Steam – earn Steam achievements while offline

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If I play, for example, Plants vs Zombies or Toki Tori on Steam when I am offline, can I earn achievements? Are these re-synchronized when Steam returns online?

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Well - it's some years later and.. it still seems to depend on the game the most. I play recently almost exclusively offline and connect gaming machine to Internet once every few weeks. E.g. in 'Botanicula' - with almost all achievements gathered on the way - I have only the second 1/2 of them on Steam (some of the missing ones being impossible to miss). :) 'Bejeweled 3' seems to sync all achievements perfectly (with their progress also!) on next online session. For 'Plants vs. Zombies' I have only 1 ('Home Lawn Security') on Steam while I have around 3/5 of them in game itself.

There are many threads around the web regarding those games AND achievements, but the common conclusion is: Some games just don't sync them properly and that's it. :(