A Letterboxd for games.

It usually means a place to keep a personal record of games, publish reviews, make lists and see what friends are playing. A store library can tell you what you own. A game diary also records whether you finished it, stopped halfway through or came back years later.

Firetale is an independent service for that kind of record. It is not affiliated with Letterboxd, and it does not connect to a Letterboxd account. Its catalogue, ratings and discussions are about video games.

Backloggd, Infinite Backlog and GG also cover parts of this use case. Their approaches differ: a detailed play journal, a cross-platform collection with achievements, or a collection and custom lists. The comparisons below explain where each fits alongside Firetale.

A useful log can be short. Pick the game, choose your status, add the platform and date, then give it a score or write a few lines if you want. Firetale uses whole-number ratings from 1 to 10. A recommendation is a separate choice, so a score and a yes-or-no recommendation do not have to say the same thing.

Replaying a game is a separate event. Keep the first run and add the later playthrough with its own details. That matters when a PC replay feels different from the console version you played years ago, or when your opinion changes without making the earlier opinion wrong.

Dates belong to your history, rather than the day you happened to create an account. You can add older games and look back through your diary. Spoiler controls let you write about the ending without showing it immediately to someone who is still playing.

A game does not need a finish line to belong in your history. Firetale keeps these seven statuses separate, so a long-running multiplayer game and a finished campaign can both have an accurate record.

Your backlog is the broad record. Lists give it a purpose: short games for a weekend, the next three RPGs you want to try, or every game in a series you plan to revisit. Firetale supports ranked lists, unranked lists and tier lists. A ranking records an order; a tier list lets several games share a category.

You can browse by genre or platform, check the release calendar, or start with a game you already like. Games Like pages show up to eight suggestions for a title. That is a starting point for choosing, rather than a promise that every suggestion will suit you.

The catalogue uses IGDB game information. Store editions and duplicate packages can be grouped under a canonical game; remakes and remasters may remain separate. When recording an older release, check the title and version rather than assuming every edition is interchangeable.

Follow players to see their logs, reviews and posts. Comments and replies give you room to ask about the things a score cannot explain: whether combat stays interesting, how demanding the platforming gets, or why someone gave up near the end.

Firetale also uses your recorded games and ratings to suggest players with related taste. Shared libraries and agreement on ratings are different signals. An unrated imported collection gives less evidence about someone's opinions than a set of games both people have scored.

You can browse first and decide whether you want to keep a diary yourself. An account is needed to save logs, post and follow people. Public reading does not require one.

Firetale has import options for Steam, PlayStation, Xbox, GOG, Backloggd, Infinite Backlog and HowLongToBeat. Each source contains different information. A storefront library may show ownership or playtime; a diary export may also contain dates, scores and reviews. Importing does not create missing reviews or guess how you felt about a game.

Review the matched games before saving. Entries you have already logged on Firetale are skipped rather than overwritten. Check the import guide for public-profile requirements, supported files and which details each source can supply.

You can export game logs as CSV or JSON, and download a full account JSON backup including lists. Re-importing a game-log file is not a full account restore: custom lists and account settings are not restored through that importer.