable game makes an unearnable badge, the second because it has no Steam achievements at all. A new Best Zombie Games list ranks eleven of them from Left 4 Dead 2 to Killing Floor 2, with each note calling out what the completion actually costs - Project Zomboid is absent because it has no Steam achievements. Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut gets a Stack these plan that collapses eight achievements into one run, and the useful finding is that there is no conflict where you would expect one: Opportunist and Consciousness is Over-rated are both satisfied by non-lethal takedowns, so they sit inside Pacifist instead of fighting it. Guide metadata was also corrected - A Plague Tale: Innocence was over-flagging ten missable achievements when Chapter Select recovers everything after the story, so only the two semi-missables both sources call out are still flagged - and researched playthrough counts were added for Dark Souls III, A Plague Tale and Silksong. 766 more games joined the achievement catalogue.

Frostpunk 2 gets a full 79-achievement walkthrough, which pairs with the Frostpunk guide already on the site. Fifty-nine of its achievements publish a real Steam description and every write-up is anchored to it - the run-long restrictions like Consistency, Isolationist and Not on my watch are explained as the whole-run commitments they actually are, the eight faction-specific Utopia challenges are each flagged with the faction they belong to, and the twenty hidden achievements are marked unverified rather than guessed at. Five new collections: No More Heroes (all four Suda51 games), Muv-Luv (five entries in the visual novel saga), Supermassive Games (Until Dawn, The Quarry and The Casting of Frank Stone), Wizard of Legend and Ultimate General. Hearts of Iron, Victoria, Assetto Corsa, Gothic and RollerCoaster Tycoon were all researched and rejected the same day because only one game in each franchise actually has Steam achievements. A new Best Colony Sim and Base Building Games list ranks ten survival-settlement games from Against the Storm to Songs of Syx - RimWorld, Dwarf Fortress and Kenshi are absent because none of them have Steam achievements. Jagged Alliance 3 gets three Stack these plans, including one deliberate conflict warning: Born Killer needs five kills from a single merc in one turn, so it cannot be chased during the squad-wide overwatch ambush that earns Overwatchmen, True Crit and Blood Rain. Lone Wolf and Dynamic Duo nest instead - the one-merc campaign satisfies both. Playthrough counts were also researched and added for God of War, Lies of P and Dishonored, and 409 more games joined the achievement catalogue.

Another six sets straight from the suggestion box, three from Poladrin and three from _Wicky__. Platforming Legends gathers the mascot platformers that defined the genre - Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, Spyro Reignited Trilogy, Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove, Sonic Adventure 2 and Mega Man Legacy Collection - and it is a far bigger ask than five entries suggests, since Crash and Spyro bring three games apiece. Retro-Mania is six trips back to the arcade cabinet through Namco's preserved originals and Sonic Mania. Liminal Space Survivor covers the Backrooms games plus POOLS and Dreamcore. That's No Chicken is five dinosaur games from Jurassic World Evolution 3 down to Dinoblade. Incrementally Insane is seven idle games where the number is the whole point, including one about feeding a black hole. Organizing Everything but my Backlog is six games about tidying up anything at all rather than starting something from your library. All 34 games were identity-checked, price-checked and achievement-checked before anything went in - which mattered here, because Steam's own search only returned Parkasaurus DLC rather than the base game, and the base game is the one carrying the achievements. Challenge Sets now number 25, the large majority suggested by members.

Stack plans now cover fourteen games. Resident Evil 4 is the tidiest addition: its three treasure map achievements are all scoped to a single playthrough and cover the three regions of one run, so buying each map from the Merchant as it appears and clearing it before you move on gets all three - and since the regions run in order, once you leave one you cannot go back for it. Helldivers 2 pairs a flamethrower loadout on a high-density mission, because fire kills still count as kills, so a hundred of them gets you most of the way to the hundred and fifty total. The Witcher 3 gets a buff-stacking moment combining every Place of Power bonus with seven potions and decoctions running at once. Titan Quest gets six crowd-control counts that all want the same dense enemy pack, with an honest caveat attached: those six effects come from different skills, so one character will usually not have access to all of them - treat it as a shared setup rather than a single run. Every stacked achievement across all fourteen games now has its own guide underneath, and all 128 stacked names verify against the live Steam list. The daily content pass has also picked up a stack-plan step, so it will keep working through the remaining candidates on its own.

Four more games have Stack these planners, taking the total to ten. Total War: WARHAMMER III is the neatest of them - all six of its diplomacy and Hero achievements are tiered, and the higher tier passes straight through the lower one, so ten trade agreements at once also hands you the five-agreement version and three level 30 Heroes means you already had two at level 20. One wide, friendly campaign clears all six. Vampire Survivors works the same way: banishing eighty weapons in a single run passes ten, twenty and forty on the way, so only the biggest number is worth chasing. Baldur's Gate 3 gets a single completionist run covering seven side achievements, with a note that Jack-of-all-Trades is the only one that shapes your build since it needs every class multiclassed without a Withers respec. Stellaris gets one very long game covering six, with Smorgasblorg and Master of Puppets deliberately left out because each locks your empire into a particular civic and they conflict with each other. Thirteen new achievement guides were written to go with them, covering every Civilization VI and Stellaris achievement that appeared in a plan but had no write-up - so every achievement in every plan now has its own guide underneath, and all 115 stacked names verify against the live Steam list.

A full 67-achievement Moonlighter walkthrough is live, covering the shop pricing loop and how the notebook turns a guess into a perfect sale, all five shop upgrade tiers, the four dungeon bosses and their Perfect variants, every weapon crafting tree up to Weaponmaster, the money grind to a million gold held at once, and the two run-scoped challenges most people lose a playthrough to: finishing under ten hours and finishing under forty deaths. Eighteen of that game's achievements have hidden Steam descriptions and every one of them is written as explicitly unverified rather than guessed at, because guessing a trigger from an achievement name is how wrong guides get written. Its At a glance box says two playthroughs, cross-checked against the XboxAchievements road map and the Steam hundred percent guide, and the missable count is deliberately left blank because those two sources describe the same run-scoped achievements but do not agree on a number. Five new franchise collections joined the badge list: Moonlighter, FAIRY TAIL, Rebel Galaxy, ISLANDERS and Sudden Strike, with every game identity-checked, price-checked and achievement-checked first. Samurai Shodown was researched and rejected because the flagship 2019 entry is no longer purchasable on Steam, and Master of Orion, Supreme Commander and Slay the Spire were rejected because only one game in each series actually carries achievements. There is also a new curated Best Character Action Games on Steam list running through Devil May Cry 5, NieR:Automata, Hi-Fi RUSH, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Bayonetta, Ninja Gaiden 2 Black, Stellar Blade, the Devil May Cry HD Collection and Furi. Guide metadata picked up researched entries for Nine Sols, where four achievements are now individually flagged as easy to miss, and OXENFREE, which genuinely needs three separate runs because its ending and relationship achievements exclude one another. The achievement catalogue grew by another 1,504 games.

The SteamVault Guides list was a flat A to Z of every walkthrough, which is fine at ten games and useless at a hundred and forty. It now filters. Pick a difficulty band - 1 to 3 Easy, 4 to 6 Medium, 7 to 8 Hard, 9 to 10 Brutal - or toggle the things that actually change how you plan a completion: games with a Stack these planner where several achievements fall out of one run, games with quick wins flagged for a day you only have a minute, games that have missable achievements, and games verified to have none at all. Sort by name, guide count, easiest first, hardest first or most missables. Each card now shows its difficulty, stack plan count, quick win count and missable count at a glance. One deliberate detail: a game whose difficulty has not been rated yet is excluded from a difficulty filter rather than being given a made-up number, and No missables means verified none - games where missables were never catalogued are kept out of that filter, because unknown is not the same as zero.

The Stack these planner had not grown since Age of Empires IV, so the live Steam descriptions for all 140 guide games were pulled and searched for achievements the game itself scopes to a single match, run or game - the only safe basis for saying two things can be done together. Risk of Rain 2, Civilization VI, Brotato, Dyson Sphere Program and Frostpunk all have plans now. Risk of Rain 2 got two separate ones for a good reason: Commando: Incorruptible needs twenty stages cleared without ever touching a Lunar item, which flatly contradicts Moon Worshipper, so lumping them together would have quietly cost you the run. Also new: a Quick win badge. These are the one-minute jobs - use photo mode, customise your coat of arms, change your outfit, honk a clown's nose - flagged so you can pop something on a day you have no time and keep an achievement streak alive. Worth saying these are not the same as easy achievements: several are genuinely rare purely because almost nobody bothers. Twenty-three are flagged across eleven games so far, with the count shown at the top of each walkthrough.

