The Walking Dead: The Final Season 100% guide

When you find AJ after following the music, choose "Tickle him" during the conversation. The achievement unlocks immediately after the tickle.

During the walker-defense sequence in the woods, kill the four walkers using the four hanging log traps. Do not kill any of these walkers normally.

Each trap only works when a walker is inside its marked area. Stun walkers as needed, move them beneath a trap, wait for the trap's circle to turn red with the walker inside, and cut the rope. The requirement is a trap kill from each of the four traps. More walkers arrive than there are traps, and killing the others normally does not void the achievement, but don't waste a walker that is standing in an unused trap's circle. If a trap is cut without killing anything, let a walker bite Clementine or quit to the main menu to restart the checkpoint.

Back at the school courtyard, pick up the Real Flowers before progressing the social scene. From your starting spot facing the flag, go right between the couch group and the cooking group, under the overhang, to the stone bench against the wall at the far end.

During the courtyard dinner/social sequence, speak to everyone before advancing:

• Mitch and Willy on the couches
• Louis and Omar cooking
• Ruby at the fire
• Violet and Tenn by the graves
• Aasim on the steps writing

Talking to Marlon advances the scene, so leave him for last. The achievement unlocks after every required person has been spoken to.

Later, in the bedroom, AJ finds a coloring box and Violet comes to ask for it. Choose "You can keep it if you like". AJ then hands Clementine AJ's Drawing, the fourth Episode 1 collectible. The drawing is reported to arrive whichever answer you give, but keeping the box is the safe choice and costs nothing.

Continue the story to the end of Act One. This unlocks automatically when Act One is completed.

When Marlon holds out his hand and offers to help Clementine handle Rosie, choose "I trust you", then pet Rosie and tell her to sit. The achievement unlocks once Clementine successfully interacts with her.

When Marlon asks where to go, choose to fish with Violet and Brody. The Cat Skull has a different spot on each path, and the fishing path holds Lost Love and Upstream, so use it on your main slot.

At the fishing shack, turn around as soon as you regain control and pick up the Cat Skull from above the brick fireplace before leaving the building.

Inside the fishing shack, speak with AJ near the bed and inspect the heart graffiti he points out. The achievement unlocks from discovering the graffiti.

Pick up the spear from behind the table in the shack. During the fishing sequence, spear all 3 fish across 3 rounds without missing. Aim until the reticle turns red before each throw, and expect the later rounds to be faster. If you miss, quit to the main menu and reload; the game restarts you at the beginning of the fishing sequence.

Later, after the train-station sequence and the return to Ericson, Tenn draws at the courtyard dinner table. When he asks whether you want to be in the drawing, answer "Sure, draw me in" so he gives you Tenn's Drawing, the final Episode 1 collectible. Refusing (and having AJ scribbled out) makes Tenn scrap the drawing.

Scavenger unlocks when Tenn's Drawing is collected, provided you already have the Deer Skull, Plastic Flowers, Real Flowers, AJ's Drawing, and Cat Skull. It pops before Act Two ends.

Continue to the end of Act Two. This unlocks automatically when Act Two is completed.

Place every Episode 1 collectible on its marked spot before blowing out the candle and going to sleep: the Deer Skull above the door, the Plastic Flowers on the shelf above the desk, the Real Flowers by the candle, the Cat Skull on the shelf, and Tenn's Drawing next to AJ's. Blowing out the candle ends the placement window. The achievement unlocks when the final collectible is placed.

Continue through the remainder of the episode. Protector unlocks automatically at the end of Act Three.

Choose to help Louis with the trapped walker. Take the bat and land 3 swings on the hanging walker, pressing only when the crosshair is red. A miss fails the attempt, so reload the hunting-area copy and try again. The achievement unlocks after the third successful swing.

Reload the hunting-area copy and choose to help Aasim instead.

Shoot the rabbits with Aasim's bow without missing. The first group spawns two rabbits, but you only need to hit one. After a short cutscene another rabbit appears and must also be hit. Wait for each rabbit to stop before releasing the arrow. A miss fails the attempt; reload the hunting-area copy and retry. The achievement unlocks after the second successful hit.

Once both hunting achievements are unlocked, Episode 1 is complete. Return to your finished main-story save and continue to Episode 2. Both Episode 1 branch copies (the Act Two copy and the hunting-area copy) are now expendable, so overwrite them for later backups.

This unlocks automatically when Act One is completed.

