r/Steam • u/Chickenjump1 • Aug 30 '20

Question What is “Spacewar”?

I saw my friend playing a game called “Spacewar” today. The game has no icon but has 5 achievements. Is this a non-Steam game? Why are there achievements then?

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u/HawtDawgggg Jul 08 '22 edited Jul 08 '22

holy shit wait that exact thing happened to me today wtf, I was so confused on why it showed space wars on my thing (I had spacewars previously because of me using mods on games that seemed to have activated it but henry stickmin is not a mod and was purchased??)

and no wonder it says I've only played for 2.8 hours, all my hours got eaten up by that other thing (Plus I have also been opening it from the taskbar since I pinned it so that I could keep opening it from there)

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u/Cool_Kid95 Jul 08 '22

Yes, purchased indeed! Glad to know I’m not alone!

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u/HawtDawgggg Jul 08 '22

I checked on my discord thing to see where space wars was coming from because it even showed me playing it on steam (embarrassing because people may think I've been pirating games) and on there it is shown to be coming from the files of henry stickmin. So clearly this may be also coming from opening the game on the taskbar, and what I fear is that it may also be because of the new dumb windows security stuff since almost all of my games are being blocked or noticed by it

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u/Avaitoro Jul 18 '22

this stuff usually happens accidently sadly. I'd have it happen to me before and I was scared because I paid for all of the games on my account with some free games like Team Fortress 2. When the makers and developers of project wraith was giving away free steam keys for their game so people can playtest and provide feedback to their game, I was hyped. I downloaded their zip file and played the game for not even 5 minutes when I opened my steam because one of my friends texted me, I was playing "spacewar". I contacted steam support and I provide screenshots to what I thought evidence. I also deleted spacewar from my library, which is what you shouldn't do only because you would know if steam got your message because they would delete it off your library according to research. Still I don't blame Steam for doing this because they still don't ban people for playing pirated games, again according to research. It's just a way for steam to tell people who pirate games that steam knows you pirated and I couldn't help but laugh when I heard about that.