Resident Evil 7 Biohazard Achievement Guide: Complete 100%

Resident Evil 7 packs 58 achievements across the base game and all three story DLC packs, Banned Footage Vol. 1 and 2, End of Zoe, and Not a Hero, and Steam’s own unlock-rate data shows this is one of the more approachable Resident Evil achievement lists. Most challenge achievements can be stacked together on a single efficient Easy-difficulty speedrun, and a well-known trick lets you unlock the game’s most powerful melee weapon partway through your first 100% attempt, making every subsequent run easier.

Quick Stats

• Total Achievements: 58 (base game plus Banned Footage Vol. 1, Vol. 2, End of Zoe, and Not a Hero DLC)
• Estimated Completion Time: 15-20 hours for full 100% completion across 2-3 playthroughs
• Difficulty: Medium overall, with Madhouse difficulty and the DLC’s harder challenge modes being the main time investment
• Online Required: No
• Missable Achievements: Yes, most achievements can be earned across multiple playthroughs, but several challenge achievements like Resource Manager, Walk it Off, and Just Get Me Outta Here are best combined into a single dedicated speedrun

Achievement List by Category

Story Progression (Unmissable)

• She’s Alive
• Welcome to the Family, Son
• The Grave Will Out the Truth
• You Better Start Running
• Into the Depths
• End of the Night
• Just A Memory Now

Combat and Interaction

• A-ha!
• Behind Closed Doors
• Arms in the Air
• Master of Unlocking
• Things Got Personal
• You Ain’t Gettin’ Away
• Open Your Eyes
• In the Bag
• Nice Try
• Less is More
• Slash Slash, Slashity Slash!
• That’s a Spicy Meat-a-ball
• Duck If You Love Life

Collectibles

• He’s Here, There, Everywhere!
• Mr. Nowhere
• Pelicans in Your Pocket
• Mad Pelicans
• The Devil Is in the Details
• Be Kind, Please Rewind

Boss Fights and Set-Piece Challenges

• Can’t Catch Me
• Back Off, Mrs. B!
• Fly Swatter
• Ratcatcher

Difficulty and Challenge Runs

• Playing it Safe
• The Nightmare’s Finally Over
• Who’s Your Daddy Now?
• Dead by Dawn?
• Sleepless in Dulvey
• Just Get Me Outta Here
• Walk it Off
• Resource Manager
• 1st Place at the Science Fair

Banned Footage Vol. 1 and 2

• Card Shark
• You Gotta Know When To Hold ‘Em
• Out Before Dessert
• Best Birthday Ever
• Miracle Chef
• Don’t Keep the Man Waiting
• Eye in the Sky
• Like Mama Used to Make
• Butterfly Effect
• One Instinct: Survival

Ethan Must Die DLC

• Ethan Never Dies

End of Zoe DLC

• Promise Kept
• King of the Swamp
• Queensberry Rules
• Swamp Warfare
• The Only Guns You Need
• Fastest Man in the Swamp

Not a Hero DLC

• Mission Accomplished
• You’re the Hero Now

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

She’s Alive

Unlock Rate: 96.5% (Common)

Requirement: Travel to Louisiana.

How to Unlock: Play through the opening sequence until Ethan arrives in Louisiana.

Tips: This unlocks automatically within the first few minutes of the game.

Welcome to the Family, Son

Unlock Rate: 83.3% (Common)

Requirement: Escape from the guest house.

How to Unlock: Fight through the guest house sequence and escape to the main grounds.

Tips: Story-related and unmissable early in the campaign.

The Grave Will Out the Truth

Unlock Rate: 55.0% (Common)

Requirement: Uncover the secret in the old house.

How to Unlock: Progress through the Old House area until you uncover its hidden secret.

Tips: This ties into one of the game’s central mysteries and unlocks naturally as you explore.

You Better Start Running

Unlock Rate: 51.5% (Common)

Requirement: Escape from the Baker family home.

How to Unlock: Progress the story until you escape the main Baker house.

Tips: Story-related and unmissable as you move toward the game’s later areas.

