Gothic 1 Remake

Craft anything at all - forge a crude blade, brew a potion, cook some meat. You'll trip over this on the way to Anvil Enthusiast and Alkimist.

Get to the Old Camp early and do the odd-jobs the Shadows set you until they let you in properly. One of three mutually-exclusive camp joins (Lowlife and Cult Loon are the others) - you only pledge to one faction per save. Make a hard save just before you join so you can reload it for the other two without replaying.

Land 10 headshots with a bow or crossbow. Aim for the head on weak stuff - scavengers, molerats - from range. It ticks up naturally while you level ranged for String Wielder.

Pick 20 locks. Buy a stack of lockpicks and open every locked chest and door you pass (save first - a wrong nudge snaps a pick). There are far more than 20 around the Colony, so just loot thoroughly and it comes.

Nothing to chase here - it's forced by the main story, so it can't be missed. Just play on and it pops in its own time.

You'll get your first promotion automatically as you work through your camp's questline - it lands early on every path, so nothing to grind for.

Another forced story beat, impossible to miss. No action needed, just keep the main quest moving.

Head to the New Camp and win the mercenaries over to be let in. Mutually-exclusive with Gomez' Paperboy and Cult Loon, so reload your pre-join save to grab it on its own. The New Camp is a mage path too (Water Mages), so its a fine choice for Abracadabra and Overachiever.

Read 10 books. They're dotted around the camps, huts and towers - loot and read every one. It also feeds the lore quests like The Anatomaniac, so don't skip them.

Get Orcish up to Level 2. It comes from finding and reading the Orcish language books and taking the lessons, tied to the later chapters where you're poking around Orc ruins. Read every Orcish tablet you find and take the language lessons when they're offered.

Join the Sect out in the Swamp Camp. Mutually-exclusive with the other two joins. Big caveat: the Swamp caps your magic at the 4th Circle, so don't plan Abracadabra or Overachiever on this save. It is, though, the run you want for Map Sniffer - the Cor Kalom mine map is Swamp-only.

Get yourself a set of Ore Armor - the heavy end-game kit bought or crafted with ore. You'll reach it mid-to-late once you've got the ore and the standing for a smith or the barons to sort you out. Any ore-tier set counts.

Get into the Old Camp without walking through the main gate - climb over the walls or slip in a back way instead of being waved through. Have a poke around the perimeter for a climbable bit of palisade or rock and sneak in behind the guards. Do it before you're a member.

This is where you throw in with the necromancer Xardas. Story-forced, so unmissable - nothing to do but see it through.

A late main-quest beat you're railroaded straight into, so its unmissable. Nothing to seek out.

Forge 5 weapons at a smithy. You'll want the smithing lessons plus ore and the full setup (forge, anvil, cooling barrel). Crude swords are dirt cheap to churn out, so bang out five and it pops.

Brew 10 potions at an alchemy bench. Learn the alchemy lessons, hoover up herbs as you explore, and cook simple healing or mana potions. Herbs are everywhere, so this is cake over a run.

Make a single rune or scroll at a magic desk - needs the relevant magic-crafting lesson and the materials. Any one does it, and you'll be doing this anyway on a mage run.

Comes free with story progress and can't be missed. Keep pushing the main quest and it lands on its own.

The finish-line unlock: see off the Sleeper to end the game. You'll have it on any completed run.

Missable, and a soft-hearted one: exhaust all of Mud's dialogue across the game. The snag is Mud is a weedy, cowardly little sort who dies at the drop of a hat - if he's killed, that's it, gone for the run. Look out for him whenever there's a scrap nearby, check back after big story beats, and keep chatting until he's out of lines. Keep a save from before anything that might get him killed.

Kill something with fall damage. Bait or shove an enemy off a ledge, or fight near a drop and boot one over the edge. The mountain paths and the climb up to the Old Camp are full of handy cliffs.

A short, low-stakes mid-game side quest with no missable window - pick it up, work through the steps and hand it in.

Pickpocket 20 different characters. Learn the pickpocket lesson, then sneak behind NPCs when nobody's watching and lift their pockets. Save first - a botched attempt turns them hostile. Loads of marks in every camp.