After collecting the Mysterious Mushroom, interact with the mushrooms again and eat one. The achievement unlocks immediately.

Once the first room is exhausted, enter the laboratory. Pick up the Venus Flytrap from the left corner of the first flowerbed, a few steps in, before touching anything else. Then inspect the blue beaker, the flask, the chalkboard, and the test tubes on the shelf, and speak with Ruby and Mitch if dialogue is available.

Gatherer unlocks on the Venus Flytrap pickup, after the Wild Boar Skull and Mysterious Mushroom.

Required: interact with everything in and outside the greenhouse. Before taking the igniters and propane tank that end the greenhouse scene, verify that you have interacted with every available marker in all three greenhouse sections (outside, first room, laboratory) and spoken with both companions at every available opportunity. Hold the interaction-highlight button in each section to confirm no marker is left.

Because of the failure reports, the safest route is to leave the igniters and propane until absolutely everything else has been exhausted. If Botanist does not unlock after a full sweep, reloading the greenhouse backup and repeating the sweep is worth attempting.

Continue the story after Botanist unlocks. The greenhouse backup is now expendable and can be reused for the Be Prepared or relationship copies.

This unlocks automatically when Act Two is completed.

Place the Wild Boar Skull and Mysterious Mushroom on the shelf and the Venus Flytrap on the dresser before blowing out the candle; blowing it out ends the placement window. The achievement unlocks when all three have been placed.

Later, Clementine is sent into the courtyard to inspect Ericson's defenses. This is an important missable window. Do not talk to Violet to progress until the area is completely finished.

Sweep the entire courtyard before speaking to Violet. Use the game's interaction-highlighting function and clear every environmental marker first, before talking to anyone; talking to people mid-sweep is reported to be glitchy.

Make sure you inspect the central graffiti, flagpole, mounted walker heads, wooden barricade, flipped table, gate walls, barbed wire above the gate, pile of heads, burned-building rubble, and every available grave. Once every object is done, check in with the other defenders. Keep Violet for last because speaking with her ends the preparation window.

After the object sweep, find Rosie near the graves where Marlon was buried and choose "Pet her". The achievement unlocks after the interaction.

Talk to Louis during the preparation sequence and use Marlon's bow for target practice. Hit the stationary target with all five shots without missing. Every arrow simply needs to hit the target.

Later, after the card game with Violet's group, the game asks whom to follow. Either Violet or Louis works for both relationship achievements, and the card-game answers do not matter.

Play the friendship branch first, on the copied save. With Violet, choose "You're a great friend" in the serious talk in the bell tower. With Louis, at the piano, hand Louis the knife and then say "I'm glad we're friends". The achievement unlocks when the scene resolves platonically.

Once Bonded unlocks, quit to the main menu and load your main slot.

On your main slot, take the romantic branch. With Violet, choose "I have feelings for you", then "Kiss her". With Louis, carve a heart around it, say "I LIKE like you", then "Kiss him". The achievement unlocks when the relationship turns romantic.

Continue the story on your main slot toward the attack on Ericson. With both Bonded and Moving Fast unlocked, the relationship copy is now expendable and can be reused for Deadeye and the Episode 4 branch.

During the two walker-defense waves late in Act Three, every walker you kill must die from a bow headshot. Missed arrows are fine. A walker that dies from a body shot, or one that reaches Clementine and forces a melee or quick-time kill, fails the attempt. If that happens, let Clementine die or quit to the main menu and reload before the waves end, then retry. Take your time lining up each shot and keep your distance from walkers that get close.

Finish the episode. Defender unlocks automatically when Act Three is completed.

Pet Rosie in the basement before beginning Abel's interrogation. The achievement unlocks immediately after petting her.

This achievement has a setup in Act One and the actual trigger in Act Three. During Abel's interrogation, get him to reveal the Raider password Rockingham. The decisive step is [Make him sweat]: his fear of turning is what makes him give up the password.

This is one confirmed working sequence:

1. Let AJ wake Abel.
2. Let Abel drink.
3. Tell him, “They’ve abandoned you.”
4. Tell him, “Fuck your war.”
5. Let him smoke.
6. Say, “I hope so.”
7. Let him sweat.
8. Say, “You’ll know soon enough.”

Do not forget the word Rockingham. The achievement itself will not unlock yet.

When the group scouts the Raider boat, turn around as soon as you gain control and collect the Horseshoe from the path behind you near a fallen tree, then the Rabbit's Foot from the ground next to Willy. Pick up both before talking to any companion, because the binocular conversations can end the scene.

