How to Add Achievements to Your Game // Steam Achievements in Unity Indie Game

[@RazyMon]

Ubisoft: This is too hard, I shall ignore it.

[@richardmedzihradsky7952]

I'm making my own game and this is exactly what I was looking for. Straight to the point, clear explanations, showing an example... Will definitely check out other videos! :)

[@AuroDev]

Thanks, best of luck with the game! :)

[@Game_Studio-w9p]

​@@AuroDevhey, I've followed the tutorial but it doesn't work the achievement section is not checked in steamwork :( please help me 😥😥

[@funasylumstudio]

Thanks papito, you're the clearest Steam dev guide on the KZbins. Also the fact that you gotta have images for every achievement is insane lol.

[@maddogmccree88]

Honestly, Auro has been the best game dev youtuber I've seen around with so many specific useful videos and tutorials for key research results of indie devs. You are the reason I created a new playlist on youtube called "GameDev" haha, thanks man keep it up and subbed as well

[@AuroDev]

Thanks for the very kind words! Best of luck on your gamedev journey :)

[@maddogmccree88]

@@AuroDev

[@kitai_k]

I'm korean indie game developer. Your video is so helpful. Thanks you.

[@VyvyanTheGreat]

You're such a wonderful resource for this sort of thing - I always come back here when I forget how to do this! Thank you!

[@Ivcifer]

the dog kek thanks for teaching us, auro! I had no idea this integration was this simple.

[@AuroDev]

Happy to hear it was helpful! And nicely spotted, I don't think many watched till the very end :D

[@abnejne4737]

Great video! My game has been out for almost a year now, and many people have been asking for achievements. So, this is just the video I need to get started.

[@KevinTramp]

Wonderful video ! I'm able to make my indie game thanks to you ! Easy to follow and clear. Good job !

[@jonathanlorenz-indiedev]

Straight to the point! Great video, thank you!

[@AuroDev]

Thanks! :)

[@banjolasse6169]

Excellent video! Got steamworks and achievements working within the hour.

[@Fubiou]

Thank you very much, there is one more grateful one here!

[@MadoLeoss]

I tried to copy your code but it didn't work at 3:57 there is no [Button] on my side. "Button couldn't be found" Is there a namespace that you didn't show? Would be good to see the entire file....

[@AuroDev]

Ah yes, sorry about that! The [Button] tag is from Odin Inspector asset and it creates a clickable button in your inspector view. So it is actually not needed at all for the achievement functionality and just helps a bit with testing. So you can just leave out the [Button] tag and use f.ex. a simple UI button which calls the method, if you want to test it out.

[@Arturnicus]

Calling the functions from the video by a UI button directly won't work. You first gotta make a wrapper function where the ACH_Testing id is defined and then call that with the button. like: public void CheckAchievement() { IsThisAchievementUnlocked("ACH_Testing"); }

[@imrandurrani6817]

Love you from Afghanistan you are creating great content

[@AuroDev]

Thanks! :)

[@jindrichsander9555]

you still alive?

[@itsmethedog3718]

Really good video, I'm not even a game dev, I just got curious about the process to add achievements to games.

[@AuroDev]

Nice to hear! :)

[@branidev]

I struggle little bit with all of that pictures Steam wants but your video help me a lot, so finally my game is on Steam as well ;) And this video will be definitely helpfull when i gonna decide add Achievements, Great content Auro ;)

[@AuroDev]

Awesome, congrats on the release! :)

[@branidev]

@@AuroDev not released yet gathering now wishlists

[@AuroDev]

@@branidev Oh right, misread that! Well, best of luck heading for the release :D

[@Ant0n009]

Thanks Auro, this is super helpful. Any chance you can make a similar video on any tips for Steam Deck compatibility?

[@wufflespuffs3744]

Ooo extremely useful to see for someone like me - Just starting out haha! Thank you!

[@AuroDev]

Awesome! :)

[@KevinTramp]

💡For anyone who doesn't understand at 3:57 the [Button] in the script. Just make 3 real buttons (right click in your hierarchy → UI → Button) and in the button component, just add those functions seen in the video. 💡

[@Arturnicus]

No the functions from the video can't be called by a UI button. You first gotta make a wrapper function where the ACH_Testing id is defined and then call that. like: public void CheckAchievement() { IsThisAchievementUnlocked("ACH_Testing"); }

[@Amelia_PC]

Achievements are always cool, mainly when it's a funny achievement (silly trophies are the best).

