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100% achievements, room-by-room (single play-through)

By modo_lv

A spoiler-free guide, created with the purpose of letting you play through the game on your own, but at the same time helping you get all achievements in a single play-through.
There are other guides out there, but I could not find one that had each room with both a simple, short checklist and a detailed guide in case I got stuck. So I decided to make one.

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Category: Achievements

Languages: English

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4 Feb, 2017 @ 10:44am

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Guide Index

Overview

Before you begin

Achievements

Warnings

QUICK CHECKLIST

DETAILED GUIDE

Licence

Comments

Before you begin

You only get to explore most rooms once — when you leave, the door closes and locks behind you. The only exceptions are the Weather Control and Backstage rooms, which you go through twice during your play-through.
It's a good idea to completely uninstall and re-install the game if you've played it before. There are reports online about previous play-throughs affecting achievements, so a clean reinstall is recommended.
The game will disable earning achievements if you switch to another program (Alt+Tab) or open the Steam overlay (Shift+Tab) during your play-through, so you must stay inside the game from beginning to end. If you have any other programs running in the background that might pop up a window in front of the game or something like that, make sure to close them down. You do *not* have to disable game's overlay in Steam settings (which would also hide the achievement notifications), but you do need to make sure you don't open it.
There is a bug that sometimes prevents pretzels from appearing. If that happens try restarting or reinstalling the game.

Achievements

Begin The Heist

Awarded automatically upon finishing the game.

Orange Thief

Pick up the first 7 coins (see "Just Starting Out"), put them in the vending machine, click on the orange label to get a can of orange soda and pick it up.

Messy Operation

Push over all 3 brooms in the game.

In The Shadows

Turn of all 3 lamps in the game. One of them will be turned off already, so turn it on and off again to make it count.

Just Starting Out

Pick up all 38 coins in the game.

Every Nook and Cranny

Eat all 36 pretzels in the game.

Warnings

Loading Screens and Waiting

If you are going for the "Orange Thief" achievement, note that the last two coins you need are on the other side of the door, which locks and closes behind you when you exit. You must stay very close to the doorway while picking up the coins to prevent it from closing.

Elevator

One of the pretzels is tied to the bottom of the elevator counterweight (the one that's blocking your way until you pull the lever), you only get one chance to pull the lever and then move immediately towards the counterweight and grab the pretzel before it is lifted out of your reach.
The final coin in this level is right in front a surprise exit, so approach with caution and make sure you don't accidentally go past it before you've picked it up.

QUICK CHECKLIST

Loading Screens and Waiting: 2 pretzels, 5 coins
Publicity and Liaisons Front Desk: lamp, 4 pretzels, 6 coins
Backstage: broom, 4 pretzels, 3 coins
Lighting: lamp, 4 pretzels, 2 coins
Wildlife Preparation: 6 pretzels, 3 coins
Weather Control: 2 pretzels, 3 coins
Elevator: broom, lamp, 8 pretzels, 8 coins
High Concept Miscellaneous Interactions: broom, 5 pretzels, 8 coins
Backstage (revisited): 1 pretzels

DETAILED GUIDE

Loading Screens and Waiting

Pretzels (2): One behind the vending machine, one behind the protest sign.
Coins (5): Two on the floor in front of the vending machine, one in the vending machine's coin slot, two on the table.

Publicity and Liaisons Front Desk

Lamp: On the desk with the green telephone.
Pretzels (4): One on the handle of the door you entered through, one next to the "Strike" poster, one on the chair next to the black telephone, one on the clock next to the "Backstage" door.
Coins (6): Two on the floor next to the entrance, three on the table around the black phone, one on the staircase leading to the "Backstage" door.

Backstage

Broom: Next to the "Garden, Ornamental Walkway Entrance" door.
Pretzels (4): One behind the curtain next to the entrance, one underneath the brown table, one behind the other curtain, and one behind the broom next to the "Garden, Ornamental Walkway Entrance" door,
Coins (3): One on the floor in the corner with a single paint bucket, two on the floor underneath the second curtain.

Lighting

Lamp: On the table next to the whiteboard.
Pretzels (4): One underneath the shelf, on the left side of the entry stairs, one underneath the electricity box with "Danger" sign on it, one behind the pillar next to the power switch, and one between the shelved boxes across from the "Props and Costumes" door.
Coins (2): One on the cardboard box next to the casette tape, one on the floor next to the chair.

