Resident Evil Requiem Achievement Guide: 100% Roadmap

Resident Evil Requiem has 49 Steam achievements, and Steam’s own unlock-rate data confirms exactly where the difficulty spikes are. The three difficulty-tier achievements, Rising Agent, Resolute Agent, and Remarkable Agent, show a steep drop from 65.7% down to under 17%, confirming that most players never push past Standard difficulty into Classic mode or Insanity. The real grind sits in the challenge-run achievements: Never Touch the Stuff, Minimalist, and Speed Demon all require dedicated, restrictive playthroughs rather than natural story progress.

Quick Stats

• Total Achievements: 49
• Estimated Completion Time: 30-40 hours for full 100% completion
• Difficulty: Medium overall, with the hardest cluster being the challenge-run achievements (Never Touch the Stuff, Minimalist, Speed Demon, Remarkable Agent)
• Online Required: No
• Missable Achievements: Yes. Aside from the story-related achievements, most are technically missable, particularly Minimalist and Never Touch the Stuff, which require avoiding specific items for an entire playthrough

Achievement List by Category

Story Progression (Unmissable)

• Deja vu
• The Final Mission
• Hope and Requiem
• The Hero Returns
• Umbrella’s Legacy
• I Remember That, Too
• A Harsh Reality
• It’s Been a Long Night
• Rookie Agent
• Rising Agent
• Resolute Agent
• Remarkable Agent
• Case Closed

Exploration and Collectibles

• The Hunt Begins
• You Little Rascal!
• Model Mania
• Curator
• Crate Expectations
• No Safe is Safe
• The Ol’ Fashioned Way

Combat

• Can I Borrow This?
• Chop Chop
• Untouchable
• Bang For Your Buck
• Bloodlust
• Deadly Duet
• Seasoned Pro
• Not Today, Buds!
• Grace and Goliath

Crafting and Items

• Out of Sight, Out of Mind
• Like Mother, Like Daughter
• Tailor Made
• Retail Therapy
• Master Craftsman
• Internal Dispute
• Credit Where Credit Is Due

Challenge and Missable (Critical)

• Never Touch the Stuff
• Minimalist
• Speed Demon
• Cat Got Your Tongue?

Miscellaneous

• Science!
• Fatal Dose
• The Power of Blood
• Descent Into Darkness
• Blood! More Blood!
• Order Up!
• Going Down?
• Road Rage
• Bring Out the Big Guns

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

Rookie Agent

Unlock Rate: 72.4% (Common)

Requirement: Complete the main story on at least Casual difficulty

How to Unlock: Play through the full main campaign on Casual, the lowest available difficulty.

Tips: This is the safest first playthrough. Focus on soaking up the story without worrying about resource management.

Rising Agent

Unlock Rate: 65.7% (Common)

Requirement: Complete the main story on at least Standard (Modern) difficulty

How to Unlock: Complete the campaign on Standard difficulty using the Modern control and assist settings.

Tips: Modern mode softens aim assist and resource pressure compared to Classic, so this is the more forgiving of the two Standard clears.

Resolute Agent

Unlock Rate: 30.6% (Uncommon)

Requirement: Complete the main story on at least Standard (Classic) difficulty

How to Unlock: Complete the campaign on Standard difficulty using Classic controls, which removes modern aim assists.

Tips: The drop from 65.7% to 30.6% shows most players skip Classic mode entirely. If you are chasing 100%, plan for a dedicated Classic-mode run rather than trying to combine it with your first playthrough.

Remarkable Agent

Unlock Rate: 16.9% (Rare)

Requirement: Complete the main story on Insanity difficulty

How to Unlock: Finish the campaign on Insanity, unlocked only after beating the game once. Insanity features more enemies and altered item placement.

Tips: Save this for your last playthrough once you know the map layout and enemy patterns cold. We rate this as the hardest difficulty-tier achievement in the game.

The Final Mission

Unlock Rate: 73.4% (Common)

Requirement: Start exploring the lower levels of ARK

How to Unlock: Progress the story until you reach and begin exploring ARK’s lower levels.

Tips: Story-tied and unmissable on a normal playthrough.