Into the Depths

Unlock Rate: 48.6% (Uncommon)

Requirement: Escape from the ship.

How to Unlock: Progress through the wrecked ship section and escape it.

Tips: This marks a major story transition point later in the campaign.

End of the Night

Unlock Rate: 41.5% (Uncommon)

Requirement: Get ending 1.

How to Unlock: After defeating mutant Jack Baker in the Boat House, choose to give Mia the cure.

Tips: This is one of two possible endings depending on who you choose to save, so pick Mia specifically for this achievement.

Just A Memory Now

Unlock Rate: 14.8% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Get ending 2.

How to Unlock: After defeating mutant Jack Baker in the Boat House, choose to give Zoe the cure instead of Mia.

Tips: This is the alternate ending, so you’ll need a separate playthrough or a save right before this choice to get both End of the Night and this achievement.

Combat and Interaction

A-ha!

Unlock Rate: 90.8% (Common)

Requirement: Obtain something by closely examining an item.

How to Unlock: Examine any interactive item closely to reveal a hidden object or mechanism.

Tips: This happens naturally within your first item examinations early in the game.

Behind Closed Doors

Unlock Rate: 80.5% (Common)

Requirement: Close an open door by yourself.

How to Unlock: Manually close any door that starts open.

Tips: This is a simple interaction achievement that will trigger naturally during exploration.

Arms in the Air

Unlock Rate: 75.1% (Common)

Requirement: Block an enemy attack by guarding.

How to Unlock: Use the guard input to block an incoming enemy attack.

Tips: This happens naturally during your first few combat encounters.

Master of Unlocking

Unlock Rate: 73.0% (Common)

Requirement: Use a lock pick to open something.

How to Unlock: Find a lockpick and use it on any locked object.

Tips: Lockpicks appear early in the game, so this is easy to pick up during normal exploration.

Things Got Personal

Unlock Rate: 61.8% (Common)

Requirement: Finish off an enemy with the knife.

How to Unlock: Use the knife to deliver a finishing blow to any enemy.

Tips: The easiest place to do this is on the flying bugs found in the Old House where Marguerite patrols, since they die in a single knife hit.

You Ain’t Gettin’ Away

Unlock Rate: 60.6% (Common)

Requirement: Escape to the yard.

How to Unlock: Progress the story until you escape to the yard area outside the main house.

Tips: Story-related and unmissable during the early garage sequence with Jack Baker.

Open Your Eyes

Unlock Rate: 60.3% (Common)

Requirement: Use psychostimulants.

How to Unlock: Craft or find Psychostimulants and use the item.

Tips: Psychostimulants can be crafted by combining Chem Fluid with Supplements, so this is easy to pick up once you start crafting items.

In the Bag

Unlock Rate: 58.6% (Common)

Requirement: Increase your item slots.

How to Unlock: Find and equip any Backpack to expand your inventory space.

Tips: There are three Backpack locations: the Old House safe room beside the tape recorder, the Main House 2F Storage Room behind the Snake Key lock, and the Wrecked Ship Recreation Room accessible with Corrosive. You only need one for this achievement.

Nice Try

Unlock Rate: 57.5% (Common)

Requirement: Put an unrelated object on a shadow plinth.

How to Unlock: Place any incorrect item on a shadow puzzle plinth before solving it correctly.

Tips: This is a joke achievement tied to experimenting with the shadow puzzle mechanic before finding the right solution.

Less is More

Unlock Rate: 43.8% (Uncommon)

Requirement: Take down two or more enemies with one shot.

How to Unlock: Line up two or more enemies and fire a single shot that kills both.

Tips: This can be tricky to line up naturally. Look for tightly grouped Molded enemies and use a shotgun for the widest spread.

Slash Slash, Slashity Slash!

Unlock Rate: 15.7% (Rare)

Requirement: Clear insects off a door using a knife.

How to Unlock: Find a door covered in insects and slash them away with the knife.

Tips: This can be done in the Old House, including on the door right before your first encounter with Marguerite, letting you combine it with other early achievements in the same visit.

