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Home Latest Video The Bests Highlight Reel Reviews Impressions Cosplay Steams Hardest Achievements, As Told By A Top Achievement Hunter Patricia Hernandez 31816 12:00PM 110 12 Meet Xeinok.

With 9,400 Steam achievements under his belt, Xeinok is one of the best achievement hunters in the entire world, ranking at number one in the U.S.

Ive been doing it for about four years, Xeinok says.

Xeinok says that growing up he was always the completionist sort, the sort of kid who would go through the trouble of getting every single honeycomb in, say, Banjo Kazooie.

Turning into an achievement hunter later in life is kind of perfect.

Advertisement I get this nice sense of freedom from it, by having a more goal-oriented form of gaming, Xeinok says.

A PC gamer at heart, Xeinok says that he feels intimidated by the staggering number of games available on Steam.

Luckily, achievement hunting helps him cope with the choice paralysis.

GO Media may get a commission Final Fantasy VII Remake 30 at Amazon I hated how me and my friends, we would sit on Teamspeak or Mumble, and we were trapped in this tyranny of choice, kinda perma-hesitation mode, Xeinok said.

Wed always be like, hey do you guys wanna play X game, Y game, Z game And theres so so many games on Steam nowadays, and it just gets worse every month.

I have an automatic reason to jump from game to game quickly, but can still experience everything and take it to a fun level of mastery.

I spoke to Xeinok over Skype last week, where he took the time to tell me about the achievements that drove him nuts.

Unlike ordinary achievements, these challenges tested the limits of him and his friends.

Below, you can read some of Xeinoks best war stories as an achievement hunter on Steam.

How games are picked Advertisement While most games come packed with achievements, every achievement is not made equal.

The achievement hunting community uses a formula based on how many people own the game, versus how many people have actually played the game and gotten at least one achievement.

From there, they calculate the rarity of the achievements, and use the Steam API to determine a weighted point value for each achievement.

If 50k people play a game like Super Meat Boy, but only 10 people beat the final area without dying, then that achievement will be worth more, Xeinok said.

Advertisement Take a game like Team Fortress 2, for example.

Tons of people have played that game, which would make you think getting achievements for it wouldnt be worthwhilebut its the opposite.

Theres one TF2 achievement that requires you to destroy 1 million enemies.

Only 78 people have it, so its worth 100 points within the achievement hunting system.

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