Suggested achievement order
RetroSpace — suggested achievement order
A route through the set inferred from Steam global completion rates. High-rate achievements sit in the early game; low-rate ones are late-game or deliberate challenges — so clearing the quick wins first is the efficient path.
Stage 2 · Mid-to-late game (1)
comes naturally in the mid-to-late game; skipping content will miss these
- Bull in a china shop — 42.9% (uncommon, other)
Stage 3 · Needs a detour (11)
requires deliberately going for them, or a bit of execution
- I prefer my payment in cash — 10.5% (rare, other)
- Evolutionary dead-end — 10.8% (rare, other)
- Space tourist — 10.9% (rare, other)
- Tech-guru — 11.1% (rare, other)
- The Rite — 11.2% (rare, other)
- Too good to be true — 11.3% (rare, story)
- Better than therapy — 11.6% (rare, grind)
- Out of madness — 11.6% (rare, story)
- Clean-O-Bot 3000 — 12.5% (rare, other)
- Squat master — 19.7% (rare, other)
- Hygiene obsession — 19.7% (rare, other)
Stage 4 · Challenge (7)
needs a specific target cleared — hidden content or higher difficulty
- Hero we deserve — 4.0% (legendary, other)
- Hobo for life — 4.3% (legendary, story)
- Radio Ga Ga — 4.4% (legendary, collection)
- The Master Exploder — 4.9% (legendary, other)
- Don't care — 5.2% (legendary, skill)
- I'm all out of bubblegum — 5.2% (legendary, grind)
- Not the best outcome... — 7.5% (legendary, story)
Stage 5 · Endgame / extreme (10)
only a tiny fraction of players have these — endgame or hardcore challenges
- Psycho-mode! — 0.2% (mythic, grind)
- Never there — 0.3% (mythic, story)
- Warren Wrenchman — 0.3% (mythic, story)
- This is NOT the way — 0.4% (mythic, story)
- Clean hands — 0.4% (mythic, skill)
- I'm MacReady! — 0.5% (mythic, story)
- Are you okay, buddy? — 0.6% (mythic, other)
- Score! — 2.0% (mythic, other)
- Gotcha, Boomer! — 2.5% (mythic, story)
- Muta-Freak — 2.7% (mythic, other)
