hey everyone in this video I'll be
showing you how to quickly unlock steam
achievements for any games that you own
and with this method you could also do
the opposite and reset achievements
they've already earned and that's
especially useful for game developers
who are wanting to test that they
implemented achievements properly in
their games but for most of you watching
this you'll want to unlock achievements
and some of you might be worried that
this might lead to a ban but there's no
need to worry
tons of people have used this method in
the past and there hasn't been a single
report of a ban and also there's nothing
in the steam User Agreement that talks
about achievements so it's definitely
safe so that being said let's just jump
right into this so the first thing that
you want to do is open up your Steam
client and log in as you can see here
I'm already logged in and I'm on the
achievement page for portal so once
you've done that just go to this site
right here the steam achievement manager
download page and I'll leave a link to
this in the description so what you want
to do is download the latest release for
me it's version 7.0 0.25 but for you it
might be different just make sure you
download the latest one and you can just
click on this link right here to
download so downloads really click
basically instant and once it's done
just extract the files to a folder and
go ahead and open that folder and then
just start the Sam Picard exe and here
you can see the main tool that we'll be
using for this so it automatically
populates with all of the games on Steam
that you own that have achievements so
as you can see here there's a ton of
games and if for some reason it's
missing a game or maybe even missing all
the games cuz maybe their servers down
you can actually manually add games
using their IDs so to quickly get a game
ID you can go to this site called steam
database I'll leave a link to this in
the description as well and just type in
the name of the game
we can try civilization as an example
and once you go to that game page you
can see this app ID and that's what we
want so just copy that
go back to steam achievement manager and
paste that number into this text box and
click add game so of course I don't own
that game so it's going to give me this
error but if you do own a game and it's
not showing up here you can just
manually add them so assuming that you
have the game that you want we can try
portal here you can just double click on
the icon and it'll open up this window
with all of the achievements for the
game and I'll show you the ones that you
already have with a checkmark on the
left side so if we go back to Steam one
thing to note is that when you open up
this window for the game it'll actually
show that you're playing the game on
Steam so you know if you don't want to
get your hours up too high make sure
that you close this window as soon as
you're done so we can just quickly
unlock some achievements here it's very
straightforward
all you got to do is click these check
boxes for this Aperture Science and
basic science achievements I don't have
those there right here and here and then
once you've checked those just click
commit changes to send in those changes
and it'll actually show that you have
the achievements so we can refresh this
page and there we go we have these two
achievements unlocked right now at 10:10
a.m. I mean you could do the exact
opposite you can uncheck these send the
changes in and then refresh this page
and the changes are gone and you can
even do that for achievements that you
earned a while back right this one is in
2019 heartbreaker so we can find that
one uncheck it send the change in and
then refresh the page and it's gone so
that's about it for this video
definitely a really quick and convenient
way to manage your achievements it's
especially useful if you think you got
an achievement but it glitched out and
maybe it just didn't give it to you on
Steam or you know if you just want to
impress your friends or reset all the
achievements for a game and kind of
relearn them lots of useful ways to use
this tool and that's pretty much it so
thanks a lot for watching this video I
definitely appreciate it and I hope to
see you in a future video