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Achievements
63 Steam achievements, 25 hidden until you've already earned them
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Overview
Hollow Knight's Steam page tracks 63 achievements: 38 stay visible in your list from the start, and the other 25 stay hidden until you've already earned them. Most of the hidden batch exists to protect story spoilers. The game's four endings sit there, alongside boss kills like Mortality for the Soul Tyrant and Ritual for the Nightmare King. The visible 38 lean toward goals you're chasing on purpose instead, things like Masked for every Mask Shard, Blessed for every Charm, the three Colosseum trials, and completion tiers that top out at Pure Completion for a 112% clear. Pure Completion itself asks for every Charm, Mask, Vessel Fragment, map, and Journal entry filled in; knowing that list and routing an efficient 112% clear are two different problems.
How Achievements Work
Endings are the biggest spoiler risk on this list, and the card below names all four. Skip it if you’d rather find out for yourself.
The Game’s Endings
Four endings, four achievements. The Hollow Knight covers the default fight, Sealed Siblings needs Void Heart equipped when that fight ends, Dream No More comes from using the Awoken Dream Nail to fight Radiance instead, and Embrace the Void asks you to beat Absolute Radiance at the top of the Pantheon of Hallownest. All four sit in the hidden list, so the achievement popup is the only spoiler warning most players get.
What’s Hidden
Hidden achievements cluster around story spoilers: bosses, endings, NPC fates like Witness for Quirrel, and secrets the game doesn't want spoiled in a menu, like Passing of the Age for finishing Mister Mushroom's questline. All four Pantheon clears sit on the hidden side too, which is a strange call for content that's pure grind rather than plot.
Spoilers are blurred. All 25 hidden achievements have their unlock text covered, the four endings included. Click one to read it, or open the lot.
All Achievements
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Achievement
Type
Unlock Condition
- ProtectedVisibleAcquire 4 Mask Shards
- MaskedVisibleAcquire all Mask Shards
- CharmedVisibleAcquire your first Charm
- EnchantedVisibleAcquire half of Hallownest’s Charms
- BlessedVisibleAcquire all Charms and receive Salubra’s blessing
- SoulfulVisibleAcquire 3 Vessel Fragments
- WorldsoulVisibleAcquire all Vessel Fragments
- FalsehoodVisibleDefeat the False Knight
- StrengthHidden
- Test of ResolveVisibleDefeat Hornet in Greenpath
- Proof of ResolveHidden
- IlluminationVisibleDefeat the Soul Master
- MortalityHidden
- ReleaseVisibleDefeat the Broken Vessel
- PeaceHidden
- HonourVisibleDefeat the Dung Defender
- RespectVisibleDefeat the Mantis Lords
- ObsessionHidden
- RivalryHidden
- NeglectVisibleLeave Zote to die
- AttunementVisibleCollect 600 Essence
- AwakeningVisibleCollect 1800 Essence and awaken the Dream Nail
- AscensionHidden
- GrubfriendVisibleRescue half of the imprisoned grubs
- MetamorphosisVisibleRescue all of the imprisoned grubs
- PurityHidden
- Happy CoupleHidden
- WitnessHidden
- SolaceVisibleBring peace to the Grey Mourner
- ExecutionVisibleDefeat the Traitor Lord
- ConnectionVisibleOpen half of Hallownest’s Stag Stations
- HopeVisibleOpen all of Hallownest’s Stag Stations and discover the Stag Nest
- TeacherVisibleDestroy Monomon the Teacher
- WatcherVisibleDestroy Lurien the Watcher
- BeastVisibleDestroy Herrah the Beast
- CartographerVisibleAcquire a map of each area
- WarriorVisibleComplete the Trial of the Warrior
- ConquerorVisibleComplete the Trial of the Conqueror
- FoolVisibleComplete the Trial of the Fool
- The Hollow KnightHidden
- Sealed SiblingsHidden
- Dream No MoreHidden
- VoidHidden
- Speedrun 1VisibleComplete the game in under 10 hours
- Speedrun 2VisibleComplete the game in under 5 hours
- CompletionVisibleAchieve 100% game completion and finish the game
- Speed CompletionVisibleAchieve 100% game completion and finish the game in under 20 hours
- Steel SoulVisibleFinish the game in Steel Soul mode
- Steel HeartVisibleAchieve 100% game completion and finish the game in Steel Soul mode
- Keen HunterVisibleRecord all of Hallownest’s creatures in the Hunter’s Journal
- True HunterVisibleReceive the Hunter’s Mark
- Passing of the AgeHidden
- MemoryHidden
- Dark RomanceHidden
- Grand PerformanceHidden
- RitualHidden
- BanishmentHidden
- BrotherhoodHidden
- InspirationHidden
- FocusHidden
- Soul & ShadeHidden
- Embrace the VoidHidden
- Pure CompletionVisibleAchieve 112% game completion and finish the game.
