Mars Rally Championship, a free browser rally game, has 30 achievements: 25 visible on your pilot page and 5 hidden until you trigger them. They track gates reached, distance driven, stages finished, medals earned, top speed, drift and air time, daily streaks, and five one-off moments the game never hints at. The full set pays 6,730 XP and 16 supply crates — six rare, eight epic, two legendary, and not a single common one. Nothing is timed, nothing expires, and none of it needs an account.
Diagram: 25 achievements show from the start and 5 stay hidden; 16 of the 30 pay a crate, and only two of those are legendary.
Where the board lives, and what counts
The board is on the pilot dossier, not in the game: unlocked entries show an icon and a date, locked ones a progress bar, hidden ones a question mark until they fire.
Screenshot: the board lives on the pilot dossier, read from the profile in your browser, with no account behind it (a test profile here).
One rule underpins the rest. Distance, drift seconds, air seconds and top speed accumulate during a run and commit to your career totals when it ends, whether you cross the finish line or restart, switch stage or quit partway; until 1 October 2026 only a finish counted. Free roam and the Proving Ground tutorial are excluded from that accounting. The deepest gate you reach on each stage and variant is kept as well, and every gate reached there for the first time pays 6 XP and 5 credits. The three distance rows are seeded with 2 km of orbital descent, so WANDERER I really asks for 2 km of driving.
The full Mars Rally Championship achievement list
| Icon | Achievement | What it asks | Reward |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🚩 | FIRST GATE | Pass your first checkpoint | +25 XP |
| 🚩 | FIVE DEEP | Reach the fifth checkpoint of a stage | +50 XP |
| ⚡ | HUNDRED CLUB | Hit 100 km/h | +50 XP |
| 🪂 | FIRST FLIGHT | 3 s of air time | +25 XP |
| 🛞 | WANDERER I | Cover 4 km (2 km credited up front) | +100 XP |
| 🛞 | WANDERER II | Cover 25 km | +200 XP · rare crate |
| 🛞 | WANDERER III | Cover 150 km | +500 XP · epic crate |
| 🏁 | FINISHER I | Finish a stage | +50 XP |
| 🏁 | FINISHER II | Finish 10 stages | +150 XP · rare crate |
| 🏁 | FINISHER III | Finish 50 stages | +400 XP · epic crate |
| 🥉 | ON THE BOARD | Earn any medal | +80 XP |
| 🥇 | GOLD STANDARD | Earn a gold medal | +200 XP · rare crate |
| 🗺 | FULL TRAVERSE | Medal on every stage | +300 XP · epic crate |
| 👑 | MARTIAN LEGEND | Gold on every stage | +1,000 XP · legendary crate |
| 💨 | SIDEWAYS | Drift 60 s total | +100 XP |
| 💨 | DRIFT ROYALTY | Drift 10 min total | +300 XP · epic crate |
| 🪂 | LOW GRAVITY | 30 s of air time | +100 XP |
| 🪂 | SUBORBITAL | 5 min of air time | +300 XP · epic crate |
| 🔥 | WARMING UP | 3-day streak | +100 XP |
| 🔥 | HABIT FORMED | 7-day streak | +250 XP · epic crate |
| 🔥 | MARTIAN RESIDENT | 30-day streak | +1,000 XP · legendary crate |
| 🏆 | CUP WINNER | Complete the Mars Cup | +300 XP · rare crate |
| 📦 | QUARTERMASTER | Open 5 supply crates | +100 XP |
| ⚡ | TERMINAL VELOCITY | Hit 150 km/h | +150 XP |
| 🎖 | VETERAN PILOT | Reach pilot level 5 | rare crate |
| 💥 | CRATER MAKER (hidden) | Hit something very hard | +100 XP |
| 🌌 | NIGHT OWL (hidden) | Win a NIGHT daily challenge | +200 XP · rare crate |
| 🧤 | UNTOUCHABLE (hidden) | Gold medal, zero impacts | +300 XP · epic crate |
| 📷 | TOURIST (hidden) | Use photo mode | +50 XP |
| ⚔ | DETHRONED (hidden) | Beat your rival by 10+ seconds | +250 XP · epic crate |
The ones that come free with normal play
Ten need no plan. The four added on 1 October 2026 open the board for exactly that reason: FIRST GATE, FIVE DEEP and HUNDRED CLUB land after the first run that passes a checkpoint, reaches a stage's fifth or touches 100 km/h, finished or not, and FIRST FLIGHT once 3 seconds of air have banked. FINISHER I and ON THE BOARD arrive on your first completed runs, WANDERER I a couple of stages later, and TERMINAL VELOCITY as soon as you hit 150 km/h. VETERAN PILOT follows on its own: a finish pays 50 XP, a personal best 100, medals 25 to 150 on top. QUARTERMASTER counts crates opened, and achievements and level-ups both hand you crates, so five arrive without spending a credit. New pilots should start with the beginner's guide.
