Alan Wake Steam Achievements

[Mariela Laflam]

Beforewe begin, we should go over a couple of things to help you plan out your 100%. Of course, I'd recommend just going through the base game achievements first, which is why we're only covering those in this video.

We'll need to do one playthrough on normal, or easy, for the first one. This will allow us to get ALMOST all of the collectibles, and most of the random miscellaneous achievements. I say almost for the collectibles because there are 14 that you'll only be able to get on our second playthrough, the Nightmare mode playthrough.

This is a much harder run which is only unlocked after beating the game once. We'll need to do a full playthrough on that difficulty to get another achievement for completing the game on that difficulty.

Now, we'll go ahead and go over all of the story related - unmissable achievements to get those out of the way. You don't have to think about them, you'll just get them automatically while playing through the game.

Then "Nordic Walking" for taking a walk through the logging area and meeting one of the quirky locals. You'll get this during Episode 1 and unfortunately, it's not an e-girl in the logging area, just a taken.

Now getting into missable achievements we have A LOT of collectibles. We're not going to go over those in this specific guide, but I'll be putting out a big guide showing every single collectible in the game.

"Paging Mr. Wake" for finding 25 manuscript pages, "Picking Up After Yourself" for finding all of the manuscript pages in Normal mode, and "Collector's Edition" for finding all of the manuscript pages in the game including Nightmare mode ones.

Yes, there are a lot of these. A very large portion of your first playthrough will be spent trying to track which ones you've gotten, so I made a google sheet to help you that you can get from the top of the page. Just make sure you make a copy of it instead of requesting to edit.

Not necessarily collectible, but another one to keep in mind is "Drink Em Both Up" for putting the lime in the coconut twice. During Episode 1 you'll be in the little diner and a couple of crazy old rock stars will ask you to turn on the jukebox. You'll want to do that. Then fast forward to Episode 5 you'll be walking past that same diner and will need to go in there and turn on the jukebox again. This has to be done in the same playthrough to count for the achievement.

"Float like a butterfly" is for performing a cinematic dodge. This is essentially just for dodging out of the way from an attack at the perfect time where the game puts you in slow-mo and shows it off. They are very forgiving about the window you have to do this so it shouldn't be too hard to do.

Then there's "It Flies, It Burns" for burning 1,000 birds. This you can grind out pretty easily in Episode 2 near the end when you return to the house where Barry is. You'll be out in the back yard with some flare gun cartridges and a large number of birds attacking you. Just kill all of those, and then once they're all dead you can reload the last checkpoint and do it all over again. Keep grinding that out until you get the achievement.

Speaking of killing things, there are a few achievements we can go over for killing the taken with certain things. It's worth noting your progress on these carries over from you first playthrough into your second playthrough so don't worry too much about getting them all during that first playthrough.

"Sound and Fury" is for killing four taken with a single flashbang. Once you start getting flashbangs, you'll want to try to group a few up and then use one grenade to get them all. There will be plenty of places for you to get this.

Then still kind of related to killing things, "Back, Back, I Say" will be for saving yourself with a flare. Basically as a few enemies are coming up you'll want to whip out a flare as they're attacking, and you'll get a nice slow-mo scene of you saving yourself.

Next, we can go over "Two For the Price of One" for killing two taken with a single shotgun blast. You'll want a bit of distance when taking shots and have two taken grouped up, that way your spread will hit both and you can get them both killed with the same shot.

Speaking of inanimate objects attacking you can get "Heavy Metal" for surviving the bulldozer attack. This will be during Episode 3 you'll have to fight the bulldozer after dropping down into a large area. A little tip to beating it is just to sit in one of these corners because it's very hard for it to hit you when it's running into walls. Then just keep using the light to slowly kill it until you finally do.

For another large inanimate object, we have "Iron Horse" for encountering a steam engine. This will be near the end of Episode 3 when you have to get into a locked door. Just make sure you stay outside and fight it with light until it's dead. Use the buildings or other solid objects to keep it from being able to hit you.

Next, we'll go over "Collateral Carnage" for defeating 20 taken with indirect means. This means using explosives, electricity, etc. as long as you aren't shooting them, but you're the one pushing them into it then it should count.

