Kin and Conquest Steam Achievements

Kin and Conquest launches on Steam with 36 achievements. Exact unlock text lives in the Steam client and can shift with patches, so treat this page as a strategy guide for categories of goals—not a spoiler dump of every secret string. Use it with the Progress Checklist, Challenges & Souls, and Walkthrough pages.

Achievements require the Steam version; itch.io builds share progression systems but do not populate Steam unlocks. Plan long hunts on hardware that meets recommended specs so frame hitches do not masquerade as failed skill checks during no-death or shield-related goals.

Achievement categories you should expect

While Steam lists the full set in-client, incremental action games from The Fox Knocks typically group unlocks around:

• Onboarding — finish the revised tutorial, complete a first floor, buy a first upgrade, confirm menu navigation works on your input device.
• Floor clears — Normal through higher difficulties on successive mountain floors.
• Combat milestones — kill totals, guardian victories, no-death or shield-related clears on specific tiers.
• Progression systems — unlock weapon recipes, invest in Skill Tree branches, collect Blessings across runs.
• Challenge / Soul goals — complete named challenges that also feed meta currency (tracked separately from Steam).
• Endgame — confront or defeat the Evil Geomancer and related climax conditions.

Check your Steam overlay after each session; many unlocks fire quietly after hub returns rather than mid-fight.

Phase-by-phase completionist route

Phase 1 — Foundation (first sessions)

1. Finish the 0.5.3+ tutorial without skipping Settings prompts.
2. Configure movement in Settings—confirm keyboard or gamepad menu navigation with Space/Enter if you use controller.
3. Clear Floor 1 Normal with one weapon upgrade and a few skill nodes.
4. Unlock onboarding achievements tied to first purchases before chasing kill quotas.

Rushing Extreme here triggers backtracking when achievements assume recipe ownership you do not have yet.

Phase 2 — Floor mastery (mid campaign)

1. Clear Normal guardians sequentially; track each on the progress checklist.
2. Craft floor weapon recipes before harder difficulty attempts—achievement conditions often assume tier-appropriate gear.
3. Complete easy kill-count challenges on Normal while packs are slow; see Challenges & Souls.
4. Read Enemies & Guardians so exploder and dash follow-through deaths do not stall combat milestones.

Phase 3 — Harder tiers and efficiency

1. Raise difficulty only after Difficulty Modes checklist items pass.
2. Repeat guardians on harder settings for achievements that specify beyond Normal.
3. Farm remaining kill totals with cleave Blessings or area weapons once Normal routes are safe.
4. Avoid splitting attention between three half-finished floors—incremental games reward depth on one tier at a time.

Phase 4 — Endgame and cleanup

1. Push Evil Geomancer milestones when deep Normal guardians feel stable.
2. Sweep missed weapon unlocks and skill investments.
3. Re-read Updates if a post-1.0 patch retunes thresholds—replay affected floors once.

Achievements versus challenges

Achievements are Steam metadata. Challenges are in-game objectives that award Souls. Some overlap thematically (kill X enemies), but completing a challenge does not always equal an achievement and vice versa. The 0.5.3 Soul tooltip fix clarified that first-time boss kills alone do not grant Souls—do not confuse challenge completion with Steam pop-ups.

Track both systems deliberately:

System	Purpose	Where to track
Steam achievements	Completionist meta	Steam overlay / library
Challenges	Souls and power	In-game challenge UI
Wiki checklist	Floors, recipes, difficulties	Progress Checklist

Build and input strategies for stubborn unlocks

Kill total achievements — prioritize mobility Blessings, Books/Staffs cleave if unlocked, and Normal difficulty until speed goals clear. Mining income funds upgrades that shorten kill farms.

Guardian achievements (no-death, shield remaining) — study telegraphs in How to Beat Bosses; disable auto-follow near totems; enter with defensive Survival nodes online.

Difficulty-gated achievements — hover run menu tooltips before starting; confirm the tier matches Steam wording.

Economy achievements — do not skip mining; coin-starved runs fail upgrade gates silently.

Menu-dependent unlocks — May 2026 patches added keyboard/gamepad shop confirm; failed purchases can delay flags achievement hunters expect immediately.

Tips that prevent missed unlocks

• Do not skip mining — economy-related unlocks often need upgrades you cannot afford without ore coins.
• Confirm difficulty — some goals specify Normal or higher; hover the run menu breakdown on Difficulty Modes.
• Finish hub purchases — confirm with Space/Enter on controller; leaving the shop mid-prompt can delay progression flags.
• Replay after patches — 0.5.x balance and 1.0 release may retune thresholds; recheck Steam if an unlock seems stuck.
• Controller users — test Settings menu navigation before long sessions.
• One goal per run — mixed achievement chasing spreads Blessings too thin for precision guardian attempts.

Session planning for marathon hunters

Long incremental sessions help kill totals but risk burnout. Set stop conditions: one guardian attempt, one challenge bar filled, or one new floor unlocked. Log progress on the checklist so you do not repeat Normal clears wondering whether Steam registered them.

Keep the Steam client online during sessions if overlay tracking matters to you; offline mode quirks vary by library settings.

Soundtrack and extras

Steam also sells a Kin and Conquest Soundtrack DLC. It is unrelated to achievement completion but pairs well if you enjoy the score discussed by the developer community. Purchase links sit on the Steam store page referenced from Official Links.

Using this wiki while hunting achievements

Need	Page
Floor structure	Floors Overview
Difficulty gates	Difficulty Modes
Enemy behavior	Enemies & Guardians
Boss prep	How to Beat Bosses
Kill farms	Challenges & Souls
Build stability	Beginner Build
Settings / menu	Settings
Patch changes	Updates

Spoiler policy

This fan wiki avoids listing every achievement name and hidden condition so you can discover flavor text in Steam. When community guides publish full tables after launch week, we will expand concrete thresholds carefully without inventing unlocks.

Related pages

Read the Game Review for purchase context, System Requirements before long achievement grinds on low-end PCs, and Updates whenever a patch might alter challenge or boss conditions tied to unlocks.