Steam achievement manager is a program that allows users to unlock game achievements or increase their play time and related stats. Using the program is not considered cheating unless the game unlocks perks or gives the player powerful items. Steam achievement manager is very easy to use. Hence, there is little to no effort that goes into getting adding achievements through Steam achievement manager. However, some users may have a few doubts when using it for the first time. Fortunately, you have this article to guide you through using Steam achievement manager and adding games to it.
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How to add games to Steam achievement manager:
Steam achievement manager can occasionally malfunction due to various reasons. During this time, you may observe that a few or all of your games are not showing up on Steam achievement manager. This can happen due to a server outage at Steam achievement manager. You can wait for things to go back to normal or try to add the games manually. In my opinion, waiting for the problem to solve itself is the best way to go about the situation. Nonetheless, here is how you can manually add the missing games to Steam achievement manager.
Basically, players can manually add games to Steam achievement manager by entering the app ID. Finding the app ID is where you will need help. There is a website called SteamDB that can give you the information you seek about a particular game. Open the SteamDB website and search for the game that is missing in Steam achievement manager. Select the game from the list and press enter. You will be taken to a new page will all the necessary information about the game. Copy the “App ID” for that game. You will need that to add the game manually. Now that you have copied the App ID, Open Steam achievement manager and select the “Refresh Game” option. Paste the app ID you copied in the box and select “Add Game”.
Once you are through with the steps given above, the game that was missing from your Steam achievement manager account will be added back. If the problem repeats itself, first try restarting the software. Or just restart your system before trying to manually add the game you want. The process to add the games manually is not lengthy or tedious. However, it is a bit more difficult than just restarting the Steam achievement manager app or your device.
