Elden Ring Nightreign Achievement Guide: Complete 100%

Elden Ring Nightreign packs 37 achievements into FromSoftware’s roguelite spin on the Elden Ring formula, and Steam’s own unlock-rate data shows the real difficulty sits in randomness rather than raw skill. Eight mandatory Nightlord expeditions form the backbone of the list, but several achievements depend entirely on random Shifting Earth events or rare boss spawns inside Evergaols, meaning patience and repeated runs matter more than mechanical mastery for full completion.

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Quick Stats

• Total Achievements: 37 (Forsaken Hollows DLC not required for 100% completion)
• Estimated Completion Time: 40-60 hours for full 100% completion, including repeated runs for random events
• Difficulty: Medium to Hard, driven mostly by RNG-dependent Shifting Earth events and rare Evergaol boss spawns rather than combat difficulty alone
• Online Required: No, but achievements are easier with a coordinated 3-player party
• Missable Achievements: No true missables. All eight Nightlord expeditions and their associated achievements can be repeated indefinitely across runs

Achievement List by Category

Story and Nightlord Expeditions

• The Shrouded Roundtable Hold
• The Nightlords
• Night Begins
• Dawn
• Tricephalos
• Gaping Jaw
• Sentient Pest
• Augur
• Equilibrious Beast
• Darkdrift Knight
• Fissure in the Fog
• Night Aspect
• Nightlord Conqueror
• Nightlord Slayer

Characters and Companions

• The Duchess Joins the Fray
• The Revenant Joins the Fray
• A Champion’s Path

Gear and Progression

• Relic
• Vessel
• Obtained Vessels
• Legendary Armament
• Dresser
• Mastery
• Replenished Sacred Flasks
• Set and Steadfast

Combat Challenges

• Untold Power
• Old Gaol

Shifting Earth and Raid Events

• Mountaintop
• Rotted Woods
• The Crater
• Noklateo, the Shrouded City
• Shifting Earth
• Fell Omen
• Plague of Locusts
• Typhoon
• True Arbiter

Full Completion

• Nightreign

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 and Nightlord Expeditions

The Shrouded Roundtable Hold

Unlock Rate: 97.3% (Common)

Requirement: Reached the Shrouded Roundtable Hold.

How to Unlock: Complete the tutorial, facing the Fell Omen boss at the end. Whether you defeat it or are killed by it, you’ll be transported to Roundtable Hold, unlocking this achievement.

Tips: This is unmissable and unlocks automatically within your first few minutes of play, regardless of how the tutorial boss fight goes.

The Nightlords

Unlock Rate: 81.0% (Common)

Requirement: The Nightlords appeared.

How to Unlock: Successfully complete your first Expedition, then interact with the Roundtable to reveal an expanded list of Nightlords you can target.

Tips: This happens naturally after your very first successful expedition run.

Night Begins

Unlock Rate: 62.2% (Common)

Requirement: Defeated four different Nightlords.

How to Unlock: Defeat any four Nightlords total, including the mandatory Tricephalos expedition. Any combination of three other Nightlords unlocks access to the final boss.

Tips: This is a natural progression milestone reached partway through a full completionist run.

Dawn

Unlock Rate: 49.9% (Uncommon)

Requirement: Completed the game and saw an ending.

How to Unlock: Defeat the final boss, Heolstor the Nightlord, then touch the corpse to receive the Nightlord’s Rune and trigger an ending cutscene.

Tips: You don’t need to have completed all seven other expeditions first. If a friend invites you into their final expedition, it still counts toward this achievement. Make sure to complete the final boss on a character other than the one whose Remembrance quest you’re finishing, since some players report missing this achievement by completing it on the wrong character.

Tricephalos

Unlock Rate: 80.9% (Common)

Requirement: Defeated the Nightlord Gladius.

How to Unlock: Complete the Tricephalos Expedition and defeat the Nightlord Gladius, Beast of Night.

Tips: This is one of the mandatory early expeditions and a good starting point for new players.

Gaping Jaw

Unlock Rate: 68.6% (Common)

Requirement: Defeated the Nightlord Adel.

How to Unlock: Complete the Gaping Jaw Expedition and defeat the Nightlord Adel, Baron of Night.

Tips: Defeating Adel here also unlocks raid events for future runs, since raids only appear starting from Expedition 2 onward.

Sentient Pest

Unlock Rate: 63.8% (Common)

Requirement: Defeated the Nightlord Gnoster.

How to Unlock: Complete the Sentient Pest Expedition and defeat the Nightlord Gnoster, Wisdom of Night.

