Resident Evil Village Achievement Guide: Complete 100%

Resident Evil Village packs 56 achievements across the base game and its Shadows of Rose and Additional Orders DLC content. Steam’s unlock-rate data shows a steep drop-off after the story achievements, from the 58-86% range down into single digits for the difficulty stack, speedrun, and no-heal challenges. Full completion realistically demands three to four separate playthroughs at increasing difficulty.

Quick Stats

• Total Achievements: 56
• Estimated Completion Time: 30-40 hours for full 100% completion across multiple playthroughs
• Difficulty: Hard overall, driven by the Village of Shadows difficulty tier and the combined speedrun/no-heal/knife-only challenge run
• Online Required: No
• Missable Achievements: Yes, roughly 19 achievements are missable in a single playthrough, including Goooaaal!, Heretic, Mapmatician, and several collectible and combat achievements tied to specific moments

Achievement List by Category

Story Progression (Unmissable)

• Not Lycan This…
• Four Lords
• That Sucked!
• Got No Strings
• Fish Out of Water
• Up Urs!
• Temporary Measures
• Iron Giant Down
• The Root of the Matter

Difficulty Achievements

• Great Dad
• Best Dad Ever
• World’s Best Dad
• Universe’s Best Dad

Combat Achievements

• Strategist
• Push Comes to Shove
• Trick Shot
• Medium Rare
• Fast Reflexes
• Leader of the Pack
• Timber
• Quit Hanging Around
• Squawk Shot

Crafting and Shop Achievements

• Crafter
• Patron
• Gunsmith
• Veteran Gunsmith
• Repairer
• Artisan
• Tinkerer

Exploration and Collectible Achievements

• Petty Thief
• Hunter
• Get the Ball Rolling
• Goooaaal!
• Cynic
• Heretic
• Mapmatician
• When You Gotta Go…
• Hooligan
• Photographer
• Doll Collector
• Art Collector
• Bookworm
• Lucky Number 7

Challenge Run Achievements

• Don’t Trust That Snake Oil
• Dashing Dad
• Frugal Father
• Knives Out

The Mercenaries Achievements

• Combo King
• Legendary Cowboy

Shadows of Rose DLC Achievements

• Green Teen
• Serene Teen
• Supreme Teen
• It’s Starting to Grow on Me
• Craftsmaster

Additional Orders DLC Achievements

• Village of Blood
• River of Blood

Achievements by Category

Achievement names, unlock rates, and rarity below come directly from Steam’s own achievement data. Unlock requirements below are based on our own testing and verified trophy data.

Story Progression

Not Lycan This…

Unlock Rate: 84.7% (Common)

Requirement: Survive the lycan attack.

How to Unlock: Survive the first major lycan battle shortly after arriving in the village.

Tips: This is a mandatory story sequence and will unlock as you progress naturally.

Four Lords

Unlock Rate: 79.0% (Common)

Requirement: Escape the mine.

How to Unlock: Progress through the story until you meet the Four Lords and escape the trapped mine.

Tips: Story-related and unmissable on your way from the village to Castle Dimitrescu.

That Sucked!

Unlock Rate: 68.3% (Common)

Requirement: Defeat the mutated Dimitrescu.

How to Unlock: Beat the mutated Lady Dimitrescu boss fight after escaping the castle.

Tips: This is one of the main story bosses, so it will not be missed on a normal playthrough.

Got No Strings

Unlock Rate: 64.1% (Common)

Requirement: Defeat Donna and Angie.

How to Unlock: Defeat Donna Beneviento and her doll Angie, then escape the Beneviento house.

Tips: Story-related boss encounter, unmissable during normal progression.

Fish Out of Water

Unlock Rate: 62.2% (Common)

Requirement: Defeat the mutated Moreau.

How to Unlock: Defeat the mutated Salvatore Moreau boss after visiting the reservoir.

Tips: This fight takes place around the reservoir area and is required to continue the story.

