This is going to be a basic guide on every single achievement in Half Life Alyx. There are many videos on this very thing, but I wanted to make something easily accessible while in VR. There may be spoilers in this guide. I will not be covering achievements you are guaranteed to get just by playing through the game, like those related to completing certain chapters

These aren't big enough to warrant their very own section, so I'll just do a quick fire section for all of them.

Up In Arms
Go to a Combine Fabricator and install an upgrade, resin sold separately.



Dead Giveaway
Pick up something off a corpse, you'll be doing this the entire game.

Safe Trip
Trip Mines do not have to be exploded to get through them, you can alternatively hack them to disable them.



Xen Lootism
To do this all you need to do is snatch a Xen grenade from those weird little xen arm things. You have to be quick for this otherwise they will close their hand and you won't be able to grab them for a second or two, or you can rub their bellies and they'll open their "hand" and allow you to grab the grenade freely.

Good Grub
Shortly after the opening sequence where you talk to Eli, you'll find a room with a snark in a tank. You're going to want to grab the container of food and shake it upside down above the snark tank, and you'll get the achievement


On a Roll
Shortly before reaching Russell's lab, you'll find a playground. The achievement is a little misleading in that you don't have to just randomly slap around the playground, you have to take the bucket laying on the ground and roll it down the slide




Eye of the Geiger
For this one you'll find a Geiger counter on a shelf in Russell's lab. Take the Geiger counter and hold it up to Russell, the achievement should unlock




Little Slugger
In Russell's lab there will be a miniature figurine of the scout from TF2. When Russell asks you to represent yourself on the map with an object, use the figurine for this and you'll have unlocked the achievement




Gnome Vault of My Own
This is perhaps the hardest achievement in the game, and it all starts here in chapter one. When you're first testing the gravity gloves, there will be a gated off section in the direction of the window Russell is looking out of. On a couch behind it there will be a gnome. For this achievement you have to bring that gnome all the way to the vault at the end of the game, similar to the gnome in Half Life 2 Episode 2. There's a lot of strategies to do this, what I did was put the gnome in the first bucket I found (pro tip: you can also store excess grenades and syringes in buckets) and carried that bucket with me throughout the game. Also make sure to save often, as if you lose the gnome you might end up having to go back quite a few saves if not.





Mag-Snagger
All you have to do for this is catch the magazine Russell throws to you before it hits the ground. You can do this manually or with the gravity gloves


Blast From The Past
This is the only achievement exclusive to this chapter. Shortly after fighting off your first blue ant lions you'll come across a room of barrels and trip mines (a reference to a similar room in Half Life). Defuse all the trip mines and the achievement should unlock. There's not many tips I can give besides to be very careful when moving around the room and take note of the location of the trip mine beams before pulling objects or resin towards you. The resin is placed to easily activate the mines if you don't defuse them before grabbing the resin.



Near-Jeff Experience
All you have to do for this achievement is to stay close to Jeff for 10 seconds. My strategy was to distract him with a bottle and then stand behind him, works a treat. It also helps to do it in the room that you find the 3 battery cells in, it's quite compact and there are a lot of places where you can stay close to Jeff. Caution: Might (and probably will) result in death on your first try.


Crustacean Frustration
When you get to the narrow corridor with gates on both sides in chapter 7, there will be a headcrab that knocks over a ton of bottles and objects, alerting Jeff. If you kill the headcrab before it knocks over anything, you'll unlock the achievement. Shooting the headcrab will alert Jeff quicker than if the headcrab knocked over the objects so be sure to duck into the areas on the side before he gets you.


Hold Your Liquor
In the section where you have to find the 3 power cells, there will be a lot of cupboards and cabinets. When opening one of the cupboards, a bottle will roll out of it. All you have to do is catch the bottle and you've got the achievement.




Team Spirit
In Chapter 7 just put a bottle of vodka in one of your wrist slots and carry it through the rest of the chapter into chapter 8. You do not have to carry it through the end of the game like I've seen some people say, once you're officially in chapter 8 you can drop it with no penalty.


Sound Strategy
At the end of the chapter you need to trap Jeff in the trash compactor and then close the door. Leave without activating it and you'll have unlocked this achievement




Flat Note
This is basically just like Sound Strategy, but instead now you hit the button to kill him in the trash compactor

Mazel Tov
Self Explanatory, all you have to do is smash a ton of glass bottles. If you don't get this just by screwing around then the beginning of Jeff is a good place to do this since there are a ton of vodka bottles.

Smash and Grab
Break open a supply crate with your bare hands. Supply crates are those little wooden crates with a yellow label. This is easily done by smashing them on the ground.


Freshly Squeezed
When you first run into Gary the Vortigaunt, there will be a bunch of headcrabs and headcrab hearts laying around. Take one of the headcrab hearts and squeeze it like you would one of the soda cans. Depending on what VR controllers you're using you might have to go into your bindings in the SteamVR settings and enable any button as a grip button, some controllers don't have it bound by default.


Pro-Pain
This one can be a little bit tricky, you have to shoot the propane tank off the back of the white combine soldiers while they're alive.

Combine Harvester
During a fight, find a combine soldier who is carrying something on their body and snatch it from them before killing them.

Deadliest Catch
Requires no explanation, just catch a grenade a combine throws at you.

Indirect Approach
The best way to do this is with a well placed grenade when they throw their shield up.