[@AuroDev]

Agreed!

[@firebiscuitgaming7624]

For achievements I used scriptable objects with each of them having a dedicated method for verifying their state. Then using facepunch I fetch the list of all the available achievement and load the ScriptableObjects matching achievement ID into a list. On game state update (not unity update) I run through that list and ask achievements to check their own state. This could be done on unity event too if needed.

[@AuroDev]

Interesting! Do you have plans for some special interactions in the game if the player has unlocked achievements? Since trying to unlock the same achievement twice doesn't seem to have any downsides, I was thinking I'll only need the unlocking method in my game (I have no plans to add additional functionality around achievements). I'm curious to hear if you see some extra benefits of doing it your way over a very minimalistic implementation like what I showed in the video?

[@firebiscuitgaming7624]

@@AuroDev I went with that specific approach because I wanted the achievement ScriptableObject be in charge of unlocking themselves when their conditions have been fulfilled. Using SO also allowed me to have achievements that share similar code but different parameters (for example coding an achievement for completing a tutorial and having 1 SO per tutorial to complete). The reason why I fetch the achievements from Steam first is indeed to avoid double unlocks. I'm running the achievement evaluation code as a result to game state change and not in a co-routine, so didn't want to evaluate already-unlocked achievements unnecessarily. But if I designed it such that they would run in a coroutine then I would need a copy of my game state or something which would complicate a bunch of other things too :)

[@AuroDev]

@@firebiscuitgaming7624 Sounds reasonable! Always interesting to hear about different ways to implement things :)

[@captainnoyaux]

Seems cool ! Do you mind sharing a sample ? Thanks for the explanation though !

[@Fireball_Roberts]

Everything seems to work on my end. Thanks!

[@Jhordi]

Great video! I have a couple of questions, as a Dev with access to Steamworks, is it possible to see the Steam users that earned certain achivements of your game? Does Steamworks track those?

[@AuroDev]

Thanks! I don't think you can track the individual players who have unlocked an achievement. Not 100% sure though. Steam has a web API with some additional features so that might be worth looking into.

[@ryanmcquiston8969]

I'm having an issue with the public void UnlockAchievement(string id) part. "There is no argument given that corresponds to the required formal parameter 'id' of 'SteamIntegration.UnlockAchievement(string id)'" I'm so confused.. is there a Facepunch.Steamworks namespace I am missing or something?

[@ilonpilaaja]

Hyvä video :D

Thank you!

[@1gammis]

Love the ach pic 😊

[@Henry-ip8dd]

I'm having a problem with the [Button] It is giving me an error of "The type or namespace name "Button" could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)" I'm using VS 2022

[@AuroDev]

The "[Button]" line isn't actually needed. It's from Odin Inspector and it just makes it quicker to test the method with an inspector button. You can safely skip that part and call the method some other way.

[@stigmamax9996]

Merci pour ces infos

[@herbi467]

Kiitos!

[@Bishmanrock]

I'm getting a Steamworks.Data not found in the Steamworks namespace, has anything changed does anyone know?

[@mantavisions2362]

he's using facepunch, so if you are using regular steamworks dot net then its a different line of code. I did this: public void UnlockAchievement(string id) { if(!SteamManager.Initialized) { return; } SteamUserStats.SetAchievement(id); SteamUserStats.StoreStats(); } }

[@Bishmanrock]

@@mantavisions2362 Thank you! I did hear Facepunch mentioned in the video but didn't realise it was reliant on it. Thanks for the code!

[@legendforever1454]

Thanks bro

[@AuroDev]

No problem!

[@RayMax1]

great

[@Dailyfiver]

when I have an "ahc.Trigger();" line, how do I tell it which specific achievement to unlock?

[@AuroDev]

When you define "ach" variable on the line above ("new Steamworks.Data.Achievement(id))", you need to refer to the correct ID of your achievement. The trigger method then doesn't need any input anymore.

[@Dailyfiver]

@@AuroDev OOOOOH thank you so much

[@SimonSlav-GameMakingJourney]

Are you planning to use achievements to track the player's progression?