Up Urs!

Unlock Rate: 61.0% (Common)

Requirement: Defeat Uriaș in the stronghold.

How to Unlock: Make your way through the Stronghold area and defeat the Uriaș boss.

Tips: Story-related and unmissable, this occurs after fighting through Heisenberg’s stronghold defenses.

Temporary Measures

Unlock Rate: 60.8% (Common)

Requirement: Place the Giant’s Chalice in the ceremony site.

How to Unlock: Collect all required flasks and place the Giant’s Chalice at the ceremony site as directed by the story.

Tips: This is a mandatory objective tied to progressing past the Stronghold section.

Iron Giant Down

Unlock Rate: 59.2% (Common)

Requirement: Defeat the mutated Heisenberg.

How to Unlock: Beat the mutated Karl Heisenberg boss fight in the Factory.

Tips: This fight involves a vehicle chase sequence, so stay aggressive with rockets when he closes distance.

The Root of the Matter

Unlock Rate: 59.0% (Common)

Requirement: Find the Megamycete in the underground ruins.

How to Unlock: Progress the story into the underground ruins until you locate the Megamycete.

Tips: Story-related and unmissable, this leads directly into the game’s final stretch.

Difficulty Achievements

Great Dad

Unlock Rate: 58.2% (Common)

Requirement: Finish the story on at least Casual difficulty.

How to Unlock: Complete the full campaign on Casual, the lowest available difficulty.

Tips: Difficulty achievements stack, so beating a higher difficulty automatically unlocks the ones below it.

Best Dad Ever

Unlock Rate: 48.3% (Uncommon)

Requirement: Finish the story on at least Standard difficulty.

How to Unlock: Complete the full campaign on Standard difficulty.

Tips: If your first playthrough is on Standard or higher, this and Great Dad unlock together.

World’s Best Dad

Unlock Rate: 15.8% (Rare)

Requirement: Finish the story on at least Hardcore difficulty.

How to Unlock: Complete the full campaign on Hardcore difficulty.

Tips: Hardcore is unlocked from the start, but most players save it for a later playthrough once they know enemy patterns.

Universe’s Best Dad

Unlock Rate: 9.4% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Finish the story on the Village of Shadows difficulty.

How to Unlock: Complete the full campaign on Village of Shadows, the hardest difficulty, unlocked after beating the game once.

Tips: Save up roughly 2.1 million Lei during earlier playthroughs to afford the S.T.A.K.E. Magnum and its infinite ammo upgrade, which makes this difficulty far more manageable.

Combat Achievements

Strategist

Unlock Rate: 67.3% (Common)

Requirement: Defeat at least three enemies with one attack in the story.

How to Unlock: Line up multiple enemies and land a single attack, such as an explosive or a well-placed melee swing, that kills three or more at once.

Tips: Grenades and pipe bombs make this easy when enemies group up during early village encounters.

Push Comes to Shove

Unlock Rate: 42.7% (Uncommon)

Requirement: Push away an enemy after guarding in the story.

How to Unlock: Guard against an incoming attack, then use the push-back action to shove the enemy away.

Tips: This is a core defensive mechanic you’ll naturally trigger while fighting through the village’s early encounters.

Trick Shot

Unlock Rate: 42.4% (Uncommon)

Requirement: Defeat an enemy from long range with the sniper rifle in the story.

How to Unlock: Acquire the sniper rifle and use it to kill an enemy from a significant distance.

Tips: The sniper rifle becomes available partway through the story, so save a shot for a distant target once you have it equipped.

Medium Rare

Unlock Rate: 46.0% (Uncommon)

Requirement: Set fire to a Moroaică in the story.

How to Unlock: Use fire-based weapons or environmental fire sources on a Moroaică enemy.

Tips: Moroaică enemies appear in Castle Dimitrescu, so keep incendiary grenades or a Molotov-style item on hand when you reach that area.

