My roommate was super excited and kept calling me at work to let me know how rough the launch was going with the servers having trouble!
I was a bit skeptical that it would last more than a few years before it would be a subscription model just to use it because of networking and infrastructure costs. So glad it has turned out the way that it has!
I was very anti steam when it first came around and only got an account once CS forced me to to continue to play. My join date is the beginning of 05 so you must have been a super early adopter!
I started out on CS 1.3 and Day of Defeat, I played source a lot too but then after that lost a lot of interest in it. I tried playing CS: Go for a while but it was never the same as those early days in LAN cafes and on shitty slow internet :D
You guys were just a few days too late... I remember wanting to stay up to make my account, but I had school the next morning so I did it when I woke up
I got Satisfactory before the 1.0 release. I played most of the game before achievements were added. Now the achievement for "reaching the credits" is achieved but "finish the tutorial" is still waiting to be done.
Wow that's hard to figure out, I went looking for games I had the most achievement completion and tried to find which one had achievements most people had that I didn't:
I never scored 6 goals in one game in Rocket League (60.5% of players did)
I never stabilized Gale's Orb in Baldur's Gate 3 (44.8% of players did)
I never became the champion of Fort Joy Arena in Divinity Original Sin 2 (42.2% of players did)
I never saved the Printer in Dishonored 2 (31.2% of players did)
To be honest, I haven't actually played 2 yet. But the first game holds a special place in my heart.
The online consensus seems to be that the sequel has stronger gameplay and maybe even visuals too (the psychedelics in both games are a real trip), but the original has a far stronger story. Again, I haven't played the sequel, but I suspect you'll be better served by starting with the first one.
A lot of people draw a parallel to Undertale, and while they're quite different games mechanically I admit they have a lot in common between their themes, characterizations, and the style of the overworld. Music in both games slap too.
Like Undertale, the game does give you an option to do a Pacifist run. Where Everhood turns things on its head is that the Pacifist run is an extremely crushing story - without getting into spoiler territory, let me just say I see a lot of myself in the Forest Spirit's philosophy. It's left a permanent mark on me.
By the way, that achievement is an absolute bitch and it's not even the hardest one. To put it in context, I held the number one spot on the leaderboard when I earned it - although they reset the leaderboards quite often, so you too have a chance to shine.
Thank you so much for the elaborate review. I'll see when my backlog allows for a new game, but I'll happily keep it on my radar for whenever the mood strikes me
If you've unlocked the "rare achievements showcase" on your profile, presumably using the desktop app, then it appears on your profile on the mobile app, too.
Behold! Not even getting all that far in They Bleed Pixels is my finest achievement, with only 1.1% of other players managing the same. What you need to do is focus on games that are old and unreasonably bastard hard, and rare medals can be yours.
What you need to do is focus on games that are old and unreasonably bastard hard, and rare medals can be yours.
I thought that and I looked at my showcase and they were all Modern Warfare (the first of the new reboots) campaign achievments around 0.3℅ and it made me embarrassed to post mine.
Seems you just need a major blockbuster where most people only play the multiplayer, which has also mashed all of its sequels into the same launcher and therefore included people who don't even own said game in the "players who did not achieve this" percentage...
I believe the games which are openeded and only have whatever goals you set yourself, such as Paradox Map games or Cities Skylines are contenders for rarest achievements as well.
Especially when they have updates and new achievements added as time passes.
For Crusader Kings three as an example, most people can probably found the Dai Viet Empire - But only 0.3% of players has the achievement
Not as low as some other percentages in this thread but I was very proud to beat the last pantheon in Hollow Knight. You have to beat every boss in the game in a row without dying
the developer kept changing the unlock criteria to deliberately troll the players - while it's appropriate for the meta commentary of the game, it made sure I'll never play one of his games again D:
I wasn't that much of a fan of Stanley Parable anyway, that sort of humour is not really my jam 🤷
You do realize they’re not like a part of the actual game right?
For that game they are definitely part of its poking fun of videogames and gamers, it has other achis like not playing for 5 years, or playing for the entire duration of a Tuesday.
Nobody is making you do this.
Agreed, nobody is forcing me to play his other games either :) I just don't like trolls, whether game developers or not 🤷 I'm one of those people who doesn't separate the art from its artist.
I also got bored of the Stanley Parable, it reeks of a period on the internet that I'd like to be dead history. Granted, if this was babbies first meta-commentary then I understand why it seems so profound to so many people.
My view on this game is that it, much like Chronotrigger, is very bland. It introduced young people to a concept they weren't familiar with, like time travel or meta-commentary.
If it's for you, it's for you. I'll reserve what I think about people who (for some reason) could not conceptualize what time travel was before Chronotrigger, I will treat the SP the same way.
I just went back with the last big update and got all of the achievements I didn't have. I had 100%ed it at least once before, but didn't have any of the newer ones.
My rarest achievement (0.3%) and most of the other rare ones were mainly for winning the Godly difficulty of the Neter campaign on From The Depths with my own creations. Each faction was its own achievement.
My second-rarest (0.4%) and proudest achievement is my tenth dan black belt in Toribash. I'm really close to custom belt but I haven't played in like 20 years. Oh my god.
Lazy Bastard, Getting On Track, Raining Bullets, TIS-100, and a couple Noita ones
Not at all an achievement hunter, and Steam is not my default gaming platform...
But I checked my rarest achievements and I've got a 1.4%. Which does not sound much, except it's in fucking Skyrim, and absolutely trivial to get.
OK, there's the catch : it's because this is Skyrim VR. It's the achievement you get just for mining ore and chopping wood.
