Resident Evil 3 Remake Achievement Guide: Complete 100%

Resident Evil 3 Remake packs 32 achievements into a shorter, more action-focused Resident Evil entry, and Steam’s own unlock-rate data confirms the game’s reputation as a faster, more linear experience than its predecessor. Story achievements clear well above 65%, but the true test sits entirely in the difficulty ladder, with Jill Valentine, the hardest achievement in the game, requiring an S rank clear on Inferno difficulty using only 5 saves and under 2 hours of play time.

Quick Stats

Total Achievements: 32
Estimated Completion Time: 15-20 hours for full 100% completion across multiple playthroughs
Difficulty: Medium to Hard, driven almost entirely by the Inferno difficulty S rank requirement for Jill Valentine
Online Required: No
Missable Achievements: Yes, primarily An Unfortunate End (defeating zombie Brad), which can be missed if you enter the police station using the detonator without killing him first, though a second chance exists on Nightmare and Inferno difficulty

Achievement List by Category

Story Progression (Unmissable)

First Escape
Somebody to Lean On
Nemesis Down?
Escape from the City
The Carlos Express
I Don’t Feel So Good
I Need a Hero
The Pursuer
Nemesis Down!?
Nemesis Down!!!

Combat and Interaction

Basic Chemistry
Get Organized
Gunsmith
Two For One Deal
Nemesis Down
An Unfortunate End

Collectibles

Hello, Charlie!
Goodbye, Charlie!
Kendo’s Armory
Power Stones
RE: Master of Unlocking
Bookworm

Difficulty and Rank Achievements

Survivor
Veteran
Conqueror
Dominator
Jill Valentine
Sensational Work!

Challenge Runs

Sprinter
I Might Need These Later!
Electric Slide
Minimalist

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

First Escape

Unlock Rate: 94.5% (Common)

Requirement: Escape from Jill’s apartment building.

How to Unlock: Survive the opening Nemesis encounter and escape Jill’s apartment building.

Tips: This is unmissable and unlocks within the first several minutes of the game.

Somebody to Lean On

Unlock Rate: 93.0% (Common)

Requirement: Escape from uptown Raccoon City.

How to Unlock: After Nemesis destroys the rescue helicopter, escape in a car and let Carlos save you during the resulting chase sequence.

Tips: This triggers automatically after the car accident with Nemesis, right as you enter the subway station.

Nemesis Down?

Unlock Rate: 74.8% (Common)

Requirement: Defeat Nemesis on the rooftop.

How to Unlock: Beat the first Nemesis boss encounter atop a burning construction site.

Tips: Shoot the fuel tank on his back to deal heavy damage and remove his flamethrower, making the rest of the fight considerably easier.

Escape from the City

Unlock Rate: 74.3% (Common)

Requirement: Make it out of Downtown Raccoon City.

How to Unlock: Progress the story until you board the subway train and leave Downtown Raccoon City behind.

Tips: Story-related and unmissable following the first Nemesis rooftop encounter.

The Carlos Express

Unlock Rate: 72.3% (Common)

Requirement: Leave R.P.D.

How to Unlock: Complete Carlos’s section inside the Raccoon Police Department and head toward the exit.

Tips: This concludes once you’ve finished everything required inside the police station offices.

I Don’t Feel So Good

Unlock Rate: 71.6% (Common)

Requirement: Leave the clock tower plaza.

How to Unlock: Defeat Nemesis during his second boss encounter at the Clock Tower Plaza, then leave the area.

Tips: Bring the Grenade Launcher with Flame Rounds if you have it, since fire damage staggers him effectively before you switch to your strongest weapon.

I Need a Hero

Unlock Rate: 69.4% (Common)

Requirement: Withstand the zombie siege.

How to Unlock: After Carlos administers the vaccine to cure Jill at the hospital, survive the resulting wave of enemies that follows.

Tips: Story-related and unmissable once you reach this point in Carlos’s hospital section.

The Pursuer

Unlock Rate: 68.1% (Common)

Requirement: Follow Nicholai deeper underground.

How to Unlock: Continue the story by pursuing Nicholai further into the underground facility.

Tips: This is a straightforward story progression achievement that unlocks as you advance the plot.

Nemesis Down!?

Unlock Rate: 66.9% (Common)

Requirement: Defeat Stage 2 Nemesis.

How to Unlock: Beat the second Nemesis boss encounter, his more mutated form.

Tips: Start with a Flame Grenade and shotgun shots to the face, then track and shoot the red weak points that appear when he stops to stagger him.

Nemesis Down!!!

Unlock Rate: 66.7% (Common)

Requirement: Defeat Stage 3 Nemesis.

How to Unlock: Beat the third and final Nemesis boss encounter in the NEST facility.

