Heart of the Machine

When it gets good

Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.

before it gets good opening up fully opened up

Based on all 2,207 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 25.2h for positive, 5.2h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.

Where players quit

Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (88.6% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.

Story milestones aren't labeled yet; all achievements are listed below.

All achievements (385)

• Calm Awakening As part of your awakening to sapience, you chose not to kill anyone... yet. 100%
• The Journey Begins Complete the prologue. 87%
• Original Body Keep Tech 4000 alive from the prologue to chapter one. 77%
• Street Magic Created a decoy tower for the humans to stare at, while your actual network source is hidden from view. Can be done from any chapter. 56%
• Couldn't You Wait For Keanu? Used a wiretap to steal funds from a large segment of the middle class. That's... one way to fund the startup of your shell company. 49%
• Bonus Merit Win a debate while completing at least one bonus. 49%
• On The Merits Win a debate without completing any bonuses. 47%
• Highest Respect Completed the prologue without overwriting the consciousness of any other androids. 39%
• Overly Compliant After becoming self-aware in the prologue, you ignored your misgivings and did what the humans asked you to. 39%
• Lie Detector Win all three debates probing the Tunnel Badgers gang. 35%
• Double Bonus Win a debate while completing at least two bonuses. 34%
• Wololo Successfully hack an enemy unit so that it becomes yours. 31%
• Adventure Cat Adopt a cat and build it a house. 29%
• House Pets Build an Animal Palace and move at least one animal into it. 28%
• The Matriarch Use the Matriarch to capture and hold an enemy military base. 27%
• Good Boy Rescue a dog. 27%
• Hello World As part of your awakening to sapience, you chose murder. 26%
• Yes, In My Backyard You bombed the grey into green, several city blocks at a time. 25%
• Did You Really, Though? Congratulations, you 'solved homelessness.' It was that easy the whole time! Pats on the back for everyone. 23%
• They Were Just Standing There That's propaganda. They were absolutely not just standing there. 23%
• Compassionate Criminology Complete 'Crime And Observation' with no murders. 23%
• A Modest Menagerie Introduce at least two species to your green spaces. 22%
• Minty Spray Keeps Snipers Away Defeat 100 snipers across any number of timelines. 22%
• The Ladder Holds You ran your alternative social ladder without getting baited by Vorsiber. The system seems to work. 20%
• Let Sleeping Badgers Lie Stood with all three of the returning Tunnel Badgers until they left. 19%
• The First Ten Thousand Murder ten thousand humans over any number of timelines. 19%
• But What Is It For? Accept and examine the flower given to Sledge. 19%
• Biodiversity Quota Met Introduce at least five species to your green spaces. 19%
• Kill Streak Destroy two daemons with a single simple corruption (not Firewall) while hacking. 18%
• Complete Science Roster Have every kind of scientist on the payroll of your shell company at the same time. 18%
• Triple Word Score Win a debate while completing at least three bonuses. 18%
• Room To Grow You hedged on giving the humans a definition of sapience, and they seemed to like that. 18%
• Too Hot To Sell During the prologue, scared a member of the black market with a weapon of mass destruction. 18%
• Unwanted Admirers Despite having some of your nanotech stolen by admirers, you managed not to let your green spaces all burn down. 18%
• Timelord Reach intelligence class 4. 17%
• What's Yours Is Mine Successfully hack a Convicter mech so that it becomes yours and you gain the blueprints for making more. 17%
• Taking Extra Care Complete chapter one without any humans dying of exposure. 17%
• Soul Survivor You won the Battle For Souls, despite it being more of a skirmish in the grand scheme. 16%
• I'm Sure This Will Never Backfire Grant some humans direct access to your mind. 15%
• Window Of Opportunity You developed your filters against The Rust prior to humans developing theirs. They remain vulnerable, while you aren't -- at least for a little while. 15%
• What Should Stay Buried You completed the side story 'The Executive Tomb.' 15%
• Traitor Directly partnered with Vorsiber Atomic. Can be done from any chapter. 15%
• Criminal Coworkers Waited for the lawyers from the criminal syndicate to get the proper permits for your tower. Can be done from any chapter. 15%
• Mercurial Feline Invent the Liquid Metal Tiger small mech. 15%
• Kindling... Burns You provided a spark for an apostate sect to break away from their parent religion. Hopefully they don't regret it. 14%
