The Outer Worlds - achievements, trophies The Outer Worlds guide, walkthrough

Last update: 25 November 2019

During The Outer Worlds, you will be able to get achievements/trophies. Some of them are acquired during the main storyline. To get the rest, you will have to perform certain actions. This page of the guide contains a list of all the achievements/trophies available in the game, as well as tips for acquiring them.

The Outer Worlds Platinum Trophy
The Outer Worlds
Hard
Supernova
Welcome to Halcyon!
Best Friend
Silver Tongue
Flawed Hero
Poor Sportsmanship
Elemental Maelstrom
Patient N
Ticket to Anywhere
Something's Fishy
Dentastic
Paradise Found
Pirate Radio
Hard Time
Lost and Found
The Audience Gasps
SubLight to the End
Peace in Our Time
Monarch Abides
Mightier than the Sword
Ludwig was Right
A Star is Born
The Cartographer
Sunburn
The Harder They Fall
Got Your Back
Upgrades Available
Never Seen
Short Circuit
Health Insurance
We All Fall Down
Tossball All Star
Everything Must Go
Everybody Likes Me
Destroyer of Worlds
Not the Best Choice
Well Dressed
Level 30
Skilled
Jack of All Trades
A Well-Balanced Breakfast.
Mad Scientist
Impossible Mission
One for All
All for One
Anything for a Friend

The Outer Worlds Platinum Trophy

How to unlock: Collect all trophies in The Outer Worlds.

Commentary: You have to get all the trophies listed below.

The Outer Worlds

How to unlock: Complete the game at any difficulty level.

Commentary: To unlock this trophy/achievement, you have to finish the game at any difficulty level.

Hard

How to unlock: Complete the game at a high difficulty level.

Commentary: Getting this trophy/achievement requires you to finish the game at a hard difficulty level.

Supernova

How to unlock: Complete The Outer Worlds on Supernova difficulty level.

Commentary: Supernova is the highest difficulty level in the game. You will receive this trophy/achievement when you finish the whole game in this mode. Tips on how to survive such an adventure can be found in a separate chapter.

Welcome to Halcyon!

How to unlock: Land in Emerald Vale

Commentary: You get the trophy/achievement at the very beginning of the game when you reach Emerald Vale.

Best Friend

How to unlock: Recruit a companion

Commentary: You get this trophy/achievement when you get the first companion. You can do this at the very beginning of the game. You can join Parvati to your party during Stranger in a Strange Land main quest.

Silver Tongue

How to unlock: Use dialog skills 30 times.

Commentary: During conversations with NPCs, you can get additional dialog options, which can be used only if you have enough points in a given skill. You will recognize them after the square bracket next to the dialog option. To get this trophy/achievement, you have to use the dialog skills 30 times.

Flawed Hero

How to unlock: Have three Flaws

Commentary: You get this trophy/achievement when your character has three Flaws. You get Flaws when you perform harmful actions too many times. Among the available Flaws, you will find drug addiction (caused by excessive consumption of stimulants).

Poor Sportsmanship

How to unlock: Hit 30 opponents in the groin using Tactical Time Dilation

Commentary: You need to hit 30 opponents in the crotch while TTD is active. The easiest way to get this trophy/achievement is to visit areas overrun with marauders, like Monarch or Emerald Vale.

Elemental Maelstrom

How to unlock: Kill an enemy by dealing all five types of damage.

Commentary: There are 5 types of damage: kinetic, plasma, corrosive, shock and N-Ray. You need to inflict all of these types of damage to a single enemy. You can have four weapons placed in the quick slots. Use all four of them on a single enemy and then replace one of them with a weapon that deals the fifth type of damage.

Patient N

How to unlock: Kill 20 enemies with a weapon dealing N-Ray damage.

Commentary: Weapons causing N-Ray damage inflict a special status. Your goal is to eliminate 20 enemies with this effect. The hardest part of this achievement/trophy is to get a weapon capable of inflicting such damage. The easiest way is to get special modifications that can be installed on a weapon. You can find them by looting defeated opponents or purchase from traders.

Ticket to Anywhere

How to unlock: Get your own ship.

Commentary: You get this trophy/achievement by making progress in the main storyline.

Something's Fishy

How to unlock: Get to the Stellar Bay.

Commentary: You get this trophy/achievement by making progress in the main storyline.

Dentastic

How to unlock: Save the universe's greatest diet toothpaste recipe.

Commentary: Accept The Distress Signal quest. You will end up in Roseway. Talk to Anton. He will ask you to retrieve his research (The Doom That Came to Roseway quest). To get this trophy/achievement, you need to give him the recipe.

Paradise Found

How to unlock: Land in Byzantium.

Notes: You get this trophy/achievement by making progress in the main storyline.

Pirate Radio

How to unlock: Stop the Monarch broadcasts

Notes: You get this trophy/achievement by making progress in the main storyline.

Hard Time

How to unlock: Land on Tartarus

Notes: This achievement is unlocked along with your progress in the main story.

Lost and Found

How to unlock: Skip the Hope

Notes: This achievement is unlocked along with your progress in the main story.

The Audience Gasps

How to unlock: Learn the shocking truth about the colony

Notes: This achievement is unlocked along with your progress in the main story.

SubLight to the End

How to unlock: Complete the SubLight faction quests.

Notes: You'll receive this trophy after completing three tasks for SubLight faction: Space-Time Continuum, The Ice Palace, and The Chimerist Last Experiment.

Peace in Our Time

How to unlock: Broker peace between the Iconoclasts and MSI.

Notes: To unlock this trophy, you need to broker peace between two factions, an action which takes place during a side quest called Canid's Cradle.

