Survival Log Achievements Guide
Quick answer
Survival Log has 93 Steam achievements, and the difficult ones are restraint conditions rather than skill checks. Reported examples include finishing a run while spending under half your prep-phase cash, and keeping doors and windows above roughly 70% durability for an entire playthrough. A launch patch rescoped challenge achievements so they evaluate within a single loop, which makes dedicated attempts viable.
How the Survival Log achievement list is structured
Any Survival Log 100 percent achievement guide has to start with the shape of the list. Ninety-three is a large list for a game this size, and it maps onto the way Survival Log delivers its content - through repetition rather than length. Broadly, the achievements fall into four groups.
| Type | Example | How to earn it | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Progression | Reaching day and survival milestones | Play normally | Low |
| Discovery | Unlocking recipes and crafting tiers | Cook and craft consistently | Low to medium |
| Ending | Savior, and outcomes tied to other endings | Play toward a specific ending | Medium |
| Restraint | Spend under half your cash; hold durability above 70% | Commit from the prep phase | High |
Only the last group requires real Survival Log planning. Everything else accumulates while you learn the game, which is why most Survival Log achievement hunting turns into a small number of deliberate loops rather than a long grind.
The Survival Log restraint achievements
These are the Survival Log achievements worth understanding in detail, because both reported examples are decided long before you could realistically know you were attempting them.
Spending under half your money before the disaster. This directly attacks the core advice on this wiki - that the prep phase decides the run. Attempting it means going into the outbreak deliberately under-equipped, then compensating with farming, cooking and scavenging. It pairs naturally with a patient, low-consumption run.
Keeping doors and windows above roughly 70% durability throughout. Given that a stock front door is already at 80/100 during the Day 7 siege, this Survival Log achievement demands upgraded barriers and disciplined repair, from the first siege onward. A single neglected siege can end the attempt without any obvious failure moment.
Spending under half your cash makes it much harder to afford the door tier that holds durability above 70%. Treat them as separate Survival Log runs unless you are extremely confident - trying to satisfy both usually loses both.
The Survival Log loop-scoping patch
One of the more player-visible post-launch changes to Survival Log achievements: challenge achievements such as the stay-indoors type were adjusted to evaluate within a single cycle, so actions in earlier loops no longer break completion in the current one.
The original behaviour collided badly with the game's own design. Survival Log expects you to fail runs and learn from them, but an achievement that tracked across your whole save effectively demanded a clean history from run one. The fix restores the intended relationship between failure and progress, and it means a challenge attempt now starts fresh whenever you start a new loop.
A practical route to 100 percent in Survival Log
- Play Survival Log normally first. Progression and discovery achievements arrive on their own while you learn. Do not plan around them.
- Fill the recipe book as you go. With 393 Survival Log recipes, cooking something new whenever you have surplus is free progress.
- Run one ending loop at a time. Survival Log endings conflict, so batch each with the achievements that suit it.
- Dedicate a loop to each restraint achievement. Now that challenges are loop-scoped, a clean attempt is the efficient approach.
- Leave the secret ending achievement last. It rewards system knowledge you will only have after everything above.
Why this Survival Log page has no full list
Publishing all 93 Survival Log achievement names and conditions would be more useful than what is here, and this wiki does not have them verified. Achievement databases exist that scrape names from Steam, but scraped names without tested conditions produce exactly the confident-sounding guesswork that makes new-game wikis unreliable. The conditions above are documented because players reported achieving them. The rest will be added as they are confirmed - see the contact page if you can help.
Survival Log FAQ: Achievements
How many achievements does Survival Log have?
93 Steam achievements, as listed on the official store page.
What are the hardest Survival Log achievements?
The restraint-based ones. Reported examples include finishing a run while spending less than half your money before the disaster, and keeping doors and windows above roughly 70% durability for an entire playthrough.
Did the Stay Indoors achievement get fixed?
Yes. Challenge achievements of that type were adjusted to evaluate within a single cycle, so going outside during a previous loop no longer spoils completion in the current one.
Can you get 100% in one playthrough?
No. With six endings and contradictory restraint conditions, full completion requires many loops.
Do achievements carry across loops?
Achievement progress persists, but challenge-type achievements now evaluate within the current loop, which makes dedicated attempts cleaner than opportunistic ones.