"Spam" Achievement Games Now Have A Capped Score On TrueSteam

It was about time. Thank you !

This feel a lot more fair to gamers who doesn't play those achievementspam games. (I did play them if they came in a bundle).

How to report achievement spam games who hasn't changed yet? (In this case Scary House).

I hope to see solutions for broken achievements next :D

Great news!

Some spam games that haven't been capped yet:

Space Mining
A Little Rabbit Story
Scary House
Need For Gowna
RUSSIA HORROR 20!8
Trio
Stickman Wars
NeoBoom
PLAYERUNKN1WN: Friendly Fire
SPACE ASTEROID SHOOTER : RETRO ACHIEVEMENT HUNTER
Knights Hunt
Co-Co CORN MAFIA
Edges 2
KILL THE EMOJI
Consummate:Missing World

A lot of these are likely because of broken achievements resulting in it not tripping any algorithmic process, although a few are because the spam is just so genuinely bad that very few people ever complete it.

RIP my TSA Score

Thanks for the great work guys! Makes the site a lot fairer.

Great news. I'd played a few admittedly but seeing 7million+ scores, it started to get ridiculous and there's now 2-3 a day releasing. Bordering on silly at this point.

Thanks for making this change. I am a little curious about where the line will ultimately be drawn for spam games, but I'm glad something is being done about it.

There are certain games with extremely overly-granular achievements that the community seems a bit split on labeling "spam" or not since they take a tiny bit more effort than just idling - especially the Logistical series, but also the game Minimalism (the game Disoriented was the same, but the dev removed the extraneous spam achievements in an update, after negative feedback). Not sure how you guys want to cap these on TSA.

Ahhh, we're going to see some TRUESteamAchievements soon. ;)

Have all the "Achievement Hunter: _____" games been included yet? Those are some of the worst offenders.

Thanks a lot, this will certainly do a lot to balance the leader board and make position on the leaderboard feel like a better reflection of playing effort.

Nicely done!

limelight1210 said:Yes, as per https://truesteamachievements.com/Spam-Game/Games

Xeinok said:Looking at the games list it seems that only games with >200 achievements were considered, so Minimalism wouldn't be included either way (it has 165). Stuff like sWORD MASTER would be, though.

For what it's worth (@TSA Staff, here) I specifically excluded games from my list where each achievement had its own unlock condition rather than several or even dozens/hundreds for the same action. From a cursory glance at the list of capped games that seems consistent with the existing criteria.

What are the definitions behind "spam games" out of interest? As in, what criteria is used?

Out of curiosity, why 200? Is this based on some rough average of 20 achievements per game (I'd have guessed that non-achievement spam games have a higher average than that) or an average of 200 TSA points per game or something like that? Just wondering where that number came from.

Tried whatever I could last year to bring attention to the issue, but we all know how Valve prefers to handle things... https://steamed.kotaku.com/achievement-spam-games-are-causin... Feel free to get in contact with me or other 100Pals Staff if you have more ideas for getting devs to stop releasing spam games.

LOGistICAL has not been added to the spam list yet.