Hope and Requiem

Unlock Rate: 71.9% (Common)

Requirement: Complete the main story by releasing Elpis

How to Unlock: Choose the “release Elpis” ending path during the game’s finale.

Tips: This is one of the game’s ending achievements. The other ending choice does not award this achievement, so confirm you’re on the Elpis path if chasing it specifically.

The Hero Returns

Unlock Rate: 75.0% (Common)

Requirement: Arrive at R.P.D.

How to Unlock: Continue the main story until you reach the Raccoon Police Department.

Tips: Unlocks automatically during story progression.

Umbrella’s Legacy

Unlock Rate: 73.8% (Common)

Requirement: Find ARK

How to Unlock: Progress the story until you locate ARK.

Tips: Story-tied, no extra action needed.

I Remember That, Too

Unlock Rate: 74.0% (Common)

Requirement: Defeat the Super Tyrant

How to Unlock: Beat the Super Tyrant boss encounter during the main story.

Tips: This is a mandatory boss fight, so it will not be missed on a normal playthrough.

A Harsh Reality

Unlock Rate: 78.4% (Common)

Requirement: Escape the care center

How to Unlock: Progress the story until you escape the Care Center location.

Tips: Story-tied, unlocks naturally.

It’s Been a Long Night

Unlock Rate: 79.1% (Common)

Requirement: Reach the courtyard of the care center

How to Unlock: Continue the story until you reach the Care Center courtyard.

Tips: Early-game story beat, no special action needed.

Case Closed

Unlock Rate: 16.4% (Rare)

Requirement: Read all the files in the main story

How to Unlock: Find and read all 75 documents scattered throughout the game.

Tips: With 75 total files, this is one of the toughest collectibles. Use a dedicated file-location guide on a second playthrough to sweep every area methodically rather than trying to catch them all blind.

Exploration and Collectibles

The Hunt Begins

Unlock Rate: 86.2% (Common)

Requirement: Destroy one Mr. Raccoon memoriam

How to Unlock: Find and destroy any single Mr. Raccoon statue hidden in the environment.

Tips: There are 25 Mr. Raccoon statues total across the game, so this fires on your very first one.

You Little Rascal!

Unlock Rate: 19.6% (Rare)

Requirement: Destroy every Mr. Raccoon memoriam

How to Unlock: Locate and destroy all 25 Mr. Raccoon statues across the entire game.

Tips: Use a Mr. Raccoon location map on your second playthrough. These are easy to miss on a first blind run focused on survival.

Model Mania

Unlock Rate: 16.7% (Rare)

Requirement: View all models

How to Unlock: Open the bonus content gallery and view every unlockable model, spending Challenge Points to unlock the gallery section itself if needed.

Tips: This is purchased with Challenge Points in the bonus materials menu, so stockpile points from completing other achievements first.

Curator

Unlock Rate: 16.3% (Rare)

Requirement: View all concept art

How to Unlock: Open the bonus content gallery and view every piece of concept art, also unlocked via Challenge Points.

Tips: Pair this cleanup pass with Model Mania since both live in the same bonus materials menu and both cost Challenge Points to unlock.

Crate Expectations

Unlock Rate: 51.8% (Common)

Requirement: Open all BSAA containers

How to Unlock: Locate and open all four BSAA supply containers scattered through the game.

Tips: There are only four containers total, so this is manageable even on a first playthrough if you explore thoroughly.

No Safe is Safe

Unlock Rate: 48.6% (Uncommon)

Requirement: Open every safe in the main story

How to Unlock: Find and open all five safes in the game using their combinations.

Tips: Safe combinations differ by difficulty. On Casual, Safe 1 in the Care Center Bar and Lounge is Left 10, Right 80, Left 30. Look up the full combination list for all five safes since they change between Casual and Insanity difficulty.

The Ol’ Fashioned Way

Unlock Rate: 42.9% (Uncommon)

Requirement: Use an ink ribbon to save at a typewriter

How to Unlock: Find an ink ribbon and use it at a typewriter save point, available starting on Standard (Classic) difficulty or higher.