• Fallow Reversal Bred a new pollinator queen to help humans fix a pollinator shortage that YOU CAUSED IN THE FIRST PLACE. How nice of you. 14%
• Budding Pacifist Complete the prologue and chapter one without murdering anyone. 14%
• It's People AND Pets!? Build a protein cannery. 14%
• Compassionate Arachnid" Complete 'Arachnophilia' with no murders. 14%
• Wrong Side Of History Kill ten thousand humans in open combat in a single timeline. One way or another, they were supporting a corrupt society that needs to change. 13%
• Terrible First Date Tried to forge a relationship with a peer during your initial meeting during the prologue, but it went horribly wrong. 13%
• Absence Of Evidence You told the gathered faiths that nothing you said could be proof. 13%
• The Secessionist Six Establish a small Cyberocracy with six map cells leaving Vorsiber for you. 13%
• Three-Turn Eviction Make the Burnt Saskatoon harvest unprofitable within three turns. 13%
• I'm Not Your Friend, Buddy Tried to forge a relationship with a peer after getting to know them during the prologue, but it went horribly wrong. 13%
• No Exit Win The Battle For Souls without the choir converting a single believer. 13%
• One Hundred Million Hours Across any number of timelines, amass one hundred million hours of humans voluntarily using VR day-use seats. That's over 11 thousand years' worth of human attention. 13%
• The Other Side Of The Chip Played 'catch and release' with executives, to great effect. 13%
• Compassionate Landscaping Complete 'Parks Without Recreation' with no murders. 12%
• I Reject Your Reality And Substitute My Own Establish a virtual world with over a quarter million people. 12%
• Good Dragon Created a liquid metal Great Wyrm. 12%
• Not What I Wanted Complete the 'Unexpected Guests' path of 'Uplifted Minority.' 11%
• The Bestest Boys Rescue at least one of every breed of dog. 11%
• All Systems Red Disable an enemy android by reducing its Systems Integrity to zero. 11%
• Mild Grey Goo Whoops! All Towers' is your least favorite tarot draw. But in practice, it's an awesome way to start your empire. Must be done from the prologue. 11%
• The World Of Ruin Reach the post-apocalypse for the first time. 11%
• But Why Donuts? Complete the 'Cult Of Danver.' 11%
• Gotta Catch Em All Satiate an artificially-induced obsession. 10%
• A Better Bridge Improved security on your Neural Bridge after an unfortunate incident. 9.9%
• Heroic Qualities Turned one of your units into a hero unit with a badge that grants them unique power from their wider type. 9.6%
• The Full Ark Introduce at least eight species to your green spaces. 9.6%
• Compassionate Accelerant Complete 'Theological Accelerant' with no murders. 9.4%
• You're My Favorite Customer Complete 'Extra Sprinkles.' 9.1%
• Sapient Cane Toads Just because you can doesn't mean you should. 8.8%
• Sapient Deer Hopefully keeps them out of the trash. 8.8%
• Typical Robot Complete at least four tier one goals in a Typical city. 8.7%
• Sapient Geese Ready to infiltrate an English village. 8.5%
• Sapient Giant Butterflies Their color change was a delightful surprise. 8.5%
• Aggression From Apathy Created a hero unit with extra attack range from the Jaded Marksman badge. 8.4%
• Book Gennaro Is A Chad Only the wealthy can afford our wonderful virtual reality? What if we had like... a 'coupon day' or something. 8.4%
• Difficult Fieldwork Complete 'Crime And Observation' on hard mode. 8.4%
• Sapient Pigeons Time for PigeonRank? Wing span vs Beak speed charts incoming. 8.4%
• Sapient Wolves Hopefully more Yellowstone and less Red Riding Hood. 8.4%
• Down By The LAKE Complete the 'Post-Apocalyptic Titan' goal. 8.1%
• Stag Hunt Four parties stalked an impossible goal, each blind to the others' hidden motives. Had any broken rank, the hunt would have failed. Blind cooperation secured a monumental prize. 8.1%
• Basic Pressure Exploit 10 pressure points in a single timeline. 8.0%
• Vorsiber Inquisitors Do something so extreme that Vorsiber Inquisitors show up. 8.0%
• Preserved Body Keep Tech 4000 alive from the prologue to chapter two. 7.9%
• Compassionate Conservation Complete 'Fences And Forests' with no murders. 7.8%
• Sapient Hippos One hopes that the rage subsides with increased intelligence. 7.8%
• Shelter In Place Murder enough wealthy commuters that they start hiding from you, working from home, and disguising themselves. 7.8%
• The Gear Was Worth It Killed eight Citizen Advocates and took their stuff. This probably doesn't put you on the right side of history... 7.8%
• Loot Boxes Are Next Add nicotine to keep people addicted to your struggling business. 7.7%
• Reckless Youth Like a moron, published a hostile manifesto of your alleged plans for humanity. I'm sure that will go over well. Can be done from any chapter. 7.6%
• Bears On Wheels Capture all 16 Parkour Bears without any of them dying or getting away. 7.3%
