Tenebris: Terra Incognita Steam Achievements Guide

Steam lists 83 achievements for Tenebris: Terra Incognita. This page is a planning guide, not a spoiler checklist of every trophy name. Achievement titles and hidden descriptions change tone and sometimes conditions across patches, so the durable strategy is to understand categories, pair them with normal campaign habits, and verify exact wording on the Steam achievements list or the in-client Achievements panel.

Use this alongside Guides Hub, Difficulty Tips, and Story Walkthrough so trophy hunting does not wreck your Solaris economy.

Before you hunt: read Steam, not rumors

Because this wiki refuses to invent fake achievement names:

1. Open the official Steam achievements page for app 2280060.
2. Note which entries are hidden until unlocked.
3. Track progress in the Steam overlay after sessions.
4. Re-check after major patches—Version 1.0 and Patch History can shift balance and content gates that indirectly affect trophies.

If a third-party list disagrees with Steam, trust Steam.

Practical achievement categories

Most of the 83 entries cluster into patterns you can play toward naturally:

Combat and mastery

Expect trophies tied to winning fights cleanly, using class fantasies well, and overcoming tougher encounters. These usually fall out of learning Combat Tactics—armor breaks, focus fire, taunts, and later Combat Concentration/combo timing—rather than from a separate “achievement mode.”

Play toward them by: finishing missions without panic retreats, practicing combo setups on mid-band maps, and preparing properly for elites on Bosses.

Exploration and expedition progress

Another cluster rewards seeing the planet: biomes, map expansion, story milestones, and thorough looting. Clearing chests, following crew tasks, and opening Pyrite then Glacier routes will advance many of these without a special save file.

Play toward them by: reading mission icons, bringing professions (Hacker, Scout, Strongman, Marauder, Reanimator), and pacing content with Biomes & Map plus Story Walkthrough.

Roster and progression

Several achievements typically gate on hiring, promoting, or specializing heroes—careers near levels 11 and 21, wider benches, and build experiments across the 23-hero fantasy. Spreading XP too thin can slow combat trophies; ignoring careers can stall roster trophies.

Play toward them by: maintaining a core four plus a useful bench, unlocking careers with intent via Career System, and sampling build families on Builds without abandoning your A-team.

Difficulty and challenge

Harder modes, stricter resource pressure, and high-risk fights usually own their own achievement band. These are the ones most likely to soft-lock careless commanders who raise skulls before learning systems.

Play toward them by: clearing a comfortable campaign first, then starting a dedicated higher-difficulty run using Difficulty Tips. Do not raise difficulty mid-save solely for one trophy unless you accept wipe risk.

Collection and systems mastery

Leftover entries often involve Solaris systems, gear milestones, or miscellaneous mastery. Legendary gear around level 21 and mythic around level 30 are campaign power spikes that may overlap collection-style goals—see Equipment & Arsenal—but always confirm on Steam instead of assuming a named “craft 10 mythics” style task.

Tips to avoid soft-locking rare progress

Achievement hunting goes wrong when it fights the campaign loop:

• Do not brick a high-difficulty save experimenting with joke squads if a trophy needs a clear on that file.
• Keep manual backups around boss doors, career unlocks, and any Steam-noted wipe milestones (EA→1.0 incompatibility taught this lesson already).
• Separate “learning saves” from “trophy saves.” Use a sandbox difficulty to practice combo timings, then execute cleanly on the file that matters.
• Watch permanent-death settings. If your mode allows heroes to die for good, roster achievements and combat achievements can collide—read the mode text carefully.
• Do not rush Glacier icons underleveled just because an exploration trophy might be behind them; failed deep runs cost more than waiting one gear loop.
• Avoid checklist tunnel vision that skips hospital care; dead tempo loses both story and trophy progress.

Suggested hunting order

1. Natural campaign sweep on a fair difficulty—most exploration and many combat entries drop for free.
2. Roster pass — promote key lines, try one alternate build package, awaken cryo recruits for coverage.
3. Boss and elite pass — schedule named fights with saves; use Bosses.
4. Challenge pass — new save or raised difficulty for the strict trophies after systems click.
5. Cleanup pass — compare Steam’s remaining locked list against your habits; fill gaps intentionally.

What not to do

• Trust unverified “complete list” blogs that invent names
• Buy third-party unlockers (outside this wiki’s scope and usually against Steam norms)
• Expect Roblox-style codes or multiplayer boosts—Tenebris is single-player only
• Sacrifice the entire Solaris economy for one hidden trophy on your only save

Tie-ins

• Campaign pacing: Story Walkthrough
• Fight skills: Combat Tactics and the wider Guides Hub
• Skull management: Difficulty Tips
• Official store and community: Official Links

Treat achievements as a second lens on a campaign you already want to play well. Check Steam for the authoritative 83-entry list, play clean sorties, and let the trophies follow the expedition—not the other way around.