Return of the Obra Dinn

Return of the Obra Dinn

16 Achievements

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8-10h

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Captain Did It

Captain Did It

Loosely true, in the eyes of Company and Crown.

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How to unlock the Captain Did It achievement in Return of the Obra Dinn - Definitive Guide

I recommend doing this as a separate (partial) playthrough after you earn the 14 achievements related to completing chapters, solving X amount of fates, and completely solving the book.

There are 60 crew members in the game. As the achievement name states, you are going to have to blame every single death (with the exception of crew members #4 - Martin Perrott the Third Mate, and #28 Fillip Dahl the Captain's Steward) on the Captain. While going for this achievement, you will not be able to earn the Obra-Done achievement as that requires you to fully solve the book, which means you would need to get everything correct.

Note: In order to be able to point out the cause of death for crew members, you will first have to unblur their faces. This game mechanic is pretty simple. If a face in the crew portrait is blurry then the appropriate information to solve who they are hasn't been presented to you yet. If the face looks clear, then at some point in a memory you have viewed you were given the information to figure out who they are. In order to blame all deaths on the Captain, you are first going to have to progress through the game until you unblur every face. This can simply be done by viewing every memory, most of which are presented to you in a linear manner. When you have seen everything in Chapters 1-7, 9, and 10 (Chapter 8 is a special chapter that won't be seen while going for this achievement, but also isn't necessary), all faces will be unblurred and you can continue.

The goal is to get every crew members death wrong here since this achievement requires you to (wrongfully) blame the entire crew's demise solely on the Captain. Be careful not to get any death correct by accident as it will void the achievement. For that reason, I advise saying that the Captain (#1 - Robert Witterel) killed himself by hanging himself with a noose, and the remaining crew members (excluding the two exceptions noted above) were all "axed" by Captain Witterel. The reason I used these choices is because


The achievement will pop just after boarding the rowboat you arrived on after the man who rowed you to the Obra Dinn informs you of a storm coming. After waiting a few seconds, the game will fade to black, you will be briefed on what happens a few weeks later, and you will be 50 Gamerscore richer!

BONUS! You will also earn the Abandon Ship achievement shortly afterwards when your maid delivers you a letter in the middle of the night. This is for getting the "bad" ending of the game for not correctly solving everybody's fate. You probably noticed along the way to this achievement that Chapter 8 was never explored. That can only be viewed if you have everything correct before boarding the rowboat.

EDIT: I've been informed by user BiLLzuMaNaTi that you don't even need to accurately identify the crew members to their faces in the picture. This will save some time towards going for this achievement! Just blaming their cause of death on the captain will suffice.
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27 Oct 2019 17:40

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Thanks! Just a heads up, you don’t need to identify anyone. Just put they were axed by the captain. I identified the captain though and said he hung himself
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By BiLLzuMaNaTi on 31 Oct 2019 22:06
I've edited the solution to advise a separate playthrough, and to inform that identifying isn't necessary. Thanks!
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By Vanstrom336 on 02 Nov 2019 17:55
Regarding the need to not get any fates correct, I just got this achievement with three completed fates where the captain actually was responsible, including his suicide.

That said, getting everything deliberately incorrect protects against accidentally locking in a correct fate that doesn't blame the captain.
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By CrazyEyed Jon on 26 Oct 2020 07:04
Worked perfect, by choosing Axed and the Captain for all. Didn't even have to guess any names. Took about 3 hours. thanks!
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By Shadow XBL on 29 Dec 2020 16:03
You do seem to have to correctly identify the captain. I tried a few times and no achievement until I did that.
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By Sergeus on 17 Jul 2022 19:56
This probably requires its own play through since you can not change any fates that are already correctly locked in.
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By Hieronimus on 30 Oct 2019 20:26
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For each death, blame it on the captain.

You can do this by choosing an option that can be blamed on a specific person (like shot/gun or eaten), and selecting the Captain. For this, you do have to correctly identify the Captain
(although you can misidentify everyone else; it's actually somewhat handy to do so). For the Captain himself, select suicide.



Then return to the rowboat and head to port, ending the game early.
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07 Jan 2019 00:00

In this video I walk you through the game to get all the achievements in one playthrough

Achievement Walkthrough:
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05 Nov 2019 05:05

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Great guide, thanks for making it! The game allows you to make a copy of a save file, so I don't believe you have to utilize all the cloud save stuff. You can just copy the save file before you go for the achievements for "blaming the captain for everything" and "filling out the book correctly".
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By LifeSuxPlayHALO on 02 Jan 2020 20:09
Thanks! Yea I realized that after lol facepalm
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By BiLLzuMaNaTi on 03 Jan 2020 01:19
You need to say that the Captain killed everyone, just pick the axe to make it easiest (it's near the top and nobody died from the axe), and you will still list his own death by suicide. He's the only one you need to identify, the cause of death is the important thing. This of course means you will be pretty far into the game to open up every page other than the Bargain chapter. It's easiest to choose the means of death for each person you find as you go. This will also likely net you the
Return of the Obra DinnHidden TrophyThe Hidden Trophy trophy in Return of the Obra Dinn worth 33 pointsContinue playing to unlock this hidden trophy
and the final tally should be 57 crew killed by the Captain. Fear not, you can select Begin after the credits and go back to the ship and solve everything correctly.
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13 Dec 2019 01:30

Set the ship's captain as the killer for all characters
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28 Jan 2020 21:48

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it is enough to indicate 58 people as killed and leave the ship
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By Rykiel on 01 Sep 2022 18:52