Achievements are currently only available in the Xbox, PS4 and Steam versions of the game.
List of Achievements
There are 31 Outer Wilds achievements. 17 of these are from the base game, Outer Wilds. The other 14 are from the DLC, Echoes of the Eye.
| All Done Hidden Achievement |
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| Unlock all base game achievements.
Exclusive to PlayStation. Get every base game achievement and then you'll get this one. |
| Archaeologist Hidden Achievement |
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| Complete the ship log.
There is a website where you can find the number of individual entries there are for each item. If you are missing any you will not get the achievement. Note that the rumor arrows between entries are not required for the achievement. |
| Beginner's Luck Hidden Achievement (Secret) |
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| Reach the Eye of the universe in one loop.
NOTE: If you die at any point, you need to quit and start a new expedition again, this needs to be done in a single loop.
A faster way of obtaining this achievement is by directly heading for the Ash Twin Project without the use of the signalscope.
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| Cutting it Close Hidden Achievement |
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| Use your suit's oxygen in an ill-advised manner.
Your suit will use oxygen as propellant when you run out of jetpack fuel. To get the achievement, you must use 250 units of oxygen as fuel in one loop (full oxygen is 450 units). |
| Deep Impact Hidden Achievement (Secret) |
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| Enter Giant's Deep ocean fast enough to break through the current.
Requisite velocity is 7,000 m/s directly towards the core. Aim carefully. Another way to achieve the achievement is placing your ship under a recently uplifted island. After the island falls back into the water, it sometimes pushes the ship into the current. A third way to get this achievement is to use the Gravity Cannon on Brittle Hollow to aim and launch a Nomai Shuttle towards Giant's Deep when the two planets are very close to each other in their orbits. |
| Die Hard Hidden Achievement |
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| End a time loop (Alive) after having taken (and healed) over 1000 damage.
Dying to the supernova counts as ending a time loop alive. Damage that you didn't heal counts toward this achievement (for example, taking and healing 980 damage, then taking 50 more damage without healing, will grant the achievement). The player has 100 max health. The "vitals low" notification appears at 40 health, and the "vitals critical" notification appears at 15 health. This means that getting the "vitals critical" notification 12 times will guarantee getting the achievement. The easiest way to do this is by landing next to the campfire on the Attlerock and repeating burning and then healing yourself around 12 times. |
| From the Hearth to the Moon Hidden Achievement |
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| Land the model rocket on the Attlerock.
The easiest way to do this one is by waiting until the Attlerock is rising behind you and then propelling up and forwards. |
| Gone In 60 Seconds Hidden Achievement |
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| Die within 60 seconds of waking up.
Standing on the campfire is one of the easiest ways to get this Achievement. |
| Harmonic Convergence Hidden Achievement |
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| Pick up all traveler instruments simultaneously with your signalscope.
Fly very far away from the solar system and aim your signalscope back at the solar system. Alternately, roughly 13 minutes into the loop, Giant's Deep, Brittle Hollow, Timber Hearth (and thus the Attlerock), and the Hourglass Twins will align, allowing you to receive the achievement without leaving the solar system. Dark Bramble is not necessary because Feldspar's harmonica can be heard from the seed on Timber Hearth. |
| Hey, what's this button do? Hidden Achievement (Secret) |
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| Press the ejection button in the ship.
It is located all the way to the right while sitting in the cockpit. |
| Hotshot Hidden Achievement (Secret) |
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| Manually fly to the Sun Station.
The trick is to try to match the velocity of the Sun Station manually without getting too close or too far away from the sun. The achievement is rewarded upon entering the Sun Station, not just landing on it. |
| It belongs in a museum! Hidden Achievement (Secret) |
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| Bring an artifact back to the museum.
Bring a warp core back to the museum on Timber Hearth. These can be found in the High Energy Lab, the Ash Twin Project, or the Vessel. (Projection plates, scrolls, and artifacts from the Stranger don't count towards this achievement) |
| It was worth a shot. Hidden Achievement (Secret) |
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| You tried to escape the solar system.
Specifically, be at least 10000km away from the sun when the time loop resets. |
| Mica's Wrath Hidden Achievement (Secret) |
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| Destroy the Model Rocket by flying into the Sun or Hollow's Lantern.
