Guide · Getting started
Your first five minutes
The fastest path from "I just signed up" to "I'm tracking my games." You can do all of this without connecting Steam, GOG, or PSN.
1. Make an account
Open Sign up from the top bar. Email + password, no card. We don't email-spam you and we don't sell anything.
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Sign-up form with email + password fields
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2. Add your first game
After signing in you land in your library. Click Add in the top nav. Two ways to add a game:
- Search — type a title; we look it up via RAWG and pre-fill cover, release year, genres.
- Manual — type the title yourself and fill in whatever fields you want.
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The Add page with the search bar and a results grid
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3. Pick a status
Every game has one of four states. They mean what you'd expect:
Backlog
Bought / wishlisted / planning to play someday.
Playing
Currently in your active rotation.
Finished
Credits rolled, or you reached a point you call "done".
Dropped
You stopped and you're not going back. No shame.
On a game card, click the status pill to cycle through them. On the detail page, use the dropdown.
4. (Optional) Rate it, journal it
On a game's detail page you can:
- Give it a 1–10 rating.
- Track hours played, progress %, and achievements.
- Add notes — your private journal that nobody else sees by default.
- Tag it (e.g. "soulslike", "co-op", "won-game-jam").
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Game detail page showing status, rating, progress, and notes
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5. What's next?
You can stop here and use Dungeon Logbook as a pure manual tracker. Or:
- Connect Steam — owned games + playtime + achievements pour in automatically.
- Connect GOG — same thing for your DRM-free library.
- Connect PlayStation — trophy progress + last-played for every PSN game with trophies.
- Playing & tracking — the practical loop: starting a game, finishing one, sharing.