During the Spy on Raiders objective, inspect every point of interest through the binoculars for all three companions.

AJ has two points, Violet or Louis has five, and Willy has three. The safest method is to remain in binocular view until the game automatically exits that person's view, which indicates every required point has been tagged.

Continue until you meet James and reach the walker sequence where he asks Clementine not to kill them.

Kill no walkers during James's test. Stun walkers or keep moving until the sequence ends, but do not perform a lethal attack. The common failure point is the walker that walks up while you push the cart: do not press the kill prompt on it. The achievement unlocks after the non-lethal sequence is completed.

At James's barn, do not speak to James immediately. First collect the Beet Nick toy from the ground by the hay bales, left of the entrance and left of James, and the Wind Chimes on the outer right wall of the barn, right of AJ and the salt lick (you can hear them). These are the final two Episode 3 collectibles.

Hunter unlocks on whichever barn collectible you pick up last, provided you already have the School Pennant, Sketch Toy, Horseshoe, and Rabbit's Foot.

While AJ is beside the salt lick at James's barn, speak to him about it. Any dialogue option works once you interact with the salt lick.

Continue to the end of Act One. Whispers unlocks automatically when the act is completed.

Place all six on their marked spots: the School Pennant on the wall by Clementine's bunk, the Sketch Toy on the shelf nearest the door, the Horseshoe on the door, the Rabbit's Foot on AJ's top bunk, the Beet Nick on AJ's desk, and the Wind Chimes on the ceiling fan. The achievement unlocks after the final item is placed.

Continue through the party sequence. Nightlight unlocks automatically at the end of the party, after Louis's or Violet's song.

Later, during the approach to the Raider boat, Clementine slips past a spotlight and is then attacked by walkers just before entering.

Kill every approaching walker with the bow before any of them reaches Clementine. Aim for heads, and missing an arrow is fine. The critical condition is that every walker dies from the bow and no knife or hand-to-hand quick-time kill occurs.

If one gets close enough to force melee, let Clementine die or restart the checkpoint and repeat the sequence.

Continue through the rest of Act Two. Shoreline unlocks automatically when the act is completed.

When challenged by the guard, answer with the password Rockingham obtained from Abel in Act One. The achievement unlocks when you choose the Rockingham option.

Soon afterward, Clementine is confined in a cell.

Before working on the escape, inspect the tally marks scratched into the cell wall. They are usually described as next to the cell door; if you don't see them there, check the back wall by the cupboard. The achievement unlocks from examining them.

Finish Episode 3. Leader unlocks automatically when Act Three is completed.

Red Water unlocks automatically when Act One is completed.

If you told AJ you trust him to make the hard decisions, Goodbye unlocks after the bridge sequence and subsequent climb in Act Two.

Once it unlocks, return to the main menu and load the copied save from the cave. Make the opposite choice and tell AJ he is not ready to make those decisions. Replay through the bridge sequence.

If you told AJ he is not ready to make the hard decisions, You And Me unlocks after the same bridge sequence and climb.

After both choice achievements are unlocked, return to the save you want to use for the rest of the story and continue. Collectibles are tracked per save, so finish the season on a slot that holds the Calypso Cauliflower, the Crystal, and the Skin Mask.

Finish Act Two. Final Lesson unlocks automatically at the end of the act.

Promise is story-related and unlocks automatically during the McCarroll Ranch flashback sequence.

Later, AJ fishes and enters the nearby shack to put away the spear. As soon as you enter, turn right and take the Skull Fragment from the gap beside the free-standing stove near the entrance, before putting the spear away.

Survivor unlocks on the Skull Fragment pickup, the last Episode 4 collectible. It is reported to unlock even if the Skin Mask was lost, but the safe route collects all four.

Continue the story until AJ recovers Clementine's hat.

This is story-related and unlocks automatically when AJ finds Clementine's hat.

At the very end of the episode, after returning to the bedroom, stop before placing Clementine's hat. That action ends the episode.

Before placing the hat, place all four Episode 4 collectibles around the room: the Skin Mask on the coat rack, the Skull Fragment on the shelf with the other skulls, the Crystal on the desk, and the Calypso Cauliflower on AJ's bunk. Home At Last sometimes unlocks early, after the first placement; place all four anyway rather than treating an early unlock as proof you are done.

Once Home At Last has unlocked and all four collectibles are placed, place Clementine's hat and finish the final scene. Savior unlocks automatically when Act Three and the season are completed.