Steam Holiday Sale Achievement Guide

Here you will eventually find instructions for all achievements related to the Steam Holiday Sale Gift Pile event that started on December 19th.
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Game	Achievement	Instructions
	AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome
	I Have Come to The Point in My Life Where I Appreciate Christmas Mall Music	If you are having trouble on level #3 (middle-left of the 6) then play a few normal levels until you get the glove (located as an unlock up from the starting point). This will let you thumbs-up blue people and flip off red people by left- and right-clicking respectively, which results in more points and makes the level a lot easier. Alternatively, download this and run it. Star values for the levels are stored in the registry. If you run the file you'll be assigned four stars on all the DLC levels, so you'll only have to faceplant once to get the achievement. Optional: To reset the DLC levels back to 1 star afterwards, run this.
	...get 4 stars on all the levels in the freeeee Christmas Mall Music pack.
	AI War: Fleet Command
	In The Midst Of A Cold, Dark Winter	Save file Extract into steam\common\ai war fleet command\RuntimeData\Save Note: Make a new profile named Kai, update the game from the main menu, disable all addons, load the save and let it run at an increased speed for a few minutes to get the achievement. Save credit: SPUF/lighthaze
	Lose at least 30,000 ships in a single game.
	And Yet It Moves
	Shown White	Load level 2-1 (Playmode > Journey > Chapter II > Lvl 1) or play until you unlock it. At the first checkpoint, there's a branch you can do this on. Screenshot. If that fails, restart the level and try again or travel to the 8th guide/checkpoint. Stand on the branch next to him so, that you'll fall down. And thats it! There's enough room to travel 20 meters.
	Ride on a severed branch in Chapter Two for about 20 meters without touching the ground.
	Anomaly: Warzone Earth
	Santa's Challenge	Start mission 2, 3 or 4 (you'll need to have played them at least once in order to do that, or just start a new game and keep playing). You'll get reinforcements like normal through airdrops (walk over them), but sometimes Santa will drop a present too. Grab 20 of them in total. You can replay levels if you want. If you do mission 2 and 3 you should easily be able to get 20 gifts. Note that destroying alien structures will sometimes give you a present too. Alternate method: Load up level 2 and there will be two gift drops right when the cutscene after getting to the probe ends. Pick the two gifts, hit ESC, load from previous checkpoint. Repeat until you have 20. There's also an even better location to do this in the third mission when you get four gift drops. It's right after the first checkpoint.
	Grab 20 Santa's gifts from missions 2-4 to get yourself a nice prize.
	Atom Zombie Smasher
	KringleJammer	The minigame is found at New Campaign > KringleJammer. Use space, + and - to adjust the game speed to somewhere between 10% and 30% then just mouse over and click the zeds to kill them. First waves should be drawn out to collect as many bombs as possible and to let zeds infect a manageable amount of humans. The reason for this is to make major outbreaks less likely later on into the game.
	Defeat Wave 7 in the KringleJammer mini-game.
	AudioSurf
	Candy Stripe	Simply get a red-white-red-white-red combo on any lane. Easy on Pointman Elite mode with a slow paced song (the song displayed in the screenshot made it extremely easy). Note: If your background is white, the white blocks will be black. It should work with those too. Screenshot
	Make a candy stripe.
	Bastion
	Ride the Wind	If you've played the game before, change into a different profile in the options menu, so you don't lose your progress. Start a new game. Play until you get the Core of Wharf District and the area starts to collapse. Stay on the path until you get to the Skyway and use it. Don't fall down or you'll have to start over! Video guide
	Use the Skyway in the Wharf District.
	Beat Hazard
	Survive Christmas 10	Start playing and alt-tab out of the game for couple of minutes. Once you tab back the music should have stopped and you won't respawn once you die. Simply wait for 10 minutes and you'll get the achievement. Make sure the game is not on pause. Alternatively, Download TCPView and then launch Beat Hazard. Start survival mode while listening to a Christmas internet radio station and alt+tab out once it started. Using TCPView, close as much connections for Beat Hazard as you can. This will cause Beat Hazard being unable to connect to the internet, and not being able to play the radio station. Go back in the game and kill yourself. Now for the next 10 minutes, you'll just have to wait since you won't respawn, but the timer will keep going.
	In Survival Mode last 10 mins while playing to a Christmas Radio Station.
	The Binding of Isaac
	A Gift From Krampus	Find and kill Krampus who can randomly appear in a Devil's Room after a boss fight. Devil's Room can appear after killing the boss of any level except the first. Chances of a Devil's Room appearing are higher if you manage to complete the level without taking a hit and/or kill the level's boss without taking any hits. Krampus has two abilies, a bullet spit with 7 bullets and a beam that shoots into four directions. Note: As said earlier Krampus is not always in the room so this may take several tries. Alternate method: Use CheatEngine. .CT file credit: CE forums/Cannonfire40 Video guide If you want to do this via save file editing, simply open up serial.txt in steam\steamapps\common\the binding of isaac. Find the last "63" in the file and change it to "64". This should unlock the achievement, and nothing else. If this doesn't work, you may need to clear your flash cache. Use this to do it (find local and delete it). Credit: SPUF/Crunchwrap
	Find Krampus in Satans room for a gift!