That’s a Spicy Meat-a-ball

Unlock Rate: 5.8% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Kill an enemy by attaching a Remote Bomb to them and detonating it.

How to Unlock: Attach a Remote Bomb directly to an enemy, then detonate it to secure the kill.

Tips: Enemies won’t grab you for this on Easy difficulty. An easier method is to place a Remote Bomb in the path of an enemy in the mines and let them walk into the trap.

Duck If You Love Life

Unlock Rate: 10.9% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Avoid Jack’s scissor attack by crouching.

How to Unlock: During the Jack Baker fight in the Main House morgue, deal enough damage that he switches to his chainsaw scissor weapon, then crouch at the right moment when he performs his overhand charging attack.

Tips: This is a one-hit-kill attack if you fail to dodge it, so save beforehand and watch for the telegraphed overhand swing specifically.

Collectibles

He’s Here, There, Everywhere!

Unlock Rate: 71.0% (Common)

Requirement: Destroy a Mr. Everywhere statuette.

How to Unlock: Find and destroy any single Mr. Everywhere statuette.

Tips: These statuettes are scattered throughout the game as a recurring collectible gag, so this unlocks on your very first one.

Mr. Nowhere

Unlock Rate: 5.4% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Destroy all Mr. Everywhere statuettes.

How to Unlock: Find and destroy every Mr. Everywhere statuette across the entire game.

Tips: Use a dedicated collectible location guide for this since the statuettes are easy to miss on a normal playthrough.

Pelicans in Your Pocket

Unlock Rate: 4.1% (Ultra Rare)

Requirement: Obtain all of the Antique Coins in Easy or Normal difficulty.

How to Unlock: Find all 18 Antique Coins available on Easy or Normal difficulty.

Tips: You can spend the coins at the item shop and still keep credit for the achievement, so don’t worry about hoarding them once collected.

Mad Pelicans

Unlock Rate: 3.0% (Ultra Rare)

Requirement: Obtain all of the Antique Coins in Madhouse difficulty.

How to Unlock: Find all 33 Antique Coins available on Madhouse difficulty, more than appear on lower difficulties.

Tips: Save this for your Madhouse playthrough specifically, since the coin count and some locations differ from Easy and Normal.

The Devil Is in the Details

Unlock Rate: 5.0% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Read all of the files in a single playthrough.

How to Unlock: Find and read every collectible document in one continuous playthrough.

Tips: This requires thorough exploration in a single run, so pair it with a completionist playthrough rather than your speedrun attempt.

Be Kind, Please Rewind

Unlock Rate: 42.1% (Uncommon)

Requirement: Watch all the videotapes in a single playthrough.

How to Unlock: Find and play all four VHS videotapes in one continuous playthrough.

Tips: The fourth tape is mandatory and story-related, so you only need to actively seek out the first three: one in the guest house, one in the Main House recreation room, and one in the Kids’ Room attic behind a hidden ladder.

Boss Fights and Set-Piece Challenges

Can’t Catch Me

Unlock Rate: 60.8% (Common)

Requirement: Complete the “Mia” videotape without being spotted by Marguerite.

How to Unlock: Play the Mia videotape and use stealth to avoid Marguerite’s line of sight throughout the sequence, hiding behind crates when she patrols nearby.

Tips: If Marguerite spots you, the tape sequence fails and you’ll need to restart it, so move carefully and wait for her patrol patterns before advancing.

Back Off, Mrs. B!

Unlock Rate: 18.2% (Rare)

Requirement: Fight off Marguerite while she wanders the old house to make her run away.

How to Unlock: After the Lucas kidnapping cutscene, Marguerite roams the Old House. Deal enough damage to her directly to force her to retreat.

Tips: Build the Flamethrower before this fight if possible, since it handles her insect swarms far more effectively than a pistol, which struggles against the bugs.

Fly Swatter

Unlock Rate: 16.1% (Rare)

Requirement: Shoot and knock back Marguerite while she’s leaping at you.

How to Unlock: During a Marguerite encounter, shoot her at the exact moment she leaps toward you to knock her back mid-air.