The suggestion box has been busy, so nine community Challenge Sets went live at once. From Poladrin: Survivors of the Void (Risk of Rain 2 and Returns, Vampire Survivors, Megabonk, Crab Champions, Soulstone Survivors, Brotato - comfortably the heaviest set on the site, over a thousand achievements deep), Cozy Farming Vibes (Stardew Valley, Fields of Mistria, Coral Island, Moonlight Peaks, Palia), Move to the Rhythm of the Beat, Better With Friends, Idle Empire, and Zombie Annihilation. From _Wicky__: Retail Therapy, Gone Fishing and Brain Over Brawn, the last one running Portal and Portal 2 through The Entropy Centre, Viewfinder, Superliminal, Q.U.B.E. 2 and Blue Prince. All 45 games were identity-checked, price-checked and achievement-checked first; Aaero2 stands in for the original Aaero, which no longer appears in the Steam store. That takes Challenge Sets to 19, most of them community-suggested. Also fixed: manual Journal entries were saving but disappearing when you left the page, reported by Poladrin. The entries were being written correctly the whole time and simply were not being read back, so anything you logged before now will reappear.

A full 46-achievement Resident Evil 4 walkthrough is live, covering the three difficulty completions, the village, castle and island treasure maps, every Merchant request, the Clockwork Castellan hunt, the no-damage minecart and water scooter runs, the S+ rank runs on Standard and Hardcore, and the restriction runs: no recovery items, no talking to the Merchant, and knives and handguns only. Fourteen of that game's achievements have hidden Steam descriptions, and every one of those is written as explicitly unverified rather than guessed at - including Peerless Agent, where the guide explains the inference from its two visible siblings and then says plainly that it is an inference. Its At a glance box now says 5 playthroughs, cross-checked against two separate 100 percent guides, and the region-locked treasure, request and Castellan achievements are flagged as easy to miss because there is no chapter select and areas close behind you. Five new franchise collections joined the badge list: Diablo, King's Bounty, Hellblade, Sanctum and Monster Energy Supercross, with every game identity-checked, price-checked and achievement-checked first. Hearts of Iron, Victoria, Prison Architect, Titan Quest, Call of Juarez, Assetto Corsa, Trackmania, Rainbow Six, Don't Starve, RollerCoaster Tycoon, Kerbal Space Program, Wargame and F.E.A.R. were all researched and rejected the same way, because in each case only one game in the series actually carries Steam achievements. There is also a new curated Best Platformer Games on Steam list running through Celeste, Cuphead, Pizza Tower, Psychonauts 2, A Hat in Time, Rayman Legends, Super Meat Boy, Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove, Neon White and Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy. Guide metadata also picked up researched entries for Sea of Stars, which needs two runs, and Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut, which really can be finished in one.

_Wicky__ is on a roll. Cosmic Cartographers gathers six games about landing somewhere strange and working out what is on it: No Man's Sky, ASTRONEER, Outer Wilds, EVERSPACE 2, Journey To The Savage Planet and The Invincible. Dark Side of the Moon is a tighter four-game set where every game takes place on a moon - PRAGMATA on the lunar surface, Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel on Elpis above Pandora, Deliver Us The Moon in an abandoned lunar colony, and Prey aboard Talos I in lunar orbit. Take every game in a set to 100 percent and the title is yours. As always each game was identity-checked, price-checked and achievement-checked before it went in. That brings the Challenge Sets list to ten, half of them community-suggested - the suggestion box and the Challenge Sets page both take ideas.

A full 54-achievement Phasmophobia walkthrough is live, covering all 22 ghost-type identifications, the contract and spending chains up to 100 contracts and $100,000, the weekly challenge and daily task grinds, the three equipment unlock tiers, Prestige I through III and the Bronze, Silver and Gold Apocalypse trophies. One deliberate choice worth flagging: the guide does not print evidence combinations for any ghost. Those have been changed repeatedly by updates, so the guide points you at the in-game Journal instead of handing you a table that might be a patch out of date. The six hidden achievements are marked unverified rather than guessed at. The At a glance box for it says no missables, because contracts are infinite and repeatable and there is no story path to lose. Five new franchise collections joined the badge list: Harvest Moon, WRC, MX vs ATV, TT Isle of Man and Cities in Motion, with every game identity-checked, price-checked and achievement-checked first. Hearts of Iron, Mirror's Edge, Grounded, Prison Architect, Slay the Spire and Hyper Light were all researched and rejected the same way, because in each case only one game in the series actually has Steam achievements. There is also a new curated Best Space Sim Games on Steam list running through X4: Foundations, EVERSPACE 2, STAR WARS: Squadrons, No Man's Sky, Chorus, Avorion, Hardspace: Shipbreaker, EVERSPACE, Space Engineers, Rebel Galaxy Outlaw and House of the Dying Sun. Elite Dangerous and Kerbal Space Program were both left off for the same reason ULTRAKILL was left off the boomer shooter list: no Steam achievements, so the link would go nowhere. Guide metadata also picked up researched entries for Prey, which really does need three playthroughs, Dead Cells and Neon White.

A complete 138-achievement Total War: WARHAMMER III walkthrough is live, and it is one of the cleanest guides on the site: every single one of that game's 138 achievement descriptions is public, so nothing in this guide had to be hedged or guessed. It covers the Prologue sweep, the campaign progression chain from a level 10 Lord up to 60,000 gross income a turn, the four Daemon Prince realm fights at the Brass Citadel, Palace of Slaanesh, Mansion of the Plaguelord and Impossible Fortress, every faction mechanic from Khorne Skulls and Nurgle Plagues to Tzeentch Changing of the Ways and Cathay caravans, the scored Trials of Fate, and all 24 faction campaign wins plus their Very Hard and Legendary variants. The At a glance box for it is worth a look on its own: it now says 24 playthroughs, because there really are 24 separate faction campaigns in that list and each one needs its own run. Five new franchise collections joined the badge list: Dune, the Wizarding World, Fears to Fathom, The Lord of the Rings and Star Trek, with every game identity-checked, price-checked and achievement-checked before it went in. There is also a new curated Best Boomer Shooter Games on Steam list, running through DUSK, Ion Fury, Turbo Overkill, AMID EVIL, CULTIC, Prodeus, HROT, Selaco, WRATH: Aeon of Ruin and Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun. ULTRAKILL was left off despite being the obvious pick, for the simple reason that it has no Steam achievements at all and would have sent readers to a dead page. Finally, an accuracy fix on Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy: its missable list was showing 2 when three independent trophy guides all agree it is 6, so Thoughtful Captain, Managerial Skills, Like a Glove!, Lore Hoarder and Galactic Frugality have been added and flagged, and Eat It, Rodent was unflagged because none of those sources call it missable. A Plague Tale: Requiem now correctly shows that 100 percent takes two playthroughs, since the skill trophies cannot all be maxed in a single run.

Three community-suggested Challenge Sets are live, straight from _Wicky__ in the suggestion box. Lost, but Making Progress gathers six survival sandboxes that all begin the same way — stranded, freezing, drowning or starving — across Subnautica, The Long Dark, The Forest, Raft, Stranded Deep and Grounded. Grease Monkey is seven games about getting your hands dirty under a bonnet: Car Mechanic Simulator 2018 and 2021, Motorcycle Mechanic Simulator 2021, Tank Mechanic Simulator, Revhead, My Summer Car and Mon Bazou. Cleanup Crew is for anyone who enjoys dealing with other people's mess — PowerWash Simulator and its sequel, Viscera Cleanup Detail, Serial Cleaner, Crime Scene Cleaner, and House Flipper 1 and 2. Take every game in a set to 100 percent and you earn its profile title. Every game was identity-checked, price-checked and achievement-checked before it went in; Grounded 2 was left out of the survival set for now because it does not expose any Steam achievements yet, which would have made that title impossible to finish. Got a set idea of your own? The suggestion box and the Challenge Sets page both take them.

Four members linked a Twitch channel this week, so the Live page got a proper upgrade and streaming now surfaces everywhere instead of sitting on one page. The homepage no longer just says how many members are streaming — when someone goes live you get real stream cards with the thumbnail, what they are playing, the viewer count and their name, so you can see what is on at a glance and jump straight in. Profiles now carry a streamer badge too: if a member has linked a channel it sits next to their rank, and the moment they go live it turns red and shows the game they are playing, linking straight to the stream. The Live page itself now shows each streamer's SteamVault stats right next to their stream — total achievements, games taken to 100 percent and average completion — which is something you will not find beside a stream anywhere else. If you stream, there is also a new panel block on the Live page with your profile link ready to copy into your Twitch panels: your profile works as a running scoreboard of your completion runs for anyone watching. Linking your channel takes about thirty seconds in Settings, and you will appear automatically every time you go live.

