Overview
I was surprised I didnt find any full guide that organizes the achievements, so I decided to make one.
Introduction
I love hunting for achievements, its a fun pastime for me and I love turn based games so here I am, unfortunately I didnt find a place where I could see all achievements and get my mind organized on how to tackle them all in the most efficient manner.
My main goal here is to organize all 104 achievements with all DLC enabled.
Saying that, I definitely suggest you leave stygian mode to the end, a final run on the most brutal of difficulties! but if you like pain, hey, you can go ahead and try to get it all done in one single run.
There is an achievement where you need to finish the darkest dungeon before week 100, its not that complicated but just to be safe, and to aid your sanity, aim for this on your radiant/normal strict run.
On stygian mode, to finish the darkest dungeon, you will need 4 teams of legendary heroes to tackle different phases of the raid, that’s leveling up 16 different heroes. In other modes the same heroes can go back but will take a stress penalty, having different teams is suggested, this is so you can train for stygian mode.
Mods do not disable achievements, as far as I know, I used mods to quicken the battle animations and they have unlocked just fine for me.
I also strongly recommend you make use of the backer benefits if you are trying to tackle Stygian.
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That said, this game is a challenge and I wish you the best of success.
So here we go!
Edit: Thank you for the awards! 🙂😁✔✨😀🎁🙂
Difficulty Achievements
Good news, you can unlock all three difficulty achievements when you finish the game in the hardest difficulty. Bad news, its gonna be very painful to finish the game in the hardest difficulty.
The DLC doesnt have any difficulty achievements, so thats a small kindness. I really suggest going for the Stygian achievement on vanilla mode.
You can read more about the advantages/disadvantages of difficulty here: [link]
Entry Level
Complete the game on Radiant
Strict Mode
Complete the game with default difficulty options
*This is not completing the game on normal, it is completing the game without disabling any gameplay options (like disabling enemy reinforcements)
World End
Complete the game on Stygian
Stygian might delete your savefile under the right conditions, go ahead and read up on that in the link above before committing to it.
Storyline Achievements
These achievements will naturally unlock as you complete the vanilla game, bosses achievements from DLC storylines will be recorded at the Kill section instead.
To finish the game you need to level up several teams of heroes, there is not a specific path you need to take, except going into the darkest dungeon, of course.
Welcome home…
Reach the Estate
Victory, such as it is…
Complete the game
Flair reports that you need to complete the game on at least Darkest Difficulty.
Time related Achievements
The end of the first year…
Reach week 52
In such haste…
Complete the game within 99 Weeks
Two years of this…
Reach week 104
People are not sure what are the special conditions to advance the week, some say you need to finish a battle before retreating and others say you need to explore at least 25% of the dungeon.
What I had to do was to get two heroes from the stagecoach and send them into the Darkest Dungeon, fight a battle, retreat from battle then retreat from the dungeon.
One of them would die but It worked.
So yeah, do that if you are having troubles advancing time.
Kill Achievements
These require you to kill an specific number of a certain kind of monster or Boss, some boss kills must be met under very specific conditions.
And we slew the men who were wicked…
Defeat 100 Human enemies
And we slew the abominations that haunteth…
Defeat 100 Unholy enemies
And we slew the beasts that creepeth…
Defeat 100 Beast enemies
And we slew the evils that lurketh…
Defeat 100 Eldritch enemies
The fiends must be driven back…
Slay 1000 enemies
A terrifying figure emerged from the darkness…
Slay a Shambler
Activating a Shambler’s Altar with a torch will lead you to fight this boss.
Read more here: [link]
Four on the Floor
Kill Squiffy Ghast, Swine Skiver, Bone Bearer and Hateful Virago
You have to kill these type of enemies which can be found in different dungeons.
Bone Bearer: Ruins
Swine Skiver: Warrens
Hateful Virago: Weald
Squiffy Ghast: Cove (See achievement below)
Mine Goes to 11
Kill a Squiffy Ghast with a Jester
Squiffy Ghasts can be found in the Cove, they are the ghosts with the Fiddle.
The first evil to fall…
Slay your first boss
Lone survivor
Kill any boss with only one hero remaining
This achievement will unlock once a sole survivor comes back from a successful raid on a dungeon boss, in theory you could kill the boss with more than one party member but then you would need to kill all others except one before going back to town.
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Once you have at least a party of heroes level 5 or above, a random event in town will appear with one of the two following bosses at the end. Be ready!
