Taking the base gameplay from Bloober Team’s previous entry Layers Of Fear and adding in investigative elements in a bleak sci-fi future, Observer has you in the role of a police detective desperately trying to determine what’s actually real and what’s in his head.
Along the game’s seven to eight hour psychological horror experience, there are 19 achievements / trophies to unlock, ranging from finding collectibles to completing arcade mini-games and even tackling some tough philosophical choices about when life isn’t worth living.
Below we cover all 19 Observer achievements with specific info on how to unlock them if you find yourself stuck. Need help with the rest of the game still? Check out our other Observer guides here:
- Complete Guide to Keypad Codes / Passwords
- Solving the Room 104 Infinite Loop Puzzle
- Fire And Sword: Spiders Mini Game Solutions
Observer Game Achievements / Trophies
Unbreakable
Finish the game without ever dying.
There aren’t a lot of parts in the game where you can die — but in those few parts, dying tends to happen a lot. Your main issue will be towards the end of the segment inside the mind of Helena Novak (in the tattoo parlor) when you have to sneak past a monster in the office cubicle farm.
Keep in mind here that you can’t really outrun the monster, and instead you have to stay hidden and never draw its attention in the first place. Stay crouched down the whole time, don’t run, and always check left and right before breaking out of cover. Once you are near the exit point, you can stand up and walk normally.
Pearls Before Swine
Decide the fate of the organ farm.
Its easy to complete miss this achievement. After completing the tattoo parlor and having to go through the basement, you will find Apartment 28 with the words “Chiron Eats My Dreams” spray painted outside on the wall.
If you figure out the door code (its 7441), inside you’ll find some Layers Of Fear easter eggs, as well as giant pig that’s being used as an incubator for growing black-market human organs.
After the apartment lockdown went into place, the machine keeping the pig docile was shut off, so now its in terrible pain (being stuffed full of hundreds of extra organs will do that). Either restart the machine to put the creature back into a blissful, drug induced euphoria, or unplug it all to kill the pig and shut down the organ farm.
Outbreak
Find 10 nanophage patient cards.
As long as you are doing any amount of searching around the apartment complex, its virtually guaranteed you’ll get this achievement organically. Just make sure to pick up the patient cards lying around the apartment complex as you see them.
Pandemic
Find all nanophage patient cards in a single playthrough.
While getting 10 cards is easy, getting them all is quite difficult if you don’t already know where to look. Its possible to screw this one up and have to restart the game, as some of the cards are actually in the mind hacking segments.
Once you pass those digital cards, you can’t ever go back and find them again. Stay tuned for a full guide on each card’s location coming soon (along with the rest of the game’s collectibles).
Obsessive
Analyze 100 objects.
This includes both organic objects like blood and tech objects like computers, so either mode of your augmented eyes will help here. Don’t forget to look up and down, checking ceilings and floors, and take a peek inside objects like cabinets as well.
If you are routinely searching each room and hallway, you should hit this around the time the hallways become covered in bloody tentacles while you are chasing after the killer’s blood trail.
Noble Sword
Complete all With Fire and Sword: Spiders arcade games.
New levels of this mini-game become available when you find new terminals, so always check every apartment room for a computer you can interact with (including the terminal in the tattoo parlor that looks much different than the rest of the computers).
Stumped on any particular level of this arcade puzzle? Check out our full guide to completing all 10 Fire and Sword levels in this mini game.
KDP! Open Up!
Interrogate 20 apartment tenants.
This one takes persistence and a little exploration, since many of the rooms don’t have people who respond.
As long as you fully explore each hallway and floor whenever you have free reign to move around the apartment complex, it’s not hard to find all 20. Steam will actually keep track of how many you’ve knocked on already when you pull up the overlay.
Voxel Runner
Earn 3,000 points during a single trapware run.
We haven’t managed to nab this one yet, but will update the guide once we do!
Drug Trail
Interrogate Amir’s clients.
During the first mind hacking segment when you see Amir’s past, you will have to talk to several people while dropping off drugs throughout the building. After the segment is over, go back to those same apartments and talk to the clients to get this achievement to pop.
Body Snatcher
Decide the fate of the merging minds.
We haven’t managed to nab this one yet, but will update the guide once we do!
Observer Game Secret Achievements
I’m An Observer
Complete your first Dream Eater sequence.
Although this is a “secret” achievement, it pops automatically after you complete Amir’s mind hacking segment near the beginning of the game, and it can’t be missed.
Altered States
Overdose on synchronization pills.
This is a fun little easter egg you can get once you find several synchronization pills lying around. Just take a whole bunch at once (rather than saving them for when you need them) and have fun.
A Work In Progress
Find all RC cars and recall a memory of Adam.
Stay tuned for a full guide on the RC car locations (and the rest of the game’s collectibles) coming soon!
It’s A Trap
Survive Adam’s trapware.
This is another secret achievement that pops automatically as you near the end of the game.
By Any Other Name
Find all the roses and discover the final resting place.
Throughout the apartment complex you will occasionally find real roses, rather than digital representations. One is found in the stairs down to the basement, and another is on the covered hallway between the two halves of the complex. Stay tuned for a full collectibles location guide coming soon showing you their locations.
The Root Of All Evil
Find and listen to all patient interview recordings.
Scattered around the complex are a series of old cassette players containing the ramblings of a mental patient. You’ll find most of these around crime scenes that are investigated. Stay tuned for a full collectibles guide coming soon with exact locations.
C0D38R3AK3R
Decrypt Adam’s figurine.
This hacker speak for Codebreaker is another story-based achievement that you won’t miss if you finish the game.
A Death In The Family
Reject Adam.
Like with Layers Of Fear, this game has multiple endings requiring you make slightly different choices, and this is one of them. We’ll have an ending guide for you shortly.
The Prodigal Son
Embrace Adam.
This is the game’s second primary ending achievement. Stay tuned for a full ending guide coming soon.
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Those are all the Observer achievements currently available — totaling up to 1,000 gamer score if you nab ’em all. Do you have any tips for the achievements we haven’t unlocked yet? Let us know in the comments section!