Looks like there are some relatively easy .3/.4% to get there if you've got a VR headset and some dedication. And manage to keep the game working long enough to get those. That might be the hardest part, because ... Bethesda.
Thats a pretty cool concept. A world having the worst conflict of their existence and suddenly being third partied by aliens they didnt know existed. Must have been done tho right?
Shadows of Doubt. These achievements are not rare because they are difficult, but because they are tedious. Most of the ones listed here are just repeatedly eating a food item, which costs almost nothing (1200 credits for solving a typical case, 700 for an easy case; 12 credits to buy a Croque Monsieur, the most expensive food in the game.)
Rat Catcher: Solve a murder while your PoV is at the ground, but you can crawl up walls, and also nobody will talk to you. This achievement is rare mostly because this game mode was added a few years after this game peaked in popularity.
Spare No One: KO everyone in town, in a game where you are discouraged from using violence. Finding a katana and knocking out everyone you see on the street is easy enough. The real challenge here is keeping track of everyone. Some NPCs glitch out and get stuck in their houses, never go outside, and never come to work. You'll have to identify them, find out where they live, and hunt them down. Some NPCs have accented characters in their names, making them difficult to search for on the computers in game, which do not allow you to type such characters.
If you make a case board to keep track of everyone, the case board takes exponentially increasing time to open for each person you pin onto it. By the end, it was taking me about 5 seconds each time I opened it. That was in a custom procedurally generated town of the smallest possible size -- it would be worse on any of the stock towns.
Out of the Red: pay off 10,000 to a loan shark in 1,000 credit increments, one payment per day. Raising 10,000 can be done in half a day easily. Paying it off takes for ever. You can't make payments early. Each one-day wait takes a few minutes, since the game has to simulate every NPC in town. And remember to turn off the procedurally generated murders, because otherwise your loan shark might get killed, and you can't make payments any more (it happened to me, and I had to load a save.)
I've spent a fair bit of time living in Shadows of Doubt. I can corroborate for those who don't that you are indeed a mad bastard. I'm interested in the IRL circumstances.
I only have 20 Civ 6 Achievements, and one this one is also my rarest steam achievement somehow. Pretty sure it's just a thing people don't try, rather than being hard.
Oh wow I just bought GTFO during the last sale, planning to play with a friend but do you know if Matchmaking is alright in terms of how many player are still in there?
100 odysseys... congrats on that one. I haven't even done 50 yet, despite having played the game since release day. I love BTD6, but a lot of the achievements suuuuck. 100 odysseys, 500 golden bloons, 365 unique daily challenges... come on guys, I don't think anybody wants to grind that much.
I am kinda saddened that it's such a mundane achievement but I'm also baffled because I didn't even go out of my way to get this one I just played normally
Software Inc. Apparently people don't like it when you take away their company car, vacation pay, end of year bonus, and end of year pay increase. Who knew.
That one is from Witch It!, but it's bullshit, most of their achivements have those kind of extra conditions that make them hard to get (but also to prevent just cheesing them playing on an empty server so I guess that's fair)
My rarest achievement is for getting 32 silenced revolver kills in Red Orchestra 2 (0.3% of players). Technically its not too difficult, but since its a shooter with a fairly low TTK, you don't normally use the sidearm much. Further the silenced revolver is a pristige varient that has to be ground out using the original revolver, and performs worse than the unsilenced, so there is no reason to get the achievement except for completionism sake.
The achievement I'm much more proud of is Crypt of the Necromancer's Vow Down, for completing a full roguelike run with Monk. The gimmick with Monk is that the game is its normal roguelike-on-a-beat, but if you touch any gold, be it an enemy's drops or dungeon loot, you die instantly 100 to 0. This means that as well as the normal difficulty of the game, you have to plan around where you kill enemies to ensure that you always leave a safe path. I'm pretty confident that this is the most difficult thing I've ever done in a game. Technically 0.7% of player have the achievement, but given that 0.3% also have the achievement for completing the impossible New Game++++++++ character, we can effectively call it as 0.4% of players.
IIRC you get this under the craziest of conditions:
You need to snipe 2 players with 1 shot who are in a car moving at max speed while you are also in a car moving at max speed, while fully zoomed in on a sniper rifle
One of the two developers (Turpin) has to be on the server with you
Last I checked, it had an earn rate of like 0.03%. The condition of playing with one of the actual developers of the game is what makes it super hard; not really the sniping (tho that is also super difficult). It's probably not even earnable now; I got it back when the game was still being beta tested.
Edit: Got curious and went to find the actual stats for the two rarest achievements I have according to the "rarest achievements" block on my Steam profile (cuz there is 1 even rarer than the one I mentioned above), but the data isn't accessible. The rarest one I can actually see global stats for is 2nd Dan Blackbelt for Toribash (0.8%).
Definitely not as rare as most of y'all and probably only as rare as it is because of how many millions of people play stardew valley without ever even trying the arcade machines.
Rising storm was also great, I loved the flamethrower and drum-mag Thompson
It’s not the same, but every few years I hop into the single player and get wrecked by the bots. It’s only RO2 but you may enjoy it. It was my favorite FPS of all time
I’m so devastated that 83 bombed, that game should’ve carried on the legacy
I lost the screenshot, but i was the first one who beat crab champions on prismatic difficulty. My friend beat it a week later and was the second one. I never cared for achievements at all in video games, but seeing the 0.0% turning into 0.1% was bretty neat. It's a niche game, but i assume, just like me someone kept looking at that achievement, hoping it wouldn't flip over before they beat it.
My top 6 rarest are 0.4% - 0.6%, all in Eternal Card Game, just because they were still adding achievements after 90% of the player base had already left.