Murder of Crows
Kill the Shrieker
The Shrieker will escape after the end of round 4, he has high dodge, buff up your ACC or debuff his dodge rating somehow if you want to kill it.
You can read more about this boss here: [link]
OneWingedDevil comments:
“The Murder of Crows achievement will be gained even if the Shrieker escapes, it doesn’t need to be killed before the end of the fourth round.”
In Sheep’s Clothing
Defeat the brigand Vvulf
You can read more about Vvulf here: [link]
Driven from this land…
Kill all bosses
You can read more here: [link]
You can also see a list of bosses from the Caretaker Goals, if you have DLCs activated, you need to kill those bosses too for the achievement to unlock. So you will get this as you try and get the caretaker achievement.
Dysfunction
Kill any boss with a party of four afflicted heroes
The achievement will pop after you defeat the boss, needless to say you need to have all four alive until the end with an affliction. The Necromancer Apprentice is a good boss for this since his attacks raise stress pretty quickly.
Kill Achievements (DLC)
In the farmstead, its an endless battle mode, you can try the mode as early as you finish the first ruin’s quest. Read more here: [link]
The following Kill achievements refer to doing those number of kills in ONE single run, think of it as a high score.
This Is Nothing
Get 100 Kills
A Hollow Reckoning
Get 200 Kills
Ashes To Ashes
Get 300 Kills
It will take at least three hours to rack up these number of kills, around 30 battle areas not counting boss fights. After you get your 200 kill, a new mode on top of the farmstead torch effects will aplly, making it harder to move forward. Stress is your biggest enemy here.
Time Is A Flat Circle
Kill the Sleeper’s Herald With a Riposte
Zealous Accusation
Defeat the Fanatic
You will get a notice that tells you the Fanatic will stalk your cursed heroes, from that point on you will have a chance of the Fanatic to spawn in a dungeon whenever you use cursed heroes on your team. If the Fanatic comes, the game will tell you as you start the dungeon. For best chances of encountering him, have 4 cursed heroes in the same party and enter a champion level non-boss vanilla dungeon.
All the missions to kill these bosses have the same static maps and the most dangerous thing is dying from hunger/wasting while looking for keys and the way forward.
The wiki has maps you can use to make your life easier, check them out at the end of this page here: [link]
Les Jeux Sont Faits
Defeat the Baron
Just the Cheque
Defeat the Viscount
Her Last Dance
Defeat the Countess
A Merciful Act
Defeat the Miller
A Poor Harvest
All 4 Heroes Dodge the Miller’s Reaping
The Miller has high ACC so you either need a team with high dodge or try to debuff his ACC, this achievement would be best tackled with a Legendary team. The Man-At-Arms Dodge Buff can be triggered several times using Shard Dusts and the Antiquarian Dodge Buff can stack up to 3 times.
Beyond The Infinite
Defeat the Sleeper
In The Mouth of Madness
Defeat the Sleeper With 2 Afflicted, 2 Virtuous Heroes
There are trinkets that can help you skew the virtue chance, have these in your provision invetory right before turning mad from stress to give you control over this achievement. You can switch trinkets on and off by switching them from the inventory into your character’s equipment.
You will need to defeat the sleeper a lot of times since you need 10 memories to build the Mill for another achievement so dont worry if you dont get it at first.
There Are No Words
Defeat the Thing From The Stars
Random Boss in some dungeons that have the Thing displayed at the stage select.
Rogues Gallery
Fight Every Wondering Boss in Endless
As you play endless mode, after defeating the sleeper you will enter wonderous mode where you will encounter different bosses in the game, in my experience I didnt have to kill every wondering boss since some people reported bosses I didnt kill but It still unlocked for me.
Glimmer has a great observation which I think is the way to unlock this:
“Rogues Gallery seems to be awarded for killing Shambler, Collector, Shrieker and TFBTS across multiple runs. Mind the name of the achievement.”
If you think about it, those are all wAndering bosses which you can find in wOndorous areas.
These trolling devs.. haha
Hero Related Achievements
Achievements that require you to have a specific hero or a hero do some specific things.
Weeding out the weak…
Dismiss your first hero
This can be done in the Hero’s character sheet.