A full 100-achievement Monster Hunter Rise walkthrough is live, covering the whole award list end to end: the story hunts from Magnamalo through Ibushi and Narwa, the Sunbreak Master Rank run to Malzeno, and then the long tail that actually decides your 100 percent — the 50-quest-per-locale awards for all seven maps, the 100, 500 and 1,000 large-monster shields, the Anomaly Investigation grind behind the afflicted-monster trophies and Qurious Crafting augments, the Risen monster slays, and the two crown shields that most hunters finish last. Every one of the 100 entries was checked against the live Steam achievement list. Where Steam only says a vague amount, like many or a lot, the guide says so plainly instead of inventing a number, and the handful of awards Steam does not name a trigger for are marked unverified rather than guessed at. Six new franchise collections joined the badge list: South Park, GreedFall, Necromunda, Battlefleet Gothic, RoboCop and Valiant Hearts — every game identity-checked, price-checked and achievement-checked before it went in. There is also a new curated Best Fighting Games on Steam list, running from Street Fighter 6 and TEKKEN 8 through Guilty Gear Strive, Mortal Kombat 1, Skullgirls, King of Fighters XV, Dragon Ball FighterZ, SoulCalibur VI and Brawlhalla. Behind the scenes the guide At a glance boxes got an accuracy pass: Baldur's Gate 3 was wrongly showing no permadeath run and no difficulty achievements when Honour mode and Tactician mode are both right there in the achievement list, and the same wrong answer was fixed on Fallout: New Vegas and Disco Elysium. Elden Ring, Baldur's Gate 3 and Hollow Knight now show how many playthroughs 100 percent really takes.

A complete 66-achievement Ready or Not walkthrough is live, covering the whole tactical-shooter checklist: the mission-set clears at C+ on Standard, the weapon-restricted runs (pistols only on Narcos, the .357 alone on Rust Belt, taser-and-flashbangs on Hide and Seek, gas-only on Twisted Nerve), the no-armour and squad-command-only challenges, and the brutal end of the list — Medal of Valor, the Ironman campaigns, the fifteen-suspect chain on 3 Letter Triad and the S-rank sweeps for the Home Invasion, Dark Waters and Boiling Point DLC. Every one of the 66 entries was checked character-for-character against the live Steam achievement list, and the six achievements Steam hides are marked as unverified rather than guessed at. Five new franchise collections joined the badge list: Agatha Christie, Terminator, Microsoft Flight Simulator, Cat Quest and Corpse Party — every game identity-checked, price-checked and achievement-checked first. There is also a new curated Best Tactical Shooters on Steam list running from Ready or Not and Insurgency: Sandstorm through Door Kickers 2, Rainbow Six Siege, Arma 3, Hell Let Loose and Six Days in Fallujah. Behind the scenes the achievement catalogue grew by 6,430 games to 55,774.

Today's content drop: a complete 43-achievement walkthrough for Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden, DON'T NOD's colonial-era ghost-hunting RPG. It covers the combat challenges people actually get stuck on — eight kills in one encounter without taking a hit, three post-parry kills in a single fight, five rifle weakspot kills back to back — as well as the long completion sweeps for every Shelter, Haunted Ground, cursed chest, treasure map and all 88 pieces of equipment, and the eight-item Relic upgrade grind behind Bring it on! It also flags the two Antea ending achievements as mutually exclusive so you keep a save before the decisive choice, and the twelve achievements Steam hides are marked as unverified rather than guessed at. Five new franchise collections joined the badge list: Obsidian Entertainment (Pillars, Tyranny, Pentiment, Grounded, The Outer Worlds and Avowed), DON'T NOD (Vampyr, Tell Me Why, Jusant, Banishers and more), Gundam, Demon Slayer and shapez — every game identity-checked, price-checked and achievement-checked before it went in. There is also a new curated Best Detective and Mystery Games on Steam list, running from Return of the Obra Dinn and Disco Elysium through The Case of the Golden Idol, L.A. Noire, The Roottrees are Dead, Paradise Killer and Shadows of Doubt. Behind the scenes the achievement catalogue grew by 715 games to 49,344.

A full Cities: Skylines walkthrough is live — all 135 achievements, every one keyed to the real Steam achievement name, with the eight achievements Steam hides marked as unverified rather than guessed. Five new franchise collections joined the badge list: Hello Neighbor, Expeditions, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Deliver Us and Port Royale, every game price-checked and achievement-checked before it went in. There is also a new curated Best Rhythm Games on Steam list covering Crypt of the NecroDancer, Hi-Fi RUSH, Metal: Hellsinger, Rhythm Doctor and more. Behind the scenes the achievement catalogue grew by 1,414 games to 48,629.

The What’s Next "Easiest overall" view used to only look at your most-played games. Now it covers every game you own. The trick: global unlock rates are the same for everyone, so SteamVault caches each game’s most-common achievements once and shares that across all members — meaning your board is computed from your whole library without a giant per-visit fan-out. Huge libraries fill in over a couple of refreshes as the cache warms, then it’s instant. Refresh your profile and open What’s Next → Easiest overall to see your genuinely-quickest wins across everything you play.

Today's content drop: a complete 61-achievement guide for Two Point Hospital, the management sim whose achievement list runs from curing your very first patient all the way to holding first place in every league table at once for three straight months. It covers the whole Gold Star ladder from 15 stars up to 108, the world-class staff training goals, the two R.E.M.I. X remix sets, the long grinds like 100 ghosts captured and 50 marketing campaigns, and the DLC-specific hospitals - Close Encounters, Off The Grid, Culture Shock, A Stitch In Time and Speedy Recovery - each flagged so you know what you need to own before chasing them. The really awkward ones get honest treatment too: the wave runs at Mudbury Festival and Topless Mountain, the Yesterizer throughput target and the four-illness cure in Clockwise-above-Thyme. Seven of Two Point Hospital's achievements are hidden on Steam with no published description, and rather than guess at their triggers we have marked each one as unverified. Five new Collections to earn badges in - MotoGP (all thirteen official releases from 13 to 26), MXGP, Hot Wheels Unleashed, Super Monkey Ball and Torment. Plus a new curated ranking, Best Open World Games on Steam, running from Elden Ring and The Witcher 3 through Red Dead Redemption 2, Skyrim, Cyberpunk 2077, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, No Man's Sky and Subnautica. The achievement catalogue also grew by 1,813 games, taking it past 47,000.

Today's content drop: a complete 115-achievement guide for Titan Quest Anniversary Edition, the ARPG whose achievement list quietly spans three difficulties and two expansions. It covers the full run of named campaign bosses across Greece, Egypt, the Orient and the Norse lands, the crafting chain from Lesser through Greater to Divine artefacts, the relic and charm collection goals, the fiddly skill-specific ones like landing Phantom Strike on six enemies or keeping twelve asleep at once, and the genuinely brutal end of the list - the nine mastery-specific Legendary clears, the zero-death runs on Normal, Epic and Legendary, the sub-20-hour three-difficulty speedrun and the half-million kill count. Eight of Titan Quest's achievements are hidden on Steam, and rather than invent triggers for them we have marked each one as unverified, along with the optional bosses that have to be found rather than followed on a quest marker. Five new Collections to earn badges in - La-Mulana, Axiom Verge, Super Meat Boy, Defense Grid and Crypt of the NecroDancer. Plus a new curated ranking, Best CRPGs on Steam, running from Baldur's Gate 3 and Divinity: Original Sin 2 through Disco Elysium, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, Rogue Trader, Planescape: Torment and UnderRail. The achievement catalogue also grew by 2,321 games, taking it past 45,000.

Today's content drop: a complete 115-achievement guide for Frostpunk, which has one of the most demanding achievement lists on Steam once you get past the scenario completions. It covers all six scenarios and their Hard and Survivor Mode variants, the Endurance and Endless targets from 50 days up to the Ultramarathon Extreme run, the city-building oddities like finishing a run with no Steam Hubs, no medical buildings or no Tents at all, the settlement diplomacy achievements for both the loyal and the exploitative routes, and the long list of Last Autumn construction restrictions. Frostpunk hides nineteen of its achievement descriptions, and rather than guess at those triggers we have flagged each one as unverified. Five new Collections to earn badges in - PlatinumGames (Bayonetta, Vanquish, Metal Gear Rising, The Wonderful 101, NieR:Automata and Sol Cresta), Telltale Games, Surgeon Simulator, Rivals of Aether and Nidhogg. Plus a new curated ranking, Best Puzzle Games on Steam, from Portal 2 and Baba Is You through Return of the Obra Dinn, The Witness, Opus Magnum, COCOON and Patrick's Parabox. The achievement catalogue also grew by 1,133 games.

Today's content drop: a complete 51-achievement guide for Oxygen Not Included, Klei's colony sim where the achievements double as a roadmap through the whole game - the early plumbing and ration milestones, the cycle-100 and cycle-365 survival markers, the ranching and power goals, and the genuinely punishing end-game ones like cooling a building to 6 Kelvin, holding 25+ morale in a rocket for ten cycles, or taming one of every critter species. The Colony Imperative achievements point you at the in-game objective text rather than guessing at requirements that shift between versions. Five new franchise Collections to earn badges in - Zachtronics (thirteen engineering puzzlers from SpaceChem to Last Call BBS), Klei Entertainment, the X space-sim series, Tomorrow Corporation and ATOM RPG. Plus a new curated ranking, Best Survival Games on Steam, from Subnautica and Rust through The Long Dark, Project Zomboid, Green Hell and Enshrouded. The achievement catalogue also grew by 2,205 games, almost all of them recent Steam releases.

