Here’s my typical week. Tuesday night I play Dead Cells for an hour after the house quiets down. Thursday I run a Rivals session with friends over Discord. Saturday afternoon my partner and I play two rounds of Wingspan at the kitchen table. Sunday I squeeze in some Persona 5.
Four gaming sessions. Two are video games. Two are tabletop. All of them are gaming. But if I want to log them, I need two completely separate apps because every tracker on the market has decided these are different hobbies.
They’re not. If you play both, you already know this. The person rolling dice on Saturday night is the same person holding a controller on Tuesday. It’s all gaming. But the tools haven’t caught up yet.
The Tracker Market Is Split Down the Middle
On the video game side, you’ve got Backloggd (650K+ users, web-only, IGDB database), GG (mobile apps, $4.99/mo premium), Infinite Backlog, HowLongToBeat, and a handful of others. They all track video games well. None of them know what a board game is.
On the tabletop side, you’ve got BG Stats (the gold standard for board game tracking, syncs with BoardGameGeek), My Board Game Collection, NemeStats, and Score Pal. BG Stats in particular is excellent. It tracks plays, scores, win rates, player stats, and breaks down analytics in ways that would make a data nerd cry happy tears. But it has no idea what Steam is.
Then there’s BoardGameGeek itself, which has been the central hub for tabletop gaming since 2000. It’s a massive database with forums, reviews, rankings, and a huge community. But it’s exclusively tabletop, the interface looks like it was designed before social media existed, and it does nothing for your video game library.
So the situation is: video game trackers on one side, tabletop trackers on the other, and if you play both (which a lot of us do), you’re stuck maintaining two separate accounts with two separate libraries and two separate logging habits. Or more likely, you track one type of gaming and just don’t bother with the other.
Why Does This Split Exist?
Honestly? I think it’s because developers build for themselves, and most developers don’t play both.
The person who built Backloggd is a gamer who loves logging video games and built the Letterboxd equivalent for that. The person who built BG Stats is a board gamer who wanted better session tracking for tabletop. Both are great products built by people solving their own problems. But neither of them had the problem I have, which is: I play both and I want everything in one place.
It’s the same reason your book tracker (Goodreads) and your movie tracker (Letterboxd) are separate apps. The assumption is that these are different audiences. And for some people, they are. But for a growing number of adult gamers, the line between “video gamer” and “board gamer” doesn’t exist anymore.
The Crossover Gamer Is Everywhere
If you think the video game and tabletop worlds are separate, spend five minutes on any gaming subreddit. People talk about their Gloomhaven campaigns in the same breath as their Baldur’s Gate 3 playthroughs. D&D groups play between sessions by hopping into co-op video games together. Board game nights end with someone pulling up Jackbox on the TV.
The hobby has blended. The tools just haven’t noticed.
Look at BGG’s forums. Users regularly ask if there’s a way to track their video games alongside their tabletop collection. The answer is always “no, use a different app.” Same conversation happens on r/boardgames. Someone asks for a universal tracker, gets told to use BG Stats for tabletop and Backloggd for video games, and everyone moves on like that’s a reasonable answer.
It’s like telling someone who watches movies and TV shows to use Letterboxd for films and a completely separate app for television. People would riot. (And they kind of did, which is why Letterboxd is adding TV tracking.)
What a Universal Tracker Actually Needs
It’s not enough to just shove two databases together. A universal game tracker needs to understand that video games and tabletop games are logged differently.
Video game sessions are usually solo. You sit down, play for an hour, and log what you did. The key information is: what game, how long, where you left off, how you felt about it.
Tabletop sessions are usually social. You played with specific people. Someone won. You might want to track scores. The key information is: what game, who played, who won, how long the session lasted.
A universal tracker needs to handle both of these flows without making either one feel awkward. You shouldn’t have to enter “players” when you’re logging a solo Elden Ring session, and you shouldn’t have to skip past fields that don’t apply when you’re logging game night.
The database matters too. Video game databases need to cover 500K+ titles across every platform. Tabletop databases need to pull from BoardGameGeek’s catalog, which is the most complete board game database on the planet. Connecting to both is a technical challenge, but it’s the only way to make a universal tracker that doesn’t have gaps.
Why I Built SavePoint for Both
I got tired of the split. I play video games almost every day and tabletop games at least twice a month. I was using one app for video games and not tracking tabletop at all because adding a second tracking app felt like too much friction.
So when I built SavePoint, both types of gaming went in from day one. The video game database connects to IGDB (500K+ titles across every platform). The tabletop database integrates with BoardGameGeek. When you open SavePoint, your Elden Ring sessions and your Catan sessions live in the same timeline.
