Overview:
- Estimated achievement difficulty: 2/10
- Offline: 20 (200)
- Online: 0 (0)
- Approximate amount of time to 200: 4+ hours
- Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 2.5-3
- Number of missable achievements: 13
- Do cheat codes disable achievements? No cheats
- Does difficulty affect achievements? Yes (See Gold Digger)
- Glitchy achievements: 0
- Unobtainable achievements: 0
- Extra equipment needed? None
Introduction:
This game is a pretty simple 200 to complete in a little over 5 hours at most. You will need to play the game on Normal, then Hard, and finally Ultra Hard for the "Gold digger" achievement which only unlocks when you "Take a Risk". The main thing you need to focus on is keeping your family alive, killing every eagle you see, and taking the time to go hunting every chance you get.
Normal Playthrough:
This playthrough will unlock the Hard difficulty (which in turn unlocks Ultra Hard) and also unlock most of the achievements in the game. Keep your family alive at all costs. You need to hunt every chance you get and when you do, hold off on grabbing the animal meat so that you can kill more animals before time runs out. You need the food but you also need to kill all the animals you can for "Psycho Killer," the longest achievement in the game. Also be sure to take on every quest you can, talk to everyone, and make sure you take the fork in the road that leads to a fort or large town. As you play the game, also watch out for eagles and shoot them to keep them from taking your kids.
Hard Playthrough:
This will be a little tougher than normal but keeping your family alive is just a goal to keep the game interesting. You want to continue hunting as much as you can, gather a lot of gold, and clean up any achievements you missed the first time.
Ultra Hard Playthrough:
This playthrough should be pretty short unless you still need a lot of animals for "Psycho Killer." When you get to the first river crossing that has the gold minigame, select the option "Take a Risk" and complete the minigame and it should unlock "Gold Digger". This is the only real difficulty related achievement in the game because this is the only thing that seems to trigger the "Gold Digger" achievement. If you are missing animals after this, keep playing and you should unlock "Psycho Killer" in this playthrough if you have not already.
Conclusion:
Overall, this is a pretty easy game. You can get most of the achievements in 2 playthroughs and you can finish up the last 2 achievements on ultra hard difficulty which should just take a partial playthrough to reach the river crossing and get "Gold digger." It's a pretty relaxing game that requires more time than effort and makes a decent addition to your Windows Phone game collection.