Kingdom Rush Vengeance: 100% Achievements: A Comprehensive Guide

Kingdom Rush Vengeance is the fourth installment in the long-running saga of tower defense games. Much like its predecessors, Kingdom Rush Vengeance features a slew of achievements; most aren’t terribly difficult. I’d say you’ll have a couple that are a bit of a grind, but we’ll address the quickest way to accomplish those.

This game does have difficulty-based achievements, which means you’ll have to complete the campaign more than once to unlock anything. Nothing is missable and every level can be returned to as number of times. It isn’t an overly lengthy game and can be 100%’ed in less than 50 hours.

Happy hunting!

Win the first stage with 3 stars.
This is easily completed on the first real level you play and will the first achievement you earn. Note, the tutorial level does not count towards this achievement.

Get 3 Stars in every Stage of the Dwarven Kingdom.
To complete this achievement, you need three stars on levels one through six, which is every stage of the dwarven portion of the game as shown below.

Get 3 stars in every stage of the Frozen North
To complete this achievement, you need three stars on levels seven through eleven, which is every stage of the icey Northerners’ portion of the game as shown below.

Get 3 stars in every stage of the Kingdom of Linirea.
Earn three stars in every mainline mission of the campaign to unlock this achievement. This is based on the lowest difficulty, “Normal”.

Complete the Campaign in Veteran difficulty & Complete the Campaign in Impossible difficulty.
You’ll need to complete the main campaign at least once before you unlock the “Supreme” and “Impossible” difficulty levels.

Once you’ve completed the campaign, you’ll need to complete every level a second time, but do keep in mind that completing a level on “Impossible” will also grant you the mark for “Supreme”, so I’d recommend skipping the “Supreme” difficulty altogether to save time.

A level marker does not change when completing an “Impossible” challenge and you have to click each level to see the notice that it was completed on any given difficulty. Complete all the main campaign levels to unlock this achievement.

You do not need to do any side missions to unlock this

Win all the Heroic mode campaign challenges
Heroic mode is a specialized, six wave challenge that you can undertake on any level after completing it for the first time.

They aren’t at all challenging if you’ve completed the game already and have a good grasp on the towers, have them all unlocked and have your heroes maxed out. They are more of a slog than anything, really.

You only need to do the main campaign missions to unlock this achievement. None of the smaller side campaigns are required.

Reach level 10 with Asra.
Asra is one of the starting heroes that you can choose in the beginning of the game. Reach the maximum level possible (level 10) to unlock this achievement.

Reach level 10 with Oloch.
Oloch is one of the starting heroes that you can choose in the beginning of the game. Reach the maximum level possible (level 10) to unlock this achievement.

Veruk is one of the starting heroes that you can choose in the beginning of the game. Reach the maximum level possible (level 10) to unlock this achievement.

Slay 500 enemies.
Slaying 500 enemies sounds like a large number, but you’ll unlock this no later than level three, so this achievement will come naturally without you needing to do anything.

Slay 3000 enemies.
Much like the previous achievement where you slayed 500 enemies, 3,000 will come quicker than you think. By the time you reach, or during your time in the frozen north portion of the campaign, you’ll unlock this achievement.

Slay 10,000 enemies.
Much like the two previous achievements, you’ll earn this one about the time you finish the final level of the campaign, so don’t even worry about it.

Kill 13 Engineers before they can repair a Machine.
These engineers start appearing in the early game once you reach the home of the dwarves. They repeat machine-based enemies fairly quickly, but defeating them isn’t very tricky.

While they are fixing a robot, or prior to them doing so, finish them off in any manner possible. Once you clear out 13 of them, you’ll earn this achievement, which should come very quickly, so going for this specifically isn’t advised.

Destroy 80 Chompbots.
You’ll earn this naturally, so don’t target it unnecessarily. You simply need to kill 80 of these adorable little bite-happy robots to unlock this achievement.

You’ll earn this during your first campaign playthrough early on in the game. If you’re not sure what type of enemy this is, you can always check your in-game encyclopedia for a picture.

Slay 300 Draugrs
Draugrs can appear either has a regular enemy, or a resurrected dead enemy that is brought back to life by a Valkyrie.

