Potato Please has several achievements that can be unlocked by peeling potatoes, upgrading the warehouse, completing special tasks, and choosing different story endings. Most of them unlock naturally as you work through the game, but Your Own Executioner is missable and requires specific choices throughout the story.
You can complete almost all achievements in one playthrough. However, you’ll need to reload a manual save near the ending to unlock all three endings.
Estimated Completion Time: 4–5 hours
Required Playthroughs: One, with save reloads for the endings
Missable Achievement: Your Own Executioner
Important: Read the Your Own Executioner section before receiving Pavel’s first letters. Your replies affect his loyalty, and you cannot change his fate at the end of the game.
Also, create a manual save when you reach the three levers inside the train. You can use this save to unlock all three endings without starting another playthrough.
All Potato Achievements
These achievements require you to peel a certain number of potatoes. Both manual peeling and machines count toward the total unless the achievement specifically requires hand peeling.
First Cut
Requirement: Peel your first potato.
This is the first achievement you’ll unlock. Pick up a potato and peel it for the first time. It unlocks automatically during the opening part of the game.
A Thousand Peels
Requirement: Peel 1,000 potatoes.
Peel a total of 1,000 potatoes using your hands or peeling machines. Both methods count, so you don’t need to track your progress manually.
Ten Thousand
Requirement: Peel 10,000 potatoes.
You need to peel 10,000 potatoes in total. Manual peeling and machine peeling both contribute to this achievement.
The machines can make this much easier, and you should reach the target during a normal playthrough.
Old School
Requirement: Peel 500 potatoes by hand.
For this achievement, you must peel 500 potatoes manually. Potatoes processed by machines do not count.
You can use the Muscle Memory skill to make manual peeling more convenient.
These Hands Were Made for Peeling
Requirement: Peel 1,000 potatoes by hand.
This works the same way as Old School, but you need to manually peel 1,000 potatoes instead of 500.
Machine-peeled potatoes won’t contribute to the total. Keep peeling by hand whenever you have time.
Shift and Automation Achievements
You’ll unlock most of these achievements while progressing through the warehouse and purchasing upgrades.
Warmed Up
Requirement: Complete the warm-up shift.
Finish the introductory warm-up shift at the beginning of the game. This is part of the normal story progression, so you don’t need to do anything special.
Industrial Revolution
Requirement: Let a machine peel potatoes.
Visit the shop and purchase your first peeling machine. Put some potatoes into it and wait for the machine to peel one.
The achievement unlocks as soon as the machine processes its first potato.
Fully Automated
Requirement: Automate the entire warehouse operation.
You need to let the machines handle the full production process without doing the work yourself.
This includes the Claw Crane and the Cableway, not just the potato peeling machines. Purchase the required upgrades as they become available and get the entire production line running automatically.
Employee of the Month
Requirement: Reach Rank 21.
Keep working through your shifts to increase your employee rank. You need to reach the maximum rank, which is Rank 21.
The Quota
Requirement: Peel every potato.
Complete your quota and clear the entire potato pile. You must process every remaining potato, not just reach the required quota.
This happens near the end of the story, shortly before the final events.
Other Achievements
A few achievements require you to interact with characters, complete small activities, or explore outside the warehouse.
A Heart of Gold
Requirement: Share potatoes with the people of Varenka.
You’ll receive letters from people in Varenka asking you to share some of your potatoes.
Agree to send them potatoes at least once. You don’t need to keep sending them for this achievement.
Good Boy
Requirement: Feed the dog near the warehouse.
Find the dog outside the warehouse and give it food. The achievement unlocks after you feed it.
One Last Puff
Requirement: Finish a cigarette.
Your character will occasionally want a cigarette during a shift. When this happens, take a smoking break and smoke the entire cigarette.
Don’t stop halfway through. Wait until your character finishes it to unlock the achievement.
No Escape
Requirement: Leave the warehouse area during a shift.
Walk away from the warehouse in any direction while you’re working. You’ll hear warnings from the loudspeaker telling you to return to your workplace.
Ignore the warnings and continue walking until you cross the outer boundary of the area.