"Right of Way" is for driving over 15 taken. There will be plenty of situations with you having to drive so just make sure you use the lights on taken and then run them over to get this up to 15 of them.

Then "What Light Through Yonder Window" is for defeating 50 taken with the flaregun. You'll just need to allow them to group up and then shoot off of a flare to kill a few with one shot. Keep doing that when you can, and you'll eventually rack these up.

The last of these killing achievements will be "Taken Season" for defeating 50 taken with the hunting rifle. You have access to hunting rifle's less than other guns so this may take a while, but just try to use it when you can.

Moving on from those we can go over some random miscellaneous achievements. "Medical Opinions" will be for listening to Hartman's recordings. During Episode 4 you'll be in the lodge. Once you get the key to access the staff area you can go into a small room with a tape recorder and a bunch of paintings. Start listening to tapes on the recorder and once you listen to all three then you'll get the achievement.

Achievements and trophies make for excellent bragging rights, but they vary in difficulty. Some are easy to get and merely require a bit of patience and exploration. Others are so notoriously punishing that you'd rather bathe in honey before swan-diving into a fire ant hill.

Despite their difficulty, and actually, maybe because of their difficulty, these notoriously rare and challenging achievements have an allure to them. They're rare and, oftentimes, the talking points of a gaming community keen to share their shared struggles. This is especially true for obscure, difficult achievements, and all of them are huge accomplishments.

Updated on November 29, 2023, By Dominic Allen: Whether it's PlayStation Trophies, Xbox Achievements, or Steam Achievements, cheevos are big business for the gaming world now. Some titles even partially rely on achievement/trophy hunters for sales, like many visual novel games with ridiculously easy achievement lists.

One of the hardest Xbox games to fully complete early in the 360's life was Dead or Alive Xtreme 2. The sheer amount of hours required was out of this world for its time, though several modern games have surpassed it. For the Complete Item Collection achievement, you must have every swimsuit, accessory, and standard item in all nine girls' collections.

The problem is the swimsuits because every suit that isn't part of your character's set must be gifted. This means swapping to that character and either sending swimsuits in bulk or doing the full gifting process where the girl will spin around into that new suit. Both ways are incredibly inconsistent and will take hundreds of hours.

One of the toughest achievements, if not the toughest, in any Bethesda title, has to be Mein Leben from Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus. You must finish the game on Mein Leben difficulty, which is the same as the second hardest mode, I Am Death Incarnate, except you can't die. If you do, you must restart the whole game again.

Considering you can die so fast in Wolfenstein 2, this is beyond absurd. Wolfenstein 2 isn't a horror game where you can make it consistent most of the time. It's an action-packed FPS title where shootouts will always play a little differently. Even for highly skilled achievement hunters, Mein Leben will just be too much for the majority of them.

Wanted: Dead might be the hardest platinum/game completion of 2023 due to the sheer amount of skill required in various areas. There's a brutal 2D space shooter you must beat twice, but another ridiculous achievement is Ramen World Legend.

For this, you must finish an entire song (all of which are at least near the seven-minute mark) without missing a single note. Not only does your execution need to be on point, but your nerves are your worst enemy here. You must suppress that to get through the song, and that ain't easy with a seven-minute length.

Another savage achievement from a Bethesda title is You Asked For It from The Evil Within. This entails beating Akumu mode, where you die in one hit from virtually everything in the game. This was a rude awakening at the time, as you just hadn't seen this no-hit run style of play before in triple-A gaming.

Achievement hunters now had to do a no-hit run, and it was a massive difficulty jump. On the bright side, you don't need to worry about your healing items, but that's about it. It's so frustrating because of the pure perfection you have to pull off. You can get hit in so many ways that a lot of people did give up. Thankfully, The Evil Within 2 wasn't as difficult.

Max Payne 3 is hardly the easiest third-person shooter, even on Normal difficulty. But if you attempt to earn The Shadows Rushed Me achievement, you're going to think it's the hardest shooter ever. This is because the achievement requires that you beat the New York Minute game mode on Hardcore difficulty.

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