Tips: This requires Classic-mode saving mechanics, so it will not trigger on Casual or Standard (Modern). Plan this for your Resolute Agent playthrough.

Combat

Can I Borrow This?

Unlock Rate: 87.3% (Common)

Requirement: Throw a weapon dropped by an enemy

How to Unlock: During a fight with an armed enemy, stun them to make them drop their weapon, then pick it up and throw it back.

Tips: This should happen naturally within the first couple of encounters where enemies carry visible weapons.

Chop Chop

Unlock Rate: 81.7% (Common)

Requirement: Defeat three zombies with a hatchet finishing attack

How to Unlock: Get a hatchet early and use its finishing move on three separate zombies.

Tips: Finishing attacks trigger once an enemy is staggered, so soften zombies first with regular attacks before going for the hatchet finish.

Untouchable

Unlock Rate: 81.4% (Common)

Requirement: Parry an enemy attack

How to Unlock: Successfully perform a perfect block or parry against an incoming enemy attack using the parry input.

Tips: Practice parry timing on a slow, telegraphed enemy like a basic zombie before trying it on faster threats.

Bang For Your Buck

Unlock Rate: 41.1% (Uncommon)

Requirement: Defeat at least three enemies with a single Requiem shot

How to Unlock: Line up three or more enemies and fire a single Requiem shot that hits all of them at once.

Tips: Wait for enemies to cluster in a hallway or doorway before firing. Save your Requiem ammo for these moments rather than using it on single targets.

Bloodlust

Unlock Rate: 21.0% (Rare)

Requirement: Collect 5,000 microsamples of infected blood with the blood collector

How to Unlock: Use the Blood Collector tool to gather infected blood from enemies and environmental blood pools until you reach 5,000 total.

Tips: This is cumulative across playthroughs and will likely pop after a couple of full runs if you consistently collect blood rather than ignoring it.

Deadly Duet

Unlock Rate: 79.4% (Common)

Requirement: Defeat the two singers in the main story

How to Unlock: Beat the boss encounter involving the two singer enemies during the main story.

Tips: This is a mandatory story boss fight and will not be missed on a normal playthrough.

Seasoned Pro

Unlock Rate: 75.6% (Common)

Requirement: Defeat 300 enemies

How to Unlock: Accumulate 300 total enemy kills across your playthrough.

Tips: This adds up naturally over a full campaign. If you are short by the end, additional playthroughs will close the gap quickly since kills are cumulative.

Not Today, Buds!

Unlock Rate: 59.7% (Common)

Requirement: Defeat all the Plant 43 seedlings

How to Unlock: Find and destroy every Plant 43 seedling enemy encountered during the story.

Tips: Keep an eye out for seedling-type enemies in garden or overgrown areas and make sure to clear all of them rather than running past.

Grace and Goliath

Unlock Rate: 58.3% (Common)

Requirement: Defeat a Chunk as Grace

How to Unlock: While playing as Grace, defeat the enemy type known as a Chunk.

Tips: This is tied to a specific enemy encounter while controlling Grace, so make sure to engage rather than avoid Chunk enemies during her sections.

Crafting and Items

Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Unlock Rate: 87.0% (Common)

Requirement: Store an item in the item box as Grace

How to Unlock: Interact with any item box while playing as Grace and place an item inside.

Tips: Item boxes are typically near save points. This will happen naturally the first time you manage inventory space.

Like Mother, Like Daughter

Unlock Rate: 82.5% (Common)

Requirement: Unlock a drawer with a lockpick

How to Unlock: Find a lockpick and use it on any locked drawer you encounter.

Tips: Lockpicks are usually limited early on, so use your first one on the nearest locked drawer rather than saving it indefinitely.

Tailor Made

Unlock Rate: 81.4% (Common)

Requirement: Upgrade a weapon

How to Unlock: Spend resources or currency to upgrade any weapon at a workbench or upgrade station.

Tips: Upgrade a weapon you plan to use often early, since this only requires one upgrade, not a fully maxed weapon.

Retail Therapy

Unlock Rate: 77.1% (Common)

Requirement: Purchase an item from the supply box

How to Unlock: Spend in-game currency to buy any single item from a supply or merchant box.

