Achievements

Introduction

Worming from Home ships with 32 Steam achievements, and its achievement design mirrors the game itself: a comedy surface hiding a serious completionist mountain. The list runs from near-automatic unlocks that every player earns in the first minutes to sub-one-percent challenges like purchasing every shop item and clearing the Wormhole on Torment Mode. Each achievement page in this section explains the exact unlock condition, what the global unlock rate tells you about difficulty and the cleanest moment in a run to go for it. Because several achievements are missable or tied to specific days, planning your route before you start pays off enormously — a single informed playthrough can collect most of the list without a second career.

Achievement Rarity Snapshot

Achievement Routes

Core Mechanics

The achievement list splits neatly into four layers. Automatic layer: logins and first-time actions that unlock themselves as you play, including Welcome to Corporate Finance. Natural layer: achievements you earn by engaging with systems, like TOUCHDOWN! for cumulative movement distance and Valuable Work Experience for your tenth intern. Route layer: achievements requiring specific odd actions — throwing away an intern for Establish Dominance, filming one for Surveillance State, getting blocked by emergency services — that you would rarely do unprompted. Grind layer: the endgame challenges, Expensive Taste at 0.8% for buying every shop item, Why? at 0.5% for a Torment Mode Wormhole clear and Transcendental Invertebrate at 0.3% for everything else. A planned single run handles the first three layers; the grind layer is where second playthroughs live.

Advantages

The list is unusually friendly to guide-followers because almost every achievement has a precise, repeatable condition rather than a luck gate. There are no random-drop hunts: if an achievement requires printing a thousand-dollar bill or sending your boss a photo of yourself, you can execute it deliberately the moment you know how. Global unlock rates give you honest difficulty data, so you can decide early whether a full 100% run is worth your time. Many achievements also overlap with normal play — buying interns, drinking from the Beverage Hat and trading 100 shares in a day are all things an optimized run does anyway, meaning a smart route collects the majority of the list as a by-product of playing well rather than as a separate chore.

Challenges

The rarity curve is brutal at the top. Below the common layer, rates fall off a cliff: Expensive Taste at 0.8% demands complete shop coverage, Why? at 0.5% demands mastering the hardest platforming route in the game on its most punishing setting, and Transcendental Invertebrate at 0.3% demands both plus everything else. Several achievements are also missable on a blind save — romance events, birthday tasks and the emergency services prank are tied to windows you will not know to preserve. A few achievements like Kafkaesque and Prime Real Estate ship without official descriptions, which forces completionists to lean on community documentation. None of this is insurmountable, but 100% is a genuine project measured in weeks of playtime, not hours.

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