Looking to earn all the achievements in Hotline Miami? This guide will provide step-by-step instructions to help you unlock every achievement in the game. Let’s dive in and start earning those achievements!
Achievements unlokcked by progressing through the game
Combo Beginner
Description: Perform a 4x combo.
Tips: Use a gun to quickly eliminate enemies in a row, or a melee weapon in a crowded room.
Combo Intermediate
Description: Perform a 6x combo.
Tips: Plan your attack path, and be quick to avoid losing the combo timer.
Combo Pro
Description: Perform an 8x combo.
Tips: Utilize both guns and melee weapons. Remember to reload at safe moments.
Combo Master
Description: Perform a 10x combo.
Tips: The easiest levels to achieve this are later in the game where enemy density is higher.
Combo King
Description: Perform a 12x combo.
Tips:To achieve a 12x combo plan your route carefully, use a mix of melee and firearms for quick kills, maintain speed to keep the combo timer active, and practice on densely packed levels like Chapter 3 (“Decadence”) or Chapter 8 (“Push It”).
Karma
Description: Die 1000 times.
Tips: This will naturally come as you play through the game, especially if you’re attempting to complete it fully.
1989
Description: Kill 1989 enemies.
Tips: This will naturally unlock as you play through the game multiple times.
Aced It
Description: Get an A+ on any chapter.
Tips: Focus on speed, variation in kills, and maintaining a high combo.
Secret and Special Achievements
These require specific actions or finding hidden secrets.
The End?
Description: Beat the main story.
Tips: Simply complete all the levels in the main story arc.
Thats It?
Description: Beat the epilogue.
Tips: Complete the additional level that becomes available after the main story.
I Got New Friends
Description: Unlock all weapons.
Tips: Weapons are unlocked by achieving high scores and completing levels.
Zoo Keeper
Description: Collect all masks.
Tips: Masks are found by exploring levels thoroughly and sometimes achieving high scores.
Sounds of Animals Fighting
Description: Wear all masks at least once.
Tips: After collecting all masks, replay levels with different masks to ensure each one is used.
Knife for Pros
Description: Use all melee weapons at least once
Tips: Try to use different types of melee weapons every time
Pitcher
Description: Use all throwing weapons at least once.
Tips: Experiment with different throwable items like bottles, knives, and bats.
Dog Lover
Description: Kill 99 dogs
Tips: Get on a level with many dogs and start to kill them
Guns For Show
Description: Use all guns at least once
Tips: Shoot from every weapon in the game
Let In Some Air
Description: Destroy 200 glass panels
Tips: Break the glass panels
Always On Top
Description: Perform every ground kill in the game
Tips: Make every ground kill with different melee weapon
Achievements when you want all achievements
Description: Use a human shield
Tips: When opponent is down click space near him but you must have gun in your hand otherwise it will not happen
Batman
Description: Clear chapter 2 using Nigel the Bat
Tips: Be careful because Nigel has inverted controls
These Are My Guns
Description: Finish chapter 5 barehanded
Tips: I recommend using Tony`s mask because of its special ability
Playing Pool
Description: Kill an enemy with a brick bounced against a wall
Tips: Bounce a brick against the wall so it will hit opponent
Domino Effect
Description: Throw a weapon at an enemy so that his weapon hits another
Tips: Find two close to eachother opponents and throw a weapon
Two Birds With One Stone
Description: Kill two enemies with the same brick in one throw
Tips: Do the same but find two opponents
Plain Luck
Description: Kill three or more enemies with the same brick in one throw
Tips: Do the same with three guys
Sewer Alligator
Description: Find Jones The Crocodile
Tips: In chapter 5 clear the chapter and take the crowbar, go around the building and you will find an entry to sewers there you`ll find Jones the Crocodile
60 To Car
Description: Go to the car 60 times
Tips: Go to the car 60 times
Eye For Details
Description: Collect all the puzzle pieces
Tips: Each puzzle piece is on every chapter
The Boss
Description: Solve the puzzle
Tips: Answer is “I WAS BORN IN THE USA”
This Is It
Description: Beat the epilogue with secret ending
Tips: After you solve the puzzle there is secret ending
Cat Fight
Description: Kill the panthers using Brandon the Panther
Tips: Its a purple panthers mask (Chapter 15)
Smell Something Burning
Description: Kill the crapping gangster with a fireaxe
Tips: Take fireaxe and kill the sh*tting guy
Get A Life
Description: Get A+ on all the chapters
Tips:
Achievement Wh*re
Description: Unlock all achievements
Tips: Read Again
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