Today's content drop: a complete 102-achievement guide for Rust, one of the most-played games on Steam and one that has never had a proper achievement walkthrough here. It covers the whole early-game crafting chain from your first rock to a locked tool cupboard, the resource grinds, the monument runs (Excavator, Cargo Ship, underwater labs, Bandit Camp poker), the newer ocean content, and the awkward group ones like Rust Air and Cool Kids Club that need four or five people. Rust hides twelve of its achievement descriptions and we have marked those as unverified rather than inventing triggers. Six new franchise Collections to earn badges in - Monster Train, The Binding of Isaac, Arma, Hard West, Red Orchestra / Rising Storm and Everspace. Plus a new curated ranking, Best Turn-Based Tactics Games on Steam, running from XCOM 2 and Into the Breach through Jagged Alliance 3, BATTLETECH, Invisible Inc. and Tactical Breach Wizards. The achievement catalogue also grew by around 2,000 games.

Two quality-of-life fixes on the profile. The Achievements tab now loads more games automatically as you scroll — no more clicking "Load more" (the button stays as a manual fallback). And the What’s Next "Easiest overall" view is much richer: instead of one achievement per game from a small live-fetched set, it now shows the genuinely easiest unearned achievements across your most-played games (multiple per game, sorted by global unlock %), computed during your profile build so it loads instantly. Refresh your profile to populate the new list.

Today's content drop: a full 121-achievement guide for Dead Cells, the roguevania that everyone bounces off once and then plays for 200 hours — every biome-reach unlock, the runes that open new routes, the boss kills, and the fiddly ones like beating the Scarecrow without touching a mushroom or letting your Leghugger finish an Armored Shrimp. Dead Cells hides roughly a third of its achievement descriptions, and rather than guess those triggers we have said so plainly on each one. Five new franchise Collections to earn badges in — Dungeon Defenders, Puyo Puyo, Bridge Constructor, Poly Bridge and Myst. Plus a new curated ranking, Best Grand Strategy Games on Steam, from Crusader Kings III and Europa Universalis IV through Stellaris, Hearts of Iron IV and Victoria 3. The achievement catalogue also grew by 767 games, almost all of them brand-new Steam releases.

One of the most-requested features. The A-Z Challenge: take one game to 100% for each letter of the alphabet within a single calendar year. Because SteamVault already knows when each of your games hit 100%, your board fills in automatically and retroactively — join late in the year and everything you've already done still counts. For every letter you still need, it suggests the game in your library you're closest to finishing, so you always know your next target. Opt in on the new /a-z page (in the nav under More) and it shows on your profile with a live A-Z strip. You can flip between years too, to see past runs.

Today's content drop: a full 35-achievement guide for A Plague Tale: Requiem, the plague-and-rats story-stealth sequel, covering every weapon and gear upgrade tree, the Aggressive, Prudence and Opportunism skill grinds, and all the collectibles (flowers, feathers, souvenirs and secret chests) with the hidden story achievements flagged honestly rather than guessed. Five new franchise Collections to earn badges in — A Plague Tale, Gungeon (Enter and Exit the Gungeon), Aragami, Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl and Coffee Talk — plus a new curated ranking, Best Racing Games on Steam, from Forza Horizon 5 and Assetto Corsa to DiRT Rally 2.0, BeamNG.drive, Wreckfest and art of rally.

Today's content drop: a full 33-achievement guide for Command & Conquer Remastered Collection, covering both Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert plus their expansion mission packs — the cumulative build-count grinds (infantry, tanks, aircraft, navy, superweapons), the Ion Cannon finish on the Temple of Nod, the Jukebox and capture achievements, and the brutal hardest-difficulty campaign runs. Five new franchise Collections to earn badges in — SaGa (the Romancing SaGa and SaGa Frontier games), Fatal Frame, Pac-Man, Earth Defense Force and Bomberman. Plus a new curated ranking, Best Survival Horror Games on Steam, from the Resident Evil 2 and Silent Hill 2 remakes to Alien: Isolation, SOMA, Signalis and Fatal Frame.

Today's content drop: a full 128-achievement guide for Dyson Sphere Program, the interstellar factory builder, covering every power and production milestone, the matrix production rates, Dark Fog combat, the exploration finds (black holes, neutron stars, reversed-axis planets) and the tough challenge runs like the sub-10-hour completion and the no-Foundation and no-Solar-Sail restrictions. Four new franchise Collections to earn badges in — Legend of Grimrock, BloodRayne, Zeno Clash and Spelunky — plus a new curated ranking, Best Factory and Automation Games on Steam, from Factorio and Satisfactory to Captain of Industry, Techtonica and Mindustry. We also added around 250 more games to the achievement-count catalogue that powers the Most Achievements browser.

Today's content drop: a full 35-achievement guide for Paper Trail, the fold-the-world puzzle adventure, covering every region clear from Home to City, all nine origami collection sets, and the no-hints and under-four-hours completion runs (the hidden story achievements are flagged honestly rather than guessed). Five new Collections to earn badges in — Rusty Lake, Amanita Design (Machinarium, Botanicula and the Samorost games), Higurashi When They Cry, Leisure Suit Larry and the Blackwell series — plus a new curated ranking, Best Point-and-Click Adventure Games on Steam, from Grim Fandango and Day of the Tentacle to Unavowed, Thimbleweed Park and NORCO.

The profile Stats tab got a big expansion (and now holds Completion as a sub-tab, so it's one place for all your numbers). New up top: achievements-per-day for the last 30/60/90 days (toggle), a day-of-week breakdown that calls out the day you unlock the most, and an hour-of-day chart showing your peak grinding time — all timezone-aware if you've set yours. Plus headline stats: total for the window, average per day, your best single day, and your longest/current streak. The existing completion distribution, rarity breakdown and top-games lists live under the same tab. Activity charts fill in after your next profile refresh.

Today's content drop: a 28-achievement guide for Pizza Tower, covering the per-level challenges (John Gutter combos, Bloodsauce Dungeon no-damage runs, the WAR gauntlet), the full S-rank set across all five worlds, and the P-rank grind, with the hidden secret achievements flagged honestly rather than guessed. Five new franchise Collections to earn badges in — Atelier (fifteen games across the Arland, Dusk and Mysterious lines), Yu-Gi-Oh!, Toukiden, Might & Magic and Disciples — plus a new curated ranking, Best Cozy Games on Steam, from Stardew Valley and Spiritfarer to Unpacking, Dorfromantik, Coffee Talk and Little Kitty, Big City. We also added 280 more games to the achievement-count catalogue that powers the Most Achievements browser.

Today's content drop: a full 20-achievement guide for Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise of the Dragons, covering the Crowd Control combo tiers, token grinding, the two endings and all four Mission 4 gang-leader fights (uncertain triggers are hedged, not guessed). Five new franchise Collections to earn badges in — Train Sim World, Steins;Gate, AI: The Somnium Files, Double Dragon and RIDE — plus a new curated ranking, Best JRPGs on Steam, from Persona 5 Royal and Final Fantasy VII Remake to Octopath Traveler, Sea of Stars and Chained Echoes. We also added 2,292 more games to the achievement-count catalogue that powers the Most Achievements browser.

Today's content drop: a full 63-achievement walkthrough for Neon White, covering every mission, the Ace-medal and gift hunts, character sidequests and relationships, and the Heaven Rush and Hell Rush bonus gauntlets (hidden achievements are flagged honestly, not guessed). Five new franchise Collections to earn badges in — System Shock, Story of Seasons (including the Doraemon crossovers), Attack on Titan, Warriors Orochi and Samurai Warriors — plus a new curated ranking, Best Co-op Games on Steam, from It Takes Two and Split Fiction to Deep Rock Galactic, Helldivers 2 and Overcooked 2. We also added 1,471 more games to the achievement-count catalogue that powers the Most Achievements browser.

Today's content drop: a full 55-achievement walkthrough for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, mapping the whole journey from breaking your first enemy and Gustave's Overcharge to the level 33/66/99 milestones, the Axon boss fights and the music-record and journal collectible hunts. Four new franchise Collections to earn badges in — the MudRunner off-road sims (MudRunner, SnowRunner, Expeditions), Grandia, Utawarerumono, and the Fate action games (Samurai Remnant, EXTELLA, EXTELLA LINK, and the remasters) — plus a new curated ranking, Best Immersive Sim Games on Steam, from Prey and Dishonored 2 to the Deus Ex games, System Shock and Weird West. We also added 1,054 more games to the achievement-count catalogue that powers the Most Achievements browser.