	BIT.TRIP BEAT
	JINGLE.BELLS	Doable on Easy difficulty. Get Multi+ in the Descent level. Beat level 1 (Transition) to unlock Descent. In Descent, hitting the beats with high enough accuracy will switch to Mega mode, then give you Multi+. This can be done fairly quickly, especially since the beginning of the level is easier.
	Make a bell chime in Descent.
	Bunch of Heroes
	Holiday Survivor	Free DLC required. Status: Achievable. Make sure to get the update before trying (under 10mb). Can be done on easy difficulty. Tips: circlestrafing around the entire map as a group works wonders. Remember that Friendly Fire is on and a real danger, so being able to concentrate without worrying about that helps a lot. You take out the corner spawns, then unload grenades in the remaining middle stuff while going in circles. Once you feel like the wave is almost beaten you STOP killing and just load up on gear. After some practice you can do deathless rounds until wave 10-13, which is when people WILL start dying. If anyone is close to death, they can intentionally kill themselves on the remaining monsters at the end of a wave. The timers get insane, yes, but it's still a much better alternative than replaying the map over and over again and getting angry, plus you get your health and grenades back. Alternate method: Download a modified base.pak file from here and drop it to \Steam\steamapps\common\bunch of heroes\base, (note: backup the original base.pak before doing this) then start an offline Survival mode game on Red Santa Down level. It will be much easier.
	Survive up to the 20th wave in Santa's map.
	Cargo! The Quest for Gravity
	2012 - it's almost there	Start a new game and play for 5 minutes (you can skip cutscenes with by pressing spacebar). You will get the achievement after you attach new sail to the boat. Note: The achievement won't trigger in sandbox mode or if you load an old save. A new game is required. Video guide
	The Christmas bell tolls! You have been blessed with a present.
	Cities in Motion
	Winter Wonder	Steps: 1) Get a save from here 2) Drop it to \Documents\Cities in Motion\saves 3) Load game 3) Fast forward (press 3) until you get the achievement Video guide
	Transport 1000 passengers during November, December and January of any year.
	Counter-Strike: Source
	Valve Gift Grab 2011 - CS:S	The gifts are random drops and show up whether you get the killing blow or not. Easier on deathmatch servers. Altenatively, create your own server with 12+ knife-only bots or join an empty one and kill yourself repeatedly with console command 'kill' until you get a gift drop. To open the console, write -console into your game launch options by pressing RMB over the game in your Steam library and clicking 'Properties' > 'Set launch options'. While in-game, don't close the console.
	Collect three gifts dropped by opponents.
	CrimeCraft GangWars (Free to Play)
	Santa's Little Helper	Make a new character, then queue for Snow Brawl from the Events list. You don't need to get the points in one match. It's easier if you rebind the grenade button to something like 'RMB', because the default key is 'F1'. You'll get the achievement when the match is over. If you experience trouble running CrimeCraft and get the error "This game is currently unavailable. Please try again later", download this and put in steam\steamapps\common\crimecraft\. Video guide
	Earn a total of 200 points from Snow Brawl matches. This match type can be found under the events tab in the battles menu starting from level 1.
	Day of Defeat: Source
	Valve Gift Grab 2011 - DoD:S	Killing yourself repeatedly with grenades on an empty local server will eventually yield gift drops. When doing this, don't jump around or the gift drops may become unreachable.
	Collect three gifts dropped by opponents.
	DEFCON
	Merry Christmas	When playing, look out for an icon resembling Santa and his sleigh. Nuke the city where he is at. Easily done by starting a game with settings like this (make sure the chosen territory is Europe as it has the least surface area to cover and that there's no CPU or it is on your team ). When in-game, place your silos evenly to the area marked in red. Advance time until it's DEFCON 1. When you spot the Santa icon, right click on a missile silo, select ICBM Launch and then left click near the city what you think he is going to land in. Zooming in with mousewheel helps with nuke placement. You can launch nukes even into your own territory. Video guide
	Nuke Santa and thereby end Christmas for everyone, for ever more.
	Defense Grid: The Awakening
	Flurry	Easiest on the third map. Make sure to use the minimum amount and value of towers possible, and don't build or upgrade until the last possible second. Money that is in your bank earns interest and that money will go into your score. Orbital Laser kills won't earn you anything either, so use it as an absolute last resort. Video guide 1 Video guide 2
	Earn a gold medal on an adrenaline challenge mode.
	Demolition Inc.
	Car Jump I	Choose the mission "Driver" in the second city (Grumpy Hill). While driving to the ramp try to not steer too much as the car loses quite a lot of speed because of it. With your first car you will destroy the building which is in the way of getting the jump. Once the building is out of the way you need to use the second car, drive the same way and jump from the ramp again. The only problem is that the first car will be enough to clear the level (and therefore end it) so the plan is to to destroy the tower, pick up the debris and quickly drive another car off the ramp before the level ends. It's also possible to aim to the left or right of the building and get the achievement in one go.
	You jumped 400m.