Tips: This requires precise timing during one of her jump attacks, so keep your weapon ready and fire as soon as she launches herself at you.

Ratcatcher

Unlock Rate: 4.3% (Ultra Rare)

Requirement: Find all the dead rats in Bedroom in a single play.

How to Unlock: During the Banned Footage Bedroom DLC scenario, locate every dead rat hidden in the room within one playthrough.

Tips: This is a thorough exploration challenge specific to the Bedroom DLC scenario, so take your time searching every corner before finishing the level.

Difficulty and Challenge Runs

Playing it Safe

Unlock Rate: 48.2% (Uncommon)

Requirement: Complete the game on Easy.

How to Unlock: Finish the full main campaign on Easy difficulty.

Tips: This is a great foundation to combine with Just Get Me Outta Here, Resource Manager, and Walk it Off in a single efficient run.

The Nightmare’s Finally Over

Unlock Rate: 38.5% (Uncommon)

Requirement: Complete the game on Normal.

How to Unlock: Finish the full main campaign on Normal difficulty.

Tips: Normal offers a slightly tougher experience than Easy but is still very manageable for most players.

Who’s Your Daddy Now?

Unlock Rate: 6.1% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Complete the game on Madhouse.

How to Unlock: Finish the full main campaign on Madhouse, the hardest available difficulty.

Tips: Unlocking the Circular Saw from a sub-4-hour clear beforehand gives you a powerful, infinite-ammo melee weapon that makes Madhouse significantly more manageable.

Dead by Dawn?

Unlock Rate: 5.3% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Complete Nightmare.

How to Unlock: Finish the Banned Footage Nightmare DLC scenario.

Tips: This is a standalone survival scenario within the Banned Footage Vol. 1 DLC pack.

Sleepless in Dulvey

Unlock Rate: 2.9% (Ultra Rare)

Requirement: Complete Night Terror.

How to Unlock: Finish the Banned Footage Night Terror DLC scenario, a harder variant survival mode.

Tips: This is a tougher follow-up to the base Nightmare scenario, so complete Dead by Dawn first to get comfortable with the survival mode’s mechanics before attempting this.

Just Get Me Outta Here

Unlock Rate: 7.1% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Complete the game within 4 hours.

How to Unlock: Finish a full playthrough with total completion time under 4 hours.

Tips: This is best combined with Resource Manager and Walk it Off in the same run. Completing it also unlocks the powerful Circular Saw melee weapon for future playthroughs.

Walk it Off

Unlock Rate: 5.3% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Complete the game using only 3 First Aid Meds or less.

How to Unlock: Finish a full playthrough using no more than 3 First Aid Meds total.

Tips: You cannot use plain Herbs, but Steroids don’t count toward this limit and fully heal you while permanently increasing your max health, so use those freely instead.

Resource Manager

Unlock Rate: 3.0% (Ultra Rare)

Requirement: Complete the game without opening the Item Box more than 3 times.

How to Unlock: Finish a full playthrough opening the large green Item Box no more than 3 times total.

Tips: The game forces the box open once during the Jack birthday sequence and again shortly after for the crank, so you effectively only have one truly optional use left. Note that rearranging items after dying in a boss fight does not count against this limit.

1st Place at the Science Fair

Unlock Rate: 7.6% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Create all items that contain Chem Fluid and Strong Chem Fluid.

How to Unlock: Combine Chem Fluid and Strong Chem Fluid with every compatible crafting ingredient to produce all eight resulting items in a single playthrough.

Tips: Keep a steady supply of both Chem Fluid types in the Item Box, and use the Separating Agent if needed to break down combined items back into Chem Fluid for re-crafting.

Banned Footage Vol. 1 and 2

Card Shark

Unlock Rate: 4.9% (Ultra Rare)

Requirement: Complete Survival mode in 21.

How to Unlock: Finish a full run of Survival mode in the 21 DLC minigame.

Tips: This card-based minigame rewards careful risk management, so avoid pushing your luck on high-value draws early on.