Just aim for the sun and go!! |
| Mmmm, Carcinogens Hidden Achievement (Secret) |
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| Eat ten burnt marshmallows. Eat 10 marshmallows after burning them in the fire and extinguishing them. They do not need to all be eaten in the same loop. |
| Pchooooooo! Hidden Achievement |
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| Fire your ship out of a gravity cannon. Put your ship in a gravity cannon and then turn it on. |
| Rigidbody Hidden Achievement (Secret) |
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| De-orbit the Hearthian satellite. Find the small satellite orbiting Timber Hearth and bump into it. |
| You've met a terrible fate. Hidden Achievement (Secret) |
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| No going back.
You need to create a temporal paradox and destroy spacetime. You can do this by either:
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Echoes of the Eye Achievements
| Around the world in 90 seconds Hidden Achievement (Secret) |
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| Raft around the Stranger in under 90 seconds.
Try to light multiple orbs on the raft at once while doing this one. There are 4 triggers around the Stranger that you must hit in the correct order (the direction the river flows); one between each area. To get the achievement, you must first enter any one of the triggers, then enter the other 3 in order, then enter the first one again. There must be less than 90 seconds between the 2 times you entered the first trigger. |
| The Silenced Cartographer Hidden Achievement (Secret) |
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| Render the Deep Space Satellite inoperable.
Have something collide with the deep space satellite with a speed of at least 10m/s. Note that doing this makes your map unusable for the rest of the loop. Despite it being indicated as an Echoes of the Eye achievement by its icon color, you do not actually need the DLC to get this achievement. |
| Tubular! Hidden Achievement (Secret) |
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| Ride the face of the wave for at least 15 seconds on a raft.
For this one try finding a semi-straight path so you are less likely to hit something while riding the wave. The easiest path is using the raft at the base of the Island Tower in the Cinder Isles, and riding the wave through the leftmost branch of the river. |
| Early Adopter Hidden Achievement (Secret) |
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| Attempt to use the second artifact prototype. Curiosity killed the cat, but a time loop brought it back.
The prototype can be found in the laboratory near the Endless Canyon tower, in a crate on the left when entering from the main entrance of the laboratory. Prototype artifacts in a crate in the laboratory Prototype artifacts in the crate |
| The Grate Filter Hidden Achievement (Secret) |
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| Swim through the dam grate. Not everyone makes it!
There is a small grate in each of the bottom corners of the dam that you can swim through. |
| Flat Hearther Hidden Achievement (Secret) |
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| Stand your ground beneath a moving chain elevator.
Call an elevator down on the Stranger and then stand where it crushes you. |
| Celsius 232.78 Hidden Achievement (Secret) |
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| This knowledge isn't going to forbid itself!
Burn a slide reel on any campfire. |
| Ghosts in the Machine Hidden Achievement (Secret) |
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| Reach all 3 Forbidden Archives in a single loop without getting caught.
"getting caught" only applies for when you are getting caught by a pursuer. "dying" or jumping into water does not count. Neither does dying in the real world and then getting into the simulation. An easy way to do this is:
You can also enter the Shrouded Woodlands archive through the Subterranean Lake by falling off a raft during the transition between areas, and then ride the elevator up, to avoid needing to open raft access in the Woodlands or waiting for the pursuers there to die. The trigger for reaching each Forbidden Archive is in the respective elevator shaft and not actually in the archive. |
| Sleep. Wake. Repeat. Hidden Achievement (Secret) |
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| Be woken up from a dream 5 different ways in a single loop.
There are many ways to "die" in the Secret World, but only seven of them are actually valid for the achievement. These include:
This achievement can be easily completed in the Endless Canyon or the Sealed Vault. |
| Simulation Hypothesis Hidden Achievement (Secret) |
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| Attempt to use the artifact at a normal campfire. Well, that settles that!
Grab any artifact and leave the Stranger, then rest while holding the artifact at any campfire. The easiest artifact to get is in the Damaged Laboratory, entered through the outside of the Stranger (the Damaged Laboratory can be marked on your Ship Log). |
| Fire Arrows Hidden Achievement (Secret) |
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| Shoot the Little Scout at the artificial sun in the Stranger.
This requires landing the shot, which is more difficult than would be expected. You may need to fire some test shots at the artificial sun to get a feeling for the Coriolis force experienced within the Stranger. |
| 1 / 900 Hidden Achievement (Secret) |
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| Yahaha! You found me!
