Steam lists 25 achievements for Sludgineers. The conditions below are taken from the current achievement registry; the strategy notes are our own evidence-based guidance.
Full achievement list
| Achievement | Requirement |
|---|---|
| Satisfied Customer | Complete a job |
| Regional Expansion | Unlock a region |
| Side Gig | Complete a quest |
| Close Call | Pick up a battery with less than 5% energy |
| Turbo Time | Maintain turbo boost mode for 10 seconds |
| Supercharged | Collect 5 batteries in a single level |
| Barrel Bonanza | Fill 20 barrels in a single level |
| Fully Operational | Unlock all refineries |
| Refined Taste | Refine 500 barrels of pollution |
| Criticality | Destroy 100 Zorkite crystals with critical hits |
| Cash Cow | Earn $250,000 |
| Midas Touch | Collect 100 gold coins |
| Clean Streak | Clean 10 bonus objects in 5 seconds |
| Maximum Suckage | Fully upgrade the vacuum |
| Attractive Investment | Collect $500 with a single magnet |
| Pollution Solution | Complete the game |
| In Safe Hands | Open 25 safes |
| Clearing the Air | Destroy 50 Vexon gas clouds with lightning storms |
| Preventative Measures | Destroy 10 vents before they erupt |
| Drone Swarm | Unlock all drones |
| Turbo Domination | Clear 50% of a level with a single turbo charge |
| Bling King | Collect 50 diamonds |
| Jacked | Fully upgrade the Jackhammer |
| Filtration Amplification | Fully upgrade the Air Filter |
| Completionist | Purchase all upgrades |
Achievements worth planning early
Close Call is easiest when you already understand battery timing: leave a battery, deliberately dip under 5%, then pick it up. Do not risk a run if the battery is about to be auto-collected.
Supercharged benefits from a map with many bonus objects plus good battery-drop upgrades. You do not need to waste the batteries — the achievement is about collecting them in one level.
Refined Taste is mostly a throughput achievement. Refinery automation keeps it progressing while you work on everything else.
Turbo achievements
Turbo Time wants a 10-second continuous boost. Turbo Domination wants half a level cleared on a single turbo charge. Those are much easier after you have invested in turbo duration/power and on a map your current tools already outscale.
Do not try Turbo Domination on the newest, thickest map just because it looks dramatic. A familiar map with high suction and a prepared charge is the cleaner route.
Tool completion achievements
Maximum Suckage, Jacked and Filtration Amplification naturally move toward Completionist. If you plan to buy every upgrade anyway, do not force them too early at the expense of progression-critical refinery or drone nodes.
Safes, diamonds and gas
In Safe Hands and Bling King overlap with normal late-game safe routing. Patch #1’s 250% refined-resource buff to safes makes this grind more useful than it was at launch.
Clearing the Air depends on the lightning mechanic in the gas branch, while Preventative Measures rewards killing vents quickly — something you should already be doing on difficult gas maps.
Pollution Solution and Completionist
The finale awards Pollution Solution when the final cleanup is completed. The game then allows continued cleanup and upgrading, so Completionist can be finished after the ending rather than before it.