	Dungeon Defenders
	Jingled All the Way	Get the free DLC and launch that map. The goal is to deliver presents to the christmas trees around the map, while also protecting the trees from the incoming mobs. This is easiest with 4 players, although with 2 it should be possible too. Useful to have one high level player, only the boss wave may give you some problems in that case. During the boss wave, Santa appears at the tree that's below the bridge (from the spawn go up the stairs and drop down). Build your defenses here. A bit further up the stairs, Mega-Snowman will spawn and a lot of mobs. They'll try to kill Santa, so protect him while dealing damage to Mega-Snowman. Once Mega-Snowman dies, you win. Video If you need to be higher level, take a look at this.
	Delivered all the presents, and saved Santa Tavernkeep from the vile clutches of Mega-Snowman!
	Dungeons of Dredmor
	Diggle Nog!	You need to have the Alchemy skill, and a Porta-Still (you should have this in your inventory if you select the Alchemy skill). You'll need the following ingredients: A Diggle Egg, Grog, and Aqua Vitae (you can make this in the crafting menu with brandy, or other similar hard alcohols) Steps: 1. Open your Crafting menu (Alt+6). 2. Scroll down to where the 3 ingredients are listed. It should show the output of the crafting as Diggle Nog. 3. Craft, and get your achievement! Alternatively, download the save files from here and extract them to C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\Documents\Gaslamp Games\Dungeons of Dredmor. Note: Backup your loadsave.dat or you won't be able to load your own saves anymore! Load up the character, open up inventory with 'i' and right click the Porta-Still. Press the end button to get to the end of the craft list and craft the very last item. Done! Video guide
	Make some Diggle Nog. Who doesn't love a nice cold glass of Diggle Nog?
	E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy
	The Gift	A gift may occasionally replace research drop suitcases dropped by enemies. Found on many levels, even the sewers during the tutorial. Triangles on the HUD will guide you to objectives. Screenshot Save file with a decent location for killing enemies here. Launch the game, disconnect any active avatar from the main menu, close the game, backup your avatarlist.txt and rename any folders inside \Steam\steamapps\common\eye\EYE\resource\vgui\save. Afterwards, extract the files into it. Launch the game, load the game with 'Play current campaign (solo)' and once you get in game, select 'Cae' from the character list. Walk into the portal and you should spawn into a green tinted area with lots of enemies that can drop the gift. Video Guide
	Pick up the gift.
	EDGE
	Snowblind	Found on first level of the game, Hangout (Bonus 1), and Darkcube (Extended 6). Video guide
	Find the six hidden switches in the snow-covered levels in December.
	Fate of the World
	Let it Glow	Use this save file to get the achievement quickly: download Save folder locations: On Windows 7/Vista: %appdata%\fotw\save (paste into navigation bar) On XP: C:\Documents and Settings\{your username}\Application Data\fotw\save Load the game, finish your turn by pressing the button at the bottom right and click past the announcements that pop up. Video guide
	Plunge the world into Global Thermonuclear War by 2100!
	Flight Control HD
	Snowball	The tutorial tells you which field is the "windy" one (four strips, two heli pads, and a windsock). Unlock it by landing planes on any map; the main menu tells you how many are left. To get 5 helicopters in a row, force the helicopters to circle until there are 4-5 on the screen, then force the other planes to circle until all five helicopters land. Video guide Save files that unlock all levels here. Backup your own files and then extract these to steam\userdata\YOURID\62000\remote.
	Land 5 helicopters in a row on the Windy airfield.
	Frozen Synapse
	Now I Have A Machine Gun. Ho Ho Ho.	The important thing is to get your shotgunner killed early, and ideally taking out any enemy gunners. Once you have the AI down to just rockets versus your machinegunner, it's a case of routing them until he takes the shot. Video guide Alternate method: Use the Skirmish generator to give yourself one machine gunner, and the AI team no units. Start the round, finish your turn and collect the achievement. Video guide
	Play an Instant Skirmish and win with only your machine gunner left alive.
	A Game of Thrones: Genesis
	Winter is coming	Go to Single Player > House vs House Select "The Neck" as map Change the player on Stark from "AI Normal" to your name Change the other house to "AI Expert" Start the game Send your units down to the AI's castle When they're both killed, the game ends and you'll get the achievement
	Play as the Starks an entire multiplayer game or vs AI.
	Greed Corp
	Walking in a winter wonderland	Click 'Create Battle' > Click an empty tile > Pick 'Local Player' > Choose any faction and any map, start game. If you don't get snow tiles on the map, restart until you do. Let the guest build a harvester at the same spot with his units. Once this is done, end the turn. Player 1 just skips the turn every time. The harvester will eventually cause the ground to collapse and the units on it to die.
	Win a match in a snow map in either the campaign or in battle mode.
	Guardians of Graxia
	Gift of Efficacy	Start a skirmish match and keep placing units and using spells as you please. End the turn when you run out of mana, wait until your enemy is done and keep drawing spell cards. Eventually you'll get the card you need (Gift of Efficacy). Cast this on a unit of your own. Alternatively, get the files from here and extract them to documents\Petroglyph\GuardiansOfGraxia\. Load up the profile and you'll get the achievement. Video guide
	Cast the 'Gift of Efficacy' spell on a friendly unit.
