Most people who play games seriously end up keeping some sort of record. A backlog in a spreadsheet, a note on their phone, a wishlist somewhere they never look again. It works until it does not, and then a year later you cannot remember whether you actually finished that RPG or drifted away at hour twenty.

Firetale is that record with the missing parts included. Log what you play, give it a score out of ten if you want, and write down what you thought while it is still fresh. Later, it is all still there: the dates, the platform, the replay you went back for, the score you changed your mind about.

Most trackers give a game one state and overwrite it. Play something twice and the first run disappears. Firetale keeps every playthrough separately, so going back to a game after five years adds to the story instead of erasing it.

The same goes for the backlog. Wishlist, backlog, playing, paused, beat, played and quit are all real states that real habits fall into, and quitting a game is a legitimate outcome worth recording rather than a failure to hide.

The other half is social. Your logs and reviews are posts: people reply to them, quote them, argue with them. Spoiler gates keep the twists hidden from anyone still playing.

And because everyone is scoring the same games, we can point you at players whose ratings genuinely line up with yours, and tell you why rather than hiding it behind a number. That is a better recommendation than any algorithm guessing from a genre tag, because it comes from people.

Storefronts list the same game five times: Deluxe, Gold, Game of the Year, Complete, and a bundle with something bolted on. Firetale folds those into the game itself, so search results, libraries and statistics count games rather than store packages.

Firetale is free to join and free to use. It is a small project rather than a company, built by people who wanted this to exist and could not find it. That means it moves at the pace it moves at, but also that there is nobody to answer to except the people using it.

Your data is yours. Export your whole library as a CSV whenever you like, and if you decide to leave, deleting your account takes your data with it.

You do not need an account to read: browse the catalogue, read public lists, see what people thought, or check what is coming out. An account is only needed to log and post.

Game data and artwork come from IGDB.