In this gaming guide, we will provide a mission by mission breakdown of achievements for Dishonored 2. This guide will help you easily track your progress and earn achievements throughout the game.
Intro
I was inspired by another guide for Dishonored 1 I followed, so I tried to reproduce it for my use.
Credits:
Contents from the Dishonored wiki[dishonored.fandom.com]
The original guide idea I followed
The original guide author (give them an award, if you like)
Achievements unlockable at various points in the game
- Occult Carver – Craft 10 Bonecharms
Cumulative on different saves - Heartbeat Reaper – Eliminate 6 enemies in less than 1.5 seconds
Corvo: use bend or stop time
Emily: use domino
Alternatively, knock out 6 enemies, stack them in one place and use grenades/oil tanks/springrazors - Fatal Redirect – Killed an enemy with their own bullet
Needs Superior Deflection ability
Alternatively, with bend time upgraded (stop time):
Stop time
Fire a bullet or bolt
Move in front of the projectile you just shot
Resume time - Circle of Life – Cast Possession once, chaining between human, hounds, rat, fish and Bloodfly
See below which missions have all five entities - Ghostly – Finish an entire mission without being spotted
- Alternative Approach – Finish an entire mission with no casualties
- Black Market Burglar – Rob a black market shop
ATTENTION: If you rob more than one shop, you will lock yourself out of Songs of Serkonos (the third encounter with the musicians will be switched with an ambush) - Well Funded – Find 60% of all available loot
Easier with Dark Vision
Ammo does not count - Heart Whispers – Using the Heart, listen to the secrets of 40 different people
Cumulative on different saves - Rogue – Eliminate 20 unaware enemies
Cumulative on different saves - Acrobat – Eliminate 10 enemies with drop assassination
Cumulative on different saves - Sliding Marksman – Score a headshot while sliding
Achievements unlockable on a full game run
- Shadow – Finish the game without being spotted
- Flesh and Steel – Complete the game without supernatural powers
- Clean Hands – Complete the game without killing anyone
Achievements unlockable on multiple game runs
- The Lovers – Link 2 characters with Domino just before one kills the other
Needs to be playing with Emily - The Royal Protector – Finish the game with Corvo Attano
- The Empress – Finish the game with Emily Kaldwin
- In Good Conscience – Complete the game in low chaos
- Empire in Chaos – Complete the game in high chaos
Achievements, A Long Day in Dunwall
- Imperial Seal – Recovered your signet ring
Unmissable - Souvenirs – Collect all the decorative objects for the Dreadful Wale
Small boat carving (Imperial Safe Room) - Art Collector – Acquire all collectible paintings
– Custis, Morgan and the Postulate Child (Imperial Safe Room)
– The Obtuse Arguments of Lady Boyle (Doctor Galvani’s apartment) - Freedom of Speech – Saved the printer of the Dunwall Courier
- Familiarity Breeds Contempt – Rob Doctor Galvani multiple times
First Part
Achievements, Edge of the World
- Jewel of the South – Reached Karnaca
Unmissable - Morbid Theft – Stole a corpse for Mindy Blanchard
- Stay of Execution – Stopped the Grand Guard from pushing someone into the Wall of Light
- Souvenirs – Collect all the decorative objects for the Dreadful Wale
– Helmet of a member of the Grand Serkonan Guard - Art Collector – Acquire all collectible paintings
– The Isometry of High Overseer Thaddeus Campbell (top floor apartment overlooking the Campo Seta Dockyards)
– The Outsider in Conditional Dreams (inside Amadeo Monte’s apartment)
– The Vice Overseer’s Predicate Logic (third floor of the Overseer outpost)
– Hypatia’s Projective Gaze (Dr. Hypatia’s apartment) - Royal Spymaster – Peruse all journals and audiographs by Meagan Foster and Anton Sokolov aboard the Dreadful Wale
