Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Achievement Guide: Complete 100%

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 packs 83 achievements across Henry’s massive medieval adventure, three DLC expansions, Hardcore mode completion, mini-games, blacksmithing, and dozens of choice-based story milestones. Most unlock naturally during a thorough playthrough. The big grinds come from Hardcore mode, the Against All Odds challenge, and tracking every story-specific branching outcome.

This guide breaks down every achievement by category with unlock tips and a recommended completion order.

Quick Stats

Total Achievements: 83
Estimated Completion Time: 150-250 hours
Difficulty: Hard (Hardcore mode required for 100%)
Online Required: No
Missable Achievements: Many (multiple playthroughs or careful save management essential)

Main Story Progression

This Won’t End Well

Unlock Rate: 82.9% (Common) Requirement: Hidden (early story milestone)

How to Unlock: Complete the opening prologue.

Tips: Cannot be missed. Triggers during the first major story moment.

Déjà Vu

Unlock Rate: 68.3% (Common) Requirement: Defeat Capon during practice. Again.

How to Unlock: Win the sparring match with Hans Capon during early-game training.

Tips: Use parry timing. Master strikes are key against Capon’s defensive style.

An Old Friend

Unlock Rate: 65.2% (Common) Requirement: Find Pebbles

How to Unlock: Reunite with Henry’s horse Pebbles during the main story.

Tips: Story-locked early-game achievement. Cannot be missed.

New Horizons

Unlock Rate: 52.3% (Common) Requirement: Hidden (story milestone)

How to Unlock: Reach the second major region in the main story.

Tips: Triggers when Henry transitions to Kuttenberg.

Vengeance

Unlock Rate: 52.6% (Common) Requirement: Hidden (story milestone)

How to Unlock: Tied to a key revenge story beat involving the antagonists.

Tips: Continue main story progression. Triggers during mid-game vengeance quest.

Die Another Day

Unlock Rate: 30.5% (Uncommon) Requirement: Hidden (story milestone)

How to Unlock: Survive a major near-death sequence in the main story.

Tips: Tied to late-game story beat. Cannot be missed if progressing.

Martyr

Unlock Rate: 30.3% (Uncommon) Requirement: Hidden (story milestone)

How to Unlock: Tied to a sacrificial choice during the main story.

Tips: Make the self-sacrificing dialogue choice when prompted.

The End

Unlock Rate: 28.8% (Rare) Requirement: Hidden (story finale)

How to Unlock: Complete the main campaign.

Tips: Roughly 60-80 hour main story. Reach the credits.

Truce

Unlock Rate: 17.0% (Rare) Requirement: Hidden (story milestone)

How to Unlock: Achieve a peaceful resolution between warring factions.

Tips: Choose diplomacy dialogue options during faction conflict story beats.

Vengeance Solves Nothing

Unlock Rate: 1.6% (Ultra Rare) Requirement: Hidden (ending choice)

How to Unlock: Choose mercy over revenge during the final main story choice.

Tips: Save before the final boss decision. Spare the antagonist instead of executing.

Two Brothers

Unlock Rate: 1.1% (Ultra Rare) Requirement: Hidden (ending choice)

How to Unlock: Tied to a brotherhood-reconciliation ending.

Tips: Build maximum trust with a brother-figure character throughout the story.

Combat Achievements

Fancy Fighting

Unlock Rate: 64.4% (Common) Requirement: Kill an enemy with a combo

How to Unlock: Land a successful combo finisher in combat.

Tips: Learn combos from Bernard the trainer. Practice on bandits until you trigger one.

Under Pressure

Unlock Rate: 58.0% (Common) Requirement: Win three skirmishes while bleeding

How to Unlock: Take bleed damage, survive, win the fight, repeat three times.

Tips: Don’t apply bandages immediately. Win bandit ambushes while injured.

Lights Out

Unlock Rate: 37.2% (Uncommon) Requirement: Slit the throat of an enemy who was looking for you

How to Unlock: Sneak up behind an alerted enemy and use stealth kill.

Tips: Drop a stone or whistle to attract attention, then circle behind for the kill.