Missable questline: see the Chromanin quests through to the end - the hidden lore chain about tracking down the scattered Chromanin books and clues. Read every book you come across (they nudge the quest along) and don't leave the later chapters with it half-finished.

Beat down 10 enemies with your bare fists, no weapon drawn. Easiest on the weak early wildlife - scavengers, molerats, young meatbugs. Fists-only a few whenever you pass easy prey and its sorted long before you're strong.

Finish Cavalorn's book quests - the chain the hunter Cavalorn sets you, collecting and returning specific tomes. Talk to Cavalorn, take it on, and hand in every book it asks for. Hoarding and reading books as you go (see Bookworm) makes this much smoother.

Fit every available mod to a single piece of armour at the crafting station. Pick one armour, gather the mod components, and slot them all into that same piece.

A missable choice: at the head-to-head with Gomez (the Old Camp's top ore baron), pick the option to spare him rather than finishing him off. Hard save right before the confrontation so you can choose mercy on purpose - take the kill route and its locked out for that save.

Master both ranged lines (bow and crossbow) at a trainer. Same deal as the melee masteries - it wants a big stack of learning points, so over-level and pour it in. Feeds Headshot Houdini along the way.

Reach the 6th and highest Magic Circle. You have to commit to a mage guild - the Fire Mages (Old Camp side) or Water Mages (New Camp) - and work up the circles one at a time. Don't try this on a Swamp save: the Sect caps you at the 4th Circle, so Cult Loon kills it stone dead. Pairs with Overachiever.

Parry 5 hits in a row without dodging or taking any damage. Pick one slow melee attacker - a lone bandit or skeleton - plant your feet and time your blocks to its swings. Block, don't roll. Do it against something weak so there's no pressure.

A daft little easter egg - just step into Xardas' private room in his tower. Once you've reached Xardas (Chapter 4 area), have a nose around the tower and wander into his bedroom to pop it.

Hit the same enemy with all three elements - fire, ice and lightning. Easiest on a mage run: bring one spell or scroll of each and land all three on a beefy enemy before it drops. Runes or scrolls do the job if you're not a full mage.

Max out every melee skill line (one- and two-handed) with a weapons trainer. It eats a lot of learning points, so over-level through quests and hunting and spend it all. Pairs neatly with Overachiever on the same run.

Cast every creature-transformation form at least once. Each is its own spell/scroll that turns you into a specific beast (scavenger, wolf, and bigger stuff). Collect one of every transform rune/scroll - buy them from mage trainers, loot them from spellbooks - and cast each. Keep a checklist so you don't miss a form.

Finish the whole game without ever sleeping in a bed. Decide this before you start a run, because a single kip voids it and beds are tempting for skipping time or topping up. Rest is optional in Gothic, so simply never use one - heal with potions and food, and just stand around to pass time if a quest wants a certain hour. Best folded into your main run if you commit from the off.

Collect every map in the game, and its the fiddly one. Most you buy or loot as normal, but one - the Map to the Old Mine #2 from Cor Kalom - only turns up if you're in the Swamp Camp and holding no map at all when you take that quest. That Swamp requirement clashes with your mage/Overachiever run, so treat this as a job for a dedicated Swamp playthrough and grab the Cor Kalom map before you pick up any other.

Learn every lesson in the game - all trainable skills from every trainer (combat, magic circles, crafting, thieving, the lot). It wants a mountain of learning points, so over-level hard and spend at every trainer. Needs a full mage path, so its off the table on Cult Loon (4th-Circle cap), and it clashes with Map Sniffer - do those on separate runs.

Beat the game on Permadeath - one life, death ends the run. Do it as its own playthrough. Over-level in the safe early areas before you push on, always carry a fat stack of healing potions, pull enemies one at a time with a bow or terrain, and steer clear of packs and the ambushes you already know about. No save-scumming to bail you out, so play patient. A route you know cold from earlier runs makes this far less scary than it sounds.

The 100% capstone - pops on its own the moment every other achievement is done. Follow the roadmap: one big mage run (story, skills, magic, missables, spare Gomez), reloads for the other two camps, a Swamp run for Map Sniffer, and a Permadeath run for No time to die. When the last one drops, so does this.

The overall completion award - given for unlocking every other achievement. Nothing to do for it directly; clear the list (see the roadmap and Colonyholic) and it lands with the final one.