Tips: This expedition is commonly recommended as one of the easier Nightlords to start with.

Augur

Unlock Rate: 61.2% (Common)

Requirement: Defeated the Nightlord Maris.

How to Unlock: Complete the Augur Expedition and defeat the Nightlord Maris, Fathom of Night.

Tips: This expedition also has a chance to trigger the Typhoon raid achievement, so keep an eye out for that random event during your run.

Equilibrious Beast

Unlock Rate: 57.3% (Common)

Requirement: Defeated the Nightlord Libra.

How to Unlock: Complete the Equilibrious Beast Expedition and defeat the Nightlord Libra.

Tips: This is generally considered one of the tougher of the eight Nightlord fights, so consider tackling it later once your build is stronger.

Darkdrift Knight

Unlock Rate: 56.8% (Common)

Requirement: Defeated the Nightlord Fulghor.

How to Unlock: Complete the Darkdrift Knight Expedition and defeat the Nightlord Fulghor.

Tips: Fulghor rewards aggressive, well-timed play, so bring strong poise-breaking weapons if your build allows it.

Fissure in the Fog

Unlock Rate: 56.6% (Common)

Requirement: Defeated the Nightlord Caligo.

How to Unlock: Complete the Fissure in the Fog Expedition and defeat the Nightlord Caligo.

Tips: Caligo’s fight involves heavy frost-based attacks, so bring frostbite resistance or healing if you have the option.

Night Aspect

Unlock Rate: 52.6% (Common)

Requirement: Defeated Heolstor the Nightlord.

How to Unlock: Complete the final, eighth Expedition and defeat the Night Aspect, Heolstor.

Tips: This is the true final boss of the base campaign, and defeating it also grants Dawn and contributes to Nightlord Conqueror.

Nightlord Conqueror

Unlock Rate: 49.0% (Uncommon)

Requirement: Defeated all Nightlords.

How to Unlock: Defeat all eight Nightlords, including Heolstor, the final boss.

Tips: This is a story-related, unmissable milestone once you’ve cleared all eight expeditions across however many runs it takes.

Nightlord Slayer

Unlock Rate: 47.1% (Uncommon)

Requirement: Defeated three different Nightlords in a row.

How to Unlock: Defeat three different Nightlords consecutively without failing an expedition in between.

Tips: A failed expedition resets your progress toward this achievement, so playing with a coordinated group using voice chat significantly improves your odds of stringing three wins together.

Characters and Companions

The Duchess Joins the Fray

Unlock Rate: 77.3% (Common)

Requirement: Unlocked the Duchess as a playable character.

How to Unlock: Obtain the Old Pocketwatch, either as a random reward from any expedition or guaranteed from completing your first expedition, then give it to the Priestess in Roundtable Hold.

Tips: The Priestess you meet early in Roundtable Hold is secretly the Duchess herself, so this quest reveals her true identity.

The Revenant Joins the Fray

Unlock Rate: 60.6% (Common)

Requirement: Unlocked the Revenant as a playable character.

How to Unlock: First unlock the Duchess, then purchase the Besmirched Mirror at the Small Jar Bazaar for 1,500 Murk. Head to the southeast hallway near the Remembrance journal and interact with a hidden spirit, then defeat the Night Idol in an instanced fight to unlock the Revenant.

Tips: This requires completing The Duchess Joins the Fray first, so make sure you’ve unlocked her before attempting this questline.

A Champion’s Path

Unlock Rate: 18.0% (Rare)

Requirement: Defeated the Nightlord with all characters.

How to Unlock: Defeat any Nightlord, including the final boss, using every one of the eight playable Nightfarer characters at least once each.

Tips: Since Duchess and Revenant must be unlocked first, plan to try every character across multiple runs rather than sticking to one favorite the whole time.

Gear and Progression

Relic

Unlock Rate: 86.7% (Common)

Requirement: Invoked the power of a relic for the first time.

How to Unlock: After your first expedition, head to the Relic Rites table in Roundtable Hold and equip any Relic you’ve earned.

Tips: This happens naturally after your first run, since expeditions reward Relics you can immediately equip.

Vessel

Unlock Rate: 68.1% (Common)

Requirement: Acquired a new vessel and conducted a different relic rite for the first time.

How to Unlock: Purchase a Vessel from the Small Jar Bazaar in Roundtable Hold, then equip it at the Relic Rites table.

Tips: Vessels change which Relic slots are available, so this is a simple purchase-and-equip action once you have enough Murk.