Henry the Bruiser

Unlock Rate: 33.9% (Uncommon) Requirement: Beat the best brawler around

How to Unlock: Defeat the champion brawler in unarmed combat.

Tips: Find the brawling champion in major cities. Stack Strength and unarmed perks before challenging.

Weapon of Choice

Unlock Rate: 8.4% (Very Rare) Requirement: Defeat an enemy with every type of weapon

How to Unlock: Use sword, longsword, mace, axe, bow, crossbow, and polearm to kill at least one enemy each.

Tips: Carry a different weapon each combat session. Don’t forget unarmed and ranged options.

Bohemian Sniper

Unlock Rate: 9.6% (Very Rare) Requirement: Kill an enemy with a crossbow shot to the head at long range

How to Unlock: Headshot an enemy from at least 50 meters away with a crossbow.

Tips: Invest in Marksmanship perks. Use the heaviest crossbow you can find for long-range accuracy.

Overkill

Unlock Rate: 2.0% (Ultra Rare) Requirement: Hidden (combat milestone)

How to Unlock: Tied to defeating a high-tier boss with a specific weapon or method.

Tips: Stack damage modifiers and use a Master-tier weapon on a major boss.

Hic-Hic-Boom

Unlock Rate: 2.4% (Ultra Rare) Requirement: Hidden (combat milestone)

How to Unlock: Tied to a drunken combat encounter or alchemy explosion.

Tips: Get drunk and survive a combat encounter or use alchemy bombs strategically.

High Noon

Unlock Rate: 2.9% (Ultra Rare) Requirement: Hidden (combat milestone)

How to Unlock: Tied to a duel at noon, possibly a Western homage.

Tips: Wait until 12:00 in-game time and trigger a duel encounter.

Original Gunslinger

Unlock Rate: 2.9% (Ultra Rare) Requirement: Hidden (combat milestone)

How to Unlock: Tied to using period-accurate firearms (hand cannons).

Tips: Find and use hand cannons in late-game combat. KCD2 includes early gunpowder weapons.

Skills & Crafting

Master of the Blacksmiths’ Guild

Unlock Rate: 18.0% (Rare) Requirement: Pass the Trial and become a Master blacksmith

How to Unlock: Complete the full blacksmith questline and pass the final smithing exam.

Tips: Practice forging at any blacksmith. Buy and read smithing books. Master the temperature timing.

Reforged

Unlock Rate: 34.3% (Uncommon) Requirement: Hidden (smithing milestone)

How to Unlock: Reforge a damaged weapon at a forge.

Tips: Find a broken or low-condition weapon and repair it to full at a smithy.

Home Sweet Home!

Unlock Rate: 11.7% (Very Rare) Requirement: Complete the reconstruction of your smithy

How to Unlock: Pay for and finish all stages of smithy reconstruction.

Tips: Earn or save up sufficient groschen. Each construction stage takes in-game days to complete.

Master of Masters

Unlock Rate: 13.3% (Very Rare) Requirement: Hidden (master craft milestone)

How to Unlock: Achieve master rank in multiple craft skills.

Tips: Max out blacksmithing, alchemy, and at least one other craft skill.

Masterpiece

Unlock Rate: 7.6% (Very Rare) Requirement: Hidden (smithing milestone)

How to Unlock: Craft a master-quality weapon or armor piece.

Tips: Requires master blacksmith rank. Craft using highest-tier materials.

Innovator

Unlock Rate: 1.0% (Ultra Rare) Requirement: Acquire all the new weapons and armour from your journeymen

How to Unlock: Have your apprentices produce every variant of weapon and armor.

Tips: Train journeymen at your smithy. Each apprentice unlocks new equipment over many in-game days.

Martin’s Legacy

Unlock Rate: 11.1% (Very Rare) Requirement: Complete the restoration of the Kuttenberg astronomical clock

How to Unlock: Finish the astronomical clock side quest in Kuttenberg.

Tips: Multi-stage side quest requiring specific parts and skill checks. Talk to Master Hanus.

Skill Checks & Mini-games

Jack of All Trades

Unlock Rate: 48.3% (Uncommon) Requirement: Successfully complete every mini-game

How to Unlock: Win at dice, brewing, smithing, archery, lockpicking, and pickpocketing minigames.