A community request (Morikami): consoles have had setlists for years where clearing a themed group of games earns a badge, but no PC site did it. Now SteamVault does. Challenge Sets are cross-franchise setlists — 100% every game in a set and you earn its title on your profile. Launching with five, including the exact examples suggested: Jack of All Trades (six simulators), Bonafide Heister (Payday 2 & 3, GTA V, Monaco, Teardown), Soulslike Survivor (Dark Souls III, Sekiro, Elden Ring, Lies of P), Roguelike Ruler (Hades, Slay the Spire, Risk of Rain 2, Balatro, Vampire Survivors) and Pixel Perfectionist (Celeste, Cuphead, Hollow Knight, Ori and the Will of the Wisps). Browse them all at /challenges, and track your progress on your profile under Milestones & Badges. More sets to come.

Today's content drop: a full 50-achievement walkthrough for Monster Hunter Wilds, covering the whole hunt from your first mount and capture to the brutal endgame crown grinds, Hunter Rank 100 and the 100-quest multiplayer haul. Five new franchise Collections to earn badges in — Rune Factory, the Mana series, Freedom Planet, Momodora, and Under Night In-Birth — plus a new curated ranking, Best Farming Sim Games on Steam, from Stardew Valley and My Time at Sandrock to Coral Island, Sun Haven and Story of Seasons. We also added 702 more games to the achievement-count catalogue that powers the Most Achievements browser.

Today's content drop: a full 50-achievement walkthrough for Jagged Alliance 3, covering the mercenary tactics grind from headshots and overwatch chains to the punishing Ironman, Lone Wolf and Pacifist campaign challenges. Four new franchise Collections to earn badges in — Jagged Alliance, Space Hulk (the Warhammer 40K corridor-crawlers), Bus Simulator, and MechWarrior — plus a new curated ranking, Best Tower Defense Games on Steam, from Bloons TD 6 and Kingdom Rush to They Are Billions and Mindustry. We also added 538 more games to the achievement-count catalogue that powers the Most Achievements browser.

By request from Reddit: on your profile's Collection Badges, hover any collection and hit the × to hide it — handy for franchises you have no intention of completing, so your badge wall shows only what you're actually working toward. Hidden collections tuck into a collapsible list at the bottom where you can unhide them anytime. It's per-browser and instant, and your earned count still reflects every collection.

Today's content drop: a full 44-achievement walkthrough for Cities: Skylines II, four new franchise Collections to earn badges in — Supergiant Games (Bastion through Hades II), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, River City, and Ghostbusters — and a new curated ranking, Best City Builder Games on Steam, spanning Cities: Skylines, Frostpunk, Anno 1800, Manor Lords and more. We also added 663 more games to the achievement-count catalogue that powers the Most Achievements browser.

Steam sometimes omits free games and Source mods — like Entropy: Zero — from the owned-games list it shares over its API, even when you have played them, so they never appeared on your profile. Now you can add them yourself: go to Settings, Track extra games, search for the game and add it, and SteamVault pulls your achievements for it directly and folds them into your profile on your next refresh. Community suggestion from the Discord. Site search was also fixed in the same vein — Steam's own search does not list some free mods, so SteamVault now searches its own catalogue too, meaning games like Entropy: Zero show up when you look for them.

SteamVault has a new Live page: see which members are streaming Steam games and achievement hunts on Twitch right now, with live thumbnails, what they are playing, and viewer counts — plus a roster of every streamer in the community to follow. Any member can be featured for free: just add your Twitch channel under Settings, Live streaming, and you will appear automatically whenever you go live. It is curated and safe — gaming and achievement-hunting content only, Steam games, and no NSFW; the full rules are on the Live page. Find it in the top navigation under Live. Streaming your own 100 percent runs is a great way to grow your channel and help the community discover each other.

By community request: full achievement walkthroughs for both Entropy: Zero and Entropy: Zero 2 — the beloved standalone Half-Life 2 mods, each with its own Steam achievements (31 and 39). Every guide is written from the live Steam achievement descriptions; the mods' many hidden, description-less achievements are flagged honestly as story or scripted-moment unlocks pointing you to a community walkthrough, rather than guessed at. SteamVault tracks any Steam game or mod with achievements, so both now have full guide pages. We also clarified the Family Library sync instructions: the Steam token only appears when you're signed in to Steam in that same browser (not the app) — if the page shows an empty data list, you're simply not logged in.

A full 13-achievement Oxenfree guide, written straight from the real Steam achievement descriptions — the chasm jump, the Adler letter and hidden-frequency collectible hunts, the Renjamin slap and the make-enemies-with-everyone run. Because Oxenfree is a short branching-choice adventure, several of its achievements are hidden and tied to specific endings and relationship outcomes; rather than guess at exact triggers, those are flagged honestly as choice-driven and pointed at a spoiler-aware community guide, with a note that its New Game Plus makes mopping them up on a second run easy. Five new franchise collections to hunt: God Eater (GOD EATER 2 Rage Burst and GOD EATER 3), Oxenfree (both games), Playdead (LIMBO and INSIDE), We Were Here (all five co-op escape-room chapters) and The Bard's Tale (the ARPG remaster, the Trilogy and Bard's Tale IV) — every game checked three ways before it went in: that the appid really is the game we meant, that it is still purchasable on Steam, and that it genuinely has Steam achievements to earn. Plus a new best-of list, Best Stealth Games on Steam, ranking ten sneaking greats from Dishonored 2 and Metal Gear Solid V to Shadow Tactics and Invisible, Inc. The achievement catalogue also grew by 1,020 more games.

Two upgrades to Quests. First, every active Quest now has a "what counts for you" view — expand it and SteamVault lists the games in your own library that still have achievements to earn and genuinely count toward that Quest, most-opportunity first, each linking straight to its guide page. No more guessing which of your games qualify for something like the AUGUST letters run. Second, the monthly slate is getting more creative: September's vote introduces brand-new challenge types beyond the usual — Weekend Warrior (achievements earned on Saturdays and Sundays), One Big Day (your biggest single-day haul), Franchise Tour (spread across as many different franchises as you can), One-Percenter (only achievements under 1% global rarity) and Century Club (achievements in games with 100+ of them) — alongside returning favourites like Backlog Buster and Fresh Blood. Head to the Quests page to sign up for August and vote on September.

The community vote is in, and August's three Quests are now live to sign up for and climb. Backlog Buster rewards achievements in games you first started before 2026, Fresh Blood rewards games you first played in 2026, and the AUGUST letters run rewards achievements in games whose titles start with A, U, G, S or T. Each Quest carries Bronze, Silver and Gold medals for your profile, and scoring counts everything you earn across the whole month — so signing up mid-month still credits your entire August. Voting for September is open now too: ten candidates including a SEPTEMBER letters run, Digging for Diamonds, Rarity Run, Daily Dedication, Heavyweight and Franchise Focus. Head to the Quests page, sign up for August, and pick your top three for September.

A full 52-achievement Enshrouded guide, written straight from the real Steam achievement descriptions — the character-level milestones from 2 all the way to 99, the early crafting and tool unlocks (flame altar, grappling hook, glider), the elixir-well guardian fights, and the big per-region completion grinds across the Springlands, Revelwoods, Nomad Highlands, Kindlewastes, Albaneve Summits and Veilwater Basin: reaching every Ancient Spire, mining every valuable material, reading every obelisk, clearing every Shroud Root and finding every flame shrine and sanctum, plus the Shroud Wyvern and dragon boss kills. Because Steam does not list exact node, obelisk and shrine locations, those collection goals point you at a community map for the final stragglers rather than inventing coordinates. Five new franchise collections to hunt: Chivalry (Medieval Warfare and Chivalry 2), OlliOlli (all three skateboarding games), Goat Simulator (the original, the Remastered edition and Goat Simulator 3), The Great War (the Verdun, Tannenberg and Isonzo WW1 trilogy) and Granblue Fantasy Versus (Versus and Rising) — every game checked three ways before it went in: that the appid really is the game we meant, that it is still purchasable on Steam, and that it genuinely has Steam achievements to earn. Plus a new best-of list, Best Soulslike Games on Steam, ranking ten punishing action-RPGs from Elden Ring and Sekiro to The Surge and Code Vein. The achievement catalogue also grew by 390 more games.

A full 54-achievement Sea of Stars guide, written straight from the real Steam achievement descriptions — the lock-breaking and Moonerang-bouncing combat feats, the big completion grinds (catch every fish, cook every recipe, find every treasure, deliver all the Rainbow Conches to Mirna, hear every campfire story), the team Timed Hit and Timed Block challenges, and the whole Horloge minigame slate including the Wheels champions. The hidden story achievements that ship with no published description — the four Dwellers and the rest of the campaign beats — are flagged honestly as story-related and unmissable rather than guessed at. Five new franchise collections to hunt: Kingdom Rush (all five tower-defense games plus Legends of Kingdom Rush), The Forest (The Forest and Sons Of The Forest), Wargroove (both games), Q.U.B.E. (the 10th Anniversary edition and Q.U.B.E. 2) and Shadow Tactics (Blades of the Shogun and the Aiko's Choice expansion) — every game checked three ways before it went in: that the appid really is the game we meant, that it is still purchasable on Steam, and that it genuinely has Steam achievements to earn. Plus a new best-of list, Best Roguelike Deckbuilder Games on Steam, ranking eight card-slingers from Slay the Spire and Balatro to Fights in Tight Spaces. The achievement catalogue also grew by 1,366 more games.