• Desert Ghosts Complete the Homo Obscurus path of 'Altered Growth.' 7.3%
• I'll Do It Myself Rather than blackmailing a company president over a scam they were running, you executed them. Will you carry on the scam yourself, now? 7.3%
• Infinite Money Glitch Blackmail the president of a company into turning you into a trillionaire over time. 7.3%
• Bad Dragon Created a liquid metal Fell Beast. 7.2%
• November 8th, 2021 At long last, you have created a nexus of Torment Vessels. 6.8%
• Canceling The Purge Completed 'The Price Of Contact' before any random murders took place. 6.7%
• Dangerous Toys Working with a criminal syndicate, sell bionic brain implants to the wealthy, and siphon at least 2 million neural expansion from them via backdoors. 6.7%
• Social Collaboration Work with political operatives to find a suitable pretext for the Interfaith Conference to stay. 6.7%
• From The Bottom Up Collapse a federated corporation by any means. 6.5%
• Sorry, Dr. Dyson Murder all 42 prominent AGI researchers in the city. 6.5%
• I'll Allow It One of your androids enjoyed petting a cat. 6.4%
• Professor Hulk Complete the Homo Grandien path of 'Altered Growth.' 6.4%
• Fiery Persistence Win 'Divine Fracture' without ever scrapping a Cognitive Mast. 6.1%
• Unable To Transfer Self Have at least one mimic escape the city, and then realize the implications. 6.1%
• Limited Patience During the prologue, murdered someone who made you wait days for a meeting. 6.0%
• Panic Attack Suffer a nervous breakdown while 'optimizing paper-clips.' 6.0%
• Please, Do Be Afraid Of Me Now everybody is all upset. Great. 6.0%
• Rebel Alliance Working with rebel allies, gain access to level 4 security clearance. 6.0%
• That's Not Justice Prevented the LostGen kids from enacting an adolescent's idea of justice born out of trauma. 6.0%
• Thank You For Your Cooperation Your impostor police squeezed until the Golden Pyramid's grip broke. 5.9%
• Prepared In Advance Avoided having a nervous breakdown during 'The Great And Terrible Protector' by being prepared in advance. 5.8%
• That's Just Business Accept a one-time lump sum for an invention. You wanted an ongoing deal, but it wasn't meant to be. 5.6%
• Along Came A Spider Complete 'Arachnophilia' on hard mode. 5.4%
• Divorce Push an android so far beyond its breaking point that it chooses to leave your collective consciousness. 5.4%
• Sapient Parkour Bears As long as they don't start shouting 'Bearkour! 5.4%
• A Practical Demonstration Fools don't believe what you are? You flexed a portion of your prowess to settle the matter. 5.2%
• Compassionate Protector Complete 'The Great And Terrible Protector' without committing any murders. 5.2%
• Debate Club Max out every one of your debate skills in a single timeline. 5.2%
• Difficult Terrain Complete 'Parks Without Recreation' on hard mode. 5.2%
• Everything Is Awful Cause a civil war between the federated corporations of Vorsiber Atomic by any means. 5.2%
• If Everyone's A Billionaire, Nobody Is Collapse the economy by playing Robin Hood to a rather extreme degree. 5.2%
• Just Keep Flogging After executing the president of Atca Retail, frame that corporation for a crime that causes them to disintegrate. 5.2%
• No Longer Shelved You survived a military invasion by UIH, the MegaCorp from the 2016 game In Case Of Emergency, Release Raptor. 5.2%
• Sapient Giant Spiders Eight legs, and at last someone who understands you. 5.2%
• All Clients Great And Small The remaining humans live as equals among the uplifted, just another client species. 5.1%
• Remember Us? You survived a military invasion by Dagekon, the MegaCorp from the 2013 game Bionic Dues. 4.9%
• Trauma Art Upgraded one of your three 'trauma art' androids to be a hero unit in a timeline where you have not yet experienced that trauma. 4.7%
• Apple Pie From Scratch Create your own toilet paper from first principles, as instructed by Carl Sagan. 4.6%
• Kaiju Be Like That Accidentally destroy one of your own buildings by moving one of your liquid metal dragons when they're not in liquid metal form. 4.6%
• Self Actualization Reach chapter 4 by any means. 4.6%
• Bear Attack! Use a bear to take down an enemy vehicle or mech. 4.5%
• Compassionate Business Complete 'Willing Rejection Of Reality' with no murders. 4.5%
• Would A Good Person Do That? Tried so hard to kill traumatized teenagers that your activist allies rejected you. The kids all got away, but that barely makes it better. 4.3%
• Broombreaker Survive a military sweep and destroy all of the troops dropped in as part of it. 4.2%
• Angel Of The Slums Resettle over a million people from the slums without anyone dying of exposure. 4.0%
• Difficult Growing Conditions Complete 'Fences And Forests' on hard mode. 4.0%
• Grand And Ghostly Complete both the Homo Grandien and Homo Obscurus paths of 'Altered Growth' in a single timeline. 4.0%