Finished Hollow Knight 100% in Steel Soul. I don't typically chase achievements. I knew finishing Steel Soul was one, but didn't know if 100% would be another.
It's not as bad as you'd think. I got it on my first attempt after playing through the game normally a bunch of times. Knowing where things are and what fights you can take in which order keeps things manageable.
And dream fights also do not kill you. So some of the toughest fights in the game will not end a steel soul run.
Plus 100% in Hollow Knight isn't everything. There's a total of something like 113%, so you don't need to do some challenges you know you might die to.
If you can do Steel Soul, the 100% is not that hard to get. You get the Fragile Strength early on which is a pretty big boost, and since you never die, you never have to worry about losing it. Most of the bosses aren't a big deal after you've beaten them a couple times, the only one I was worried about was Grimm, and since you can get up to 112% you can skip some of the more dangerous threats, mostly from the DLCs.
I have the "Edward Kelly" achievement in Kingdom Come Deliverance due to brewing 15 types of potions. Only 3.3% of players have it, which is pretty high compared to most of the ones posted here, but it's still a little interesting. Brewing potions in the game is a bit boring, and you can easily buy all the ones you need, so it's understandable why few people would get it. I just kinda decided one day I wanted to get to auto-brew level of skill and that meant lots of potion. Might as well make as many different kinds as I can, and auto-brew requires you've done it once already anyway.
Nice, i didn't try to get Finely Tuned mainly because i haven't bothered with a second chapter 5 playthrough. Mine is the 1000 day Interloper one at 0.2%, took me two years haha
Not quite official figures, but SteamHunter can show rarest achis in terms of absolute user numbers, and yea most of mine are from very obscure games, or games where the unlock was bugged for most players.
My two rarest achievements are for playing the objective in certain Lawbreakers gamemodes. I imagine these weren't intended to be ultra-rare but fate had other plans.
There are now third party servers to play on but they can't unlock steam achievements
In your steam profile settings there's a tab named Showcase Manager in which you can choose to display the Rarest Achievement Showcase on your profile page, it will show your rarest achievements on your profile
Some test achievement for a game I was developing, to check that the achievement integration and unlocking worked as expected. It later got replaced by the real achievements, but my Steam rarest achievement showcase still shows it, so I’m happy to keep it for the lols. Probably only me and a couple QA folks could possibly have it. Well and cheaters of course.
Mine is nothing special. It's Architect of Ruin from Shotgun King. You get it for doing some minor progress in the new-ish (not really anymore, but it used to be new) Charnier mode, nothing challenging at all, but I assume the reason only 0.6% of players have it is because everyone moved on from the game before that content dropped.
All my latest most rare achievements are all from Megabonk, which IMO don't really count. They are easy to get if you just play long enough.
My rarest for a very long time was this one with something like 0.3%, but it has apparently since gone way up. It used to have one of those gold borders around it indicating it was very rare. I got this on my second round that I played and then quit pretty much right after that. Not a very good game, unfortunately.
The one I am most proud of is this one:
I got bored after I took over Britannia as the Britons and had no more enemies who could realistically challenge me, so I sailed directly down to Rome with my army of slingers and tribesmen and sacked Rome for something like 100k denarii.
EDIT: Well, nevermind, this is my newest rare achievement (for now)
One of the rarest achievements I have is not at all difficult. It's not even trying to be. It's on Street Fighter 5 for saving 30 replays. Apparently nobody does that?
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ada@piefed.blahaj.zone · 97 pts · 38d
It's not an achievement, but this is pretty rare
Xilence@sh.itjust.works · 52 pts · 38d
I don't meet many people like you anymore.
inlandempire@jlai.lu · 67 pts · 38d
damn, y'all, how big were the dinos back then ?
ada@piefed.blahaj.zone · 35 pts · 38d
Big enough to screw up the platters on my hard drive when they stomped by!
Xilence@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 38d
You had to walk into the computer to catch the bugs.
ada@piefed.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 38d
'cause we're dying of old age? :P
9point6@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 38d
Oh hey
subOrange@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 38d
Wait for me!!
cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 38d
Ah, not quite as long as I’d thought
tpyo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 37d
Twinsies!
plateee@piefed.social · 8 pts · 38d
21-ers unite!
Wytch@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 38d
Soon
CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 38d
Twins! I suspect we both bought cszero at the same time
NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social · 6 pts · 38d
Golden oldie checking in
BiteSizedZeitGeist@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 38d
borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 36d
Shit, 17 days apart lol. Did you also get a copy of Half-Life 2 for Christmas?
Xilence@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 36d
I think I bought the Orange Box? Or HL2 for myself.
tryitout@infosec.pub · 18 pts · 38d
Had to look it up, you got Steam 4 days after it went live!
snooggums@piefed.world · 15 pts · 38d
I was busy the day they went live.
NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social · 5 pts · 38d
I remember watching in amusement as my housemate was extremely angry that day and thought "this thing is not going to catch on".
snooggums@piefed.world · 5 pts · 38d
My roommate was super excited and kept calling me at work to let me know how rough the launch was going with the servers having trouble!
I was a bit skeptical that it would last more than a few years before it would be a subscription model just to use it because of networking and infrastructure costs. So glad it has turned out the way that it has!
khannie@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 38d
I'm just 4 days after you. What's up, fellow old person?
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 38d
I only have 16 years, Finally I feel young again!
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 38d
Slowness to adopt new technologies is a sign of old age 😁
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 38d
Get off my lawn, damn whipper snappers!
