There are a total of 16 hidden achievements for Cookie Clicker on Steam. These are more difficult to unlock than the regular ones.

Players looking to unlock every achievement in Cookie Clicker on Steam will need to know about the shadow achievements as well. These hidden achievements can’t be seen in the stats tab until they’re completed, meaning players may have some difficulty doing them without some guidance.

There are a total of 16 hidden/shadow achievements in Cookie Clicker so far, and these are significantly harder to complete than regular achievements. Here’s every secret Steam achievement in the game, and how to complete it.

In Cookie Clicker, hidden achievements are called Shadow Achievements. These achievements are described as “either unfair or difficult to attain,” and require much more effort to unlock than other achievements. These 16 achievements do not count towards a player’s Milk percentage and do not appear unless completed. Some of these Shadow Achievements in Cookie Clicker can be difficult to acquire as some of them have bizarre prerequisites. For example, the “True Neverclick” shadow achievement requires players to bake one million cookies without clicking the giant cookie even once. For this Cookie Clicker achievement, players will need to click on Golden Cookies at the start of their run to get this shadow achievement.

Getting Every Shadow Achievement in Cookie Clicker on Steam

The 16 available Shadow Achievements in Cookie Clicker vary in difficulty and time taken to complete. Here’s the name of every Shadow achievement, and how to unlock it.

• Four-leaf cookie: Have 4 golden cookies simultaneously.
• Seven horseshoes: Click 27,777 golden cookies.
• All-natural cane sugar: Harvest a golden sugar lump.
• Endless cycle: Ascend 1,000 times.
• Cheated cookies taste awful: Hack in some cookies.
• God complex: Name yourself Orteil.
• Third-party: Use an add-on.
• When the cookies ascend just right: Ascend with exactly 1 trillion cookies.
• Speed baking I: Get to 1 million cookies baked in 35 minutes.
• Speed baking II: Get to 1 million cookies baked in 25 minutes.
• Speed baking III: Get to 1 million cookies baked in 15 minutes.
• True Neverclick: Make 1 million cookies with no cookie clicks.
• Just plain lucky: You have a 1 in 500,000 chance of earning this achievement every second.
• Last Chance to See: Burst the near-extinct shiny wrinkler.
• So much to do so much to see: Manage a cookie legacy for at least a year.
• Gaseous assets: Have your stock market profits surpass a whole year of CpS ($31,536,000).

While many of the Shadow Achievements are self-explanatory, some may take some more thinking. For example, players must use Steam's debug mode cheats to earn the “Cheated cookies taste awful” achievement. This can be done by opening the game’s console (this is done in different ways depending on the system used) and entering Game.cookies = Game.cookiesEarned + <amount>; as the code.

Completing these achievements doesn’t contribute to the player's Milk percentage in Cookie Clicker; however, the prestige alone may be enough for players to want to work toward beating them. By the time players reach the “So much to do so much to see” achievement, it’s likely they’ll have unlocked plenty of Shadow Achievements already.

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Cookie Clicker is available on PC.