Here are the special thanks to the ones who had contributions to this guide:

1. Special thanks to Shingo. He's the second author of this guide who offer inspiration. He is an excellent player for 2D Platformer and here's the link of his homepage for more guides.

https://test-steamproxy.haloskins.io/profiles/76561198133177124


2. Special thanks to floccifurious. He has uploaded many videos on walkthrough on Iron Meat, which helped me to overcome the obstacles of Iron Meat. He is also an excellent player for 2D Platformer and especially good at Contra series. Here's the link of his homepage of videos.


https://space.bilibili.com/3546390556838414

There are 35 achievements in total in Iron meat. In my view they are divided into three kinds according their difficulties.


[1] Easy: The ones will be unlocked automatically with the process of the game

[2] Medium: The ones require attention of player in the process, but not hard to get.

[3] Hard: The ones require experience and practice, which may consume a deal of time.

Here is the general collection of the easy achievements. These achievements are easy to get and need no particular description or hint.

1. Anyway, I Started Blastin'
Take the first shot in the game.

Just press your fire button.



2. Strolling Through the Forest
Complete "Forest" on any difficulty.



3. Ascension to Madness
Complete "Tower" on any difficulty.



4. Unwelcome Passengers
Complete "Train" on any difficulty.



5. Based
Complete "Base" on any difficulty.



6. Saboteurs Fly Free
Complete "Sky" on any difficulty.



7. Swimming in Fire
Complete "City" on any difficulty.



8. Through the Gate
Complete "Skyscraper" on any difficulty.



9. Lunar Conqueror
Complete "Moon" on any difficulty.



10. Iron Blooded
Defeat the Iron Meat on "Moon Base" on any difficulty.



11. The Last Man on the Moon
Escape the Moon Base as it's exploding.



12. To Fight Another Day
Beat the game on any difficulty.



13. I'll Be Back
Get to the "Game Over" screen for the first time. Your sacrifice will not be in vain.

Run out of the times of reviving and lose the game.

(No mood for screenshot)

Here are the achievements you may miss in the process of the game, and it's just a piece of cake to unlock them.

Unsanitary Conditions

Destroy a full Meat Chain on "Tower".

Shoot the hole from which the meat chain is crawling out.

And Stay Out!

Destroy all the doors on "Tower".

There are 4 doors from which the monster soldiers will come out. Just shoot them till they explode.

Package is Secure

Complete "Train" without destroying any boxes.

The achievement can be only unlock in Normal or Hard mode because in Easy mode the boxes are made of iron and you can't destroy them.

There are 2 boxes on the left of the carriages and just remember to hold your fire in order to shoot them by mistake.

Destruction of Property

Defeat the Monster House on "City" after destroying all four Meat Generators.

At the last phase of the Boss Monster House, there are four Meat Generators (Turrets) and one eyeball (the weakness).

To unlock the achievement you need to destroy all 4 generators before destroying the eyeball. The H high-explosive grenade launcher is recommended.

But attention: The fire rate of the eyeball will reach its maximum when all the generators are destroyed.

Lights OUT!

Destroy every letter on the "LEVEL CLEAR" sign.

Yes the letter on the sign of LEVEL CLEAR can be destroyed by your bullets. So don't be AFK when you defeat the boss and keep shooting at the letters. BTW you will get 7,000 points by shooting all of the letter, which is a good way to upgrade.

Lunar Olympics

Escape the collapsing Moon Base within 40 seconds.

After defeating Iron Meat, the self-destuctive program will be activated and you will jump to the top floor to escape. Just move as fast as you can, be careful and do not fall off the platforms, and you can easily reach the top floor with 40 secs.

Concentrate Your Fire!

Defeat the Monster House on "City" without destroying more than one Meat Generator.

On the contrary to Destruction of Property, you need to defeat Monster House by destroying its eyeball without destroying any of the eyeball turrets. The U Laser Sniper Rifle is recommended because its trajectory is very stable, not like B or S. The gap between the turrets is small, and the bullets of U can fly through the gap easily.

... Why?

Destroy all the engines on the airship. (Are you not afraid to fall?)

Just shoot at the engines that can be seen. The point is that the last engine is very easy to be missed because the monster missile and the zombies have drawn players' attention and when players kill all the enemies, the engine is forgotten. What's worse, the sky fortress goes up and down all the time, and you can't see it when the fortress goes down. XD

Eye See You!

Defeat the Meat Prophet on "Moon" without destroying any of the eyeball turrets.

It sounds hard, but actually the speed of the bullets shot by the turrets is very slow. You just need to jump when you hear the sound of shooting then you can dodge the attack easily. Using the U Laser Sniper Rifle can help you destroy the brain in the middle easily. Do not use H or S which will destroy the near turrets.

Questionable Allegiance
Complete "Forest" without destroying any Meat turrets.

Run through the forest and ignore the Meat turrets. Some of them looks like Iron turrets but are controlled by the Meat. It's advisable to unlock the achievement in Easy mode if you find it hard.

Longing for Home

Remain idle for 1 minute on "Moon" with Earth visible in the background.

Just be AFK for 1 min and you will unlock the achievement on "Moon".

Reversal of Fate

Complete every level in the game with the "Sasha" Skin.

