hello am new to pc gaming to a extent just made a steam and gog accounts because i would like to transfer over from console anyway i was recommended GOG however am not sure if it has
Achievement support.
Since am learning about launchers and all that NEW STUFF in pc gaming why do pc players need thousands of launchers just to play a game is it because of the platform
thanks regards

You don’t need any launchers. It’s an industry wide scam on the consumer so they can control your product, scrape your data. If you want to play a game, then you can download offline installers directly from gog, install and play them with nothing else. If you want achievements and social media, and all that, then steam has the biggest library, and you get a lot of cheaper prices due to key resellers. GOG is only useful if you want to own the game, i.e, the offline installers saved to your hardware. Otherwise just rent it off one of the other stores.
Coming from console, I expect you don’t have much experience in getting things to work on pc, so maybe a launcher is a good idea for you.

Hello and welcome.

GOG Galaxy supports achievements. If you use the offline installers instead, you won't have access to achievements and other online features. Be sure to check the Game Features section of the store page for each game you're interested in. Some games that have achievements on Steam don't have achievements on GOG. You may also be interested in the Games that treat GOG customers as second class citizens v2 thread.

GOG Galaxy tries to make the multiple launchers issue a little less irritating with official Xbox Live and Epic Games Store integrations, and community Steam, Origin, and Ubisoft Connect integrations. Click the gear icon in the top left and choose Settings, then Integrations. Enter your account details there and then see for yourself how well that stuff works.

Hello and welcome. Please don't feed the inmates, they need a special diet, and giving food (even for thought) at random might yield unpredictable results...

As to your question: As Ice_Mage wrote quite a few games support achievements, if you run them through the local launcher (Galaxy).

However the main point of GOG is that the launcher is optional. You can download offline installers of your game, turn your back and never log in here again, and your games still work.
Personally I don't care for achievements much - for me games are about story, atmosphere, escapism, and some popup telling me I killed 15 enemies with their own grenades frankly only distracts from that. I also don't buy any game that requires me to use a launcher to play it - I want my games working even if the internet goes down and/or when all the authentication server have turned to dust. For me games are like books - you pick one of the shelf of the collection you own, and no third party has a say in that. And hope my children, grand-children and grand²-children can do the same and maybe understand what the old man was so excited about.

But that's just me. If you want to have full achievement support on all games and don't care about ownership the being forced into using clients, Steam is probably the better choice for a lot of games. If you want to use only one launcher, one unified library, Galaxy can still do that (it launches Steam in the background for games from that place).
On the other hand you can manually add GOG games to Steam - but those won't support achievements, even if the GOG version has them.

Some games on GOG have Achievement support, but many do not.

And a lot of publishers/devs who sell their games on GOG will treat GOG customers like second-class, unequal citizens by not bothering to give GOG customers Achievements even though the exact same identical games on Steam do have Achievements.

And if you complain about this great injustice and unequal, unfair, unjust treatment here on this forum, then legions of fellow GOG customers, who happen to be Achievement-haters, will "downvote" your post and make it seem like it's a bad post even though it isn't, which will put ugly "low rated" colored text at the top of your post.

That very thing will probably happen to this very post that you are now reading (yet I will still continue to stand up for great justice and equality for GOG customers anyway, regardless of many endless times the Achievements-haters downvote my posts which advocate for equality and feature parity...which we often do not get here on GOG).

Interesting. I wonder how that statistic would look if we were looking at newer titles only, and what the actual percentage of games that had Achievements on Steam and not GOG would be.

Before I came into this thread I just knew -you know who- would be here posting about second class citizens and all that. I'd genuinely be curious how much of that is actually going on here though.

I mean you gotta give him some credit. Takes quite some persistence to be repeating the same messaging for 3+ years regardless of whether you agree or not. And to me, I get a good masochistic chuckle every time I encounter them now. Like why am I subjecting myself to this torture.

Anyway, I'm not gonna to an in-depth search. But I took a look at the past month (June 22 - July 22) and found 28 standalone games. 17 having achievements. So 61% achievements. If you're interested in doing your own data analytics, can brush off an SQL and Python textbook and pull data from Yepoleb's gogdb.org database as per their post here.

In comparison to Steam, 54,548 games filtering out DLCs. Toggle achievements and it becomes 26,032. So 48% of their entire library have achievements. Or 50% more likely to have achievements on a random game on Steam compared to a random game on GOG.

In comparison to Steam, 54,548 games filtering out DLCs. Toggle achievements and it becomes 26,032. So 48% of their entire library have achievements. Or 50% more likely to have achievements on a random game on Steam compared to a random game on GOG. makes sense i guess u need to find what works , in my case am learning as i go

Happy to help with any more questions.