Monarch Abides

How to unlock: Win the battle of Stellar Bay.

Notes: This achievement will be unlocked if you manage to win the battle of Stellar Bay, which takes place during Canid's Cradle .

Mightier than the Sword

How to unlock: Save Edgewater permanently.

Notes: This achievement will be unlocked if you decide to save the city.

Ludwig was Right

How to unlock: Bring robo-destruction to Edgewater.

Notes: This achievement will be unlocked if you complete Foundation side quest.

A Star is Born

How to unlock: Star in an Odeon Pictures movie.

Notes: This achievement will be unlocked once you complete At Central.

The Cartographer

How to unlock: Deal with the cartographer.

Notes: This trophy will be unlocked once you complete The Demolished Woman

Sunburn

How to unlock: Skip the Hope into the sun.

Notes: To unlock this trophy, your character must have low intelligence. If your intelligence is low, a special option will appear when choosing the location to which Hope is to teleport.

The Harder They Fall

How to unlock: Kill a mega creature

Notes: This trophy can be unlocked on Monarch, in Devil's Peak Caverns. There, you'll encounter a mega mantiqueen that has to be defeated.

Got Your Back

How to unlock: Kill 50 enemies with companion abilities.

Notes: During combat you can use abilities of your companions. Use them on weakened opponents so the deadly blow is struck by them. You have to repeat this 50 times.

Upgrades Available

How to unlock: Improve your gear 30 times through tinkering and mods.

Notes: during the game you can improve your equipment. You can boost their stats using tinkering or mods. You'll get the achievement once you improve your gear 30 times.

Never Seen

How to unlock: Kill 50 enemies with sneak attacks.

Notes: this Trophy is unlocked once you kill 50 enemies with sneak attacks. In order to get the trophy, use all sorts of covers and weapons deadling a lot of damage.

Short Circuit

How to unlock: Kill 30 automechanicals with shock damage.

Notes: To unlock this achievement, you must destroy 30 automechanicals using weapons dealing shock damage. Large amounts of automechanicals can be found in technical tunnels in Byzantium and Edgewater, provided you've decided to proceed with Foundation.

Health Insurance

How to unlock: Use the medical inhaler 300 times.

Notes: as above. During the game you need to use the inhaler 300 times.

We All Fall Down

How to unlock: Turn 100 enemies to ash with plasma damage.

Notes: This achievement is unlocked once you eliminate 100 enemies with plasma damage.

Tossball All Star

How to unlock: Kill 50 enemies with a tossball stick or tossball blocker.

Notes: as above. You have to kill 50 enemies with one of the two available weapons.

Everything Must Go

How to unlock: Sell 10,000 bits worth of items to vendors.

Notes: This trophy will be unlocked once you sell 10,000 bits worth of items. Vending machines can be found in almost every part of the world.

Everybody Likes Me

How to unlock: Have a positive relationship with 3 factions

Notes: Building a positive relation involves completing tasks in a manner expected by the faction. Achievement will be unlocked once you develop a positive relation with 3 factions.

Destroyer of Worlds

How to unlock: Have negative relations with 3 factions.

Notes: The easiest way of getting this achievement is killing every encountered member of the given faction. This will lead to negative relations.

Not the Best Choice

How to unlock: equip Spacer's Choice brand clothing, headgear, and 4 weapons.

Notes: The best location to get this trophy is Edgewater. Spacer's Choice equipment can be bought at vendors or found during exploration.

Well Dressed

How to unlock: Wear A Nice Hat and Chimaera at the same time.

Notes: Chimaera is rewarded for completing Makes Space Suits, Wont Travel - The Outer Worlds - achievements, trophies - Appendix - The Outer Worlds Guide

Notes: Chimaera is rewarded for completing Makes Space Suits, Won't Travel. A Nice Hat can be found in a church not far from Stellar Bay.

Level 30

How to unlock: Reach level 30.

Notes: You receive experience points for each completed mission, defeated enemy, or used ability which allow you to advance to higher experience levels. The trophy will be unlocked once you reach level 30.

Skilled

How to unlock: Raise a skill to 100.

Notes: Each new experience level is rewarded with points that can be spent on upgrading skills. The achievement will be unlocked once you allocate 100 points to a single skill.

Jack of All Trades

How to unlock: Kill an enemy with a science weapon sneak attack during TTD, with a weak spot critical hit.

Notes: This achievement is easily scored on weaker opponents. Sneak up on a target with a science weapon. Wait for it to reveal a weak spot. Now you can activate Tactical Time Dilation and attack the enemy.

A Well-Balanced Breakfast.

How to unlock: Simultaneously have bonuses activated after using meat, carbohydrates, sugary drink, caffeine, and alcohol.

Notes: During the game you will collect various edible items. Your goal is to eat a combination of foods from each of the above categories so that their effects accumulate.

Mad Scientist

How to unlock: Kill an enemy using 4 science weapons.

Science weapons can be recognized by the blue background.

Notes: Science weapons are unlocked in progress of Weapons From the Void. When you get all 4 weapons, equip two of them and give the remaining ones to your companions. This is the only way to place that many effects on a single opponent.

Impossible Mission

How to unlock: Win 3 dialog conversation checks using a single disguise.

Notes: To get this trophy, you need to develop dialog skills. Once developed, you'll receive access to new dialogue lines which enable you to end a conversation quickly.

One for All

How to unlock: Recruit all companions

Notes: In the game, there are six companions: Parvati, Max, Felix, SAM, Ellie and Nyoka. The trophy is unlocked once you recruit all of these heroes.