Mad King Redemption Steam Achievements: Unlock Guide

What Your Achievement Hunt Requires

Mad King Redemption Steam achievements give every dungeon attempt a purpose, from your first defeat to clearing both biomes with every hero. Planning your runs helps you work toward several goals together instead of repeating content for one overlooked requirement. This Mad King Redemption Steam achievements guide covers all 24 achievements, plus a practical route through character victories, combat milestones, and the Forbidden-power challenge.

The list combines straightforward onboarding tasks with longer goals: eliminate 10,000 enemies, enter the dungeon 100 times, and make 100 choices in Mad King rooms. Between those milestones, you need victories with Valraven, Branok, Darkblade, and Elowen.

Steam achievements arrived during Early Access Patch 2. They sit alongside the game’s broader progression systems, including permanent Brotherhood upgrades and Seraphina’s Unlock Panel. Keep those systems separate when tracking completion: an earned skin, passive, or relic is an in-game reward, while a Steam achievement has its own requirement.

All 24 Mad King Redemption Steam Achievements

Use these tables as your checklist. The percentages show global unlock rates; they describe how common an achievement is, rather than how difficult it will feel for your build.

Tutorial and First Defeat

These two achievements introduce the basic loop: learn the controls, enter the dungeon, and experience a failed attempt.

Achievement	Unlock requirement	Global unlock rate
First Steps	Complete the tutorial.	48.4%
Death is only the beginning	Lose a run for the first time.	32.5%

Finish the tutorial before chasing combat totals. It introduces the systems you will use throughout the achievement hunt, including Forbidden-power choices.

Let your first defeat happen during normal play. There is little reason to sacrifice an attempt deliberately when the dungeon already gives you plenty of opportunities to learn enemy patterns.

Combat, Gold, and Dungeon Milestones

This group accounts for nine achievements. Pay attention to the action each one measures: throwing weapons, collecting gold, spending gold, entering the dungeon, and making room choices are different objectives.

Achievement	Unlock requirement	Global unlock rate
Gold Hoarder	Earn 1,000 gold over your lifetime.	17.9%
Hitman	Eliminate 500 enemies.	13.7%
Sniper	Throw 100 ranged weapons over your lifetime.	13.4%
Murderer	Eliminate 1,000 enemies.	6.8%
Big Spender	Spend 5,000 gold in the Brotherhood.	6.6%
My power!	Launch 100 Forbidden attacks.	4.8%
Gods Slayer	Eliminate 10,000 enemies.	0.1%
Dungeon Master	Start the dungeon 100 times with any hero.	0.1%
Meet the King	Make a choice in the Mad King room 100 times.	0.1%

Gold Hoarder measures earnings, while Big Spender measures Brotherhood spending. Gold used to reroll Forbidden powers at the Mad King serves a different purpose from spending at the Brotherhood.

Sniper asks for weapon throws, so work throwable pickups into your fights. My power! asks for Forbidden attacks, making it a natural objective for runs where you are experimenting with corruption.

Meet the King requires actual choices in the Mad King room. Entering the dungeon alone addresses Dungeon Master’s requirement, so continue through encounters and make choices while working toward both.

Hero Starts and Biome Victories

Each of the four playable heroes has three achievements: one for starting the dungeon 10 times and one for finishing each biome. That makes 12 character-specific goals.

Hero	Dungeon-start achievement	Biome 1 achievement	Biome 2 achievement
Valraven	The Swordmaster: Start the dungeon with Valraven 10 times.	Valraven Master 1: Finish Biome 1 with Valraven.	Valraven Master 2: Finish Biome 2 with Valraven.
Branok	The Wrestler: Start the dungeon with Branok 10 times.	Branok Master 1: Finish Biome 1 with Branok.	Branok Master 2: Finish Biome 2 with Branok.
Darkblade	The Assassin: Start the dungeon with Darkblade 10 times.	Darkblade Master 1: Finish Biome 1 with Darkblade.	Darkblade Master 2: Finish Biome 2 with Darkblade.
Elowen	The Mage: Start the dungeon with Elowen 10 times.	Elowen Master 1: Finish Biome 1 with Elowen.	Elowen Master 2: Finish Biome 2 with Elowen.

The character-entry requirements add up to 40 starts across the roster. Dungeon Master requires 100 starts with any hero, leaving another 60 beyond those four minimums.

Rotate characters intentionally. Repeating one favorite hero can satisfy that character’s entry milestone while leaving the other three untouched. Use each switch to learn the hero’s combat style and pursue their missing biome victories.

The Forbidden-Free Challenge

The remaining achievement is No shortcuts...only muscles, which requires completing a run without using Forbidden powers. Its global unlock rate is 1.7%.

Give this objective its own attempt. My power! rewards repeated Forbidden attacks, while this challenge demands a run without them. Keeping those goals separate makes your decisions clearer during crowded fights.

Build a Route That Covers Several Goals

Plan your Mad King Redemption Steam achievements hunt around complete attempts. A run can include enemy eliminations, gold earnings, ranged-weapon throws, Mad King choices, and a character-specific biome victory.

Clear Biomes Before Focusing on Long Totals

Start with the tutorial, then pursue a Biome 1 victory with a hero whose combat style feels comfortable. Spend earned gold on Brotherhood upgrades as you work through the dungeon.

Permanent upgrades are organized into Tier 1–4 in the progression update. Use those upgrades to support your next clear while advancing Big Spender’s Brotherhood-spending requirement.

After a victory, check the achievement attached to that hero and biome. Then move to another missing clear. This gives your next attempt a specific purpose beyond simply collecting more kills.