Killing 300 isn’t too bad, as there are a ton on level ten, “Dragon’s Boneyard”, especially on the iron challenge difficulty.

Kill 300 to unlock this achievement.

Defeat 17 War Elephants.
War Elephants appear in only two levels: level thirty-five, “Hammerhold Streets” and level thirty-six, “The Grand Arena”. Both War Elephants and Drum Elephants count towards this achievement. You only need to play each level once and then possibly the arena level for the first few waves to eliminate all 17 needed.

Defeat Bolgur, Lord of the Dwarves.
This story driven achievement comes on level six, “Bolgur’s Throne”. Defeat him at the end of the round on the final wave to unlock this achievement.

Defeat Jokull, mother of Wyverns
This story driven achievement comes on level eleven, “Jokull’s Nest”. Defeat him at the end of the round on the final wave to unlock this achievement.

Defeat Denas, King of Linirea
This story driven achievement comes on level sixteen, “Dena’s Castle”. Defeat him at the end of the round on the final wave to unlock this achievement.

Defeat Polyx the Wise
This story driven achievement comes on level nineteen, “Pond of the Sage”. Defeat him at the end of the round on the final wave to unlock this achievement.

Defeat the Winter Queen of the Frozen North.
This is story driven achievement comes on level twenty-two, “The Frozen Throne”. Defeat the Water Dragon at the end of the level to unlock this achievement.

Defeat the Winter Queen of the Frozen North.
This is story driven achievement comes on level twenty-five, “Dragon’s Power”. Defeat the Water Dragon at the end of the level to unlock this achievement.

Defeat the ferocious Great-T.
This is story driven achievement comes on level thirty-one, “The Original World”. Defeat the leader and his Great-Tyrannosaurus Rex at the end of the level to unlock this achievement.

Deal a total of 5000 damage with the basic attack of orc shamans.
The Orc Shaman tower is one of the towers you can unlock during the main campaign. Once unlocked, equip it to bring it into battle. Dealing 5,000 damage isn’t much, as it is a high damage output tower. A couple placements in one of the end levels will do the trick.

What it means by “basic” attack, is the standard lightening attack they cast before you upgrade them and select upgrades from the three branches of the maximum tiered tower.

Summon 13 Gargoyles
Summoned as an upgrade from the Specters Mausoleum, each tower can summon a total of two gargoyles at any given time.

You’ll need to construct seven towers at any given time over the course of playing; the achievement is cumulative.

Do note that if a gargoyle is defeated, the tower will summon another in its place, but that does not count towards the achievement. You only can earn the initial two spawns with each tower as part of the ability upgrade.

Make your crows deal 30000 total damage
The crow ability comes from the basic archer tower you have available in the beginning of the game.

I’d recommend trying to incorporate when possible, as 30,000 damage is quite a bit and will take some time accumulating.

Make sure to fully upgrade them to deal optimal damage as quickly as possible.

Great Scott! Burn 88 Presto logs and reach maximum speed!
Presto logs are one of the final upgrades to the “Melting Furnace” tower.

Detonating 88 does take some time since the tower itself is rather slow, but it isn’t unnecessarily grindy, as you’ll probably need to work on other achievements long after obtaining this one.

Make elite harassers dodge 800 attacks
Placing down these barracks is all you’ll need to do. As the harassers fight, they will occasionally dodge an attack, counting towards this total.

Upgrades do not improve how often they dodge attacks, so any level barrack will count towards this achievement over time.

Spawn 500 skeleton warriors to battle
Skeletons spawn from the “Bone Flingers” tower. At its maximum level, the left-most ability allows you to spawn up to two skeletons into battle at regular intervals.

You only need to activate the ability and the tower will summon them on its own; summon a total of 500 spooky skeletons to unlock this achievement.

Launch 500 Nitro powered Rocket riders
Nitro powered rockets are one of the final upgrades to the “Goblin Rocket Riders” tower and allow them to, on occasion, launch a rocket with extra range.

You can tell when they do so by the blue fire that comes out the back of the rocket rider as opposed to the normal grey smoke. Have them launch 500 rockets of this variety to unlock this achievement.

