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* There's a trophy in VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing that requires neither time nor effort, called "Your Log Saw Something That Night." All you have to do is carve the name [[TwinPeaks Laura Palmer]] into your quest log.

* Many of ''Creator/{{CAVE}}''[='=]s Xbox 360 ports will give you an achievement for starting a game.

* ''[[Franchise/SlyCooper The Sly Trilogy]]'' has one in its first game, which you unlock simply for pressing Start.

* The Arcade Archives series of games released on the PS4 in Japan all have the same trophy list. 7 bronzes for poking around the menu and 2 golds for reaching the top score on the local leaderboard and then uploading that score online. While a few of the games are hard enough to make the two golds not so effortless, the 7 bronzes are always incredibly easy and achievable in less than a minute.

* The ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' use a system where receiving one achievement will reveal what others are. To start you off and get some of those goals revealed quickly, a few achievements will always be things you're bound to do anyway. The system seems to be part of Creator/MasahiroSakurai's SignatureStyle; ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'' does the same thing.

** Overall, literally every game in the Neptunia series have a trophy for starting the game. It's practically series tradition at this point.

* The VideoGame/{{Neptunia}} games are generally easy on handing out trophies early on, though you will have to work for the later ones. The [[VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaMk2 second game]] will give you three by the time you've passed the HopelessBossFight at the start, while [[VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaVictory the third]] has one you get for starting a new file that [[TakeThatCritics wonders how many game reviewers will make it this far]].

* The VideoGame/{{Neptunia}} games are generally easy on handing out trophies early on, though you will have to work for the later ones. The [[VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeputniaMk2 second game]] will give you three by the time you've passed the HopelessBossFight at the start while [[VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaVictory the third]] has one you get for starting a new file that [[TakeThatCritics wonders how many game reviewers will make it this far]].

** ''RockBand 3'' similarly had two relatively effortless achievements merely for connecting the game to an online account at the game's website and to Facebook; however, you have to get BOTH to even out your gamerscore to be divisible by 5. This frustrated gamers who did one but didn't want to do the other and their OCD kicked in...

* ''DawnOfWar'' II gives you an achievement for customising an army using the army painter, which can be done in seconds.

* There's a trophy in KingdomOfLoathing that requires neither time nor effort, called "Your Log Saw Something That Night." All you have to do is carve the name [[TwinPeaks Laura Palmer]] into your quest log.

* WorldOfWarcraft has many achievements that become this over time due to new content being released. Beating Icecrown Citadel on Heroic at the time it was released was impressive... now everyone can do it. Some achievements prevent this by being no longer obtainable later on though, but these generally also no longer give achievement points either.

* Parodied in the ''VideoGame/TheStanleyParable'' where one achivement reads "Click on door 430 five times". The narrator then berates the player for doing it for the achivement and then makes them jump through all kinds of hoops in order to make the player put some sort of effort into unlocking it.

* In VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown, there are achievements for: launching a satellite, building a laboratory, building a workshop, completing any research project, building any item, and shooting down a UFO. But the ultimate example is completing the tutorial, which basically does itself for you.

* There's a trophy in KingdomOfLoathing that requires neither time nor effort, called "Your Log Saw Something That Night." All you have to do is carve the name [[TwinPeaks Laura Palmer]] into your quest log.

There's a trp[hy in KingdomOfLoathing that requires neither time nor effort, called "Your Log Saw Something That Night." All you have to do is carve the name [[TwinPeaks Laura Palmer]] into your quest log.

* ''[[Franchise/SlyCooper The Sly Trilogy]]'' has one in its first game, which you unlock simply for pressing Start.

Achievements that fall under this are intentionally designed just to be gimmies to the player. Often early games with achievements made essentially ALL the achievements fairly easy to get just playing straight through the game (even on easy mode), because they were added last minute by mandate of the game platform after they had finished most of the game (this is especially prevalent in some early Xbox 360 games), and games aimed at younger children have many achievements that are fairly easy to get for older, experienced players. Players who play these kinds of games are often seen as achievement whores, merely looking to boost their gamerscore.

Contrast to ThatOneAchievement or LastLousyPoint. A sub-trope of OneHundredPercentCompletion and GottaCatchEmAll.

* ''DawnOfWar'' II gives you an achievement for customising an army using the army painter, which can be done in seconds.

** The Xbox arcade port of the original TMNT arcade game similarly gives you a zero point achivement for falling into an open sewer hole a few times.

* ''VideoGame/FiftyCentBloodOnTheSand'' has one for dying on easy, called Not Bulletproof. It gives zero points.

* Creating your character/your band in ''Rock Band''[='=]s case at the beginning of the game will pop an achievement.

So you started up that new game you've been itching to play, ready to kill some mooks and explore. You hit the start button after it loads and...an achievement (or tropy, etc) pops up? Just for starting? You go in to create your character, zooming through the customizing screens just trying to get to the in-game action and...another one? Finally, the game starts up and you walk your character to a door to trigger the first game event and...oh hell, another one! Thanks game!

You started up that new game you've been itching to play, ready to kill some mooks and explore. You hit the start button after it loads and...an achievement (or tropy, etc) pops up? Just for starting? You go in to create your character, zooming through the customizing screens just trying to get to the in-game action and...another one? Finally, the game starts up and you walk your character to a door to trigger the first game event and...oh hell, another one! Thanks game!

* The [[TheProblemWithLicensedVideoGames terrible]] 360 game based on ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' is best known for probably quickest 1000 achievement points in any game: there's only 5 achievements total, all of which involve performing sufficiently high combos, and you can get all of them in the first or second fight by spamming your ranged attack on the enemies without getting hit.

* The [[TheProblemWithLicensedVideoGames terrible]] 360 game based on !!WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' is best known for probably quickest 1000 achievement points in any game: there's only 5 achievements total, all of which involve performing sufficiently high combos, and you can get all of them in the first or second fight by spamming your ranged attack on the enemies without getting hit.