Introduction


Playing Appreciated is a group for members that like to play games they win and for giveaway creators that like to see their games getting played. This sounds simple, yet requires committent and dedication from members by filtering out games they like to play from all group giveaways and when won playing those within one month. In return members will get higher chances of winning games they want and creators will know their giveaways have a high chance of getting played. The group has more than 1000 members and over 25000 historical giveaways.

Group rules


  • You need to set and keep your Steam privacy settings for My profile and Game details public (example);
  • You will play all giveaways you win via this group within one month;
  • When creating a giveaway it is recommended to include a small group rule reminder in your giveaway, something like: "This is a Playing Appreciated giveaway, by joining you commit to playing this game within a month when won.".

How to join


  1. Make sure you did not violate any SteamGifts rules in the last month;
  2. Comment one of the two options to enter the group in this discussion:
    • Option 1: Showing your commitment by playing a previous won game on SteamGifts that you did not yet play. The game shouldn't be very short and must have achievements. Comment with the name of the game before you start playing it and comment again when you finished playing it. Please upload some screenshots to Steam as well.
    • Option 2: Supporting the cause by creating a group giveaway of a game that you would like to see getting played by other group members within a month as soon as your membership request was approved. The game should not have been given away free before (marked by ** when creating a giveaway on SteamGifts).
  3. Press "Request To Join" on our group page;
  4. Wait for us to approve your request, we'll always reply on the comment you have made in this topic.

Final notes


More information and a FAQ is available via the Steam group. Current group giveaways can be found here on SteamGifts. Feel free to comment below if you have any questions!

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can i join ur group?

5 years ago
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Hi FifflarenVintage, with which option would you like to join?

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May i join by playing a game?

5 years ago
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Hi ryoga22, as you have been told when you got kicked you can rejoin once more only after you play your unplayed group win.

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hey can i join your group? well i can't choose non of above option since i never won any game on steam gifts.... never been lucky:)

5 years ago
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Hey lazej, well option 2 doesn't require you to win anything. But you can also pick any uplayed games with achievements from your Steam library for option 1. Just let me know which one you picked before you start it and put your playtime information to public. Here in the second paragraph is how to do it in case you don't know.

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Hi lazej, we are currently in the process of clearing out all our old join requests on Steam and I came across yours. I would like to know if you would still be interested to join the group?
If I won't get a reply in a week I will simply decline the request, but you would still be welcome to join once you finish your application :)

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hi thank you for asking.
sadly i do not have time to play games at the moment. and my pc is not good enough to play high quality games
so definitely others who can play, should have a chance of winning and playing them.
thanks for your great group. i will request again whenever i upgraded my pc and had time play games^^

4 years ago
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Ok, I will decline your join request for now. You are more than welcome to reapply in the future :)

4 years ago
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Hello, can I join this group? I'd like to choose 1st option because I have won 4 games on steamgifts and played all of them (I made screenshots from all of these games). First game I have already finished is "Penarium".
Second game which I'm playing when I'm in school is "League of Evil" and I'd like to get 100% achievements on this one.
The rest are "HIVESWAP: ACT 1" and "Puddle" but they are not that interesting as I expected them to be, so I probably won't finish them.
This is how the things looks like, can I join the group? :D

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5 years ago
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Hi Martibsir, you are welcome to join the group however games that have been started before the application sadly don't count. However since you do not have any unplayed win, you can pick an unplayed game with achievements from your library instead. Let me know how you would like to proceed.

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Thanks for your response. So all I need to do is to choose any game from my library and complete it, right? So, probably my next game will be "Spyro: Reignited Trilogy" but I think I will start playing it in 2 weeks, so when I finally complete it, I'll reply to your message. :)

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Sure, Spyro: Reignited Trilog works. And yes, do let me know once you beat it :)

5 years ago
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Hi MouseWithBeer, can I change Spyro for Tomb Raider game? Because in the meantime I have won Tomb Raider and I'm gonna play it first. :)

5 years ago
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Playing Tomb Raider will do fine as well :)

5 years ago
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Hi, I just finished Tomb Raider game and it was really cool. ;D It took me some time, because I was little busy and I wanted to gather most of the collectibes in the game (not all but about ~90%) and I finally finished it today. :D Could you please look at my request once again?

5 years ago
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Looks good to me, congrats on beating the game! Join request approved, welcome to the group :)

5 years ago
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Thank you! :)

5 years ago
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Hi, i would like to enter the group with option 1. I will be playing Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders.

