When can you prestige in Halloween: The Game?

When a progression track hits its maximum level. The profile track maxes out at level 100 and the Killer track at level 50. Each civilian and each weapon prestiges at its own max level.

What do you lose when you prestige?

The track goes back to level 1. A profile prestige keeps your unlocked civilians, skins, tints and weapons. Passive challenge collections that need a profile level, like Shape Mastery and the Samhain skin challenge at level 80, show as locked until you level back up, but since Patch 1.0.3 they keep gaining progress while locked. A civilian prestige can re-lock that civilian's starter item and level-based cosmetics, and a weapon prestige can re-lock the weapon's level-10 gold skin.

What do you get for prestiging?

A successful profile prestige earns the Determination achievement. Weapon prestiges give cosmetics, extra kill moves and skins, and civilians get new outfits at Prestige 2 and 3. Other players cannot see your prestige level.

How many times can you prestige?

There is no known cap. Civilians go to at least prestige 5 and the knife to at least prestige 4, and weapon challenges are numbered by prestige, up to at least prestige 3 for the axe.

Is there a time limit on Prestige Challenges?

Yes. A profile Prestige Challenge counts down from 24 hours on the challenge panel, and the timer keeps running while you are offline. Don't start one right before you stop playing.

Why is my Prestige Challenge not working?

Check the basics first: the right weapon equipped, the right side (some objectives are civilian ones), and one full match to see whether the counter moves. If the objective text is missing, restart the game. Priority-target objectives are the most likely to stay stuck at 0; if yours hasn't moved after a match, stop grinding it.

Can you re-roll a Prestige Challenge you do not like?

Not on demand. There is no swap button, but when the timer runs out the next attempt is a random draw, so you will usually get a different challenge. Starting again costs perk points, and while any Prestige Challenge is running you cannot start a character or weapon one.

Should I prestige my profile?

Do it once if you want the Determination achievement and can finish the timed challenge. It costs 5,000 perk points, so check the balance you actually have before starting. Level-gated collections like Shape Mastery and the Samhain skin challenge used to stop progressing after a profile prestige; now they keep progressing even while they show as locked.

Progression

How prestige works in Halloween: The Game

Four tracks, each prestiged on its own. A profile prestige costs perk points, starts a 24-hour challenge, and sends you back to level 1 with your unlocks intact.

The short answer

Profile, Killer, Civilian and Weapon each have their own track and their own prestige.
Profile opens at level 100 and Killer at 50. A profile prestige costs 5,000 perk points and starts a 24-hour challenge.
A profile reset keeps your unlocks. Civilian and weapon resets can re-lock level-based rewards.
Level-gated passive collections such as Shape Mastery show as locked after a profile prestige, but they keep gaining progress.
Rewards are modest: an achievement for the profile, cosmetics and kill moves for weapons. Nobody else can see your level.

All four tracks, on screen
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Where each track’s prestige option and rewards sit in the menus.

The four prestige tracks

Each track levels up separately and opens its prestige at its own maximum level.

Prestige tracks, where they open and what they give
Track	Levelled by	Prestige opens at	Rewards
Profile	All experience, whichever side you play	Level 100	The Determination achievement, and not much else
Killer	Playing as Michael	Level 50	–
Civilian	Playing that civilian (each has their own track)	That civilian's max level	New cosmetics for that civilian at Prestige 2 and 3, found in their outfits rather than on the prestige screen
Weapon	Kills with that weapon as Michael (each weapon has its own track)	That weapon's max level	Cosmetics and extra kill moves, under the weapon's executions tab. Prestige 3 gives a reactive camo-style finish

What happens when you prestige

1
Reach the maximum level on a track. The prestige option then appears for that track.
2
Check your balance before paying. A profile prestige costs 5,000 perk points. The 10,000-point grant announced with Patch 1.0.4 was for players already playing then; do not budget an attempt around receiving it now.
3
Take the challenge. A profile prestige hands you a Prestige Challenge with a 24-hour countdown, shown on the challenge panel.
4
Mind the clock. The timer runs in real time and keeps running while you are offline, so don't start a challenge right before you stop playing.
5
If the timer runs out, the challenge ends and the prestige doesn't happen. You can start again, but it costs perk points again; the in-game prompt warns you before you start.
6
There is no swap button. To get rid of a challenge you don't want, let the timer run out. The next attempt is a random draw, so you will usually get something different, though the same one can come back.
7
While any Prestige Challenge is running you can't start a character or weapon one, so waiting out a timer also holds up the other tracks.
8
Finish the challenge and the track resets to level 1. Profile, Killer and civilian tracks all work this way; level it back up to reach the next prestige.

