Black Book: 100% Achievements Guide and Tips

• In walking sections, you can walk using WASD/arrow keys and interact using spacebar.
• To skip the text fast, use the scrollwheel.
• You can skip battles with no penalty whatsoever. If you grow too frustrated with a fight, skip it by failing a number of times.
• You have a limited number of manual saves – 20. The game also has 2 autosaves, one at the beginning of a main task (at the izba/resting place) and one in your current location.

See Keeper of Knowledge section.

See Keeper of Knowledge section.

Answer 40 knowledge questions correctly. Using hints is likely allowed for the achievement.

During the main task Get to the Cave in chapter 2, visit the location Drowner Circle. Interact with pillars to the left side of the screen and they will make sounds in a sequence. Repeat the sequence in the order middle, right, left, right, middle and the drowners will be freed.

Demons will be added to your pester as you level up, and you can also find them during main and optional tasks and agree to take them into your service.

Get sins by doing bad deeds during dialogues and choices such as stealing offerings and refusing to help people in need, as well as sending your chorts to curse people.

On chapter 3 in the main task Protect the Bridal Procession in the location near the crooked forest, go left, right, right.

Unlock all cards. Note that chapter 7’s cards require you to visit the market and do battles in order to not miss them.

Story achievement, cannot be missed.

As the achievement says, unlock all black cards. Note that chapter 7’s cards require you to visit the market and do battles in order to not miss them.

Buy cards from book keepers at every opportunity, fight battles, and craft cards – getting the skills which reduce the cost of buying from shops and of crafting cards as well as getting more money from gifts is very helpful here, but it will still cost a lot of money to craft all the needed cards, around 4000.

Keep talking to Egor and asking him about his past. After the full story has been told, when his optional quest comes up, agree to go. Fight the battle puzzle successfully (or skip it) and in the knowledge choice choose break the spine or hammer an aspen stake.

Keep talking to Proshka and asking him about his past. After the full story has been told, when his optional quest comes up, agree to go. There is a battle puzzle on the way which you can avoid by hiding, but the quest is otherwise combat free.

Keep talking to Karnysh and asking him about his past. After the full story has been told, when his optional quest comes up, agree to go. Fight the battle puzzles successfully (or skip them).

Keep talking to Nikolay and asking him about his past. After the full story has been told, when his optional quest comes up, agree to go. Fight the battle puzzles successfully (or skip them).

Keep talking to Levonty and asking him about his past. After the full story has been told, when his optional quest comes up, agree to go. Fight the battle puzzles successfully (or skip them).

Simply visit every location available until the achievement unlocks.

See Folklorist section.

See Folklorist section.

Bailichkas are usually collected in certain locations on the map and will be indicated by a symbol. Simply visit every location and you will unlock the achievement in time.

See Encyclopedist section.

See Encyclopedist section.

Encyclopedia entries are usually collected in certain locations on the map and will be indicated by a symbol. Simply visit every location and you will unlock the achievement in time.

Songs are collected in certain locations on the map and will be indicated by a symbol. Simply visit every location and you will unlock the achievement in chapter 5, at the location Vilgort Gathering.

In the Onomasticon tab of your menu, gain 77 entries (bailichkas, songs and encyclopedia entries) and click them all to get rid of the exclamation point.

Story achievement, cannot be missed.

Story achievement, cannot be missed.

Story achievement, cannot be missed.

Story achievement, cannot be missed.

Story achievement, cannot be missed.

Story achievement, cannot be missed.

Story achievement, cannot be missed.

Story achievement, cannot be missed.

Story achievement, cannot be missed.

During chapter 2 on main task Rescue the changeling at the Old Banyas, Choose the girl on the right, then the chest in the middle.

when talking to Vakul at the Water Mill, you have two options that will lead to this achievement:

• Ask for both the seal and the mermaid. You will have to pay 100 coins.
• Ask only for the mermaid. She will open the seal herself.

When talking to Vakul at the Water Mill, only ask him for the seal.

This achievement is done on chapter 4 in main task Find the Leshiy. Check out this guide for detailed steps of achieveing it:

You can get this achievement against the same opponents, so you can get it the moment the card game unlocks.

Investing skill points in Durak I and Durak II will unlock the option to cheat in card games. Win three times while using those abilities.

The following items will also unlock the abilities: Ace of a Sinner, Golden Card, Glass Eye, Eyes in a Jar.

During chapter 2 main task, you will arrive in Post Station. There is a susedko tormenting a white horse. Choose to reach agreement with the susedko. Talk to station master Samson and say that he needs to buy a grey horse, then return to the susedko.

Keep talking to characters and this achievement will unlock in time.

See Witch section.

See Witch section.

In the sections where Vasilisa can walk around freely, herbs can be found and picked up. These are the only herbs that count for this achievement, unlike ones that are picked up during dialogues or bought from merchants.

During chapter 2 in the main task Go to the Vodyanoi’s chambers, visit the Gatehouse.

Learn the Orders I, Orders II, Keys I, and Keys II skills under Book Handling. Build a deck with 4 Nava cards, 4 Babushka-Yaga cards, 4 Babushka-Atamanushka cards, 4 Key-Tongue cards and 4 Circle cards.

On the first turn, play your available Babushka-Yaga and Babushka-Atamanushka cards. On the second turn, only play the Nava cards in your deck. On the third turn, play every remaining card in your deck – it will put you just over 13 words.

Defeat the final boss at the end of the 7th chapter. If you’ve accumulated less than 130 sins, proceed to destroy the black book.

Defeat the final boss at the end of the 7th chapter. No matter how many sins you’ve accumulated, proceed to escape the hell.

Defeat the final boss at the end of the 7th chapter. If you’ve accumulated over 130 sins, proceed to take the throne.