You Gotta Know When To Hold ‘Em

Unlock Rate: 2.9% (Ultra Rare)

Requirement: Complete Survival+ mode in 21.

How to Unlock: Finish a full run of the harder Survival+ mode in the 21 DLC minigame.

Tips: This is a tougher variant of Card Shark, so master the base Survival mode first before attempting this.

Out Before Dessert

Unlock Rate: 4.7% (Ultra Rare)

Requirement: Complete the “Happy Birthday” videotape within 5 minutes.

How to Unlock: Play the Happy Birthday videotape sequence and complete it in under 5 minutes.

Tips: Focus only on the actions required to progress the sequence rather than exploring, since extra actions eat into your time limit.

Best Birthday Ever

Unlock Rate: 2.4% (Ultra Rare)

Requirement: Get an S Rank or higher on all stages in Jack’s 55th Birthday.

How to Unlock: Achieve an S Rank or higher on every stage within the Jack’s 55th Birthday DLC scenario.

Tips: This demands mastering each stage’s optimal route and timing, so expect to replay individual stages to perfect your rank.

Miracle Chef

Unlock Rate: 2.2% (Ultra Rare)

Requirement: Feed Jack every type of food and drink in Jack’s 55th Birthday.

How to Unlock: Serve Jack every available food and drink item across the DLC scenario.

Tips: Track which items you’ve already fed him to make sure you don’t miss any variety on a single run.

Don’t Keep the Man Waiting

Unlock Rate: 2.1% (Ultra Rare)

Requirement: Clear a stage with a 10 minute time bonus or higher in Jack’s 55th Birthday.

How to Unlock: Complete any single stage of Jack’s 55th Birthday quickly enough to earn a 10-minute or higher time bonus.

Tips: This demands a fast, efficient route through whichever stage you attempt, so practice the level layout before going for the bonus.

Eye in the Sky

Unlock Rate: 8.8% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Complete 21.

How to Unlock: Finish the standard mode of the 21 DLC minigame scenario.

Tips: This is the base difficulty version, more approachable than Survival or Survival+ modes.

Like Mama Used to Make

Unlock Rate: 8.1% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Complete Bedroom.

How to Unlock: Finish the Bedroom DLC scenario from Banned Footage Vol. 2.

Tips: This scenario also contains the dead rats needed for Ratcatcher, so consider tackling both in the same playthrough.

Butterfly Effect

Unlock Rate: 8.0% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Get the bad ending in Daughters.

How to Unlock: Play through the Daughters DLC scenario and make the choices that lead to its bad ending.

Tips: This requires a separate playthrough from One Instinct: Survival, since the two endings are mutually exclusive on a single run.

One Instinct: Survival

Unlock Rate: 6.7% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Get the true ending in Daughters.

How to Unlock: Play through the Daughters DLC scenario and make the choices that lead to its true ending.

Tips: Since this and Butterfly Effect require opposite outcomes, you’ll need two separate playthroughs of Daughters to collect both.

Ethan Must Die DLC

Ethan Never Dies

Unlock Rate: 2.8% (Ultra Rare)

Requirement: Complete Ethan Must Die.

How to Unlock: Finish the Ethan Must Die DLC challenge mode, a punishing gauntlet-style survival scenario.

Tips: This mode is built around repeated attempts and route memorization rather than careful exploration, so expect to restart many times before finding a run that clears it.

End of Zoe DLC

Promise Kept

Unlock Rate: 12.7% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Complete End of Zoe on Easy or Normal.

How to Unlock: Finish the End of Zoe DLC campaign on Easy or Normal difficulty.

Tips: Story-related and unmissable once you complete the DLC on either of these difficulty settings.

King of the Swamp

Unlock Rate: 2.5% (Ultra Rare)

Requirement: Complete End of Zoe on Joe Must Die.

How to Unlock: Finish the End of Zoe DLC campaign on its hardest difficulty, Joe Must Die.

Tips: Save this for after you’ve learned enemy patterns on an easier difficulty first, since Joe Must Die is considerably tougher.

Queensberry Rules

Unlock Rate: 14.0% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Perform a 4-hit combo with your bare fists in End of Zoe.

