Achievement reset?

[Dragorn421]

I went through the whole game (and got the achievement, 100% sure of it) a few years ago and I just noticed that according to Steam, I don't have the achievement anymore. Wtf?

Also global statistics ( https://steamcommunity.com/stats/206440/achievements ) show only 27% got the achievement, so is it possible there was a reset or something? Or did only a quarter of owners played the whole game at this point

[Marquise*]

Sometimes Steam is absent programmed when achievements are unlocked. It was frustrating for me at the point one game had internally all my achievements and Steam had me trying to restart the game for them.

[Halo]

Originally posted by Dragorn421:

Or did only a quarter of owners played the whole game at this point

A lot of games have very low completion rates, it doesn't seem strange being as things like completing the tutorial is commonly 60%-90% and then they drop off incrementally.

Even in AAA games like Borderlands, etc.

10% to 25% game completion is quite common, I play games using achievements as a play mechanic so usually try to get into the top 1% and take note of them.

Nearly 28% for the only achievement in an indie game is pretty good, if there were more it would be easier to tell what the player base were doing.

I am surprised there aren't any for collecting memories, completing the momento puzzles on par and completing each jump.

Crashlands which I got to the last boss fight had a 1% completion rate and I can see why as it was so bad I gave up and that was after 51 hours. Not many players will be still around after that amount of time.

Not sure why overall completion rates are so low, I think a lot of gamers don't have the patience to complete games and move on long before they even 50% completed.

Fortnite is the most popular game in the world, games that require any sort of thought or persistence aren't going to be that prosperous.

[Dragorn421]

Yeah I know about globally low achievement stats, but I thought it wouldn't be the case with To The Moon because of how old the game is (because with time there are more people playing compared to games sold), and it doesn't seem like a game you'd get in a bundle and forget.

I actually went and checked the completion rate (getting the one achievement at the end) for the three games in the series:

Game	Clear rate	Source
To the Moon	27.2%	Steam
A Bird Story	44.9%	Steam
Finding Paradise	50.7%	Steam

So To the Moon has noticeably lower clear rate.

Besides achievement reset (which I find technologically hard to believe to be honest), it could be that achievement hunting was not so huge back then? Can't really tell if it's even huge nowadays.
Maybe it has to do with people playing offline more often at the time? Not sure if I can find statistics about that
Maybe because many people played the game outside of Steam and bought it on Steam later without playing it fully. I would need to check release dates

[Halo]

It is actually a game I got in a bundle, didn't know I owned and I have had to for 4 1/2 years.

I have 900 PC games and don't know I have some titles.

It is only because I am working my way through my library that I found it and gave it a chance, which with a lot of indie games I have never heard of I am glad as they are usually better than AAA titles.

Steam charts - https://steamcharts.com/app/206440 - shows that the peak for the game has only ever been 601, which you would expect for a small game like this.

Not heard of the other 2, but Bird Story had 1313 peak, Paradise 968.

Bird Story is also only an hour long, and I would guess that anyone who buys/bought Paradise will finish it because they found Moon so good.

I will get both and finish them now I know about them.

Still don't think 27.2% is strange though, and quite high for comparable average completion.

[Halo]

And final set of data, completion stats, although they have to be viewed with caution being as they are not official Steam data:

To the moon - http://astats.astats.nl/astats/Steam_Game_Info.php?AppID=206440 - 15477

Bird Story - http://astats.astats.nl/astats/Steam_Game_Info.php?AppID=327410 - 7827

Finding Paradise - http://astats.astats.nl/astats/Steam_Game_Info.php?AppID=337340 - 881

[Jimbly]

Very old post, I know, but, I had the exact same experience. I'm like 95% certain I got the achievement - I played the game once, in 2016 (The Achievement was added in 2015), and this is always the game I use in conversations as an example of having just 1 achievement to make people happy despite the developer saying he hated achievements. So, I was very surprised to look at it in my library and see I don't have the achievement anymore.

Seems quite likely there could have been a reset, either accidentally by the developer, as it's easy to do on the Steamworks side, or due to a Steam bug - my play time and the OP's here are both in the era where Steam would do all sorts of terrible things (I lost all of my tags / categories more than a few times!) if you had an old version of Steam running on laptop that came out of sleep while you were playing on a newer version elsewhere and stuff like that, so maybe it just got wiped for me due to a bug. I've never noticed achievements disappearing due to Steam bugs though (more often due to developer bugs ^_^).

[The_Flying_Spoon]

While I don't have any issues with achievements disappearing, I think there may be something wrong with the game to where the achievement just doesn't pop.

Until I found this thread, since the achievement is hidden, I assumed it was getting all of the puzzles perfect or finding some well-hidden easter egg. But since I've completed the game in full twice and it apparently is just for completing the game, I think it's safe to say the achievement itself is broken in some way.

[Mainmai[N]]

Hi, i just finished the game and the achievement stay locked. I tried the beta version but no luck...I hope it will be fixed soon