Keep a short checklist for each character:

• Reach 10 dungeon starts.
• Finish Biome 1.
• Finish Biome 2.

Avoid inferring completion from another character’s success. Valraven’s Biome 2 achievement requires Valraven; a Darkblade clear fulfills Darkblade’s corresponding goal.

Work Throws and Forbidden Attacks Into Ordinary Fights

For Sniper, use ranged weapons you pick up during normal attempts. Its description counts throws, so focus on performing the action rather than setting up a particular kill.

For My power!, watch the corruption cycle. Forbidden powers fill the Corruption Bar, leading into a powerful Corrupted Phase. When that phase ends, the hero enters a vulnerable Crash phase.

Time Forbidden attacks around the fight in front of you. Leave room to recover rather than activating powers simply to increase the total while enemies surround you.

Continue playing through Mad King encounters, too. Meet the King’s 100-choice requirement gives those rooms a separate role in your completion plan.

Manage Gold With Both Objectives in Mind

Gold Hoarder requires 1,000 lifetime earnings; it does not ask you to hold that amount at once. Spend toward useful Brotherhood upgrades as you pursue clears.

The Mad King’s Forbidden-power rerolls start at 25 gold and double with each use in the room. Watch that escalating cost before committing gold you intended to spend in the Brotherhood.

Keep the distinction visible in your checklist:

• Earn gold for Gold Hoarder.
• Spend in the Brotherhood for Big Spender.
• Use Mad King rerolls to change Forbidden-power options.

The longer Mad King Redemption Steam achievements goals reward continued play. Pursue missing hero victories along the way so that your attempts also develop familiarity with the whole roster.

Complete a Run Without Forbidden Powers

Among Mad King Redemption Steam achievements, No shortcuts...only muscles changes your combat priorities. You must finish the run without using Forbidden powers, so build the attempt around regular attacks, your hero’s other tools, and careful movement.

Choose a hero whose normal combat you already understand. Practice that character during their biome-clear attempts before committing to the challenge.

All four heroes received Attack 4 and Attack 5 in their melee chains with Version 1.19.3. Learn the timing of those attacks and how their knockback affects nearby enemies.

Use enemy telegraphs and recovery windows to choose when to commit. Patch 2 reworked melee, tank, and ranged behavior around clearer attack preparation and recovery, while Version 1.19.3 capped melee enemy chains at three hits.

Keep Forbidden attacks off your challenge attempt from start to finish. Leave My power! for a separate run, even when a difficult encounter makes a Forbidden attack tempting.

Treat platforming as part of the challenge. Patch 2 introduced checkpoint recovery for many acid falls, with a health penalty instead of an automatic run ending. Its detailed notes describe a 20% maximum-HP penalty, configurable per trigger.

Move carefully around hazards rather than relying on that recovery. Losing health to a fall can make the next combat encounter harder.

After completing the run, check No shortcuts...only muscles in Steam before returning to your broader achievement checklist.

Missing Achievements, Progression Updates, and Co-op

If Mad King Redemption Steam achievements appear out of step with a biome clear, check your game version before repeating the same objective. Early Access updates have addressed both completion records and achievement unlocking.

Update	Relevant change	What to check
Early Access Patch 2	Added the first 24 Steam achievements.	Use the full game’s achievement list when tracking objectives.
Version 1.19.3	Fixed the Biome 2 completion achievement failing to unlock.	Update before attempting another Biome 2 clear.
Version 1.19.3	Corrected biome completion records affected by Baron Morgrim runs.	Check the achievement for the specific hero and biome you completed.
EA 1.20 progression update	Introduced the Unlock Panel and reset story progression and unlocks while preserving gold.	Review Seraphina’s archive separately from Steam achievements.
Version 1.20.15	Fixed several room, trigger, and enemy-wave progression problems.	Record the room, hero, and mode if an encounter still blocks progress.

The EA 1.20 progression reset concerned story progress and in-game unlocks, with gold preserved. Keep your Steam achievement checklist separate from Seraphina’s archive, which tracks objectives for skins, Forbidden powers, passives, and other rewards.

For a persistent problem, give the developers the achievement name, game version, hero, room or biome, and game mode. Include what happened at the end of the attempt. Those details make an unlocking issue easier to distinguish from a room that never completed.

Local co-op and Steam Remote Play Together provide another way to tackle dungeon attempts. Patch 2 extended the combat revival window to 60 seconds and reduced the partner-revive hold to two seconds. Coordinate revives before both heroes are overwhelmed, and check your own Steam achievement progress afterward.

You can access the game through the Mad King Redemption Steam page and review future development plans on the official Mad King Redemption website.

FAQ

How many Mad King Redemption Steam achievements are there?

There are 24 achievements. They cover tutorial completion, a first defeat, combat and gold milestones, dungeon starts, Mad King choices, hero-specific biome victories, and a run without Forbidden powers.

Do I need to finish both biomes with every hero?

Yes, to earn all eight Master achievements. Valraven, Branok, Darkblade, and Elowen each have separate achievements for finishing Biome 1 and Biome 2.

Does Gold Hoarder require keeping 1,000 gold in my wallet?

Gold Hoarder requires earning 1,000 gold over your lifetime. Big Spender is a separate objective requiring 5,000 gold spent in the Brotherhood.

Which update fixed the Biome 2 achievement?

Version 1.19.3 fixed the Biome 2 completion achievement failing to unlock correctly. Update the game before pursuing another clear, then check the achievement associated with your chosen hero.