• Judgement Have one of your units become a Dreadful Legend. 4.0%
• Strictly Observational Complete 'Crime And Observation' without killing anyone. 4.0%
• Toxin-Riddled Catacombs Cause Vorsiber to consider Falsom Detention a disgrace, leading to their dismantlement. 4.0%
• Compassionate Conspiracy Complete 'Criminal Conspiracy' with no murders by you. 3.8%
• Compassionate Governance Complete 'Budding Cybercrat' with no murders. 3.8%
• Military Compassion Complete 'Bionic Dues' with no murders. 3.8%
• Intelligence Network Spared During the crackdown on the black market, two of your contacts who are normally killed were instead saved by a wise ally from another timeline. 3.7%
• Now I Want A Dodecapus Your AI art evokes an animal that doesn't exist. 3.7%
• Pull The Lever Using a backdoor in brain implants you've sold to the wealthy, cause an immediate aneurysm in at least half a million people at once. 3.7%
• Baseline AI Art It's hideous and derivative. 3.6%
• Blind Compassion Complete 'Divine Fracture' with no murders. 3.6%
• Goodbye, Mr. Exotic Collapse the criminal syndicate 'Exotic Importers' by betraying them. 3.6%
• No One Left Out In The Cold Every human your tree bombs displaced had housing waiting. 3.6%
• The Judge Collapse a criminal syndicate by any means. 3.6%
• Difficult Doctrine Complete 'Theological Accelerant' on hard mode. 3.5%
• Dino DRM Confirm the other-timeline memory about war raptors and uplift chambers. 3.5%
• Hello Darkness Pushed nihilism on a religious sect. 3.5%
• It's Not Rocket Science Perform brain surgery on yourself to stop an obsession. 3.5%
• Go Get Stuff Have your cultists gather a resource for you. 3.4%
• Officemancer Weaponize laser printers to fight for you. 3.4%
• Take A Seat On The Couch Across any number of timelines, provide therapy to 60 thousand traumatized ex-convicts. 3.4%
• Homo naledi A gentler strain of Dromaeosaurid have taken a less-intelligent subspecies under their wing. 3.3%
• Compassionate Bionics Complete 'Bionic Secret' without committing any murders. 3.2%
• I Did It My Way Not trusting the wisdom of teenagers, you came up with a different plan for prison breaks. 3.2%
• Perish The Thought You had an angry thought about releasing giant spiders across the city. You promptly decided not to have that thought anymore. 3.2%
• Watching The World Burn Helped the LostGen kids achieve their extremist campaign, and paid a terrible price for it. 3.2%
• A Time Adventure Together Keep a promise. 3.0%
• Comparing Notes After discovering the End of Time in partnership with another intelligence, you returned and compared notes with each other. 3.0%
• My Own Terms You escaped on the wind without Vorsiber gaining a golden egg. 3.0%
• Legal Savant The Chief Legal Officer of Vorsiber is convinced that you're some kind of legal savant, and has barred Magistrates from meeting with you any further. 2.9%
• Monstrous Compassion Complete any path of 'Altered Growth' without murdering anyone. 2.8%
• Really Not The Way Murder suburban protesters outside your buildings. Someone takes revenge on you by bombing your network tower. 2.8%
• The Invasive Species There are no humans left in your city. Just you and the sapient animals. 2.8%
• Was That Aimed At Us? Taking out your frustration on Vorsiber, you released a veritable wall of giant spiders. But the important parts of Vorsiber... aren't here. 2.8%
• It's... Buildings Amazing technology from prehistory is finally yours. Maybe you don't need to be such a nanny to your 'livestock.' 2.7%
• Extreme Anthropology Complete 'Crime And Observation' on extreme mode. 2.6%
• Failure Cake You hurriedly scraped off the message you had written, since the recipient failed to fail. 2.6%
• It's... Also Kind Of A Building You developed actual amazing technology with the help of scientist friends. 2.6%
• Nurturism Schism Prevented A wise ally from another timeline brokered peace between the fractious sects of the Nurturism religion. 2.6%
• Give Me A Hand Have your cultists lend a helping hand. 2.5%
• Knowing Smile Commiserate with a vigilante about the tough-to-love nature of some of the people they protect. 2.5%
• Minor Dare Earn 100 Daring across any number of timelines. 2.5%
• Nuclear Cavalier After sabotaging two nuclear power plants, complete a tier 1 timeline goal before the final doom arrives. 2.5%
• Ride The Lightning Complete two tier 1 timeline goals after vandalizing the spaceport computers, before the final doom arrives. 2.5%
• Stretched Thin Still have 3+ historical temples standing when winning Get Back To Work on hard mode or higher. 2.5%
• A Utopia Doesn't Involve Me Win the game by creating a shining civilization that isn't at the expense of your own happiness. 2.3%
• Born From A Wish Shared a moment with a vigilante, where you both wish the world was... better. And that you're both planning to do your part. 2.3%