How to Unlock: Land a 4-hit melee combo using only your fists during the End of Zoe DLC.

Tips: Use the punching bag outside Joe’s house to practice the timing in a low-pressure setting before trying it in combat.

Swamp Warfare

Unlock Rate: 11.5% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Stealth kill 5 enemies in End of Zoe.

How to Unlock: Perform 5 stealth kills on unaware enemies throughout the End of Zoe DLC.

Tips: The first area offers an early stealth kill opportunity, and the start of the second area has three enemies you can approach from behind in quick succession.

The Only Guns You Need

Unlock Rate: 2.2% (Ultra Rare)

Requirement: Complete End of Zoe on Normal or Joe Must Die using no weapons.

How to Unlock: Finish the End of Zoe DLC on Normal or Joe Must Die difficulty without using any firearms.

Tips: End of Zoe is built around Joe’s fists and improvised melee weapons, so this is more achievable than it sounds given the DLC’s design.

Fastest Man in the Swamp

Unlock Rate: 3.2% (Ultra Rare)

Requirement: Complete an Extreme Challenge in End of Zoe.

How to Unlock: Finish any Extreme Challenge mode encounter within the End of Zoe DLC.

Tips: Extreme Challenges are a harder bonus mode layered on top of the main DLC campaign, best attempted once you’re comfortable with Joe’s combat mechanics.

Not a Hero DLC

Mission Accomplished

Unlock Rate: 19.5% (Rare)

Requirement: Complete Not a Hero on Easy or Normal difficulty.

How to Unlock: Finish the Not a Hero DLC campaign on Easy or Normal difficulty.

Tips: Story-related and unmissable once you complete this shorter DLC campaign on either setting.

You’re the Hero Now

Unlock Rate: 2.8% (Ultra Rare)

Requirement: Complete Not a Hero on Professional difficulty.

How to Unlock: Finish the Not a Hero DLC campaign on Professional, its hardest difficulty.

Tips: Not a Hero is considerably shorter than the main game, so this difficulty spike is a manageable time investment even if you’re not aiming for full completion elsewhere.

5-Phase 100% Completion Roadmap

Phase 1: First Playthrough (Easy Difficulty) Play through the full campaign on Easy, combining Playing it Safe with the challenge run achievements Just Get Me Outta Here, Resource Manager, Walk it Off, and 1st Place at the Science Fair wherever possible. Pick up most combat, collectible, and boss-related achievements naturally during this run.

P2: Second Playthrough (Alternate Ending and Collectibles) Replay the game to pick up whichever ending you missed, either End of the Night or Just A Memory Now, and use this run for a thorough collectible sweep covering Mr. Nowhere, The Devil Is in the Details, and Be Kind, Please Rewind.

P3: Madhouse Difficulty Once you’ve unlocked the Circular Saw from your sub-4-hour clear, take on Madhouse difficulty for Who’s Your Daddy Now?, using this playthrough to also collect the expanded set of 33 Antique Coins for Mad Pelicans.

P4: Banned Footage DLC Work through Banned Footage Vol. 1 and 2, tackling Bedroom, Nightmare, Ethan Must Die, 21, and Daughters. Remember Daughters requires two separate playthroughs to get both Butterfly Effect and One Instinct: Survival.

P5: End of Zoe and Not a Hero DLC Finish with the End of Zoe DLC for Promise Kept, Queensberry Rules, Swamp Warfare, and the harder Joe Must Die clear for King of the Swamp, then complete Not a Hero on Easy or Normal followed by a dedicated Professional difficulty run for You’re the Hero Now.

Conclusion

Resident Evil 7’s 58 achievements are refreshingly straightforward compared to many entries in the series, with most challenge achievements stackable into a single well-planned Easy-difficulty speedrun. The real time investment sits in the DLC content and the two mutually exclusive Daughters endings, which genuinely require separate playthroughs. Budget 15-20 hours for full completion across 2-3 runs, and prioritize unlocking the Circular Saw early, since it makes every subsequent Madhouse and challenge run considerably more manageable.