One library
Every enabled source in one list, with unlock history, rarity tiers, progress achievements and cover art. Six views, from large cards to a dense table, and all of it cached so it opens offline.
Every launcher. One popup.
Steam, GOG, Epic, Ubisoft, EA, Xbox PC, RetroAchievements, emulators and local saves in one library. Unlock something and the popup lands over your game.
- Latest release on GitHub
- Windows 10 and 11, Linux
- LGPL-3.0, no account or API key required
- Portable ZIP, Linux AppImage and all downloads
- 1You play
- 2You reach the goal
- 3The popup lands over the game
Preset AW Next
- 9source families
- 28interface languages
- 10bundled presets
- 13built-in themes
- 0API keys required
What it does
Game Health, built for cracked games
Made above all for cracked and emulated games: their achievements live in their own files, a Steam emulator's save (Goldberg, GBE Fork, CODEX, RUNE, CPY…), an emulator's folder, a Uplay R1 or R2 config, and AW Next reads them there, offline. When one does not show up, Game Health checks the game, says Ready, Needs attention or Not tracking with the reason in plain words, and offers the one repair that fits, confirmed first and backed up.
The moment, on video or in a shot
Like a console's trophy video: the last seconds of play stay in memory, encoded by the graphics card, and the stretch around each unlock is saved as an MP4 with the popup in it. Or a screenshot a moment after the unlock, tone-mapped to a clean PNG even with Windows HDR on.
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Your library, in figures
Overall completion, perfect games, unlocked and locked counts, the average per game, your trophies by grade and your rarest unlocks, with a row per platform. One click from the profile header.
Where it reads from
Each source is a switch in Settings. Achievement lists come from public endpoints and are cached on disk, so there is no Steam Web API key to paste anywhere.
Steam
Installed games, plus your whole account library and unlocks from your other PCs once connected
Cracked games (Steam emulators)
Games cracked with Goldberg, GBE Fork, CODEX, RUNE, CPY, GreenLuma, SmartSteamEmu, CreamAPI or Nemirtingas, read from their own saves
GOG Galaxy
The local Galaxy databases, and compatible legacy saves
Epic Games
Installed or owned games, with unlock state after an optional account connection
Ubisoft Connect
Local data, legacy Uplay formats, and compatible Uplay R2 setups
EA Desktop
The local achievement log, for installs outside EA's managed folders
Emulators
RPCS3, ShadPS4, KytyPS5, Xenia and Xbox 360 games recompiled for PC, watched live
Xbox PC
Game Pass and Microsoft Store installs, plus imported Xbox Network state
RetroAchievements
Every game you played on an emulator that reports to your account, with unlocks announced within seconds
Reading achievements never writes anything. The emulator repair tools do change game files, after a confirmation and with a backup. Use them only with games you own.
What each source needs from youPresets
Each design paints four states: a normal unlock, a rare one, 100% and a progress step. They are all running here.
State
Behind it
The default. The app's own palette, an accent rail down the left edge, a ringed icon and the game's name above the achievement.
Make your own
Settings has a designer for layout, type, colours, motion, the rare and 100% treatments and a sound. No CSS, no JSON, and the preview is the real popup. Start from a ready-made style or press Surprise me.
How the designer worksShare it, or take one
Export writes one .awpreset file with the style, images and fonts, and nothing from your machine.
Themes made in Steam Achievement Notifier convert on import.
Themes
A preset paints the popup. A theme paints the rest of the app, the in-game overlay included. Pick one and the window below is repainted with it.
The default. The app's own blue, a lighter title bar and a library panel a shade darker than the window behind it.
Make your own
Settings, Theme, Custom opens an editor over nine layers, from the window to the accent. Each takes a colour, an opacity and a background image, and the app repaints as you drag.
What a theme file holdsShare one, or take one
Export writes one .awtheme file: colours, numbers and any image, with no stylesheet and no
script, so an imported theme has nothing it could run.
What else is in the box
Found in the first week rather than the first minute. Each one has a guide.
Trophy mode
Grade every achievement gold, silver or bronze by how rare it is, with platinum for a finished game.
Overlay or notification
On Automatic, each unlock goes where you can see it: the overlay while you play, a desktop notification in exclusive fullscreen or when the overlay fails. Never both at once.
The full list, in game
Ctrl+Shift+K brings the running game's achievements up over it, with search, filters, rarity badges and hidden descriptions on demand. A gamepad drives it too.
Collections
Your own lists of games, with a colour and an icon. The library and the profile totals follow the one you pick.
Profile backup
Settings, library choices, presets, themes and playtime in one file, for a reinstall or a new PC.
Controller
Drive the library, the overlay and Settings with an Xbox, PlayStation or Switch pad.
First-run guide
Six steps from language to alerts. It finds what is installed, and everything it asks can be changed later in Settings.
RetroAchievements
Connect your account, import every game you played, and unlocks from any emulator that reports to it are announced within seconds.
Getting it running
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Install it
Windows 10 · 11
Achievement.Watcher.Setup.<version>.exefrom the releases page, orAchievement.Watcher.Portable.<version>.zipif you would rather have no installer: extract it anywhere and its data stays beside it. Nowhere else publishes them.Settings and data:
Download for Windows%APPDATA%\Achievement Watcher NextLinux AppImage, beta
Achievement.Watcher.<version>.AppImagefrom the same page: make it executable and start it. It needs FUSE 2 (libfuse2), updates itself and watches the games you run through Steam, Proton, Wine, Lutris, Heroic or Bottles. The Linux guide covers desktops, the overlay shortcut and the Steam Deck.Settings and data:
Download for Linux~/.config/Achievement Watcher Next - Run Smart Find Settings, then Folders. Add any game or save folder it could not guess.
- Leave it in the tray That is the watcher. Live notifications and playtime depend on it running.
An upgrade keeps your settings and data, downloads only what changed and installs only a release signed by the project. The first launch imports an older Achievement Watcher folder without modifying it.
The current installer on VirusTotal. A few heuristic detections are the emulator false positive; check any release yourself by comparing its SHA-256.
Documentation
Written for the version that is out. The in-app Help tab is the same material, translated, and it reflects your actual configuration.