	Hard Reset
	Blizzard (Special)	Both environmental electricity and the lightning gun work. Easiest way: Start a new campaign and kill the first 2-3 packs of bots with environmental electricity (shoot panels on the walls when they pass them), afterwards restart the game and repeat until 50 kills. Avoid hitting any enemies with your gun to receive credit for all of them. Doesn't work in Survival. Press 'i' and go left once to see progress. Credit: SPUF/class101 If you're lazy get a profile with most of the kills from here and after backing up your own saves/profiles, extract it into Documents\Hard Reset. Video guide
	Kill 50 enemies with electricity only.
	HOARD
	Ruin Christmas	Start a new game on either Treasure mode or Hoard mode (Treasure might be easier). For the map, pick one that is just you and no other dragons (for example "To the Point"). Let the world build up, especially the towns, only taking out an occasional cart, archer, knight, guard tower, or princess. When you level up, be sure to put some points into flame, as well as speed if you like to venture out. From there, just wait around until thieves start coming from the towns and scorch them. They always make a beeline for your treasure and are festively dressed, so they're easy to spot and kill.
	Incinerate 10 thieves who are dressed up like Santa's elves!
	Jamestown
	With Your Nose So Bright...	Play regularly until you get 8000 credits, but don't spend any of it. Higher difficulties earn you more credits, so play on whatever difficulty is the hardest you can handle. Buy Charge ship (unlocked after beating mission three) from the shop and beat any mission with it. Savegame with Charge ship unlocked here. Drop it to C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\Documents\Saved Games\Jamestown
	Complete any mission playing as the Red Charge ship.
	Jurassic Park: The Game
	Holiday Bonus	Save file to unlock Docks level with here. Be sure to backup your own save files if you have played the game before. Extract into Documents\Telltale Games\jurassicpark\. Look at the Miles' outfit and photo. Move to the guard house and look at the phone. Go back to Miles, and tell him to call the guard. Once again, go back to the guard and steal the passes from the desk. Go back to Miles, and select "Forget it". Video guide
	At the docks, get Miles to offer Nima a bonus.
	Killing Floor
	A Bloody Christmas Carol	Just play the game as usual on multiplayer and try to get killing blows on the things you need. Alternatively, start up a Solo game on Beginner.
	Kill 15 XMas Clots, 5 xmas Stalkers, 5 XMas Crawlers, 1 XMas Siren and 1 XMas Bloat.
	Left 4 Dead 2
	Valve Gift Grab 2011 - L4D2	Enable the console by adding -console to launch options. In-game, type "map c1m1_hotel versus" into console. Don't close it. If you spawn as an infected, repeat the same command until you spawn as a survivor, as an AI controlled team will never leave the safe house and prevents you from switching teams. Be aware that sometimes the gifts won't count towards the achievement, but most of the time they will. There's been speculation that the gifts drop according to some sort of timer and it seems this is true. You'll get your first gift pretty early into the map and then will have to wait a while to see another (even if you load up the map again). To reset the timer, just close out the game and start over until you've got all three. After about 4-5 minutes the game will kick you out saying, "there's no human players on both sides". This isn't a problem though as you should have found a gift long before that time comes. Video guide
	Collect three gifts dropped by Special Infected in Versus Mode.
	Magicka
	Ice Age	Use the Area of Effect version of spells (hold Shift) - find a high concentration of enemies and use an AoE Water blast, wait for them to come at you again, use AoE Cold which will freeze them, then keep using AoE Cold spells, except include one instance of Arcane to make the blasts more potent. Alternatively, if you're playing Survival, keep playing until you get the Rain spell, then use Arcane/Cold beams on the already wet targets. Regarding Survival, it's probably best to pick The Glade since it has a lot of small targets that count. Don't use the Arena map since it has a ton of Orcs, and they just shake off being wet. Another method: Start a new game, skip the tutorial, stay at the party. Hit the friendly wizards with water beam (water, RMB), then spam arcane/ice AOE (arcane, ice, ice, ice, shift+RMB). When everyone is dead use earth, earth, earth, middle click to kill yourself and do it again. The friendly wizards don't appear to shatter but still count towards the achievement.
	It's what killed the dinosaurs. Smash 100 frozen creatures to bits.
	Men of War: Assault Squad
	Crazy Scientist from the northern Arctic Cycle	Save files with the bonus mission nearly completed here. Extract it into Documents\My Games\men of war - assault squad\profiles\YOURNAME\save, load the game and wait a few seconds.
	Complete the bonus mission!
	Nuclear Dawn
	Bad Santa	Join a server running the Silo map with 6-10 players and use a stealth saboteur or assassin to sneak to the enemy command bunker. Press F to stealth. Don't walk near enemy buildings as the turrets will spot you. As you get closer, try to look for a good hiding spot to refill your stealth energy so you won't be detected because of it running out. There's a command bunker in enemy main base and the commander will hopefully be sitting in a chair there. Note: If you have friends to do this with, you can just become a commander and help others get the achievement by letting yourself get killed. Commanders will be wearing festive hats.
	Kill a Commander in Silo during the 2011 Winter Sale.
	Orcs Must Die!
