"Perfect Games" not showing correct numbers in the Achievement Showcase

[Redbeard]

In the "Achievement Showcase" on my profile, it says I have 66 "Perfect Games"; however, I know for sure that I have 69.
I know that because I keep a list of them (because they're rare), and I have a Steam games category called "achievements completed 100%" (which I double-checked - to make sure all of them were still at 100%, in case extra achievements had been added).
(Obviously, I'm a stat hoarder; oh well, there are worse vices out there)

It turns out that the missing 3 are 3 free games which I deleted from my PC.
However, those deleted games used to show up as part of the accumulated "Perfect Games", even though they had been deleted - that seems to have changed now.

The 3 free ones are:
*Carpe Diem
*A Date in the Park
*Free to Play (video)

As a test, I bought a DLC for "A Date in the Park".
Doing so added that game to my game library, where it shows that I have 100% achievements for it - but now the "Perfect Games" number is still at 66, not 67.
-- It is possible (not tested yet) that if I install the game, the counter might go up to 67, but whether it does or doesn't is not the main point.

It looks as though Steam are now deleting the "Perfect Games" attribution for any free games which you delete.
Personally, I think this is wrong. All games which you get to 100% should show up in your final score, whether you have deleted them or not (especially if your PC crashes, or you change PCs, and you lose them).

I thought I would address the issue direct to Steam, but it looks like they're limiting direct contact with the public on miscellaneous issues as much as possible (understandable, but a bit frustrating).
So, I thought I'd raise the issue in the Steam forum. (Obviously, at the risk of being trolled by haters; but, what the heck, I'll give it a try anyway.)

Does anyone have any ideas on how Steam could fix this?

[DirtyFishy (No Sound, so sad)]

It looks as though Steam are now deleting the "Perfect Games" attribution for any free games which you delete.
Personally, I think this is wrong. All games which you get to 100% should show up in your final score, whether you have deleted them or not (especially if your PC crashes, or you change PCs, and you lose them).

I can confirm that this is not the case at all. Thankfully.

Double check all of your games. Make sure there are no filters, you may of missed something.
Some times the achievement progress in your library is slow to load. A game may of had an update.

Or maybe you shared a game at one point. Or maybe a F2P game that you deleted decided to get an update.

[Redbeard]

I just reinstalled "Carpe Diem", to check - it still says I have 100% of achievements.
But the number is still at 66.
I ran "Carpe Diem" for a few moments too, in case that made a difference.

Interestingly, Steam has stored the categories I allocated to that game, as they automatically appeared with it.

[Redbeard]

Now that I have "Carpe Diem" and "A Date in the Park" back in my list of games, I went back through every game in my 100% category on Steam.
When you click on each game in the list, it shows you the % of achievements for each one - and I have confirmed each of them as having 100% achievements listed.

So, now I have 68 in my list showing 100% (if I downloaded "Free to Play, it would be 69), but there is still only 66 showing on my profile (I refreshed it several times).

So, this means that Steam is not fully recognising all 100% games.

[Redbeard]

This is a list of my games with 100% achievements:
(69 games in all - in groups of 10, +9)

AdVenture Capitalist [12 April 2017] -- medium high (massive grinding)
Africa Hunting [28 February 2018] -- very easy
Ampu-Tea [3 December 2015] -- medium (some grinding)
Ancient Rus [18 July 2017] -- easy (using guide)
.Atorb. [1 February 2017] -- medium high (game no longer on Steam)
Berry Pop Match [17 September 2017] -- easy (game no longer on Steam)
Beyond Gravity [2 March 2016] -- medium
Bitcoin Clicker [21 October 2017] -- easy
Blackjack In Space [10 May 2018] -- medium easy
Blu Bandana [29 August 2017] -- easy (game no longer on Steam)