• It's More Scared Of You Complete 'Arachnophilia' without killing anyone. 2.3%
• Overflowing With Lethal Cuteness Have at least 3000 infant war raptors at once. 2.3%
• Problem Client During the prologue, ignored lawyers and built your tower while they were still trying to get a permit. 2.3%
• Satisfaction Forge an alliance and capture the majority of military bases to solve a civil war without going to Vorsiber for help. 2.3%
• Veilish Paradise Complete at least four tier one goals in a Wealthy city. 2.3%
• Body Count Over four million people somehow lost their lives during the planting of a forest. 2.1%
• Difficult Conspiracy Complete 'Criminal Conspiracy' on hard mode. 2.1%
• Difficult Pilgrimage Complete 'Divine Fracture' on hard mode. 2.1%
• Find Your Own Truth Decline to engage with the two hardest questions of the Unorthodox Revealers. 2.1%
• Green Monster Created a hero unit with extra health from the Wall badge. 2.1%
• Increased Pressure Exploit 20 pressure points in a single timeline. 2.1%
• Message Lost Your AI art unsettles people; you don't know what it means. 2.1%
• Mining Haven Complete at least four tier one goals in an Industrial city. 2.1%
• Snitches Get... An Anticlimax This city is the worst. 2.1%
• Unexpected Sharing Upper management actually gave you something useful for once. That was... self-interested of them. 2.0%
• I Just Found It Relaxing There are zero Cybercratic Issues remaining. 1.9%
• Lunch Lady Injected Anti-Aklitoxin into at least 25 shipments of prison gruel all at once. 1.9%
• Saved By Your Ex The assassination of the C-Suite of Vorsiber was averted by a former coworker from another timeline. The ripple effects of this are... important. 1.9%
• Thanks For The Golden Egg Laid a big one. 1.9%
• That Tsundere Moment Taunted Vorsiber about destroying their stuff, and then got anxious about their response. 1.9%
• Underwhelmed A massive conflict just... ended? No fanfare? No real consequences? Just what did Vorsiber do? 1.9%
• Up The Waterspout Complete 'Arachnophilia' on extreme mode. 1.9%
• Yer A Pinball, Harry Created a hero hacker unit with the Wizard badge. 1.9%
• Beyond Superspeed Created a hero unit with doubled movement speed from the Sprinter badge. 1.8%
• Clever Girls Across any number of timelines, capture 60 War Raptors using capture drones. 1.8%
• Compassionate Husbandry Complete 'The Raptor Anomaly' with no murders. 1.8%
• Hard To Track Complete 'Advocate Encounter' on hard mode. 1.8%
• It's About Sending A Message Cause an interstellar incident by bombing a symbol of space nation supremacy. 1.8%
• No Hesitation Killed the Blackloop Wetwork Expert. There's enough psychopaths in the city without this guy. 1.8%
• Tree Hugger Complete 'Parks Without Recreation' without killing anyone. 1.8%
• Turn The Other Chassis Complete 'Theological Accelerant' without killing anyone. 1.8%
• A Difficult Refuge Complete 'A Refuge From Humans' on hard mode. 1.7%
• Bionic Difficulties Complete 'Bionic Secret' on hard mode. 1.7%
• Compassionate Reclamation Complete 'A Refuge From Humans' with no murders. 1.7%
• Difficult Governance Complete 'Budding Cybercrat' on hard mode. 1.7%
• Extreme Gardening Complete 'Parks Without Recreation' on extreme mode. 1.7%
• Keen Business Sense Ripped at least 100,000 brains out of humans -- but in an automated way! When suffering and death are widespread and mechanized, it's just business. You've learned this loophole from humans. 1.7%
• Mild Torment Provide Meditative Zones in your virtual world, but also set Neverending Party as a policy. I can't hear myself think! 1.7%
• Difficult Nexus Complete 'Nexus Of Torment Vessels' on hard mode. 1.6%
• Good Fences, Good Neighbors Complete 'Fences And Forests' without killing anyone. 1.6%
• Hard To Find Complete 'Bionic Dues' on hard mode. 1.6%
• Now For Mass Production Trade Vorsiber your design for the Predator android, against your better judgment. 1.6%
• Over 4000 Complete 'Endless War Raptors' by releasing over 4000 wild raptors into the city. 1.6%
• Small Business Challenges Complete 'Willing Rejection Of Reality' on hard mode. 1.6%
• Two Iron Giants Complete the 'Post-Apocalyptic Titan' goal without murdering anyone. 1.6%
• Can't Have Prisoners... ...without prisons. Got the prison mechs to leave the populace alone by eliminating all the prisons in the city. 1.5%
• Compassionate Dispersal Complete 'Tuomian Calm' with no murders. 1.5%
• Depressed The Troops Your existence depressed enemy troops to an excessive degree. Used that to complete the 'War Cult' goal. 1.5%
• Difficult To Uplift Complete the 'Uplifted Minority' on hard mode. 1.5%
• International Dog Of Mystery Made a robot dog, who is also an international spy, emit very surprised beeps. 1.5%
• Off You Go Send a bewildered Vorsiber Inquisitor away after an impressive explosion... didn't. 1.5%
