Hearth and Hamlet Achievements Guide

All 24 achievements

Rates below are the official global unlock percentages from Steam, retrieved on September 21, 2026. Steam only publishes written descriptions for some of them; where none is shown, the entry lists what the community has verified about how it unlocks. Names are official; interpretations are ours and marked as such.

The rare ones & how to plan them

Against the Odds (4.9%) — Intense completion

Roughly one in twenty players finish the game on Intense. The dedicated discussion thread records a player who restarted 8–12 times without surviving the first 15 minutes past the Town Guard unlock — though it is now clearly beatable: the developer has since posted his own opening strategy in that thread, and our difficulty guide breaks it down step by step alongside the raid timing rules. On this mode, early guard duty is the wall, not the late game.

Steadfast Resolve (6.1%) — never trade with Ashenholt

This is a restraint achievement: complete the whole game while never sending a single shipment to Ashenholt. It pairs naturally with a normal economy elsewhere — just treat that one kingdom as off-limits from turn one and route all trade through the others using our trade guide. The 6.1% rate shows how easy it is to fire off one convenient shipment before remembering the restriction.

One rule the official text leaves out, confirmed by the developer in the Steam thread: the tracker is per saved game. A shipment you sent to Ashenholt in an earlier playthrough does not poison a fresh save — “It is per saved game,” Phorust confirmed in August 2026, and the player who reported the problem verified a new run unlocked it. So if you slip up mid-run, the clean retry is a new save, not a hunt through old ones.

Flawless Victory (14.8%) — no defeats

Win without suffering any defeat, on any difficulty. Most players combine it with a Gentle or Steady run where threat timing is forgiving. The main risks are early skeleton raids before your guard scales and overlapping events (see combat) — keep a manual save before risky battles if a flawless run matters to you.

The difficulty ladder (45.6% / 35.5% / 12.7% / 4.9%)

Each mode-completion achievement requires finishing on that setting; the drop from Steady to Challenging (35.5% to 12.7%) is where runs start failing in bulk. Plan these as separate deliberate runs rather than hoping one save accumulates them. One telling detail in the September 21 rates: Flawless Victory (14.8%) still sits above Rising Challenge (12.7%), our read being that a chunk of players skip Challenging entirely and hunt no-defeat wins on easier modes instead — which is exactly the pairing strategy below. And once every tier is cleared, our similar games guide picks up where the save file ends.

Combining achievements in one run

Nothing in the official text forbids stacking, but three pairings are commonly planned together:

1. Gentle Rule + Flawless Victory. The standard first pairing: learn the full game while threat pressure stays low, ending with two of the list's top-20 achievements in one save.
2. Steadfast Resolve + Merchant Kingdom. Both are trade-driven: ban Ashenholt specifically while pushing every other kingdom hard toward 20 Distant Kingdoms shipments. One trade-heavy economy serves both goals at once.
3. Master Builder + We love it here! A fully upgraded city with maxed services is also the natural path to 200% happiness, so chase both in the same late-game save rather than restarting for each.

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