Category Explorer

How to unlock Category Explorer in Cheevos, earn achievements across 3 different categories. Worth 15 XP.

The story

Partner. You did not stay in one lane.

Cache has met plenty of specialists. Partners who only ever visit the same handful of sites, who only ever trigger the same kind of achievement, over and over, comfortable and narrow. Cache respects the dedication. He does not collect it the same way.

You went a different route. You picked up something from navigation. You picked up something from bookmarks, or the browser's own hidden corners, or somewhere else entirely. Three different categories, three different shapes of loot, in the same short window of browsing.

Cache does not believe in specialists. He believes in collectors, and collectors cover ground. A person who only ever finds one kind of thing tells Cache one story about the internet. A person who finds three kinds tells him the internet is bigger than any one habit, and he already suspected that, but it is good to have it confirmed.

The catalog entry

THE THREE-CATEGORY LEDGER Acquired: Unlocked achievements spanning 3 different categories. Condition: Diversified. Rarity: Common, but a genuinely good sign of range. Cache's Notes: Three categories means you are browsing across multiple dimensions of the web. Not just navigation. Not just bookmarks. You are covering territory. Cache finds this very efficient. The Stash has sections for all of it, and now three of them have your name in the margin.

Spoiler: how to unlock it

This one rewards variety over volume.

  1. Unlock an achievement from one category, for example a navigation-based one earned just by visiting a site.
  2. Unlock a second achievement from a different category, such as one tied to bookmarks, browser features, or the Cheevos app itself.
  3. Unlock a third achievement from yet another category to complete the spread.

Cheevos achievements are organized into categories like navigation, browser easter eggs, app features, bookmarks, downloads, productivity, social, time, media, and secrets. The unlock condition just checks the categories attached to every achievement you have earned so far and counts the distinct ones, so there is no required order and no time limit. Playing normally across a few different habits gets you there naturally.

Where it fits in the Stash

Cache keeps his sections loosely organized by feeling more than by strict taxonomy, but he still notices when a partner's loot spans more than one shelf. To see the raccoon who is keeping score, read the story.