A cutscene will start, and the achievement will unlock.
Unauthorized Passenger
Requirement: Ride the Cableway while holding a potato sack for at least 3 meters.
You first need to purchase the Sack Cableway upgrade from the shop.
Follow these steps:
- Fill a sack with potatoes.
- Place the sack at the loading point of the Cableway station.
- Wait for the hook to come down and pick up the sack.
- Quickly move underneath the hanging sack while it is still low.
- Look at the bottom of the sack and hold E to grab it.
- Keep holding on while the Cableway moves until you’ve travelled at least 3 meters.
The achievement unlocks once you reach the required distance.
All Ending Achievements
Warning: This section contains story spoilers.
At the end of your shift, you’ll find a key and eventually reach a train. Inside the train cabin, you’ll see three levers connected to different destinations.
Each lever leads to a different ending. Before pulling any of them, create a manual save.
You can reload this save after each ending to unlock all three without replaying the entire game.
For the Motherland
Requirement: Choose the Northern Front ending.
Pull the Northern Front lever inside the train cabin.
Traitor
Requirement: Choose the Western Industry ending.
Pull the Western Industry lever to unlock this achievement.
The Last Harvest
Requirement: Choose the Varenka ending.
Pull the Varenka lever inside the train.
Every Path Has a Price
Requirement: See all three endings.
You need to experience all three possible endings to unlock this achievement.
After creating your manual save, follow this order:
- Pull the Northern Front lever and complete the ending.
- Reload your manual save.
- Pull the Western Industry lever and complete the ending.
- Reload your manual save again.
- Pull the Varenka lever and complete the final ending.
Once you’ve seen all three endings, Every Path Has a Price will unlock.
Your Own Executioner (Missable)
Requirement: Send the train to Varenka while Pavel remains loyal to the state.
This is the only missable achievement in Potato Please. Pavel’s loyalty depends on how you respond to his letters throughout the game.
Your choices affect two sides:
- Ministry: -1 point
- Resistance: +1 point
If Pavel’s total goes above zero, he joins the Resistance. In that case, you cannot unlock this achievement by choosing Varenka at the end.
Follow the choices below to keep Pavel loyal to the state.
How to Keep Pavel Loyal to the State
1. Send money whenever Pavel asks for it.
Whenever Pavel requests money in his letters, select the Send option.
2. Choose the correct reply to Director’s Questions.
When you receive the letter titled Director’s Questions, select:
- Tell what you know
3. Other letters can have any replies.
You don’t need to worry about every other letter. Following the two choices above will keep Pavel’s loyalty on the Ministry’s side, provided you follow the other instructions below.
4. Hide the Resistance notes found in potatoes.
During your shifts, you’ll come across Resistance notes hidden inside potatoes.
Don’t report them to the Ministry. You can report one note at most, but reporting two or more will cause Pavel to be taken hostage and make the achievement unobtainable.
5. Don’t put Resistance poison on the carrots.
During preparations for the memorial dinner, you’ll find Resistance poison.
Don’t put it on the carrots. Pour it away or put it on the cucumbers instead. Putting the poison on the carrots counts as another reported Resistance note.
6. Don’t report the people of Varenka.
Avoid reporting the people of Varenka to the authorities.
Once you’ve followed these instructions, continue the story and check Pavel’s situation before reaching the ending.
How to Check Pavel’s Loyalty
You can check whether your choices worked by looking at two things near the end of the game:
- Pavel’s last letter: It should mention that he’s going to a school near the capital.
- The last Resistance note: It should not contain a message saying something like Your son is with us.
These are the signs that Pavel has remained loyal to the state.
If either check indicates that Pavel has joined the Resistance, you won’t be able to fix his loyalty at the final train scene. You’ll need to start a new shift and make the correct choices from the beginning.
Unlocking Your Own Executioner
Once you’ve confirmed Pavel is loyal to the state, reach the train at the end of the game and pull the Varenka lever.
This will send the train to Varenka while Pavel remains loyal to the Ministry, unlocking Your Own Executioner.
