This is a brief guide to all of the achievements in game SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech. Hope it can help you!
Story Achievements
These achievements are guaranteed to unlock when you just play the game and finish the story line. Note that there is no achievement for different difficulty in this game. Thus, feel free to play on whatever difficulty you like. You can also switch difficulty during play.
Recruit Tarah & Thayne.
Defeat Gomphus.
Defeat Captain Canary and the Narcassian Dragon.
Defeat Headmistress Hyapathia.
Defeat the Teras Koloss.
Defeat the Dark Lord.
Defeat Mechathiranos.
Grind Achievements
Break 250 world objects.
Spend 10,000 gold.
Evade attacks 50 times.
Equip a hero with accessory Zephyr Cape from Chapter 11 treasure chest and you’ll get it eventually.
Redraw cards 100 times.
Hit innate elemental weaknesses 100 times.
Perform 100 Heroic Chains.
Perform 100 Tag Team Combos.
There are some cards that have team combos. The ones I used most are Galleo’s Team Repair, Orik’s Find Your Center, Armilly’s Execute.
Heal a total of 50,000 points of health.
Just keep Galleo in the team and use his healing cards as well as his hero chain card.
Deal a total of 100,000 Physical damage.
Armilly is pretty good at physical damage. Orik can do as well.
Deal a total of 100,000 Fire damage.
Use Copernica’s fire cards.
Deal a total of 100,000 Storm damage.
Orik is pretty good at storm damage. With his Fuji Mask from One With the Wind card, even his physical damage will convert to storm damage.
Deal a total of 100,000 Arcane damage.
Tarah & Thayne is pretty good at arcane damage. Orik’s Raging Demon card can also do arcane damage.
Deal a total of 100,000 Frost damage.
Use Copernica’s frost cards. Galleo can do some frost damage too.
Others
Do Some Business
Change a hero’s deck.
Buy an item from the traveling merchant.
Craft a punch card.
Craft every punch card available at the mysterious merchant’s.
Upgrade a punch card.
Fully upgrade a punch card.
Loot Some Treasures
Refer to the IGN guide for the locations of treasure chests in each chapter.
Find a secret room.
Loot 10 treasure chests.
Loot all treasure chests.
Learn Battle Arts
Use a recovery item in battle.
Scrap three enemies with a single card.
Use Copernica’s Flame Wave card at any groups of 3 or more monsters. One easy method is during the Teras Koloss boss fight. When the tree boss summons 3 twigs, use the AOE skill to one shot all of them. They are all weak to fire attacks.
Spend 10 Steam Pressure on a single card.
Use strike and upgrade cards to build up steam pressure (SP), then spend all SP on any X skill cards (e.g. Orik’s Cyclone Slash, Galleo’s Overcharge).
Heal a hero from less than 5% health to full with a single card.
Key card: Galleo’s Overcharge + Miracle Worker. Try to lower one of your hero’s health to <5%, while building up 5+ SP, then use Overcharge to heal the hero while protecting him/her with Damage Shield from Copernica. Another method is letting the enemy kill one of your team member in one fight. Then do the above method in the second fight, since 1 health will definitely <5%.
Play six cards from your hand in one turn.
You need 4 things here: Orik’s Bushido card, Inspiring Grace card, any Orik’s weapon with hero chain card Haste, and equip him accessory Executioner’s Hood. Try to redraw cards until you got both cards in your hand and any other one Orik’s card, while try to lower one enemy’s health so that Orik can kill the enemy in one turn. Then perform the kill and hope RNG favours you.
Inflict Burn, Bleed, Poison and Despair on the same enemy.
Raise a hero’s Strength bonus to +7 grades or more.
Deal 20,000 or more damage with a single hit.
Debuff of defense on enemy + buff of offence on hero + offensive X skill with 10 SP.
Have 12 instances of negative status conditions affecting foes at the same time.
Defeat a certain boss before it can use Hell’s Tokamak.
Kill the last boss Mechathiranos in one turn after teleport to the final phase, or use Flinch to drop the card (need conform)?
Become Arena Champion
There are several tournaments in Colosseum of the Cursed with different themes (both enemies and rules). You will get the achievement after beating the one listed in the achievement description. Each time you need to beat 5-7 consecutive waves of enemies without break (i.e. you’re always in battle).
Complete the Coglin Cup.
Complete the Abyssal Cup.
Complete the Midas Grand Prix.
Very hard.
Tips
- You can have less than 3 members in your team. Try Orik solo!
- You can run pass enemies if you keep staying away from them even they notice you.
- Some chapters have hidden rooms with treasure chests. The hidden room will not show up on map.
- You can check enemies stats both in battle and outside battle. Some enemies are immune to certain type of attacks (e.g. dragons), so be prepared for the fight.
- Check the vendor at each new chapter, sometimes the vendor will unlock the selling of new weapon, new accessory, and new rare materials.