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Choosing Your Next Game With Real Constraints
Time, platform, energy, and friends — a four-constraint picker that beats infinite scrolling the catalog.
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News, guides, and stories from the Playlogs team. 37 articles.
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Why Playlogs Shows Two Rating Systems Side by Side
IGDB aggregates and Playlogs community scores answer different questions. Keeping them separate is intentional.
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The Joy of a Quiet Completed Shelf
A Completed list is not a flex. It’s proof you spent time on purpose. How to enjoy it without turning play into labor.
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Indie Weekends: A Simple Habit for Discovering Small Games
One weekend a month, only games from smaller studios. How to run an Indie Weekend using Planned and short-session logging.
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Burnout Softens When You Use On Hold
On Hold is the most underrated status in any game diary. Here’s how to use it before you Drop something you might still love.
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Platform Hopping: One Log or Many?
PC, console, cloud — how to track multiplatform play without turning your diary into a spreadsheet.
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The Art of the Honest Rating: Scoring Games Without Guilt
A 7/10 is not a failure. How to rate on Playlogs so your scores stay useful for future you — and for the community average.
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Planned vs Active: A Status System That Keeps You Honest
Statuses are not bureaucracy. Used well, Planned and Active become the simplest backlog diet on Playlogs.
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Assassin’s Creed Shadows Launch: Feudal Japan, Dual Protagonists
Ubisoft’s Shadows puts Naoe and Yasuke in open-world Japan — what to expect, how it fits the series, and how to track it on Playlogs.
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Monster Hunter Wilds: Big Hunts, Living Maps
Capcom’s Wilds leans into seamless locales and spectacle hunts — a Playlogs first-look for hunters logging their next marathon.
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 — Turn-Based With Style
Sandfall’s breakout RPG mixes Belle Époque melancholy with reactive turn-based combat. Here’s why it’s dominating “new game” chatter.
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Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: Whipcrack Adventure
MachineGames’ Indy game is a love letter to pulp archaeology — first-person exploration, puzzles, and brawls worth tracking.
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