Execute 81 enemies with the chainsaw sword
One of the final upgrades to the “Dark Knights tower, you can upgrade their ability to instantly kill an enemy they are engaging.

They’ll need to do this 81 times, which isn’t much. I recommend putting one or two towers down in the front of any given map you’re doing so they are the first to engage. At a maximum, they can do it 6% of the time for each attack, which is fairly often for all things considered.

Kill 200 enemies with the bee hives
This beehive attack is one of the final upgrades to the “Goblirangs” tower. You only need to kill 200 enemies, so it is a pretty quick one to get to get compared to some of the other towers.

Teleport 666 enemies with the infernal mages
The teleport ability is one of the final upgrades to the “Infernal Mage” tower. It’s best putting these in the thick of enemy engagement, or at the beginning of where waves come in so they can best utilize their teleport ability.

Simply have them teleport 666 enemies to unlock this achievement.

Summon 50 captain orcs
Orc Captains come from Orc Warrior Den towers. Every time you build a tower and use the final upgrade to make one orc a captain, it will count towards this achievement. If you don’t really use this tower (like I did), you can just add it to your active list, go to any end-game level (so you have enough gold to fully upgrade it) and then create a captain.

Sell the tower for a full refund and repeat until you’re done.

Help baldo sneak into the mountain.
On the first level, “Dwarven Gate”, you’ll see a key hole to the left of the draw bridge. Wait for it to start glowing, then click on it.

“Baldo” will come with a giant key, unlock it, then sneak inside. A large explosion will appear and we’ll just have to assume discount Frodo isn’t dead.

Find all the armadillos.
On the second level, “Corridors of the Old City”, there are three armadillos roaming around the landscape. Simply click each one a few times and they will roll into a ball and unlock this achievement.

Get rid of those annoying pests and whack 5 Moles.

On level three, “Kazan Mines”, you should see two areas that have moles jumping out of small burrows. Simply click on five of them to launch them off their trajectory and onto the ground.

Do this to any five moles (doesn’t have to be in one match) to unlock this achievement and become the moles’ mortal enemy.

Help DK through the mines.
On level three, “Kazan Mines”, you should see Donkey Kong (DK) ride through the middle of the map in a mine cart, pursued by a reptilian foe (called a Kritter in the respective game).

He’ll appear once you read wave three of the map; simply click on the Kritter and he’ll explode, letting DK get away free and unlocking this achievement.

Destroy 3 mine carts before they reach their destination.
In the same area as the achievement to save DK, you’ll also see mine carts go by with two enemies on them. Specifically, they will be occupied by two “Dwarf Bruisers”. In the same manner as the DK achievement, click on the cart to destroy it.

Do this three times to unlock this achievement. You’ll see carts go by periodically as you progress through the level. Further down the waves they become more frequent, so you have plenty of opportunities.

Not destroying them will cause them to come all the way around and crash at the end of the tracks and become normal enemies that land at the tail end of the map, so pay attention.

Put Borney to sleep.

On level four, “Golden Brewery”, you’ll see a suspiciously familiar bartender that totally isn’t Moe Szyslak.

Click on him three times to send beers down to the lone patron that is totally not Barney Gumble until he passes out on the floor.

You can do this in the very beginning of the level before the mobs even start coming to get it out of the way.

Achievement unlocked!

Melt the T-800.
On the fifth level, “Clockwork Factory”, click the thumbs up in the molten metal to have it sink and unlock this achievement. He might be back, but probably not.

Take the ring back from Bollum before it’s too late.
On the fifth level, “Clockwork Factory”, before you start the round, check the lower-right corner of the map and you’ll see a golden ring.

Click the ring and “Bollum” will pop his weird little head out. Click it on Bollum and he’ll jump on the island and pick up the ring.

Next, click on him while he’s dancing and elated he found the ring and he’ll topple over into the lava, never to be seen again. How dark…

Find Scrooge McDuck.
On level six, “Bolgur’s Throne”, at a point in the battle, you can see some of the gold coins rustling around. Click on them a few times when you see it happening.

If you do, Scrooge McDuck will pop out and this achievement will unlock. Sometimes it might be Bolgur, that won’t but doesn’t do anything for you.

