How long would it realistically to get all of this game's achievements?

[TheyCallMeRadec]

Not a fan of using SAM. Just using my free time to complete my relatively small library. This one's gonna take years, I'm assuming?

[Kunovega]

Minimum 1 year with optimal gameplay, and that's putting in a little time every day and at least a few hours each week for gold cookies, dragon flights and tending to the minigames like garden, there's literally achievements that require an entire year that can not be done faster without flat out cheating. More likely 2 to 3 years if you're a casual player or go more idle than active.

5 to 10 years if you have no grasp of numbers or optimization. If you don't dig into the mechanics of some of the minigames or pay any attention to reasonably timing your ascensions, you'll be 1000's of times behind the curve as you need to effectively jump your income by a factor of 1000's to get past each plateau.

[TheyCallMeRadec]

Originally posted by Kunovega:

Minimum 1 year with optimal gameplay, and that's putting in a little time every day and at least a few hours each week for gold cookies, dragon flights and tending to the minigames like garden, there's literally achievements that require an entire year that can not be done faster without flat out cheating. More likely 2 to 3 years if you're a casual player or go more idle than active.

5 to 10 years if you have no grasp of numbers or optimization. If you don't dig into the mechanics of some of the minigames or pay any attention to reasonably timing your ascensions, you'll be 1000's of times behind the curve as you need to effectively jump your income by a factor of 1000's to get past each plateau.

I actually have a web-based save of CC that I barely played that has the achievement I believe you're referring to (having a legacy for one year). Is there any way I could get that save on here without wiping my current save to get the Steam achievement or is that still considered cheating?

[Kunovega]

Originally posted by TheyCallMeRadec:

Originally posted by Kunovega:

Minimum 1 year with optimal gameplay, and that's putting in a little time every day and at least a few hours each week for gold cookies, dragon flights and tending to the minigames like garden, there's literally achievements that require an entire year that can not be done faster without flat out cheating. More likely 2 to 3 years if you're a casual player or go more idle than active.

5 to 10 years if you have no grasp of numbers or optimization. If you don't dig into the mechanics of some of the minigames or pay any attention to reasonably timing your ascensions, you'll be 1000's of times behind the curve as you need to effectively jump your income by a factor of 1000's to get past each plateau.

I actually have a web-based save of CC that I barely played that has the achievement I believe you're referring to (having a legacy for one year). Is there anyway I could get that save on here without wiping my current save to get the Steam achievement or is that still considered cheating?

You can import saves, but that wasn't even the achievement I was thinking about. It takes about a year to get enough sugar lumps to get all the building achievements, and getting to 27,777 golden cookies in a year would be averaging 76 a day, which is a few hours a day for 365 days.

There's a few others that take nearly that long as well.

There's also the simple fact that if you already have a year or more of progress, you kinda prove my point: it will take at least a year of progress, whether some of that time was done prior to steam is a different question.

The games been out since something like 2013, you could import all 8 years of progress if you started that long ago. Some people have played since the beginning and still don't have everything.

[Joven]

Originally posted by Kunovega:

Originally posted by TheyCallMeRadec:

I actually have a web-based save of CC that I barely played that has the achievement I believe you're referring to (having a legacy for one year). Is there anyway I could get that save on here without wiping my current save to get the Steam achievement or is that still considered cheating?

You can import saves, but that wasn't even the achievement I was thinking about. It takes about a year to get enough sugar lumps to get all the building achievements, and getting to 27,777 golden cookies in a year would be averaging 76 a day, which is a few hours a day for 365 days.

There's a few others that take nearly that long as well.

There's also the simple fact that if you already have a year or more of progress, you kinda prove my point: it will take at least a year of progress, whether some of that time was done prior to steam is a different question.

The games been out since something like 2013, you could import all 8 years of progress if you started that long ago. Some people have played since the beginning and still don't have everything.

wow i knew it would take while but not THIS long, thanks for setting my expectations

[Neutral Star]

I'd say it will take around 1.5-3 years for an average player due to sugar lumps, 27777 golden cookie clicks and everything stock market related.

With active play everything not included above plus the one achievement for playing for a year can be reached in a couple of months if not faster depending on some luck.

