How achievements work

How achievements unlock, and what the unlock rates say

Seven achievements compare against a stored number, and four of those numbers are not in the description. This guide lists them and reads the Steam unlock rates against the stage each one comes at.

The three rarest achievements on Steam: the one-hour run, the full journal and the bare-handed boss kill.

Checked against Patch 1.0.11Updated 2 September 2026Written by Teo Brandt

The seven checks with a number in them

Each check runs when the action it names happens: a kill, a sale, a purchase, a meal, a boss dying, the boat moving, the ending playing. The comparison is against a fixed constant in the game, and the constants are these.

The seven thresholds

Impressive needs the combined kill bonus multiplier on one kill to reach 5x. Rich! Millionaire needs one sale of 100,000 or more, measured on the final price after the weight roll, the cooking multiplier and every kill bonus. Easy needs a full boss, not a mini-boss, dead within 10 seconds of appearing. Handyman needs the hit that empties the final boss’s health bar to deal under 5 damage. The check runs on each hit as it lands, so bare hands qualify and so does a single pellet from an un-upgraded Shotgun, which does 3; Brass Knuckles start at exactly 5 and fail. Bean needs the saved playtime to be under 1 hour when the game is finished. I’m the bird now needs the boat to reach a height of 10. Yummy in my tummy needs you to eat something cooked past 1.5 on the grill’s scale, beyond the point where cooking stops adding value.

Playtime counts across sessions

Bean is the one people misread. The check is not “beat the game in one sitting”: it compares the total playtime saved with the game, which accumulates across every session on that save. Pausing costs nothing. What does not work is finishing the story on a save that has already been played for more than 1 hour, however fast the last session was.

What the unlock rates tell you

Steam publishes how many owners hold each achievement. On 2026-09-02, Getting started sat at 98.5% and Bean at 2.7%. The figure counts everyone who owns the game, including people who stopped on the first island, so a low number means “few players got this far” at least as often as it means “this is hard”.

The ten rarest achievements on Steam, read on 2026-09-02
Achievement	What the game checks	When	Players
Bean	Measured against total saved playtime rather than one session.	Late	2.7%
Fishipedia	Every creature the journal tracks, caught as a drip variant.	Late	3%
Handyman	The hit that empties the health bar has to deal under 5 damage, and hits are checked one at a time. Bare hands qualify; so does one pellet from an un-upgraded Shotgun (3 per pellet). Brass Knuckles start at exactly 5 and fail.	Late	3.6%
Everyone's dream	Dynamite is sold from island 2 onwards.	Mid-game	6.7%
Collector	Every creature the journal tracks. Five creatures you will certainly catch are not tracked at all.	Late	16.9%
Rich! Millionaire	The figure is the final sale price, so the weight roll, the cooking multiplier and every kill bonus all count towards it.	Late	18.2%
Competitive eating	Any of the six mini-bosses, eaten rather than sold.	Mid-game	22.9%
I'm the bird now	The boat has to reach a height of 10.	Mid-game	27.2%
Easy	Counted from the moment the boss appears, and only full bosses qualify, not mini-bosses.	Late	33.8%
All in	Green pays 35 times the staked item's value, against 2 times for red or black.	Mid-game	39.1%

Read the column against the stage. The late-game group has 11 achievements, and three of the 4 under 10% are in it: the bare-handed final boss, the full journal and the one-hour run, each of which asks for the whole game done a second way. The fourth, Everyone's dream, is a mid-game novelty that nobody does by accident, which is why a seagull and a stick of dynamite rank beside the hardest late-game goals.

How to use the lookup

Filter by stage or by how many players hold an achievement, and open any card for the exact check.

The lookup lists all 28 with their Steam icons. Each card shows the description Steam shows and the condition the game tests, so the hidden numbers above are on the card that needs them. The “rarest first” sort is the quickest way to see which ones are left after a normal run. For a route through all 28 in the order they come up, use How do I get every achievement?.