The Epic Games Store Is Finally Getting Appropriate Achievements

Having launched in 2018, it is only now, in October 2021, that the Epic Games Store is set to implement appropriate achievements in the games that are sold and played there.

While there have been achievements in some games over the past year, these have been put together by developers on a game-by-game basis, and Epic is now calling these “developer achievements.”

What launches next the week is something else; platform-wide achievements, built right into the store, as you would see on Steam. They will be called – wait – epic achievements, and will run on a familiar point system, only here those points will be called “XP”.

There are four levels of achievement – Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum – with Platinum being the one you get after accumulating 1000XP from others. They’ll start rolling out next week, but only in six titles to begin with: Rocket League, Hades, Pillars of Eternity, Kena, Zombie Army 4 and Alan Wake remastered.

The XP rewards for each level will be:

Bronze = 5-45 XP

Money = 50-95 XP

Gold = 100-200 XP

Platinum = 250 XP

As for other games, Epic says the tools for these achievements are now available to developers, and it is hoped that many more games will feature them “later this year.” Finally, if you have already collected the “Developer Achievements” and wondered / worried what was going on, here is Epic’s policy towards them:

Will the achievements of the developers disappear?

No. Developer Achievements will remain functional in games if the developers have them already integrated and they do not wish to engage with the new system of Epic Achievements.

What happens to developer achievements that I have achieved in the past?

If you’ve unlocked Developer Achievements, don’t worry – your hard work isn’t wasted. If a game that previously used Developer Achievements incorporates the new Epic Achievement system, progress continues and you will automatically earn XP account.