Find Olav the magical iceman
On level seven, “Northerners’ Outpost”, in the bottom-left corner of the map, click on the smaller of the two snowmen to find the snowman Olaf. Click him again and he’ll melt like ice cream in the summer heat.

Poor guy. At least you’ll earn this achievement in his memory.

Make the horn whisper a song
On level seven, “Northerners’ Outpost”, you’ll notice a woman play a horn in the center of the map. If you click on the curtains, she’ll come out and wave her hand at you, annoyed. If you click on the curtain and have her come out three times, she’ll blow the horn and you’ll earn this achievement.

Hire 5 Trolls
Troll barracks appear on the main campaign level, and both heroic and iron challenge difficulties. Simply hire five trolls and you’ll unlock this achievement. Simple!

Find the secret agents
On the eighth level, “Frozen Rapids”, there are several penguins around the map that you need to interact with. Not every penguin does the same animation when clicked on and you want the ones that do a little fighting stance, then tunnel into the snow and ice below.

Click on these penguins and once you do all of them, you’ll unlock this achievement.

Fend off the Draugrs
On level nine, you’ll see a citizen holding a door shut as shown below. Keep clicking on the door and it will slowly break down, leading to a swarm of Draugrs to come pouring out. You can do this on any wave, or by just simply loading the level up if you missed it.

Break the ice from 25 frozen towers

As you progress this level, snow storms will envelope your screen with a partial whiteout. At random, some of your towers will be encased in ice.

Simply click them a few times to break the ice, returning them to working order. Do this 25 times to unlock this achievement. If you’re diligent in doing it, this can be unlocked in a singular playthrough of the level.

Help Bonehart to come back
Bonehart is scattered around the level, including his skull, and you’ll need to locate all the pieces to put him back together. They are located here:

Destroy the farmer’s crops
On this level, you should see a pumpkin patch in the lower-left corner of the map. Repeatedly click each pumpkin in the patch and they will explode.

There are ten in total; destroy them all to unlock this achievement.

Kill Leeroy Jenkins’ brother.
On this level, you’ll see various sheep dotting the landscape. Much like the pumpkin achievement above, click on the sheep. There are a total of seven on the map.

Do this multiple times and they will spontaneously (kind of?) combust. The farmer, known as Joe Jenkins, will become irate and enter the battlefield against you. Defeat him and the sheep he summons to unlock this achievement.

I’d recommend having a couple towers down first, as he does have 1,500HP and can take a punch.

Spawn 200 Spiderlings
Found on this level, there are two nests that spawn small spiders (spiderlings). You can upgrade them to spawn three at a time, allowing you to complete this achievement in probably one to three playthroughs.

Spawn 200 in total to unlock this achievement.

Find the Gommi Bears
These sky little bears are located inside the three hollowed-out tree roots in this level. You need to click on the doors of each when they pop their eyes out and they’ll jump out.

Do this with all three bears to unlock this achievement.

Turn off all the streetlamps
On this level, once the dialogue has concluded, there will be eleven street lamps to turn off by means of shattering them. They can be slightly hidden, but are located here:

Hire 50 mercenaries
On this level, there is a small caravan near one of the exits on the map. From the start, you can hire some mercenary fights to temporarily assist you in fighting enemies. You can summon them in groups of two or three and only need to summon 50 in total at some point.

You can just do this in the very beginning by spamming mercenaries, as you have enough gold starting out to earn the achievement. I never found them particularly worth the gold to use during the waves, as the cost seemed too high for the length of time they hung around.

Find the hidden Root
(G)Root is located by the mercenary wagon; you’ll see a small sapling poking out of the ground. Click on it to have (G)Root pop up and do a little dance.

Make Kermit take a sip of tea.
On level seventeen, “Magincia Shores”, you’ll see a familiar green frog sitting on a rock with a lovely cup of tea. Simply click on him and he’ll take a sip. Why, does a frog drink tea you say?

Well, that’s none of my business…

Find the hypnotoad and obey.
On level eighteen, “Anurian Plaza”, you’ll see a familiar looking toad in the center of the arena, by the statue.

Click on him to see some psychedelic colors and…

ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!