A full 104-achievement Raft guide, written straight from the real Steam achievement descriptions — the survival-day milestones up to 365 days, every hunter ladder (sharks, Lurkers, Screechers, Anglerfish and the rest), the builder, gatherer, painter and zipline grinds, capturing animals and bees, digging treasure, the trading-post token tiers, and the island Historian note-hunts across Vasagatan, Radio Tower, Tangaroa, Balboa, Caravan Town, Varuna Point and Temperance. The hidden story achievements that ship with no published description are flagged honestly as unverified rather than guessed at. Three new franchise collections to hunt: Silent Hill (Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hill f), Blood Bowl (Blood Bowl 3, Blood Bowl 2 Legendary Edition and Blood Bowl Chaos Edition) and Broken Sword (Shadow of the Templars Reforged, the Smoking Mirror Remastered and the Serpent's Curse) — every game checked three ways before it went in: that the appid really is the game we meant, that it is still purchasable on Steam, and that it genuinely has Steam achievements to earn. Plus a new best-of list, Best Metroidvania Games on Steam, ranking ten explorers worth getting lost in from Hollow Knight to GRIME. The achievement catalogue also grew by 835 more games.

A full 11-achievement Manor Lords guide, written straight from the real Steam achievement descriptions — surviving your first winter, hitting 100 percent approval in a Large Town, the Restoring the Peace scenario and its harder clears (defeating Baron Hildebolt, winning with mercenaries only, and beating it on the Challenging preset), the no-hunting no-foraging Merchant run, and quality-of-life pops like changing the church bell. Because each achievement states its own requirement, every tip restates the real goal and adds safe city-building strategy, with no invented triggers. Four new franchise collections to hunt: The Elder Scrolls (Skyrim, Skyrim Special Edition, Oblivion Remastered, plus Skyrim VR as an optional bonus), Dragon Age (The Veilguard and Inquisition), Painkiller (Hell and Damnation and the 2025 reboot) and SpellForce (SpellForce 3 Reforced, Conquest of Eo, Soul Harvest and Fallen God) — every game checked three ways before it went in: that the appid really is the game we meant, that it is still purchasable on Steam, and that it genuinely has Steam achievements to earn. The achievement catalogue also grew by 656 more games.

A full 179-achievement Brotato guide, written straight from the real Steam achievement descriptions — every kill and material milestone, the stat-threshold builds (Dodge, Speed, Range, Life Steal, HP Regen), the tricky one-run challenges like Overkill, Unstoppable Force and Fireworks, and the big grind of winning a run with every character across both Crash Zone and The Abyss plus the Danger 0 to 5, Nightmare and Wounded clears. Because Brotato spells out exactly what each achievement wants, every tip restates the real requirement and adds safe general strategy, with no invented triggers. Five new franchise collections to hunt: Salt (Salt and Sanctuary plus Salt and Sacrifice), Redout, My Hero One's Justice, Steel Division and The Crew — every game checked three ways before it went in: that the appid really is the game we meant, that it is still purchasable on Steam, and that it genuinely has Steam achievements to earn. The achievement catalogue also grew by 291 more games.

A full 57-achievement Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition guide, written straight from the real Steam achievement descriptions — the story-progression beats through the Ginso Tree, Misty Woods and Mt. Horu, every ability-tree branch, all Health and Energy Cells, the Map Stone restorations, the tricky combat-combo tasks (Bash chains, Charge Flame detonations, Light Burst torch lighting) and the brutal endgame runs like Supersonic, Immortal and One Life. Five new franchise collections to hunt: The Banner Saga, Transport Fever, BlazBlue, Sam & Max and Dead or Alive — every game checked three ways before it went in: that the appid really is the game we meant, that it is still purchasable on Steam, and that it genuinely has Steam achievements to earn. The achievement catalogue also grew by over 1,400 more games.

A full 35-achievement Nine Sols guide, written straight from the real Steam achievement descriptions — the Daybreak Tower music-sheet puzzle, the optional miniboss clear, the full skill-tree and Jade collectibles, maxing the Azure Bow, the Shanhai 9000 hunts and the Standard Mode finish. The hidden story achievements that ship with no published description are flagged honestly as unverified rather than guessed at. Five new franchise collections to hunt: Contra, Metal Slug, Ninja Gaiden, Duke Nukem and Cook Serve Delicious — every game checked three ways before it went in: that the appid really is the game we meant, that it is still purchasable on Steam, and that it genuinely has Steam achievements to earn. The achievement catalogue also grew by over a thousand more games.

A full 71-achievement Hi-Fi RUSH guide, written straight from the real Steam achievement descriptions — the beat-hit and parry milestones, the partner call-in challenges, the security-robot and shield counts, the collectible hunts, and every difficulty clear from Easy up to Rhythm Master. The handful of hidden story achievements that ship with no published description are flagged honestly as unverified rather than guessed at. Five new franchise collections to hunt: Quantic Dream (Detroit, Heavy Rain, Beyond Two Souls), The King of Fighters, Neptunia, Railway Empire and House Flipper — every game checked three ways before it went in: that the appid really is the game we meant, that it is still purchasable on Steam, and that it genuinely has Steam achievements to earn. The achievement catalogue also grew with more games.

A complete 100-achievement PowerWash Simulator guide, written straight from the real Steam achievement descriptions — the Career Mode star milestones, the equipment and cleaning-liquid ownership targets, the bonus jobs, the full Career clear and the cosmetic loadouts. The few hidden achievements that ship with no published description are flagged honestly as unverified rather than guessed at. Five new franchise collections to hunt: Dragon's Dogma, ELEX, Insurgency, Zero Escape and Men of War — every game checked three ways before it went in, that the appid really is the game we meant, that it is still actually purchasable on Steam, and that it genuinely has Steam achievements to earn.

Introducing Quests: monthly achievement challenges with Bronze, Silver and Gold medals and their own leaderboards. Each month has a themed slate — earn a set number of achievements that fit the theme (rarest achievements, a spread of different games, games starting with certain letters, and so on). You sign up for the ones you want, so you never auto-join, and signing up part way through the month still counts everything you earned that whole month. Medals you earn live on your profile, and there is a new Quests page showing the current challenges, your progress, and the leaderboards. Right now you can vote for which challenges run in August — pick your favourites and the top ones go live on the 1st. Supporter votes count double.

A complete 61-achievement walkthrough for Sifu, written from the real Steam achievement descriptions — the takedown-chain and score-threshold challenges, the arena packs and the tiger and dragon challenge tiers, the detective boards in every level, and the near-deathless runs behind the age-25 and age-50-or-younger clears. The hidden story and boss achievements that ship with no published description are flagged honestly as unverified rather than guessed at. Five new franchise collections to hunt: Star Ocean, Sword Art Online, Shin Megami Tensei, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and Digimon — every game checked three ways before it went in, that the appid really is the game we meant, that it is still actually purchasable on Steam, and that it genuinely has Steam achievements to earn. Plus 1,500 more games added to the achievement-count catalogue, most of them niche releases no other tracker has listed yet.

A complete 45-achievement Ghostrunner walkthrough, written from the real Steam achievement descriptions — the ability-combo kills, the module-gated ones that quietly need Reflect or Deflect: Absorb equipped before they will track, the no-death and no-kill level challenges, and the four separate collectible sweeps that stand between you and Junkrunner. The two hidden achievements with no published description are flagged honestly as unverified rather than guessed at. Five new franchise collections to hunt: Hades, Orcs Must Die!, Ghostrunner, Magicka and Katamari. Every game was checked three ways before it went in — that the appid really is the game we meant, that it is still actually purchasable on Steam, and that it genuinely has Steam achievements to earn.

A complete 32-achievement walkthrough for SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated, written from the real Steam achievement descriptions — every Golden Spatula and sock milestone, all the boss fights, and the Sand Mountain ski slopes that block most 100 percent runs. The one hidden achievement with no published description is flagged honestly as unverified rather than guessed at. Four new franchise collections to hunt: Helldivers, Vampire: The Masquerade, SpongeBob SquarePants and Monkey Island — each game checked to be actually purchasable and to genuinely have Steam achievements before it went in, with the VR entries tagged as optional bonuses rather than blockers. Plus 1,070 more games added to the achievement-count catalogue, most of them recent releases that no other tracker has listed yet.