	Deck the Halls	Hallway is the first level of the game. If you have not played the game before, you must complete the Hallway level once with any kind of traps to unlock the Arrow Wall. Once you have it, quit to campaign menu and choose the Hallway level again. Select Arrow Wall from the spellbook, press ESC and place 4 traps into the doorway. Note: the achievement won't unlock if you have any other traps in your spellbook, or clear all waves without using Arrow Wall. Stand behind the traps and shoot at orcs with the crossbow. If you get overwhelmed press RMB with the crossbow equipped to stun the orcs.
	Complete the Hallway using only the Arrow Wall trap, weapons, and spells.
	Payday: The Heist
	Merry Xmas	To get this achievement, you must join or host a multiplayer server on any level. Private multiplayer server on easy difficulty with three bots works. There's no gift spawn in singleplayer. At the end of the First World Bank level, there is a present waiting in the vault on the table. Everyone can pick it up and get the achievement. Video guide
	In multiplayer, find a Xmas present on any level.
	The Polynomial - Space of the music
	Sore throat	In the main menu select arena 1, animator 4. Now fly around the christmas tree and fly into the snowflakes until you get the achievement. If the achievement doesn't trigger when it should make sure Steam overlay is working with the game. If it isn't, restart Steam and try again. Video guide
	Eat too many (more than 10) snowflakes within game life. Snowflakes will be present in Christmas level when its Christmas.
	Post Apocalyptic Mayhem
	Ho-ho-hidden!	Start the winter map. It's easiest to turn around and keep driving until you see a raised platform with a house on the right side. Drive past it and into the trees on the left side of the platform. Video guide
	Find Santa's secret hideaway.
	Psychonauts
	Holiday Dinner	Get the psychokinesis merit badge, and use it on both squirrels and birds in the camp. With birds, don't get too close before you hit them or they'll fly off and take the roast with them. Savegame added. Get it from here, and extract it to Steam\common\psychonauts\Profiles. In game, go outside and get close to a bird until its glowing. Use Pyrokinesis on it. Pick up the roast from the burned bird, then repeat the same for a squirrel. Video guide
	Cook and consume two different kinds of roast in one sitting.
	Puzzle Agent 2
	Christmas Tree Census	It takes around three cases to get the required money together, since each case nets about $97k. Puzzle solutions: 1, 2, 3. Alternatively, just keep failing the first puzzle.
	Spend over $202,259 of taxpayer dollars; The number of Christmas trees cut in Minnesota in 2007 (source: USDA).
	Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad
	Fighting The War on Christmas	Connect to an empty TE-CommissarsHouse server and join Allies. Capture any one capture point. Video guide
	Participate in a successful territory capture on Commissars House
	Renegade Ops
	Naughty or Nice	Done on the first level of the new Coldstrike campaign on any difficulty. Look for Santa flying in his sleigh, shoot him down and collect the gift. Santa spawns somewhere near the dirt road at this location after you destroy the three Golems and the plane's healthbar appears. If he isn't there, it is possible he is just circling around the area and you should wait until he appears. Note: The achievement only triggers in single player. Coldstrike DLC is required and it isn't included in the Steam sold single copies of the game by default anymore. 4-pack gifts apparently still come with the DLC though! Video guide
	Receive a present from Santa Claus (Coldstrike DLC required).
	Revenge of the Titans
	DRUNKEN FAMILY ARGUMENT	Video guide Savegame here. Disable Steam Cloud for Revenge of the Titans and after that extract the contents of the archive into C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\ [Note: the save location may vary, if it isn't working you should find the correct place for it if you run the game once and then search for .revenge_of_the_titans_1.80]. Start game, make sure the top banner asks if you're Bilbo and if it does, start the bonus level with previous progress (it will ask you if you want to do that). Again, as with any save games, back up your own files before doing this. They're located in Steam\userdata\YOURID\93200\remote if you used Steam Cloud with the game before. The loaded game should not require any player interaction, just fast forward the time. Credit: SPUF/Lunk Video guide
	Hurrah! Christmas is finally over!
	Rise of Immortals (Free to Play)
	Supporter	Arguably the best way to do this is to pick Ichorr as your character. You should level up Enchanted Grove and Thorn Barrier and a bit later on Ensnaring Vines so your friends can catch up on fleeing enemies. As long as you buff your friends with Thorn Barrier you will get an assist. 3v3 vs PvE games are most likely easiest to do this in, but it could be significantly faster to do in 5v5.
	Get 10 assists in a match.
	Rock of Ages
	Snowball War	In 'Character Select' choose the Snowball and then start an early campaign mission and win it (Tutorial 2 is the earliest that awards it).
	Win a match using the Snowball boulder.
	Rusty Hearts (Free to Play)
	All I Want for Christmas is Sewers	Note: The game may not be available in all regions (shows up as 'Hidden'). Use this link to install if that's the case for you. Create a new character. Complete the first three quests with Elma (Meet Vincent, Scout the Canals B3, Scout the Canals B2). To complete the dungeons, simply spam X and your two skills at the enemies. Next, complete the quest "Join the Militia" from Georg (across the street from Elma), and then Ryan will give you "A Simple Task." To keep your grade at B or higher, avoid getting hit and build up combos (tracked by the number above "Stylish" on the right). Always go for the archers first and try to open with a skill to increase the "Stylish" rating. The important thing is to keep your combos rolling, use your regular attack (x) if you don't have skills available and also chain specials into regular attacks. Don't stand inside a mob but try to fight them from the outside. Note: Don't forget to get the new skill from Ryan after reaching level 2.