Make the frog cross the road.
On level nineteen, “Pond of the Sage”, your attention will be drawn to a suspiciously pixelated frog in the bottom corner of the map.

Simply click on the frog, watch it cross, vanish, and unlock this achievement.

Find the First Avenger.
On level twenty, “Breaking the Ice”, in the upper-left corner of the level, you’ll see a family shield belonging to one, Captain America.

Click the shield and a patch of snow will collapse onto it, unlocking this achievement.

Find out why the dog is barking.
On level twenty-one, “Into the Mountains”, click that cute lil’ doggy over there and he’ll bark a few times. He’ll suddenly, uh, well, explode. Gross.

Click and destroy the gory monster to unlock this achievement. John Carpenter would be proud!

Help the yeti have a decent meal.
On level 22, “The Frozen Throne”, a skier and a familiar yeti (to those that have played this particular game) will come flying down the right-side path.

Click on the skier to slow them down, giving the yeti time to gobble him up.

Shoot all the fireworks.
On level twenty-three, “Ancient Gate”, you should spot two boxes full of fireworks. Click on them to light them up and watch them explode.
You’ll also notice that no achievement popped up when doing so. That’s because this one spans level 23-25. There are two boxes of fireworks on level 23, one box of fireworks on level 24 and two more boxes of fireworks on level 25.

Light all of these up in any order to unlock this achievement. Hooray pyrotechnics!

Become the White Lotus priest apprentice.
On level twenty-four, “City of Rivers”, you’ll see a bearded priest on the field. Click them and they will disappear and appear in a different area of the map.

Do this three times to collect this achievement.

Find Slenderman, the old-fashioned horror creature.
On level twenty-six, “Back to the Rotten Forest”, you’ll have to look closely to find three white pieces of paper hanging on a few trees in the upper part of the level. Click them all to make them fall and disappear; Slenderman will then pop out from the shadows.

Click on him and he’ll disappear and unlock this achievement.

Sink the girl in the Black Lagoon.
On level twenty-seven, “A Night in the Swamp”, you’ll probably see the girl on the raft right away. Clicking on her has her take a sip of her drink.

However, if you click her in rapid succession, the Gill-Man will appear and dive over her, dragging her into the swamp below.

Collect the five pieces of Lord Blackburn’s armor.
On level twenty-eight, “The Ancient Ghosts”, simply collect all five pieces of Lord Blackburn to unlock this achievement. They can be found here:

Force the undermined to breath some fresh air.
Simply click on the hatch of the giant drill to have the Underminer pop out and you’ll unlock this achievement.

Poke the demogorgons out of their hiding.
In this level, there are five questionable looking flowers. Click on the ones circled below a couple of times each and they will hiss at you. Doing so will unlock this achievement.

Find the hidden cute dino who likes bushes.
In the final level, “The Original World”, click on the bush in the center, right side of the screen to reveal a cute little dinosaur…or is it?

The lil’ guy will pop its head up and this achievement will unlock. Another one down!

Have the smith forge a cool helmet.
On level thirty-two, “Wizard’s Landing”, click on the blacksmith on the bottom of the screen or his pile of helmets. Eventually, he’ll craft a specialized helmet and the achievement will unlock. For me, I had to have him make quite a few different ones before this achievement sprung up. Your mileage may very.

Help the cute runner avoid the explosive trap.
On level thirty-two, “Wizard’s Landing”, wait until round two of the battle and you’ll gain access to the naval cannon on the ship.

Use said cannon and then click on the coyote to blow him to ash and earn this achievement.

Set the magic carpet free so it can fulfill its dreams.
On level thirty-three, “Sape Oasis”, in the bottom-right corner is a trapped carpet. Click on him three times to free him from his crated fate and he’ll fly away, earning you this achievement.

Summon the mummies 13 times to fight for your cause.
On level thirty-four, “The Lost Empire”, there is a sarcophagus in the center of the level. For 120 gold, you can summon a small contingent of mummies. Do this 13 different times, which you can simply do before spawning the first wave to quickly finish this achievement.

