Defense Grid: The Awakening

87 achievements

Ultra Rare×24

Very Rare×17

Rare×9

Uncommon×5

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About Defense Grid: The Awakening's achievements

Defense Grid: The Awakening has 87 Steam achievements, 24 of them ultra-rare — unlocked by under 5% of players. The rarest is "Core Container", earned by just 1.2% of players. 1 SteamVault member has 100%-completed it so far. Below is the complete achievement list with global rarity and a full achievement difficulty breakdown.

Rarest achievement

1.2%

of players earned "Core Container"

SteamVault 100%s

member fully completed it

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All Defense Grid: The Awakening achievements

87 achievements

Core Container

Earn a Gold medal on all 40 modes in the Containment campaign.

Ultra Rare1.2%

Beating A Dead Potato

Earn a gold medal on any 35 missions in the You Monster campaign.

Ultra Rare1.3%

Supreme Strategist

Earn a gold medal on any 150 missions in The Awakening campaign.

Ultra Rare1.3%

Fully Contained

Earn at least a Bronze medal on all 40 modes in the Containment campaign.

Ultra Rare1.3%

Clear Skies

Earn a Gold medal in the Campaign Reversed mode of Passage without building any Meteor or Missile towers or using the Orbital Laser.

Ultra Rare1.3%

Best Friends Forever

Earn a gold medal on all story challenge missions in the You Monster campaign.

Ultra Rare1.4%

This is…spartan.

Earn a Gold medal on the Story or Story Challenge mode of Volition building fifteen towers or less without selling.

Ultra Rare1.4%

So Many Spaces to Build On, So Little Time

Earn at least a Bronze medal on the Story or Story Challenge mode of Foothold building ten towers or less without selling.

Ultra Rare1.5%

Faithful Companion

Earn a gold medal on 10 challenge modes in the You Monster campaign.

Ultra Rare1.7%

Clean Getaway

Prevent the aliens from stealing a core until they have arrived safely at the second core housing in the Story or Story Challenge mode of Auger.

Ultra Rare1.7%

Master Strategist

Earn a gold medal on any 100 missions in The Awakening campaign.

Ultra Rare2.1%

Overflowing

Earn a gold medal on all the modes of Overflow.

Ultra Rare2.1%

A Temporal Would've Been Nice

Earn at least a Bronze medal on the Story or Story Challenge mode of Occupation using only Gun, Inferno, and Laser towers.

Ultra Rare2.1%

Top of the Class

Earn a gold medal on the Story and Story Challenge modes of Ghost in the Machine and Divided Attention.

Ultra Rare2.2%

You Monster

Earn a gold medal on all story missions in the You Monster campaign.

Ultra Rare2.2%

Contains Trace Amounts of Gold

Earn a Gold medal on all eight Story modes in the Containment campaign.

Ultra Rare2.9%

Mostly Dead

Earn a silver medal on all story missions in the You Monster campaign.

Ultra Rare3.2%

Firebug

Beat an advanced mission with only Inferno towers.

Ultra Rare3.5%

Circular Hazard

Earn a gold medal on the Campaign mode of Risk Exposure and Roundabout.

Ultra Rare3.6%

Civil Divergence

Earn a gold medal on the Campaign mode of Urban Planning and Tactical Diversion.

Ultra Rare3.8%

Combat Turmoil

Earn a gold medal on the Campaign mode of Service Interruption and Height of Confusion.

Ultra Rare4.0%

Regional Deluge

Earn a gold medal on the Campaign mode of Kill Zone and Overflow.

Ultra Rare4.2%

Savant Genius

Earn a gold medal on any story mission past 'Divided Attention' in the You Monster campaign.

Ultra Rare4.9%

The Container

Earn at least a Bronze medal on all eight Story modes in the Containment campaign.

Ultra Rare5.0%

Master Siege Breaker

Survive 100 waves on any Super Grinder challenge mode.

Very Rare5.3%

Majestic Pony

Earn a bronze medal on all story missions in the You Monster campaign.

Very Rare5.5%

Alien Tears

Earn a gold medal on all missions in the Story mode.

Very Rare6.1%

Out of Bullets

Beat all 5 "Out of Bullets" challenge modes without using Gun or Cannon towers.

Very Rare6.3%

Foresight is 20/20

Earn a Gold medal on any Containment mission without going back to a save checkpoint.

Very Rare6.3%

Shell-shocked

Beat an advanced mission with only Cannon towers.

