100% ACHIEVEMENT GUIDE | Age of Darkness: Final Stand

This is a comprehensive guide detailing a way of getting for all achievements in the game. If you have never played this game or are just hunting for achievements, this guide will show you how to get them all.

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I wish you success in getting all the in-game achievements

Work in progress: work on this guide is still ongoing. Maybe now it looks like just a list of achievements, but it will not be so for long. Very soon, I will update each achievement with a detailed description and a screenshot or video explaining how to unlock it.

Thank you for you patience!

Achievement Info

Immerse yourself in the medieval grimdark world where you cannot hide from the hungry undead and eternal darkness. Only a small spark from your torch and the cold steel of your sword separates you from being torn to pieces by the living dead. In a world full of grief, death and hopelessness, there is always a place for saving light.

Scout into the deadly fog of war and take the fight to the horrors within. By night, survive swarms of enemies numbering in the thousands. Made to be highly replayable, your army will fall, your settlements will crumble, but you will stand. Rise from the ashes again and again to push back the darkness of ‘The Veil’, keep the light alive and unlock all 100% achievements.

Complete Story Campaign

It is with the campaign that you should first begin your journey to unlock 100% of achievements. And it’s not even about that for each completed story mission you will get an achievement. Firstly, a fascinating and exciting plot awaits you, and secondly, you will become thoroughly acquainted with the characters and mechanics of the game; this knowledge will be very useful to you if you want to achieve high results in Survival mode.

Survive In The Darkness

The Survival Mode that is the main source of the overwhelming number of achievements in the game, which is ready to reward you for playing on various difficulties and heroes, and for different successes, so it is in your best interest to learn the intricacies and features of this mode if you want to open your way to the most difficult challenges.

Collect Resources / Smash The Enemies

The game contains achievements for normal gameplay actions that you will perform in each match, such as slaying monsters, collecting resources, etc. These type of achievements is cumulative and with each match played they bring you closer to your cherished achievements. Do not neglect the mechanics that the game offers and sooner or later you will get what you deserve.

Spoiler Alert.

Some descriptions of achievements and methods of obtaining them may contain spoilers, so if you do not want to spoil your impression of the game and want to find out all the plot twists yourself, I recommend refraining from using this guide and returning only if you are not afraid of spoilers or have already completed the game.

Therefore, I ask you not to write in the comments about any spoilers that you saw here. You are responsible for yourself. Thank you for understanding.

Achievement Info

• Difficulty level of achievements: Easy.
  
• Total achievements: 73.
  
• Offline achievements: 73.
  
• Online Achievements: 0.
  
• Estimated time to complete all achievements: Under 50 hours .
  
• Minimum number of passes for 100%: 1 for Campaign, Whatever you need for Survival Mode.
  
• Glitchy achievements: None.
  
• Missable Achievements: None.
  
• Achievements with difficulty levels: Yes.
  
• Required DLCs for 100% achievements: No DLC required for now.

💀 Friends Betrayed

Choose Campaign Mode in Main menu. The prologue missions starts after intro cinematic.

Proceed through the ruined village until you find your party.

Hold position for a while and then proceed to the north until you reach giant crystal.

Defend the priest and elliminate all enemies nearby to proceed.

This was the last goal in prologue mission, here is the moment for achievement to trigger.

💀 Rising Star

Mission 1 takes place many years after the events shown in the prologue. We can see aged Edwin and presumably the daughter of his friend, who were executed in the last cinematic here.

Throughout the mission, our main goal will be to help in every possible way the village, which is going through difficult days: first, it will need to be rebuilt.

After this, we need to build defensive structures, rescue captured villagers, defeat all brigands.

Now that the village has been saved, our heroes can continue on their way.

Fundamentals of War

Together Strong

A Drawn-Out Night

People's Hero

Gaolbreak

Last Hurrah

The Dark Road

Garden of Crowns

New Dawn

An Evening Stroll / Courageous Stand / Armed Defiance / Rage Against the Night / Nightmare King

Knight of the Order

Survival mode has a total of five different difficulties. The Veteran difficulty is available from the very beginning, the other two are unlocked after successfully completing the game on the previous difficulty.

In order to unlock this achievement you need to select Edwin as playable leader and complete the match.

A Round For All

Survival mode has a total of five different difficulties. The Veteran difficulty is available from the very beginning, the other two are unlocked after successfully completing the game on the previous difficulty.

In order to unlock this achievement you need to select Merek as playable leader and complete the match.

Hail to the Queen

Survival mode has a total of five different difficulties. The Veteran difficulty is available from the very beginning, the other two are unlocked after successfully completing the game on the previous difficulty.

In order to unlock this achievement you need to select Queen Aelis as playable leader and complete the match.

Fight in the Shade

Survival mode has a total of five different difficulties. The Veteran difficulty is available from the very beginning, the other two are unlocked after successfully completing the game on the previous difficulty.