BlaestEgnen@feddit.dk · 4 pts · 37d
Or that we were children with gameboys
theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 15 pts · 38d
I was very anti steam when it first came around and only got an account once CS forced me to to continue to play. My join date is the beginning of 05 so you must have been a super early adopter!
NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social · 3 pts · 38d
Ha, this is almost my story too. Hadn't played CS prior though, I got enticed in by CS:S and bought Half Life 2 and Steam just for that.
theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 38d
I started out on CS 1.3 and Day of Defeat, I played source a lot too but then after that lost a lot of interest in it. I tried playing CS: Go for a while but it was never the same as those early days in LAN cafes and on shitty slow internet :D
pheonixdown@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 38d
Fellow 22 checking in.
bitwise@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 38d
Hello, fellow eldritch being!
will@piefed.zip · 11 pts · 38d
You guys were just a few days too late... I remember wanting to stay up to make my account, but I had school the next morning so I did it when I woke up
snooggums@piefed.world · 8 pts · 38d
I was working a double shift on the day it was released so didn't get it until the day after.
picnicolas@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 38d
Saprophyte@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 38d
Funny to see so many other people all starting at the same time.
ada@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 36d
It's right around the time steam went live to the world
kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 38d
adjusts glasses and knees pop
Are my eyes deceiving me or is that a 4 digit account?
will@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 38d
Mine was a 5 digit the evening of release, gotta be pretty early to get a 4 digit
NRay7882@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 37d
Hell yeah, brother
stuner@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 38d
And I thought my 17 years were long xD
Car@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 37d
Can't figure out how to post an image, but I have you beat by less than 24 hours! (September 15th, 2003)
datavoid@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 36d
21 here, I too am old as hell
Dultas@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 37d
Just hit 22 this month.
snooggums@piefed.world · 1 pts · 38d
Old Timers Club!!
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 37d
This was my senior year of college. I would stay up all night playing Counterstrike and Day of Defeat.
MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world · 69 pts · 38d
What about the inverse?
I got Satisfactory before the 1.0 release. I played most of the game before achievements were added. Now the achievement for "reaching the credits" is achieved but "finish the tutorial" is still waiting to be done.
inlandempire@jlai.lu · 16 pts · 38d
Wow that's hard to figure out, I went looking for games I had the most achievement completion and tried to find which one had achievements most people had that I didn't:
alsimoneau@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 37d
Steamvault.dev makes this easy.
My best is 43.8% from AC Mirage, a hidden one called "The Shadow and the Flame".
inlandempire@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 36d
Cool site thanks for sharing!
Chiahna@piefed.blahaj.zone · 36 pts · 38d
0.4%
Quokka@quokk.au · 9 pts · 38d
Woo fellow (trans?) Stellaris player!
joelfromaus@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 37d
0.2% and still not the rarest achievement in the game!
jballs@sh.itjust.works · 34 pts · 38d
Not as rare as some others, but takes a little while to achieve:
Nibodhika@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 38d
Hahaha I have that one, and got it fair and square.
miseducator@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 38d
Ohh, right. Thanks for reminding me that I can get this one now.
Dultas@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 37d
Still working on Super Go Outside
Xilence@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 37d
I also got that one fairly.
Bougie_Birdie@piefed.blahaj.zone · 31 pts · 38d
Rarest
Proudest (Love this game, highly recommend)
MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.org · 6 pts · 38d
I'm glad to learn about Everhood this way. Do you recommend part 1 or 2 more?
Bougie_Birdie@piefed.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 38d
To be honest, I haven't actually played 2 yet. But the first game holds a special place in my heart.
The online consensus seems to be that the sequel has stronger gameplay and maybe even visuals too (the psychedelics in both games are a real trip), but the original has a far stronger story. Again, I haven't played the sequel, but I suspect you'll be better served by starting with the first one.
A lot of people draw a parallel to Undertale, and while they're quite different games mechanically I admit they have a lot in common between their themes, characterizations, and the style of the overworld. Music in both games slap too.
Like Undertale, the game does give you an option to do a Pacifist run. Where Everhood turns things on its head is that the Pacifist run is an extremely crushing story - without getting into spoiler territory, let me just say I see a lot of myself in the Forest Spirit's philosophy. It's left a permanent mark on me.
By the way, that achievement is an absolute bitch and it's not even the hardest one. To put it in context, I held the number one spot on the leaderboard when I earned it - although they reset the leaderboards quite often, so you too have a chance to shine.
MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.org · 2 pts · 37d
Thank you so much for the elaborate review. I'll see when my backlog allows for a new game, but I'll happily keep it on my radar for whenever the mood strikes me
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz · 29 pts · 38d
Zahille7@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 38d
Damn...
perishthethought@piefed.social · 26 pts · 38d
I'm this many years old on Steam and don't know how to find my achievements on the mobile app.
addie@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 38d
If you've unlocked the "rare achievements showcase" on your profile, presumably using the desktop app, then it appears on your profile on the mobile app, too.
Behold! Not even getting all that far in They Bleed Pixels is my finest achievement, with only 1.1% of other players managing the same. What you need to do is focus on games that are old and unreasonably bastard hard, and rare medals can be yours.
NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social · 3 pts · 38d
I thought that and I looked at my showcase and they were all Modern Warfare (the first of the new reboots) campaign achievments around 0.3℅ and it made me embarrassed to post mine.
Seems you just need a major blockbuster where most people only play the multiplayer, which has also mashed all of its sequels into the same launcher and therefore included people who don't even own said game in the "players who did not achieve this" percentage...
BlaestEgnen@feddit.dk · 2 pts · 37d
I believe the games which are openeded and only have whatever goals you set yourself, such as Paradox Map games or Cities Skylines are contenders for rarest achievements as well.