– Limited Resources (unmissable)
– Sokolov’s Notes – Bloodfly Study
– Trying to fix secondary engine
– Anton Sokolov’s Investigation Notes
– Anton Sokolov’s Abduction
– Dreadful Wale Accounting - Songs of Serkonos – Find 3 musical duos across Karnaca, and listen to their songs
Near Addermire station, Campo Seta Dockyards
Achievements, The Good Doctor
- The Beast Within – Dealt with Dr. Alexandria Hypatia
Unmissable - Fearless Fall – Dropped from Addermire’s highest point and take out an enemy below
Lethally or not - Souvenirs – Collect all the decorative objects for the Dreadful Wale
– Syringe (inject Alexandria Hypatia with the antidote) - Art Collector – Acquire all collectible paintings
– Duke Abele’s Propositional State (Main lobby of the Addermire Institute)
– Anton Sokolov in Subtractive Light (in the lost and found storage)
– I Regard Her, Within and Without (in the Recuperation Room of the Addermire Institute) - Circle of Life (doable here, easiest in the Conservatory)
- Counter-Serum – Chat with Dr. Hypatia aboard the Dreadful Wale
Achievements, The Clockwork Mansion
- Place of Three Deaths – Kill Paolo three times
In the black market shop in the Aventa Quarter (does not count against Clean Hands) - Labyrinthine Mind – Found Anton Sokolov in the Clockwork Mansion
Unmissable - Souvenirs – Collect all the decorative objects for the Dreadful Wale
– Head of a clockwork soldier - Art Collector – Acquire all collectible paintings
– Ramsey’s Stochastic Eyes (Major Bonville’s apartment in Lower Aventa)
– The Spymaster’s Axis of Asymmetry (third floor of Correy Brockburn’s apartment in Lower Aventa)
– Jindosh Considers An Odd Numerator (in the bloodfly-infested apartment in Upper Aventa)
– The Blood Topology of Grim Alex (in Sokolov’s cell in the Clockwork Mansion’s Assessment Chamber)
– Light Along the Inverse Curve (behind Jindosh’s desk in his laboratory)
– I Look Upon the Craftsman (in Jindosh’s apartments) - Royal Spymaster – Peruse all journals and audiographs by Meagan Foster and Anton Sokolov aboard the Dreadful Wale
– Meagan Foster’s Notebook (first entry) - Clockwork Collector – Obtain numbered plates for 3 Clockwork Soldiers
Cumulative on different saves - Silence – Eliminate Jindosh without him ever knowing you were there
Achievements, The Royal Conservatory
- Oracular Echoes – Listen to the voices of the sisters of the Oracular Order
Activate the Oraculum three times - Circle of Life (doable here)
- Souvenirs – Collect all the decorative objects for the Dreadful Wale
– Whalebone Sword (in a display in the office of the curator) - Art Collector – Acquire all collectible paintings
– Ashworth Within An Existential Graph (in the bloodfly-infested building across from the Royal Conservatory)
– My Fires Burn within Breanna’s Marrow (Breanna’s office)
– Her Heart, I Bathed in Poison (Conservatory’s archives) - Royal Spymaster – Peruse all journals and audiographs by Meagan Foster and Anton Sokolov aboard the Dreadful Wale
– Trip to the Markets
– Anton Sokolov’s Diary – Started painting again
– Meagan Foster’s Notebook (second entry)
Achievements, Dust District
- Place of Three Deaths – Kill Paolo three times
In the district (does not count against Clean Hands)
In the Crone’s Hand Saloon (counts against Clean Hands – save and reload) - Howlers ’til the End – Side with the Howlers in the Dust District
Counts against Clean Hands – save and reload - Faithful to the Abbey – Side with the Overseers in the Dust District
Counts against Clean Hands – save and reload - Eureka – Crack the Jindosh Lock without finding the solution elsewhere
- Souvenirs – Collect all the decorative objects for the Dreadful Wale
– A silvergraph of Meagan Foster’s skiff – On a wall in the Modotti silvergraph studio
