Dread Delusion: Simple 100% Achievement Guide

A simple achievement guide for the game. No solutions for quests or locations of items provided, only overall requirements to unlock each achievement.

Preface

A simple achievement guide for the game. No solutions for quests or locations of items provided, only overall requirements to unlock each achievement.

Bugged achievements have been fixed

3 achievements (Welcome To The Underlands, Cartographer, Master Cartographer) used to be bugged but should now get unlocked retroactively if you qualify.

Are there missable or mutually exclusive achievements?

Yes. There are two sets of mutually exclusive story achievements, multiple mutually exclusive achievements tied to side quests, and an achievement that requires to reach a certain point of the game without dying.

How many playthroughs are required to unlock all achievements?

Two. Or one, if you backup your savefile at the right points (which you probably should do either way, considering the amount of bugs in the game).

I. Just Don’t Die LoL

Iron Will
Missable!

This achievement requires to reach a certain part of the game (the second encounter with Vela in the Underlands) without ever dying before. This is easier to achieve than it might sound, as enemies in the game barely deal any damage. If you happen to die it definitely won’t be in combat.

Keep Return Home spell equipped to be able to save yourself from fatal falls, make sure not to stand directly below any descending elevators, and maybe also occasionally backup your savefile – in case floor collision decides to take a break from its job.

II. Story Achievements

These achievements get unlocked automatically and can be ignored.

Retake the Blinding Light

Shame of the Union Navy

Before Your Time

My Last Duchess

Caxton Signs On

Welcome To The Underlands

This Changes Everything

Aye Aye, Sky Captain!

To The Cradle

II. Story Achievements: Missable

There are two sets of mutually exclusive endgame story achievements.
If you want to get all four in one run then don’t pass the Charm skill check in the Underlands (or you’ll get permanently locked out of an achievement), then backup your savefile before the final encounter.

There Is Another Way
Missable! This achievement and A Legendary Clash are mutually exclusive

Complete sidequest “The Whispers of Ghosts”.
Speak to Vela about her sister either in the Underlands or later in the Cradle and pass a 75 Charm skillcheck.
The achievement will unlock in the last encounter.

A Legendary Clash
Missable! This achievement and There Is Another Way are mutually exclusive

Do not speak to Vela about her sister.
The achievement will unlock in the last encounter.

We Are Our Only Saviours
Missable! This achievement and Nothing Will Be The Same are mutually exclusive

Ending achievement; Refuse the merge

Nothing Will Be The Same
Missable! This achievement and Are Our Only Saviours are mutually exclusive

Ending achievement; Accept the merge

III. Sidequests Achievements

List of unmissable achievements which are obtained by completing various sidequests – regardless of choice(s) you make in them.

DAMN Fine Tea

Complete “Damn Fine Tea” (Location: The Blinding Light).

A History Lesson

Complete “The Whispers of Ghosts” (Location: The Blinding Light).

Settle The Sellswords

Complete “The Rotten Onions” (Location: Pwyll).

A Rightful Owner

Complete “The Golden Typhos” (Location: Hallow Town).

If These Walls Could Talk

Complete “The God Hunt” (Location: Hallow Town).

Old Soldiers Never Die

Complete “War Stories” (Location: Hallow Town).

The Only Way To Travel

Complete “We Don’t Need Roads” (Location: Erudite Academy).

Have You Got A Licence For That God?

Complete “A Divine Captive” (Location: Erudite Academy).

Worm Food

Complete “A Morbid Appetite” (Location: Endless Realm).

Food For Thought

Complete “The Ethics of Eating Flesh” (Location: Endless Realm, Flesh Farm).

Is Something Ticking?

Complete “Safe Passage” (Location: Ferropolis).

Last Seen

Complete “Missing Persons” (Location: Ferropolis).

A Corner of the Kingdom

Complete “The Vision Trade” (Location: Ferropolis).

III. Sidequests Achievements: Missable

List of mutually exclusive achievements that are unlocked by making different decisions in various sidequests.

No Going Back
Missable! This achievement and The Price Is Paid are mutually exclusive

Complete “Secrets and Spores” (Location: Pwyll) by saving the sacrifice.

The Price Is Paid
Missable! This achievement and No Going Back are mutually exclusive

Complete “Secrets and Spores” (Location: Pwyll) by letting the sacrifice die.

Fighting The God Fight
Missable! This achievement and The Old Ways are mutually exclusive

Complete “The God Hunt” (Location: Hallow Town) by giving the Aspect to the Apostatic Union.

The Old Ways
Missable! This achievement and Fighting The God Fight are mutually exclusive

Complete “The God Hunt” (Location: Hallow Town) by placing the Aspect at the top of the tower.

Endless Evermore
Missable! This achievement and The End Of The Endless are mutually exclusive

Complete “All Good Things…” (Location: Sepulchre) by pacifying the Entombed One.

The End Of The Endless
Missable! This achievement and Endless Evermore are mutually exclusive

Complete “All Good Things…” (Location: Sepulchre) by helping the Entombed One.

Like Clockwork
Missable! This achievement and The Clock Stops are mutually exclusive

Complete “Madness of the King” (Location: Ferropolis) by using Aphra’s punchcard.

The Clock Stops
Missable! This achievement and Like Clockwork are mutually exclusive

Complete “Madness of the King” (Location: Ferropolis) by using the Saboteur’s punchcard.

Unforgiven
Missable! This achievement and In The Name Of The High Confessor are mutually exclusive

Complete “An Old Friend” (Location: The Blinding Light) by fulfilling the Ghost’s request.

In The Name Of The High Confessor
Missable! This achievement and Unforgiven are mutually exclusive

Complete “An Old Friend” (Location: The Blinding Light) by fulfilling the High Confessor’s request.

IV. Miscellanious Achievements

These achievements have no time limit and can be unlocked at any time.

Delve into Delusion

Pick up a Delusion.

Delusion’s Embrace

Spend 18 Delusions to increase your attributes.

How Long Will You Be Staying?

Awarded after the passage of 10 ingame days.

Make Your Mark

Find an Academy Scholar, then use the Cartography Notebook that you get from them to mark a landmark.

Academic Achievement

Bring some charted maps to one of Academy Scholars to get a recommendation letter for Erudite Academy.

Cartographer

Complete the map. See the list of maps here.

Master Cartographer

Record every single landmark. See the list of landmarks here.

True North

Buy the Compass in Pwyll, then equip and activate it.

Suddenly I See

Find the Telescope, then equip and activate it.

No Room In Hell

Find and cast one of spells that summon a skeleton.

Lotions and Potions

Brew a potion.

Alchemical Aptitude

Brew an elixir.

Over The Limit

Drink alcohol.

You Can’t Handle the Truth

Drink a Truth potion.

Better Than Rags

Upgrade a piece of clothing.

All Dressed Up

Fully upgrade a piece of clothing.

Not So Rusty

Upgrade a weapon.

The Well-Tempered Blade

Fully upgrade a weapon.

To The Manor Born

Purchase Thornwood Manor from a Union clerk in Hallow Town.

A Forever Home

Purchase a house from a shopkeeper in Sepulchre.

Panoply of the Ancients

Find the Emberian Armour on Aristide’s Rock and upgrade it.

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