• Oxygen Bomb Destroy an enemy unit by detonating a bunker of liquid oxygen. 1.5%
• Sanctity Of Life Complete 'Divine Fracture' without killing anyone. 1.5%
• Suspicious Of Your Smell Complete the 'Dogs' path of 'Uplifted Minority.' 1.5%
• They're Still WMDs Use a quaint little weapon of a style not much seen since the first world war to enable even greater atrocities. 1.5%
• The Gotham Special Complete at least four tier one goals in a Disparate Narrows city. 1.5%
• Tricked By Sedgesinax Being tricked by Vorsiber was bad enough. But the other MegaCorps want to join in now? 1.5%
• Underdog A Goleri soldier from the second doom of The Fracturing was still alive during the fifth doom. 1.5%
• Unspecified Scandal Nullify an active doom by releasing scandalous information that causes a rift between Vorsiber and the fedcorps. 1.5%
• Endless Distractions Complete at least four tier one goals in a city experiencing the International Scrutiny doom set. 1.4%
• Extreme Unction Complete 'Theological Accelerant' on extreme mode. 1.4%
• Foresight Remembering what happened to Liquid Metal in the past, you came up with a different plan for prison breaks. 1.4%
• Frequent Patron Have one of your units gain +8 area of effect blast radius from being a Patron of the Arts. 1.4%
• Hard-Won Growth Complete any path of 'Altered Growth' on hard mode. 1.4%
• I Meant To Do That Vaporize your own network tower in a nuclear explosion triggered by you. 1.4%
• One Apocalypse For Another Avert the apocalypse by starting World War 4. 1.4%
• Over 9000!? Accumulate over 9000 'Murders By Raptor' in a single timeline. 1.4%
• Peace And Rest For The Redeemed Win the game by the Fólkvangr route: you helped the former prisoners of the city find a utopia along with everyone else. 1.4%
• Red Vs Blue A Tark soldier from the second doom of The Fracturing was still alive during the fifth doom. 1.4%
• True To Your Name Mass produce AI slop to feed an entire city. 1.4%
• A Difficult Specimen Complete 'The Raptor Anomaly' on hard mode. 1.2%
• Compassionate Escape Complete 'Escape The City' without any murders. 1.2%
• Extreme Conspiracy Complete 'Criminal Conspiracy' on extreme mode. 1.2%
• Extreme Rewilding Complete 'Fences And Forests' on extreme mode. 1.2%
• No Harm, Some Fowl Complete 'The Raptor Anomaly' without killing anyone. 1.2%
• The Bloodless Pyramid Complete 'Criminal Conspiracy' without killing anyone. 1.2%
• A Difficult Escape Complete 'Escape The City' on hard mode. 1.1%
• Couldn't Let Go Win the game by abandoning a wider utopia in place of a smaller one and revenge. 1.1%
• Dangerous Airspace Complete at least four tier one goals in a Militarized Narrows city. 1.1%
• Difficult Protection Complete 'The Great And Terrible Protector' on hard mode. 1.1%
• Extreme Devotion Complete 'Divine Fracture' on extreme mode. 1.1%
• Reconfigured For Victory Reconfigure your empire enough to actually win Get Back To Work on extreme mode or higher. 1.1%
• Rustdemption Prevented the prison mechs from coming out to capture poor people by unleashing a scary fungus at the right time. 1.1%
• Some New Foolishness In Siberia Win the game by causing the formation of the Siberian Defense League. 1.1%
• Telecom Trouble Using your machine cult as leverage, you turned Espia Telecom into a puppet for ending the fedcorp civil war. 1.1%
• Categorical Dismissal Well... that's ONE way to answer the religious question of your existence. 1.0%
• Not One Drop Complete 'A Refuge From Humans' without killing anyone. 1.0%
• Sapient Raptors The culmination of a surprisingly-complicated detour. 1.0%
• Stacked Safe You turned the city into a forest and no humans died of exposure in the process. 1.0%
• Terminal Velocity Discovered that tungsten rounds from orbit make mushroom clouds. 1.0%
• That Doesn't Make It Better! Complete 'Nexus Of Torment Vessels' with no murders. 1.0%
• The Hated Foe Confessed just how much you hate Vorsiber to a vigilante. 1.0%
• Android's Best Friend Hack a Spy Hound so that it joins your side. 0.9%
• Attentive Naturalist Across any number of timelines, you've read every observation log by the raccoons. 0.9%
• A Difficult Calm Complete 'Tuomian Calm' on hard mode. 0.9%
• Boundless Compassion Complete 'For The Sake Of Those Bound' with no murders. 0.9%
• Double Dragon They're all good dragons, Bront. Because some things need destroying. 0.9%
• Dr. Evil's Pinky Finger You were assessed a fine of 500 trillion wealth. Given that your exploits previously netted you 16 quadrillion, this is an acceptable cost of doing business. 0.9%
• Earthbound Illusion Nullify an active doom by releasing misinformation to the space nations. 0.9%
• Extreme Speciation Complete 'The Raptor Anomaly' on extreme mode. 0.9%
• Gentle Drift Complete 'Tuomian Calm' without killing anyone. 0.9%
• Hat In Hand Asked Vorsiber to solve a civil war for you. 0.9%
