My brother and I grew up on video games. We don't live close anymore, but those games are still the thing that ties us together, a kind of shared language we never lost. I've also got a genuinely bad memory. Every now and then it hits me that I've forgotten a game I once sank weeks into, or how some ending actually made me feel. So I started building The End Wiki to hold onto those memories, just for me and a few friends. I'd been working on it for a long time, with no idea anything like Backloggd even existed.

I only stumbled on Backloggd much later, with a good chunk of The End Wiki already built. And honestly, I loved it. It's beautiful, it's a joy to use, and it had pulled off something genuinely hard: it took the "Letterboxd for games" idea and grew a real, living community around it, with years of players, lists, ratings and reviews. Finding it felt less like discovering a blueprint and more like relief. It was proof I wasn't the only one who wanted a place like this, and if anything it gave me the push to keep going on what I'd already started.

A few things kept nagging at me, though. I couldn't bring my history over, there was no mobile app, and I couldn't connect my platforms to show the trophies I'd actually earned. Those gaps are a big part of why I kept building instead of just switching over.

I do have one honest critique, and I'll say it plainly because I mean it with respect. As a community, there isn't really a way to reach the person behind Backloggd, or to give back to it, other than paying to support the work. You can tell it's made by someone who truly loves games and is doing it for the right reasons, and I admire that. I just wish the door to get involved were a little more open. It's a critique, not a complaint.

So here I am instead, with my real name, my face, and my passion out in the open. I honestly don't know if that's the smart move. What I do know is that I'm trying to build something fun, and something that actually belongs to the people who use it.

This is a "versus" page, but please don't read it as me wanting to beat anyone. If anything, I want the opposite. I want you to feel completely free with your data: easy to bring in, just as easy to take back out, exactly the way I'd want with my own. What we care about is building something bigger and more open, with room for creators to earn from what they make, for developers to post devlogs and share their games, and for the community to be the whole point rather than something we bolted on.

And I want this to become something big. That's why I'm putting some of my own money into growing the community and getting the platform in front of investors and players who might love it. This page is part of that effort, a way to introduce The End Wiki by setting it next to the biggest name in the space right now. But I want to be clear about one thing: I will never treat this as a competition.

I really hope you enjoy what we're building. And if you don't, that's genuinely fine. Message me on LinkedIn and tell me why, or let me help you export your data and take it wherever you like, Backloggd included. No hard feelings, ever.