Especially when they have updates and new achievements added as time passes.
For Crusader Kings three as an example, most people can probably found the Dai Viet Empire - But only 0.3% of players has the achievement
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 38d
octobob@lemmy.ml · 21 pts · 38d
Not as low as some other percentages in this thread but I was very proud to beat the last pantheon in Hollow Knight. You have to beat every boss in the game in a row without dying
Daefsdeda@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 38d
5.3 feels like a lot for how hard the challenge is, I never did hahaha
decolo@piefed.social · 19 pts · 38d
This thread is a self doxxing minefield
trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 37d
ah fuck, now everyone will know that I'm actually a trash girlfriend alt account
lorty@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 37d
Being online is a self-doxxing paradise
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 37d
Are achievements public?
trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 37d
Depends on your steam profile settings
Deconceptualist@leminal.space · 18 pts · 37d
Somehow I'm among the 6.1% of Stanley Parable players with this one.
Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 37d
I'm number 10 on the Stanley Parable Worldwide Leaderboard.
Liz@midwest.social · 2 pts · 37d
And how does a person actually get it?
Deconceptualist@leminal.space · 1 pts · 37d
Supposedly you just get it randomly, or posts on the web say you can modify an config file then use a console command to get it.
kazerniel@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 37d
the developer kept changing the unlock criteria to deliberately troll the players - while it's appropriate for the meta commentary of the game, it made sure I'll never play one of his games again D:
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 37d
No offense, but that's just a very dumb reason to miss out on games that you'd otherwise enjoy.
You do realize they're not like a part of the actual game right? Nobody is making you do this.
kazerniel@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 37d
I wasn't that much of a fan of Stanley Parable anyway, that sort of humour is not really my jam 🤷
For that game they are definitely part of its poking fun of videogames and gamers, it has other achis like not playing for 5 years, or playing for the entire duration of a Tuesday.
Agreed, nobody is forcing me to play his other games either :) I just don't like trolls, whether game developers or not 🤷 I'm one of those people who doesn't separate the art from its artist.
Jax@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 37d
I also got bored of the Stanley Parable, it reeks of a period on the internet that I'd like to be dead history. Granted, if this was babbies first meta-commentary then I understand why it seems so profound to so many people.
My view on this game is that it, much like Chronotrigger, is very bland. It introduced young people to a concept they weren't familiar with, like time travel or meta-commentary.
If it's for you, it's for you. I'll reserve what I think about people who (for some reason) could not conceptualize what time travel was before Chronotrigger, I will treat the SP the same way.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 37d
pressanykeynow@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 37d
That's the point - they don't.
jaycifer@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 38d
Close to my rarest, but very fun and surprisingly strong! From Victoria 3
inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 37d
In the same vein, I got this from Civ 5. Wasn't even planned but it seems to be the rarest I have.
9point6@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 38d
Not strictly my rarest
But I remember taking a good while to actually achieve it (FTL)
Xilence@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 38d
Terraria, 0.4%
chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 37d
I just went back with the last big update and got all of the achievements I didn't have. I had 100%ed it at least once before, but didn't have any of the newer ones.
jerkface@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 38d
Thank you for asking!
My rarest achievement (0.3%) and most of the other rare ones were mainly for winning the Godly difficulty of the Neter campaign on From The Depths with my own creations. Each faction was its own achievement.
My second-rarest (0.4%) and proudest achievement is my tenth dan black belt in Toribash. I'm really close to custom belt but I haven't played in like 20 years. Oh my god.
Lazy Bastard, Getting On Track, Raining Bullets, TIS-100, and a couple Noita ones
ephrin@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 38d
brsrklf@jlai.lu · 14 pts · 38d
Not at all an achievement hunter, and Steam is not my default gaming platform...
But I checked my rarest achievements and I've got a 1.4%. Which does not sound much, except it's in fucking Skyrim, and absolutely trivial to get.
OK, there's the catch : it's because this is Skyrim VR. It's the achievement you get just for mining ore and chopping wood.
Looks like there are some relatively easy .3/.4% to get there if you've got a VR headset and some dedication. And manage to keep the game working long enough to get those. That might be the hardest part, because ... Bethesda.
Quokka@quokk.au · 12 pts · 38d
Million@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 37d
Thats a pretty cool concept. A world having the worst conflict of their existence and suddenly being third partied by aliens they didnt know existed. Must have been done tho right?
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 38d
Watch_Dogs, 0.2% achievement
Limonene@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 38d
Shadows of Doubt. These achievements are not rare because they are difficult, but because they are tedious. Most of the ones listed here are just repeatedly eating a food item, which costs almost nothing (1200 credits for solving a typical case, 700 for an easy case; 12 credits to buy a Croque Monsieur, the most expensive food in the game.)
Rat Catcher: Solve a murder while your PoV is at the ground, but you can crawl up walls, and also nobody will talk to you. This achievement is rare mostly because this game mode was added a few years after this game peaked in popularity.
Spare No One: KO everyone in town, in a game where you are discouraged from using violence. Finding a katana and knocking out everyone you see on the street is easy enough. The real challenge here is keeping track of everyone. Some NPCs glitch out and get stuck in their houses, never go outside, and never come to work. You'll have to identify them, find out where they live, and hunt them down. Some NPCs have accented characters in their names, making them difficult to search for on the computers in game, which do not allow you to type such characters.
If you make a case board to keep track of everyone, the case board takes exponentially increasing time to open for each person you pin onto it. By the end, it was taking me about 5 seconds each time I opened it. That was in a custom procedurally generated town of the smallest possible size -- it would be worse on any of the stock towns.