5 years ago
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Hi cassioht, you are welcome to join by playing Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders, let me know once you beat the game! :)

5 years ago
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Congrats! :) Please request to join the group on Steam and I will approve it as soon as I see it :)

5 years ago
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Requested.

5 years ago
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Approved :) Welcome to the group!

5 years ago
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Thanks!

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Hello, I would like to join the group,
I can see, I requested to join this group in the past but that must be a long time ago, I don't really know why my request was declined,
If I can have another try, I'd like to go for option #1, don't have many unplayed wins, but I would like to give another shot to DarkEnd because I can see I didn't play it after the tutorial. I will wait to know if that's alright and I'll dive in it to finish, thankss!

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Hi FlorentiNN, it was rejected because you never commented in this thread. I took a look at your wins and it looks like at least 1/4 of your wins are not played:

Games with any Playtime 68.6% (83/121)

Games with ≥1 Achievement 53.1% (43/81)

Therefore please pick one of those to play.

5 years ago
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Okay, my choice is Alien Breed 2 : Assault. :) Thanks for the reply.

5 years ago
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I am guessing you got that one from the trilogy giveaway so that works, let me know once you beat it :).

5 years ago
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Alright, I have beaten it, on Elite difficulty also, hahah :D It was a fun game, but a little too challenging on the elite difficulty :))

5 years ago
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Congrats! I have sent you a friend request so I can invite you that way. Just send me an message whenever you accept the friend request so I don't forget :)

5 years ago
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Tho I forgot to take screens because aliens chasing u all the time, you can check my achievements. :)

5 years ago
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i would like to join :)

5 years ago
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Hi SamTheDragon, with which option would you like to join?

5 years ago
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Thanks for your response.i choose Option 1 and play this game 140

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Playing 140 will be fine, let me know once you beat it!

5 years ago
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Hello
140 1.4 hrs on record last played on 20 Oct
Achievement Progress 2 of 8
i cant complete game =)))) its so much hard

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If it is too hard then please pick a different game you can actually beat.

5 years ago
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Hi SamTheDragon, we are currently in the process of clearing out all our old join requests on Steam and I came across yours. I would like to know if you would still be interested to join the group?
If I won't get a reply in a week I will simply decline the request, but you would still be welcome to join once you finish your application :)

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Hello, I was wondering if I could have a week or two extension on playing my last two wins (they were won within a couple days). I'm in college and its currently midterm season, so I haven't had that much time to play them, especially both games are pretty lengthy.

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Hi idixtkid,
you can have till the 28th of October to play Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide and till the 1st of November to play ENSLAVED™: Odyssey to the West, does that work for you?

5 years ago
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Yes, that's perfect thank you.

5 years ago
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I want to participate in your group. Hunting for good Racing Games

I'm a Gifter too

5 years ago
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Hi malvolm, you do not currently fulfill the requirements to join the group.

5 years ago
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Hello, thanks for response. Which one i do not fullfill because i have a problem with understanding them :D My english is not so strong

5 years ago
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Make sure you did not violate any SteamGifts rules in the last month;

5 years ago
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I did something wrong on SG? This Crusader Kngs I give back to the giveaway?

5 years ago
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I would suggest you to read the rules.

5 years ago
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Ok, I get it.

"Won gifts should be activated to the Steam account used during registration, and they should not be regifted, traded, or sold."

See ya next month :D

5 years ago
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I noticed that Quijote3000 is permanently suspended from SG

5 years ago
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Permanent isn't so permanent though sometimes, but for sure they can't join giveaway then having that status. :P

5 years ago
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Hello,
Would like to join using Option 1 by playing the game called HIVESWAP: Act 1!
Thanks in advance! :)

5 years ago
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Hello messo! You're welcome to join, playing HIVESWAP will work, please comment again once you've finished it. :)

5 years ago
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DONE!
here's the Screenshot, here's my Achievements Progress.

5 years ago
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Hey how nice! ^^ Hope you've liked the game! Membership request approved, welcome to the group. :)

5 years ago
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Thanks! :D
It was better than what I expected tbh! :P

5 years ago
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Hi, I would like to join on Option 1, please, playing Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You. I've idled this game a few hours but haven't played yet (0 achievements), if that is alright?
Thanks! :)

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Hello Reisetante! You're welcome to join, playing Orwell will do! I can't see you're current idling time because you're privacy settings aren't right yet! Please update it, it should look like this. :)

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Thanks. I updated my privacy settings and will notify you when I finished the game :)

5 years ago
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Great! I see indeed 4.1 hrs on record of idling, so we'll subtract that from your playtime when done. :P Have fun!