What prestiging gives you, and how many there are

The profile prestige is mostly about the achievement. Weapons are where the actual rewards are.

Successfully prestiging your profile earns the Determination achievement.
If your goal is Determination, one successful profile prestige is enough. For outfit or execution rewards, check the civilian or weapon track instead before spending more points.
Hosting a private match no longer blocks achievements. Patch 1.0.3 fixed a bug that stopped the host from unlocking achievements and trophies.
Weapon prestiges are where the rewards are: cosmetics, extra kill moves and weapon skins.
Nobody else can see your prestige or profile level. The cosmetics you wear are the only sign of it.

How many prestiges

There is no known cap. Civilians go to at least prestige 5 (Bob has a prestige 5 challenge) and the knife to at least prestige 4.
Weapon challenges are numbered by prestige, like a pickaxe challenge for prestige 2 or an axe challenge for prestige 3, and finishing one weapon prestige can deal you the next weapon's challenge straight away.

What you keep, and what a profile prestige takes away

Kept

A profile prestige keeps your unlocked civilians, skins, tints and weapons. Prestiging a civilian or weapon is a separate reset and can re-lock that track's level-based rewards.
Progressive challenges are untouched.
Prestiging Michael doesn't take away any of his weapon options.
Passive challenges keep gaining progress after a prestige, even while they show as locked.

Locked again

Passive challenge collections that need a profile level show as locked again until you climb back to that level. Progress inside them is kept, and since Patch 1.0.3 it keeps counting while they show as locked. IllFonic calls that a temporary fix and is working on the locked display itself.
Shape Mastery, the collection for a Michael skin, and the Samhain skin challenge both need profile level 80. After a profile prestige they show as locked until you are back at 80, but your progress now carries on. Before Patch 1.0.3 it didn't: players who prestiged early lost hours of progress on the Samhain challenge while it sat locked.
A civilian's starter item locks again after that civilian prestiges, and has to be re-earned at level 5, 10 or 15 depending on the character. Laurie's Repair Kit and Lynda's pocket knife (back at level 10) are two examples.
Cosmetics unlocked by a civilian's level can lock again until you reach that level again, as with Bob's level-22 cosmetic. One you are wearing stays on until you switch it off, and then you can't put it back. It may be a bug.
After a weapon prestige, the weapon's level-10 gold skin can lock until level 10 comes round again, along with its higher-tier challenges. It happens with the wood axe; some players kept the gold skin on the kitchen knife and the pickaxe.

Progress keeps counting either way now, but a collection that needs a high profile level still shows as locked until you are back at that level. If you are close to finishing one, finishing it first is the simpler route. Outside those collections, a profile reset keeps your civilians, skins and weapons don’t go anywhere.

How to complete Prestige Challenges

The objectives below, from 15 hiding-spot executions to 50 phone calls, have walkthroughs on the Prestige Challenges page.

Prestige Challenge objectives
Objective	Asks for	Comes up on
Axe finisher on special targets	15	Axe, prestige 3
Kill terrified victims with thrown hatchets	30	Profile
Kill priority targets with the knife, unnoticed	15	Knife, prestige 1
Bloodthirsty grab executions on unaware, terrified victims	15	Profile, Killer
Hiding-spot executions	15	Killer
One-hit kills with the pickaxe or wood axe	20	Wood axe (prestige 2), pickaxe
Jump-scare by breaking doors and windows	30	Profile, pickaxe prestige 2
Save 20 townsfolk	20	Civilian
Talk to priority targets	15	Civilian
Make very convincing phone calls	50	Bob, prestige 5
Blind Michael	40	Profile
Knockbacks	30	Civilian
Kill priority targets	5	Varies
Destroy noise makers with the pickaxe	20	Profile, axe
Destroy doors	20	Varies
Three priority targets in a minute, and five wins	–	Varies

Before you start any of them

Private matches count. Prestige Challenges progress there, and a solo private match is often the easiest place to finish one.
Check your loadout before you queue. A weapon challenge only moves with that weapon equipped, and a match played with the wrong one is wasted.
Check which side the objective is for. Some are played as a civilian, and killing priority targets as Michael does nothing for them; for those, talking to a target, or maybe just finding one, is what counts.

Finishers need Bloodthirst at tier 3, the same meter the story mode’s Bloodthirsty execution uses, so the Chapter 4 challenge is decent practice.

Prestige Challenges not working?