Fast Reflexes

Unlock Rate: 11.0% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Knock a flaming arrow out of the sky with a close combat weapon in the story.

How to Unlock: On your way to the Stronghold, lycan archers will fire flaming arrows at you. Time a knife slash to knock one out of the air mid-flight.

Tips: This takes a few attempts to time correctly. Keep First Aid Meds on hand while practicing since you’ll take damage from other lycans while trying.

Leader of the Pack

Unlock Rate: 30.2% (Uncommon)

Requirement: Take down the Vârcolac Alfa in the story.

How to Unlock: After defeating Moreau, an optional mini-boss called Vârcolac Alfa spawns in the scarecrow field in front of Luiza’s house. Stock up on ammo and defeat it.

Tips: This is easy to miss since it’s an optional encounter rather than a mandatory story beat.

Timber

Unlock Rate: 15.0% (Rare)

Requirement: Defeat Uriaș during the first lycan attack when you enter the village.

How to Unlock: During the very first lycan ambush after finding a radio in a house, Uriaș eventually spawns near the river. Defeat him during this specific encounter rather than later.

Tips: This is easy to miss on a first playthrough since most players are just trying to survive the ambush. Save it for New Game Plus once you know exactly when Uriaș appears.

Quit Hanging Around

Unlock Rate: 19.8% (Rare)

Requirement: Shoot down a Soldat hanging from the production line in the Factory.

How to Unlock: In Heisenberg’s Factory, shoot any of the Soldat enemies hanging from the production lines scattered throughout the area.

Tips: You can trigger this the first time you meet the Duke in the Factory by shooting one of the nearby hanging Soldats.

Squawk Shot

Unlock Rate: 15.4% (Rare)

Requirement: Shoot down five flying crows in the story.

How to Unlock: Shoot down five crows during your playthrough.

Tips: On your second visit to the village after Castle Dimitrescu, you’ll find four crows eating a body in the graveyard and two more near the Fallow Plot area. Pick up the shotgun beforehand to make the kills easier.

Crafting and Shop Achievements

Crafter

Unlock Rate: 86.4% (Common)

Requirement: Craft an item in the Crafting menu.

How to Unlock: Open the Crafting menu and craft any item.

Tips: This happens naturally within your first hour as you pick up crafting materials.

Patron

Unlock Rate: 77.0% (Common)

Requirement: Purchase something from the Duke in the story.

How to Unlock: Buy any item from the Duke’s shop, other than free items.

Tips: Free items you claim from the Duke do not count, so make sure you spend actual Lei on a purchase.

Gunsmith

Unlock Rate: 74.8% (Common)

Requirement: Equip a gun with a customizable part.

How to Unlock: Find or buy a weapon customization part and attach it to a gun.

Tips: Customization parts appear scattered throughout the world and are also purchasable from the Duke.

Veteran Gunsmith

Unlock Rate: 6.2% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Equip every gun with their customizable parts in the story.

How to Unlock: Attach every available customization part to every weapon that supports one, all within a single playthrough.

Tips: This requires collecting a large number of parts, many of which are purchased from the Duke, so budget your Lei carefully across a dedicated playthrough.

Repairer

Unlock Rate: 57.7% (Common)

Requirement: Combine a treasure into its complete form.

How to Unlock: Find both halves of a combinable treasure item and merge them together.

Tips: One of the earliest opportunities is combining the Azure Eye and Silver Ring treasures found in Castle Dimitrescu.

Artisan

Unlock Rate: 5.8% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Collect every crafting recipe.

How to Unlock: Find or purchase every available crafting recipe in the game.

Tips: Recipes are scattered throughout the world and sold by the Duke, so a thorough exploration playthrough is the most reliable way to collect them all.

Tinkerer

Unlock Rate: 4.6% (Ultra Rare)

Requirement: Create every type of item available in the Crafting menu.

