Achievement Club: Play Games, Get Points, & Earn Prizes for your Accomplishments

How We Score Games

One of the most common questions we receive is about how we score the library of games we have. First and foremost: We will score anything you want to play. That means that as long as it’s an available game for others to play and experience, we will score it.

From there, we use a fairly straightforward formula. For every five hours, on average, a game takes to beat, we give it a point. That means if a game traditionally takes ten hours to beat, you’d receive two points for completing it from beginning to end. Conversely, if you decide to get all of the achievements or trophies for a game, you will earn up to two points for every five hours played. Here’s what the formula looks like at its most simplified:

Any%: Every 5 hours = ~1 point
100%: Every 5 hours = ~1-2 points

There are other variables, such as longer RPGs are often granted additional points because we don’t want people to rush through the experience. We’d rather they take their time. Yes, some will game the system. We are accepting of people treating Achievement Club in different ways.

We also consider game difficulty from the perspective of how difficult it is to obtain all achievements. This is highly subjective, as various levels of accessibility can often determine how difficult something is for someone to achieve. That being said, we do our best to evaluate achievement completion on the following criteria: 1) Are there miss-able achievements? 2) Do you have to replay the game more than once to complete all of its achievements? 3) Does it require playing the game on a harder setting than the default, or is the game generally more difficult to beat than a standard game?

Based on the above, scores will range anywhere from 1 point per five hours to 2 points per five hours. Hopefully you will trust our team to score games as best as we can, but we do take feedback when it’s available!