The logging flow adapts to what you’re tracking. Video game entries focus on where you left off, how the session felt, and your progress. Tabletop entries can include who you played with and session details. Both earn you XP and count toward your streak.
This means your gaming stats actually represent your full gaming life. When you look at your year-end recap, you see everything: the 40 hours you put into Metaphor: ReFantazio, the 12 sessions of Wingspan with your partner, the D&D campaign that ran from March to October. It’s all there. One timeline. One app.
The Case Against “Just Use Two Apps”
I know someone reading this is thinking, “This seems like a minor problem, just use two apps.” Here’s why that doesn’t work in practice.
Tracking fatigue is real. Every additional app you maintain is another thing to remember, another login, another habit to build. Most people can barely maintain one tracking habit. Asking them to maintain two means one of them dies. Usually, the tabletop one, because video game logging feels more natural since you’re already on a device.
Your gaming identity is fragmented. If you play 200 gaming sessions in a year and half are tabletop, your Backloggd profile only tells half the story. Your BG Stats profile only tells the other half. Neither gives you the full picture of your gaming year.
Cross-pollination disappears. When everything is in one place, patterns emerge. Maybe you notice you play more tabletop in winter and more video games in summer. Maybe you see that your tabletop sessions are longer and more satisfying than your video game sessions. You can’t see these patterns when the data lives in two different apps.
It’s just annoying. When someone asks, “What have you been playing lately?” you shouldn’t need to check two apps to give them an answer.
This Isn’t a Niche Audience
The tabletop gaming market has been growing for years. Board game cafes are everywhere. D&D hit mainstream pop culture through Stranger Things and actual play shows like Critical Role. Tabletop Simulator is one of the most popular games on Steam. The line between “digital gamer” and “analog gamer” is thinner than it’s ever been.
And the people most likely to be both? Adults in their late 20s to early 40s. The same audience that grew up with consoles and discovered board games through friends, partners, or pandemic lockdowns. They play Terraforming Mars the board game and Terraforming Mars the Steam adaptation. They run D&D campaigns and play CRPGs. These aren’t two separate groups. It’s one group with two hobbies that feel like one.
The tools should reflect that.
What a Week of Universal Tracking Looks Like
Here’s what my actual SavePoint log looked like last week, to make this concrete.
Monday: Logged 45 minutes of Balatro. Quick entry. Note: “Finally cleared Gold Stake with the Fibonacci deck. Took 6 runs.” Earned 10 XP.
Wednesday: Logged a 2-hour Metaphor: ReFantazio session. Journal note: “Finished the tournament arc, heading to the northern kingdom next. Party is level 34.” This note saves me 15 minutes of confusion when I pick it up again next week. Earned 10 XP.
Thursday: D&D night on Discord. Logged a 3-hour tabletop session. Note: “TPK almost happened in the Underdark. Cleric saved us with a clutch Revivify. Need to stock up on potions before next session.” Earned 10 XP.
Saturday: Two games of Cascadia with my partner. Logged the tabletop session. Note: “Lost both games. She’s weirdly good at this.” Earned 10 XP. Streak hit 4 days.
That’s four sessions across two video games and two tabletop games, all in one timeline. When I look at my weekly stats, I see 6+ hours of gaming, split roughly evenly between digital and analog. That’s my full gaming week. Not half of it in one app and the other half forgotten.
Try doing that with Backloggd and BG Stats simultaneously. You can, technically. But you won’t keep it up for more than a month.
What’s Missing (Being Honest)
SavePoint is the only tracker I know of that does both, and it’s still early. The tabletop integration works, but it’s not as deep as BG Stats’ scoring system. If you want detailed score tracking with custom score sheets and per-player analytics for board games, BG Stats is still the better dedicated tool for that.
What SavePoint does well is give you one home for everything. Log your board game session in 30 seconds, see it alongside your video game sessions, earn XP for both, and build a complete picture of your gaming habits. If your priority is “I want one app for everything I play,” this is the only option that exists.
If your priority is “I want the deepest possible tabletop analytics,” BG Stats is still the winner for that specific use case.
I’d rather be honest about that than pretend SavePoint is perfect at everything.
Try It Yourself
If you play both video games and tabletop games, and you’ve been looking for a single place to track everything, SavePoint is free to start. It takes about 30 seconds to sign up, and you can log your first session (video game or board game, your call) immediately.
Or if you want to track just video games, check out our comparison of Backloggd vs GG vs SavePoint to see which fits your style.
Either way, your gaming deserves to be tracked. All of it.
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