Out of the Red: pay off 10,000 to a loan shark in 1,000 credit increments, one payment per day. Raising 10,000 can be done in half a day easily. Paying it off takes for ever. You can't make payments early. Each one-day wait takes a few minutes, since the game has to simulate every NPC in town. And remember to turn off the procedurally generated murders, because otherwise your loan shark might get killed, and you can't make payments any more (it happened to me, and I had to load a save.)
jerkface@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 38d
I've spent a fair bit of time living in Shadows of Doubt. I can corroborate for those who don't that you are indeed a mad bastard. I'm interested in the IRL circumstances.
olafurp@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 37d
Napoleon Total War. Not sure if I was achievement hunting or not but it sounds fun.
pheonixdown@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 38d
I only have 20 Civ 6 Achievements, and one this one is also my rarest steam achievement somehow. Pretty sure it's just a thing people don't try, rather than being hard.
cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 38d
GTFO 0.2%
After that I’ve just got a bunch of ones from Risk of Rain 2 from just unlocking everything. Pretty time consuming, but very much a brain off game.
inlandempire@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 38d
Oh wow I just bought GTFO during the last sale, planning to play with a friend but do you know if Matchmaking is alright in terms of how many player are still in there?
cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 38d
Not sure. I mostly just play it with a friend and his group. Sorry that I can’t be more help.
inlandempire@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 38d
No worries, I'll find out myself!
BallShapedMan@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 38d
My two rarest aren't that rare. I'm not an achievement hunter.
Nelots@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 37d
100 odysseys... congrats on that one. I haven't even done 50 yet, despite having played the game since release day. I love BTD6, but a lot of the achievements suuuuck. 100 odysseys, 500 golden bloons, 365 unique daily challenges... come on guys, I don't think anybody wants to grind that much.
BallShapedMan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 37d
Agreed, I finally had to hide the game in my library so I didn't keep installing and playing it again.
msfroh@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 37d
I don't have it on Steam yet, but I have Balatro's Completionist++ on mobile.
I'm working on getting it on Steam too. Once you've done it once, getting it again isn't hard, just time-consuming. It's a 0.2% achievement, I think.
FatVegan@leminal.space · 2 pts · 37d
I love balatro so much, but i'm also really bad at it. I don't think i'll get anywhere in this game ever. But enjoy every second of failing
bandanawearingbanana@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 36d
Every device I own eventually becomes a Balatro machine.
Phone? Balatro Machine. Steamdeck? Balatro Machine. Work Laptop I can't install programs on? Oh, look at that. Another Balatro machine.
karlhungus@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 37d
Have it on steam, but not on mobile. Its a real grind.
real_squids@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 38d
Carmakazi@piefed.social · 5 pts · 38d
NMRIH is a free game that a lot of people played once and put down cause it was too hard, so not chasing achievements and skewing the numbers.
It's still weird because there's infinite ammo servers where you can grind that stuff out pretty easy.
Bantiff@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 38d
Oh Nosgoth, we hardly knew ye...
ThunderComplex@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 38d
I am kinda saddened that it's such a mundane achievement but I'm also baffled because I didn't even go out of my way to get this one I just played normally
blanket@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 38d
this is a free game, but I don't think there are a lot of people who have played it (delivery & beyond).
otherwise it'd be these for tabletop simulator
MurrayL@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 38d
This, from Tabletop Simulator.
Jaysyn@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 38d
slazer2au@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 38d
Software Inc. Apparently people don't like it when you take away their company car, vacation pay, end of year bonus, and end of year pay increase. Who knew.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 37d
Sounds like how Josh plays his company sims
https://youtu.be/8o-VGnFaStg
inlandempire@jlai.lu · 8 pts · 38d
That one is from Witch It!, but it's bullshit, most of their achivements have those kind of extra conditions that make them hard to get (but also to prevent just cheesing them playing on an empty server so I guess that's fair)
MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 38d
From Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem
PlzGibHugs@piefed.ca · 7 pts · 38d
My rarest achievement is for getting 32 silenced revolver kills in Red Orchestra 2 (0.3% of players). Technically its not too difficult, but since its a shooter with a fairly low TTK, you don't normally use the sidearm much. Further the silenced revolver is a pristige varient that has to be ground out using the original revolver, and performs worse than the unsilenced, so there is no reason to get the achievement except for completionism sake.
The achievement I'm much more proud of is Crypt of the Necromancer's Vow Down, for completing a full roguelike run with Monk. The gimmick with Monk is that the game is its normal roguelike-on-a-beat, but if you touch any gold, be it an enemy's drops or dungeon loot, you die instantly 100 to 0. This means that as well as the normal difficulty of the game, you have to plan around where you kill enemies to ensure that you always leave a safe path. I'm pretty confident that this is the most difficult thing I've ever done in a game. Technically 0.7% of player have the achievement, but given that 0.3% also have the achievement for completing the impossible New Game++++++++ character, we can effectively call it as 0.4% of players.
lime@feddit.nu · 7 pts · 38d
probably this badge
as for strictly achievements, looks like it's from human fall flat. that game just spams you with achievements though.
TabbsTheBat@pawb.social · 7 pts · 38d
This one I think =w=. I don't particularly care about achievements or getting rare ones, so I don't have any super extremely rare ones
Dultas@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 37d
0.4% Pillars of Eternity 1: No Rest for the Pro. Complete the game with fewer than 10 rests.
RamenJunkie@midwest.social · 6 pts · 38d
From American Truck Sim
Cornfusion Drive to the center of the Evergreen cornfield maze (requires Illinois DLC)
It says .1% of players
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 6 pts · 38d
"Derpin' With Turpin" in Tactical Intervention.