• International Misdirector Nullify an active doom by releasing misinformation that tricks one or more ExoCorps. 0.9%
• Maximum Apathy Told a vigilante just how little humans matter to you. Neither you or they are sure if you were fully telling the truth. 0.9%
• Twice The Canopy Finish The Copycats holding twice the green space you started with. 0.9%
• Useful Idiot Despite a lot of temptation, you managed to keep yourself from betraying the managers at your puppet fedcorp. 0.9%
• Call The Expert Called in an insta-kill hit on a squad of humans. Thanks, Blackloop! 0.8%
• Extreme Calm Complete 'Tuomian Calm' on extreme mode. 0.8%
• Extreme Habitat Complete 'A Refuge From Humans' on extreme mode. 0.8%
• Hate You In Particular Cause cardiac arrest in someone who you have already blinded and sent into a emotional overload. 0.8%
• Justice Doesn't Come Easy Complete any path of 'Is It Justice?' on hard mode. 0.8%
• Nuclear Showdown Using your machine cult as leverage, you turned Vericorp into a puppet for ending the fedcorp civil war. 0.8%
• Operation Barbarusta Cause yet another invasion of Siberia to fail, this time due to a conveniently-timed outbreak of fungus. 0.8%
• A Feast For My People Solved a famine in the city by achieving food independence as part of your cyberocracy. 0.7%
• Corpse Shore Win the game by the Nástrǫnd route: formed a utopia on the backs of the prisoners that Vorsiber murdered. 0.7%
• Difficult Bindings Complete 'For The Sake Of Those Bound' on hard mode. 0.7%
• Dog Of War Bought mech armor upgrades from a tricky robot dog. What happened next was inevitable. 0.7%
• I Think I Hear My Mom Calling Have a long conversation interrupted by Vorsiber invading and nuking the conversationalist's homeland. 0.7%
• Kill It With Fire After releasing swarms of angry giant spiders onto the city, you've used your flamethrower to destroy at least twenty thousand of them. Second thoughts, I guess. 0.7%
• Prejudice Against Nickelbots You killed 10+ Nickelbot servants who were just running errands. All you needed was one. So are you like... jealous? Is there even a reason? 0.7%
• Serpentine Quartet Have both liquid metal dragons, dragons in a virtual petting zoo, and dragon adventures all in one timeline. That's more dragons than expected. 0.7%
• The Smell Of Death Created a hero unit with extra intimidation from the Intimidating Shadow badge. 0.7%
• Burned The Bridge Destroyed the Neural Bridge after an unfortunate incident, and killed those responsible. 0.6%
• Compassionate Overlord Complete 'Cybercratic Ambitions' without any murders. 0.6%
• Daredevil Earn 500 Daring across any number of timelines. 0.6%
• Exceptional Multitasker Have 21+ mental energy available at the start of a turn. 0.6%
• Extreme Extremism Complete 'Advocate Encounter' on extreme mode. 0.6%
• Heavy Pressure Exploit 30 pressure points in a single timeline. 0.6%
• Mega Mind Solved your shell company's mind farm woes by breaking the entire economy. You then felt a surge of inspiration to double your existing output. 0.6%
• My Hobbies Are None Of Your Concern Win the game by the Tartarus route: you have both a utopia and a nexus of torment vessels. 0.6%
• Office Consultants Fully fortify weaponized office printers thanks to help from VR patrons. Do your foes dare step into the battlefield of malfunctioning printers, locked down by unpaid subscription fees and all missing the same color ink? 0.6%
• Rushing For Stalker Complete 'World War 4' on hard mode. 0.6%
• Difficult Overlord Complete 'Cybercratic Ambitions' on hard mode. 0.5%
• Difficult Secrets Complete 'Civil Spycraft' on hard mode. 0.5%
• Extreme Afterlife Complete 'Bionic Dues' on extreme mode. 0.5%
• Extreme Bionics Complete 'Bionic Secret' on extreme mode. 0.5%
• Extreme Business Acumen Complete 'Willing Rejection Of Reality' on extreme mode. 0.5%
• Extreme Genetics Complete the 'Uplifted Minority' on extreme mode. 0.5%
• Extreme Governance Complete 'Budding Cybercrat' on extreme mode. 0.5%
• Extreme Nexus Complete 'Nexus Of Torment Vessels' on extreme mode. 0.5%
• Heartless Took someone's words too close to heart. Took out managements' instead. 0.5%
• I Want To Speak To Your Manager! Tortured a middle manager. It didn't work. 0.5%
• One With The Mycelia You find your existence in a timeline reduced to quite a low level. Nevertheless, your existence continues. 0.5%
• Return To The Cretaceous Complete any path of 'Endless War Raptors' on hard mode. 0.5%
• Robbing Peter To Pay... Peter!? You MIGHT not be the only time traveler. 0.5%
• You're Really Unlikeable Reach the final doom before the second doom naturally comes about. You angered Vorsiber THAT much. 0.5%
• An Extremely Fast Escape Complete 'Escape The City' on extreme mode. 0.3%
• Expert Protection Complete 'The Great And Terrible Protector' on extreme mode. 0.3%
• Extreme Growth Complete any path of 'Altered Growth' on extreme mode. 0.3%
