Cryptmaster: Achievement Guide

I had a lot of fun with this game, especially finding its various secrets. Although I haven’t gotten them all yet, I figured since there wasn’t an achievement guide yet, I’d put one together. With new games like this with so many secrets, it can be tough to find leads early on, so hopefully this can help someone out.

I’d highly encourage you to take a crack at the secrets yourself before using the guide. I’ll try to include some hints if you need help along but still want to try solving it yourself. These were really cool to stumble across and clearly had a lot of effort put in, so it’s worth trying for yourself!

Feel free to comment to correct me on anything, or if you have the solutions for the achievements I haven’t found yet, and I’ll edit the guide with any corrections.

Also, spoilers ahead. I’ll spoiler tag any major ones but certain character names and locations will be revealed.

These are all achievements that should be unmissable through regular progression through the game.

Blasphemer
Awarded on desecrating the first altar.

Upstepper
Awarded on leaving the crypt.

Royal Flush
Awarded on getting past the rat guarding the palace using the crowns.

Iconoclast
Awarded upon helping Ulara get the books of the four lost gods.

It Burns!
Awarded upon stepping into the sunlight at the temple.

These are achievements you get by beating various characters in Whatever.

Beginner’s Luck
Awarded upon beating the Cryptmaster at Whatever.

Even Steven
Awarded upon beating Steven at Whatever.

Out for the Countess
Awarded upon beating Countess Ulara at Whatever.

Card Magic
Awarded upon beating Orthos at Whatever.

These are achievements that are missable through the playthrough, but are straightforward to get if you follow their quests. Also, achievements that you get at specific points where you get to make a choice.

Here Come the Brides
Awarded upon marrying Goggo. When given the option between Lovejuice and Sleepjuice, choose Lovejuice. I believe you only get this one if you use Lovejuice. If someone who used Sleepjuice can confirm/correct this, I will edit this.

Goodnight, Sweet Prince
Awared upon putting Goggo to sleep. When given the option between Lovejuice and Sleepjuice, use Sleepjuice. Note: I believe these two are currently mutually exclusive. I used Lovejuice, and have not seen any opportunity to go back and use Sleepjuice, unless maybe you’re able to quit before the choice is saved. Will edit if this changes or I’m corrected.

Stinkbomb
Awarded upon digging up Ratty’s treasure. In the quest given by Ratty’s father, find Ratty and use the “Dig” command where his treasure is hidden. If you’re having trouble finding it: It can be found in a corner in the room with the entrance to the Pools.

Brew Master
Get the Portable Cauldron. Awarded upon bringing Ratty back to his father.

Special Delivery
Deliver the Piper’s diss track to Ulara. Awarded upon playing the wax cylinder in her chamber.

Grateful Undead
In the ending, when given the choice between “Kill” and “Smash”, choose “Kill.”

Paragon
In the ending, when given the choice between “Kill” and “Smash”, choose “Smash.”

These are achievements that are either straightforward but pretty easy to miss in a regular playthrough, or fairly complicated secrets.

The achievements for restoring memories are here because from what I’ve seen, people typically don’t have all the memories unlocked by the end of their playthrough. I only had half unlocked by that point. So if you want these, you’ll probably have to grind a bit for them.

Man of War
Restore all of Joro’s memories.

Lady Killer
Restore all of Syn’s memories.

Melody Maker
Restore all of Maz’s memories.

Sorceress Supreme
Restore all of Nix’s memories.

Bragging Rights
Catch a rare fish. There are five of these that I know of in various locations in the game. These fish will generally have pretty different names than the ones you typically catch, so they’re hard to miss. Note: I’ve only found three of the five, so if you find the other two, or if there’s any more I’m not aware of, feel free to comment them and I’ll add them in.

Locations Found: Sea Caves, Bridge, Underwood
Names of Fish Found:
Agathadaimon
Lazaretto
Zugzwang

Pottymouth
Unlock the swear jar.
Hint: The solution to this should be pretty intuitive, just think of why you’d need a swear jar.
Solution: Just curse a bunch. I’m not sure the exact amount of times needed, but eventually the Cryptmaster has had enough and will give you a swear jar. Every time you curse from then on, one soul will go into the swear jar.

