Achievement issue

[Dramatica]

Hey there, I just started the game the first time on this account. One of my family members played the game before on the same computer but on their own steam account.
The moment i started the game I got awarded ALL of the achievement they unlocked on THEIR account.
That doesn't seem right and should be fixed

[Hanabishi]

That's intentional, the game just syncs achievements. To prevent opposite situations like "due to me played offline / some other issue, achievements did't register and now I need to do everything again".
Many games sync achievements.

[Dramatica]

I have to disagree that this might be a feature. If I had played offline and switched back to online I would not complain. But this case is different.
Additionally I noticed that I have access to all of the other user's save games. I found out that the game places save file inside the game's install directory, instead of windows user or steam user directory.
Seeing the save games of other players was a thing in the 90s. Today we know better.
In my case the other player used a different steam account AND a different windows account. There should be a separation between user's save files.

I do not know of any other game that would "copy" achievements from one steam account to another or that would use a common directory for the save games of all users mixed together, except (very) old games that came out in a time before multi user operating systems were a thing.

[Hanabishi]

The game places saves in the user's dir as well (%AppData%\RenPy\SlaythePrincess-1651597024).
But that's a quirk of the engine anyway. All RenPy-driven games do that. The game devs can't do pretty much anything about it afaik. If you disagree, argue with RenPy developers.
https://github.com/renpy/renpy/issues/4186#issuecomment-1801258549

[bog maiden]

Originally posted by Dramatica:

I have to disagree that this might be a feature. If I had played offline and switched back to online I would not complain. But this case is different.
Additionally I noticed that I have access to all of the other user's save games. I found out that the game places save file inside the game's install directory, instead of windows user or steam user directory.
Seeing the save games of other players was a thing in the 90s. Today we know better.
In my case the other player used a different steam account AND a different windows account. There should be a separation between user's save files.

I do not know of any other game that would "copy" achievements from one steam account to another or that would use a common directory for the save games of all users mixed together, except (very) old games that came out in a time before multi user operating systems were a thing.

It *is* a feature, though. The main app data for Ren'Py titles flags achievement unlocked or not and since the game is installed on your machine, when launched it sees those flags and gives you the achievements. This isn't even just a Steam thing. I had the game on GoG originally and repurchased on Steam and when I launched it was given my saves and achievements. This is just how Ren'Py works.

Another Ren'Py title I had where I got a copy on the high seas and wanted to support the devs did the same when I purchased it.