Baldur’s Gate 3 Achievements: Listed and Explained
Baldur’s Gate 3 features a total of 54 achievements, including 29 hidden or secret ones that only reveal themselves once unlocked. Baldur’s Gate 3 achievements add depth and replayability to the game, encouraging players to explore different storylines, choices, and playstyles.
Some of the achievements are straightforward and earned naturally through progression, like The City Awaits, Dig for Victory, and Descent from Avernus, while others, such as Loophole or Sins of the Father, depend on specific narrative paths. Then there are the challenging ones, like Punch Drunk, Fancy Footwork, or Leave No One Behind, which require deliberate effort or creative gameplay to complete.
List of Baldur’s Gate 3 Achievements
Below is the list of all 54 Baldur’s Gate 3 achievements.
| Achievement | Description |
| A Grym Fate | Kill the Adamantine Golem without using the Forge Hammer. |
| Absolute Power Corrupts | Reign with terror; take control of the Netherbrain and bend the world to your will. |
| Action Surge | Perform five attacks in one turn. Your enemies won’t know what hit them (literally). |
| All’s Well That Ends Well | Finish the game (with a heartfelt ‘thank you!’ from Larian Studios). |
| Bedrolls and Breakfast | Take four full Long Rests in a single playthrough – adventuring’s tiring work. |
| Bookworm | Read 100 books in a single playthrough. Adventuring isn’t just daring quests, you know. |
| Bottoms Up | Long Rest using only alcohol – a time-honoured dwarven tradition. |
| Busker | Earn a hundred gold from playing sweet, sweet music in a single playthrough. |
| Ceremorphosis | Make the ultimate sacrifice; become a mind flayer to defeat the Netherbrain. |
| Crash Landing | In the Wyrmway, wait until the dragon is mid-flight, then knock it out of the sky – KAPOW. |
| Critical Hit | Complete the game in Tactician mode. |
| Descent from Avernus | Take control of the nautiloid and escape the Hells. |
| Devil’s in the Details | Defeat Commander Zhalk on the Nautiloid. |
| Dig for Victory | Dig up five buried chests in a single playthrough – treasure! |
| Embrace Your Urge | Become Bhaal’s ultimate weapon – become his Slayer. |
| Escapologist | Break out of prison after being arrested – aren’t you daring? |
| Expand Your Mind | Consume a parasite and unlock a new power – is it meant to wriggle the whole way down? |
| Fancy Footwork | Defeat Gortash in Wyrm’s Rock without activating any traps. |
| Fetch Quest | Play fetch with Scratch – the best boy in the realms. |
| First Blood | Kill Orin while her cultists are performing their ritual chant. |
| Fists of Fury | Kill a character with an Unarmed Strike. |
| Foehammer | Complete the game in honour mode. |
| Forged in the Blood and Fire | Craft an item in the Adamantine Forge. |
| Hero of the Forgotten Realms | Save the realms; destroy the Absolute once and for all. |
| Homebrewer | Create three unique alchemical solutions in a single playthrough – bottoms up! |
| Hot Date | Go on a date with Karlach. |
| Interfectorem Draconis | Kill the red dragon in the Upper City. |
| Jack-of-all-Trades | Multiclass into every class in one playthrough without asking Withers to change your character. |
| Just a Nibble | Let Astarion bite you. |
| Kill Two Birds With One Gnome | Use one enemy as an improvised weapon against another. |
| Leave No One Behind | Save every tiefling refugee you can throughout the game in a single playthrough. |
| Loophole | Break Wyll’s pact with Mizora. |
| Mind Blown | Romance the Emperor. |
| Murder in Baldur’s Gate | Coat the streets of Baldur’s Gate in blood – become an Unholy Assassin of Bhaal. |
| No Free Lunches | Defeat the Apostle of Myrkul before it consumes any necromites. |
| No Penny Required | Successfully use Detect Thoughts to pry into someone’s thoughts. |
| Non-Invasive Procedure | Kill the Surgeon before he performs surgery on you in combat. |
| Outsourcing | Recruit a hireling. You can befriend them or use them as cannon-fodder – we won’t judge you. |
| Penny Pincher | Defeat the Toll Collector without her using gold against you – excellent budgeting. Refer to this video for a step-by-step guide on how to earn this achievement without fighting the Toll Collector (Gerringothe Thorm). |
| Pest Control | Kill the Spider Matriarch before her eggs hatch. |
| Punch Drunk | Defeat twenty opponents while drunk – down them. |
| Repairing the Weave | Stabilise Gale’s Netherese orb. |
| Roleplayer | Complete ten background goals in a single playthrough – you are one with the character. |
| Rude, Crude, and full of Attitude | Find and summon the quasit Shovel. Or is her name… Fork? Maybe Basket? |
| She Cannot be Caged! | Rescue Sazza from the Emerald Grove, Goblin Camp and Moonrise Towers in one playthrough |
| Shove Off | Kill a creature with falling damage. |
| Sins of the Father | Claim your Throne of Blood; take control of the Netherbrain for Bhaal and break the world. |
| Taking Blood | Steal the Blood of Lathander from underneath Rosymorn Monastery. |
| The City Awaits | Leave Act II – Baldur’s Gate is just over the horizon. |
| The Lich-Queen’s Wrath | Ally with Voss against the githyanki God-Queen. |
| The Plot Thickens | Leave Act I – for somewhere altogether darker. |
| To Bloom in Darkest Night | Gift Shadowheart a night orchid – her favourite flower. Always knew she was a softie. |
| Under Lock and Key | Rescue all the prisoners from the depths of Moonrise Towers in one playthrough. |
| You Have Two Hands for a Reason | Pet Scratch and the owlbear cub at the same time. |
You can check this page to see how many players have unlocked each of the above Baldur’s Gate 3 achievements on Steam.
Baldur’s Gate 3 achievements reflect the game’s depth and incredible replay value. It’s impossible to unlock all 54 achievements in a single playthrough. I managed around 20 after spending over 150 hours on my first run. So, if you’re someone who loves completing every achievement, be ready to dive back in for another journey. Honestly, it’s the perfect excuse to experience this amazing game all over again.