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Massive Steam leak reveals achievements for several upcoming games

A massive Steam leak has revealed achievements for a large number of unreleased and unannounced games.

Overnight, game tracking website Exophase had scores of new game entries added to its Steam database, including unreleased titles such as Stranger Than Heaven, Kingdom Hearts 4 and Persona 6.

While these achievement lists are subject to change, many of them already have descriptions that include major story spoilers, with the Kingdom Hearts 4 achievements revealing many of the game’s unannounced locations.

Here’s a list of some of the biggest games included in the leak:

  • Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse
  • Clutch
  • Control Resonant
  • Crazy Taxi: World Tour
  • Fable
  • Final Fantasy Resonance
  • Gears of War: E-Day
  • Judas
  • Kingdom Hearts 4
  • Mega Man: Dual Override
  • Metro 2039
  • Minecraft Dungeons 2
  • Persona 4 Revival
  • Persona 6
  • Silent Hill: Townfall
  • Star Wars: Galactic Racer
  • Stranger Than Heaven
  • Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis
  • Turok Origins

The full list of leaked titles also includes unannounced and cancelled games, including an unannounced port of Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright and a Walking Dead collection from Telltale Games.

Many of the titles are strictly referred to by their Steam App ID rather than an actual name, but achievement lists still paint a rough picture of what these games could be.

In a statement posted on ResetEra, Exophase owner Mike Bendel, known online as x3sphere, said that he believes the leak was caused by an error with Valve’s API, which provided access to all the achievement lists.

“Yes I am the owner of the site and this is what appears to have happened,” Bendel said.

“[It] seems like a possible screw up on Valve’s end, a bunch of games with achievements that should be private are accessible through the API right now and that’s why they got scanned into the site.

“I usually never see games without an actual name pop up with achievements, yet over the past hour or so a bunch have (when there’s an unknown name we just set it to the AppID).”

This is the second major leak that Valve has suffered this year, after 13 terabytes of games, betas and prototypes were leaked online last month. Perhaps more surprisingly, is that the leak was reportedly not the result of hacking, but rather an undiscovered, publicly accessible directory.

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