Achievements (XCOM: Enemy Unknown)

This is a list of all console achievements and trophies for XCOM: Enemy Unknown.

Icon	Name	Description	Points	Trophy
...	You Win	Gain all trophies.		Platinum
	And So It Begins...	Complete the tutorial mission.	15	Bronze
	Humanity's Savior	Beat the game on any difficulty.	30	Bronze
	Earth First	Beat the game on Classic difficulty.	60	Silver
	Our Finest Hour	Beat the game on Impossible difficulty.	90	Gold
	No Looking Back	Beat the game in Ironman Mode on Classic or Impossible difficulty.	100	Gold
	A Continental Fellow	Win the game from each of the 5 starting locations.	50	Silver
	Ain't No Cavalry Comin'	Have a soldier survive every mission in a full game.	50	Silver
	Lone Wolf	Clear a UFO Crash Site with one soldier on Classic or Impossible difficulty.	20	Silver
	The Hardest Road	Advance one of your soldiers to Colonel rank.	10	Silver
	Wet Work	Complete a Very Difficult abduction mission in five turns or less on Classic or Impossible difficulty.	10	Silver
	Up and Running	Build a base facility	5	Bronze
	Theory...	Build a Laboratory.	10	Bronze
	... and Practice	Build a Workshop.	10	Bronze
	Drums in the Deep	Gain access to the lowest level in your base.	10	Bronze
	Combat Ready	Build an item.	5	Bronze
	Eye in the Sky	Launch a Satellite.	5	Bronze
	All Together Now	Get Satellite coverage over every country on one continent.	10	Bronze
	What Wonders Await	Complete a Research Project.	5	Bronze
	All Employees Must Wash Hands...	In a single game, complete every Autopsy.	10	Bronze
	Edison	In a single game, complete every Research Project.	25	Bronze
	Happy to Oblige	Fulfill a Council request.	15	Bronze
	Tables Turned	Shoot down a UFO.	10	Bronze
	Hunter/Killer	In a single game, shoot down one of each alien craft.	15	Bronze
	Shooting Stars	Shoot down 40 UFOs.	35	Silver
	Man No More	Build a suit of powered armor.	10	Bronze
	One Gun at a Time	Staff the Engineering Department with 80 Engineers.	20	Bronze
	Oppenheimer	Staff the Research Labs with 80 Scientists.	20	Bronze
	You Have 5 Seconds to Comply	Build a S.H.I.V.	10	Bronze
	Skunkworks	In a single game, complete every Foundry project.	20	Bronze
	We Happy Few	Complete a mission without losing a soldier.	10	Bronze
	As A Scalpel	Earn the "Excellent" rating in every performance category on a Terror mission.	25	Bronze
	Welcoming Committee	Kill 150 aliens.	20	Bronze
	Pale Horse	Kill 500 Aliens.	50	Silver
	Bada Boom	Kill 50 Aliens with explosive weapons.	10	Bronze
	Worth Every Penny	Acquire §1000 in one month.	20	Bronze
	Xavier	Mind Control an Ethereal. Single player only.	10	Silver
	Angel of Death	Kill an alien while flying. Single player only.	10	Bronze
	Poison Control	Cure poison on five soldiers in a single mission. Single player only. Consoles only.	10	Bronze
	Flight of the Valkyries	Win a mission with an all-female squad. Single player only.	10	Bronze
	Meet New People. Then Kill Them.	Win a multiplayer match.	25	Bronze
	Bubonic	Play a multiplayer match against someone with this achievement.	...	Bronze
	Prisoner of War	Capture a live alien.	10	Bronze
	The Gatekeeper	Stun an Outsider.	10	Bronze
	X Marks the Spot	Uncover the alien base's location.	10	Bronze
	Off My Planet	Recover the Hyperwave Beacon.	25	Silver
	See All, Know All	Build the Hyperwave Relay.	10	Bronze
	Ride the Lightning	Build a Firestorm.	10	Bronze
	And Hell's Coming With Me	Successfully assault an Overseer UFO.	10	Bronze
	Beyond the Veil	Find a soldier with the Gift.	10	Bronze
	On the Shoulders of Giants	Build the Gollop Chamber.	10	Bronze
	The Volunteer	Make contact with the Ethereal hive mind.	10	Bronze

Slingshot Content Pack

This DLC adds 5 new achievements:

Icon	Name	Description	Points	Trophy
	New Friend	Complete Friends In Low Places	10	Bronze
	Rising Dragon	Take your new ally into the final challenge	30	Gold
	Bait the Hook	Complete Confounding Light	10	Bronze
	All Aboard	Complete Confounding Light with more than 3 turns left on the timer	30	Silver
	The Bigger They Are	Complete Gangplank	20	Silver

XCOM: Enemy Within

This expansion includes 30 new achievements:

Icon	Name	Description	Points	Trophy
	Who Needs Limbs?	Augment soldier in single player	20
	Nice Cover	Use Collateral Damage to blow up a car in single player	20
	Someone Your Own Size	Kill a Muton Berserker in melee combat in single player	20
	Steel Martyr	Deploy three tactical subsystems on a single soldier in single player	40
	By Our Powers Combined	Field a squad with 4 augmented soldiers, each with a different base ability and win the mission	40
	Rise of the Machines	Field a squad consisting entirely of augmented soldiers and SHIVs (min. 4) and win the mission	20
	A Little Bit Alien	Modify a soldier in single player	20
	Mind the Step	Jump two stories in one move in single player	20
	Anger Management	Proc Combat Rush on the entire squad (min. 4)	20
	Tingling Sensation	Kill an unseen enemy detected by a specially modified soldier in single player	40
	Mental Minefield	Kill an enemy as it is psionically attacking you in single player	40
	Mutatis Mutandis	Field a squad where all members (min. 4) have at least two modifications and win the mission	20
	Enemy Within	Get a Soldier to have 5 modifications in single player	20
	The Meld Squad	Field a fully enhanced squad and win the mission	20
	Remington... Max Remington	Have your special-duty soldier kill three enemies in the same mission	40
	Elite Defense	Beat a new special mission without losing any assets	40
	G'day	Kill an elite enemy Sniper with one of your own snipers in single player	20
	Regenerate This	Kill an elite enemy Medic with explosive damage in single player	20
	Pain in the Neck	Cause an enemy to suicide	40
	Taking a Load Off	Stop a squad member from suffocating in single player	20
	Shield Buster	Eliminate an enemy's shield and kill it on the same turn in single player	20
	Zom-B-Gone	Eradicate the infestation	20
	Solid Prospect	Complete Deluge	20
	Ours are the Furies	Complete Furies	20
	They Shall Not Pass	Eliminate all alien waves	20
	All Hands on Deck	Get at least 4 kills with XCOM Base Security personnel	20
	Where in the World	Make certain of the new threat's location	40
	Apotheosis Denied	Deal with the newest global threat	100
	Guardian of Earth	Designate a highly decorated soldier as the Volunteer	100
	An Army of Four	Beat the game without buying a Squad Size upgrade (Classic+ difficulty)	100

Notes

• The achievement "Ain't No Cavalry Comin'" not only requires a soldier from your initial lineup to survive the entire game, but also participate in every mission from beginning to end. This prevents you from simply keeping a soldier in your barracks until the Temple Ship Assault is available. The "Rapid Recovery" upgrade from the Officer Training School, as well as the Adaptive Bone Marrow and Secondary Heart Gene Mods if playing in XCOM: Enemy Within are recommended.
• Even though the "Rising Dragon" achievement only states that you need to bring Shaojie Zhang with you into the final mission, it is necessary to finish the mission with him still alive to unlock it.

Trivia

• The achievement "All Together Now" is a reference to a song by The Beatles and another song by Farm.
• The achievement "And Hell's Coming With Me" is a reference to the 1993 American Western Tombstone, where Wyatt Earp shouts the line when he explains that he will give chase to the outlaws.
• The achievement "Bada Boom" is a reference to a line in the 1997 sci-fi film The Fifth Element.
• The achievement "By Our Powers Combined" is a reference to animated show Captain Planet and the Planeteers in which the Planeteers utter the phrase when summoning Captain Planet.
• The achievement "Drums in the Deep" is another reference to Lord of the Rings during the Moria scene where the group is trapped inside the lowest part of Moria, whereupon they read a journal talking about drums in the deep (war drums of the goblins).
• The achievement "G'day" is a reference to the Sniper from Team Fortress 2, who speaks with an Australian accent and can be heard uttering "G'day" as well.
• The achievement "Meet New People. Then Kill Them" is a reference to Joker's interview in the 1987 movie Full Metal Jacket: "I wanted to see exotic Vietnam... the crown jewel of Southeast Asia. I wanted to meet interesting and stimulating people of an ancient culture... and kill them. I wanted to be the first kid on my block to get a confirmed kill!"
• The achievement "On the Shoulders of Giants" is a reference to Sir Isaac Newton, a renowned scientist, who referenced the line in a 1676 letter. The line itself is far older, first being recorded in the 12th century, and usually refers to acts or people who generate accomplishments built on the works of others, typically greater and before them. Thus it functions as a nod of praise to the Gollop Brothers, implying the XCOM game was only able to be so good because it built on their work.
• The achievement "Ours are the Furies" is probably a reference to A Song of Ice and Fire, as the motto of House Baratheon are "Ours is the Fury".
• The achievement "Regenerate this" is a reference to the movie Star Trek: First Contact, where Worf utters this phrase just before blowing up a group of Borg. Others associate it to the movie The Matrix and the quote "Dodge this".
• The achievement "Remington, Max Remington" is likely a reference to the James Bond catch phrase "Bond... James Bond". "Max Remington" is the name of player's character (short for Maximilian/Maxine depending on chosen gender) in MicroProse's (maker of original X-COM series) old James Bond styled game Covert Action.
• The achievement "Ride the Lightning" is either a reference to the 1984 Metallica album of the same name, or a reference to a passage in the Stephen King novel The Stand, in which a free group of people fight a greater power headed by an evil, supernatural man named Randall Flagg. The latter is the more likely intent of the reference.
• The achievement "Skunkworks" is likely a reference to the real-world Skunk Works, a highly classified American aircraft development program which built (among other projects) the U-2 spyplane, SR-71 Blackbird and F-22 Raptor.
• The achievement "They Shall Not Pass" is a direct reference to Gandalf's famous line in The Lord of the Rings, "You shall not pass!". It could also be a reference to French General Philippe Pétain, who spoke this phrase at the Battle of Verdun during the First World War.
• The achievement "Tingling Sensation" is likely a reference to the comic book hero Spider-Man who is frequently forewarned of unseen or imminent danger by his "spider-sense" tingling.
• The achievement "We Happy Few" is a quote from Shakespeare's Henry V.
• The achievement "Where in the World" is a reference to Carmen Sandiego, a criminal from a classic educational computer game series whose franchise included a game titled "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?".
• The achievement "Xavier" is likely a reference to Charles Xavier from the Marvel Comics' X-Men franchise; Xavier possesses powerful mind-controlling (and mind-reading) abilities.
• The achievement "You Have 5 Seconds to Comply" is a reference to the movie Robocop and the ED-209 prototype.
• The achievement "An Army of Four" is maybe an reference to Björk's song "Army of Me" or more likely to the movie "Sucker Punch" where the song is on the soundtrack.