Obtained Vessels

Unlock Rate: 29.3% (Rare)

Requirement: Acquired a great many vessels.

How to Unlock: Purchase every available Vessel from the Small Jar Bazaar as they unlock through expedition progress.

Tips: More Vessels become purchasable as you complete more expeditions, so this naturally completes alongside a full run through all eight Nightlords.

Legendary Armament

Unlock Rate: 76.3% (Common)

Requirement: Acquired a legendary armament for the first time.

How to Unlock: Find a Legendary-quality weapon as a chest or boss reward, or upgrade an existing weapon to Legendary quality at the special smithing table found at the Crater Shifting Earth location.

Tips: If you’re struggling to find one naturally, prioritize triggering the Crater Shifting Earth event, since its smithing table lets you upgrade a weapon you already have.

Dresser

Unlock Rate: 56.1% (Common)

Requirement: Changed garb via dresser for the first time.

How to Unlock: Complete your second expedition and defeat your second Nightlord to unlock the Dresser in Roundtable Hold, then use it to change your outfit once.

Tips: The cheapest available outfit typically costs around 14,000 Murk, so make sure you’ve saved up enough currency before attempting this.

Mastery

Unlock Rate: 61.6% (Common)

Requirement: Attained maximum level.

How to Unlock: Continue playing expeditions and defeating enemies until your character reaches the maximum level within a single run.

Tips: Reaching max level solo is considerably harder than in a full party, so team up with others if you’re struggling to hit the cap.

Replenished Sacred Flasks

Unlock Rate: 76.1% (Common)

Requirement: Acquired a great number of flask charges.

How to Unlock: Collect a total of 7 Sacred Flask charges in a single run. You start with 3, so find 4 additional charges at churches marked on the map, or receive one automatically for defeating the Day 2 boss.

Tips: Make sure to visit at least three churches and defeat the second-day boss in the same run to reach the required total of 7.

Set and Steadfast

Unlock Rate: 46.0% (Uncommon)

Requirement: Acquired many pieces of high-rarity equipment on a single expedition.

How to Unlock: Fill all six of your equipment slots with items of purple or Legendary rarity within a single run.

Tips: This demands a genuinely lucky loot run, so prioritize chests and boss drops over lower-rarity gear whenever you have the choice.

Combat Challenges

Untold Power

Unlock Rate: 81.0% (Common)

Requirement: Defeated 10 or more great enemies on one expedition.

How to Unlock: Defeat 10 Great Enemies, which include Field Bosses, Evergaol bosses, and points-of-interest bosses, within a single expedition run.

Tips: Not every enemy counts as a Great Enemy, so focus on named bosses with their own health bar at the bottom of the screen. Pace yourself across both days, aiming for roughly three to four on Day 1 and six to seven on Day 2.

Old Gaol

Unlock Rate: 53.1% (Common)

Requirement: Completed the oldest gaol.

How to Unlock: Keep opening Evergaols, especially during the second half of Day 2, until one spawns as the randomly buffed Oldest Gaol, containing a boss like the Ancient Dragon, Death-Rite Bird, Godskin Duo, or Placidusax. Defeat whichever boss appears.

Tips: There’s only a small chance for any given Evergaol to become the Oldest Gaol, with some players reporting the Evergaol closest to the map’s center as the most likely candidate. Keep opening Evergaols across multiple runs if it doesn’t appear right away.

Shifting Earth and Raid Events

Mountaintop

Unlock Rate: 54.1% (Common)

Requirement: Found the secret of the Mountaintop.

How to Unlock: Trigger the Mountaintop Shifting Earth event on the map, then climb to the top of the northwestern peaks to find the Power of the Mountaintop.

Tips: You don’t need to defeat any enemies for this one, but be careful of frostbite damage as you climb.

Rotted Woods

Unlock Rate: 53.9% (Common)

Requirement: Found the secret of the Rotted Woods.

How to Unlock: Trigger the Rotted Woods Shifting Earth event, then head into the Scarlet Rot-infested southeastern forest and climb a tree trunk to find the Power of the Woods.

Tips: This event tends to appear after the Mountaintop event has already occurred once in a previous run.

The Crater

Unlock Rate: 54.7% (Common)

Requirement: Found the secret of the Crater.

How to Unlock: Trigger the Crater Shifting Earth event, head to the lowest part of the lava area, defeat the Magma Wyrm boss, then upgrade a weapon to Legendary quality at the altar.

Tips: This is typically the first Shifting Earth event to appear, often shortly after completing the Tricephalos expedition.

