The following table details all the available Achievements (Xbox One and PC) and Trophies (PS4) that are available, and the best course of action for completing them.
Quest-Related (15)
| Icon | Name | Description | How to complete | Secret? | PS4 | XBox |
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Lilac and Gooseberries | Find Yennefer of Vengerberg | Complete Main Quest: Lilac and Gooseberries (see page 60). | YES | Bronze | 15 |
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A Friend in Need | Find and free Dandelion | Complete Main Quest: A Poet Under Pressure (see page 117). | YES | Bronze | 15 |
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Necromancer | Help Yennefer extract information from a dead man’s body | Complete Main Quest: Nameless (see page 141). | YES | Bronze | 15 |
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Family Counselor | Find the Baron’s family (complete the storyline of Velen in Act I) | Complete Main Quest: Family Matters (see page 73). | YES | Bronze | 15 |
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Something More | Find Ciri | Complete Main Quest: The Isle of Mists (see page 167). | YES | Bronze | 15 |
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Xenonaut | Visit Tir ná Lia and convince Ge’els to betray Eredin | Complete Main Quest: Through Time and Space (see page 186). | YES | Bronze | 15 |
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The King is Dead | Defeat Eredin | Complete Main Quest: On Thin Ice (see page 194). | YES | Silver | 30 |
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Passed the Trial | Finish the game on any difficulty | Finish the game on easy difficulty or higher. | — | Bronze | 15 |
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Ran the Gauntlet | Finish the game on the “Blood and Broken Bones!” or “Death March!” difficulty levels | Finish the game on hard difficulty or higher. | — | Silver | 30 |
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Walked the Path | Finish the game on the “Death March!” difficulty level | Finish the game on dark difficulty. | — | Gold | 65 |
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Geralt: The Professional | Complete all witcher contracts | Complete all the Contracts in Velen, Novigrad, and Skellige, beginning on page 274. | — | Bronze | 15 |
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Kingmaker | Complete the subplot about choosing Skellige’s ruler | Complete the Clan an Craite Quests, beginning on page 146. This reward occurs after Secondary Quest: Coronation is completed. | YES | Bronze | 15 |
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Assassin of Kings | Take part in the assassination of King Radovid | Complete Secondary Quest: Reason of State (see page 188). | YES | Bronze | 15 |
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Friends With Benefits | Complete the subplot involving Keira Metz | Complete all of Keira Metz’s Quests, beginning on page 86. This reward occurs after Secondary Quest: For the Advancement of Learning is completed. | YES | Bronze | 15 |
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Full Crew | Bring all possible allies to Kaer Morhen for the battle against the Hunt | Consult Secondary Quest: Brothers in Arms (see page 166-167) and complete the necessary steps shown. Be aware that previous questing decisions influence the folks you can gather at this point, so read this before you get too far into your adventure! Also, Letho is not needed. | YES | Bronze | 15 |
Gameplay-Related (15)
| Icon | Name | Description | How to complete | Secret? | PS4 | XBox |
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The Enemy of My Enemy | Use the Axii Sign to force one opponent to kill another. Do this 20 times. | Use the Axii Sign to force one opponent to kill another. Do this 20 times. This obviously occurs during fights with groups of enemies, such as drowners, nekkers, ghouls, or humans. When left with 2 enemies, bring one’s vitality low, then use alternate Axii on another one—he’ll quickly dispose of the weakened enemy. | — | Bronze | 15 |
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Humpty Dumpty | Kill 10 opponents by knocking them off somewhere high with the Aard Sign | Kill 10 opponents by knocking them off somewhere high with the Aard Sign. Coax enemies to fight by cliffs, beckoning them up, and then to their doom! | — | Bronze | 15 |
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Environmentally Unfriendly | Kill 50 opponents using the environment (e.g. swamp gas, insects or objects) | Kill 50 opponents using the environment: Ignite swamp gas. Blow up explosive barrels. Use Aard on wild bee-hives when a foe is near. Remember to wound the foe first, so the environmental attack kills them. It’s easiest to return to areas where environmental effects appear frequently, such as Crookback Bog swamp. | — | Bronze | 15 |
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Kaer Morhen Trained | Make 10 successfull counterattacks in a row without getting hit or parrying | Perform 10 effective counterattacks in a row without getting hit or parrying. Choose foes that are easy to parry, such as humans. | — | Bronze | 15 |