How to Unlock: Craft at least one of every single item type listed in the Crafting menu.

Tips: This requires having every recipe unlocked first through Artisan, then stockpiling enough materials to craft one of each item type.

Exploration and Collectible Achievements

Petty Thief

Unlock Rate: 74.8% (Common)

Requirement: Unlock a simple lock with a lockpick.

How to Unlock: Find a lockpick and use it on any locked cupboard or drawer.

Tips: The Duke gives you a lockpick early on, and there are plenty of locked containers throughout the story to use it on.

Hunter

Unlock Rate: 69.3% (Common)

Requirement: Hunt an animal during the story.

How to Unlock: Kill any animal, such as a chicken, fish, pig, or goat, found throughout the village and surrounding areas.

Tips: Fish appear in bodies of water as you leave Castle Dimitrescu, making this one of the earliest achievements you can pick up.

Get the Ball Rolling

Unlock Rate: 66.5% (Common)

Requirement: Solve a Labyrinth.

How to Unlock: Find one of the four Labyrinth puzzle balls in the game and solve its matching miniature maze puzzle.

Tips: One of the earliest is found in the Merchant’s Room area of Castle Dimitrescu, and another ball can be found in a house shortly after escaping the Beneviento house.

Goooaaal!

Unlock Rate: 14.3% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Move the ball from the Winterses’ bedroom into the study.

How to Unlock: In the Winters’ bedroom upstairs, kick the yellow ball into the study, the room in the back right corner.

Tips: This is easy to miss since it requires noticing and interacting with a specific ball in a specific room rather than following the main story path.

Cynic

Unlock Rate: 76.8% (Common)

Requirement: Destroy a Goat of Warding.

How to Unlock: Find and destroy any single Goat of Warding statue.

Tips: These statues are scattered throughout the map, and destroying just one is enough for this achievement.

Heretic

Unlock Rate: 5.7% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Destroy all the Goats of Warding.

How to Unlock: Find and destroy all 20 Goat of Warding statues scattered across the game world.

Tips: Use a dedicated collectible map or spreadsheet to track all 20 locations, since several are tucked away in easy-to-miss corners.

Mapmatician

Unlock Rate: 37.0% (Uncommon)

Requirement: Complete the village map.

How to Unlock: Visit every area shown on the village map, including a hidden chamber in the bottom-left of the map only accessible after defeating Moreau and receiving the crank.

Tips: A full collectibles playthrough naturally visits most areas, but that final hidden chamber requires the crank item to access, so don’t forget to backtrack for it.

When You Gotta Go…

Unlock Rate: 18.1% (Rare)

Requirement: Open the door to every outhouse in the village in a single playthrough.

How to Unlock: Locate and open every outhouse door scattered throughout the village during one continuous playthrough.

Tips: This must be done in a single playthrough, so keep track of which outhouses you’ve already opened as you explore.

Hooligan

Unlock Rate: 8.7% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Break every breakable window in Castle Dimitrescu in a single playthrough.

How to Unlock: Find and break every destructible window throughout Castle Dimitrescu during one playthrough.

Tips: This requires thorough exploration of the entire castle rather than following the critical path, so take your time on this section.

Photographer

Unlock Rate: 50.8% (Common)

Requirement: Use Photo Mode.

How to Unlock: Open and use Photo Mode from the pause menu.

Tips: Photo Mode is available from the start, so this can be picked up at any point in the game.

Doll Collector

Unlock Rate: 9.4% (Very Rare)

Requirement: View all character and weapon models.

How to Unlock: Spend Challenge Points in the Extra Content Shop to unlock all character and weapon models, then view them in the Bonuses menu.

Tips: You’ll have earned more than enough Challenge Points from your first playthrough to buy everything under the Figures heading.

Art Collector

Unlock Rate: 8.3% (Very Rare)

Requirement: View all concept art.

How to Unlock: Spend Challenge Points in the Extra Content Shop to unlock all concept art, then view it in the Bonuses menu.