The "Sasha" skin is unlocked after beating the game. To unlock this achievement, you need to beat the game and complete every level with the skin “Sasha”.

Quickdraw

On "City", destroy the first Meat Car without letting a Sniper shoot.

There are 5 Snipers to kill before you meet with the Meat Car. It's advisable to unlock the achievement in Easy mode because in hard mode the Snipers will almost fire as soon as they appear.

1st and 2nd Snipers: The wall of building will collapse and the Sniper will appear on the 2nd floor, and the 2nd Sniper is not far away, hiding under the window.





3rd Sniper: Beside the big pit in which there are platforms spitting acid, the 3rd Sniper is just opposite you, on the right side of the screen.



4th and 5th Snipers: Soon you will see a building sink and the 4th and the 5th Snipers stand on its rooftop.

You Crazy Fool!

You fail to escape the collapsing Moon Base.

In fact it can be seen as the bad ending of the game. All you need to do is stay where you are after beating the Iron Meat and wait for the Moon Base to explode.

Here are the achievements which are not unlocked easily and require players to operate expertly and have a good understanding of the levels.

Defeat the three Meat Bulbs on "Tower" without getting hit by a yellow light pillar.

It's hard for the players who have no idea how to dodge the light pillar and the bullets shot by the meat bulb simultaneously. Here's a simple way:












(developed by @floccifurious)

Finish a level without remaining idle for a total of 1 minute.

"idle" here doesn't mean doing nothing but standing still, so you can keep jumping when you need to wait somewhere.

The achievement require players to have a good command of the structure of the level. It's advisable to unlock the achievement on "Moon" or "Moon Base" because the Bosses won't allow you to stand still. The rest is to run and jump.

Finish "Forest" without letting any friendly items from allies touch the ground.

Retroware didn't describe the achievement completely. The complete description is "Finish "Forest": hit and catch every flying friendly item without letting any friendly items from allies touch the ground."

The achievement is not the hardest but the most irritating because there's some random factors. You can't destroy the gas can (gas can bugs) and crates in the distance because you can't pick the items from there at once. The destroyable parts in the background will possibly generate the items of 1.000 points, including lights, cameras, woods and so on. So you need to consolidate at every step.

Here are the tips:

1. HOLD YOUR FIRE! Try not to hit the breakable parts in the background as much as you can. If you see an item fly from them and land on the ground. you have failed to get the achievement.






2. Jump and dodge the gas can bugs. Maybe it's easy to kill the bugs and catch the items, but they usually appear with the zombies. So it's wiser to avoid them.


3. Vadim comes out of a sentry post. Don't push forward and wait a sec, there will be a soldier throwing an M machine gun to you. Don't miss it.







4. Shoot and catch every flying item no matter what is in it. So you need to push slowly in case of being disturbed by the enemies and miss the flying items.





5. Here's a trap stopping you from unlocking the achievement. After passing by the sentry post on the roof of which the soldier will throw you a B, there will be a flying item and it will make you shoot bullets at the angle of 360°. At this time just wait for the bullets to disappear, or they will hit the crate ahead and you can't catch the weapon in it.

Defeat Yuri Markov without jumping to any of the left side bodies.

At the last phase of the Boss Yuri Markov (Skyscraper) you stand on the bodies of your comrades to fight against Yuri. To unlock the achievement you can only stand on there 3 bodies, the one in the middle and the two on the right.



Yuri can only attack you with thunder and power pillar so it's not too hard. But the point is that once you die unfortunately, you will respawn on the bodies on the left, which means you failed to unlock the achievement. So you'd better finish Yuri in one go.

Complete "Tower" on Normal or higher difficulty without losing a single life.

It's really hard to describe how to complete the level with one life with words and I don't know how to upload a video here XD. So what I can do is cite a link of video, and "Tower" starts from 4:25.

【(PC) Iron Meat Hard clearance with one life no weapon no item】 https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1sUxseqEtQ/

Complete "City" within 10 minutes on Hard difficulty.

The hardest achievement in my view.

First of all, you can only unlock the achievement in Hard mode.

What's more, you are confronted the threats from the air and the ground simultaneously, which will force you to remember the details of the level.

The 10 mins seem to be a tight time limit, but actually it's very tolerant. I can complete the level though I kill em' all and don't rush as hell. So you should think carefully about how to survive instead of how to fly.



Here is the video mentioned above and "City" starts from 35:36
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1sUxseqEtQ/

(uploaded by @floccifurious)

Check My Credentials

Reach the maximum Rank.

The maximum Rank is 20. It needs you to practise and complete the levels over and over again. That's why I think the achievement hard.

But I find a way to accumulate the points in the short time. Just complete "Tower" repeatedly. Its walkthrough is short and you can get about 45,000 points every time you complete.

Earn every other Achievement in the game.

It takes you a great deal of time and energy to unlock the final achievement. Just take a break.

This is my first time to create a guide on steam.

If there's any problem please contact me (add me as a friend on steam) or leave a comment under the guide, I will correct it asap.

In my childhood I had played many 2D platform games, like Contra Series, Metal Slug Series, Ninja Gaiden Series (FC) and so on.

To be frank Iron Meat is imperfect, and there's still space for it to make progress. However, it reminds me of the good times in the past.