Tips: Practice each mini-game individually until you’re consistent. Use lockpicking on training locks first.

Nimble Fingers

Unlock Rate: 43.9% (Uncommon) Requirement: Hidden (lockpicking milestone)

How to Unlock: Successfully pick a hard or very hard lock.

Tips: Invest in Thievery skill. Practice on easy locks first to master the timing.

Shiny

Unlock Rate: 30.1% (Uncommon) Requirement: Win a gold badge in a game of dice

How to Unlock: Win the highest-tier dice tournament reward.

Tips: Play dice consistently with high-tier opponents. Buy weighted dice from merchants for unfair advantages.

Canny Shooter

Unlock Rate: 7.8% (Very Rare) Requirement: Win the miners’ competition on the highest difficulty

How to Unlock: Win the archery competition at the miners’ festival on Hard difficulty.

Tips: Train archery to high level. Use a strong longbow with high-quality arrows.

Flagellum Dei

Unlock Rate: 1.7% (Ultra Rare) Requirement: Score 150 points in the mounted archery competition

How to Unlock: Achieve maximum score during the mounted archery side event.

Tips: Use horseback archery training. Approach targets at a consistent speed and time shots for the optimal release window.

Side Quests & Companions

Man’s Best Friend

Unlock Rate: 60.8% (Common) Requirement: Hidden (Mutt the dog milestone)

How to Unlock: Bond with your dog companion (Mutt).

Tips: Pet, feed, and train Mutt regularly throughout your playthrough.

A Bird in the Hand

Unlock Rate: 57.0% (Common) Requirement: Hidden (falconry milestone)

How to Unlock: Tied to using a hunting bird or falconry side activity.

Tips: Find and train a hunting hawk in side activities.

A Knight’s Word

Unlock Rate: 52.5% (Common) Requirement: Reward the herbwoman for her help as promised

How to Unlock: Complete the herbwoman side quest and return with payment.

Tips: Don’t forget to deliver the promised reward. Set a journal reminder.

Tales of Kuttenberg

Unlock Rate: 33.0% (Uncommon) Requirement: Help Rosa finish her book

How to Unlock: Complete Rosa’s writing-research side questline.

Tips: Find Rosa in Kuttenberg. Bring her the requested stories and materials.

Henry the Matchmaker

Unlock Rate: 2.8% (Ultra Rare) Requirement: Hidden (matchmaking milestone)

How to Unlock: Help two NPCs successfully start a relationship.

Tips: Look for lovelorn NPCs in side quests. Make the right dialogue choices to push them together.

Feline Affection

Unlock Rate: 2.6% (Ultra Rare) Requirement: Hidden (cat-related)

How to Unlock: Tied to befriending or feeding a cat NPC.

Tips: Look for stray cats in towns. Feed them consistently.

Curiosity Killed the Cat

Unlock Rate: 1.5% (Ultra Rare) Requirement: Hidden (cat milestone)

How to Unlock: Tied to a darker cat-related quest outcome.

Tips: Possibly tied to investigating a suspicious cat owner.

The Ragman’s Dream

Unlock Rate: 2.2% (Ultra Rare) Requirement: Help the Ragman save his dream

How to Unlock: Complete the full Ragman side questline.

Tips: Find the Ragman in his town. Help him pursue his ambitions over multiple visits.

Painted

Unlock Rate: 5.1% (Very Rare) Requirement: Hidden (painter milestone)

How to Unlock: Tied to helping a painter NPC complete their work.

Tips: Tied to the same questline as Nothing But the Best.

Nothing But the Best

Unlock Rate: 4.2% (Ultra Rare) Requirement: Give the painter medicine of the highest quality

How to Unlock: Brew or buy top-tier medicine and deliver to the painter NPC.

Tips: Master alchemy to brew the best healing potions. Don’t substitute a lower-tier alternative.

Confessor

Unlock Rate: 7.5% (Very Rare) Requirement: Hidden (priest milestone)

How to Unlock: Tied to attending many confessions or playing a priest role.

Tips: Find a priest NPC and engage with confession-related side content.