	Complete the quest 'A Simple Task' from Technical Officer Ryan.
	Sanctum
	Festivus for the rest of us	Free Christmas DLC required. Gifts are dropped by christmas hat wearing enemies in the DLC level. Also be sure to watch for random appearances by Santa - he'll make a distinctive sound when he appears in his flying sleigh. Shoot him down to get a bunch of presents at once. Video
	Collect 10 presents.
	Sequence
	Yet, I Love The Holidays	Pick Holiday Whompa from the saferoom enemy list in floor 1 and win the battle. Save with saferoom unlocked here. Drop it to steam\userdata\YOURID\200910\remote Video guide
	Defeat the Holiday Whompa.
	Serious Sam 3: BFE
	Christmas In Cairo	Note: Does not work in multiplayer. You have to throw the following on to the tree in the first level, "Summer in Cairo": 1x Rocketeer heart, 1x Gnaar eye, 1x Kleer head. Leave one of each of the first two alive from the big heli battle, lure them in, melee them for the items and throw them on the tree. To get the Kleer head, go to the right of the museum and take one of their heads. Don't use any weapons while doing this. Note that sprinting will cause you to drop the item you're carrying and you can not pick it back up.
	Decorate the Christmas tree.
	Solar 2
	Snowflake Star	From the main menu, select "Mission - Challenges", then "Star Challenges", then "Snowball Fight". It will be your star with 8 "snowball" satellites. You need to move your star around so that your snowball satellites hit the other star, while you avoid his satellites. If you hit him 4 times, you get the achievement. If your snowballs hit his snowballs, both will explode, leaving you with less. If he hits you, you lose one from your hits total. Save with star unlocked here, saves you about 15 minutes. Close the game, disable Steam Cloud for it, and then drop the file to Steam\userdata\YOURID\97000\remote. Video guide
	Get 4 points in the star challenge mission 'Snowball Fight'.
	Space Pirates And Zombies
	Santa's Little Helper	Simply warp into a battle area (CIV vs UTA is a great place to do this). Kill as many enemies as you can. Sometimes, enemies drop milk and cookies when they explode (with two green downwards arrows pointing at them). Santa will fly over the milk and cookies soon after they spawn. If you did it right you'll notice Santa dropped something with a purple icon, go and pick it up for the achievement. This can be done anywhere in the game but may require a little practice if you're new to the game. Savegame with tutorial skipped and ship slightly upgraded here. Extract it into appdata/roaming/minmaxgames/spacepiratesandzombies. Once you've loaded the save (it's named steamcheeves), press space, pick system map and start a mission by clicking the exclamation mark icons. There, just kill any hostiles. They should drop milk and cookies eventually which in turn results in Santa appearing. Pick up the purple elf icon he drops. Video guide
	Feed Santa so much milk and cookies, that an elf falls off his sleigh.
	SpaceChem
	Polar Expedition	Beat level 2-5, called "There's Something in the Fishcake". If you've beaten the level already, your previous solution will be saved, so running it again will unlock the achievement. If you're looking to get the achievement as quickly as possible, check spacechem.net for solutions, or if you don't want to spoil the first missions with guides, download a save file from here and extract the files to C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Local\Zachtronics Industries\SpaceChem. Save credit: SPUF/hsynoztrk
	Reach the south pole of Sernimir IV.
	Spiral Knights (Free to Play)
	Son of a Nutcracker!	Game install link. Start a Lockdown (PvP) game by clicking the purple sword icon on the upper right while in town. Lockdown games cost 200 crowns per round (easiest way to earn 200 crowns is to just finish a level or two, and you may earn more playing Lockdown). Play until you get the Frostbite level. Snowballs are available at many points on the map, and hitting an enemy with them is not difficult, especially because you have many opportunities. Video guide
	Hit an opponent with a snowball in Lockdown.
	Super Meat Boy
	The Golden Gift!	Go to Super Meat World and select The Kids Xmas from featured chapters list. It contains these levels: Fruit Cake, Lump of Coal, Sweater, Socks, Underwear. Chances are this achievement is too difficult for anyone that isn't experienced with the game, so here's a guide on trainer usage. First, get the trainer from here. NOTE: Many antivirus programs claim the trainer is a virus (most likely a false positive due to how trainers work), if you're worried run Steam and the trainer in Sandboxie. Steps: 1. Load the trainer 2. Load SMB through Steam 3. If you don't get the SQL error go to Super Meat World and load "The Kids Xmas". If you do get the error, close out SMB and reload it. The error isn't related to the trainer, Team Meat is having issues so don't panic if you get it. 4. Load the first level 5. On your keyboards numpad, push Num3 and Num4 to enable god mode and Num6 to be able to fly with UP key. 6. Run through the levels and keep advancing to the next until all 5 levels are complete and your achievement acquired (Note: You cannot quit to the level select between levels)
	Complete all levels in "The Kids Xmas" chapter in super meat world IN ONE PLAY SESSION.