5 years ago
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Finished the game and requested to join the group :)

5 years ago
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Hi Reisetante! All looking good for approval and did so. Sorry for the small delay and welcome to the group! ^^

5 years ago
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Thank you! :)

5 years ago
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Hey, I'd like to join with option 1, playing 'Papers, Please'. Rules say to post before you start playing, but don't appear to require admin acknowledgement thereof, so I'm hoping it's ok I start now/soon...

5 years ago
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Hello johnnycochvik! You're welcome to join by playing Papers, please. Please comment again when you've finished the game! Also note that currently your privacy settings aren't right, please update that as soon as possible too (probably need to remove the tick the hide total playtimes, see here).

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Total playtimes were indeed private, but have been opened up now. Does that need to be left unchecked permanently, or just from time-to-time? It's not a huge deal, but I'd generally like to limit it (but understand its need for this group)...

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https://steamcommunity.com/groups/playing-appreciated/announcements/detail/3339858483831824607 "We therefore changed the group rules to require public profile and public game details, including playtimes."

I believe that's the current policy unless our group leaders issue a new one

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Please keep them public, for sure when you have won something from the group that hasn't been approved yet. If you want to hide something from your family or friends, you can play around with it for a day or so, but remember we can't see then your playtime for any wins which may lead to being removed from the group. I hope it'll work out for you! For now enjoy Papers, please. ^^

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I finally fully completed it - I've made fairly steady progress and finished one playthrough a few weeks ago, but it took a bit longer to get the remaining achievements, including almost another full playthrough (for both ending-achievements)... HLTB was not entirely accurate ;)

5 years ago
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Sorry for the late reply! It's looking good, please press the button request to join here and we'll approve it once we see it. :)

Edit: Approved! :)

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5 years ago
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Was there any Crashbot key revocations, or just bad luck ?

There is a thread for info like that, but it doesn't look like anyone reported it.

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Usually, is it an easy thing to cancel a wrong entry on Playing appreciated ?

It shouldn't be, just need to let Reforced know because I can not do that myself.

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I hope it won't happen again either. And no problem, if you ever have any other questions feel free to ask :)

5 years ago
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i would like to join, send request already

5 years ago
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Hi davor3, with which option would you like to join?

5 years ago
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number 2 option ( is that mean i need after one month send game or every month need to send the new game?)

5 years ago
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You need to make a giveaway right after you enter the group. After you make that one there is no obligatory giveaways you need to make, So if that is fine with you let me know and I will accept your join request.

5 years ago
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yes it is ok for me:)

5 years ago
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Join request approved, welcome to the group! :) Since you are new to SG: In case you don't know, to be able to make a giveaway for the group you will have to sync your SG profile first (so the group will show in the list of groups you can give games to). You can do that here by clicking the green "sync profile" button :)

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I was wandering if I want to join under option 1,can I play 2 games instead of 1 if they are shorter(Escape Doodland
and AGON - The Mysterious Codex (Trilogy))?

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Hi rodasa, actually AGON could have been played by itself, but it doesn't have achievements so it doesn't work. So please pick a different game. I took a quick look at your wins and I can recommend you: Agatha Christie, Crime Secrets: Crimson Lily and 12 Labours of Hercules. But another game can be picked as well. Please let me know what you decide.

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Agatha Christie I will go with this one.

5 years ago
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Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders is it then. Let me know once you beat the game :)

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Congrats! Join request approved, welcome to the group! :)

5 years ago
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I would like to join the group
I enter giveaways with intention to play games at some point (when I have more free time and/or when I update my gaming PC)
so I plan to finish

  1. https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/oYebZ/wayout - in October
  2. https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/Hd1Bs/the-wild-age - in November
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Hi MandalorTheDesperate, first of all please put your playtime information public. You can find instructions on how to do that in the second paragraph here. That said Wayout doesn't count to join since it was already played before applying but The Wild Age works. Please let me know once you beat the game.

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Hi MandalorTheDesperate, we are currently in the process of clearing out all our old join requests and I came across yours. I would like to know if you would still be interested to join the group?
If I won't get a reply in a week I will simply mark you as not interested to join on our list, but you would still be welcome to join once you have beaten the game :)

4 years ago
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Hi
Real life haven't given me time for games lately.
Feel free to clear my request.

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You have to specify if you'd rather join by playing one of your wins that hasn't been played yet (say the game before you start playing) or by giving away a game you'd like to see played in the group.