Religious & Pilgrimage

Penitent One

Unlock Rate: 24.5% (Rare) Requirement: Make the penitential pilgrimage

How to Unlock: Complete the penitence pilgrimage side quest.

Tips: Visit specific religious sites in order. Pray at each one.

Holy Relic

Unlock Rate: 7.7% (Very Rare) Requirement: Hidden (religious milestone)

How to Unlock: Acquire or restore a significant holy artifact.

Tips: Tied to a religious side quest with a relic-recovery objective.

True Cardinal

Unlock Rate: 17.1% (Rare) Requirement: Hidden (religious milestone)

How to Unlock: Tied to a high-status religious resolution in a side quest.

Tips: Make religious dialogue choices and align with church factions.

Do Good to All People

Unlock Rate: 1.3% (Ultra Rare) Requirement: Help the people of the monastery

How to Unlock: Complete the full monastery side questline with maximum positive outcomes.

Tips: Help every monk and visitor at the monastery. Don’t take any selfish dialogue options.

Lent

Unlock Rate: 1.0% (Ultra Rare) Requirement: Hidden (religious milestone)

How to Unlock: Tied to fasting or abstaining during the Lenten season.

Tips: Don’t eat meat or commit sins during a specific in-game time period.

Hardcore Mode

Hardcore Henry II

Unlock Rate: 1.7% (Ultra Rare) Requirement: Finish the story in Hardcore mode

How to Unlock: Complete the campaign with Hardcore mode enabled.

Tips: Hardcore removes fast travel, compass, and waypoints. Plan to invest 80+ hours.

Against All Odds

Unlock Rate: 1.1% (Ultra Rare) Requirement: Finish the game in Hardcore mode with all negative perks enabled

How to Unlock: Apply every negative perk (sleepwalker, nightowl, etc.) and complete Hardcore mode.

Tips: Most challenging achievement in the game. Combine with Two Brothers or another ending achievement to maximize efficiency.

Quiet as a Church Mouse

Unlock Rate: 5.7% (Very Rare) Requirement: The knights never had to escort you to the infirmary

How to Unlock: Never get knocked unconscious during specific story-related combat sequences.

Tips: Train combat skills high before story missions. Use Hardcore approach to combat decisions.

Survivor

Unlock Rate: 3.4% (Ultra Rare) Requirement: Hidden (Hardcore-related)

How to Unlock: Tied to surviving an extended period without dying in Hardcore mode.

Tips: Play cautiously during Hardcore. Save before risky encounters using Saviour Schnapps.

Racing the Leech

Unlock Rate: 5.5% (Very Rare) Requirement: Hidden (disease/condition milestone)

How to Unlock: Tied to surviving or curing plague-related afflictions quickly.

Tips: Carry plague mask and herbal remedies. React quickly to symptoms.

DLC Content

Fresh Air

Unlock Rate: 7.5% (Very Rare) Requirement: Finish DLC3

How to Unlock: Complete the third DLC expansion.

Tips: DLC3 required. Plague-themed expansion based on Better Safe Than Sorry achievement.

Better Safe Than Sorry

Unlock Rate: 7.4% (Very Rare) Requirement: Make yourself a plague mask

How to Unlock: Craft a plague mask via the DLC3 alchemy questline.

Tips: Requires alchemy skill and DLC3 ingredients. Found through the plague doctor side quest.

Stop Licking That!

Unlock Rate: 7.0% (Very Rare) Requirement: Hidden (plague-related)

How to Unlock: Tied to stopping NPCs from contracting plague through bad hygiene.

Tips: Intervene when NPCs do something unsanitary during plague outbreaks.

Bohemians Rise Up!

Unlock Rate: 1.2% (Ultra Rare) Requirement: Create the foundations for the state emblem of Bohemia

How to Unlock: Complete a specific DLC-related historical questline involving Bohemian heritage.

Tips: Make patriotic dialogue choices during faction-related side quests.

All Fun and Games

Unlock Rate: 1.7% (Ultra Rare) Requirement: Hidden (DLC milestone)

How to Unlock: Complete a specific DLC side activity.

Tips: Engage with festival and competition events in DLC content.

