Grand Theft Auto V

Complete the GTA Online introduction - the forced intro race and first jobs with Lamar when you first go online. Just play through the opening; it pops as you get started in multiplayer.

Unmissable - pops during the opening Los Santos missions (repo'ing the car and racing it with Franklin and Lamar). Story-forced, nothing to chase.

Own an Apartment, a Garage and an Insured Vehicle in GTA Online at once. Buy a cheap apartment (it comes with a garage), buy a personal vehicle and insure it - once you hold all three, it pops.

Reach Rank 25 in GTA Online - earned through RP from any online activity (races, missions, heists). Comes early; heists and daily objectives level you fastest. Steps up to Making Moves then Above the Law.

Complete any Heist Setup mission. Heists run as a leader-organised series - the leader launches setup jobs before each finale, and finishing any one of them (as leader or crew) pops this. It comes naturally the first time you touch heists. Setting one up yourself is Shot Caller.

Fully mod any weapon at Ammu-Nation - buy every available attachment and upgrade for one gun (suppressor, scope, extended clip, etc.). A cheap pistol is the least expensive to max out.

Reach Rank 50 in GTA Online - double Three-Bit Gangster. Keep playing RP-earning content; heist finales and the Doomsday acts pay a lot of RP.

Survive a full in-game day (about 48 real minutes) with a Bounty on your head in GTA Online. Once a bounty is placed on you (by another player, or set one up with a friend), just stay alive until it expires - hiding in a quiet or well-defended spot is the safe way.

Unmissable - completes on the Jewel Store Job, your first proper heist. Whichever approach you pick (smart or loud), it pops.

Unmissable - completes on the mission "Fame or Shame". Forced story.

Earn 30 Platinum Awards in GTA Online - the platinum-tier challenge medals (kills, wins, distances, etc.). Thirty accumulate over a lot of play; check the Awards menu for the ones closest to platinum and finish those off.

Reach Rank 100 in GTA Online - the big rank grind, and hours of online play. The fastest RP comes from heist finales, the Doomsday acts and any RP-boost events Rockstar runs. The main online time-sink alongside the Doomsday challenges.

Finish a Gang Attack without dying and with at least 10 kills. Gang Attacks are the freemode enemy-cluster events on the map. Roll up, stay in cover, and clear 10+ enemies without going down - good armour and a partner make it easy.

Complete The Prison Break heist (all setups through the finale) as leader or crew - the second of the five original online heists, breaking Rashkovsky out of Bolingbroke. A four-player job; finishing the finale pops it whether you lead or join.

Set up a Heist as the leader - buy a high-end apartment with a Heist planning room, then start a heist and pay the up-front setup cost to kick it off. You need to be the organiser footing the money, not just crew. Completing a setup is Be Prepared.

Complete any Job in GTA Online as a member of a Crew. Join or start a Crew (via the Social Club), then finish any job while repping it. Any crew, any job.

Fully mod any vehicle at a Los Santos Customs - buy every available upgrade for one car (engine, brakes, armour, transmission and so on). Bring plenty of cash and max out a single vehicle.

Complete a Heist Finale without taking any damage. Pick a forgiving finale (The Fleeca Job is only two players and the tamest), stay in cover, and don't let anything - bullets, crashes, falls - chip your health across the whole finale. A competent crew that doesn't drag you into firefights makes it far easier.

Unmissable - completes on "The Merryweather Heist". Forced story mission.

Unmissable - completes on the mission "Blitz Play" (the armoured-truck ambush). Forced story.

Unmissable - completes on the mission "Caida Libre". Forced story.

Unmissable - completing "The Paleto Score", the Paleto Bay bank heist. Forced story.

Complete all 10 waves of a Survival in GTA Online - the horde mode. Team up (up to four), hold a defensible spot with good weapons, and clear all ten waves. Much easier with a full squad.

Complete Act I of The Doomsday Heist as leader or crew - the first of its three acts, ending in the finale. Run the act's setups then the finale with a crew of 2-4. Part of A World Worth Saving; you'll need a Facility (see Getting Started) first.

Call for a Backup Helicopter for the first time in GTA Online. Once the service is unlocked (via rank/contacts), open the phone → Contacts and request a Backup Helicopter. A quick one-off.

Win 5 races while driving a customised (personal/modded) vehicle. The five single-player Street Races Franklin unlocks are the simplest route - enter them in a car you've modded at Los Santos Customs. Online races in a personal vehicle also count.

Complete both The Fleeca Job and The Pacific Standard Job as leader or crew. The Fleeca Job is the two-player opener of the original heists; The Pacific Standard Job is their big four-player finale. Finish both finales (either role) and it pops.

Complete Act II of The Doomsday Heist as leader or crew - the middle act. Do its setups and finale with your crew. Part of A World Worth Saving; follows The Data Breaches.