Tips: Use the railgun at the start of the fight, then shoot the pink tumors that appear as he moves, pushing batteries into position whenever he’s stunned.

Combat and Interaction

Basic Chemistry

Unlock Rate: 89.6% (Common)

Requirement: Craft an item.

How to Unlock: Combine any two compatible items, such as two Green Herbs, to craft something new.

Tips: This happens naturally within your first encounters as you manage healing items.

Get Organized

Unlock Rate: 82.9% (Common)

Requirement: Expand your inventory.

How to Unlock: Find and equip a Hip Pouch or similar item to increase your inventory slots.

Tips: Inventory expansion items are found scattered through the early game, so this comes naturally during normal exploration.

Gunsmith

Unlock Rate: 80.3% (Common)

Requirement: Improve a weapon.

How to Unlock: Find a weapon upgrade part and attach it to a compatible weapon.

Tips: Weapon parts appear throughout the campaign, so equip the first one you find on a weapon you plan to use.

Two For One Deal

Unlock Rate: 71.7% (Common)

Requirement: Defeat two enemies with a single shot.

How to Unlock: Line up two or more enemies and fire a single shot, typically from a shotgun or grenade launcher, that kills both at once.

Tips: The Power Station area or later fights against Deimos enemies offer good opportunities to line up a shotgun blast against grouped enemies.

Nemesis Down

Unlock Rate: 65.2% (Common)

Requirement: Cause Nemesis to relinquish an item.

How to Unlock: During Nemesis’s chase through Downtown, deal enough damage to force him to his knee, causing him to drop an item.

Tips: A single grenade thrown at him is usually enough to trigger this on Assisted or Standard difficulty. He only drops an item once per new location.

An Unfortunate End

Unlock Rate: 70.1% (Common)

Requirement: Defeat zombie Brad.

How to Unlock: As Carlos, encounter zombified Brad Vickers outside the R.P.D. and defeat him before entering the police station.

Tips: This is missable if you enter the station and use the detonator without killing Brad first. On Nightmare and Inferno difficulty, he returns for a second chance at the 1F Safety Deposit Room after you retrieve the detonator’s battery, giving you a backup opportunity.

Collectibles

Hello, Charlie!

Unlock Rate: 76.1% (Common)

Requirement: Destroy a Charlie Doll.

How to Unlock: Find and destroy any single Charlie Doll collectible scattered through the game.

Tips: The first Charlie Doll can be found between two newspaper vending machines shortly after Carlos rescues you from Nemesis.

Goodbye, Charlie!

Unlock Rate: 9.2% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Destroy all Charlie dolls.

How to Unlock: Find and destroy all 20 Charlie Dolls scattered throughout the entire game.

Tips: The final doll is found near the Culture Sample in the late-game vaccine lab area, so use a dedicated collectible guide to make sure you don’t miss any along the way.

Kendo’s Armory

Unlock Rate: 49.5% (Uncommon)

Requirement: Collect all weapons in the campaign.

How to Unlock: Find and pick up all 10 weapons available during the main campaign.

Tips: Most weapons are guaranteed story pickups, so a single thorough playthrough should net all 10 without needing extra runs.

Power Stones

Unlock Rate: 45.3% (Uncommon)

Requirement: Place all jewels in the clock tower monument.

How to Unlock: Find all required jewels and place them into the Clock Tower monument puzzle.

Tips: This puzzle is tied to the Clock Tower Plaza area, so keep an eye out for jewel collectibles as you explore that section.

RE: Master of Unlocking

Unlock Rate: 27.3% (Rare)

Requirement: Unlock all safes, lockers, strongboxes, and pickable locks.

How to Unlock: Find and open all 20 lockable containers scattered throughout the game using their respective keys, codes, or lockpicks.

Tips: This requires thorough exploration across the whole campaign, so a location guide helps track down every lock you might otherwise walk past.

Bookworm

Unlock Rate: 9.8% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Read all story files.

How to Unlock: Find and read all 56 collectible documents scattered throughout the game in a single playthrough.

Tips: With 56 total files needed, this is one of the harder collection achievements. Use a dedicated file-location guide during a thorough exploration run.

Difficulty and Rank Achievements

Survivor

Unlock Rate: 50.9% (Common)

Requirement: Complete the game on “Standard” or higher.

How to Unlock: Finish the full campaign on Standard difficulty or above.

Tips: This is a natural achievement to pick up on your first playthrough if you don’t start on Assisted difficulty.

Veteran

Unlock Rate: 18.1% (Rare)

Requirement: Complete the game on “Hardcore” or higher.

How to Unlock: Finish the full campaign on Hardcore difficulty, unlocked after completing the game once.

Tips: Completing Hardcore also unlocks Nightmare difficulty, so this is your gateway into the harder difficulty tiers.