Check the How to join section of the opening post for further details ;)

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idk if you played all your wins but you would need to pick one of those if you have any
you will need to put your game details to public also
Oh and 1 more thing they weren't going to be able to pick a game considering you replied to yourself twice but they might be a lurker like me who will come across it anyway

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5 years ago
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aw man i never saw this! couldve waited for me XD

5 years ago
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I deleted this because i was beeing dumb xD
I choose one of my wins which is DISTRUST
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198037059927/stats/635200/?tab=achievements

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:o oh you came back. Well you will still need your game settings to public but after that im sure the mods will accept that game. where ever they are, they're slacking

5 years ago
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Probably a better choice anyway ;)
Doing Dark Souls as your entry game would be like voluntarily doing the challenge on Harcore mode :D

5 years ago
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😃
Everything is on public. Thank you

5 years ago
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Hi simulator, considering it seems like you deleted all your previous comments I am assuming from the rest that you wait to join with option 1 by playing Distrust?

5 years ago
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That's right

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In that case let me know once you beat the game :)

5 years ago
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Thank you :D

5 years ago
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Hi. I beat the game. It was cool actually 😃

5 years ago
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Pro tip: if you reply to yourself nobody gets an notification about it. You got lucky I actually saw there was a new message on the thread and checked it out.

That said, congrats on beating the game! Join request approved, welcome to the group :)

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Hello everyone, I would like to join here. I'll play one of the games I received and not played yet.

5 years ago
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Hi itekin7, you are welcome to join with option 1. So which one of those games are you going to play?

5 years ago
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"Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders" I am planning to play this one.

5 years ago
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Playing Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders will do fine. Let me know once you beat the game!

5 years ago
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Hi, it's done. It was quite a good story.

5 years ago
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I am glad the story was good :) Join request approved, welcome to the group!

5 years ago
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Thank you :)

5 years ago
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Hi, i would like to join the group using option 2.
I will make a giveaway for Thomas Was Alone
If that it ok ?

5 years ago
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Hi MrOuiOui, you are welcome to join by giving away Thomas Was Alone. Join request approved, welcome to the group!

5 years ago
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Thanks ! I have made the GA.

5 years ago
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👍👍

5 years ago
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Hello, I'd like to join by playing FoxyLand. Thank you.

5 years ago
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Hi sosich, you are welcome to join by playing FoxyLand. Let me know once you beat it! Considering the achievements are only for beating levels with 3 stars (and I am assuming you can progress through the game without getting all 3 stars) please upload some screenshots showing the progress.

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Game finished and the end of the last level on screenshot. Thank you for accepting my request.

5 years ago
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Congrats! I sent you a friend request so I can invite you to the group :)

5 years ago
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I'd like to appy via option 1. just won a game: Shenmue I & II. It's as one in my library, so I guess I play both.

5 years ago
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Hi between2and20charact, you are welcome to join by playing Shenmue I & II. Let me know once you beat the game!

5 years ago
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Hi between2and20charact, we are currently in the process of clearing out all our old join requests and I came across yours. I would like to know if you would still be interested to join the group?
If I won't get a reply in a week I will simply mark you as not interested to join on our list, but you would still be welcome to join once you have beaten the game :)

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I'm terrible sorry. I wanted to play this game after applying, but the controls are so wonky and with it being two games, I let it drift into the backlog. I don't know what to do, but it will take a while until I finished both games.

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You can switch to a different win if that works better for you :) I just need to know which one before you start playing it.

4 years ago
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Thanks. Would this game be eligible: The Night of the Rabbit?

4 years ago
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Yep The Night of the Rabbit will be just fine, let me know once you beat it!

4 years ago
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Heyyy MouseWithBeer,
had a bit stress, so it took a while, but I now finished the game.

4 years ago
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Hey, sorry for the bit late answer:
Congrats! Please request to join the group on Steam here and I will approve it as soon as I see it :)

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no worries!

4 years ago
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Join request approved, welcome to the group! :)

4 years ago
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Hello, I'd like to join by playing Clockwork Tales: Of Glass and Ink.

5 years ago
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Hi uchihaitachics, playing Clockwork Tales: Of Glass and Ink will do fine, let me know once you beat the game. And happy cake day! :)

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Done! Thanks by the way :)

5 years ago
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Congrats! Please request to join the group on Steam here and I will approve it as soon as I see it :)

Edit: accepted

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Thank you!

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Hi, I would like to join via option 1 by playing Alchemy Mysteries: Prague Legends. Is that okay? Thank you.

5 years ago
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Hi Gellax, you are welcome to join by playing Alchemy Mysteries: Prague Legends. Let me know once you beat the game.

5 years ago
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All done. The mystery has been solved! :D

5 years ago
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Join request approved, welcome to the group! :)

5 years ago
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Thank you very much!

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Closed 2 years ago by Reforced.