*Carpe Diem [14 June 2016] -- easy
Catacomb Explorers [11 April 2017] -- easy? (game no longer on Steam)
Clickey: The Velocity Click [12 August 2017] -- easy? (game no longer on Steam)
*A Date in the Park [13 November 2016] -- easy high (using guide)
Dustoff Heli Rescue [19 April 2016] -- medium high
Fistful of Frags [8 June 2017] -- medium high
Flow:The Sliding [27 October 2017] -- very easy
Free Bowling 3D [10 October 2017] -- easy
*Free to Play (video) [28 April 2016] -- easy
Fruit Candypop [4 September 2017] -- easy? (game no longer on Steam)

Fruit Sudoku [19 October 2017] -- very easy
Grav Blazer Squared [20 September 2017] -- very easy?
HIS (Heroes In the Sky) [28 June 2016] -- very easy
Home is Where One Starts... [11 July 2016] -- medium low (using guide)
Intergalactic Bubbles [29 December 2017] -- medium high (some grinding)
Juice Fresh [7 March 2018] -- very easy
LA soul [3 August 2017] -- easy (some grinding)
Laseronium [10 October 2017] -- easy?
Last Soldier [23 September 2017] -- easy high (some grinding)
Left 4 Dead (the original) [18 June 2009; 4 May 2011] -- hard

Loot Hero DX [13 October 2016] -- easy
Mad Muzzles [27 August 2017] -- easy
The Magical Silence [8 September 2016] -- easy high (using guide)
My Coloring Book: Professions [24 February 2018] -- easy (some grinding)
My Name is Mayo [14 March 2016] -- easy (medium grinding)
Off-Peak [23 October 2016] -- easy high (using guide)
Pain Train PainPocalypse [27 September 2017] -- easy?
Perraw - FPS Clone War Alpha [2 Nov. 2016; 27 Nov. 2016] -- very easy (using guide)
Pixel Puzzles: Japan [25 September 2016] -- medium
The Plan [29 February 2016] -- very easy

Plankton [30 Jan. 2017] -- easy high
Pointless [28 May 2016] -- easy (some grinding)
Professor Watts: Memory Match
Purpul Bandana [25 September 2017] -- easy? (game no longer on Steam)
Quadrant M4 [3 June 2017] -- very easy
Raccoon Hero: The Sunrise [27 August 2017] -- easy? (game no longer on Steam)
Rage Parking Simulator 2016 [27 February 2018] -- easy (some grinding)
Rage Parking Simulator 2017 [30 August 2017] -- easy? (game no longer on Steam)
Rage Wars [16 December 2016] -- medium (some grinding)
Running Through Russia [24 July 2017] -- easy (some grinding)

Shake Your Money Simulator 2016 [8 June 2016] -- medium
Sharf [25 June 2016] -- easy (game no longer on Steam)
Sisters in hotel [23 September 2017] -- easy
Stickman - Killer of Apples [25 October 2017] -- medium
Strike Force: Desert Thunder [31 August 2016] -- easy high
Super Duper Flying Genocide 2017 [31 Dec. 2016; 22 Jan. 2017] -- easy high (some grinding)
Tank Battle Mania [23 August 2017] -- easy
Torch Cave [31 July 2017] -- easy (some grinding)
Torch Cave 2 [12 August 2017] -- easy (some grinding)
Torch Cave 3 [21 August 2017] -- easy (some grinding)

True or False [19 September 2016] -- easy
Written in the Sky [15 June 2016] -- easy
ZAP Master [10 September 2017] -- very easy
Zen vs Zombie [27 September 2017] -- easy
Zombie Parking [15 April 2016] -- easy high (some grinding)
Zup! [9 October 2016] -- medium
Zup! 2 [22 January 2017] -- medium
Zup! 3 [21 March 2017] -- medium
Zup! 4 [19 March 2017] -- medium

[Redbeard]

Originally posted by DirtyFishy:

Or maybe you shared a game at one point. Or maybe a F2P game that you deleted decided to get an update.

None of my games are shared.

Have triple-checked all of them as being 100% - as I've been caught by that before, when the developers added new achievements to some games, bringing them under 100%.