Conqueror

Unlock Rate: 10.1% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Complete the game on “Nightmare” or higher.

How to Unlock: Finish the full campaign on Nightmare difficulty, unlocked after completing Hardcore.

Tips: Enemies deal significantly more damage and appear in different, often more numerous, placements on this difficulty. Completing it unlocks Inferno difficulty.

Dominator

Unlock Rate: 7.8% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Complete the game on “Inferno.”

How to Unlock: Finish the full campaign on Inferno, the hardest available difficulty, unlocked after completing Nightmare.

Tips: Most enemy hits can kill Jill from full health on this difficulty, and typewriters are far scarcer. Spend Records points on the Infinite Rocket Launcher and Defense Coins beforehand to make this far more manageable.

Jill Valentine

Unlock Rate: 7.1% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Complete the game with an S rank on “Inferno.”

How to Unlock: Finish the campaign on Inferno difficulty with an S rank, requiring 5 or fewer saves and a completion time of 2 hours or less.

Tips: This is the single hardest achievement in the game. Equip the Infinite Rocket Launcher, Dodge Manual, Defense Coins, and a Hip Pouch from the Records shop beforehand, and pace your saves carefully, for example right after the subway, before the sewers, before R.P.D., before NEST, and before the final boss.

Sensational Work!

Unlock Rate: 12.8% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Complete the game with an S rank.

How to Unlock: Finish the campaign on any difficulty with an S rank, meeting that difficulty’s specific time and save limits.

Tips: S rank requirements scale with difficulty, so this is most easily earned on Standard or Hardcore before attempting the much stricter Inferno S rank needed for Jill Valentine.

Challenge Runs

Sprinter

Unlock Rate: 13.7% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Complete the game in under 2 hours of play time.

How to Unlock: Finish a full playthrough with total completion time under 2 hours.

Tips: Use Infinite Ammo weapons purchased from the Records shop after your first clear, since they do not void this achievement or any S rank requirements.

I Might Need These Later!

Unlock Rate: 13.5% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Complete the game using 1 or fewer recovery items.

How to Unlock: Finish a full playthrough using at most one healing item total.

Tips: One healing item use is unavoidable during a forced cutscene involving a Drain Deimos enemy, so budget for that single use and avoid healing otherwise. This pairs well with a Sprinter attempt on Easy difficulty.

Electric Slide

Unlock Rate: 13.0% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Gather all the fuses in the warehouse within 5 minutes.

How to Unlock: In the warehouse area, collect all required fuses within a 5-minute time limit.

Tips: Plan your route through the warehouse before starting the timer, since backtracking will likely cost you the achievement.

Minimalist

Unlock Rate: 9.6% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Complete the game without opening the item box.

How to Unlock: Finish a full playthrough without ever interacting with an item storage box.

Tips: Play on Easy or Assisted difficulty, since you’ll start with an assault rifle and won’t need to manage inventory space as tightly.

5-Phase 100% Completion Roadmap

Phase 1: First Playthrough (Standard Difficulty) Play through the full campaign on Standard, picking up Survivor along with all ten story achievements and common combat achievements like Basic Chemistry, Get Organized, and Gunsmith. Be careful to defeat zombie Brad for An Unfortunate End before entering the R.P.D.

P2: Collectible Cleanup Pass Use a second playthrough or a thorough exploration run to collect all 20 Charlie Dolls for Goodbye Charlie!, all 10 weapons for Kendo’s Armory, all 20 locks for RE: Master of Unlocking, and all 56 files for Bookworm.

P3: Difficulty Ladder Progress through Hardcore for Veteran, then Nightmare for Conqueror, unlocking each higher tier as you clear the one before it. Use Records points earned along the way to purchase the Infinite Rocket Launcher and useful coins.

P4: Challenge Runs Combine Sprinter, I Might Need These Later!, and Minimalist into a single efficient run on Easy or Assisted difficulty, since all three reward a fast, resource-light playthrough using Infinite Ammo weapons from the Records shop.

P5: Inferno and Jill Valentine Finish with a dedicated Inferno difficulty run for Dominator, equipped with the Infinite Rocket Launcher, Dodge Manual, and Defense Coins. Pace your saves carefully to stay within 5 total while finishing in under 2 hours to secure both Jill Valentine and Sensational Work! in the same attempt.

Conclusion

Resident Evil 3 Remake’s 32 achievements reflect the game’s own identity: shorter, faster, and more action-focused than Resident Evil 2. Most achievements come from natural exploration and story progress, but the difficulty ladder culminating in Jill Valentine demands genuine mastery of Nemesis’s attack patterns and disciplined save management. Budget 15-20 hours for full completion, and treat the Inferno S rank run as its own dedicated project once you’ve built up enough Records points to afford the gear that makes it manageable.