Lets get started

You're here to kill a metric buttload of Taken, 2000 to be exact. You probably completed the story and done some arcade levels and the achievement still hasn't popped. Welp. We're going in blind here bois. Personally I think this is one of the most annoying achievements out there. Why? Well, Remedy decided against implementing the "Statistics" screen into American Nightmare which was in the previous game. The Statistics showed you important info on collectibles found, total kills, batteries used etc...

Since we can't track kills, let me point you in the right direction. Story mode will be your key to this achievement, but lets not forget about those arcade levels.

First, play through the game on whichever difficulty you like and kill everything you see. Make sure you collect 20 manuscript pages to unlock the magnum and assault rifle. Second, finish all of the arcade levels (including the nightmare levels). Lastly, go back into the story mode and farm the shadow fountains in the last level. Using the magnum and assault rifle will help with this.

Lets begin with Story mode. You'll rack up your kill count as you play through the Acts. Now I don't have exact numbers how many Taken are in each level but you should kill any enemy that you run across. For what difficulty you want to play on is entirely up to you. I played through the story on normal since there was no achievement associated with nightmare, which is strange but oh well.

I recommend picking up at least 20 manuscript pages!!

These pages are used to unlock weapons throughout the game and its also an achievement for finding all the pages. We'll be wanting 2 guns near the end of this guide, we'll be farming Taken in the last level.

During your first playthrough, pick up at least 10 manuscript pages to unlock the Magnum. This gun doesn't hold many bullets but it will one shot regular Taken and two shot big boi Taken. This gun will come in handy in farming Taken in the last level.


The magnum is in the storm drain just down the road from the Motel in the first level. Pick up 10 pages to unlock it. You can come back to the magnum multiple times throughout the story.

Before you reach the end of the game, make sure you have at least 20 manuscript pages. This will unlock the Assault Rifle. The gun will mow down Taken in a few shots and will come in handy in farming during the last level.


The assault rifle is on the ledge just outside of the power station in the third level. Pick up 20 pages to unlock it. You can come back to the assault rifle multiple times throughout the story. This gun will come in handy while farming during the last level.

Lets return to story mode once again. Now I chose to come back to the final level for multiple reasons Infinite spawning enemies and ammo and No time limit. In step 1 I recommended grabbing the magnum and assault rifle. If you continue your saved game after finishing storymode, you'll load back into the finale level. If you don't have the magnum then its not the end of the world, it will just give you the 9mm pistol (and make killing slower) if you manually select the final level from the main menu. Just make sure you have 20 manuscript pages because the final level will have the assault rifle.

After leaving the power station and killing the 2 big chainsaw guys, you'll come up to the drive-in theater. On the right, you'll see the safe haven and your ammo supply. Feel free to use the safe haven as many times you want, it will disappear after walking in the light then reappear shortly after. This grants a checkpoint which lets you quit the game and come back to farm Taken whenever you like.

Now you'll want to spawn the dark towers around the building with the lightshow going on. There's 4 in total that you want to spawn. DO NOT DESTROY THE DARK FOUNTAINS!!!! These fountains will infinitely spawn your Taken. After spawning these, lets run back near the safe haven and ammo supply and let the Taken farming begin.


While farming these guys I moved to the other side of the safe haven, just to be a little closer to the dark fountains. You could run and jump on top of the car and kill Taken from up there, but I found myself getting overrun pretty fast.

Now I don't know how long you have to farm these guys for, but from my experience 1 playthrough of the story mode on normal and playing all of the arcade levels, I only had to farm these taken for ~1 hour. If you ran through the story and missed a few guys, I'd say you'd have to farm for roughly an hour and a half. Again, without a stat that tracks overall kills, this achievement is pretty annoying and time consuming. I hope I was helpful, I know there's a few ways of cheesing the arcade levels to get this achievement, but this method helped me and I hope it helped you too :)

Most people would just farm out Arcade for their Taken kills. I understand why, after surviving each level you're greeted with... you guessed it... Statistics!! And yes, they tell you how many Taken you killed during the level. There's also an achievement for UNLOCKING all of the nightmare levels. i've played every arcade level (nightmare included) and it seemed like I averaged 60-80 kills per level. So there's 10 arcade levels in the game... I averaged 60-80 kills per level... I'm getting around 600-800 kills for playing through the arcade levels just ONCE. I'm pretty sure kills are still counted if you die but I couldn't find any info saying otherwise.