Very Rare7.1%

Full House

Build all upgrades of all tower types in one mission.

Very Rare7.4%

Planet Defender

Earn a silver medal on all missions in the Story mode.

Very Rare8.1%

Few and Proud

Earn at least a silver medal on the Story or Story Challenge mode of Divided Attention.

Very Rare8.5%

Kickstarter

Begin playing any mode of the Containment Campaign.

Very Rare9.4%

Nail Biter

Win mission with the last core less than 10 seconds away from the map exit.

Very Rare9.9%

Minimalist

Beat an advanced mission with only level 1 towers.

Very Rare10.3%

Gun Crazy

Beat an advanced mission with only Gun towers.

Very Rare10.4%

Xenocide

Kill 50,000 aliens.

Very Rare11.6%

Untouchable

Beat an advanced mission with zero cores captured.

Very Rare13.5%

Well Invested

Gain 10000 resources from interest in a single mission.

Very Rare13.6%

Siege Breaker

Survive 100 waves on the Grinder challenge mode.

Very Rare14.2%

If At First You Don't Succeed, Retry Again

Reload an earlier save checkpoint five times in a single mission.

Rare16.3%

The Long Road

Alien time until exit exceeds 5 minutes.

Rare17.1%

Flurry

Earn a gold medal on an adrenaline challenge mode.

Rare17.1%

Diversity

Build all tower types in one mission.

Rare17.6%

Full Potential

Beat an advanced mission with only level 3 towers and no selling.

Rare18.2%

Relay Race

Witness 1 core handed off 10 times within 20 seconds.

Rare21.2%

Base Defender

Complete the Story mode.

Rare24.7%

Tower Expert

Build every tower and upgrade.

Rare25.7%

Indecisive

Sell 10 towers in a single mission.

Rare28.4%

Full Defense

Build 50 towers in one mission.

Uncommon33.2%

Annihilator

Kill 10,000 aliens.

Uncommon36.2%

Overseer

Build 5 Command towers.

Uncommon40.8%

Retry

Reload an earlier save checkpoint.

Uncommon43.9%

Head Trauma

Build 5 Concussion towers.

Uncommon47.9%

Power Builder

Build 6 towers within 10 seconds.

Common50.7%

Pyrrhic Victory

Shoot down flying alien carrying a core.

Common51.3%

The Not-So-Friendly Skies

Build 5 Missile towers.

Common53.7%

Death From Above

Fire the orbital laser.

Common53.9%

High Voltage

Build 5 Tesla towers.

Common60.0%

Filthy Rich

Win with 10,000 resources remaining.

Common61.5%

Liquidator

Sell 5 towers.

Common65.0%

No Sale

No towers sold in a single mission.

Common68.5%

Kaboom!

Build 5 Cannon towers.

Common68.6%

Sharpshooter

Shoot down a flying alien.

Common70.2%

Great Ball of Fire

Build 5 Meteor towers.

Common70.3%

Not So Fast

Build 5 Temporal towers.

Common72.0%

Boot Camp

Finish the first 3 missions.

Common74.2%

Confident

Use speed up controls for a total of 30 seconds in any one mission.

Common74.3%

Flawless Victory

Earn at least one gold medal.

Common74.5%

Exterminator

Destroy 1000 aliens.

Common75.8%

Arsenal

Build 20 towers in one mission.

Common78.6%

What IS that?

Inspect 10 aliens.

Common79.8%

Close Call

Save a core less than 10 seconds away from the map exit.

Common80.5%

Pew Pew

Build 5 Laser towers.

Common81.8%

I Spy

Activate reconnaissance system.

Common82.4%

Penny Pincher

Win with 5,000 resources remaining.

Common83.3%

Salvage Rights

Destroy at least one boss alien.

Common85.0%

Burn Baby Burn

Build 5 Inferno towers.

Common85.4%

Yellow Beats Green

Upgrade a tower.

Common85.7%

Surplus

Win with 1,000 resources remaining.

Common88.8%

Eradicator

Kill 100 aliens.

Common89.6%

Leadhead

Build 5 Gun towers.

Common90.2%

Field Promotion

Earn at least one silver medal.

Common91.2%

Happy Returns

Recover a loose core.

Common92.5%

Hey! That's mine!

Kill an alien carrying a power core.

Common92.6%

First Blood

Kill 1 alien.

Common93.3%