IIRC you get this under the craziest of conditions:
You need to snipe 2 players with 1 shot who are in a car moving at max speed while you are also in a car moving at max speed, while fully zoomed in on a sniper rifle
One of the two developers (Turpin) has to be on the server with you
Last I checked, it had an earn rate of like 0.03%. The condition of playing with one of the actual developers of the game is what makes it super hard; not really the sniping (tho that is also super difficult). It's probably not even earnable now; I got it back when the game was still being beta tested.
Edit: Got curious and went to find the actual stats for the two rarest achievements I have according to the "rarest achievements" block on my Steam profile (cuz there is 1 even rarer than the one I mentioned above), but the data isn't accessible. The rarest one I can actually see global stats for is 2nd Dan Blackbelt for Toribash (0.8%).
MoonRaven@feddit.nl · 6 pts · 37d
Ah I see witch it.
Daedskin@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 37d
It's not so rare now; but on the second day Silksong was out, I got the achievement for defeating Phantom when it was still 0.1%
DietCanesSauce@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 38d
Rarest: Some random achievement in City Skylines that I didn’t even notice I got
Proudest: Embrace the Void and 112% in Hollow Knight
MagicPterodactyl@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 36d
Definitely not as rare as most of y'all and probably only as rare as it is because of how many millions of people play stardew valley without ever even trying the arcade machines.
reksas@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 37d
Heart of the machine, 0.4%
BlueOysterCultist@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 38d
Red Orchestra 2
0.3%
Silent Killer
Get 32 Kills with the silenced Nagant Revolver
Man what an awesome game, I miss it
MichaelHawkinSnider@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 36d
Fellow Red Orchestra 2 player! I was more invested into Rising Storm, but I'd give an arm and leg to play either at their prime again.
BlueOysterCultist@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 36d
Rising storm was also great, I loved the flamethrower and drum-mag Thompson
It’s not the same, but every few years I hop into the single player and get wrecked by the bots. It’s only RO2 but you may enjoy it. It was my favorite FPS of all time
I’m so devastated that 83 bombed, that game should’ve carried on the legacy
stuner@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 38d
Factorio Express Delivery was quite an effort and a lot of fun.
I also have some fun Europa Universalis 4 achievements that were at 0.1% when I got them, but it seems that I need to up my game there :P
FatVegan@leminal.space · 5 pts · 37d
I lost the screenshot, but i was the first one who beat crab champions on prismatic difficulty. My friend beat it a week later and was the second one. I never cared for achievements at all in video games, but seeing the 0.0% turning into 0.1% was bretty neat. It's a niche game, but i assume, just like me someone kept looking at that achievement, hoping it wouldn't flip over before they beat it.
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 37d
My top 6 rarest are 0.4% - 0.6%, all in Eternal Card Game, just because they were still adding achievements after 90% of the player base had already left.
WizardArtsPropaganda@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 37d
Nighed@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 38d
Most are DLC specific or from old games.
kazerniel@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 38d
new one from an update in March, so will probably drift down the list:
long-term rarest:
all my remaining rarest ones are from Civ 5, I guess most players don't have the DLC
mursejoy@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 38d
This is the case for me but with Overcooked 2 DLC.
scutiger@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 37d
Finished Hollow Knight 100% in Steel Soul. I don't typically chase achievements. I knew finishing Steel Soul was one, but didn't know if 100% would be another.
domi@lemmy.secnd.me · 1 pts · 37d
Damn, how many tries did that take and how high was your adrenaline level during that playthrough?
_skj@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 37d
It's not as bad as you'd think. I got it on my first attempt after playing through the game normally a bunch of times. Knowing where things are and what fights you can take in which order keeps things manageable.
And dream fights also do not kill you. So some of the toughest fights in the game will not end a steel soul run.
Plus 100% in Hollow Knight isn't everything. There's a total of something like 113%, so you don't need to do some challenges you know you might die to.
scutiger@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 37d
If you can do Steel Soul, the 100% is not that hard to get. You get the Fragile Strength early on which is a pretty big boost, and since you never die, you never have to worry about losing it. Most of the bosses aren't a big deal after you've beaten them a couple times, the only one I was worried about was Grimm, and since you can get up to 112% you can skip some of the more dangerous threats, mostly from the DLCs.
Pyro@programming.dev · 4 pts · 38d
Not extremely rare but this achievement almost me rage-quit.
Liz@midwest.social · 4 pts · 37d
I have the "Edward Kelly" achievement in Kingdom Come Deliverance due to brewing 15 types of potions. Only 3.3% of players have it, which is pretty high compared to most of the ones posted here, but it's still a little interesting. Brewing potions in the game is a bit boring, and you can easily buy all the ones you need, so it's understandable why few people would get it. I just kinda decided one day I wanted to get to auto-brew level of skill and that meant lots of potion. Might as well make as many different kinds as I can, and auto-brew requires you've done it once already anyway.
FatVegan@leminal.space · 3 pts · 37d
Brewing potions is so fun in this game. But i don't have the achievement because there are some that i never used therefore never brewed
MichaelHawkinSnider@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 36d
Back when RDR2 was fresh on PC, dinked around once with the death match modes and never again lol.
Antium@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 36d
My rarest achievement is from The Long Dark (Finely Tuned) at 0.1%. But that's because not many people played the last episode when it came out.