A big batch straight from the suggestion box, all requested by FE112. You can now build your own game lists — keep them private to plan a backlog, or make them public to share, and public ones appear under Lists for everyone. The guide editor now autosaves your draft, so a long write-up is never lost again, and you can attach a tip to each individual achievement instead of burying it in the body text, the way the big trophy sites do it. Guides can also state how many playthroughs a 100 percent run needs, images can be resized, and text can be coloured. Plus a real bug fix: profiles with very large libraries would not load at all, because every single game was rendered at once. The Games tab now loads 100 at a time, so even the biggest accounts on the leaderboard open instantly. Game rows also show how many members have fully completed that game.

A full 61-achievement Gears Tactics walkthrough, written from the real in-game achievement descriptions — including the Jacked game mode challenges and the brutal Insane-difficulty run — with the six blank hidden achievements honestly flagged as unverified rather than guessed. Five new franchise collections to 100%-hunt: Plants vs. Zombies, Gears of War, Front Mission, Shenmue and Valkyria Chronicles. Every game was checked to be purchasable and to actually have Steam achievements before it went in. Plus 1,000+ more games added to the achievement-count catalogue.

A full 61-achievement Bendy and the Ink Machine guide, plus Zombie Army, Styx, Bendy, The Room and Bloons TD franchise collections. The achievement catalogue also grew by ~2,550 games.

We launched a community Discord — join from the new Discord button in the top nav (or the footer). Two channels post automatically: #site-updates gets every new feature and guide the moment it ships, and #latest-completions celebrates each new 100% a member earns. Come hang out, find boosting partners, get help with tough achievements, and show off your completions.

Added a full achievement walkthrough for Pacific Drive (all 49 achievements, grounded in the real in-game descriptions, with the hidden story achievements honestly flagged rather than guessed). Also added five new franchise collections to 100%-hunt: Crysis, Red Faction, Alien, Onimusha, and Dynasty Warriors — every game verified to have Steam achievements and be purchasable before it went in. Plus 600+ more games added to the achievement-count catalogue.

Added a full achievement walkthrough for The Forest (all 45 achievements, grounded in the real in-game descriptions with hidden ones honestly flagged). Also added five new franchise collections you can 100%-hunt: F1, Syberia, RAGE, Commandos, and Risen — every game verified to have Steam achievements before it went in.

Reworked how VR fits collections (thanks _Wicky__ + Dewald). Instead of hiding VR games, a franchise now shows all of them: you earn the badge by 100%-ing the non-VR games (VR never blocks it), and if you own a headset and clear the VR entries too, you get a bonus 🥽 VR badge on top. Superhot VR is back in the SUPERHOT collection, tagged VR and optional. Entirely-VR franchises (Job & Vacation Simulator, I Expect You To Die) stay in the opt-in VR section. Nobody is pressured to grind headset games, VR owners get recognition, and collections stay complete.

Thanks to _Wicky__ in the suggestion box. Instead of dropping VR franchises, they now live in an opt-in VR section: hidden by default (a Show VR toggle reveals them on the Collections hub, and they sit under a collapsible section on your profile), and they do NOT count toward your badge total or milestones — so nobody is pressured to grind games they need a headset to play, while VR owners still get recognition. Also fixed the detection gap it revealed: Superhot VR was pulled from the SUPERHOT collection (it needs a headset even though Steam tags it VR-compatible), and delisted Forza Horizon 4 was removed from the Forza set.

Your recent unlocks now cycle through a looping carousel at the top of your Overview (icon, name, detail, how long ago, rarity) with a clickable thumbnail rail — PSNProfiles style. Collapsing them into that strip frees the space below, so the Overview is now a cleaner two-column layout: a dashboard sidebar (milestones, rarest, rarity breakdown, what to unlock next) beside a widened Recent Activity games list.

FE112 wanted to show off select achievements PSNProfiles-style. You can now pick favourites from your rarest and recent unlocks and they appear as a showcase strip on your Overview. Free profiles get 5 slots, supporters get 10. Set it from the Customize profile panel.

Five new badge collections, every game verified to have real Steam achievements: Five Nights at Freddy's (the four modern games with achievements), Oddworld (4), SteamWorld (6), Kingdoms of Amalur (2) and Layers of Fear (3). The VR-only Layers of Fear entry was left out, since a badge you can only earn with a headset is not one most people can earn. Added a full walkthrough for Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition: all 30 achievements written from the live Steam list, with the single hidden achievement honestly marked unverified rather than guessed. And the most-achievements catalogue grew from 14,482 to 15,650 games.

Ran a verification sweep across all 191 collections to find franchise games we were missing. Added 20 confirmed entries, including the Metal Gear Solid Master Collection releases, Total War: Rome Remastered, Dark Souls II, the three Shovel Knight campaigns, Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episodes I and II, and Trails in the Sky the 3rd. Every one was checked to be a real game (not VR-only, not DLC) with its own Steam achievements before being added.

Four new franchise badges, every appid verified as a real, still-purchasable Steam game with achievements: Mega Man (9 games), Castlevania (5), Sherlock Holmes (5) and Baldur's Gate (4). An F1 collection was investigated and dropped - almost the entire Codemasters F1 run is delisted from Steam, so the badge would be unearnable. Also added a complete Satisfactory walkthrough: all 44 achievements, written from the live Steam achievement list, with the four hidden ones honestly marked unverified rather than guessed at.

Both from _Wicky__ in the suggestion box. Community guides can now show the same At a glance summary our own walkthroughs do - difficulty, time to 100%, missable count, and yes/no facts for grind, difficulty-specific achievements, permadeath runs, NG+ and online. And four new collections: Ship Graveyard Simulator, The Stanley Parable, Savage Planet, and Mini Metro & Mini Motorways. Clone Drone and Prison Boss were requested too but could not be built: Clone Drone in the Hyperdome has no Steam achievements, and Prison Boss VR is VR-only, which we exclude because a badge you can only earn with a headset is not one most people can earn.

Dewald spotted that a bunch of Serious Sam games were missing. Re-ran the full enumeration against Steam and added HD: The First Encounter, Bogus Detour, Tormental, Double D XXL and Fusion 2017. The Classic First/Second Encounter, HD: The Second Encounter, HD Gold Edition and Shatterverse are left out because they genuinely have no Steam achievements, so they could never count toward the badge. VR-only titles are excluded as a new standing policy: a badge you can only earn with a headset is not a badge most people can earn.

New franchise badges for Hollow Knight, Crusader Kings, Europa Universalis, Injustice and The Escapists — 183 collections now, every appid verified to actually have Steam achievements. Added a complete Left 4 Dead 2 walkthrough covering all 101 achievements (written from the live Steam achievement list, with the two hidden easter-egg locations honestly flagged as unverified rather than guessed). The achievement catalogue behind /games/most-achievements grew from 12,718 to 14,449 games.

A full 175-achievement walkthrough for Age of Empires IV, plus something new: a Stack These planner. A lot of the list is single-match conditions locked to one civilisation, and they do not conflict with each other — so we worked out which ones can be earned together and grouped them into 13 runs covering 57 achievements. Each plan tells you how to set the match up, and every achievement in a plan gets a chain badge so you know it is worth doing now rather than later. The planner is generic, so other games can get one too.

We audited all 93 walkthroughs against the live Steam achievement list. Vampire Survivors was the big one - all of its guides were keyed to the wrong names and none of them were showing, so we rebuilt it with a full 243-achievement walkthrough. We also repaired 17 guides across Mafia, Portal, Diablo IV, Alan Wake, Civ VI and Stellaris that were silently not rendering, and replaced 11 guessed hidden-achievement writeups with an honest we-have-not-verified-this note instead.

The Games tab had grown to eight sort pills plus three filter pills plus a toggle. Sorting and filtering now live in two compact dropdowns next to the search box, so the controls fit on one line and there is room to add more sorts later.

New ⚡ Latest Achievement sort on your Games tab: orders your library by the most recent achievement you actually unlocked in each game, so whatever you are truly working on sits at the top (FE112 asked for this — Steam’s own last-played data keeps lying to us). Also added a 🏅 Collection Badges leaderboard ranking members by how many franchise badges they have earned.

Added Alan Wake, The Evil Within, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Mount & Blade and Stronghold collections (178 total, every appid achievement-verified), a full 82-achievement walkthrough for Kingdom Come: Deliverance, and 1,778 more games in the achievement-count browser — now 12,718 games.

The Recent Activity panel on your profile Overview was ordered by most-played-in-two-weeks (Steam returns it that way), so a game you have sunk hours into pinned to the top even if you launched something else an hour ago. It now orders by real last-played time, matching the Games tab.

All 173 collections now have their own page (e.g. /collections/borderlands) listing every game in the franchise with its achievement count and your completion — instead of living as anchors on one big hub. Better to browse, and 173 more pages for Google to find.

