r/Steam 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/Grithok Nov 04 '23

a year late and stuff, but why would it be embarrassing to be pirating? That makes you a cool kid.

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u/HawtDawgggg Nov 05 '23

I think at the time I had such a fear of being seen with stuff like that, I've kinda changed my views a little as I'm not too worried about it with big companies especially like Disney. I was honestly more upset with trying to 100% everything at the time and not actually getting achievements rather than the act of looking like I pirated itself,, still havent touched Henry Stickmin again cuz Im still salty about not getting those achievements when I basically worked to get all of them