	Swords and Soldiers HD
	All I Want For Christmas Is You	Start an online match as Aztec, possibly with a friend. Pick Aztec as your race and start the game. Now let your friend create units that attack you, and make a few yourself so you don't lose. At the top you should see an arrow pointing up, this is used to upgrade your units/tech. Find the tree for mind control and start researching it. Once that's done, all you need to do is use the mind control spell five times on the units of your enemy. Video guide
	Use the Aztec Mindcontrol spell five times in a single online match.
	Team Fortress 2 (Free to Play)
	Valve Gift Grab 2011 - TF2	There is no gift drops in practice mode, but bots do drop them if you start your own server or join one with bots. Easiest way to do this is probably to join a server running an achievement map or an idle server. Another easy method: Join an empty server and kill yourself with rockets or 'kill' console command, then collect the gifts that drop. To open the console, write -console into your game launch options by pressing RMB over the game in your Steam library and clicking 'Properties' > 'Set launch options'. While in-game, don't close the console. The easiest legitimate ways to do it are to play as melee or close range classes. The demoman with shield or spy for actual melee, and the scout and pyro for near-melee. With the mobility the scout has, he is the logical choice for players who are fairly good with him. It's also easier on a small KotH map, most notably Nucleus.
	Collect three gifts dropped by opponents.
	Toki Tori
	Catch a Cold	Note: Recently patched to be easier. Collect the hidden snowflakes in the first level (Forest Falls), they are found in: Normal 1/6/11/12, Hard 1/2/3/5, Bonus 2/3. Video guide
	Collect all ten snowflakes that appear in December before they melt.
	Total War: SHOGUN 2
	Requiem of the Dead	Download a savegame from here and extract it to the save folder at C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\The Creative Assembly\Shogun2\save_games Save credit: SPUF/ThePhaZZe
	Win a defensive siege battle with your daimyo during any winter turn.
	Trine
	Winter Secrets	Found on levels 2 (Academy Hallways), 4 (Dragon Graveyard) and 5 (Crystal Caverns). If you have unlocked the levels, you can play them directly without having to start over. The gifts do not have to be gotten within the same playthrough so it is possible to quit into main menu and pick a different level the moment you grab a gift. Video guide Save file with the required levels unlocked is here. Extract into Steam\steamapps\common\trine\profiles\default\save.
	Find the Academic, Bony and Crystalline holiday secret gifts.
	Tropico 4
	Megalopolis	Savegame Extract into %APPDATA%\Roaming\Tropico 4\users\user1\ExSaves. Will be usable with your first profile. If you don't have the directory, launch the game, create a profile and exit. Save credit: SPUF/Swixel
	Reach a population of 1000.
	Universe Sandbox
	Snowball Earth	Method 1: Open the solar system simulation and lower the gravity setting from top left of the screen. Method 2: Pick "our solar system" and then just tweak with the settings of the Earth until it's far enough from the sun.
	Freeze the Earth by moving it further from the Sun.
	Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine
	Sector Cleared	Join an online game of Space Marine Exterminatus Arena played on one of the maps listed. Each arena consists of five waves. Surive an arena to get this achievement.
	Successfully complete a Space Marine Exterminatus Arena (Kalkys Facility Escape or Hab Center Assault).
	Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II: Retribution
	Winter Assault	Get somebody to play against you on one of the maps. Idling for 30 minutes works, but the achievement only completes after the match is over.
	Play for a total of 30 minutes against a human opponent on: Ice Station Obelis, Selenon Fissure, or Argent Shelf.
	Wings of Prey
	It's winter!	Start the mission "counterattack" in Stalingrad. The goal is to blow up 5 units of artillery. It doesn't say anywhere how though, and the easiest way is to just play kamikaze pilot and get rid of the units this way. You can respawn as many times as you like, and with a bit of practice it shouldn't be hard at all to get this done within 5 minutes. Video guide
	Complete any mission on winter locations: Korsun, Stalingrad or Bulge.
	Worms Reloaded
	12 Days of Winterval	Download a custom map from here. Once you've downloaded the file, place it in \Steam\steamapps\common\worms reloaded\UserLandscapes. Then load the game up and choose multiplayer, local match. Add two human controlled teams, and start the game with standard gamemode. Load the Steamcheeves map and start the match. The worms are lined up so you just simply have to prod them off and they get 12 fall damage, if a mine gets in the way of one fall there's another 4 attempts to do it. Screenshot If you want to do this without the map, alternate methods involve using Uzi or using teleport/jetpack to get 12 fall damage to yourself.
	Deal exactly 12 damage to a worm with 100 health.
	X3: Albion Prelude
	It's Cold Outside	First, download a save file and drop it to Win7/Vista: C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\Documents\Egosoft\X3AP\save XP: C:\Documents and Settings\YOURUSERNAME\My Documents\Egosoft\X3AP\save\ 1. Load save #5 and once loaded don't undock. 2. Open comms (c) and talk to Toki Rider. 3. Accept Tokis' mission to retrieve his ship. 4. Follow the mission waypoint to his ship. 5. Fire on the ship until the person ejects (making sure to not fire too much so the ship doesn't get blown up). Source: SPUF/lurchibald Alternatively, start a new game as Terran Commander and search for something weak to shoot at, such as Humanitarian Aid ships. Keep using comms (c) and tell them to surrender after they're at low health. To go faster with your own ship, hold X. Press J to have time (and your ship) go faster.
