Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. Every feature — profiles, leaderboards, compare, suggestions, forums — is free with no paywall. If you want to chip in to cover server bills, there's a donate page.

Steam only exposes achievements for games with achievement support. We also cap tracking at the 120 games with the most playtime to stay inside Vercel's function timeout. Recently played games are prioritised.

You need your Steam profile and “game details” set to Public for us to read your data. Steam's privacy controls live at Profile → Edit Profile → Privacy Settings.

We use Steam's global achievement percentages. Ultra-rare is 0–5%, very-rare 5–15%, rare 15–30%, uncommon 30–50%, common 50%+.

Each achievement awards points scaled by global rarity — rarer achievements are worth more. Your total drives leaderboard placement and your level/XP bar on the profile.

We try to detect a single signature story achievement per game using a mix of hardcoded overrides for big titles and keyword scoring for the rest. It's not perfect — let us know if a game looks wrong.

Profile data is fetched live from Steam each time it's loaded, then cached briefly to avoid hammering Steam's API. Game schemas and global rarity percentages are cached for an hour.

Yes — email dewald.schoonbee911@gmail.com with your SteamID64 and we'll purge your record within 30 days.

No. SteamVault is an independent project that uses the public Steam Web API. Steam is a trademark of Valve Corporation.

Please report it here with as much detail as you can — SteamID, browser, what page, what you expected.