This article is a guide for achieving all of the accomplishments in Environmental Station Alpha. It provides a detailed rundown of every objective in the game.
Introduction
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=815227072
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=455408513
Bosses
If you beat the game you should have encountered all these bosses already.
Defeat the Class C Guardian
Defeat the Queen Beetle
Defeat the Scrapping Unit
Defeat Serpent 5
Defeat the Overgrowth
Defeat the Class D Guardians
Defeat the Tomb Spider
Defeat the Robed Statue
Defeat the Plague Hive
Defeat the Station AI
Defeat the Security Overmind
Defeat the Class A Guardian
Defeat the final boss
Defeat Multicore
Defeat the Mending Unit
Defeat a boss
This achievement is for defeating Mwya first form
Defeat the Restless Spirit
Defeat a boss
This one is for defeating Mwya 2nd form, which is accessible after defeating it’s first form.
Endings
Beat the game
Get the first ending by beating the Virus
Reach an ending
Get the 2nd ending by going right when you get to the planet surface (so right of Mwya first form).
Reach an ending
Get the 3rd ending, by killing the ghost, and going right after finishing the maze.
Get hit by a meteor
Get the regular ending by beating the Virus on New Game+
Reach an ending
After beating Mwya 2nd form, you can return to your ship and try to leave the station to get this ending.
Completion %
Full CourseBeat the game with 100% completion
Beat the game with 200% completion
To reach 200% you need to beat every bosses, get every secret, but also trigger every story flag in both normal and New Game+. Since you start with every power-up in New Game+ it can be pretty easy to miss some story flag. Make sure you :
-Get level 2 access at the beginning of the game
-Turn on the Diskette reader
-Turn on the Overgrown module
-Turn on the generator near the Class D Guardians
-Destroy the orbs in the temple
-Destroy the monitor in “The Reference” (to the right of the second elevator shaft)
-Activate all Pillars and get every Key (thankfully the Eyes are still open)
-You also get 1% for both the Virus and Planet endings
The maximum you can get is 203%. For some reason it seems right now you can only trigger this achievement by getting the 2nd ending, where you go on the planet.
Miscellaneous and last few secrets
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Go right of the clockroom with anything other than 1 power-up activated.
Those things are sharp!!!
Die to orange spike, in the room below the golden teleporter that transport you to the planet.
Find every diskette
Take a step
Find one of the 4 keys.
Open an eye
For these three achievements, see this guide for more info
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=455408513
Find a hidden treasure
Get the bicycle. It’s found on the derelict ship 30-21, you can access it by using the booster X to go in the pipe in 30-20.
Find a hidden treasure
This final secret has a few steps to it in order to find it, which you can find in the comments of the guide I linked above.
To get the achievement you only need to do the last step. You need to enter the secret room in 15-09, which is the secret room where you find the key where you have to wait a few seconds to open it. Go down one square (but not in the room where the key is) and type “CROWN” in front of the left wall to open it.
Speedrun
RushingBeat the game in 1 hour
This achievement is not that bad, since the game will only add the time you spent alive, so you’re allowed to die as many time as you want. As long as you follow a good route, you should be able to get it.
Two very good speedrunning trick that don’t require a lot of skill to pull off are :
Booster V skip
You can get the Booster V upgrade as soon as you get the double jump upgrade. It relies on the fact that when you take damage, your character will go up vertically. For more info I advise you to watch the timecode of this video.
https://youtu.be/Z85j1wqik5o?t=326
You can use your hookshot in the room to the right of the final boss. Letting you skip the entire Guardian A section.
https://youtu.be/Dh59Vu1TOwc?t=4293
If you use these two skips and don’t waste too much time, you should be able to get the speedrun achievement pretty easely.
MISSABLE!!!
Thought you could escape?Get outrun by a ghost
It’s the only missable achievement in the game. To get it you need to board your ship while the ghost is chasing you. It can be either the Virus ending or the ending you unlock after defeating Mwya 2nd form.
The ghost does not respawn in New Game+, so if you killed it before getting the achievement, you’ll have to redo everything again.
And that wraps up our share on Environmental Station Alpha: ESA 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 JayJay, who deserves all the credit. Happy gaming!