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Can’t Touch This! | Kill 5 opponents during one combat encounter without taking any damage (except toxicity) and without using Quen sign | Kill 5 opponents in one fight without taking damage (except toxicity damage) and without using Quen. Weaker group fights with nekkers, ghouls, humans, or drowners is encouraged. Learn how to use dodge/roll/counter to your aid, select slow enemies. Also, throwing bombs might help to reduce enemy count quickly. | — | Bronze | 15 |
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That Is the Evilest Thing… | Ignite the gas produced by a Dragon’s Dream bomb using a burning opponent. Do this 10 times. | Ignite the gas produced by the Dragon’s Dream bomb using a burning opponent 10 times. This is achieved using Igni. Apply burning to an enemy, and once he’s on fire throw Dragon’s Dream at him. | — | Bronze | 15 |
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Mutant | Fill all mutagen slots | Get to level 28 to unlock all mutagen slots, then place a mutagen in the mutagen slots. | — | Bronze | 15 |
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Dendrologist | Acquire all the Abilities in one tree | As per the description; choose your favorite abilitytree and complete it. Check the Training chapter for more information. | — | Bronze | 15 |
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Butcher of Blaviken | Kill 5 enemies in under 10 seconds | Kill at least 5 opponents in under 10 seconds. Choose weaker foes and gradually decrease their vitality but don’t kill them. Then start finishing them off fast—area effects like bombs, marsh gas and Igni will be helpful. | — | Silver | 30 |
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Triple Threat | Kill 3 opponents in one fight using 3 different methods (swords, bombs, crossbow, Signs, etc.) | Kill 3 opponents in one fight using 3 different methods (swords, bombs, crossbow, Signs, etc.). For “environment”, use any explosive scenery barrels there might be in an area. Obviously, you need to find groups of foes, like drowners, sirens, nekkers, ghouls, or humans. | YES | Bronze | 15 |
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Brawler | Defeat Olaf, the Skellige champion of unarmed combat | Defeat Olaf, the Skellige champion of unarmed combat. This is the last fight of Fists of Fury: Skellige (see page 317). | — | Silver | 30 |
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Overkill | Make an opponent suffer from bleeding, poisoning and burning simultaneously. Do this 10 times. | Make an opponent suffer from bleeding, poisoning and burning simultaneously. Do this 10 times. This involves coating your sword with any poison, then attacking and quickly using Igni. One way is to develop skills and prepare swords with high bleeding chance. Also, invest in Igni for high burning chance. Attack the foe, wait for bleeding to turn in, burn with Igni, and throw Devil’s Puffball bomb. | — | Silver | 30 |
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Master Marksman | Kill 50 human and nonhuman opponents by striking them in the head with a crossbow bolt | Kill 50 opponents by striking them in the head with a crossbow bolt. Remember you can aim automatically or manually. Humans, elves, dwarfs, and halflings make good targets! Remember to whittle down their health using other combat techniques first, and then finish them off with the crossbow. | — | Bronze | 15 |
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What Was That? | Attack, counter, cast a Sign and throw a bomb (in any order) in under 4 seconds | Attack, counter, cast a Sign and throw a bomb (in any order) in under 4 seconds. Practice, ideally on human or low-level monster opponents. | YES | Bronze | 15 |
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Even Odds | Kill 2 monsters you have a contract on without using Signs, potions, mutagens, oils or bombs | Read through the Contract quests section of this guide, and choose the foes that seem weakest to you (Contract: The Merry Widow; a grave hag, and Contract: Muire D’yaeblen; a water hag). Remember you can use more than just your swords on enemies guarding the Contract beast you must slay). | — | Silver | 30 |
Exploration-Related (10)
| Icon | Name | Description | How to complete | Secret? | PS4 | XBox |
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Card Collector | Acquire all Gwent cards available in the base version of the game | Complete Gwent Quest: Collect em All! The Gwent Card Appendix details where all the cards are located (see page 310). | — | Bronze | 15 |
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Gwent Master | Defeat Tybalt and win the Gwent tournament held at the Passiflora | Complete Secondary Quest: High Stakes (see page 311). | — | Bronze | 15 |
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Let’s Cook! | Learn 12 potion formulae | Collect 12 potion formulae. These appear as random loot, or you can buy them from vendors. | — | Bronze | 15 |
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Bombardier | Collect the formulae for 6 different bomb types | Collect 6 bomb formulae. These appear as random loot, or you can buy them from vendors. | — | Bronze | 15 |
