The Darkest Tales: Ultimate Achievement Guide

The Darkest Tale guide for 100% achievements on Steam in english.
Created in January 2024.

– This game should take around 10 hours to 100%
If you manage to get every achievement on your first playthrough.

– This game allows you to go back and forth to old levels so you can get certain achievements.
Most enemies also respawn (except bosses and a few mobs) so you can kill them again in a specific way if needed.

– This game has missable achievements.
Meaning if you lose the oportunity to get it, you will need to create a new save file for another oportunity. Missable achievements will be listed sepparately to help you out.

– This game is very buggy since launch.
As of 2024 this game is still very buggy, and it includes achivements. You might find invisible walls throughout the game, achievements not popping up when expected, and all sorts of other weird things happen.
Report them on the game forum.

– This game has 8 levels (excluding the tutorial).
Some achievements can be done in any level while the majority can only be achieved in specific levels.

IF YOU ARE PLAYING THIS GAME FOR THE FIRST TIME AND YOU DON’T WANT SPOILERS BUT ALSO DON’T WANT TO HAVE TO PLAY IT AGAIN LATER. I RECOMMEND YOU ONLY CHECK THE “Missable Achievements” SECTION BELOW AND NOTHING ELSE, SO YOU CAN ENJOY A SPOILER-FREE GAMEPLAY (AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE) WITHOUT WORRYING ABOUT MISSING ACHIEVEMENTS.

These are the achievements you can miss and not be able to get again in the same game file. Pay attention to them.
These achievements will also be listed on their own sections furthermore.

[missable]
Don’t skip any cutscenes from the tutorial and chapter 1. When you get to chapter 2 you can skip them if you wish. This achievement will pop when the last cutscene from chapter 1 plays.
In case you skip any cutscenes by mistake, you will have to play the tutorial and chapter 1 again without skipping it. Stay alert because the button to skip a cutscene in keyboard is Alt, I lost this achievement because I would Alt-Tab during cutscenes and skip them by mistake.

[missable]
Just die to the first spikes you find during the tutorial and this achievement should pop.

[missable]
For this one, spam the skip button (Y on controller) to skip any cutscene throughout the game.

[missable]
In a very specific part of chapter 3 (The Greed), you will find yourself below a coffe kettle with many cookie monster coming at you. You need to ignore the monsters, go up to the kettle and hit it to drop coffee on them.
These cookie enemies respawn, but unfortunatelly once the kettle is hit and drops, it doesn’t come back up again.
So if you happen to do it like me who killed all cookies and then dropped the kettle, you will miss the achievement and will have to try again on another save file.

[missable]
During chapter 4 (The Selfishness) there will be a pirate boss fight where some pirate enemies will throw apples at you from their boat. Instead of dodging them, hit’em to cut the apples in half. After 33 cut apples the achievement should pop.

[missable]
During chapter 5 (The Madness), you will get to a part where the scientist puts you through his “speed test” and summons many of his “children” on your way. Your fairy friend tells you hey listen to run but you shouldn’t listen.
Defeat all the scientist children until there is none left, the achievement should pop.

[missable]
When you get to a part where you see a pile of toilets / urinals, there will be someone humming a song. Stop for a few seconds and just listen to the humming until the achivement pop.

These achievements can be done in any order throughout the game.

[missable]
For this one, spam the skip button (Y on controller) to skip a cutscene.

Use the teleport mirror to go back to another mirror in the same Level you already are. This could be a little buggy as I had to travel back many times before it registered and the achievement popped.

I believe this one counts the amount of times you start healing, not the amount of health gained. So it could take a while but you should unlock it by just playing the game. I got mine around level 4 (Selfishness).

Interact with the equipment mirror and equip any of the skills you unlock during the game.

You need to finish an enemy with a basic attack while hanging from your scissor rope (left-alt on keyboard and Y on controller). You unlock this skill for hanging pretty early on level 2 (Gullible).
This one is a little bit tricky because the attack animation and hitbox don’t really match. Your attack might go through an enemy and not damage them. Fortunatelly enemies respawn so you can find anywhere with a hanging point and an enemy and try to kill them over and over.
I did this on the beginning of level 4 (Selfishness) by hanging on the trees and killing the 2 flying monsters.

