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Squidlit Achievement Guide

By me

A simple guide for Squidlit's new achievements and secrets.

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Category: Achievements, Secrets, Walkthroughs

Languages: English

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16 May, 2019 @ 5:15pm

1 Sep, 2019 @ 8:30pm

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Guide Index

Overview

Main Achievements

Loved by All

Challenge Achievements

Comments

Main Achievements

Double jump! - Don't start the game for a minute and a half!
As the description states, simply wait on the title screen for 90 seconds.

Super KaDuper Alley Ooper Sure - Restart the Game!
Another straightforward achievement right off the bat! Pause the game with the Esc key and confirm you want to restart the game.

I'm a Distraction! - Make the music stop!
In Blipston (the starting level), tap the down movement key to wiggle on the three Squidlits making music to the tempo of the music to interrupt their play session.

Loved by All - Wiggle at all the squidlits!
See the Loved by All section for further details.

All Shark No Fight - Beat the sharkerfly in less than 5 seconds
Approach the Sharkerfly at full health, hold the Spacebar or jump equivalent and get as close as possible. This will kill it fast enough to net you the achievement while still living.

The Tiniest Squid that Ever Did! - Continue to ink after beating the sharkerfly!
Very simple, but easy to miss. Following the Sharkerfly fight, simply tap the spacebar during the flying cutscene.

Squidlit inna Box! - Find Riverjack!
After the first castle section, and just before Castletown, climb the tree outside, and jump to your left. Tapping the jump button will allow you to hover with your ink, into a small alcove housing Riverjack - the first Squidlit sent on this journey.

The Squishy Squirmy Science Squidlit OF SCIENCE! - Become a squidlit repellant connoisseur!
After the Oonebilu/ru boss fight, you'll find yourself in Castletown. Talk to Pyrethrin, who is developing squidlit repellent. Let him test his 3 formulas on you for the achievement.

Comprehensive Reader - Don't let Grimwar summon anything!
During the Grimwar boss fight, use the following visual cues to know which part of the inside text to target and black out with your ink: (Hover over each image for the description.)

Sharing is Caring - Feed all of your muffins to Swkit Skwot!
During the battle against Skwit Skwot, allow yourself to be swiped by Skwit Skwot (God Emperor) 3 times and lose a life.

Skwit Swkot appreciated that. - Hug Skwit Skwot!
Following the final boss fight, choose the first dialogue option to hug Skwit Skwot, God Emperor.

Squeaky Clean! - Don't get inked during the credits!
Rather self explanatory, avoid the falling ink droplets while you fly home during the credits sequence!

Yeah! That's right! You did it! You're a good squidlit! - Continue to wiggle on the final screen!
Following the credits sequence, press down to wiggle among your peers.

Loved by All

Loved by All - Wiggle at all the squidlits!
One of the more complicated achievements. To unlock this, you need to interact with every Squidlit NPC in the game by Wiggling with your down movement key once. The Squidlits will respond with the same gesture and a slight sound cue. The required NPCs are spreadout through the entire game, but their locations are all listed here:
Level 0: Blipston

Level 1:

Level 2:

Level 4:

Level 5:
(See the Squidlit inna Box! Achievement above for further information on finding Riverjack)

That's it! Those are all the interactive Squidlit NPCs! Though, if you look hard enough you just might find something strange in the further reaches of the levels...

Challenge Achievements

Stale Muffins - Complete the game without stress eating a muffin!
Beat the entire game start-to-finish without taking a hit! Below is a video of this being performed, there's not much advice I can give besides good luck- definitely doable!

Speedrun Achievements

This game canonically takes 3 days! - Beat the game in less than 12 minutes.

The planet is spinning too fast! - Beat the game in less than 11 minutes

You're gonna fling the squidlits off! - Beat the game in less than 10 minutes 30 seconds

Oop. There They Go! - Beat the game in less than 10 minutes (Wow!!!)

As these are all mostly trial and error, there's no real definitive guide to achieving these, however, there is a fairly decent introduction to faster strats by Nora Meld on youtube. As you won't need to stream any of your attempts, my link takes you straight to the in-game strats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIWxNQC3yEo&list=PLn1FrJSoMjojv7MpbNYzWc3pIq7nkUYdq

19 Comments

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sauce 23 Jan, 2024 @ 10:43am

This is very late, but i got "Yeah! That's right! You did it! You're a good squidlit!" only using keyboard after missing it the first time. I pressed "s" just once when at the village, right before it panned up to the end screen. I was using arrow keys before, so I guess it's hardcoded for default controls?

Eulerian 9 Jul, 2022 @ 11:49pm

Maybe try pressing down on both the analog stick as well as D-pad, to cover both bases.

shadree 9 Jul, 2022 @ 9:51pm

I tried it with a controller and it still didn't work. I might try it on Big Picture mode to see if that makes a difference.

Eulerian 9 Jul, 2022 @ 7:26pm

To any future readers - the "Yeah! That's right! You did it! You're a good squidlit!" achievement only seems to work when using a controller. I had tried several runs (playing with keyboard) where I tried all sorts of stuff at the end, but nothing seemed to register and trigger the achievement. But when using a controller, it popped immediately. I left a message in the Squidlit discord in case they can fix it, but until then - use a controller for that achievement, not the keyboard.

Celtic7Guardian 26 Mar, 2021 @ 12:09am

Yeah, the one where you have to press down at the end screen isn't working for me either. I've tried it multiple times without luck. Is there any way to get in touch with the devs to report that? I saw a mention of a Discord but am not sure how to access it, if I even can.

shadree 30 Dec, 2020 @ 9:48pm

I can't get "Yeah! That's right! You did it! You're a good squidlit!" to work either.

May 21 Nov, 2020 @ 9:49am

There's a really easy trick to getting the speedrun achievements. From the castle courtyard (the level where you get Squishy Squidlit of Science), you can do a trick jump to completely skip the library segment, shaving off 3-4 minutes, and all but guaranteeing you get the achievements.

Get to the top of the two-story building in the courtyard, jump to the right off of the highest tile on the roof, near the peak of the jump, pause the game. Position fingers on pause, jump, and right (this is easiest on controller), and hold right while rapidly hitting pause and jump (they have to be hit at about the same time, and it has to be done fast). It might take a few tries, but you should eventually reach a castle wall you can land on, and then keep walking right and you'll be in the room after the Grimwar boss fight.

forgetter 16 Aug, 2020 @ 12:27pm

i can't get the "I'm a distraction" acheivement no matter how hard I try, I actually do throw off the tempo though so I don't really know

lil_agaric 22 Jun, 2020 @ 9:19am

I'm really struggling to make the jump to riverjack - i've tried to use the branch in the images you added and the one above as well from as far left as possible but it seems impossible. Am i missing something??

AnAngeryGoose 20 Dec, 2019 @ 10:57am

I also tried the "All shark and no bite" achievement, but always got beaten before I could beat it. Am I supposed to somehow dodge its bullets while being right up against it?

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