All 22 Iron Blight Achievements
Iron Blight ships with 22 Steam achievements. Three of them require separate campaign clears on Hardcore, Ironman Mode and Cassette Tape Mode, one is hidden, and the rest come out of normal play. Unlock conditions below are the ones Steam publishes; the notes are ours, drawn from the Ronesans Interactive patch notes and dated player reports.
Story progress 4
These unlock on their own if you finish the campaign. Nothing here can be permanently missed.
| Achievement | How it unlocks | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| I'll Be Back | Finish the prologue. | The first unlock in the game and a useful sanity check that your saves are working. |
| Nobody Sleeps Here Anymore | Finish the St. Toma Dormitory. | The dormitory is the section whose exterior map was displayed upside down before Patch 1.01. |
| Prasnova No More | Finish the Prasnova District. | The second of the two named districts the campaign is built around. |
| End Of The Line | Complete the main campaign. | Patch 1.01 fixed cases where this did not fire on completion, so replay the ending if you cleared the game on launch week and got nothing. |
Combat 9
Every one of these is repeatable in normal play. Ammo is the only real cost.
| Achievement | How it unlocks | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Like A Watermelon | Gib a mutant's head. | Head gibbing is also the reliable way to stop a body getting back up. |
| Blood Pinata | Gib a mutant's head with a melee weapon. | Same effect as above without spending a round, which matters on Hardcore. |
| Double Tap | Kill a downed mutant before it gets up. | Downed does not mean dead in Iron Blight; Patch 1.01 lists a fix for killed zombies standing back up. |
| Economy Class | Kill two mutants with a single shot. | Line two of them up in a corridor. Buckshot makes this far easier than a pistol round. |
| Harder They Fall | Kill a Gora. | Gora are heavy enemies that Patch 1.01 mentions can clip into indoor spaces when two of them collide. |
| Even Death May Die | Kill a Kuvalda. | Patch 1.01 updated Kuvalda's alertness behaviour and slowed its roar animation, so launch-week videos may not match current behaviour. |
| Clay Pigeon | Kill a Gopnik while it is airborne. | Gopniks leave the ground when they lunge; that jump is the shot window. |
| AAAAA Put A Boot In It | Stun 20 zombies with the kick. | The kick costs nothing and is the cheapest way to break contact when a room floods. |
| Get Off Me | Push four mutants with a single kick. | Needs a tight group, so it usually lands during a scripted swarm rather than in open streets. |
Collection 4
The only group with a real chance of being missed, because the campaign runs across two chapters.
| Achievement | How it unlocks | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| The Hoarder | Pick up 50 items. | Comfortably done in a normal playthrough given how much scavenging the game expects. |
| Soviet Steel | Find all guns. | Chapter-specific gear does not always carry over between chapters; Patch 1.01 lists that as a known issue under investigation. |
| Alpha Operator | Find all gun mods. | The TT-33 laser sight is one of the Chapter 1 items named in the same known-issue list. |
| A Souvenir From Pakistan. | Find the MP5. | The only achievement that names a specific weapon, which makes the MP5 the one gun worth going out of your way for. |
Difficulty and modes 3
Three separate campaign clears unless you stack modifiers on one run.
| Achievement | How it unlocks | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Blightbreaker | Complete the campaign on Hardcore difficulty. | Patch 1.01 turned the Sickness modifier off by default on Hardcore, so this run is no longer automatically an infection run. |
| Iron Might | Complete the campaign on Ironman Mode. | One life, no reloading a bad fight. Bank your ammo before every scripted swarm. |
| Recorded | Complete the campaign in Cassette Tape Mode. | A separate mode rather than a difficulty tier; it stacks with the modifier system. |
Off the beaten path 2
One joke achievement and one Steam hides entirely.
| Achievement | How it unlocks | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Na Zdorovye! | Get drunk. | A consumable achievement rather than a combat one. Bottles are scattered in domestic interiors. |
| Red Express | Hidden achievement. | Steam publishes no description for it. The Patch 1.01 notes list it alongside the campaign-completion achievements and say it fires for a redacted condition, so treat any specific unlock claim you read elsewhere as unverified. |
Achievement list rechecked:
Achievements that did not fire on launch week
Patch 1.01 on 26 August 2026 states that End Of The Line, Recorded, Blightbreaker, Iron Might and Red Express can now be obtained on campaign completion based on active modifiers, and the same notes still list achievement conditions that do not trigger correctly as a known issue. If you finished the game between 24 and 26 August and got nothing, that is the patch to blame, not your run.
For the two kill achievements that name specific enemies, see the enemy threat ranks; for the three that involve finding gear, see the weapon list.