Kill all chickens in Corsairs Brotherhood.
On level thirty-seven, “Corsair Brotherhood”, you’ll see a whole bunch of chickens scattered around the map. Click each one until the explode, doing so until every last chicken is gone to unlock this achievement. They are located here:

Lend a hand to the worried captain in search for the ticking crocodile.
On level thirty-seven, “Corsair Brotherhood”, in the bottom-right corner of the map, you can see a familiar Not-Captain Hook on some floating debris.

Con him three times to have a not-so-friendly ticking crocodile gobble him up. Whops!

Look behind you! Its a-
On level thirty-eight, “Monkey Island”, you can spot this little creature on the bottom-right side of the screen. Click on him, he’ll do a little dance, disappear into a puff of smoke and you’ll unlock this achievement.

Easy stuff!

Feed Bruce the white shark with the clueless swimmer.
On level thirty-nine, Sharktooth Reef, click on the clueless woman floating in the water.

You’ll see some fins and hear that iconic noise of impending doom. Do this three times for Bruce, the happy shark, to have a wonderful meal. Yummy!

Call 15 waves early.
Call in any 15 waves across any number of levels to unlock this achievement. You call them in early by clicking the skull icon in between waves, earning a bonus gold amount based on how quickly you do so. You’ll earn this fairly early on in your first campaign.

This is a cumulative achievement that you’ll get around level seven or so (give or take a level) during your first campaign playthrough.

Spawn 1,500 Reinforcements.
If you’re diligent about calling reinforcements in during the campaign, you can complete it by about level 15 or so. Regardless, you’ll have many other achievements to earn after this one, so don’t worry about it, as it will come naturally without working specifically on it.

Sell 20 towers.
Self-explanatory, but if you’re like me and don’t really sell towers, load up any map that gives you a large starting gold amount, place whatever towers you want and then sell them off to quickly unlock this one.

Win all the Iron mode campaign challenges
Iron mode is the hardest difficulty in the game and limits you to certain types of towers you can use and the inability to leak even one enemy. While not as hard as previous games, iron mode can still prove to be a tad challenging.

You only need to complete the main campaign though to unlock this achievement:

Find the hidden shadow mage across the Hammerhold campaign.
You can find this shadowy mage across the campaign in levels thirty-two through thirty-six. You can spot him by the slight animated shadow and those beady, glowing eyes of his.
Click him on each of these levels to unlock this achievement.

Defeat the Hammerhold king to rule them all.
The Hammerhold campaign is within levels thirty-two, “Wizard’s Landing” to thirty-six, “The Grand Arena”. Complete all of these levels with any number of stars to unlock this achievement.

Find all hidden treasure chests.
There are five treasure chest “X” markers across levels 47-41. You simply need to click on each of the marks to reveal a treasure chest full of gold coins.
They are located in the following areas:

• Level 37 – At the end of the puddles in the sand, where the enemies first spawn from.
• Level 38 – Right by the telsa coils that protect the exists.
• Level 39 – On the shore, next to the black flag of the sunken ship on the bottom-left corner of the map.
• Level 40 – in the golden area of the map, right side, close to the center of the map itself.
• Level 41 – By the right-most door of the ship, in-between the two right-most tower plots you can build on.

Defeat the pirate kings and become the ruler of the sea.
The pirate campaign is within levels thirty-seven, “Corsair Brotherhood” to forty-one, “Treasure Island”. Complete all of these levels with any number of stars to unlock this achievement.

Kill 5,000 enemies with Vez’nan’s powers.
For this, I highly recommend doing this as one of your final achievements. 5,000 enemies is a lot of enemies to kill with this ability. Once you’re nearing the end of your 100% run, load up level fourteen, “City of Lozagon” and select iron man difficulty.

In doing so, the enemy will spawn an absolutely stupid amount of sheep, which have low HP and come in massive waves, allowing you to not only rack up high numbers towards the goal, but if you kill enough of them, you can instantly recharge the attack for another call-in.

I found using Eiskalt and his freeze ability to be very beneficial. You can freeze waves of enemies while your attack recharges and it also allows the enemy sheep to overlap the frozen spawn with the fresh spawn, allowing your Vez’Nan call-in to kill more sheep and, thus, recharge even quicker.

Using this tactic, I was able to earn roughly 500 kills for a full playthrough of the level (roughly 10% of what is needed).

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