Amnesia: The Dark Descent/Achievements

This article is about achievements for the Steam release of Amnesia: The Dark Descent. For an achievement list for Amnesia Collection, see Amnesia Collection/Achievements. For other uses, see Achievement (disambiguation).

Achievements were added to the Steam release of Amnesia: The Dark Descent on January 16, 2017, after a brief public beta starting on January 13.

The achievements mirror the Trophies that were added with the release of Amnesia: Collection on the PS4 November 22, 2016. Amnesia: Collection was also released for the Xbox One on September 28, 2018.

Amnesia: The Dark Descent has 18 achievements, all of which are secret achievements except for three ("Illuminatus", "Master Archivist", and "Insanity"). Twelve of the achievements are for the main campaign, four are for Amnesia: Justine, and two span both campaigns.

Achievements

Image:	Name:	Game/Description:	Note:
	Alchemist	TDD: Removed the Shadow's residue in the entrance hall in Amnesia: The Dark Descent. (Secret)	Achieved by using the Pot of Acid to remove the residue blocking the way to the Refinery. Story-related and cannot be missed.
	Escape Artist	TDD: Escaped the creature in the water in Amnesia: The Dark Descent. (Secret)	Achieved by reaching the Back Hall. Story-related and cannot be missed.
	Descendant	TDD: Taken a rough ride on an elevator in Amnesia: The Dark Descent. (Secret)	Achieved by reaching the Prison. Story-related and cannot be missed.
	Pipeworker	TDD: Lowered the water level in the cistern to reveal a new way out in Amnesia: The Dark Descent. (Secret)	Achieved by reaching the Sewer. Story-related and cannot be missed.
	Restorer	TDD: Collected the pieces of the orb and rebuilt it in Amnesia: The Dark Descent. (Secret)	Achieved by finding all orb pieces in the Transept and Choir and reassembling them in the Chancel. Story-related and cannot be missed.
	Survivor	TDD: Killed Alexander and escaped the castle in Amnesia: The Dark Descent. (Secret)	Achieved by reaching Daniel's ending.
	Sacrifice	TDD: Allowed Alexander to escape in Amnesia: The Dark Descent. (Secret)	Achieved by reaching Alexander's ending.
	Benefactor	TDD: Rescued Agrippa in Amnesia: The Dark Descent. (Secret)	Achieved by reaching Agrippa's ending.
	Illuminatus	TDD: Picked up every tinderbox in Amnesia: The Dark Descent.	A detailed list of all tinderboxes can be found here.
	NOPE	TDD: Left when things were getting interesting in Amnesia: The Dark Descent. (Secret)	Achieved by exiting to the menu at any point in the Rainy Hall or Old Archives.
	Quitter	TDD: Failed to escape the cells and was consumed by the Shadow in Amnesia: The Dark Descent. (Secret)	Achieved by letting The Shadow consume you during the chase scene in the Cells.
	Masochist	TDD: My name is... Daniel... and I... have made life... exceptionally hard for myself. (Secret)	(Added on the Sep 28th, 2018 patch) Achieved by completing the game on Hard Mode.
	Egotist	Jus: Not a single victim survived in Amnesia: Justine. (Secret)	Achieved by killing or letting all prisoners in the Cabinet of Perturbation get killed.
	Altruist	Jus: Not a single victim died in Amnesia: Justine. (Secret)	Achieved by sparing all prisoners in the Cabinet of Perturbation.
	Vacillator	Jus: Some victims died, some lived in Amnesia: Justine. (Secret)	Achieved by sparing and killing at least one victim in the Cabinet of Perturbation.
	Still Alive	Jus: Became aware of the merits of A.S. Inc.'s Span-space Device in Amnesia: Justine. (Secret)	Achieved by finding the secret note behind a book in a bookshelf in the Library.
	Master Archivist	All: Read all notes in all games.	Achieved by picking up all notes in both The Dark Descent and Justine.
	Insanity	All: Achieved all other achievements.	Achieved by getting all other 17 achievements.

Trivia

• Amnesia: The Bunker has the second-most unmissable story achievements of any game in the series, as it's theoretically possible to complete the game with a minimum number of 7 necessary achievements.
  • Amnesia: Rebirth has the most unmissable story achievements, at 22 (19 unmissable achievements, plus one out of two torture-related options, plus one out of three ending options). Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs has the absolute fewest at 5 necessary achievements, followed by Amnesia: The Dark Descent with the second-fewest at 6 necessary achievements (five story-related, plus any one of three possible ending achievements).
  • Amnesia: Justine technically has fewer necessary achievements, at precisely 1 necessary achievement upon completion (any one of three possible ending achievements), but Justine is a side campaign DLC and so would not count if restricted to "full-length" games. Thus its achievements are usually combined with The Dark Descent.
• Analyzing achievements as a proportion of the total (adding the Justine achievements to those of The Dark Descent), 39% of the game's achievements are unmissable.
  • This ranks it roughly in the middle of the series for proprotions of achievements being unmissable—A Machine for Pigs is first proportionately with 71% of it achievements being unmissable, then Rebirth second at 54% unmissable achievements, and The Bunker is last at 17% unmissable achievements.