Submitted 11 months ago by SamXavia@kbin.run to games@lemmy.world
https://kbin.run/m/games@lemmy.world/t/175278
Gaming Websites to help you Track stats, items or story. What do you wish people knew more about in Gaming Websites?
gamefaqs.com for game guides
howlongtobeat.com for game length estimate
backloggd.com for collection tracking
isthereanydeal.com for game sales
My GameFAQs account is like 22 years old
Nice, mine is 23. Been using it practically my whole life, though I don't post there anymore.
I’ve been using backloggery.com for too many years at this point. Any site that doesn’t offer an import tool is likely one I’m not going to switch to. Just too lazy to import all that data.
I only just migrated from backloggery this year too, so I know how you feel. It was a daunting prospect to manually move my 2000+ game list over, but I got it done. I'm actually updating both still, since it was so much work to setup backloggery in the first place and also serves as a nice backup in case something happens to one of the sites.
The way backloggd lets you write a daily journal entry in a calendar for every game you are playing is so good. Though I miss the homepage on backloggery, that one is still nicer.
Yeah, it doesn’t have an import feature but having an option to export to CSV was a big part of why I set up on Grouvee. Because there will inevitably be a next thing.
Well, that and I didn’t want a site with “backlog” in the title.
I have been using HLTB as a backlog tracker too lol, I feel like I kill two birds with one site.
If you're a patient gamer or a VERY patient gamer, or simply an old fart this is a must know:
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Home
Good shout, one of my favorite games is from 2004 and getting it to run properly on "modern" hardware and OS-es is not a super obvious process. PC Gaming Wiki made the process a lot less annoying.
This is cool, thanks.
Saving this. It looks great.
areweanticheatyet.com - shows the current level of compatibility on Linux with games using anti-cheat systems.
I’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of co-optimus.com when looking for co-op games to play with friends. It’s really helpful, you can filter games out by platform, number of players, online co-op, local co-op, split screen, dated released. It’s very helpful!
These are two that might be well known, but I don't really hear people talking about:
The other reference sites I use like NeoSeeker and Game FAQs are pretty well known and have been around for ages.
Both look like amazing websites for people to use, thanks for sharing
hltb.com has been great for me, helps to decide which games to go for next when managing my busy schedule.
gg.deals is one I use to find the best prices on games that I want.
Gamefaqs is a classic for strategy guides for real oldies, or just if you enjoy quaintly embarrassing writing
I HIGHLY doubt anyone still plays it but for planetside 2 fisu is a stat tracker
People definitely still play Planetside 2
Oh for sure, I meant more anyone here since the planetside community here isn’t the most active even compared to the planetside subreddit
Heard about one called Grouvee recently, it’s a site that can help manage your Steam library and backlog. The person who introduced me to it described it as “Goodreads for video games”. Steam already does a good job of keeping track of people’s libraries, but those who have a large library and backlog may find it useful.
burnso@lemmy.world 11 months ago
isthereanydeal.com is great for getting any given game at a good price. You can see where it is currently/usually cheapest, its price over time, etc. You can also set up notifications for when it drops below a certain threshold.
Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
In a similar vein, there is also www.dekudeals.com for the Nintendo switch. It has similar functionality where you can make an account and be notified when games go on sale for consoles.
Sigh_Bafanada@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And PSPrices for playstation store
h3rm17@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Also gg.deals in the same veins, it list both official stores prices, and key resellers, but with resellers it also lists the risks known for each reseller (like “unknown key sources”, “adds a fee after checkout” etc)