[@AuroDev]

Not specifically for that reason (I am planning on using Steam Stats for that), but I'm sure checking the completion% of the achievements now and then can give some good indication how the game is being played.

[@CryT4x]

04:30 how do u get the right window in unity? like how did you make the buttons. If i write "[Button]" it doesn't recognize it :c

[@AuroDev]

It is a package called Odin Inspector. You can have the same effect by just calling the method though as the [Button] just makes the method easily callable from the inspector tab in editor.

[@Overdrink7]

Thanks a lot

[@IDrankALavaLamp]

You can lose an achievement?

[@BertuhDev]

Aghhh, I am becoming crazy. Your videos are good dude, such effort-well explained, but can't manage to made it work. It works for the Steamworks example, i can give archievements for that. But with my game achievements are just not working and i don't get to the point D;

[@Shrink_Assault]

Same, i can't get steam to actually unlock the achievement or pop up. Edit: For some reason, creating a new achievement fixed the issue.

[@iannnavas]

Thank you so much for this video! It helped a lot! Can I ask you a question? Would you intend to make a video about "Achievements localization" 🙂? I have no idea about what that means and it would be interesting to understand WHAT is that and HOW TO DO that. 🙂

[@AuroDev]

I am happy to hear that! :) Maybe at some point I could do a video about localizing achievements. By localizing achievements, you can have the player see the achievement in their own language, f.ex. german instead of the default English language. It's fairly simple to do and Steam has a separate section for it in the backend settings. With a lot of languages it can just be a bit tedious to do :D

[@iannnavas]

@@AuroDev Hahaha got it! Thanks for this explanation! 🙂

[@Armaan8014]

For some reason the achievements are only unlocking on Windows, not Mac. Could anything in this code be Windows - only?

[@AuroDev]

I haven't tried them with Mac. It might be worthwhile to check the Facepunch.Steamworks wiki or the support thread for it on Steam's dev forums to see if anyone else has run into this issue.

[@fred_proenca]

I'm having the same problem! Have you found out why? Thank you

[@Daniel-gb9yk]

Facing the same problem, has anyone found out why? Thanks a lot!

[@_thatguymark_]

That doesnt seem like the full picture. Is that behind a patreon sub? Initalise code do we put that where it cant be destroyed on load. the button two does that code go onto the objects that trigger the achievement?

[@RoboDev-mn1gg]

Hi, if I don't want to publish steam page but only test steamworks api features in unity with opened dev steam account, is it possible to test achievements? I'm afraid that when I click "publish to steam", my steam page will be published so I don't want it. I clicked only "save" button at achievements steamworks page but in unity when I invoke achievement status, status is still "false" .

[@AuroDev]

You will need to publish the changes in Steamworks (not just save) before they come into effect. Maybe worth verifying as I am going from memory, but publishing the changes won't publish your steam page - you need to separately publish the steam page in your app's overview before it becomes public.

[@Feinei]

I don't know what is going on, but the UnlockAchievement part isn't working. Everything else works fine, but if I check if it's unlocked, it returns false, then I click unlock, the code runs and I get the debug.log message saying it was unlocked, and then when I check again, it still returns false

[@AuroDev]

Hmmh weird... I don't remember encountering an issue like that. If you made sure there isn't a typo anywhere, my first guess would be that the new value didn't get sent to Steam servers for some reason. Unfortunately I don't have any specific solution in mind for the issue, but I would first double check everything for typos and then somehow verify that the connection from your game to Steam is working properly (try to print your friends list for example).

[@Feinei]

Yup, it seems the steam servers weren't updating properly. I noticed that despite them being implemented they werent showing up on the store page so I decided to give it some time. Now without changing anything it's all working properly Cheers for the video mate, it was very helpful, and the one on facepunch integration too!

[@valentijnrecord5348]

@@Feinei Same problem, I’ll try again tomorrow then

[@muscatalexj]

Great stuff. How would you go about triggering an achievement when a player enters a collider?

[@overcookedwalrus4482]

You could use the function void OnCollisionEnter() and use a box collider with the on trigger check mark clicked... then in the oncollisionenter function trigger the achievement!

[@halotroop2288]

Why does everything in Steamworks only seem to have tutorials for Unity, or Source 2013 (from Valve, in 2013) if at all?