[missable]
Just die to the spikes on the desk you find during the tutorial and this achievement should pop.

[missable]
Don’t skip any cutscenes from the tutorial and chapter 1. When you get to chapter 2 you can skip them if you wish. This achievement will pop when the last cutscene from chapter 1 plays.
In case you skip any cutscenes by mistake, you will have to play the tutorial and chapter 1 again without skipping it. Stay alert because the button to skip a cutscene in keyboard is Alt, I lost this achievement because I would Alt-Tab during cutscenes and skip them by mistake.

You get this by progressing on the story. You can’t miss it.

You get this by progressing on the story. You can’t miss it.

You need to jump over a wolf and hit down from above to bounce on it. Do it 6 times without touching the floor. You will have many wolves during this level to try it on, they also respawn so it’s not missable.
This should be easy if you have played games like Hollow Knight before.

You get this by progressing on the story. You can’t miss it.

You get this by progressing on the story. You can’t miss it.

For this one you need to find a very specific part of the chapter where you enter a cave right after the burning doll house. This cave has many bats flying back and forth above some green spikes. You need to bounce on these bats to the other side and above.
It should be a little tricky but don’t worry if you die, you will respawn close enough and you can try it again. It took me a few tries.

Get close to a porcupine so it shields up, and attack it from the back with a special charged attack.

Closer to the end of this chapter, there are going to be several lightning strikes. Wait for the spark before dodging it using your dash.
You can come back at any point in the game to get this achievement later on.

You get this by progressing on the story. You can’t miss it.

[missable]
In a very specific part of this chapter, you will find yourself below a coffe kettle with many cookie monster coming at you. You need to ignore the monsters, go up to the kettle and hit it to drop coffee on them.
These cookie enemies respawn, but unfortunatelly once the kettle is hit and drops, it doesn’t come back up again.
So if you happen to do it like me who killed all cookies and then dropped the kettle (because I didn’t know about the achievement), you will miss the achievement and will have to try again on another save file.
I have tested even on NewGame+ and the keetle is still down. I had to start a new game for this one.

During this level you will find multiple enemies that look like an Egg, he is immune to your arrows, almost.
Crack his egg shell with your melee attacks and just lend the killing blow with your arrow. The achievement should pop.

You get this by progressing on the story. You can’t miss it.

To get this one you will need the greatsword which you will only unlock on chapter 7. Meaning you can’t get it during chapter 3, but as soon as you get the greatsword later on you need to backtrack to chapter 3 (mirror 3), and walk back a little to get to the shotgun.

You get this by progressing on the story. You can’t miss it.

You get this by progressing on the story. You can’t miss it.

[missable]
During the pirate boss fight, some pirate enemies will throw apples at you. Instead of dodging them, hit’em to cut the apples in half. After 33 cut apples the achievement should pop.

You get this by progressing on the story. You can’t miss it.

You get this by progressing on the story. You can’t miss it.

You get this by progressing on the story. You can’t miss it.

You get this by progressing on the story. You can’t miss it.

You get this by progressing on the story. You can’t miss it.

You get this by progressing on the story. You can’t miss it.

[missable]
During this level, you will get to a part where the scientist puts you through his “speed test” and summons many of his “children” on your way. Your fairy friend tells you hey listen to run but you shouldn’t listen.
Defeat all the scientist children until there is none left, the achievement should pop.

You get this by progressing on the story. You can’t miss it.

You get this by progressing on the story. You can’t miss it.

[missable]
When you get to a part where you see a pile of toilets / urinals, there will be someone humming a song. Stop for a few seconds and just listen to the humming until the achivement pops.

You get this by progressing on the story. You can’t miss it.

You get this by progressing on the story. You can’t miss it.

You get this by progressing on the story. You can’t miss it.

You get this by progressing on the story. You can’t miss it.

Throughout this chapter there are 8 hidden ducklings that you need to find and kill.
Some of them you can only get to after unlocking the greatsword (close to the end of the chapter), so you will have to backtrack a little to kill them all. They respawn but you only have to kill each one once.

You get this by progressing on the story. You can’t miss it.

You get this by progressing on the story. You can’t miss it.

You get this by progressing on the story. You can’t miss it.

I hope I have helped someone.
Let me know your thoughts and how I can make this guide better in the comments below.
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