This website has an obscene amount of features and information, and more are added frequently,
so here's are some suggestions for your first steps:
By the way, if you want to try the website before creating an account, you can do so at the
sandbox server. You can login into the demo user
using the username demo and password demo. The user and its data are deleted and
recreated every day at midnight UTC. Just a heads-up, the sandbox server is weaker than the
main server and might not be available during some times. Also, since multiple people might
use the demo user simultaneously, weird stuff might happen.
Anyway, back to the basics on how to use the website:
Read the rules
Go to the Register page,
fill the form with the required information and click the
Register button. An email with a
validation link will be sent to the provided address. Open the email and click the link.
Congratulations, you now have an active account! Login with your username and password,
take the tour that explains the website layout and read the goddamned rules.
The gamelist tracks the games you own or played, and is sort of a central HUB
for all your game-tracking information.
We'll eventually offer tools to import your collection from various gaming stores,
but for now you have to do it manually - but at least nowadays you can do it in bulk!
You can add a game to your gamelist in three ways:
(1) Through the game's page
Go to the game's page, click the
button
near the game's title and fill the form with the relevant information. Done!
(2) Directly on your gamelist
Go to your gamelist page, click the
Add Game
button, type the game's name on the popup's text input, click the game's name when it appears,
then the
Add
bulk button, you'll be taken to the complete gamelist form. Fill with the relevant data, save it
and you're done!
(3) In bulk
Since update 1.18, you're now able to add games to your gamelist in bulk.
Simply go to your gamelist page, click on the
button and correctly fill the displayed form.
Remember to read the article linked at the top of the bulk page, otherwise you might have some
trouble using the bulk editor.
Once you have an account and are logged in, you can check any game's dashboard by going to
the game's page and clicking the
dashboard button.
There you can find a summary of all your information related to that game,
such as copies you own, sessions you've played, playthroughs, achievements and more, as well
as manage each of these topics.
If you look at the Gaming section of the User Menu, you'll find some more
game-tracking features, like wishlists, game sessions, game keys, your hardware collection and
more. They all work similarly to the Gamelist feature, we're confident you can understand how
they work on your own!
By the way, a special note about Playthroughs:
Whenever you set the playthrough as Collaborative and its status as Completed,
its completion time will be used to estimate the length of the game.
This will help users finding games that are as long or short as they want!
The website also offers various community features, like a journal (hence the name), reviews,
game recommendations and more. Go around, explore stuff - don't be afraid if something breaks,
it sometimes happen. We're always monitoring stuff, but sending a report may help get it fixed
even faster!
This website is powered by community. Each of the tiniest pieces of information helps make this
a more complete, better website. If you want to contribute to the website, we'll be ecstatic,
but be aware that we aim to have the highest standards, so don't take it personally if
your edit is undone or re-edited, it might've contained incorrect information or didn't stick
to our standards.
Anyway, if you feel you're ready to contribute, read the Contributing section
of this help page, or at least the revelant bits, and start contributing!
The top contributor of each month gets nothing (other than our gratitude)!