My most memorable is from Titanfall 2 (...Becomes the Master) Place in the top 3 of the Gauntlet scoreboard. That one is at 2.9%
rbos@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 36d
Nice, i didn't try to get Finely Tuned mainly because i haven't bothered with a second chapter 5 playthrough. Mine is the 1000 day Interloper one at 0.2%, took me two years haha
westingham@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 38d
Two of my rarest: Dune Awakening
Dispatch
My overall showcase
And probably my proudest accomplishment
Hupf@feddit.org · 1 pts · 37d
How would that ever be possible? (Zeno)
Localhorst86@feddit.org · 4 pts · 38d
This one, and the same achivement on American Truck Simulator.
Tudsamfa@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 37d
How do you check again how many copies a game sold?
Because I have some 1% achievements in games that sold millions, but I'd argue my "20% of players" achievement in a 200 reviews game is rarer.
kazerniel@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 37d
Not quite official figures, but SteamHunter can show rarest achis in terms of absolute user numbers, and yea most of mine are from very obscure games, or games where the unlock was bugged for most players.
inlandempire@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 37d
I'm not sure, usually it's the publishers sharing that number, Steam does tell devs how many copies they sold
als@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 38d
My two rarest achievements are for playing the objective in certain Lawbreakers gamemodes. I imagine these weren't intended to be ultra-rare but fate had other plans.
There are now third party servers to play on but they can't unlock steam achievements
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 38d
I have all the achievements for Final Fantasy 1
sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 37d
Even silksong came out I got the achievement for fourth chorus when it had a 1% completion rate
craftrabbit@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 38d
My sibling, why would you ever play witch it on an official server?
CryptoKitten@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 37d
Is there an easy way to find out without using third party websites?
PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 37d
Set the "showcase" at the top of your profile to "Rarest Achievement Showcase". I'm not sure how else to see it natively.
inlandempire@jlai.lu · 3 pts · 37d
In your steam profile settings there's a tab named Showcase Manager in which you can choose to display the Rarest Achievement Showcase on your profile page, it will show your rarest achievements on your profile
Mad_Punda@feddit.org · 3 pts · 38d
Some test achievement for a game I was developing, to check that the achievement integration and unlocking worked as expected. It later got replaced by the real achievements, but my Steam rarest achievement showcase still shows it, so I’m happy to keep it for the lols. Probably only me and a couple QA folks could possibly have it. Well and cheaters of course.
kazerniel@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 38d
yea it undermines Steam achievement collecting a bit that there has been an easily available achi unlocker out there for almost 2 decades
TipRing@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 38d
Not counting rare ones that are from brand new DLC, this is my rarest (Stellaris).
With another rare from a different space 4x game (Endless Space 2):
Edit to add the one I am the most happy with (Noita):
flying_sheep@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 37d
I have 113 hours in Noita and I still suck.
TipRing@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 36d
Keep at it! I didn't even beat the tutorial until I had around 70 hours and 105 attempts.
Pamasich@kbin.earth · 3 pts · 38d
Mine is nothing special. It's Architect of Ruin from Shotgun King. You get it for doing some minor progress in the new-ish (not really anymore, but it used to be new) Charnier mode, nothing challenging at all, but I assume the reason only 0.6% of players have it is because everyone moved on from the game before that content dropped.
alsimoneau@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 37d
I've got quite a few <0.1% from Lost Ark, but it doesn't feel like they count since it's a free to play MMO, so the account numbers are bloated.
After that I have a 1.8% from Forza Horizon 4 (30 stars on Skill Streak) and Frostpunk (Build the generator in the DLC mission).
Furbag@pawb.social · 3 pts · 37d
All my latest most rare achievements are all from Megabonk, which IMO don't really count. They are easy to get if you just play long enough.
My rarest for a very long time was this one with something like 0.3%, but it has apparently since gone way up. It used to have one of those gold borders around it indicating it was very rare. I got this on my second round that I played and then quit pretty much right after that. Not a very good game, unfortunately.
The one I am most proud of is this one:
I got bored after I took over Britannia as the Britons and had no more enemies who could realistically challenge me, so I sailed directly down to Rome with my army of slingers and tribesmen and sacked Rome for something like 100k denarii.
EDIT: Well, nevermind, this is my newest rare achievement (for now)
gl38@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 36d
One of the rarest achievements I have is not at all difficult. It's not even trying to be. It's on Street Fighter 5 for saving 30 replays. Apparently nobody does that?
BiteSizedZeitGeist@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 38d
Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 38d
What game is that?? Ive done something similar in Gamble With Your Friends but there's no achievement for that in the game XD
Million@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 37d
My top 20 rarest achievements according to steamvault were all dirt rally ones about beating easy stage times...
Not many people played dirt too seriously it seems 😄
kieron115@startrek.website · 2 pts · 36d
I got this through sheer indecisiveness on my first playthrough.
gl38@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 36d
buddascrayon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 36d
Apparently, completely finishing any Lego game (I have, at this point, completed 6 of them).
punkfungus@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 37d
This one is the rarest of the game
This one is less rare but actually more difficult. Far more people attempt it so it has a higher achievement rate.
Undearius@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 37d
This is my rarest but it's a small part that nobody plays of a niche game.
0.2% - American Truck Simulator
Shining Star
Obtain 3 stars in any 3 scenarios played in a row in Truck Driving Proficiency (Driving Academy)
The one I'm proud of:
0.3% - Halo: Master Chief Collection
A Preference for Pain
Halo 3: Complete the Halo 3 LASO Campaign playlist.
Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 37d
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 38d
3.1% of players for Dungeons of Dredmor
BreadOven@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 36d
The cactus simulator one. That was a lot of standing.
Soulstorm@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 36d
There’s a lot of achievements on this game that barely anyone has