In order to unlock this achievement you need to select Cyrus as playable leader and complete the match.

Corpse Grasp

Survival mode has a total of five different difficulties. The Veteran difficulty is available from the very beginning, the other two are unlocked after successfully completing the game on the previous difficulty.

In order to unlock this achievement you need to select Visargo as playable leader and complete the match.

Daughter of Gloom

Survival mode has a total of five different difficulties. The Veteran difficulty is available from the very beginning, the other two are unlocked after successfully completing the game on the previous difficulty.

In order to unlock this achievement you need to select Aurellia as playable leader and complete the match.

What Does This Do... / Give Me More!

Veil Champion I / II

During a survival match, you may come across stone monuments while exploring the map. In daytime, they do not pose much of a threat, but at night, Elite Nightmares appear next to them, which have incredible strength and health.

Victory over them promises you a great reward, but the risk is also very high, because it is extremely difficult to defeat this monster

Pre-emptive Strike / Lash Out

💀 Night Slayer I / II / III / IV / V / VI / VII

All these achievements have a cumulative effect. Any nightmares that you have defeated in any mode available in the game count. You may think that 15 million killed Nightmares is a terrible number, but in reality it’s not that bad, because in one full survival match you will destroy tens of thousands of them.

Here are the ordinary nightmare fighters who count towards these achievements.

Image	Description
	Crawler A weak and slow creature that forms the backbone of the undead army. In small numbers they do not pose much of a threat, especially to heroes, but as their numbers grow, the number of problems they can cause also increases. This is especially noticeable when they distract attention from more serious threats, making it difficult to deal with them quickly.
	Spearman Ordinary ranged soldiers who often hide behind their more numerous species. They are also not very intimidating in small numbers, but large groups are able to quickly deal with your warriors.
	Axeman Their appearance begins to herald the first signs of real danger: the slow and armored Axemans pose a threat to sloppy troops that approach them. They make devastating attacks, but fortunately they are extremely slow, so you can safely shoot them from afar without much loss.
	Burster Another type of unit that is best to stay away from. These walking kamikaze bombs run towards your soldiers and with their explosion destroy everything that falls within its radius. Shoot from afar, because in large quantities they can easily knock down even the hero.
	Spitter Vile creatures on four legs that spew out clots of dark energy from their chests
	Wraith
	Crusher

Paltry Sum / Good Business / Effective Merchant / Money Maker / Good Fortune / A Small Loan / Here Comes the Mone

Dark Addiction I / II / III / IV

Warden of the Dawn I / II / III / IV / V / VI / VII

From the Dark I / II / III / IV / V / VI

Light of Erodar I / II / III / IV / V / VI / VII

Banquisher of the Veil I / II / III / IV / V / VI

Ruler of Erodar

Сonclusion

[Adrien]

I agree the guide is not great, but lets fix it and contribute to make it better:

"Lash out": you can do it in settle custom difficulty, put everything in indulgent and break all cristals before they explode. Use savegames if need to know in advence which one will pop up. The achivement pop up when you destroy the 5th and last cristal. (I confirm by doing it myself)

"Give me more":... completing a game with 8 or more hardships active"
Source "https://steamcommunity.com/app/1426450/discussions/0/4630357311925333762/"
(i didnt confirm yet).

[Horseman[UA]]

Well, it will be long run

[EdgeDancer]

looks like decent work with all these design and formatting of the article - good job in this way this guide looks great, but zero usefull inforamtion, like kill X units -> ok u have to kill X units, nice thanks
for example any ways to break all crystals, any tips how to do it? all of them have pretty obvious description, but the key value - is how to beat it. For example: use easiest difficulty to fast rush to crystals, and tips how to rush them

[LmaoEmo]

Great guide, thanks for the hard work!

Just want to throw in that at this time of date there are quite a few achives that is bugged.
Dark essence; collect 150, when you do collect 150 it resets itself so something wonky there.
Surive nights aint trackin it, dont know why yet.
And more getting figured out while Im typing and playing!

( This is just so people know that something has happened and you're not alone with problems )
Stay safe in the dark and build those scones!

[PedroRicoJr]

Thank you for the guide 👍👍

[bobica]

How is it possible to gain "Lash Out" achevement? Im thinking about the 1st crystal

[Disascho]

did they take out the "Light of Erodar I / II / III / IV / V / VI / VII " Achievements? Does anyone know why?

[ChimaereJade]

Hey - nice guide. Thanks for the work!
(Just found a minor mistake with the campaign mission 6 description being the one of mission 7.)

[XEALEEN]

All achievements are now functional. You can play to unlock any of listed here.

[XEALEEN]

Accroding to the dev`s blog here:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1426450/view/4172098731865179222

Achievements will become available starting from May 7, on this date I will begin full-fledged work on the guide, i.e. more detailed descriptions of achievements and the mechanics of unlocking them will appear in time.