Drift and air time need a deliberate session
SIDEWAYS (60 seconds) and LOW GRAVITY (30 seconds airborne) fall out of ordinary driving. DRIFT ROYALTY at 10 minutes sideways and SUBORBITAL at 5 minutes of air do not. Both are lifetime totals, and a stage run banks its seconds when it ends, finished or not; free roam and the Proving Ground add nothing.
The drift clock runs only past a slip-angle threshold and above a minimum speed. The pattern that pays is a wide open section taken deliberately loose: handbrake in, hold the slide on throttle, and let the roughly 3.1 m/s² of grip available on regolith, plus the extra bite a sideways tire gets from ploughing it, do the rest. Air time is a crest problem — under 3.72 m/s² the rover leaves the ground easily and hangs far longer than Earth intuition expects. Five minutes is still dozens of runs.
In-game screenshot: a held slide on loose regolith, the kind of driving that banks seconds toward SIDEWAYS and DRIFT ROYALTY, finished run or not.
Medals, and the two targets that move
ON THE BOARD and GOLD STANDARD each need a single medal. FULL TRAVERSE and MARTIAN LEGEND scale: their goal is the number of stages that currently have a configured route, so the target rises as new stages come online. Three are drivable today and more are being charted, which makes the gold sweep cheaper now than it will be later.
Medal pars are derived from route length divided by a fixed pace, so a longer stage gets proportionally more time. The reverse and storm variants keep their own bests and boards but never award medals, so a medal run has to be the forward route. What turns silver into gold is technique, covered in the guide to getting faster at rally driving games.
Streaks are the long pole
WARMING UP (3 days), HABIT FORMED (7) and MARTIAN RESIDENT (30) measure your best run of consecutive play days, keyed to local midnight. MARTIAN RESIDENT is one of only two legendary-crate rewards, and asks nothing but attendance. A two-day gap can be absorbed by a streak freeze, and you can hold two; freezes drop from rare-or-better crates with nothing new in them. One real attempt a day keeps the streak alive: a finish, or a stage run that reaches two gates or lasts a minute, and the daily challenge is the obvious one.
The five hidden achievements, and how to unlock each one
Hidden entries show a question mark until they fire.
CRATER MAKER — hit something very hard
Impact severity is energy-based: it reaches 1.0 at 22 m/s, about 80 km/h, and nothing under 3 m/s registers. CRATER MAKER wants a hit near the top of that scale during a timed run. Mesas hit 2.5 times harder than rocks, so a mesa wall at speed with no lift is the reliable route. Expect real damage: do it on a run you have written off, then repair in the zone at the stage start.
NIGHT OWL — win a daily that rolled the night sky
The daily challenge seeds its stage and its sky from the date, identically for every player, and the sky rolls NIGHT about 26% of the time — roughly one day in four. The daily challenge page shows which sky is up before you drive. There is no time target: finishing the day's run under a night sky sets the flag, with stars, the Milky Way and both Martian moons overhead.
UNTOUCHABLE — a gold medal with no impacts at all
A gold time and zero impacts recorded on the same run. Contact below the impact threshold is ignored, but anything you would notice counts. It is really a stage-knowledge test: a stage you can already gold, driven once more with margin at the edges. Use your strongest stage, not your newest.
TOURIST — use photo mode
The cheapest achievement in the game. Finish any run, press WATCH REPLAY on the results screen, then press P. Photo mode pauses the replay, hides the interface and puts field of view on the mouse wheel, with S to save a PNG. The flag sets the moment it opens. P does nothing while driving — photo mode exists only in a replay.
DETHRONED — beat your rival by more than 10 seconds
The ladder needs a personal best on the stage first; the game then pulls the leaderboard entry immediately faster than yours and puts that pilot's ghost on track. Beat their time by more than ten seconds in one run and DETHRONED fires. The trick is headroom: a rival assigned against a cautious early best is a slow rival, so learn the stage and come back. Variant runs sit out of the ladder.
What the rewards are actually worth
XP feeds your pilot level, and every level-up pays credits plus a crate of its own, so achievement XP quietly turns into more crates. The 16 crates the set awards would cost 8,000 credits at the shop price of 500 each — the largest single source of cosmetics in the game.
Crates open on the garage page rather than in the game: each rolls a tier before an item, a pity timer forces an epic after ten without one, and duplicates refund credits. Full odds are in the supply crate and garage guide.
Where to start
From an empty board, run three timed stages back to back: that clears FIRST GATE, FIVE DEEP, HUNDRED CLUB, FINISHER I, ON THE BOARD, WANDERER I and probably TERMINAL VELOCITY. Press WATCH REPLAY and hit P for TOURIST. Then run the daily challenge daily, watch your pilot dossier for the bars closest to full, and open crates at the garage.