	Force a pilot to eject from his ship.
	Xotic
	Brain Freeze	Start the third Campaign level of Underhome (Deep Temple Cavern) and destroy the red scabs around the level. The Crystal Orb will spawn soon after. Save file with the level unlocked here. Extract it into Documents/Xotic.
	Found and destroyed a blue Crystal Orb Brain

listed achievements that didn't end up being gift pile draw qualifiers
	Cave Story+
	Merry Holiday Happy Euphemism	Set system date to December 25th, launch game and you'll get the achievement. Video guide
	For the rest of us!
	Costume Quest
	Tisn't the Season	(Note: May not be part of the Great Gift Pile) Set clock date to 25th December and start game.
	Play Costume Quest on Christmas.
	Air Conflicts: Secret Wars
	Santa's Visit	Status: Not achievable
	You have been visited by Santa. Check out your socks!
	Alien Zombie Megadeath
	10x Multiplier	Status: Not achievable
	Get the multiplier to x10.
	BIT.TRIP RUNNER
	AMNESIA.MAKES YOU AFRAID	Note: May not be sale related. Get into a bonus level and get hit by a spider (1-6 is easy and has the required monsters).
	Get Bonked by a monster.
	PLAYING.TRINE WILL BLOW YOUR MIND	Note: May not be sale related. Beat levels 1-6, 2-7 and 3-7.
	Find 3 friends and beat the challenges they are in.
	EVERYONE.PLAYED BRAID	Note: May not be sale related. Miss a gold bar and then run into an object (easiest on 1-1).
	Bonk after missing a Gold Bar to rewind time and try again.
	Champions Online (Free to Play)
	The Gift of Winter	There are no gifts in the starting area, you'll need to go to the main city to find any gifts. Pick flying when you get to choose your travel skill as it makes looking for gifts easier. They will be all over the city and some contain items while others contain easy monsters. It is suggested that you stick to the area outlined in this map to avoid high level monsters and areas that do not have gift spawns. Loot the gifts until you have 10 Winter Presents. They may sometimes end up on your action bar instead of your backpack. When you have all the gifts, find an area with lots of people and start using the presents on them. You'll need to find 10 different people to get the achievement. If the achievement doesn't show up when it should, log out and back into the game.
	Complete The Gift of Winter Perk and Steam Achievement.
	Football Manager 2012
	Merry Xmas!	You must arrange a friendly with FC Santa Claus from Finland. You'll have to do an away friendly for them to accept. You can just start a new game, schedule the friendly, and quit as soon as your proposal is approved. You don't need to play the friendly. Please note, some people need to have different clubs to get their proposal approved.
	Merry Xmas from Sports Interactive.
	GundeadliGne
	Holiday in Hell	Leave Noel Blanc (French for White Christmas) alive on area 3A. Easiest in practice mode. Video guide
	Keep the holiday spirit alive.
	Gundemonium Recollection
	Polaris	Leave Noel (French for Christmas) alive on area 1B. Easiest in practice mode. Video guide
	Keep the holiday spirit alive.
	Dino D-Day
	Santa's Little Helper	You need to collect 15 presents during one game on Snowy Park map. They drop randomly from killed players. You can easily solo this achievement by starting a private server on Snowy Park and spawning as any Axis class. Exit the gate and to your left you should see Santa's sleigh on fire. Killing yourself by suicide or with the "kill" console command won't cause you to drop a gift, but killing yourself in the fire will. Simply position yourself on top of the sleigh so that you're taking fire damage and, when you die, you'll drop a gift. The gift will remain there for quite a long time, allowing you to do this multiple times before you switch teams and pick them up. Switching back and forth between teams will not reset the number of gifts you've collected. Video guide
	Collect all of Santa's lost presents in a single round.
	Hitogata Happa
	Sweet Tooth	Does not need to be in one game, but rather one sitting.
	Obtain 10,000 Candy Cane Gems in one game.
	Poker Night at the Inventory
	Three Wise Men	Note: the achievement has been altered and it is possible to get it with other cards than three kings, exact details unknown. Start a new game and if you wish, skip the cutscenes by pressing Enter. Once you have your cards, and get a King (or two), keep playing. If not, fold and press 'skip to next hand'. Any talking can be skipped by pressing RMB repeatedly. Repeat as necessary. Eventually as you keep folding and maybe winning with a good hand every now and then players may drop from the table. This is good as it increases your chances of getting kings and reduces the time spent in cutscenes. When you get kings it's important to not raise before you know you have three kings as other players may fold because of it. As soon as you know you have three kings, go all in and hope nobody calls, or that you have the best hand.
	Win a hand when you have three of a kind comprised of three kings (of any suit).
	The 12 Days of Christmas	If you have already won 12 hands before, you need to win one more to unlock the achievement.
	Win 12 or more hands.
	RUSH
	Santa's little helper	When selecting a level, pick one that has a white snowflake under the preview picture. If there are no snowflakes, just solve any puzzle and one should appear. Levels needed: Easy: Twister, Assembly Line, Castle Tower Medium: Stop Drop Roll, Sponge, Amazing, Even More Amazing Hard: Clover Sponge Video guide
	Deliver all presents in the eight levels when they are touched by frost in December.

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