The Blackout Club

The Blackout Club

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TBC - Achievement Handbook
By Concharis
A guide detailing how to unlock every achievement in the game.

Contains spoilers and info for achievements marked as "hidden"
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Fashion Plate
Changed your look after a mission

Complete a mission and then interact with the wardrobe in the train car, you will unlock the achievement after you exit and save your customizations.

My Hero!
Revived a suppressed teammate

When a teammate is caught by The Shape, they will be put into a "suppressed" sleepwalking state. Simply walk up to them and hold right click to wake them out of it, reviving them.

Look at Me!
Showed another player your gesture during a mission

During a mission, hold B and select a gesture while standing in front of another player. You will need to wait until the gesture finishes it's full animation for the achievement to unlock, so gestures like Kneel and I'm Hot will not work for this.

Not a Doctor
Bandaged a teammate

Find a bandage in one of the lootable containers on the map and then hold right click on an injured teammate who is standing still.

The Disappearance
Finished the Intro

Complete the prologue.

When you start the game for the first time, you will be given the option to play the prologue, otherwise it can be found at the back of the train car using the Club Handbook.



True Power
Maxed out a major power ladder

Fully upgrade one of the major powers in the game using the Powers Deck station in the train car.

The soonest this can be done is at level 10 if you're using the Powerhouse/Takedown power and level 15 for any other power.

Winning Streak (hidden)
You know how to play this game

Complete a couple of missions without failing once and you should unlock this achievement.
Ashes to Ashes (hidden)
Made the maximum sacrifice

Sacrifice your character at level 20 using the train car altar table.


Beat It, Kid! (hidden)
Captured a Stalker

To get this achievement, join/host a lobby where the host is level 5 and there's a chance a Stalker might invade a mission (only if there's two or more players in a lobby)

Stalkers are player-controlled kids whose goal is to take photos of the host and other players to alert The Shape and get them all caught. They'll look like other kids but they will be unnamed and won't have an outline behind objects/walls.

Once you've found a Stalker in your mission, you must chase them until you're able to catch them by holding right click and basically pinning them for a period of time. Enemies like Sleepers and Lucids can still grab you, though, so watch out!

When the Stalker is captured, the person who held right click and actually performed the capture action on them will be awarded with the achievement and a bit of bonus EXP on top of the Stalker Caught bonus.


Now You've Done It (hidden)
Triggered the Shape's angel mode

Join/host a lobby where the host is level 6 or above and alert The Shape to chase after someone.

After a while, if The Shape does not capture his target, he will change forms into the faster and more aggressive Angel Mode.



Everyone will get the achievement if they don't already have it when The Shape changes forms, it does not matter who it is chasing when it changes.

Believer (hidden)
Submitted a prayer

Obtain a Light of Rebellion and use it on the altar in the train car, then stand in the white square and close your eyes. Say what you want to say and then open your eyes, your prayer will be sent and the achievement will unlock.

The Light of Rebellion is a ritual item that has a chance to show up in a box next to the mission selection table upon completion of a mission. This chance is increased depending on how much bonus evidence you collected, with the Junior Detective tier giving you the highest chance.

Cultural Collaborator (hidden)
You wear immersive sims like a badge

At any point during gameplay (can be done in the train car) using the number keys OR a keypad, type in 0451 and the achievement will unlock.


It's just as simple as it sounds!

This achievement is a reference to the achievement of the same name in Question's previous game, The Magic Circle and is also obtained the same way. It is originally a reference to the novel Fahrenheit 451.
Monkeywrench (hidden)
Got 500 points as a Stalker within a single mission

Invade someones mission as a Stalker and rack up 500 points before you're captured, the kids get to the exit after completing their objectives or The Shape catches them all.

You gain the most points from recording the sins the kids have committed, this can range from Sleeper/Lucid bodies that they've tranquilized, doors that have been kicked in and general acts of violence towards Sleepers/Lucids. You also gain a steady stream of points for every tick that you're holding right click and recording the kids themselves.



I recommend checking out this guide by Zaden for more details and general tips on how to play Stalker and ultimately make this achievement easier to obtain.

The achievement may also be bugged and you may obtain it despite not reaching the threshold. This was happening when the achievement was released and I don't think it has been fixed since then
... But Not Forgotten (hidden)
Got Killed by the Shape

This achievement requires you to die.



In order to get killed, though, you will have to be caught by the Shape three times in total. Each kid has two extra chances but upon being caught for the third time, you will die.


If you are caught and this is shown, it's over for you

The fastest way to get this achievement is by jumping off of the map and then getting revived by a teammate until you die for real. (thanks SP00NR, seems to also trigger the achievement for other players in the same mission via this method even if they didn't die?)
Guide Changelog and Notes
Thanks for reading my guide!
I plan to keep it as updated as possible, either if there's new achievements added in the future or an update changes how to obtain current ones.

11 Feb 2019
Guide is created 2 days after Early Access Update #6 is released, adding achievements to the game

31 May 2019
Early Access Update #9 is released with the "snack economy"
"Believer" achievement edited for the new reward system


28 Jul 2019
Change of guide name, picture and description, added some screenshots with more to come soon™
General edits of text, maybe better phrasing for some things?


29 Jul 2019
General edits of text with more screenshots added

30 Jul 2019
More screenshots added and text edits
🎉 Game launched out of Early Access 🎉 (no new achievements though)
Guide picture changed again from Chorus Binder to the "New Journal Note" icon on the mission results screen

4 Aug 2019
More screenshots added and text changes, this will most likely be the end of updates to the guide until new achievements are added or old achievements change in some way
7 Comments
Darkfyre |MTM| 12 Sep, 2022 @ 4:40pm 
Cultural Collaborator is not a direct reference to Fahrenheit 451, . The number sequence 0451 first appears in system shock and Deus Ex. It was previously believed to be a reference to Fahrenheit, but it was in fact the gate code to the office of Looking Glass studios, who made Thief, System Shock,and the Ultima series(though the Looking Glass Devs did quite like the Bradbury Joke. Looking Glass is often credited with the creation of the Immersive Sim, which Blackout Club qualifies as. Game devs often put this code in their games as a sign that they align themselves with looking glass.
Axsuroth 19 Jan, 2020 @ 8:48am 
For tthe Monkey wrench the exact amount you need right now is 200 instead of 500
Maxdisrespect 14 Jul, 2019 @ 12:04am 
Thank you! Great Guide :cozyspaceengineersa:
Concharis  [author] 21 Feb, 2019 @ 6:02pm 
The Humble Rock is more like a throwable item you can use during a mission, not a prayer item like the LoR. You get a rock if you open a chest and would have gotten a LoR but you already have one (light of rebellions cap at 1 in your inventory)
Hyperca🅵🅵einated ☂ 21 Feb, 2019 @ 1:03pm 
I found a Humble Rock in a chest. Do you know if it does the same as a Light of Rebellion?
https://prnt.sc/mnwmvf

@🐾PanicTheScaredycat🐱 I read in the forums that the LOR is unstable at the time and just vanishes out of the inventory (by the way, my Rock vanished too after leaving the public lobby).
󠁳⁧⁧ PANIC 18 Feb, 2019 @ 6:02pm 
@Hypercaffeinated if you can't find it, it's because it probably expired, LOR(Light of Rebellion) expires in 5 days after unboxed.
🥄 SP00NR [T1CR] 14 Feb, 2019 @ 8:55pm 
Thanks, great guide! I can confirm jumping off 3x unlocked the "But Not Forgotten" achievement for me... and a friend in the same game who did not die.