Game on steam hands out achievement for five years of no play

Have you ever received an achievement in a game because you didn’t play it for years? Still, you can: a game that came out on Steam exactly five years ago now starts handing out achievements to gamers who haven’t started the game in five years.

Wednesday is the first day that players can legitimately earn the ‘Go outside’ achievement in The Stanley Parable, says the developer. That game was released on October 17, 2013, and from then on, players could purchase the game on Steam. The achievement is playful and is meant to express that players also have to close the game every now and then.

The achievement makes no other requirements than that the computer on which the player starts the game has last run The Stanley Parable five years earlier. As a result, people who want to cheat could, of course, set their PCs to a date in the future. The game has no built-in check if the date of the PC matches the actual date.

Now you can assume that the people who got the achievement for Wednesday have been cheating a bit. But it’s also possible that players in the 7.4 percent group who have already achieved the achievement, all have a DeLorean and have pressed the accelerator to 88 miles per hour.