Repeat Offender
Get sent to the cage two times at the Gate. You can get sent into the cage either by going up to the gate itself before every member of the party has gotten paladin helmets, or if you go to the gate with the paladin helmets and Give anything other than a number 1-6 for which squad you’re a part of.

JSN
These spoilers relate to the ending of the game.

Hint #1: There are more than two choices you can make during the ending.

Hint #2: If you play Orthos in Whatever, he’ll give you a hint that might be helpful.

Hint #3: Orthos speaks of a short, powerful, and ironically, positive word. What short word might be a better choice than the two you’re given in the ending?

Hint #4: “JSN” itself is an acronym. What could it stand for? The word you need is in here.

Solution: When presented with the option to “Kill” or “Smash” in the ending, instead, simply say “No.”

Clickety Click
This secret is twofold. It’s a bit tucked away, but still relatively easy to find the first part if you’ve been exploring. You can get this after you’ve visited Pantry.

Step 1: Find the hidden location.

Hint #1: Search the Sea Caves

Hint #2: The northmost entrance in the Sea Caves hides a well.

Hint #3: The well’s sign is written in Payn’s language. Try translating it once you’ve gotten the language deciphered for Ulara’s quest.

Solution: The name of the hidden location is “Mornay”. Type this and it should open a portal.

Step 2: Appease the Crab King.

Once you’ve found the word for the hidden location, you’ll be transported to an island inhabited entirely by crabs and crabmen. You’ll want to simply follow the path to the end of the island, where you’ll find a cave with the giant Crab King inside. Approach him, and he’ll try to speak to you. Only, he speaks entirely in Clicks and Clacks. You’ll need to figure out what to say to him.

Hint #1: There’s a pattern to the clicks and snaps that can be translated. What the Crab King is saying is the word you’ll need to repeat back.

Hint #2: Try to think of a notable language/pattern where there’s only two possible characters. Think about substituting “Click” and “Snap” for more familiar characters.

Hint #3: The Crab King is speaking in binary, the “Clicks” correspond to 0 and the “Snaps” correspond to 1. Enter this into a binary translator to get your answer.

Solution: The Crab King is saying “Hey”. Say “Hey” back to appease him, and get the achievement. As an added bonus, you get his Whatever card. In addition, if you say “Hey” to a Crab man during combat, they will become peaceful. If you say “Hey” to the regular crabs, they’ll click you out a little song.

Legendary Angler
To get this, you must find the Master Rod. If you’re looking for a place to start with this, try the “Bragging Rights” achievement.

Hint #1: You cannot find the Master Rod in any of the regular game locations. You must find a secret portal word.

Hint #2: Each of the 5 rare fishes carries a ring with a corresponding letter. These letters will help you find the word.

Hint #3: In alphabetical order, the rings/letters you can find are:

A
D
E
L
Z

Solution: The secret word you’re looking for is “Zelda”. Type this in and you’ll get a portal to the location with the Master Rod, and get the achievement. I’m not quite sure if the master rod has any mechanical differences.

These are achievements I’ve yet to find. I’ll edit the guide to add them if either I find them or someone messages with the solution. For fun I’ll add my current thoughts on what I’ve tried / where I think they might be.

Refuser
Have the Cryptmaster walk you through how to get a refund.
Ideas: I thought this might either be related to the swear jar and getting your souls back from it after you’ve accrued a bunch, or maybe related to one of the shopkeepers around the game. I’ve sworn a bunch to get a lot of souls in the jar and gone around to a bunch of shop keepers and said “refund” but that hasn’t resulted in anything.

I’ve also thought it might be some kind of meta thing, like you say some word that implies you’re not having fun with the game and the Cryptmaster will tell you to get a refund.

Snooper
Find Countess Ulara’s secret room.

Ideas:
I’ve combed the castle a bunch trying to find something for this but haven’t found anything yet.

She mentions hiding an heirloom in a barrel with her father’s name on it in the cellar, but I haven’t been able to find that yet, I thought that might be related.

There’s also a locked door next to the Crypticisms section that might be related, so maybe you have to solve those to get this?