Spending gold on a hero in the following locations:
A rumination, a prayer, and a confession…
Treat a hero in the Abbey
A drink, a hand, and a companion…
Treat a hero in the Tavern
The price we pay for sanity…
Remove a Quirk in the Sanitarium
Encouragement…
Lock a positive Quirk in the Sanitarium
And our training begins…
Upgrade a Combat skill
It takes more than brawn…
Learn a new Camping skill
A killer of striking force and wit…
Kill 50 enemies with one hero
More than a weary traveler…
Walk 500 steps with one hero (in a dungeon)
Only masterful technique will suffice in battle…
Fully upgrade at least four of a hero’s skills
A true champion emerges…
Raise a hero to Resolve Level 6
Darkest sentinels…
Raise 4 heroes to Resolve Level 6
Only the finest equipment will endure this torment…
Fully upgrade a hero’s weapons and armor
What is already Dead Cannot Die
Have a character survive 5 attacks at Death’s Door in a single combat
This is trickier than it looks, you cannot heal someone at Death’s Door but rely on their Death Blow Resistance so they can survive five attacks in a single battle some trinkets can help with this.
I personally unlocked this with a team of three man-at-arms and a healer, they all died in the end, but hey! I got this achievement 🙂
Remember that having a heart attack while at death’s door will always result in death, so be careful managing your stress levels. The Death blow resistance caps at 87% so no matter what you do, you will always have 13% chance of dying.
The first of many has fallen…
Lose your first hero
A sobering visit with the departed…
Visit the Graveyard
The stresses were unbearable…
Lose your first hero to heart attack
When the stress is too much for a crazed hero.
You can do the following two achievements at once:
No retreat, no quarter…
First party wipe
More blood soaks the soil…
Party wipe on a boss
We all return to dust…
Lose a Legendary (Level 6) hero
Valiant sacrifice…
Lose all four heroes on a Darkest Dungeon quest
The following death achievements are triggered when you fail a death blow roll while doing the action the achievement is linked to. The Base chance to fail a Death Blow roll is 33% but you can increase this chance by using trinkets that lower your resistance so you are more likely to die to damage instead of a rolling a save and surviving.
Gnawing hunger sets in…
Lose a hero to hunger
Blocked from life…
Lose a hero to an obstacle
Watch your step…
Lose a hero to a trap
We return to the worms of the earth…
Lose a hero to a Maggot
Maggots are one of the easiest enemies in the game, so just patient and get wailed by one until one of your heroes dies.
That’ll do, pig…
Lose a hero to Wilbur
He does pitiful damage so you need someone weak to die from his attacks like your healer…
Wilbur remains alive after you kill the swine prince, so go ahead and kill the monstrosity and then setup your weak character to take the fall.
You can encounter the Swine Prince and Wilbur in the Farmstead’s endless mode.
Expired
Lose a hero to Wasting Away from the Curse
Pipe Dream
Lose a Hero Equipped with the Miller’s Pipe
Rainbow’s End
Lose a Hero Equipped with the Coat of Many Colors
The Blinders Are Lifted
Gain the Refracted Affliction
After you lose a hero in the Farmstead, he might come back with this… affliction, its also a random type of affliction as you go mad from stress in other normal dungeons.
Building Related Achievements
A veritable crowd…
Have one of each class on your roster (Have them on-hand at once)
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Abomination
Antiquatian
Arbalest
Bounty Hunter
Crusader
Grave Robber
Hellion
Highwayman
Houndmaster
Jester
Leper
Man-at-Arms
Occultist
Plague Doctor
Vestal
Our techniques sharpened to a razor’s edge…
Fully upgrade the Guild
Our equipment polished to a mirror finish…
Fully upgrade the Blacksmith
The tavern my Ancestor once saw…
Fully upgrade the Tavern
The abbey my Ancestor once knew…
Fully upgrade the Abbey
Restored to its former glory…
Fully upgrade the Town
From Rubble to Rabble
Build your first district building
The Red Hook
Build The Red Hook
This building requires 25k gold and 750 shield emblems.. yup.. 750 of em and a blueprint which you can get after defeating bosses or in town events.
A Memory Of Better Times (And Spaces)
Build the Windmill
Quest Achievements
The first of many victories…
Complete a quest
Discretion, my old friend…
Abandon a quest
Twisted and about to break
Complete a dungeon with all 4 heroes afflicted
A strenuous adventure comes to a close…
Complete a medium quest
A grueling adventure comes to a close…
Complete a long quest
I’ve seen every corner of this ruined land…
Complete a quest in all four regions
Our victories are mounting…
Complete 10 quests
We are victorious, but at what cost…
Complete 25 quests
A collection of treasured antiques…
Collect at least 30 heirlooms from a single quest
Greater riches were never witnessed…
Collect at least 20,000 gold from a single quest
Like lambs to the slaughter…
Start a Darkest Dungeon quest with four heroes of resolve level 0
A team of hardened veterans…
Start a quest with all four heroes of Resolve Level 6
On the old road, we found redemption.
