(Spoilers) All Achievements Guide

In this guide, I show how to get every achievement besides the three ending achievements which are covered in my other guide. Spoilers ahead, beware.

My Neutral Ending Strategy in my Endings Guide:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3035904562

Achievement List

In total, MareQuest: An Interactive Tale has 30 Achievements.

Mwah!
Mare Gaming
Dust Devil
Important Announcement
Bad Habits
Darn Clankers
Cookie Kiss
Good Ending
Neutral Ending
Bad Ending
Blizzard
Lumi! Lumi! Lumi!
Galloping Goofballs
The Bearded Mare
The Wilted Wart
Sniffs
Mare Burglar
Chemarestry
Familiar Face
Buried Treasure
The Cycle Repeats
Island Mare
Temple Mare
Northern Wastelands
Southern Badlands
Witch
Adventurer
Full Circle
Little Mare Story
Tea Party

How To Get Every Achievement

The next sections are categories of Achievements and how to obtain them.

Ending Achievements

Good Ending

Get the Good Ending

One of the three Endings to the game. To get the Good Ending, you need to be nice to keep both of your friends and not lose any one of them.

Neutral Ending

Get the Neutral Ending

One of the three Endings to the game and the hardest one to get, in theory. To get the Neutral Ending, you need to be mean to one of your friends to get them leave but then be nice to your last friend to prolong and keep your last and only friend from leaving you.

Click here to see my Neutral Ending strategy in my Endings Guide.

Bad Ending

Get the Bad Ending

One of the three Endings to the game and the one that'll make you cry for being mean to your friends and losing them as a result. To get the Bad Ending, you need to be mean to both of your friends until they leave you all alone.

The Cycle Repeats

Get any ending on your second playthrough after continuing from the Good Ending

To get the Achievement, you need to finish a Good Ending playthrough and then get any ending on your replaythrough, either the Good Ending again, or the Neutral or Bad Ending.

Full Circle

Get all 3 endings

One of the final Achievements of the game. To get the Achievement, you need to finish all three endings. You will get it at the end of the final ending you finish.

Story Related Achievements

Island Mare

Visit the Mare Island

One of the two areas you can choose to journey to in a playthrough's adventure. To get the Achievement, you have to choose the island instead of the Temple in your Pony's flashback scene.

Temple Mare

Visit the Cave Temple

One of the two areas you can choose to journey to in a playthrough's adventure. To get the Achievement, you have to choose the Temple instead of the Island in your Pony's flashback scene.

Northern Wastelands

Visit the Northern Wastelands

At the end of a playthrough, you'll either go to one of two final areas to stop the Shadow Horsies. The Northern Wastelands or Southern Badlands depending on the dialogue choices you made with the Witch Mare/Adventurer Mare near the start of the game. To get the Achievement, here are one of the many combinations of the right dialogue options for all of the Witch Mare/Adventurer Mare's questions to end up going to the Northern Wastelands at the end of your playthrough.

For Example, for each question by the Witch Mare/Adventurer Mare, a 1 stands for the first dialogue choice, a 2 stands for the second dialogue choice, a 3 stands for the third dialogue choice, and a 4 stands for the last dialogue choice.

Southern Badlands

Visit the Southern Badlands

At the end of a playthrough, you'll either go to one of two final areas to stop the Shadow Horsies. The Northern Wastelands or Southern Badlands depending on the dialogue choices you made with the Witch Mare/Adventurer Mare near the start of the game. To get the Achievement, here are one of the many combinations of the right dialogue options for all of the Witch Mare/Adventurer Mare's questions to end up going to the Northern Wastelands at the end of your playthrough.

For Example, for each question by the Witch Mare/Adventurer Mare, a 1 stands for the first dialogue choice, a 2 stands for the second dialogue choice, a 3 stands for the third dialogue choice, and a 4 stands for the last dialogue choice.

Witch

Get any ending while on the Witch Route

At the start of your adventure, as soon as you wake up and meet your new friends, they give you a random name. Afterwards, they choose if you want to either be called "[player name] the Adventurer" or "[player name] the Witch". To get the Achievement, you have to choose for your friends to call you a Witch.

Adventurer

Get any ending while on the Adventurer Route

At the start of your adventure, as soon as you wake up and meet your new friends, they give you a random name. Afterwards, they choose if you want to either be called "[player name] the Adventurer" or "[player name] the Witch". To get the Achievement, you have to choose for your friends to call you an Adventurer.

Morality Path Related Achievements

Mare Burglar

Use the Thief Perk to steal resources

To get the Achievement, you need to be a Adventurer, and your friends have to be slightly low on happiness. Once the requirements are met, you can buy the Theft Perk for one Friendship Point, at which point you need to go in a random encounter and then use it before approaching any Mares by clicking on your Pony's menu and then clicking the Theft icon.

Chemarestry

Use the Alchemy Perk

To get the Achievement, you need to be a Witch, and your friends have to at least be mostly happy. Once the requirements are met, you can buy the Alchemy Perk for one Friendship Point, at which point you need to use the Perk at least once by clicking on your Pony's menu and then clicking the Alchemy icon.

Faction Related Achievements

The Bearded Mare

Join The Bearded Mare Guild

When travelling, one of the two opposing guilds that can appear at random is The Bearded Mare. To get the Achievement, you have to discover a guild spot of The Bearded Mare as an Adventurer (which is only if your Pony has Adventurer in their name) and join them.

