About Playshelf

Most of us have played hundreds of games and remember maybe a tenth of them. Playshelf exists to fix that: a free tracker where your gaming history lives in one place. You log what you've played, rate it, rank it, and over time your shelf becomes something genuinely useful — a record of your taste that powers recommendations grounded in what you actually enjoyed, not what an algorithm wants to sell you.

Around the tracker we publish things anyone can use without an account: a live trending feed of what people are playing right now, and a growing library of hand-written guides about what to play next. The core tracker is free; an optional Pro subscription raises the AI recommendation limits.

Playshelf is independently built and run by Hyun Jae Moon, a software engineer and lifelong gamer. He designs, codes, and edits everything on the site — the product, the infrastructure behind it, and every guide that carries his byline. No content farm, no ghostwriters, no growth team: when a guide says "the games we actually recommend," that's one person staking his name on the picks.

Guides are written and edited by hand. Every pick is chosen on merit, with an original one-line case for why it earns the spot. We don't run sponsored placements, we don't use affiliate links, and we don't copy store descriptions or review scores. If a guide is updated, the date at the top changes.

The trending feed is algorithmic: it surfaces games the community is tracking, rating, and wishlisting right now. The short "why it's trending" blurbs that accompany each pick are drafted with AI assistance, grounded in each game's official metadata, and regenerated as the feed refreshes — we label the feed as automated because it is, and we keep it clearly separate from the hand-written guides.

Corrections: if we got something wrong — a platform, a price, a claim in a guide — tell us and we'll fix it and update the guide's date.

Core game metadata — titles, cover art, genres, release dates, aggregate ratings — comes from IGDB, the open video game database, and is attributed wherever it appears. Everything on top — the trending signals, the editorial takes, the guides, your shelf — is Playshelf's own.

Questions, feedback, corrections, or just want to tell us what you're playing? Head to the contact page — a human reads everything.