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Achievements reward players for reaching goals in your game and can add gamerscore to their XBOX profile. Choose a model before you configure achievements in Partner Center.

Title-managed achievements

Your game calls XblAchievementsUpdateAchievementAsync to set progress and unlock achievements. Recommended for new titles.

Event-based achievements

Your game writes in-game events, and service-side rules unlock achievements.

Achievements manager

Use Achievements Manager to cache a player’s achievements locally and update them in real time.

Event-based VS. title-managed

This topic describes the differences between event-based and title-managed Achievements.

User achievements systems

This section describes the various ways to track and manage user’s achievements in a title.

See also

Last modified on October 29, 2026