The Wilted Wart

Join The Wilted Wart Guild

When travelling, one of the two opposing guilds that can appear at random is The Wilted Wart. To get the Achievement, you have to discover a guild spot of The Wilted Wart as a Witch (which is only if your Pony has Witch in their name) and join them.

Encounter Related Achievements

Mwah!

Accept a cute mare's smooch

When travelling, one of the various encounterable ponies is Arclight. To get the Achievement, you have to encounter her and either say "You're Really Friendly" or "What The Hay..." after she smooches you.

Mare Gaming

Help a strange filly uncover her true destiny

When travelling, one of the various encounterable ponies is the Screaming Filly. To get the Achievement, you have to encounter her and tell her to "Play Games".

Dust Devil

Let a mare help you in the desert

When travelling, one of the various encounterable ponies is Dusty Feather. To get the Achievement, you have to encounter her and let her create a sandstorm to repel the Shadow Horsies back and reset the Danger Meter.

Important Announcement

Give a radio announcer some great advice

When travelling, one of the various encounterable ponies is Lunar Harmony. To get the Achievement, you have to encounter her and tell her something nice about Verity for the radio station, either "Tell her that you love her" or "Fun Facts about Carrots".

Bad Habits

Become friends with an awkward mare

When travelling, one of the various encounterable ponies is Midnight Wishes. To get the Achievement, you have to encounter her and tell her "Yes" to become her friend.

Darn Clankers

Give a psychotic mare too many sugarcubes

When travelling, one of the various encounterable ponies is Skivvy. To get the Achievement, you have to encounter her and choose to give her a Sugarcube.

Cookie Kiss

Give a mare good advice to make tasty cookies

When travelling, one of the various encounterable ponies is Wasabi. To get the Achievement, you have to encounter her and choose for her to substitute her wasabi with chocolate instead.

Blizzard

Let a mare help you in the Taiga

When travelling, one of the various encounterable ponies is Snowstorm. To get the Achievement, you have to encounter her and let her create a snowstorm to repel the Shadow Horsies back and reset the Danger Meter.

Lumi! Lumi! Lumi!

Appreciate a cute mare's art

When travelling, one of the various encounterable ponies is Lumi. To get the Achievement, you have to encounter her and either say that her drawing is "Amazing" or "Thoughtful" after she shows you it.

Galloping Goofballs

Help a mare play Mareball

When travelling, one of the various encounterable ponies is Lilac Breeze. To get the Achievement, you have to encounter her and tell her to either "Play During Daytime" or to play around "Enchanted Candles".

Sniffs

Meet two peculiar mares

When travelling, one of the various encounterable ponies are Nutsy and Notsy. To get the Achievement, you just have to encounter them.

Familiar Face

Find a familiar looking Mysterious Fillysophical Mare

When travelling, one of the various encounterable ponies is the Pony you helped at the end of the previous playthrough. To get the Achievement, you need to replay after the Neutral Ending, and you should eventually stumble upon them in a normal encounter while proceeding in any area.

Buried Treasure

Help a pirate mare find her treasure

When travelling, one of the various encounterable ponies is Seafoam Breeze. To get the Achievement, you have to encounter her and say either "Your Friend" or "A Treasure".

Tea Party

Don't get banned from the Tea Shop

When travelling, once in a while, you can stumble upon a tea shop. To get the Achievement, you have to know which dialogue choices to make. One wrong dialogue choice, and you're getting kicked out of the tea shop, at least for that encounter! You would have to find another one to get another chance at it. Luckily for you, here are the right choices you need to make to get the Achievement.

Misc. Achivements

Little Mare Story

Watch two cute fillies dance to the credits

One of the easiest achievements you can literally get as soon as you start up the game for the first time. To get the Achievement, all you have to do on the title screen is click on the credits at the top right and wait for ElectroKaplosion/Red's amazing 10/10 song to finish. Take a seat and watch the two cute Mares put on different faces and maybe have some giggles here and there.

End Of The Guide

Congrats! You made it through my entire guide on how to get all the Achievements in MareQuest: An Interactive Tale!


Whether it helped you to get the last Achievements you needed, or whether you read it out of boredom, thank you so much for reading this huge guide of mine! I like making guides honestly! They help people, and are tons of fun to put in all the time to perfect it by design!

A huge thanks to Xzar's (also known as Dosenware here in the guide as Contributor and on Steam in general) spreadsheet file on Google Docs! Without him and his help in DMs on Discord, I doubt I would of been able to do the hardest Achievements to describe how to get, the Northen Wastelands and Southern Badlands ones, and some other Achievements he helped me with describing to you guys.

A big thanks also to SteamDB which is where I got the ripped Achievement icons from and where I kept the page open for the descriptions and names of each Achivement!

[Tetrahedron Dash]

I think only once each time per Neutral Run.

[Boersencrash]

First of all, huge props for making the guide.

Do you happen to know whether you can only find the Familiar Face mare in the playthrough right after achieving the neutral end, or can you encounter her in all playthroughs after getting the neutral ending once?

[Alkari Scientist]

Looks like a lot of work went into this guide! Thanks so much for the effort!