[DirtyFishy (No Sound, so sad)]

Originally posted by Redbeard:

Originally posted by DirtyFishy:

Or maybe you shared a game at one point. Or maybe a F2P game that you deleted decided to get an update.

None of my games are shared.

Have triple-checked all of them as being 100% - as I've been caught by that before, when the developers added new achievements to some games, bringing them under 100%.

Then outside of you miscalculating. I don't know what else to suggest.

[Redbeard]

I don't think it could be a miscalculation, as - when you click in the top right of your games list - it shows you the number of games in each category in brackets.

The Steam total for my 100% category is "(68)" - which I have confirmed by manual counting (as well as confirming that each game in that category is still 100%).

[Götterdämmerung]

Has this issue resolved for you since May when you posted?
I just completed two games that didn't count toward my perfect games and in my search to find a solution, I am seeing posts about the problem dating back as far as 2013.

Notably, I see the three that didn't count for you were free games and the two I finished were also free.
I am wondering if it has something to do with free games in particular.
I haven't even removed them from my library yet so it isn't that.

Some people are saying turn the showcase off and back on again but those who tried said it didn't work for them.
Others are saying it can take a couple days to show up but I have never had a perfect game that didn't count immediately toward my showcase counter.

This issue is problematic because now I am reluctant to fully complete any more games at the moment for fear that even should a solution be found, it may not apply retroactively to those not currently being counted.

[Falsus Te Deum]

Check the games storepage. If it states that Steam is learning about this game, it is not counted against completed games until it reaches whatever threashold steam has put on new games/dev's. This is as i know it, could be wrong, but i have experienced it since the change against troll games and such.

[Götterdämmerung]

I will check that out, thank you. :)

[Götterdämmerung]

Yep, both games I finished, "TREE" and "Space Between Worlds" are currently being reviewed by Steam.
Guess that must be it.
I really appreciate the info, as I thought my profile was broken or something.
Cheers!

[Redbeard]

Originally posted by Götterdämmerung:

Has this issue resolved for you since May when you posted?

It looks like the issue has been resolved.
On my profile, in the "Achievement Showcase", Steam is now saying that I have 71 perfect games.

Actually, it should be 72, but it looks like the achievements for "Free to Play" (the feature-length documentary) are not showing up. I thought maybe it was because I reinstalled it, but they're not even showing as existing when I click on the entry in my games list (although the achievements appear on the "Free to Play" Steam store page).

That one exception aside, it looks like things are back on track.

(As a side note, a long time after writing the original post, I wondered if the missing "perfect games" were games no longer sold on the Steam store - rather than the free ones, as I had suspected; although, that's a moot point now.)

[Redbeard]

Originally posted by Götterdämmerung:

Yep, both games I finished, "TREE" and "Space Between Worlds" are currently being reviewed by Steam.
Guess that must be it.

As a test, I downloaded the free game "Space Between Worlds" and finished it.
I got 100% of achievements for it (or "achievement", as there is only one).
My number of perfect games didn't increase at all - so it looks like the "new game" theory is correct.

However, new games should count towards your total (it's ridiculous for them not to) - that situation should really be fixed by Steam asap.

[Götterdämmerung]

I have completed the other two you mentioned (Carpe Diem, A Date In The Park) and both show for me in perfect games as well.
Glad to hear things got sorted for you.

Guess it's good to look out for this "Steam is currently learning about this game" indicator in the future so I don't blow my time on games that may or may not make the cut.

Given the abuses of some devs to implement spam achievements among other things, the review period is a good idea.
I just wasn't aware of it because I hadn't run into the issue until now.

[AEon]

I have noted a similar issue with Steam "Perfect Games" counts (on the Profile page)... i.e. for unlocking all Steam achievements for a game. I recently hit the 101 perfect games mark... and for some reason, even though I got two/three more games to 100% the counter stays at 101.

Now I can imagine that this happens once, i.e. a game with 100% got some DLC update along with more achievements that I had not unlocked, and this happened a few times in the past... but I find this unlikely happening 2-3 times in a row recently.