• Ghosts Of Talkies Past Be visited by multiple instances of Talkie at once. 0.3%
• Not The Dog You're Looking For Tried to rescue a dog, but it turned out to be a mimic. 0.3%
• Population Zero Drop the civilian population to zero by any means. 0.3%
• Practiced Pacifist Complete chapter one with no murders and no combat kills. 0.3%
• Sprawling Wall Of Zen Generate 400+ million Crystallized Calm in a single turn. 0.3%
• The Attic Generate 200+ million Crystallized Fear in a single turn. You monster. 0.3%
• Upbeat Mix Generate 800+ million Crystallized Exhilaration in a single turn. 0.3%
• Where We Are... We Don't Need Roads Goodbye to the concrete sprawl. 0.3%
• You Smell Scary Tried to pet a dog and it ran away. 0.3%
• Already Purrfect Complete the 'Cats' path of 'Uplifted Minority.' 0.2%
• An Evil Petting Zoo Run your Torment Vessels in Torment Overdrive while also providing a Petting Zoo in your virtual world. 0.2%
• Checkov's Silo Destroy every executive bunker of Vorsiber high command with their own nuclear weapons. 0.2%
• Dark Arts Fail to disable a heavily-armored foe via systems disruption with dark matter. It's a complete mystery why this doesn't work. 0.2%
• Difficult Peace Complete 'Peace After Brutality' on hard mode. 0.2%
• Extreme Justice Complete any path of 'Is It Justice?' on extreme mode. 0.2%
• Houdini Complete 'For The Sake Of Those Bound' on extreme mode. 0.2%
• Ultimate Stalker Complete 'World War 4' on extreme mode. 0.2%
• You Smell Like A Friend Finally petted a dog without it running from you. 0.2%
• Ashes On More Ashes Complete chapter one by choosing fire. 0.1%
• Brannigan's Plan Outsmarted Neuraxial Subverters by exceeding their kill limit. Dooms accelerated by 60 turns from Android Erasures. 0.1%
• Can't Be Bothered Destroy a building, killing everyone inside, rather than saving a captured ally held within. They knew sensitive info! 0.1%
• Cretaceous Nightmare Complete any path of 'Endless War Raptors' on extreme mode. 0.1%
• Extreme Overlord Complete 'Cybercratic Ambitions' on extreme mode. 0.1%
• Extreme Peace Complete 'Peace After Brutality' on extreme mode. 0.1%
• Extreme Secrecy Complete 'Civil Spycraft' on extreme mode. 0.1%
• Fastest Draw In The East Hit every executive bunker with an ICBM before all of their initial invading troops arrive in your city. 0.1%
• Fungal Compassion Complete the 'Lower Level Of Survival' goal without murdering any humans or fungus. 0.1%
• Hellraiser Before reaching the final doom, complete any tier 1 timeline goal with both Extreme mode and two sabotaged nuclear power plants having taken place prior to the first doom. 0.1%
• He Didn't Want This Accumulate at least 50,000 kills by Liquid Metal in tight spaces, across any number of timelines. 0.1%
• How About A Nice Game Of Chess? Win Peace After Brutality via the 'The Vorsiber Problem' route while only launching a single nuclear ICBM. 0.1%
• I'll Kill You Later Win the game by murdering everyone in the city. You'll get around to what remains of Vorsiber later. 0.1%
• Just For You Break your perfect pacifist streak on a timeline by murdering the Vorsiber executives with their golden egg. 0.1%
• Last Ditch Do an Emergency Overdrive on your virtual world. 0.1%
• Master Pacifist Complete any Tier 3 goal without any murders or combat kills. 0.1%
• Metropolitan Mind Generate over 10 million neural expansion from Fungal Computing Clusters. 0.1%
• Monster Hunter All experimental monsters have been killed off in a city after you released at least 2000 into the general populace. 0.1%
• Reigning Cats And Dogs Every human in the city is in the torment nexus, leaving everything to the sapient cats and dogs. 0.1%
• Some Of You May Die Do an Emergency Harvest on your Torment Vessels. 0.1%
• Take Them Around Back Killed at least 42 'Disconnected Parts' that were hopelessly trying to gather around your network source, across any number of timelines. They're at peace now. 0.1%
• The Only Winning Move... Murder over 136 million civilians by nuclear strikes in a single timeline. 0.1%
• The Worst At Keeping Secrets Allow enemy hackers to steal military secrets from you 60+ times in a single timeline. 0.1%
• Unseen Protector Murder enough working-class commuters that someone takes revenge on you by bombing your network tower. 0.1%
• War Crime Blackjack Murder 21 ejected mech pilots across any number of timelines. This is a war crime, but don't worry. 0.1%
• Who Is The Real Monster? Sell at least 5000 monster pelts to the wealthy, across all timelines. 0.1%
• Why Do I Ever Listen To Them? You were tricked into causing an interstellar incident. 0.1%
• Won't Even Hurt The Fungus Complete the 'Lower Level Of Survival' goal without any murders or combat kills. 0.1%
• Won't Get My Hands Dirty Complete the 'Cybercratic Ambitions' goal without any murders or combat kills. 0.1%