Achievement-Watcher VS Steamless

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.

I'm not gonna put the actual instructions for cracking here since that's already on the sites of the tools you'll be using. I will only link the tools here and the rest will be up to you. The main tools for cracking are going to be Steamless, and Goldberg emulator. These tools can be a bit tedious on their own but someone has graciously made an auto cracker that requires you to download the first 2 tools and then automates the process for you.

FWIW people don't need to install visual studio and build Steamless from source, they can just download the release of Steamless from https://github.com/atom0s/Steamless/releases/latest

Steamless - for unpacking DOA6.exe.

If you wanna play those games you brought in steam you get yourself a steam emulator like goldberg's heres the link if you want to https://mr_goldberg.gitlab.io/goldberg_emulator/ (Note:It only works if you have a game protected with steam's DRM and if it dosent work go get steamless by Atm0s https://github.com/atom0s/Steamless/releases/tag/v3.1.0.3)

TH13 (Ten Desires) and onwards are all available on DLSite for digital purchase as well. Everything else before that up until PoFV are all on Steam. Everything before PoFV (excluding PC-98) are available for physical purchase through AKIBA-HOBBY. All aforementioned methods can be found on the wiki’s Purchasing Guide. You can also use Steamless (GitHub) to play any game on Steam you’ve purchased without DRM.

Well if u having trouble with the new ck and steam seems to be the culprit get Steamless, which cut ties with steam and makes ck standalone

A Steamless version of Skyrim is DRM-free, can roll back updates, and can be totally offline.

You can, if you strip the steam DRM off the game with steamless

Anything with an external launcher like Ubisoft Play or EA Origin have DRM checks. Steam has them as well to combat people selling accounts or piracy and requires that you be online every 2 weeks or so to play the game. Games that have no need for online and do not have an external launcher can be fixed by using Steamless to make a DRM free exe that can be run in offline mode. Having someone play on your pc and also play on your deck at same time without being kicked off of one of the games while BOTH being online works this way as well. This will not work with all games but if it only uses steam DRM and has no online features it will.