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From the GitHub page: "Sentinel monitors your Steam emulator achievement files and sends real-time desktop notifications when achievements are unlocked or progress is updated. It also serves as a library viewer with completion stats, global achievement percentages, and more."
What's the point? For when you download games via the likes of Heroic Games Launcher (for Epic Games and GOG), if those games are also available on Steam you'll be able to track and follow achievements in a similar way to you would on Steam directly. Sounds pretty interesting, although no doubt a quite niche project. But as always, options are great to have right?
Sentinel features:
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
- Real-time desktop notifications.
- Progress tracking for multi-step achievements.
- Game library with completion stats and sorting.
- Global achievement percentages from Steam API.
- Custom notification sounds (10 platform-themed options).
- System tray support (runs in background).
- Choice of Steam Web API key or free external data source (SteamHunters).
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Quoting: Axel Ekholm Cool i guess but i still don't get why you should care about achievements. I care about having fun playing a game, not having achievement.it's the gamers's mindset, they always want to achieve something 😄
Quoting: Axel Ekholm Cool i guess but i still don't get why you should care about achievements. I care about having fun playing a game, not having achievement.When you play a game for long enough and look for something to do, achievements can be considered as side quests. Achievements for different endings or story choices can motivate you to play a game differently. There are bad achievements, like "kill 50000 wolves", but overall it can be a good tool for powering up replayability.
ItsFunkyCaptain 53 minutes ago
Quoting: Axel Ekholm Cool i guess but i still don't get why you should care about achievements. I care about having fun playing a game, not having achievement.Why can't you have both?
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