A comprehensive walkthrough on the unlock conditions for the Golden Path hidden achievement
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Hidden Achievement Guide, Expect Spoilers Ahead
Global Unlock Rate: 1.9% of players
This guide is intended to give you a comprehensive checklist for determining whether or not your current playthrough will qualify for Golden Path, so you never need to go through the frustration of repeatedly reloading old save files just to walk away empty-handed!
Getting it can be tough, so we’d recommend it as a personal challenge once you’ve played through the New Home scenario several times already. Due to its complex conditions Golden Path is unlikely to unlock through normal gameplay especially on higher difficulties.
Certain other achievements will also be unlocked alongside Golden Path if you haven’t already received them from previous playthroughs:
- Lost Souls – Save every person in Frostland.
- Compassionate – Accept all groups of refugees.
- The Saviour – No deaths from cold, hunger, sickness or overwork (Golden Path is more strict and will count deaths from any causes).
Golden Path – All Unlock Conditions
- Playing on New Home scenario.
- All survivor locations found.
- No survivors refused welcome.
- No Laws that “Cross the Line”.
- No deaths from any causes.
- No citizen Needs Crises occur (e.g. Need Homes, Need Heat, …)
The last two requirements for this unlock are undoubtedly the toughest and have generated a lot of confusion among achievement hunters in the months since Frostpunk launched. As players have few ways to track whether they have been disqualified from these conditions until the very end of the game, it often results in a lot of guesswork about what went wrong.
So what kind of playthrough will actually meet every condition?
