The Invisible Hand: 100% Achievement Guide

This guide assumes the reader is/has playing/played the career mode.

You’ll get these in the regular course of playing, as long as you play on Normal.

Nail the interview.

Get promoted to Analyst.

Get promoted to Associate.

Get promoted to Vice-President.

Finish the game on any difficulty.

Finish the game on Normal Mode.

All are hidden, unless otherwise noted
At the end of the game, you are presented with some choices on a laptop. Each possible combination of choices leads to a different achievement and ending.
Milky’s guide has a visual guide to the choices.

First choice: Do you want to cooperate with Law Enforcement?
1) Yes: Snitches Get Riches and Valuable Asset. Valuable Asset requires several days of play after the ending for another call to come in from TIC, then the second achievement is unlocked.
2) No: All others
Second choice: Are you prepared to cooperate with this court to retrieve the payment required?
1) No: Return on Investment.
2) Yes: All others.
Third choice: Do you want to stay at FERIOS?
1) Yes: Capital Trust
2) No: Truth & Consequences

Become an informant for TIC.

Last long enough as a confidential informant for TIC.

Go to prison for FERIOS.

Pay the fine and return to work at FERIOS.

Pay the fine and quit FERIOS.

Destabilize the system.
Get fired. Take the PR bar into crisis 5-times. You’ll come in to work with the world on fire, and this achievement will unlock. Must be enabled in settings mode.

After endless mode begins, play until you have enough money to purchase the identified percentage (or more) of all stock available in the interface. When you end the day, you will get to choose a new privilege and achieve your first succession rank. Starts at 5% and goes up by 5% until capping out at 50% of total available stock. Your stock positions are wiped out and you start again with only $1m corporate wealth. You keep all personal wealth. Market prices stay the same, but market cap and number of shares may change.

With the correct strategy and a sufficiently imbalanced market (from previous succession runs) you should be able to achieve even 50% succession on day 2.

My strategy

Start in endless mode with $1m. Identify the stock with the highest dividend rate and a stock with a low dividend rate and small market cap. Short the low-dividend stock for $1m and invest $2m in the high-dividend stock. End the day and collect your dividends.

With the cash you’ve earned, buy as much of your dividend company as possible. If you can buy 100%, it will drive the price high, resulting in a higher dividend rate %.

If you have leftover cash, buy the market. To be efficient, buy only a small portion of the market cap of each stock to avoid a price hike.

Next, short your low dividend stock to raise cash. If you have enough personal wealth to short for more than the market cap, you can send the stock into a downward spiral to near-0 prices.

If your dividend-paying stock is related to the daily bonus, break the agreement, pay the penalty, and sell the investment to “realize” the value of the dividends. The bonus to your personal wealth is on the magnitude of the value of the dividend to your corporate wealth on these days.

Remember, once you’ve driven the high-dividend’s stock price high, once you achieve succession, the price stays high along with sky-high dividend rates. This is your feedback loop. Keep repeating this process to master the game.

There are six achievements related to “Endless” Mode, all goals based on level.

Earn your first Succession rank in Endless Mode.

Earn Succession III.

Earn Succession V.

Earn Succession VII.

Earn Succession X.

Acquire every type of privilege.
Buy at least one level of each type of privilege. Does not have to be even, but minimum 1 in each category.

Begin the Endless Mode of Endless Mode.
After Ward tells you that they will no longer be able to give you any information about who you’re working for, this achievement should unlock.

At the end of your day, choose the “Hang Out” option with a friend to fill the heart bar by one heart each ‘hang out’.
Cost goes up by an order of magnitude each level.
5k-50k-500k-5m-50m
Total for the achievements: 166.665M personal wealth and 15 days
No achievements for becoming best friends with Agent Smith or Tristan Miller

Become best friends with Corbin.

Become best friends with Ward.

Become best friends with Quinn Miller.

(not otherwise classified)

Keep Miller on edge.
Starting on Day 6, when Miller (receptionist) tries to talk to you, it’s possible to continue walking. If you walk too far, Miller gets angry and says something about it. If you stop moving, you focus on Miller and are locked into the conversation. The letterboxing fills in/fades out like a health bar, keep it within range, not too high and not too low.
Keep moving like a ‘Dancing Queen’ until Miller stops talking.
The achievement should pop soon after.

Throw something at a colleague.
How-to: Pick up any item and throw it at another employee. This will trigger a reaction and the achievement.

Ignore the counsel of senior professionals.
How-to: On the first day, when Ward tells you to take a seat, refuse until they leave. This will trigger the achievement. Also possible by throwing something at Ward on the first day.

Sample the strongest coffee available at FERIOS.
How-to: On Day 4+, after the highest strength has been installed in the coffee machine, drink a cup of the strongest coffee.

Sample the strongest tea available at FERIOS.
How-to: On Day 4+, after the highest strength has been installed in the coffee machine, drink a cup of the strongest tea.

You’re likely to discover these throughout a normal playthrough but included here for completeness.
Milky’s guide has a more complete explanation.

Purchase one of each boxes from Boxes Extravagant.

Purchase one of each real estate property type from De Facto Estates.

Accumulate 10.000.000 wealth for the corporation.

Accumulate 5.000.000 of personal wealth.