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Bookworm | Read 30 books, journals or other documents | Read thirty books, journals or other documents. Simply gather these and check them in your inventory! | — | Bronze | 15 |
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Armed and Dangerous | Find and equip all the elements of one set of witcher gear | Complete one of the four Scavenger Hunts (Viper, Griffin, Cat, and Bear Schools), which are detailed on pages 327-331. | — | Silver | 30 |
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Power Overwhelming | Have all possible Place of Power bonuses active at the same time | Draw from each of 5 types of Places of Power before their buffs run out. Ideally do this in White Orchard, as it contains all 5 types of Places of Power and lots of Fast Travel points to speed things up. An appendix listing these locations is found on page 446. | — | Bronze | 15 |
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Brawl Master | Complete all fistfighting quests in Velen, Skellige and Novigrad | Complete Fists of Fury: Velen (page 315): Fists of Fury: Novigrad (page 316). Fists of Fury: Skellige (page 317): Fists of Fury: Champion of Champions (page 318). | — | Bronze | 15 |
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Fast and Furious | Win all the horse races in the game | Complete Races: Crow’s Perch (page 319): Race: The Great Erasmus Vegelbud Memorial Derby (page 320): The Heroes’ Pursuits: Fayrlund, Fyresdal, Kaer Trolde, and For the Goddess’ Glory! (pages 321-323) | — | Bronze | 15 |
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Globetrotter | Discover 100 fast travel points | Self-explanatory; check the guide’s Atlas for locations of every signpost, and discover each so they appear in your in-game map. This does not include Harbors (water fast travel points). | — | Bronze | 15 |
Character-Related (5)
| Icon | Name | Description | How to complete | Secret? | PS4 | XBox |
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Munchkin | Reach character development level 35 | Reach level 35 in your character level. Consult the Character Abilities section of the Training for advice. | — | Gold | 65 |
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Fire in the Hole | Destroy 10 monster nests with bombs | Destroy 10 monster nests using bombs. Find these throughout the Atlas chapter of this guide. | — | Bronze | 15 |
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Fist of the South Star | Beat an opponent in fist fighting without taking damage (excluding toxicity damage) | Defeat an opponent in a fistfight without taking any damage. For Fistfight quests, go to page 314. | — | Bronze | 15 |
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Geralt and Friends | Win a round of Gwent using only neutral cards | You don’t need to win the match to receive this reward; only the round in which you play only neutral cards. So use all your neutral cards so you can win the round, even if that means lowering the chances of winning the match. Remember your opponent is more likely to let you win the second round if they already won the first round. Take advantage of this! | — | Bronze | 15 |
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All-In | Play three hero cards in one round of Gwent and win the match | Be sure to forfeit if you begin with fewer than three heroes in your hand, so you have the tools to accomplish this reward. To get at least three heroes in your hand, build a deck with all the hero cards you have. Avoid putting special cards into your deck, and only place enough non-hero creature cards to make your deck valid. | — | Bronze | 15 |
Combat-Related (7)
| Icon | Name | Description | How to complete | Secret? | PS4 | XBox |
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Shrieker | Complete the contract on the Shrieker | Complete Contract: Shrieker (see page 285). | YES | Bronze | 15 |
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Fearless Vampire Slayer | Complete the contract on Sarasti | Complete Contract: The Mystery of the Byway Murders (see page 281). | YES | Bronze | 15 |
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Woodland Spirit | Complete the contract on the Woodland Spirit | Complete Secondary Quest: In the Heart of the Woods (see page 248). | YES | Bronze | 15 |
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Fiend or Foe? | Complete the contract on Morvudd | Complete Contract: Missing Son (see page 303). | YES | Bronze | 15 |
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Ashes to Ashes | Complete the contract on Therazane | Complete Contract: Doors Slamming Shut (see page 293). | YES | Bronze | 15 |
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The Doppler Effect | Solve the doppler problem in Novigrad | Complete Contract: An Elusive Thief (see page 294). | YES | Bronze | 15 |
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Pest Control | Destroy all monster nests in the Velen / Novigrad region, or in Skellige | As indicated; check the guide Atlas for the location of all Nests, and don’t forget to bring bombs! Skellige has fewer Nests, but they are harder to find and reach. | — | Silver | 30 |