ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Big thanks to everyone and everything that made this chaotic repo possible.

People & Platforms

• Valve / Steam — for existing and having a ton of free-to-play games that keep broke people like the maintainer entertained. The Steam logo, store, community, VAC, and all related marks are trademarks of Valve Corporation; this project is independent and not affiliated.
• GitHub — for free hosting (data, Pages, Actions, Releases), free CI for the Python pipeline + the web app deploy + the desktop release matrix builds, and for letting unemployed devs pretend they're productive.
• The Steam community & various review aggregators — for reviews, tags, and metadata that the pipeline scrapes off public store pages. Where copy-paste happens it stays attributed.
• Caffeine & instant noodles — the real MVPs keeping the maintainer awake during update sessions.

AI assistance (the elephant in the repo)

About 70 % of the code in this repo was generated, refactored, or rubber-ducked with the help of LLM assistants. Code is reviewed and tested before each commit, but mistakes happen — see the four caveats in DISCLAIMER.md and the GPG-signing fixes in v3.0's CHANGELOG (we shipped two wrong commit-bytes formats before getting it right).

No user data is sent to any LLM at runtime. The AI calls happen on the maintainer's dev machine while writing code, never from a visitor's browser.

Third-party dependencies

The Python pipeline relies on two libraries:

• requests — Apache-2.0
• urllib3 — MIT

The web app + desktop wrapper depend on a longer list, all linked with their licences in the in-app About → Stack & third-party section. Grouped by what they do:

Runtime & build

• React 18 + react-dom — UI runtime (MIT).
• TypeScript 5 — type system (Apache-2.0).
• Vite 8 + @vitejs/plugin-react — build + dev server, powered by the Rolldown bundler (MIT).
• PostCSS + autoprefixer — CSS post-processing (MIT).

Styling

• Tailwind CSS 3 (MIT).
• tailwindcss-animate — animation utilities (MIT).
• tailwind-merge — class merging (MIT).
• clsx — conditional className join (MIT).
• class-variance-authority — variant API (Apache-2.0).

UI primitives & components

• Radix UI — headless dialog/label/popover/separator/slot primitives (MIT).
• shadcn/ui — copy-and-paste component patterns layered on top of Radix (MIT).
• lucide-react — icons (ISC).
• sonner — toasts (MIT).
• cmdk — command palette (MIT).

Routing & i18n

• react-router-dom — client-side routing (MIT).
• i18next + react-i18next + i18next-browser-languagedetector — translation engine (all MIT).

Data & state

• TanStack Query — fetching + caching (MIT).
• TanStack Virtual — 1.2k-row virtualised table (MIT).
• Zustand — UI state store (MIT).
• idb-keyval — IndexedDB wrapper (Apache-2.0).
• Fuse.js — fuzzy search (Apache-2.0).

Charts

• Apache ECharts (Apache-2.0).
• echarts-for-react — React binding (MIT).
• echarts-wordcloud — wordcloud plugin (BSD-3-Clause).

Crypto & PWA

• OpenPGP.js — client-side commit signing (LGPL-3.0).
• Workbox + vite-plugin-pwa — service worker + offline cache (MIT).

Desktop (Tauri 2)

• Tauri 2 — Rust shell that wraps the same web build into a native desktop app; dual-licensed MIT/Apache-2.0.
• tauri-plugin-shell — open external links.
• tauri-plugin-updater — auto-update.
• Rust crates pulled in by the desktop binary: serde, serde_json, tauri-build (all MIT/Apache-2.0).

Full SPDX list with deep links to each project's LICENSE file lives at /about inside the web app, kept up-to-date alongside the dep list itself.

Dev-only tooling (dead-code detectors, dependency auditors) isn't listed above — it ships with nothing. See THIRD_PARTY.md.

Maintainer

• poli0981 / SkullMute — the unemployed Vietnamese maintainer. ~30 % effort: occasionally opens Steam, scrolls the F2P section, queues new entries, plays on Easy to "verify" (verification level: noob / 10). Sometimes forgets for weeks. The other ~70 % is the AI assistants above plus the daily GitHub Actions cron doing data-refresh work while the maintainer sleeps.

Tools

• IDE: whichever opens fastest with the darkest theme. VS Code most of the time.
• Other "tools": boredom, procrastination, sale addiction, and the eternal "hôm nay chơi free cái gì đây?".
• Steam library of 400+ games (80 % bought on sale under $10) for "research purposes".

Contributing

Contributions welcome — see CONTRIBUTING.md and the issue templates under .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/. If you add a game, big thanks. If not, that's fine — the maintainer is used to zero social interaction anyway.

This repo is a solo-ish project powered by human laziness + AI assistance + GitHub free tier. Peace out ✨