This guide will show you how to unlock all achievements in The Invisible Hand.
Career Progress Achievements
You’ll get these in the regular course of playing, as long as you play on Normal.
Hired Hand
Nail the interview.
Analyze This
Get promoted to Analyst.
Associated
Get promoted to Associate.
Veep
Get promoted to Vice-President.
The Invisible Hand
Finish the game on any difficulty.
Standard Practice
Finish the game on Normal Mode.
Ending Achievements
All are hidden, unless otherwise noted. At the end of the game, you are presented with some choices on a laptop. Each possible combination of choices leads to a different achievement and ending.
First choice: Do you want to cooperate with Law Enforcement?
1) Yes: Snitches Get Riches and Valuable Asset. Valuable Asset requires several days of play after the ending for another call to come in from TIC, then the second achievement is unlocked.
2) No: All others
Second choice: Are you prepared to cooperate with this court to retrieve the payment required?
1) No: Return on Investment.
2) Yes: All others.
Third choice: Do you want to stay at FERIOS?
1) Yes: Capital Trust
2) No: Truth & Consequences
Question 1: Cooperate
Snitches Get Riches (H)
Become an informant for TIC.
Valuable Asset (not hidden)
Last long enough as a confidential informant for TIC.
Return on Investment
Go to prison for FERIOS.
Capital Trust
Pay the fine and return to work at FERIOS.
Truth & Consequences
Pay the fine and quit FERIOS.
Alternate ending
The Visible Hand
Destabilize the system.
Get fired. Take the PR bar into crisis 5-times. You’ll come in to work with the world on fire, and this achievement will unlock. Must be enabled in settings mode.
Endless Mode Achievements
After endless mode begins, play until you have enough money to purchase the identified percentage (or more) of all stock available in the interface. When you end the day, you will get to choose a new privilege and achieve your first succession rank. Starts at 5% and goes up by 5% until capping out at 50% of total available stock. Your stock positions are wiped out and you start again with only $1m corporate wealth. You keep all personal wealth. Market prices stay the same, but market cap and number of shares may change.
With the correct strategy and a sufficiently imbalanced market (from previous succession runs) you should be able to achieve even 50% succession on day 2.
My strategy
Start in endless mode with $1m. Identify the stock with the highest dividend rate and a stock with a low dividend rate and small market cap. Short the low-dividend stock for $1m and invest $2m in the high-dividend stock. End the day and collect your dividends.
With the cash you’ve earned, buy as much of your dividend company as possible. If you can buy 100%, it will drive the price high, resulting in a higher dividend rate %.
If you have leftover cash, buy the market. To be efficient, buy only a small portion of the market cap of each stock to avoid a price hike.
Next, short your low dividend stock to raise cash. If you have enough personal wealth to short for more than the market cap, you can send the stock into a downward spiral to near-0 prices.
If your dividend-paying stock is related to the daily bonus, break the agreement, pay the penalty, and sell the investment to “realize” the value of the dividends. The bonus to your personal wealth is on the magnitude of the value of the dividend to your corporate wealth on these days.
Remember, once you’ve driven the high-dividend’s stock price high, once you achieve succession, the price stays high along with sky-high dividend rates. This is your feedback loop. Keep repeating this process to master the game.
There are six achievements related to “Endless” Mode, all goals based on level.
Nepotism
Earn your first Succession rank in Endless Mode.
Rising Star
Earn Succession III.
Intergenerational Wealth
Earn Succession V.
Elder Care
Earn Succession VII.
Thicker Than Water
Earn Succession X.
Privilege Check
Acquire every type of privilege.
Buy at least one level of each type of privilege. Does not have to be even, but minimum 1 in each category.
Forever
Begin the Endless Mode of Endless Mode.
After Ward tells you that they will no longer be able to give you any information about who you’re working for, this achievement should unlock.
Friend Achievements (Endless mode)
At the end of your day, choose the “Hang Out” option with a friend to fill the heart bar by one heart each ‘hang out’.
Cost goes up by an order of magnitude each level.
5k-50k-500k-5m-50m
Total for the achievements: 166.665M personal wealth and 15 days
No achievements for becoming best friends with Agent Smith or Tristan Miller
Mutual Understanding
Become best friends with Corbin.
Fraternal Twins
Become best friends with Ward.
Narcissistic Reflection
Become best friends with Quinn Miller.
Hidden Achievements
Dancing Queen
Keep Miller on edge.
Starting on Day 6, when Miller (receptionist) tries to talk to you, it’s possible to continue walking. If you walk too far, Miller gets angry and says something about it. If you stop moving, you focus on Miller and are locked into the conversation. The letterboxing fills in/fades out like a health bar, keep it within range, not too high and not too low. Keep moving like a ‘Dancing Queen’ until Miller stops talking. The achievement should pop soon after.
Leverage
Throw something at a colleague.
How-to: Pick up any item and throw it at another employee. This will trigger a reaction and the achievement.
Day Trader
Ignore the counsel of senior professionals.
How-to: On the first day, when Ward tells you to take a seat, refuse until they leave. This will trigger the achievement. Also possible by throwing something at Ward on the first day.
The Crystal Method
Sample the strongest coffee available at FERIOS.
How-to: On Day 4+, after the highest strength has been installed in the coffee machine, drink a cup of the strongest coffee.
Serenity Now
Sample the strongest tea available at FERIOS.
How-to: On Day 4+, after the highest strength has been installed in the coffee machine, drink a cup of the strongest tea.
Misc Achievements
You’re likely to discover these throughout a normal playthrough but included here for completeness.
Toy Totaller
Purchase one of each boxes from Boxes Extravagant.
Mogul
Purchase one of each real estate property type from De Facto Estates.
Company Person
Accumulate 10.000.000 wealth for the corporation.
Private Property
Accumulate 5.000.000 of personal wealth.