Hidden Achievements

Without Protection

Unlock Rate: 31.1% (Uncommon) Requirement: Hidden achievement

How to Unlock: Tied to surviving a combat encounter without armor.

Tips: Strip to clothing only and win a fight. Test against bandits in lower-tier areas.

Silence is Golden

Unlock Rate: 24.9% (Rare) Requirement: Hidden achievement

How to Unlock: Tied to a stealth-heavy questline completion.

Tips: Use stealth-focused dialogue and combat options. Don’t trigger alarms.

Old Raven

Unlock Rate: 24.0% (Rare) Requirement: Hidden achievement

How to Unlock: Tied to a wisdom-related dialogue resolution.

Tips: Choose wise/scholarly dialogue options during pivotal conversations.

Face to Face

Unlock Rate: 23.5% (Rare) Requirement: Hidden achievement

How to Unlock: Tied to a face-to-face confrontation with a major antagonist.

Tips: Confront enemies directly instead of via stealth or proxies.

No Good Deed

Unlock Rate: 21.0% (Rare) Requirement: Hidden achievement

How to Unlock: Tied to a side quest where helping someone backfires.

Tips: Continue side quests even when outcomes look bleak. Don’t reload to avoid bad outcomes.

The Dirty Seven

Unlock Rate: 39.4% (Uncommon) Requirement: Hidden achievement

How to Unlock: Tied to defeating seven specific enemies or completing seven dirty tasks.

Tips: Complete a series of morally questionable side quests.

My Shoes!

Unlock Rate: 16.3% (Rare) Requirement: Hidden achievement

How to Unlock: Tied to a humorous theft or footwear-related quest.

Tips: Look for unusual theft or trick-themed side quests in towns.

Been There Done That

Unlock Rate: 16.8% (Rare) Requirement: Hidden achievement

How to Unlock: Tied to revisiting locations from the original Kingdom Come.

Tips: Visit landmarks that returning players will recognize from the first game.

The Lord Taketh Away

Unlock Rate: 14.2% (Very Rare) Requirement: Hidden achievement

How to Unlock: Tied to a major character death.

Tips: Triggers from a specific story or side quest tragic outcome.

Under a Brown Flag

Unlock Rate: 13.8% (Very Rare) Requirement: Hidden achievement

How to Unlock: Tied to a faction allegiance or banner-themed quest.

Tips: Align with a brown-banner faction during the main story or side content.

Warlock’s Riddle

Unlock Rate: 10.1% (Very Rare) Requirement: Hidden achievement

How to Unlock: Tied to solving a mystical or puzzle-themed quest.

Tips: Find the Warlock NPC and complete their riddle questline.

Boneworks

Unlock Rate: 9.9% (Very Rare) Requirement: Hidden achievement

How to Unlock: Tied to a bone-collection or skeleton-themed quest.

Tips: Visit cemeteries and battlefield sites for bone-collection objectives.

Poet’s Gut

Unlock Rate: 9.6% (Very Rare) Requirement: Hidden achievement

How to Unlock: Tied to defeating a poet character in a specific way.

Tips: Look for the wandering poet NPC and engage with his storyline.

The Hydra’s Heads

Unlock Rate: 9.5% (Very Rare) Requirement: Hidden achievement

How to Unlock: Tied to defeating multiple captains of a single faction.

Tips: Eliminate all leaders of a specific bandit or enemy group.

Nevermore

Unlock Rate: 5.7% (Very Rare) Requirement: Hidden achievement

How to Unlock: Tied to a Poe-inspired raven side quest.

Tips: Find ominous raven encounters during nighttime exploration.

Rest in One Piece

Unlock Rate: 3.2% (Ultra Rare) Requirement: The skull finally reached its final resting place

How to Unlock: Complete the recurring skull side quest by burying it at the correct location.

Tips: Carry the skull through multiple regions. Follow lore clues to find the correct burial site.

Remember Remember…

Unlock Rate: 2.4% (Ultra Rare) Requirement: Hidden achievement

How to Unlock: A Gunpowder Plot reference involving explosives or sabotage.

Tips: Complete a sabotage-themed side quest involving gunpowder.

