We’re announcing a new update to the SteamDB extension, featuring an overhaul of the personal achievements page on the Steam community. This update includes several new features and improvements aimed at making achievement tracking more straightforward.
Powered by data from Steam Hunters, our integration allows achievements to be organized based on game updates, downloadable content (DLCs), and multiplayer tagged achievements, allowing you to see your progress through different phases of the game. The achievements page has been redesigned to match the look and feel of the Steam client for a more consistent user experience.
New achievements added through game updates are detected automatically, and DLCs are tagged by the site’s moderators. Multiplayer tags are applied by users of the site. If you see any mistakes, report them in the Steam Hunters Discord.
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Achievements are sorted by their global unlock rate, helping you see which ones are more commonly earned and which are rare. They are also split into earned and locked sections that can be collapsed, allowing you to focus on specific achievements. Additionally, a new button lets you sort earned achievements by their unlock time, providing a chronological view of your accomplishments.
Hidden achievements are also shown under a spoiler blur, but you can also choose to always show them by enabling the option to do so.
We are hoping this inspires Valve to give a thought to updating the achievement system and allow developers to categorize the achievements in their games.
When the “Group achievements with data from Steam Hunters” option is enabled (by default), the extension securely requests achievement groupings from steamdb.info using the AppID (numeric ID) of the game you are viewing. The “Improve the personal achievements page” option needs to be enabled.
The same grouping also applies to the global achievements page.
Localization
We have finally added support for translating the extension, and thanks to all the translators, it is now translated into 45 languages. Unfortunately, it currently uses your browser language because the web extensions API does not support switching languages per extension yet, but there is a proposal to add this.
A collapse button
A small, but nice to have feature we have also added to the Steam store is a button to collapse the green “already in library” banner with play time and input to write a review, saving that precious screen space. Collapsed state is persistent across games.
We hope you find these new features and improvements useful. Happy gaming and achievement hunting!
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Fun fact, to achieve the sorting of achievements by time, as we are unable to use the Steam API to get your achievement progress without an API key (access token does not work here), we request the achievements page using Finnish language because their date format is easiest to parse.