Submitted ~9,800 game pages to Google via the sitemap (previously only a few hundred), fixed duplicated page titles site-wide, added an FAQ with structured data to the homepage, and stopped adult titles from being indexed. Groundwork for showing up when people search for a Steam achievement tracker.

The achievement-count browser now covers nearly 11,000 Steam games, shows each game's positive-review count, and hides achievement-spam shovelware by default (games with huge achievement lists but almost no audience) — so the top of the list is real games worth buying. One click to show the spam again.

Expanded the sort-by-achievement-count browser from 750 to over 4,500 games — now covering the ~6,000 most-owned games on Steam, with live achievement counts pulled from the Steam API. Sort descending for the biggest achievement lists, ascending for the fastest 100%s.

New browsable ranking on the Games page: every game we track, sorted by how many Steam achievements it has. Sort descending to find the biggest achievement lists worth buying, or ascending for the quickest 100%s — with search and pagination. Seeded with 750+ games and it grows automatically as more game pages get viewed.

Added Worms, Galactic Civilizations, Sins of a Solar Empire, FlatOut, Turok, POSTAL and Neverwinter Nights — all appid + achievement verified. 173 collections now.

Added Deep Rock Galactic, Project CARS, GRID, Dawn of War, Shantae, Moving Out and Shovel Knight — all appid + achievement verified. 166 collections and counting.

Community guides can now include an at-a-glance difficulty (1–10) and time-to-100% estimate, embedded screenshots (), spoiler tags (||hidden||) that blur until you hover, and divider lines — with new toolbar buttons for each. Writing diary entries now earns Diarist / Chronicler / Lorekeeper titles too.

A new Diaries section in the Forums (📔) where you can keep a running journal of your achievement hunting — progress logs, checklists and completion stories, PSNP/HowLongToBeat-blog style. Write dated entries, read everyone else's in the feed, and delete your own.

Added Farming Simulator, Truck Simulator, The Surge, Lords of the Fallen, Sniper Ghost Warrior and Atelier Ryza (all appid + achievement verified), and rounded out the Trails collection with Trails from Zero and Trails to Azure.

The example profile card on the homepage now shows a recently-active SteamVault member with their real stats and latest unlock — and it’s clickable straight through to their profile (FE112's idea). Refreshes every few minutes.

Added I Expect You To Die, Escape Simulator, WHAT THE...?, Viscera Cleanup Detail and Star Wars Battlefront (all appid + achievement verified, _Wicky__'s picks). Also surfaced Titles from the Milestones tab and added a note that community titles count activity from launch (FE112).

Share a whole franchise, not just one game. Your Cards tab now has a Collection Cards section: open any collection to get a shareable summary card (games at 100%, overall %, total playtime) plus a gallery of every individual game card in that set — all on one page you can post to Reddit or X.

The 100% Achievement Cards now reliably show your hours played for the game. They were pulling playtime from a separate Steam call that comes back empty when game-details privacy isn’t public; they now read it from your cached profile instead (the same value your Games tab shows). Bumped the card version so existing cards regenerate.

The Games tab on your profile has a new "⏱ Time to 100%" sort that orders your library by the community median hours it takes to fully complete each game (from real SteamVault playtime data), and shows the estimate per row. Games without enough data yet sort to the bottom and fill in as more members complete them.

Two new leaderboard boards reward rare accomplishments, not just achievement count: 💠 Rarity Points (every unlock weighted by how rare it is) and 👑 Prestige (each game scored off its rarest achievement you earned, Steam-Hunters style). Pick them from the leaderboard tabs. Scores fill in as profiles refresh.

Added higher tiers across every title category — completions up to 1,000, ultra-rares to 5,000, achievements to 250,000, streaks to 1,000 days, and library breadth to 5,000 games — plus deeper community tiers. Even the heaviest hunters now have a ceiling to climb (51 titles total).

New Titles page (in the More menu) shows every title grouped by category with a progress bar toward each one — completions, ultra-rare unlocks, ratings, tips, guides and forum activity — so you can see exactly what you’ve earned and what’s next.

Titles now reward taking part, not just hunting: rate games (Critic, Connoisseur), write achievement tips (Tipster), publish community guides (Guide Author), and start or reply in forum threads (Conversation Starter, Community Pillar). They tick up as you contribute from now on and can be featured next to your name from Customize Profile (FE112's idea).

Choosing your featured Title now lives in the owner-only Customize Profile panel instead of a big card on your public profile — the title still shows as a gold badge next to your name. Also refined Recently Played so games you only installed (never launched, like a freshly-installed Guardians of the Galaxy) no longer jump above games you actually played.

The Games tab "Recently Played" sort now orders by your real last-played time (like Steam) instead of leading with most-played-in-2-weeks — so the game you just launched sits at the top. That mode now also shows "X ago" per game so it is easy to verify. Hit Refresh on your profile to pull your latest sessions.

Earn Titles from your stats — completions, ultra-rare unlocks, total achievements and streaks (e.g. Completionist Novice, Masochist, Achievement Titan). See them all on your profile and pick one to feature as a gold badge next to your name (FE112's suggestion).

Your Games tab has a new 'Pick my next 100%' button that rolls a random unfinished game, with an option to favour games close to 100% for quick wins (_Wicky__'s idea). Also fixed the 100% Achievement Cards order — they now genuinely sort by most recent completion first (FE112).

Added a full guide for DREDGE (all 60 achievements incl. the Pale Reach and Iron Rig DLC), written from the real Steam descriptions with hidden story achievements kept spoiler-free.

Added Age of Mythology, Planet Coaster, Endless, Vermintide, Homeworld, Age of Wonders, Kingdom, Prince of Persia and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater — every game appid-verified to have Steam achievements. 100% a whole franchise to earn its badge.

Threads you start from a game page now live under their own game section: the Forums page has a "Game Discussions" list grouped by game, each opening a dedicated Forums › Games › [game] page. General topics stay in the main list, so game chatter no longer clutters it.

Community Ratings now sits up beside the rarest-achievement summary instead of taking a full row, the header rarity tags show your earned count out of each tier's total (e.g. 2 / 10 ultra-rare), and the separate difficulty-distribution chart was removed since the header now carries that breakdown.

A bell in the navbar now tells you when someone replies to one of your forum threads or when SteamVault replies to your suggestion. Click it for recent notifications, or open the full Notifications page. (In-app for now; email alerts may come later.)

Game pages now put the achievement list front and centre with ratings, collections and stats tucked into a side column, and the community activity (100% Club, leaderboard, discussion) grouped below — so you reach the achievements without scrolling past everything. On mobile it stacks with achievements first.

Every game page now has its own discussion section — start a thread to ask a question or share a tip about that specific game, and reply to others. Game threads also show up in the main Forums, and a breadcrumb links each thread back to its game.

Every game page now has a SteamVault leaderboard ranking all members tracking that game by completion percentage, with a search box and your own rank highlighted when you're signed in. It fills in as members' profiles refresh.

The Rate-your-100%s shortcut now opens a dedicated page listing exactly the games you've completed but haven't rated yet — so you can see what's left at a glance and jump straight in (FE112's suggestion).

The navbar now has a 'More' menu with Collections, Lists, Forums, Suggestions and this What's New page. A gold dot flags new site updates, and — if you're signed in — how many games you've 100%'d but haven't rated yet.

When you open a game you've taken to 100% but haven't rated yet, a gentle prompt now nudges you to rate it — with a 'Don't ask again' if you'd rather not.

Rate any game's difficulty, enjoyment and grindiness on a finer 1–10 scale. Existing votes were kept and rescaled, so nothing was lost. The widget also moved to the top of each game page so it's easy to find.

The Collections page now has a search box — filter 135+ franchises by collection name or by any game inside them.

Game pages now show which achievements belong to the base game vs each DLC, with a 🧩 chip on every DLC achievement — across 77 games so far.

We're reviewing every walkthrough against official Steam data and fixing errors. Guides now carry an honest note that they're auto-generated tips, with one-tap links to add a community correction.

Added in-depth achievement guides for Prey, Control, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Just Cause 3, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Sleeping Dogs, Dishonored and Fallout: New Vegas.

Added Amnesia, Outlast, The Dark Pictures Anthology, Crash Bandicoot, Rayman, Quake, Darkest Dungeon, Psychonauts, The Walking Dead and many more — 139 franchises in total. 100% a whole series to earn its badge.

Fixed the 'SteamVault 100%s' number on game pages so it reliably counts every member who has fully completed a game.

Support SteamVault on Ko-fi to get a 💛 profile badge and three supporter-only dark themes (Obsidian, Aurora, Crimson).

Pick from five site themes — Midnight, Daylight, Sunset, Cream and Lavender — from the palette icon in the navbar. Your choice is remembered per browser.

Take every game in a franchise to 100% to earn its badge on your profile. Browse them all on the Collections page.

Inline, spoiler-aware achievement walkthroughs for a growing library of games, with your own unlock progress shown per achievement.