Slip the Noose

Unlock Rate: 1.8% (Ultra Rare) Requirement: Hidden achievement

How to Unlock: Tied to escaping execution or imprisonment.

Tips: Get arrested and successfully escape from a jail or gallows scenario.

Bohemian Graffitti

Unlock Rate: 1.6% (Ultra Rare) Requirement: Paint every type of shield

How to Unlock: Customize every available shield design at the heraldry station.

Tips: Unlock the heraldry minigame and paint each available pattern at least once.

Voice of the Bell

Unlock Rate: 1.1% (Ultra Rare) Requirement: Hidden achievement

How to Unlock: Tied to ringing or restoring a major church bell.

Tips: Find historic church bells and engage with their related questlines.

Ostraconophobia

Unlock Rate: 1.1% (Ultra Rare) Requirement: Hidden achievement

How to Unlock: Reference to fear of shellfish. Tied to a specific food or dining choice.

Tips: Look for unusual dining scenarios or food-related side quests.

Silent Partner

Unlock Rate: 1.2% (Ultra Rare) Requirement: Hidden achievement

How to Unlock: Tied to a stealth-companion teamwork mission.

Tips: Complete a heist or infiltration with maximum stealth alongside a companion.

Economy & Exploration

Groschen Must Flow

Unlock Rate: 38.9% (Uncommon) Requirement: Spend ten thousand groschen

How to Unlock: Spend 10,000+ groschen on any purchase.

Tips: Naturally unlocks during gear, training, and property purchases.

Rock and Stone!

Unlock Rate: 46.3% (Uncommon) Requirement: Kill an enemy with a boulder dropped from the battlements

How to Unlock: Push a boulder onto an enemy during a castle siege.

Tips: Look for trebuchet ammo or castle siege weapons during main story castle defense.

100% Completion Roadmap

Phase 1: First Playthrough (60-80 hours)

Complete the main campaign on Easy or Normal difficulty
Take notes on every side quest, ending choice, and skill check
Knock out combat achievements (Fancy Fighting, Under Pressure, Lights Out)
Complete side companion arcs (Pebbles, Mutt, Capon)

P2: Side Quest Sweep (30-50 hours)

Complete every major side questline (Ragman, painter, Rosa, herbwoman)
Become Master Blacksmith (passing the Trial)
Restore the astronomical clock (Martin’s Legacy)
Complete the monastery questline (Do Good to All People)
Finish the skull burial quest (Rest in One Piece)

P3: DLC Content (20-30 hours)

Complete DLC1 and DLC2 storylines
Complete DLC3 plague content (Fresh Air, Better Safe Than Sorry, Stop Licking That!)
Complete the Bohemian state emblem questline
Knock out All Fun and Games event

P4: Combat Mastery (10-20 hours)

Kill enemies with every weapon type (Weapon of Choice)
Long-range crossbow headshot (Bohemian Sniper)
Win Canny Shooter archery competition
Score 150 in mounted archery (Flagellum Dei)
Beat the brawling champion (Henry the Bruiser)

P5: Hardcore Run (80-100 hours)

Start a new playthrough on Hardcore mode
Apply all negative perks (Against All Odds preparation)
Complete the main campaign (Hardcore Henry II + Against All Odds)
Knock out hidden achievements you missed first time
Complete Vengeance Solves Nothing and Two Brothers ending

P6: Final Cleanup (10-20 hours)

Verify all hidden achievements
Complete heraldry painting (Bohemian Graffitti)
Complete remaining hidden quest achievements
Confirm 100% via achievement tracker

Conclusion

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2’s 83 achievements demand 150-250 hours of focused play including a Hardcore Mode playthrough with all negative perks. The main story and DLC content unlock around 50 achievements naturally. The remaining 30+ require careful save management for branching outcomes, every minigame mastery, and the brutal Against All Odds challenge.

Plan to complete most of your content during the first playthrough. Use Saviour Schnapps generously before pivotal choices. The Hardcore run is the most time-consuming requirement but pays off with multiple ending achievements simultaneously.

The Innovator achievement (1.0% unlock rate) is the longest grind. Set up your smithy early, train apprentices consistently, and check journeyman output every in-game week.