[@williamhiciano394]

how do i go about testing my achievements if my game is still not out? you cant set up achievements in a demo or playtest :/

[@AuroDev]

I believe you can already test them before the game is out. As long as the Steam integration works, you should be able to trigger the achievements and then check if your player id has unlocked them or not.

[@williamhiciano394]

@@AuroDev hey thank you for answering, ove tried when i put the app id of the main game, i get a null reference, but when i put the id of the demo or playtest i cant unlocj the achievement, but im able to get my steam name and even my friend list and print it in the console

[@AuroDev]

@@williamhiciano394 Ah yea, if you have a separate demo app id, you can't use that to unlock achievements from the main game. You would need to have separate achievements for the demo app to unlock achievements in the demo.

[@williamhiciano394]

@@AuroDev hey, i been checking out and apparently there is no way of adding achievements on a demo or playtest, the options to add it is just not there, just wondering if there is another way of testint that out

[@AuroDev]

@@williamhiciano394 I checked that I never added achievements to my demo (but I can see the section where I could add achievements to the demo) so I don't have more in-depth experience about this. Asking from Steam support is a good idea - they can be very helpful at times.

[@zachwise476]

I now understand what people mean by: Bedroom eyes.

[@funasylumstudio]

It's weird, after I added Steam Achievements, it still says "number of achievements: 0". Anyone know why that is?

[@maxpetersson4177]

Is there an event that fires when the user connects and or disconnect?

[@ThescreamingRooster]

i know this was made a while ago but... where do you put the script?

[@AuroDev]

Doesn't matter, as long as it's included in the scene (or you could also make it static I suppose). So feel free to throw it on any object!

[@ShayanMemon]

can you make video for how to add trading cards

[@AuroDev]

I might make one when I add trading cards for my next game.

[@ShayanMemon]

@@AuroDev OK BRO I AM WAITING I WANT TO KNOW HOW TO ADD LEVEL XP TRADING CARD ON STEAM GAME I REALLY NEED YOUR HELP THIS ONE

[@reessoft9416]

@@ShayanMemon He's not here to make videos just to please your own personal requests. TURN YOUR CAPS LOCK OFF, and stop acting like a petulant child. Act like a programmer, and go and do some research, so that you can solve the issue yourself.

[@ReeceMcQuoid]

does this also apply to games made in 'game guru' i understand game guru is an extremely rudimentary game development tool, but im brand new to this and was wondering if i was able to add achievements if using game guru

[@AuroDev]

I'm not familiar with game guru, but the process is very likely to be different than what I show in this video. Probably best to check if there is a gameguru focused wrapper for Steam integration (or just find out how other devs in gameguru handle it).

[@awidawiujdhawdawdaw9251]

Instead of triggering it by a button, how can I trigger the achievement when the scene starts?

[@AuroDev]

You just call the method within your code. Maybe if your scene has some script that only that scene has, you could call it in the Start().

[@awidawiujdhawdawdaw9251]

@@AuroDev thank you for that. I have another question, how would i be able to grant an achievement once a player has reached a certain play time?

[@AuroDev]

@@awidawiujdhawdawdaw9251 You would need to track the playtime either through your own code or through Steam integration and then when the time reaches a specific point, trigger the achievement.

[@Syktat]

I searched for this out of curiosity but i didnt expect elon musks skinwalker to teach me this...

[@AuroDev]

Best elon comparison I've gotten :D

[@emersonferreira5753]

steam leaderboard, please? :)

[@AuroDev]

Hmmh, maybe at some point! I haven't used it myself yet. But if I do, I can definitely make a video about it!

[@emersonferreira5753]

@@AuroDev Ok, Thanks! :D

[@rinatennouji5988]

Imagine you got achievements in real life.

[@AuroDev]

"Last Day On Earth unlocked"... Could be terrifying :'D

[@bjornlouer3185]

Your video is not fully! you post [Button] when i copy your text its missing the [Button] what must i enter above the script you didt show that.

[@AuroDev]

Sorry about that. The [Button] is from Odin Inspector package and simply makes it easy to call the method from the inspector window. It is not needed for the achievements.

[@JEMsTv_]

Why does he remind me of Elon Musk? lol

[@AuroDev]

Well, it's not for having too much money at least :')

[@oleksandrmartysh85]

Useless video! There is no 'Steam.Data' class in Steam SDK.