Tips: Like Doll Collector, this is best done after your first playthrough once you’ve accumulated enough Challenge Points.

Bookworm

Unlock Rate: 7.0% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Read every single file in the story.

How to Unlock: Find and read every collectible document scattered throughout the game.

Tips: This is one of the harder collection achievements. A dedicated collectibles playthrough with a location guide is the most reliable approach.

Lucky Number 7

Unlock Rate: 4.9% (Ultra Rare)

Requirement: Have 777, 7,777, or 77,777 Lei in your possession in the story.

How to Unlock: Accumulate exactly one of the three specified Lei amounts at some point during a playthrough.

Tips: After beating the story once, buy the WCX Assault Rifle and its Rifle Ammo recipe, then spend down to near zero and craft Rifle Ammo at 7 Lei each to precisely land on one of the target numbers.

Challenge Run Achievements

Don’t Trust That Snake Oil

Unlock Rate: 10.4% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Finish the story only using four or less recovery items.

How to Unlock: Complete a full playthrough while using four or fewer healing items total.

Tips: This combines well with Dashing Dad, Frugal Father, and Knives Out on a single Casual New Game Plus run. Your health regenerates partially over time even without items, so it’s more forgiving than it sounds.

Dashing Dad

Unlock Rate: 8.0% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Finish the story within 3 hours.

How to Unlock: Complete a full playthrough with a total time under three hours.

Tips: Do this on New Game Plus with the Karambit Knife purchased from the Extra Content Shop, since it deals much more damage and speeds up encounters considerably.

Frugal Father

Unlock Rate: 5.6% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Finish the story without spending more than 10,000 Lei.

How to Unlock: Complete a full playthrough while spending 10,000 Lei or less at the Duke’s shop.

Tips: On New Game Plus you likely won’t need to spend much at all, since you’ll already have most of what you need from previous playthroughs.

Knives Out

Unlock Rate: 3.7% (Ultra Rare)

Requirement: Finish the story using nothing but close combat weapons.

How to Unlock: Complete a full playthrough using only melee weapons, with narrow exceptions for a handful of forced-shooting story moments such as the Castle Dimitrescu bells, the pipe bomb wall, and parts of the Heisenberg and Miranda boss fights.

Tips: Buy the Karambit Knife from the Extra Content Shop before starting, since it makes melee-only combat significantly more manageable on Casual difficulty.

The Mercenaries Achievements

Combo King

Unlock Rate: 13.2% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Get a combo of at least 30 during The Mercenaries.

How to Unlock: In The Mercenaries mode, chain kills together to build a combo counter of 30 or higher in a single run.

Tips: The Mercenaries unlocks after beating the game once. Focus on clearing groups of enemies quickly rather than picking them off one at a time to keep your combo alive.

Legendary Cowboy

Unlock Rate: 4.3% (Ultra Rare)

Requirement: Achieve at least an S Rank on all stages in The Mercenaries.

How to Unlock: Earn an S Rank on every stage across all Mercenaries maps.

Tips: This demands mastering enemy spawn patterns and optimal routes on each map, so expect to replay individual stages multiple times to perfect your run.

Shadows of Rose DLC Achievements

Green Teen

Unlock Rate: 14.4% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Finish Shadows of Rose on at least Casual difficulty.

How to Unlock: Complete the Shadows of Rose DLC campaign on Casual difficulty.

Tips: Difficulty achievements in the DLC stack the same way as the base game, so a higher-difficulty clear unlocks this automatically too.

Serene Teen

Unlock Rate: 12.4% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Finish Shadows of Rose on at least Standard difficulty.

How to Unlock: Complete the Shadows of Rose DLC campaign on Standard difficulty.

Tips: If your first DLC playthrough is Standard or higher, this unlocks alongside Green Teen.