Go on the top of the building in the Endless Canyon. Turn off the lights, navigate around the first floor pursuer, go to the top floor, jump out the window onto the roof and go to the top. Light the candle at the top edge on the non-rockface side with the artifact. It appears as a poop (glitch mode) or a crude, wooden representation of a Korok (regular view). |
| You'll Never Take Me Alive! Hidden Achievement (Secret) |
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| Escape your pursuers by jumping to your "death" instead of dodging past them.
Fatal heights from which to jump onto hard surfaces are seldom found in the Secret World; this refers to jumping into water while a pursuer is chasing you. This achievement is only obtainable in the Endless Canyon. You must activate the indoor bridge in the Endless Canyon, have a pursuer chasing you, and jump out either the window towards the starting campfire area or the one opposite to it. It may be helpful to first look around the area with the lights on to find where these windows are. |
| Oof Ouch, My Bones Hidden Achievement (Secret) |
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| Have your spine adjusted by a pursuer.
Enter the Secret World and get caught by a pursuer with your lantern placed on the ground. |
Scrapped Achievements
| Found Signal Scrapped Hidden Achievement (Secret) |
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| Found signal.
Find the Hidden Gorge's simulation connection building antenna signal on the Stranger. |
| Zip Zoom Scrapped Hidden Achievement (Secret) |
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| Go really, really fast.
It is unknown how fast you would need to go for this achievement, but it would be probably be faster than what is needed for Deep Impact. |
| Strike! Scrapped Hidden Achievement (Secret) |
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| Knock over every cairn.
Cairns are the rock piles with Nomai text on them that can rebuild themselves if you knock them over. |
| Space Exploredinaire Scrapped Hidden Achievement (Secret) |
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| Land on every planet and moon in one time loop. |
| Critical Performance Hit Scrapped Hidden Achievement (Secret) |
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| Have you, your Ship, and the Little Scout all on separate planetary bodies.
The game has a sector system that the sun, planets, moon, and satellites all have. These three things load those sectors which can lower the games performance if each of them are loading a sector. Mobius Digital mentioned in the Noclip Documentary the reason this was scrapped is because Annapurna Interactive (their publisher) didn't want them to encourage players to break their game. |
Trivia
- Die Hard, Gone In 60 Seconds and Deep Impact may be named after movies.
- Deep Impact may alternatively be named after a NASA spacecraft, although that spacecraft released an impactor into a comet, not a planet.
- From the Hearth to the Moon is a reference to the book by Jules Verne, titled From the Earth to the Moon.
- It belongs in a museum! is a reference to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, in which Indiana Jones says this line about the Cross of Coronado.
- Pchooooooo! is likely a reference to an onomatopoeia frequently used in the webcomic Homestuck.
- Around the world in 90 seconds is a reference to the book and movie Around The World in 80 Days.
- The Silenced Cartographer likely is a reference to The Silent Cartographer, a stage in Halo: Combat Evolved.
- The Grate Filter is a reference to the great filter, a theory about why no alien species are currently known.
- Celsius 232.78 is a reference to the book Fahrenheit 451, a book about a man who burns books, hence the achievement requiring you to burn slide reels.
- Flat Hearther is a pun of "flat earther," referencing believers in the conspiracy theory that the earth is actually flat.
- Ghosts in the Machine is likely a reference to a philosophical theory by Decartes in which mental and physical activity occur entirely separate from each other. The achievement's image may be a reference to Pac-Man.
- 1 / 900 is a reference to koroks from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, in which there being 900 of them scattered around its world map to find, hence the 1/900. "Yahaha! You found me!" is the dialogue they make whenever you find one accompanied with the noise "Yahaha".
- Fire Arrows is a reference to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, in which Link must shoot regular arrows into the sun to obtain fire arrows.
- You've met a terrible fate. is a reference to The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, wherein the Happy Mask Salesman introduces himself with the line "You've met a terrible fate, haven't you?"
- Oof Ouch, My Bones is a reference to a meme in which characters accidentally drink "bone hurting juice" and say Oof ouch my bones.
- Simulation Hypothesis references the philosophical theory of the same name, in which all of reality may be part of a simulation. The achievement icon is also a reference to the movie The Matrix.
- Harmonic Convergence is likely a reference to the name given to the world's first synchronized global peace meditation of which was also referenced in the television show Avatar: Legend of Korra.






































