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I've started rooting through my steam library looking for unplayed games that have steam trading cards and achievements. I'll install the game and give it a try to see if it's entertaining. If it's not, I'll leave it on the main menu for a few hours to get the trading cards so it doesn't come up again in my search.
If the steam achievements look easy, I'll try to break open the game with cheat engine by myself as a sort of game of its own. No doubt I could find some cheat engine trainer that makes the game a single button click but where's the fun in that.
If you're even the slightest bit technically inclined and never heard of cheat engine, I highly recommend it. It lets you memory edit running applications like games. Once you figure out what you're doing you can change in game variables on the fly. The game isn't the game anymore, figuring out how to break the game is the game. When you install cheat engine you can actually run it on itself, and it is basically a self contained tutorial. Check up in the help menu to get started, the tutorial is AMAZING.
You can just use SAM to edit client side achievements, and also save power running the game through it for cards.
That sounds neat and enjoyable to tinker with. Is there a possibility that using a tool like that will get you flagged and/or banned from Steam? Or do they not care when it's a single player game?
Yes definitely. If you search Google for 'VAC enabled games' you'll get an easy link to the steam website filtered to just games with valve anti cheat. There's a search bar on that page you can use to check if a game is on that list. If it's not there, have at it.
Pretty typically just online games use it. Cheat engine wouldn't be able to do much anyway, as most multi-player games will keep track of the fun variables serverside instead of on your computer. It's a jerk move anyway to ruin other people's fun by cheating in multiplayer.
Edit: Google isn't showing that link anymore for me. I think this is it, it looks right:
https://store.steampowered.com/search/?sort_by=Released_DESC&category2=8&ndl=1