Supreme Teen

Unlock Rate: 4.2% (Ultra Rare)

Requirement: Finish Shadows of Rose on Hardcore difficulty.

How to Unlock: Complete the Shadows of Rose DLC campaign on Hardcore difficulty.

Tips: Save this for after you’ve learned Rose’s mutamycete powers and combat patterns on an earlier difficulty.

It’s Starting to Grow on Me

Unlock Rate: 16.7% (Rare)

Requirement: Use Rose’s mutamycete powers at least 20 times.

How to Unlock: Use Rose’s mutamycete ability, unlocked partway through the Castle section of the DLC after finding the Amplifier, at least 20 times.

Tips: This is essentially unmissable since you’ll use the power constantly on enemies and blocked paths throughout the rest of the DLC.

Craftsmaster

Unlock Rate: 5.3% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Craft every type of item in Shadows of Rose.

How to Unlock: Craft all four available items in the DLC: First Aid Med, Handgun Ammo, Shotgun Ammo, and Pipe Bomb.

Tips: Recipes unlock automatically as you progress through the linear DLC story, so just keep track of which ones you’ve crafted so far.

Additional Orders DLC Achievements

Village of Blood

Unlock Rate: 4.7% (Ultra Rare)

Requirement: Complete the Bloody Village in Additional Orders.

How to Unlock: Clear the Bloody Village map in the Additional Orders Mercenaries content.

Tips: This map is available once you own the Additional Orders content and have access to Mercenaries mode.

River of Blood

Unlock Rate: 4.5% (Ultra Rare)

Requirement: Complete the Bloody River in Additional Orders.

How to Unlock: Clear the Bloody River map in the Additional Orders Mercenaries content.

Tips: You must first earn at least an A Rank on the Bloody Village map before the Bloody River map becomes available.

5-Phase 100% Completion Roadmap

Phase 1: First Playthrough (Casual or Standard) Play through the story naturally, picking up Great Dad or Best Dad Ever alongside all nine story achievements, plus common combat and crafting achievements like Crafter, Patron, Gunsmith, and Strategist. Explore thoroughly to also grab Cynic, Hunter, Get the Ball Rolling, and Petty Thief along the way.

Phase 2: Collectible Cleanup Pass Use a second playthrough or New Game Plus to sweep for missable collectibles: all 20 Goats of Warding for Heretic, every file for Bookworm, all outhouses for When You Gotta Go…, every castle window for Hooligan, and the full village map for Mapmatician. Also pick up Goooaaal!, Timber, Leader of the Pack, and Fast Reflexes during this pass.

Phase 3: Shop and Crafting Completion Spend Challenge Points on Doll Collector and Art Collector, then work toward Artisan, Tinkerer, and Veteran Gunsmith by collecting every recipe and customization part. Combine treasures for Repairer and set aside Lei for Lucky Number 7’s precise currency target.

Phase 4: Challenge Run Start a Casual New Game Plus with the Karambit Knife and infinite ammo purchased from the Extra Content Shop. Combine Don’t Trust That Snake Oil, Dashing Dad, Frugal Father, and Knives Out into one efficient run under three hours, using four or fewer heals, under 10,000 Lei, and melee weapons only.

Phase 5: Village of Shadows and DLC Save up roughly 2.1 million Lei for the S.T.A.K.E. Magnum and its infinite ammo to make Universe’s Best Dad manageable on Village of Shadows. Finish with The Mercenaries for Combo King and Legendary Cowboy, then complete Shadows of Rose and Additional Orders for the remaining DLC achievements.

Conclusion

Resident Evil Village’s 56 achievements reward patient, methodical play more than raw skill, with the true difficulty concentrated in the Village of Shadows playthrough and the combined speedrun, no-heal, and knife-only challenge run. Budget 30-40 hours across three to four full playthroughs, and don’t underestimate the collectible achievements like Heretic and Bookworm, since Steam’s low single-digit unlock rates show most players never track down every Goat of Warding or file.