Find the six descriptions hidden beneath the public list
Valve's game page displayed twenty achievements on November 12, with fourteen public entries and six hidden behind a separate reveal control. If you want to avoid story spoilers, stop at the hidden header. If you are planning a cleanup run, reveal the hidden entries only when you are ready to read their descriptions. Compare them with the entries already marked unlocked on your own account.
The number fourteen is a property of the global list layout. It does not mean you personally earned fourteen. To measure an individual save's progress, open your own achievements for Potato Please instead of counting the descriptions on the public page.
Steam global achievement descriptions and snapshot, November 12 ↗
Read a global percentage without mistaking it for your save
On November 12 the public page showed 98.6% for First Cut and 95.4% for Warmed Up. These are global player unlock rates sampled that day. They are not the percentage of a potato that must be peeled or the percentage of your warm-up shift that must be finished. Open your personal achievement entry for the unlock and the Journal for the actual task state.
A new save can display an empty inventory even when the account already has First Cut. In that case there is no new first-time Steam unlock to award. Similarly, another player's public profile can have different personal unlocks while the global percentage stays the same for both of you.
Steam global achievement descriptions and snapshot, November 12 ↗
Player screenshot: the archived finish compared with continued play ↗
Two Steam entries can have the same percentage and different triggers
The public Steam display on November 12 showed 65.1% for both Fully Automated and Employee of the Month. The values are rounded, and the tasks differ: follow the crane autopilot for automation, and check promotion progress for the employee award. An identical percentage is not evidence that their triggers are linked.
For a missing entry, decide whether the save actually has Crane Autopilot or the final rank. On a save with one but not the other, work toward the missing condition. Looking at the two global percentages again will not reveal which rank or terminal purchase is still missing.
Steam global achievement descriptions and snapshot, November 12 ↗
Player walkthrough for the automatic peeling and lifting milestones ↗
A rare hand-peeling award measures a different route through the game
In the November 12 snapshot, 69.5% of players had Ten Thousand while 11.6% had These Hands Were Made for Peeling. The first is a total-output milestone and the second requires a thousand manual peels. A mechanized run can therefore pass the higher number with little progress toward the manual award. Compare your personal achievement list with the career hand tally, not with the rarity percentage.
These rates fluctuate as more people play. The public list hides several entries, so the lowest percentage in its visible portion is not sufficient to identify the rarest achievement in the whole game.
Steam global achievement descriptions and snapshot, November 12 ↗
Player screenshot: difficulty tabs and the fastest-shift clock ↗
Where to read global achievement data when the web leaderboard is empty
The public achievements page exposes global completion percentages. The separate Steam Community leaderboard feed for app 5266240 returned an explicit no-public-global-leaderboards response during our November 12 check. A player screenshot nevertheless shows the in-game Records screen with a Global filter and difficulty tabs. If you need shift times, use Records in the game. If you need unlock rarity, use the public achievements page.
A blank public leaderboard response alone cannot tell you that a personal run was deleted. Check the matching in-game category, the selected difficulty and your own entry before treating it as a missing score.
Valve's public Steam Community global leaderboard feed ↗
Player screenshot: difficulty tabs and the fastest-shift clock ↗
Steam global achievement descriptions and snapshot, November 12 ↗
The counter can pass a million without another peel achievement
A published English Saves screen shows a finished Normal run with 1,009,842 peeled. Steam’s achievement list names milestones for 1,000 and 10,000 total potatoes, plus separate hand-peeling milestones. There is no listed million-peel award. If your aim is to keep counting, use Continue Playing and reorder when the old pile is mostly gone. If your aim is to finish the achievement list, compare its missing badge names before starting another pile.
Potato Please: Steam's official achievement list ↗
jxselee's Steam achievement guide, including the conditions for the three peel milestones ↗
Golden Horn Studios: patch 1.0.4 save format and backup behavior ↗
Sources
- Steam global achievement descriptions and snapshot, November 12 steamcommunity.com
- Player screenshot: the archived finish compared with continued play steamcommunity.com
- Player walkthrough for the automatic peeling and lifting milestones potatosplease.wiki
- Community achievement walkthrough by a player steamcommunity.com
- Player screenshot: difficulty tabs and the fastest-shift clock steamcommunity.com
- Valve's public Steam Community global leaderboard feed steamcommunity.com
- Golden Horn Studios: patch 1.0.4 save format and backup behavior store.steampowered.com