Unmissable - completing "The Bureau Raid" (the FIB building job). Forced story; either approach counts.

Set up The Doomsday Heist. You need a Facility (bought from the Maze Bank Foreclosures site), which unlocks the heist board - start it and complete the first setup to pop this. The heist runs in three Acts: The Data Breaches, The Bogdan Problem and The Doomsday Scenario.

Complete both The Humane Labs Raid and Series A Funding as leader or crew - the third and fourth of the original online heists. Finish both finales in either role to unlock it. With Dead Presidents and Parole Day, this clears the original heist set.

The final mission - completing it beats the story, whichever of the three endings you choose. This is your story-complete unlock. All three endings are replayable from the mission menu afterwards, so the choice doesn't lock anything.

Unmissable - completes on the mission "Bury the Hatchet". Forced story.

Unmissable - completing "The Big Score", the final heist. Forced story.

Play for a cumulative 15 hours in first-person mode (toggle the view button to first person). Just leave it in first person during normal play and it racks up. Works in single-player or online.

A random event: now and then a pedestrian will mug you and run off with your cash. Chase them down and kill them to get your money back. Muggings are common in busier areas - just don't let the thief escape.

Make a profit on the in-game stock market (the LCN and BAWSAQ exchanges). Buy any stock and sell it higher - the Lester assassination missions are the classic way to swing a stock hard, but simply buying low and selling higher on any stock counts. Any net profit over your investment does it.

Complete Act III of The Doomsday Heist as leader or crew - the final act. Its setups and finale close out the heist, so finishing this also earns A World Worth Saving. Follows The Bogdan Problem.

Hold up all 20 convenience Stores across the map. Walk in, aim at the clerk until they empty the till, then leave. Work through a store-locations list - a single-player activity, none missable.

Complete the whole Doomsday Heist - all three acts (The Data Breaches, The Bogdan Problem, The Doomsday Scenario) as leader or crew. Finishing Act III's finale earns this alongside The Doomsday Scenario.

Complete all 50 Stunt Jumps - the ramp jumps marked on a collectibles map. Land each cleanly (you get a slow-mo cam when you nail one); a fast bike makes them easier. Revisitable, none missable.

Enter Director Mode for the first time as any unlocked actor. Open the pause menu → Rockstar Editor → Director Mode (or take the "Director Mode" short trip), pick an actor and start. A Story character is available early, so this comes as soon as you try it.

As Heist Leader, set the finale cut to an even 25% across all four players, then complete the finale. On the finale's pre-game cut screen, split the take equally rather than taking a leader's larger share. Needs a full four-player heist.

Earn 25 platinum medals across Heist Setups and Finales. Every heist mission has a platinum-medal standard (objectives like time, no deaths, or headshots). Replay setups and finales going for those criteria until you've banked 25 - a grind across the heist roster with a good crew.

Complete all of Trevor's Rampages - the optional "kill everyone" challenges around Blaine County (five of them). Play as Trevor, trigger each one and hit the kill target with the weapon it gives you. Needed for 100%.

Spend a total of $8,000,000 on vehicles added in The Heists Update (the specific cars and aircraft from that update). Earn the cash from heists, then buy enough of those update vehicles to total $8M. Pure spending.

Enter Director Mode using one of your own GTA Online characters as the actor - select your online character from the actor list when starting Director Mode. Needs you to have created a GTA Online character.

Spend a total of $200 million across the three characters. This comes naturally once the final heist pays out (each of Michael, Franklin and Trevor banks tens of millions) - blow it on properties, vehicles and mods. If you're short, the stock swings from Lester's assassination missions pad the balance. Cumulative across all three.

Kill another player with the Orbital Cannon. Buy the Orbital Cannon upgrade for a Facility, then use its terminal to target and fire on a player on the map. One kill does it - the manually-aimed shot is cheaper than the auto-lock but needs charging. Easiest arranged with a willing target.

Get first place in all the competitive game types in GTA Online - win at least one of each (Race, Deathmatch, Capture, Last Team Standing, etc.). Work through each mode until you've bagged a 1st in every category; boosting with friends makes the rarer modes quick.

Buy the Downtown Cab Co. property, then complete one private fare - get in a company cab, accept the "private fare" job it offers and drive the passenger to their destination. A quick property side-task.

As Trevor, deliver a victim to the Altruist Cult camp in the hills. When a random-event victim (or a knocked-out pedestrian) is in your car, drive them to the cult's mountain camp north-west of the map and hand them over instead of killing them. One delivery does it.

One of Maude's Bail Bond missions (Strangers & Freaks): track down a bail-jumper and bring them in alive rather than killing them. Subdue the target (a stun gun or a careful non-lethal takedown) and deliver them breathing.

Reveal the entire map - travel through every part of Los Santos and Blaine County (land, sea and air). Just roam; flying over the far corners is the quick way to fill in any patches you missed.

