How to Reset Achievements for Steam Games

Resetting your Steam achievements is more complicated than it sounds. But don’t worry – we’ll guide you through the process.

Unlocking achievements is fun. Locking them again isn’t that much fun, especially when the developer didn’t give the player an option to do so in the first place.

Luckily, Steam has a comprehensive solution for resetting achievements for individual games.

Reset Steam Achievements

There is no simple switch to reset Steam achievements. Some games offer the ability to reset player progress, and this may include Steam achievements as well.

You should make sure that this simpler method isn’t available in-game first.

In order to reset your progress for Steam achievements, we need to use something called the Steam Client Console.

Activate the Steam client console

The easiest way to open the Steam client console is by pressing victory + R to open the Windows Run Command dialog box.

If you can’t use this method to open the Run window, see our guide to opening the Run Command dialog.

With the Run window open, type the following command.

steam:

This will open Steam with a new tab available in the main window. That console Tab.

This is where we enter our commands to reset achievements.

Achievements and status commands

The command we need to use is achievement_clear. In and of itself it’s useless. We need a few things first.

Go over there SteamDBor the Steam Database and search for the game associated with the achievement you are resetting.

copy that AppID listed for your game. Make a note of that now. Scroll down the page and click the successes Tab.

This lists all achievements and theirs API names. Select the achievement you want to reset and make note of that name.

Now you are in command. Enter the collected information like this.

achievement_clear <AppID> <Achievement Name>

Using the example in our screenshots, the code should look something like this.

You’ll know it worked when you see the message Achievement_clear success.

There is a second command that accompanies the above. input reset_all_stats followed by an AppID will reset all stat steam tracks for that game. For example kills or time played.

A complicated process

Ideally there would be an easier way to reset achievements for any Steam game since you never know when you might want to redo a game from scratch.

At least we have the option with the Steam Client Console.