Achievement-Watcher VS Playnite

I don't know if it's the same thing, but there's this although it's not active anymore

Since you've replaced the original steam_api64.dll with a steam emulator, you'd have to add it as a Non-Steam game. Then it'd show a play button, but I don't think game tracking and achievements will work unless you add achievement watcher to your list of installed apps.

Ok, I’ve been trying to make achievement watcher work for God of War but I’m fairly new to this. First of all I downloaded the game from RARGB and managed to play it successfully, then I downloaded AW but it was not showing the game so I followed the steps in this post but still wasn’t showing. Then I downloaded Goldberg Emu and followed the steps on this video and then the steps of this post, and I managed to get the game to show up in AW, however I noticed that the achievements weren’t unlocking so I followed the AW Wiki on the Goldberg section and I noticed that the folder steam_settings was not on my installation folder, a quick read through Goldberg’s read me I found that if the folder was not there then you had to create it yourself, so I did that, however achievements are still not unlocking.

Apparently the answer is kinda - https://github.com/xan105/Achievement-Watcher/wiki/Compatibility

Achievement Watcher

I use Achievement Watcher, which works pretty well, but is sometimes difficult to set up depending on where you downloaded your games. For the most part, it does auto-detect games that you have installed, but not always.

The surprising thing is that PC is an open platform where people could compete with Steam on even terms if they actually tried. Gamers don't like installing 5 different game launchers and Steam is the oldest one with all their games and is mostly a neutral party.

I recently installed Playnite [1], an open source game library manager and its been incredible. It pulls in games from all launchers/sources and gives you a unified library. I think all it would take to bring down Steam prices is for studios to adopt one such project but they are too blindsided by the ambition to have their own platform.

[1] https://playnite.link/

I've done something similar before with Playnite (an open-source PC game library manager), which has an HLTB plugin.

Playnite: The one with the most features and libraries available via addons and has a lot of options for customization. In my opinion the best one available for this purpose.

Here's a project for Playnite 11: https://github.com/JosefNemec/Playnite/milestone/9

As for my LGO, the only other app I've installed outside of the standard launcher was Playnite to consolidate all games into one place as Legion Space doesn't detect everything I have installed and I don't want to manage manually adding games to their launcher.

use playnite instead of the individual launchers.

Here is where I come in and recommend everyone check out Playnite: https://playnite.link/

When I care about supporting a developer or publisher and they offer their product on their own storefront DRM-free, I will often go there to buy. Or I buy from GoG which takes a smaller cut. Playnite lets me launch my Steam and non-Steam games in a seamless fashion. Steam still does a great job as a game installer/patch manager, and helps me discover new games. But I'm not locked into paying them a 30% fee, which is pretty brutal for some smaller publishers.

Game Launcher https://playnite.link/