Dismas and Reynauld Made it to the final Darkest Dungeon Quest
These guys are the heroes you start with, to get this achievement you must send them into the final dungeon.
A Taste Of Madness
Complete The First Farmstead Quest
Collection Achievements
Sentimental relics from our forefathers…
Acquire all your Ancestor’s Trinkets
14 Ancestor’s Trinkets, four of them can only be obtained by defeating the Shambler boss.
Most are received as rewards for completing champion level dungeons.
Happy Together
Collect your first Trinket Set (Crimson Curse DLC)
Shards Well Spent
Collect All of Color of Madness Trinkets
If you didnt notice, there is another trinket seller in the caravan, the button to switch it is to the bottom left. You will need around 2000 crystals.
I really didnt count but I know I got at least 1200 from killing the Sleeper ten times, around 120 crystals on each run. Buy the trinkets that give you extra crystals first, wearing both trinkets will give you 35% more crystals and I read somewhere that Antiquarians boost you for an extra 15%.
Other Achievements
Not found in the other sections
Caretaker
Complete all Caretaker Goals
Click on the scroll icon on the bottom right to bring up the Activity Log along with the Caretaker’s goals. Most of these goals involve killing bosses or leveling a specific class to Level 6.
An Unexpected Party
Collect The Invitation
You can get the invitation from defeating an enemy called the gatekeeper that is found in encounters from curio pods or battles found in other dungeons when the infestation gets high enough for them to spawn outside the Courtyard.
Symptoms
Get infected by the Crimson Curse
What Strange Bedfellows
Contract the Crimson Curse via contagion
To better your chances, just fill a building with cursed people and put a healthy one in, by the next week he will probably be curse and you’ll get this achievement.
Shadows Blur Together
Kill an ally while under the Curse
I loved this guide, you should read it for this achievement:
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Blood Cult
Have your entire roster affected by the crimson curse
After you are done with the game, reduce your roster by firing heroes until you have only infected ones, you can also infect heroes with other heroes if they are being treated in the same facility.
The Flesh is Willing
Recruit a flagellant
The Town’s Crier will give you some good news and the game will give you a Flagellant. Drag and Drop the Flagellant from the News Scroll into your roster, make sure you have space for him, you can also find this class randomly in the stagecoach as the game progresses.
Jailbreak
Rescue someone
In the courtyard, you might find a secret room and instead of a treasure chest, there is a leveled up hero there, interact with him and you will unlock this achievement and get the hero back in town.
Tears Lost In The Dust
Acquire Mildred’s Locket Trinket
You find the Locket in the Farmstead as a random curio between waves, its random so you will probably find it after you defeat the Miller and go into Endless mode.
Blue Skies Ahead
Use The Shard Dust Provision
You can buy the Shard Dust provision from the get-go in the Color of Madness DLC but you need to find 3 shards first, that’s what it costs.
Lining the Jeweller’s Pockets
Earn 200 Shards In One Endless Run
After defeating the Miller, endless mode will unlock, if you get lucky you can get a 100% shard reward town event that will make this one easier. Just play endless until at least you get a Wonderous reward, it will take several battles and hours.
You can read up on strategy here: [link]
You should try going for this one along the 300 kills achievement.
Plowshares To Swords
Reach Death’s Door From Farmhand’s Riposte
You will need to be fighting a farmstead enemy called foreman, he is usually the boss at the first mark in the run, these dudes give farmhands riposte, simply attack a farmhand with riposte enough so your HP reaches Zero, the riposte will do between 1 and 2 damage so it will be somewhat tricky.
Butcher Circus Achievements
You can get most achievements in the tutorial battle, dueling with a friend or ranked matches.
So, until someone says they patched it out, you can do get most of these done quick if you do it against the tutorial or a friend.
The only one you cant do against the tutorial is the one to kill one of each class.
Flair reports that you can get achievements from single player in Butcher’s Circus, so if you still need some of those, you could kill two birds with one stone.
Fresh Meat
Play your first match in the Butcher’s Circus
Mono et Mono
Win a match in the dueling grounds
The dueling grounds is outside the circus, its where you can issue a challenge to someone in your friends list. Win a match against a friend to get this. You can surrender and your friend should get this.
