Games that unlock previous achievements when logging through Steam

Pretty much any games available through the Ubisoft launcher.
When some Ubisoft games started getting achievements in steam, people would log in the steam version and they'd obtain it all immediately.
So, Far Cry 3/4/5/6 and others.

I heard EA games do it just like Ubisoft from the above message.

Warframe unfortunately does not do it, if you got an achievement while using their own launcher or Epic, it'll remain locked forever on Steam. Unless you unlock it with a different Warframe account while using the same Steam account, which can be absolute pain if it was an achievement that required dozens, hundreds of hours of gameplay.

i would imagine it's a common feature of any cross platform games, specifically multiplayer games that have a general "master" account linked to all instances of the game. games i've personally come across with such 'feature', i believe, are Brawlhalla, Dead By Daylight, Rocket League and Fall Guys

though it should alse be a thing with singleplayer games, particularly those that track achievement completion and stats through savefiles. one example i remember was when i installed Deus Ex The Fall through steam for the first time and several achievements popped up when i opened it because i still had a savefile from a previous time when i had pirated the game xD

The Ubisoft games do this. Also, the new Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced automatically syncs achievements with the original Grand Theft Auto V (now known as 'Legacy').

Back when Desura still existed I remember once I started playing One Finger Death Punch on Steam after having played it for a couple of hours on Desura and suddenly getting a lot of achievements, but that info is basically useless now.
I think many games that keep one general save for any installation tend to behave like that.

Not sure does it still work but if you played Overwatch 1 back in the day and now play OW2 via steam, your achievements got "carried over" from OW1 and that way to steam. I suppose its bit of hassle to download the game first just for that tho.

no idea
but side note any achievement unlocked well offline on the steam deck is given to you when you go online and logs them all at the exact same time. i hate it, makes them look cheated....
also run into 10+ games with achievements that are only broken when playing on steam deck.

i originally played destiny 2 on b.net back before bungie parted ways with activision. in order to save our characters we had to link our steam account before a certain date. logging onto the steam version then auto-popped any previously earned achievements.

speaking of bungie, playing master chief collection on console (probably via xbox app as well) and unlocking achievements will then give you those achievements when you log on to the steam version. i had played it a little bit on xb1 when it released, and the first time i loaded it up on steam, i had a couple dozen achievements unlock right away. this worked because the steam version uses your xbox account for online stuff. i don't know if that's still the case because it sounds like something people would bitch about and they may have removed it.

Infested Planet does this if it detects an old config/save file. All achievements that can be unlocked from that are unlocked instantly. It was a pretty bad "surprise".

Animation Throwdown is one

Hades too I had pirated* the game and got the achievements that I would've gotten if I played it on Steam from the beginning lol
p.s. Not cool ik, but could not afford it then and bought it much later when I could without bankrupting my potato funds
edit: not the same i just realized but yah ,brain is tooooo tired🫠