# Steam tests Achievement Sets with separate base-game and DLC progress

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Date: 2026-10-22 (UTC)

Valve's beta groups achievements into their own completion tracks, preserves completed sets and gives DLC a separate place on the achievements page.

![Steam's new Portal 2 achievements page showing separate single-player and cooperative sets](https://ammonis.top/assets/news/steam-achievement-sets-beta/cover.png)

**Steam Achievement Sets are available in the Steam Client Beta.** Valve's October 15 announcement introduces separate progress tracks inside a game's achievement list, giving players a clearer view of what they have finished and what remains.

## Completion has a place to stay

Developers can organize achievements around a game's modes, characters or chapters. Each set tracks completion independently, so a cooperative campaign can have its own milestones alongside the single-player story.

Valve's Steamworks documentation explains that **players keep a set's completed status when more achievements are added to it**. Players still working through that set will need the newly added achievements too. Developers can instead put new content in a fresh set.

## DLC and retired achievements

![Steam's DREDGE achievements page with purple progress bars for The Pale Reach and The Iron Rig DLC](/assets/news/steam-achievement-sets-beta/dlc-sets.png)

Base-game sets use blue progress bars, while DLC sets appear in purple. Achievements tied to DLC count toward a player's overall progress once they have access to that content.

Developers can also archive achievements or entire sets when their content is retired. Earned achievements stay visible to the players who unlocked them; unearned archived achievements stop holding back completion.

## Try it on supported games

The beta also updates the achievements page with set filters and comparisons against **up to three friends**. Valve's initial supported games include **Portal 2, DREDGE, Forza Horizon 5 and PowerWash Simulator 2**.

On desktop, open **Steam → Settings → Interface → Client Beta Participation**, choose **Steam Beta Update**, then restart Steam when prompted. In Big Picture, the equivalent option is under **Settings → System → Beta Participation**.

Sets depend on each developer's setup. A game whose achievements have not been divided into additional sets keeps them together in its base-game set.

## Sources and images

- [Valve: Steam Achievement Sets beta announcement](https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/view/710037059469839141)
- [Steamworks: set completion, DLC and archiving](https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/achievements/ach_guide?l=english)
- [Steam Support: joining the client beta](https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/276C-85A0-C531-AFA3)

Images: Valve, from the official announcement.