Are there missable achievements in GRIS?

No, but 12 are soft-missable or mutually exclusive: Acceptance, Depression, Apples, Eel, Inuksuit, Bargaining, Denial, Anger, Sandstorm, Magic fowls, Mementos and Childhood.

GRIS achievement guide, roadmap and tracker

GRIS is Nomada Studio's serene, hand-painted watercolour puzzle-platformer about a young woman working through grief. There's no combat, no death and no fail states - you just move, jump and (later) sing your way through five chapters, restoring colour to a broken world. A single run is 3-4 hours, and 100% is only a touch longer - one of the gentlest completions around.

The story achievements are all unmissable: restoring each colour ends a chapter (Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, then The End), and the five grief-stage beats - Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance - are scripted moments on the path. The optional side is five secrets (Sandstorm, Inuksuit, Apples, Eel, Magic fowls) plus the collectibles: Mementos (all 28 mementos across chapters 1-4; chapter 5 has none) and Childhood, a secret cutscene gated behind having all 28.

The key mercy: GRIS unlocks Chapter Select once you've finished, and every collectible, secret and beat is replayable through it - so nothing is permanently lost. Recommended: play once for the story, then a clean-up pass via Chapter Select for the five secrets and all 28 mementos, and do Childhood last (it needs every memento first).

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FAQ

Are there missable achievements in GRIS?: No, but 12 are soft-missable or mutually exclusive: Acceptance, Depression, Apples, Eel, Inuksuit, Bargaining, Denial, Anger, Sandstorm, Magic fowls, Mementos and Childhood.
Are there glitched achievements in GRIS?: No.

Red

Very common79.1%

StoryUnmissable

A color has been brought back

Story. Complete Chapter 1 (the red desert-ruins) by restoring the red colour region - pops at chapter end.

Green

Common54.9%

StoryUnmissable

A color has been brought back

Story. Complete Chapter 2 (the green forest). Restoring green ends the chapter.

Blue

Common43.4%

StoryUnmissable

A color has been brought back

Story. Complete Chapter 3 (the blue underwater / rain area).

Yellow

Uncommon36.6%

StoryUnmissable

A color has been brought back

Story. Complete Chapter 4 (the yellow wind / gravity area).

The End

Uncommon30.0%

StoryUnmissableStory complete

Finish the game

Story. Finish Chapter 5, the final chapter.

Acceptance

Uncommon20.0%

StorySoft-missable

Fifth stage

Chapter 5 climax. After surfacing from the black water, sing in front of the tomb / gravestone - the narrative resolution.

Depression

Uncommon11.3%

StorySoft-missable

Fourth stage

Chapter 4, checkpoint 2 (the turtle sequence). Head down into the darkness, then move left into a hidden area rather than continuing along the main path.

Apples

Rare9.6%

All-the-thingsSoft-missable

Feed the forest friend

Chapter 3. Lead the apple-eating forest creature to eat all 8 apples - 4 of them are hidden off the main path, so feed it those too.

8 to collect

Eel

Rare6.3%

ObjectiveSoft-missable

Avoid eel bites

Chapter 4, checkpoint 2 (the giant eel chase). Get through without being caught by any of the eel's lunges - dodge every attack (no combat, pure evasion).

Inuksuit

Rare5.5%

All-the-thingsSoft-missable

Break the stone piles

Chapter 2 (from its second checkpoint on). Smash all 14 little stacked-stone statues (inuksuit) with the heavy / block slam.

14 to collect

Bargaining

Rare5.0%

StorySoft-missable

Third stage

Chapter 3, checkpoint 2. Find the statue of a figure covering its face and sing in front of it (you'll have the sing ability by then).

Denial

Very rare4.9%

StorySoft-missable

First stage

Chapter 1 (first stage of grief). At the very start, walk right until you regain free movement, then backtrack left to the collapsed statue and stand still - Gris falls and picks herself back up on her own, triggering it.

Anger

Very rare4.7%

StorySoft-missable

Second stage

Chapter 2, checkpoint 2 (the black-and-white zone). In the heavy / block form, smash the three fragile statues cleanly - a wasted slam lifts you out of the area before you finish.

Sandstorm

Very rare4.4%

ObjectiveSoft-missable

Avoid the storm

Chapter 2 (the wind / sandstorm section). Cross without ever being blown away - shelter inside the buildings (you're immune to the wind while inside them) and anchor with the heavy / block form. Don't get swept off once.

Magic fowls

Very rare3.3%

All-the-thingsSoft-missable

Sing to the magic fowls

Chapter 5 (the gravity chapter), from around its third checkpoint once you can sing. Sing to all 7 magic fowls (the pink flamingo-like birds off to the sides of the path). Two register automatically when you gain singing; hunt the other five.

7 to collect

Mementos

Very rare3.2%

All-the-thingsSoft-missable

Find all of the mementos

Collect all 28 mementos (glowing memory runes) across chapters 1-4 - the final chapter has none. They save the instant you touch them, so Chapter Select clean-up is painless.

28 to collect

Childhood

Very rare3.1%

ObjectiveSoft-missable

Memories from the past

Needs all 28 mementos first (Mementos). Then select the final chapter and go directly below Gris's start point to a hidden entrance in a broken wall on the left; go in and sing in front of the sign for the secret childhood cutscene. Do it last.