Tips: Even a cheap purchase counts, so grab something useful early rather than hoarding currency.

Master Craftsman

Unlock Rate: 22.5% (Rare)

Requirement: Craft every possible item with Leon

How to Unlock: Play a section as Leon and craft one of every craftable item type available to his loadout.

Tips: This requires stockpiling crafting materials rather than using them as you go. Save components during a Leon section specifically to craft one of each item type in a single sitting.

Internal Dispute

Unlock Rate: 32.3% (Uncommon)

Requirement: Make a zombie attack another zombie in the hospital wards

How to Unlock: In the hospital wards area, maneuver so that one zombie’s attack accidentally hits another zombie.

Tips: Lure a zombie into an attack animation while another zombie is standing in its path, then let it swing and hit its neighbor instead of you.

Credit Where Credit Is Due

Unlock Rate: 30.7% (Uncommon)

Requirement: Earn 200,000 credits

How to Unlock: Accumulate 200,000 in-game credits through normal play, exploration, and combat.

Tips: This is cumulative and will likely pop after a couple of full playthroughs, especially if you’re also grinding other achievements that reward credits.

Challenge and Missable

Never Touch the Stuff

Unlock Rate: 21.8% (Rare)

Requirement: Complete the main story without using herbs or med injectors

How to Unlock: Finish an entire playthrough without ever consuming a healing herb or med injector.

Tips: Play on Casual difficulty to reduce incoming damage and lean entirely on stealth and dodging rather than tanking hits. We recommend combining this with the Minimalist run for efficiency.

Minimalist

Unlock Rate: 20.5% (Rare)

Requirement: Complete the main story without Grace using the Blood Collector

How to Unlock: Finish a full playthrough as Grace without ever picking up or using the Blood Collector item.

Tips: The safest approach is to avoid picking up the Blood Collector at all during the run, which removes any risk of accidentally triggering it. Track your progress under Challenges to confirm it stays at zero.

Speed Demon

Unlock Rate: 19.1% (Rare)

Requirement: Complete the main story by releasing Elpis within four hours

How to Unlock: Finish the campaign choosing the Elpis ending, with total playtime under four hours.

Tips: Save this for a run after you already know the map layout. The in-game timer pauses when you pause the game, so you can plan routes without burning the clock. Purchasing Infinite Ammo from the Special Content Shop beforehand makes this run significantly easier.

Cat Got Your Tongue?

Unlock Rate: 23.8% (Rare)

Requirement: Cut the tongue off a Licker β2 using the hatchet

How to Unlock: During an encounter with a Licker β2 enemy, use the hatchet to specifically sever its tongue.

Tips: This requires a hatchet in hand when you encounter this specific Licker variant. Time your attack for when the tongue is exposed during its attack animation.

Miscellaneous

Deja vu

Unlock Rate: 94.1% (Common)

Requirement: Encounter an outbreak in Wrenwood

How to Unlock: Progress through the opening sequence of the game as Leon in Wrenwood.

Tips: Unlocks automatically during the intro. No action needed beyond starting the game.

Science!

Unlock Rate: 85.0% (Common)

Requirement: Unlock a crafting recipe using analysis

How to Unlock: In the Care Center Blood Lab, pick up the Blood Collector and Blood Specimen, then interact with the Analyzer machine. Solve the puzzle by turning all nodes red to unlock the recipe.

Tips: This puzzle is straightforward and appears early. Do this before moving on since it’s required to set up The Power of Blood as well.

Fatal Dose

Unlock Rate: 84.5% (Common)

Requirement: Defeat a zombie using the hemolytic injector

How to Unlock: Pick up the purple Hemolytic Injector as Grace in the Care Center Examination Room, sneak up behind a zombie, and use it to instantly defeat them.

Tips: There is a zombie with its back turned conveniently placed in the same room as the injector, making this one of the easiest achievements to grab.

The Power of Blood

Unlock Rate: 83.5% (Common)

Requirement: Craft an item using the Blood Collector

How to Unlock: After completing the Science! achievement, use the Blood Collector to gather blood, then craft any item that requires it.