Shouting Match
Win a match using ONLY stress against your enemies
You must NOT do any damage to your enemies, stress only.
There are a few attacks that are -100% DMG and give stress.
I used RyoKami‘s build as written in this thread (steam thread).
The Party:
Plague doctor – blinding gas/disorienting blast
Vestal for healsies
Man at Arms – Bellow
Hellion – Terrifying Yawp!”
You can equip trinkets that increase stress, it helps.
I got it against the tutorial party, no problems, here is a video on how I did it, took me around 20 minutes. [Wish there was an option to speed up battles]
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Naked and Unafraid
Win a match without using any trinkets
Blood Soaks the Sand
Win 100 matches in the Butcher’s Circus
Flawless Execution
Win any 10 matches without losing any heroes
You can boost with a friend by surrendering, surrendering counts as a flawless win (for the team that didnt surrender, ofc)
One and Done
Kill an enemy hero in the first round of a match
Easy with some luck and if you use the Gravedigger and the Bounty Hunter in your team along with two heavy hitters, the GD and BH have attacks that can reduce the enemy resistance against deathblows, so soften them up with your heavy hitters first then finish them off with GD or BH.
If you win the coin toss, they will get a dodge buff, so, its best if you lose it.
The trinket “The Finisher” should be equipped on your GD and BH if possible.
In my video, I should have gone for the enemy Bounty Hunter instead of the Musketeer but it worked out in the end :3
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Scare Tactics
Cause an enemy hero to have a heart attack
Devil’s Luck
Have a hero survive 5 death’s door checks in a single match
Again the flagellant is the best for this, with these trinkets you can get him up to 95% but I think its actually 100% because I remember my final check was 40% (100, 85. 70, 55, 40) Every check will lower the chance by 15%.
You can get the Ankh on L16 Prestige but the collar is a L66 Trinket.
You can replace that with the L4 gambeson, but it only gives +4%.
Flaggelant Skill [Suffer] also gives him +10% Deathblow resist.
Beware enemies that have skills that upgrade their chance to deal a Deathblow on you, specially the Bounty Hunter, take them out fast and leave the ones that dont have bonuses.
AerinSwift points out that the Antiquarian skill Take Cover, gives her a +20% Deathblow Resistance and it stacks, giving you a +60% Resistance overall, she might be even better than a Flagellant for this.
At the end of the day, its all about your luck, you can only tweak it as much as you can.
MVP
Have a single hero deal deathblows to 4 enemies in a single match
Pacemaker
Have a single hero survive 4 heart attacks in a single match
Bright Lights
Daze 10 enemies in the Butcher’s Circus
Taking All Challengers
Kill each hero class in the Butcher’s Circus
You can do this in Duel mode but you need to deal the killing blow to each class, surrendering doesnt work and if one dies of a heart attack, im pretty sure it wont count, but maybe…?
You need to kill the DLC classes, the shieldbreaker, flagellant and musketeer.
I got it with all Deathblows, including killing a Shieldbreaker in a ranked match and the Musketeer from the tutorial.
Be Still My Heart!
Cause 150 heart attacks in the Butcher’s Circus
Your opponent surrendering does not count as giving them heart attacks.
You will need a stress oriented party, the one you can use for the achievement Shouting Match is a good option, you can read that guide for more info.
Other good classes for stress are the Houndmaster, the Jester, the Abomination, etc.
You can read more about it here: https://darkestdungeon.gamepedia.com/Butcher%27s_Circus#Stress_Damage
Blood Flood
Kill 600 enemies in the Butcher’s Circus
Like the achievement above, your opponent surrendering does not count for this, even heart attacks doing it the legit way might not count either, deathblows only but its not 100% confirmed.
PandaCat reports (s)he thinks all deaths, including surrendering counts but In my own experience getting it, Im not sure, I do feel like death by heart attack does count, as I know I got it before I achieved 600 deathblows but after I did the cause 150 heart attacks and won 100 matches by surrendering to a friend.
Crowd Pleaser
Reach the max Prestige level in the Butcher’s Circus
There are 75 prestige levels rewards, each level takes more and more points and it gets pretty awful, around level 70, you will need at least 10 wins or more to rank up, just for reference, you need 230 points to level from 74 to 75.
You can get 15 points on a match with a flawless victory.
Outro adventures
Warning: Loud noises in this one but its still awesome.
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