Zad Archery Achievements

Steam currently lists 12 achievements for Zad Archery. A pre-launch news post on August 31 mentioned 25. Trust the overlay in the running client, not the teaser. This page is the 100 percent route for the live 12, plus the 1.0.2 fixes that unstuck Defeat the King.

The campaign is designed around five hours. 100 percent is longer because loot luck, Guardian spawns, and Steam being online all gate the last pops. Single-player only: nobody can boost you.

What we can name without inventing a list

Samharia has not published a public 12-row table this wiki can copy. Community threads and the 1.0.2 notes do name Defeat the King. The rest cluster into families you will hit if you play the systems in order:

• Launch and first-hour pops: finishing the tutorial loop, first wave clear, first job unlock (Archer is free; Sniper is the cheap second portrait).
• Economy pops: spending on the skill tree, first craft take, first Gathering level.
• Combat pops: Arrow Fall use, Explosive Arrow ranks, a Guardian kill.
• Endgame pops: every Guardian spawned, the King dead, wave 50 reached.

If an achievement text in your overlay names a system, do that system. Do not hunt a hidden cave for Mining; it is a tab. See mining.

Zad Archery full gameplay used for achievement routing

Defeat the King — the one that actually broke

1.0.2 text: “Fixed Defeat the King not unlocking when Steam was unreachable.” If you killed the King offline, relaunch with Steam online. You also need every Guardian spawned. A missing fourth Guardian locked the King for good until the same patch restored missed Guardians on restart.

Checklist:

1. Update to 1.0.2 or later (patch notes).
2. Full process restart so missed Guardians restore. Do not delete the save.
3. Confirm Steam is online.
4. Pull remaining Guardians with a Sniper kite kit. Walkthrough: guardians.
5. Kill the King. If the pop does not fire, exit to desktop, confirm the overlay, relaunch once.

Level 50 boss not spawning while the wave restarts is the same family. Update, restart, push. If it still loops, post the wave number on Steam or Discord (links).

A five-hour 100 percent order

Follow Getting Started through Sniper. Do not vendor a rare with extra Arrow Fall projectiles; some unlocks care that you equipped loot, not that you sold it. Crafting is the take/fail loop.

Open Gathering, buy Herbalism, then Mining and Fishing as locks drop. Alchemy flask ranks after leaves exist (alchemy). Push Guardians as they appear; do not skip a wave band hoping to come back. After 1.0.2, gems still count on lower waves, so you can hover to buy a job button and still progress economy achievements. Timing: farming planner.

Wave 50 is the combat cap, not a secret 13th achievement. Threads titled Why Max Wave lvl 50 are feature requests. Watch updates if Samharia adds a 1.1 list.

Missable versus broken

• Missable in spirit: selling every rare, never opening Gathering, never unlocking Sniper. You can still finish the 12 by going back; 1.0 does not advertise a New Game Plus wipe.
• Broken at launch, patched: missing Guardian, King pop while Steam is down, gems not counting on lower waves.
• Not missable if you follow the overlay: job unlocks and first-craft takes fire when you click the button.

Do not create a second save “for achievements” unless the file is corrupt. Cloud is on the store page. Let it sync after 1.0.2.

For ranked kits that make Guardian and King pops less painful, use the jobs tier list and builds. For whether the 12 are worth the $6.99, use the review.