Earn a gold medal in every applicable hobby and pastime - the sports and activities (golf, tennis, darts, the shooting range, the triathlons, etc.). Play each to its gold standard. Part of the Career Criminal checklist.

Direct a driver to 1st place as the co-driver in Rally Mode - the 2-player race where one drives and one navigates (only the co-driver sees the minimap). Be the navigator and guide your driver to a win. Arrange it with a partner.

Get killed by a shark. Head out to sea (steal a boat if you have to), jump in and swim around in deep water - a shark will spawn and attack before long. Let it finish you off. Works in single-player or online.

A GTA Online achievement - take part in one of everything Los Santos has to offer online (a race, a deathmatch, a job, a mission, and so on). Work through each activity category in GTA Online. Needs the online mode and other players.

Create and export a single video with the Rockstar Editor - the one-off version of Majestic. Record any clip, drop it in the Editor and export once.

Complete the Epsilon Program - Michael's long Strangers & Freaks questline for the Epsilon cult. It runs across several missions with real-time waiting periods (and you donate money along the way), ending in "inner peace". Follow a guide for the steps; it's time-gated rather than hard.

Buy the McKenzie Field Hangar (as Trevor) and complete its gun-running side activity - fly the supply/smuggling runs it unlocks until you "win the arms race". A Trevor property side-task.

Collect all 50 Spaceship Parts scattered across San Andreas and return them to Omega, which unlocks the "Far Out" Strangers & Freaks mission. All free-roam and revisitable - use a collectibles map. Needed for Career Criminal.

Complete all the Under the Bridge (fly under all 50 low bridges) and Knife Flight (fly through the marked gaps) challenges. Grab a fast plane or helicopter and work through a locations map - fiddly, but nothing here is missable.

Enter Director Mode as an animal actor. Animals unlock via the Peyote Plant collectibles - eating one lets you play as that animal and unlocks it for Director Mode. Grab any peyote, then pick that animal as your Director Mode actor. See Cryptozoologist for all of them.

Get all three characters together (a mission where they're grouped, or switch between them to gather them in free-roam) and survive 3 minutes at a 3-star wanted level or higher as a trio. Raise the stars with some chaos, then hunker down together and outlast the cops for three minutes.

Buy the Sonar Collections Dock (it comes with a submarine), then dive and collect all 30 barrels of nuclear waste from the seabed. Use the sub and a locations map; the barrels ping on the radar when you're near one.

Create and export 10 videos with the Rockstar Editor. Record short clips (or use Director Mode), edit each in the Rockstar Editor and export it - ten exports do it. Keep them short; it's tedious rather than hard. The single-export version is Vinewood Visionary.

Solve the Leonora Johnson murder: collect all 50 Letter Scraps around Los Santos and Blaine County, which unlocks the "A Starlet in Vinewood" Strangers & Freaks mission - complete it to name the killer. Use a locations map for the 50 scraps; none are missable.

Visit every Location in Director Mode - cycle through and load into each location from the Director Mode location list. Just step through the whole list; quick and free.

Earn 70 Gold medals across Missions and Strangers & Freaks. Each has optional gold objectives (time, headshots, no damage, etc.); replay them from the pause menu to pick up the ones you missed. A guide's objective list helps you cherry-pick the easy golds toward 70.

100% Game Completion - the big meta-checklist: all main missions and Strangers & Freaks, every collectible set, Rampages, all 20 Stores, the hobby/pastime gold medals, and the rest. Check the in-game tracker (Pause → Stats → Completion) for exactly what's outstanding. All single-player, none of it missable.

Complete all 3 Elite Challenges in The Doomsday Heist - one per act finale. Each is a set of finale conditions (finish under a time limit, no deaths, stay above a health threshold, etc.); meet every condition on each of the three finales. Tough, and needs a skilled, coordinated crew.

Unlock all the Story Characters (the named story cast, unlocked by progressing the story) and enter Director Mode as one of them. Finish the story to have the full set, then pick a Story-category actor.

Complete all 3 Criminal Mastermind Challenges in The Doomsday Heist - the hardest achievement here. Each requires finishing an entire act (all setups plus finale) in order, first time, in Hard mode, with no player dying and the same crew throughout. A single death voids the run. Needs a committed, skilled team and a lot of patience.

Unlock all the animals for Director Mode. Each unlocks by eating its Peyote Plant - there are 27 peyote collectibles around the map (plus a special Golden Peyote). Collect them all with a peyote-locations map and the full animal roster opens up.

Enter Director Mode as Cris Formage (the Epsilon cult leader) - a Special Character actor unlocked through play. Select him from the Director Mode actor list. Unlocking all the Specials is Humans of Los Santos.

Unlock all the Special Characters (the wackier named NPCs, unlocked by doing their related content) and enter Director Mode as one. A guide lists how each Special is unlocked - several come from Strangers & Freaks and random events you'll do for 100% anyway.