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[Steam Deck] Agonizing Remorse achievement

By Helix

This guide describes a way to get the Agonizing Remorse achievement for people playing exclusively on the Deck. Contains spoilers obviously.

The Agonizing Remorse achievement requires the deletion of a file on your hard drive (the game will not actually delete one of your files; you have to do it yourself). This is tricky to do on the Deck since you cannot switch to browsing your files while playing.

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Category: Achievements, Modding or Configuration, Walkthroughs

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If the game is running, close it and switch to Desktop Mode. On your Desktop, create a file (right click or left trigger, then "Create New") that will be deleted for the achievement. For example, here I create a txt file named achievement.txt (Steam + X will bring up the keyboard).
Go back to gaming mode, start the game and fight the Archivist. Once you blow one of their candles, the Archivist will ask you to pick a file and say this one will be special. This is where you have to pick the file you created in Step 1. Here the game will open a window with the contents of your hard drive. You will see a list similar to this one:
From this location, the path to your file is home/deck/Desktop/. So first pick "home", then "deck", then "Desktop", then your file.
Place the card the Archivist created out of your file in such a way that the card will get killed/destroyed. The Archivist will then say it has deleted the file associated to it.
Beat the Archivist.
After the fight, P03 will talk to you. Wait until you see the autosave icon in the bottom-right corner and quit the game while P03 is talking. It is crucial not to pick the rewards of the fight at this point.
Go back to Desktop mode. Your file will still be on your desktop, accompanied by another "deleted" version created by the Archivist (it's pretty funny; give it a read). Delete both of those files (I actually used the rm command from a terminal but I assume normal deletion is ok).
Go back to gaming mode and start the game again. P03 will greet you with a speech about the deletion of the file and you will get the achievement. If you aren't in the Archivist's room anymore, you can go back there to get the rewards.

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Penguin-Wizard 26 Dec, 2024 @ 4:26pm

im trying to get all acheivments so this is so helpfull thx a lot (me if i didnt read it

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Helix [author] 12 Feb, 2024 @ 9:59am

@Dragon I think it ran natively for me, but maybe you can try Proton GE?

Dragon 12 Feb, 2024 @ 6:41am

i cant even play inscryption on steamdeck for some reason. does anyone know how to fix i

polocatfan 7 Feb, 2024 @ 1:53pm

you can just rename or move the file if you don't want to actually destroy it. all the game checks for is if the file is moved.

toast 25 Jan, 2024 @ 9:56pm

Very helpful thank you, i found an older guide that said I had to delete it during the fight which seemed practically impossible no matter what I did. Anyways I ended up winning the fight and immediately deleting it after instead of talking to p03 and deleting it after that. In case anyone sees this

Dove Linen 12 Feb, 2023 @ 6:13am

sweet, but i'll pass on this one

Keysmash666 31 Jan, 2023 @ 2:27pm

thank you, this is very helpful

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