Noklateo, the Shrouded City

Unlock Rate: 46.0% (Uncommon)

Requirement: Found the secret of Noklateo, the Shrouded City.

How to Unlock: Trigger the Noklateo Shifting Earth event after the Crater, Mountaintop, and Rotted Woods events have all previously appeared, then find and claim the location’s secret.

Tips: This tends to be one of the later Shifting Earth events to unlock, so patience across several runs helps it appear.

Shifting Earth

Unlock Rate: 37.2% (Uncommon)

Requirement: Found the secrets of all Shifting Earth locations.

How to Unlock: Trigger and complete all four Shifting Earth events, the Crater, Mountaintop, Rotted Woods, and Noklateo, across your runs.

Tips: Since these events rotate somewhat unpredictably, this is best treated as a long-term goal you chip away at over many expeditions rather than something to force in one sitting.

Fell Omen

Unlock Rate: 58.0% (Common)

Requirement: Completed the Fell Omen raid.

How to Unlock: Trigger the Fell Omen raid event, which spawns this boss suddenly near your party, then defeat it within the short time limit.

Tips: Raid events only appear starting from Expedition 2 onward, once you’ve defeated Adel. Keep your party together during this fight rather than scattering across the map.

Plague of Locusts

Unlock Rate: 48.5% (Uncommon)

Requirement: Completed the Sentient Pest raid.

How to Unlock: Track down the Sentient Pest Field Boss by following the locusts that steal levels from your party, then defeat it to complete the raid.

Tips: This raid triggers randomly during any run, so keep an eye out for the level-draining locust effect as a sign it’s active.

Typhoon

Unlock Rate: 55.9% (Common)

Requirement: Completed the Augur raid.

How to Unlock: Trigger and complete the Augur raid event during any expedition run.

Tips: This raid has been reported as more common during Expeditions 5 and 6, though the exact trigger conditions remain somewhat random.

True Arbiter

Unlock Rate: 52.5% (Common)

Requirement: Completed the Equilibrious Beast raid.

How to Unlock: Trigger the Equilibrious Beast raid, which halves your entire party’s maximum HP, then find the special merchant on the map who sells a cure for the curse and purchase it to complete the raid.

Tips: Only one party member needs to make the purchase for the curse to lift from everyone, so coordinate with your team to find the merchant quickly.

Full Completion

Nightreign

Unlock Rate: 15.7% (Rare)

Requirement: Earned all achievements.

How to Unlock: Unlock every other achievement in the game.

Tips: Since Forsaken Hollows DLC content is not required for 100% completion, this is achievable with the base game alone, though the random Shifting Earth and raid events will likely be your last remaining hurdles.

5-Phase 100% Completion Roadmap

Phase 1: Core Expeditions Work through the eight mandatory Nightlord expeditions, Tricephalos, Gaping Jaw, Sentient Pest, Augur, Equilibrious Beast, Darkdrift Knight, Fissure in the Fog, and Night Aspect, picking up Night Begins, Nightlord Conqueror, and Dawn along the way.

P2: Characters and Gear Foundations Unlock the Duchess and Revenant through their respective questlines, then work through Relic, Vessel, Dresser, and Legendary Armament as natural byproducts of expedition progress and Murk accumulation.

P3: Shifting Earth and Raid Hunting Prioritize triggering every Shifting Earth event, the Crater, Mountaintop, Rotted Woods, and Noklateo, along with the four raid types, Fell Omen, Plague of Locusts, Typhoon, and True Arbiter, since these are random and worth chasing whenever they appear rather than waiting.

P4: Mop-Up Challenges Tackle Nightlord Slayer once your team can reliably chain three expedition wins, and save Old Gaol for late-game runs where you’re consistently opening every Evergaol you find. Work toward Untold Power, Replenished Sacred Flasks, Mastery, and A Champion’s Path as you refine your build and try every character.

P5: Full Completion Once every other achievement is unlocked, including the RNG-dependent Set and Steadfast and Obtained Vessels, Nightreign will unlock automatically as your final reward.

Conclusion

Elden Ring Nightreign’s 37 achievements reward patience with randomness as much as combat skill, since several of the rarest unlocks depend on Shifting Earth events and Evergaol boss spawns that won’t appear on command. Budget 40-60 hours for full completion, play with a coordinated group when possible for achievements like Nightlord Slayer and Fell Omen, and treat Old Gaol and the Shifting Earth achievements as long-term goals you chip away at across many runs rather than something to force in a single sitting.