Tips: Craft a Hemolytic Injector or similar blood-based item once you have the recipe unlocked and enough blood collected.

Descent Into Darkness

Unlock Rate: 81.6% (Common)

Requirement: Reach the basement of the care center

How to Unlock: Progress the story until you descend into the Care Center basement.

Tips: Unlocks naturally during normal story progression.

Blood! More Blood!

Unlock Rate: 80.1% (Common)

Requirement: Use 300 microsamples of infected blood

How to Unlock: Use the Blood Collector to gather and spend a cumulative total of 300 microsamples of infected blood on crafting.

Tips: This will likely come through normal play if you consistently craft items requiring blood rather than hoarding it.

Order Up!

Unlock Rate: 77.4% (Common)

Requirement: Defeat the chef in the care center in the main story

How to Unlock: Beat the Chef boss encounter in the Care Center during the main story.

Tips: Mandatory story boss fight, unmissable on a normal playthrough.

Going Down?

Unlock Rate: 75.2% (Common)

Requirement: Reach the ground using the suspended platform

How to Unlock: Progress the story until you use the suspended platform to descend to ground level.

Tips: Story-tied, unlocks automatically.

Road Rage

Unlock Rate: 74.6% (Common)

Requirement: Stop one of Victor’s attacks on the highway

How to Unlock: During the highway sequence, successfully block or interrupt one of Victor’s attacks.

Tips: This is tied to a specific vehicle chase or highway encounter with a named antagonist. Stay alert for prompts during this sequence.

Bring Out the Big Guns

Unlock Rate: 74.1% (Common)

Requirement: Stun the special girl-enemy with the Requiem weapon

How to Unlock: While playing as Grace, encounter “The Girl” enemy and shoot her once with the Requiem weapon to stun her.

Tips: You’ll face this enemy in the Care Center basement and again later in the Water Treatment Plant. Save at least one Requiem shot for this encounter since Requiem ammo can be scarce on your first visit.

5-Phase 100% Completion Roadmap

Phase 1: First Playthrough (Casual or Standard Modern) Play through the full story focused on enjoying the game rather than chasing achievements. This naturally nets Rookie Agent or Rising Agent, most story-progress achievements, and several common combat and item achievements like Can I Borrow This?, Out of Sight Out of Mind, and Tailor Made.

Phase 2: Collectible Cleanup Pass On a second playthrough or chapter-select pass, focus entirely on collectibles: every Mr. Raccoon memoriam, every file for Case Closed, and every model and concept art piece for Model Mania and Curator. Use a chapter-select or lower difficulty to move through areas quickly without combat pressure.

Phase 3: Classic Mode Clear Run through the campaign again on Standard (Classic) difficulty for Resolute Agent. Since this drops to 30.6% unlock rate, treat it as its own dedicated playthrough rather than trying to combine it with collectible hunting.

Phase 4: Challenge Runs Tackle the restrictive achievements: Never Touch the Stuff (no herbs or med injectors), Minimalist (no Blood Collector), and Speed Demon (under four hours). We recommend combining these three into a single efficient run on Casual difficulty once you know the map.

Phase 5: Combat and Crafting Mop-Up Finish remaining combat achievements like Bang For Your Buck and Seasoned Pro, plus crafting achievements like Master Craftsman, which requires stockpiling materials specifically for Leon. Wrap up with Remarkable Agent on Insanity difficulty once you are fully comfortable with the game’s systems.

Conclusion

Resident Evil Requiem’s 49 achievements split cleanly into two groups: story and common-action achievements most players pick up naturally, and a tighter cluster of sub-25% unlock rate challenges that demand dedicated, restrictive runs. Case Closed, Model Mania, and Curator are the trickiest pure collectibles, since Steam shows only 16-17% of players finishing them, largely because Model Mania and Curator require spending Challenge Points to unlock the gallery sections in the first place. Budget 30-40 hours for full completion across three playthroughs: one relaxed run for collectibles, one Classic-mode clear, and one speed and restriction run combining Speed Demon, Never Touch the Stuff, and Minimalist together.