How to read your Potato Please achievement record on Steam

Reconcile the missing badges before replaying an ending

Open Potato Please in your Steam Library, select the achievements panel and open your achievement details. Read your fraction at the top. Scroll past the unlocked entries to the ordinary locked entries, then check the separate count of hidden entries below. A public example shows 11/20 unlocked, four named locks and five hidden locks. Four plus five accounts for all nine still missing on that profile. You can do this arithmetic without revealing any story names.

Potato Please personal achievement layout, with unlock dates and spoiler controls ↗

Identify one secret badge without opening the rest

If the question mark sits inside the unlocked section, look for its unlock time first. Steam can mask its description for someone viewing the page even after that profile earned it. The individual spoiler control on that row reveals the one entry. The separate control below the locked entries reveals the remaining hidden list and could disclose endings you have yet to reach. In the example, the already-earned hidden entry has an unlock date next to it.

Potato Please personal achievement layout, with unlock dates and spoiler controls ↗

Read the order in which Steam credited two awards

Open your personal achievements and use the Unlock Date view. Find the relevant rows and compare both the calendar date and the time. On the example account, The Quota is stamped November 8 at 2:22 p.m. and a hidden award at 2:24 p.m. You can establish which Steam credited first without revealing the second name. An unlock stamp records an award, so it will not tell you the duration of a complete shift or the time at which a letter appeared.

Potato Please personal achievement layout, with unlock dates and spoiler controls ↗

Several awards arriving together after Steam reconnects

One player on CachyOS had already played past the first peel when the game logged a Steam initialization failure. The player's follow-up reports receiving earlier awards when the game was launched again with a working Steam connection. Valve also documents a local achievement cache for normal offline play. Those are different circumstances. Reconnect, run the game through Steam, then look at the actual names in your personal unlocked list. Treat an award as recovered only when the row is present. This case does not establish that every save can retroactively grant every badge.

Player's First Cut report and follow-up after Steam connected ↗

Valve on offline achievement tracking and synchronization ↗

Potato Please personal achievement layout, with unlock dates and spoiler controls ↗

Find an English achievement from the clue or translated title

A player asked about an award using the words “You taught him well.” Steam uses those words as the clue for Your Own Executioner. Search for the title in an English guide if searching the clue brings up conflicting results. For an ordinary translated award, open the same game's Steam achievement web page in both languages and compare its condition. For example, Alte Schule and Old School both require 500 hand-peeled potatoes. Switching between the linked web listings leaves your in-game language alone.

Player question using the wording of the hidden achievement clue ↗

Potato Please achievements in English ↗

The same Steam achievement list in German ↗

Related field notes

• Why Steam shows 14 visible Potato Please achievements out of 20
• A first-shift roadmap for the 20 Steam achievements