I'd say that the hardest achievement overall is the 27777 golden cookie one, since it requires you to be the most active over the longest amount of time.
Sugar Lumps can technically be gotten from just not playing the game for a long time and stock market while slow and annoying a hell does not require you to be super active and more just checking the market from time to time while being stuck in one ascension,

[FinalplayerRyu]

Originally posted by Neutral Star:

I'd say that the hardest achievement overall is the 27777 golden cookie one, since it requires you to be the most active over the longest amount of time.

That and the stock market shadow achievement where you have to earn 36.5m.

If anyone wants to optimize their game time i would suggest taking a break from the game for a year, coming back to it with lots of sugar lumps which will boost CpS and make the run towards the cookies baked in one ascension achievement easier.

And if someone wants to speedrun it: sacrifice the garden seeds over and over again for the +10 sugar lump boost.

[CoingamerGD]

thats a hard question. its at least a year because of a shadow archeivement that you get by playing the game for a year. but even then thats not very realistic. the Seven Horseshoes archeivement is ridiculous, 27,777 golden cookies is a monstrous amount. its insanely hard to even get Black Cat's Paw, which requieres 7,777 golden cookies. but you might do it under a year without counting that other archeivement.


but even then, that would be a PAINFUL year, with a bunch of archeivements that are awful, tedious, take lots of time or are luck-based, like the "get (building) to level 10" archeivements or ascending 1000 times. if you wanna complete this game's archeivements, good luck, because it will NOT be easy.

[Triggerhappy]

Those are just shadow achievements. Not really necessary to achieve per the gameplay. Also, getting your buildings to level 10 is the opposite of luck-based. You just have to wait for that to accrue. Either that, or exploit the game like I did.

[Triggerhappy]

Originally posted by FinalplayerRyu:

And if someone wants to speedrun it: sacrifice the garden seeds over and over again for the +10 sugar lump boost.

It would be far, far, more efficient to just grow juicy queenbeets.

[Kunovega]

Originally posted by Triggerhappy:

Those are just shadow achievements. Not really necessary to achieve per the gameplay.

Most of the shadow achievements are also Steam achievements, for anyone trying to 100% the game they need all of them aside from the cheater and mod flags

[Triggerhappy]

The cheater shadow achievement doesn't count? I figured if the game is having the cheater achievement as a legit achievement, may as well cheat in the bs that will take a decade to accrue.

[Kunovega]

Originally posted by Triggerhappy:

The cheater shadow achievement doesn't count? I figured if the game is having the cheater achievement as a legit achievement, may as well cheat in the bs that will take a decade to accrue.

You know you can read all the steam achievements, right?

[Triggerhappy]

Originally posted by Kunovega:

Originally posted by Triggerhappy:

The cheater shadow achievement doesn't count? I figured if the game is having the cheater achievement as a legit achievement, may as well cheat in the bs that will take a decade to accrue.

You know you can read all the steam achievements, right?

Several are hidden.

[Kunovega]

Originally posted by Triggerhappy:

Originally posted by Kunovega:

You know you can read all the steam achievements, right?

Several are hidden.

So your answer is no, you weren't aware that you can literally read all steam achievements, always, whether hidden or not...

Top of your personal achievements list is a toggle to switch to global list which displays everything, including hidden. The only difference between normal and hidden is the hidden do not include hints about how to get them

Here's the cookie clicker global list with all of them:
https://steamcommunity.com/stats/1454400/achievements/
At the top you can toggle back to your own personal list.

Since you weren't aware of that, did you also know you can compare your achievements and date stamps with other peoples? In which case it also shows the hidden ones by name for each of you. (but only if the person you are comparing is set to public games view)

I'd link yours compared to mine as an example but you have your games list and achievements hidden, set to private so no one can see your games or your achievements but you.

If you want to show those off, from your profile page, edit profile, privacy settings, game details

(though there is a browser add on that will at least let you see the description for hidden achievements, if it has one, but the descriptions don't always include hints, but you don't need the extension to just see the names and what they are)

[Triggerhappy]

Hm, thought I set my profile to public. Didn't think I had anything privately restricted. I'll check it out.