– Corvo Attano’s Blade Verbena trophy – Behind a crumbling brick wall in the ruins of Paloma Attano’s apartment - Art Collector – Acquire all collectible paintings
– Indiscrete Time Finds Aramis Stilton (fourth floor of the Overseer Headquarters)
– Paolo and the Inaccessible Cardinal (Paolo’s chambers in the Crone’s Hand Saloon)
– Vera Moray and the Affix of Her Skin (Paolo’s chambers in the Crone’s Hand Saloon) - Royal Spymaster – Peruse all journals and audiographs by Meagan Foster and Anton Sokolov aboard the Dreadful Wale
– Note from Meagan to Sokolov
– Anton Sokolov Diary – The Gears of Time
– Searching for Aramis Stilton
– Note from Sokolov - Songs of Serkonos – Find 3 musical duos across Karnaca, and listen to their songs
Central courtyard (before delivering Vice Overseer Byrne to the Howlers)
Achievements, A Crack in the Slab
- A Night in 1849 – Visited the past
Unmissable - Under the Table – Obtain Stilton’s master key from under the table, with the guards there conscious & unalerted
- Flooded Basement – Drain the water to recover a Rune
- Dilapidation – Find the hidden balcony passageway
- Souvenirs – Collect all the decorative objects for the Dreadful Wale
– A calendar of 1849 (on the wall of the music room in Stilton Manor) - Art Collector – Acquire all collectible paintings
– The Commutative Rats and the Weeper (in a locked vault adjacent to the dining room of Stilton Manor, in the past)
– The Torturer’s Quaternionic Groan (in the room above the indoor pool in Stilton Manor, in the past)
Achievements, The Grand Palace
- Spirit Thief – Took Delilah’s soul
Unmissable - Down with the Duke – Eliminated Duke Luca Abele
Unmissable - Souvenirs – Collect all the decorative objects for the Dreadful Wale
– A small wood carving of a gazelle (on a table in the locked vault at the Grand Palace) - Art Collector – Acquire all collectible paintings
-Daud and the Parabola of Lost Seasons (in Claudio’s bloodfly-infested apartment overlooking Ravina Boulevard, below the windmill)
– Her Face is My Smile (Delilah’s chambers)
– My Name on Their Lips (Duke’s office) - Royal Spymaster – Peruse all journals and audiographs by Meagan Foster and Anton Sokolov aboard the Dreadful Wale
– Decisions
– Losing Deidre - Songs of Serkonos – Find 3 musical duos across Karnaca, and listen to their songs
In the Palace District - Circle of Life (doable here, easiest in the Conservatory)
- Years Ago, Another Time – Heard Meagan Foster’s story
– Low chaos: after finishing the mission speak with Meagan
– High chaos: steal Meagan’s key, read the journal in her cabin
Achievements, Death to the Empress
- Familiarity Breeds Contempt – Rob Doctor Galvani multiple times
Final part - Gazebo – Pay tribute to Jessamine one last time
- The Greatest Gift – Saved your last known family member
Save Corvo or Emily after dealing with Delilah - Souvenirs – Collect all the decorative objects for the Dreadful Wale
– Mrs. Pilsen (a doll, by the bed in Dunwall Tower’s Imperial Safe Room) - Art Collector – Acquire all collectible paintings
– Luca, His Eyes On Me (in the Dunwall Tower front yard, near the waterlock) - Royal Spymaster – Peruse all journals and audiographs by Meagan Foster and Anton Sokolov aboard the Dreadful Wale
– Meagan Foster’s Notebook (third entry)
– Life on Sea
Outro
This guide is intended to be a checklist (mainly for me, as I replay the game).
I didn’t go into the details of every achievements, and just added a small description where I thought it was needed.
I didn’t go into the details of every achievements, and just added a small description where I thought it was needed.
And that wraps up our share on Dishonored 2: Mission by mission Achievement guide. If you have any additional insights or tips to contribute, don’t hesitate to drop a comment below. For a more in-depth read, you can refer to the original article here by Jakkus, who deserves all the credit. Happy gaming!