What IllFonic has fixed and clarified:

Prestige Challenges were unavailable until Patch 1.0.2 switched them back on. The same patch fixed an active challenge blocking matchmaking.
If a weapon challenge shows no objective text, restart the game.
Some objectives are worded vaguely. IllFonic says they can all be completed, even when the criteria are hard to work out.
Weapon Progressive Challenges only progress with the matching weapon, even though the text never says so. IllFonic has also singled out four Progressive Challenges for not tracking under certain conditions: Thomas's Linebacker, Rachel's Superstitious Tools, Alexis's Craftswoman and Laurie's Quick Thinking.
Passive challenges keep gaining progress after you prestige. They can still show as locked afterwards; IllFonic is working on that.

A missing panel and missing credit need different checks
What you see	What to try	What it tells you
Panel blank or apparently reset after a match	Back out, reopen the challenge menu, then restart if it is still missing.	Players have recovered the display this way. It does not guarantee missing credit returns.
Save 20 Townsfolk barely moves	Check blue residents versus yellow priority targets, and talk to residents directly.	Correct rescues can still undercount. Use the Save 20 checks before repeating the grind.
Kills or executions do not register	Check the exact priority-kill objective and finisher conditions.	A bear hug is not a finisher. Meeting the conditions still does not rule out a tracking bug.

If yours still won’t count

Some challenges don't progress at all, in public or private matches. Priority-target objectives are the worst for it: one Kill Priority Target challenge stayed at 0 after about 50 priority kills, several restarts and a second attempt after the timer ran out.
It is inconsistent from player to player. For some, the profile challenge never counts while weapon ones do; for others nothing tracks on any track; others have finished five across different tracks without any trouble.
A civilian challenge can finish with no reward and no notification, and the game then asks for perk points to start it again.

Before spending perk points on a second attempt, play one match and check the counter actually moves. If a restart doesn’t bring missing objective text back, the full notes are on the patch notes page.

Questions

When can you prestige in Halloween: The Game?: When a progression track hits its maximum level. The profile track maxes out at level 100 and the Killer track at level 50. Each civilian and each weapon prestiges at its own max level.
What do you lose when you prestige?: The track goes back to level 1. A profile prestige keeps your unlocked civilians, skins, tints and weapons. Passive challenge collections that need a profile level, like Shape Mastery and the Samhain skin challenge at level 80, show as locked until you level back up, but since Patch 1.0.3 they keep gaining progress while locked. A civilian prestige can re-lock that civilian's starter item and level-based cosmetics, and a weapon prestige can re-lock the weapon's level-10 gold skin.
What do you get for prestiging?: A successful profile prestige earns the Determination achievement. Weapon prestiges give cosmetics, extra kill moves and skins, and civilians get new outfits at Prestige 2 and 3. Other players cannot see your prestige level.
How many times can you prestige?: There is no known cap. Civilians go to at least prestige 5 and the knife to at least prestige 4, and weapon challenges are numbered by prestige, up to at least prestige 3 for the axe.
Is there a time limit on Prestige Challenges?: Yes. A profile Prestige Challenge counts down from 24 hours on the challenge panel, and the timer keeps running while you are offline. Don't start one right before you stop playing.
Why is my Prestige Challenge not working?: Check the basics first: the right weapon equipped, the right side (some objectives are civilian ones), and one full match to see whether the counter moves. If the objective text is missing, restart the game. Priority-target objectives are the most likely to stay stuck at 0; if yours hasn't moved after a match, stop grinding it.
Can you re-roll a Prestige Challenge you do not like?: Not on demand. There is no swap button, but when the timer runs out the next attempt is a random draw, so you will usually get a different challenge. Starting again costs perk points, and while any Prestige Challenge is running you cannot start a character or weapon one.
Should I prestige my profile?: Do it once if you want the Determination achievement and can finish the timed challenge. It costs 5,000 perk points, so check the balance you actually have before starting. Level-gated collections like Shape Mastery and the Samhain skin challenge used to stop progressing after a profile prestige; now they keep progressing even while they show as locked.

Find your challenge by its wording

Keep going

Multiplayer challenge planner

Pin your current unlocked goal and compare your actions with the game counter.

Prestige time planner

Estimate remaining matches and play time using your actual progress per match.

Prestige Challenges, one by one

Find the objective matching your challenge card, and check why an execution might not count.

Perk decks and progression

The four level tracks, the card system and the currency prestige costs.

Achievements

Which ones players actually finish, from Steam's own numbers.

Challenge tracker

Keep your own record of the story challenges while tracking is unreliable.