Wildlife Preparation

Pretzels (6): Three in the leaves of the potted tree next to the entrance, one on the green stage light, one stuck between the left side of the tiger container and the wall, and one on the floor behind the "First Floor Mezzanine, Bookcase Entrance" door (push the switch on the right to open it).
Coins (3): One on the floor next to the stage light, two on the floor in front of the "First Floor Mezzanine, Bookcase Entrance" door.

Weather Control

Pretzels (2): One behind the pipe next to the umbrella, one hanging in front of the fan
Coins (3): One on the floor next to a pipe, one in the corner next to the door.

Elevator

Broom: Next to the bottom of the entrance stairs.
Lamp: On your way up the stairs, after the green lights.
Pretzels (8): One on the door that you entered through, one on the fan near the entrance, one on the cardboard box next to the bottom of the stairs, one in the gap under the elevator drawing, one underneath the counterweight, one on the door at the bottom of the second staircase, one tangled in the green lights, one on the railing next to the "CAUTION. High Pressure" sign.
Coins (8): One on the floor and one on the chair next to the bottom of the entrance stairs, one on the floor to the right of the "elevator" alcove, two on the floor in front of the "Goodbye" mat, one on the stairs where the green lights are touching the step, one on the left side of the walkway at the top of the stairs and one on the right side some distance further on.

High Concept Miscellaneous Interactions

Broom: Next to the entrance door
Pretzels (5): One on the floor in front of the entrance door, one underneath the electricity box next to the entrance door, one on the landing illuminated by the blue stage light, one on the "For Your Safety" sign (at the cubicle entrance), one behind the numeric panel.
Coins (8): One on the floor next to the entry door, one on the landing illuminated by the blue stage light, one on the steps very near the top of the stairs, two on the floor in the corner at the top of the stairs, one on and one under the table with the blue phone, and one on the floor next to the yellow leather chair.

Backstage (revisited)

Pretzels (1): On the floor immediately behind the now open "Garden, Ornamental Walkway Entrance" door.

Licence

This guide is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 international licence. If you don't know what that means, read http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/. When using this work in any way, please let me know; and make sure to provide AT LEAST the URL to this guide. Preferrably together with my name and a link to http://modo.lv as well. Thank you.

18 Comments

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Link3895 28 Aug @ 4:44pm

The problem I'm having is after going through today....the game didn't register the achievements. Not even at least the brooms and lamps as those are the easiest, still not done according to Steam.

Link3895 28 Aug @ 4:41pm

The pretzels do show up, maybe try verifying game files or reinstalling. I just have an issue with the counterweight one in the Elevator room, wouldn't let me chomp.

Fukurou 28 Aug @ 11:22am

as of august 2024, the pretzels won't even show up. They just don't exist, no matter how many times you restart the game.

Noodnle 10 Jan, 2023 @ 2:15pm

Thanks so much for the help! Made life so much easier with all the tips and tricks. Have a lovely day

Lucathegreat 2 Jun, 2022 @ 9:32am

I felt dumb, but I didn't realize you should crouch with C to actually get under the brown table in Backstage to get the pretzel. Never needed anywhere else in the game, lol

Georgian Bankrobber 21 May, 2022 @ 1:45am

the pretzel under the brown table doesnt exist

nobody_at_all 16 Feb, 2022 @ 12:25pm

Thanks for the guide.
In your "Weather Control" section, I think you meant to write Coins (3): One on the floor next to a pipe, two in the corner next to the door.

FabioTaPro 20 Jan, 2021 @ 2:02pm

Thanks for the guide!
For other players looking for more info, i can leave you with my experience:
1. I only used this guide for the coins and pretzels achievements.

2.When I went to complete the achievements, I had already completed the game, so I did not notice any bug with coins or pretzels.

3. I *did not* need to deactivate Steam Overlay, but I never opened it and never used ALT+ESC.

4. I simply followed the DETAILED GUIDE section of this guide and picked up coins and pretzels at the same time.

5. Every coin and pretzel were in its place and the achievements pop up show up precisely when you collect the last coin or pretzel, you do not need to finish the heist (but do it if it's your first time playing the heist, to enjoy it :P)

Hope it can help!

CocoaCoCi 22 Jul, 2020 @ 8:44am

Ok I can confirm as well. If the achievements are broken for you, close the game, deactivate the Steam overlay and start the game again. That worked for me!
Thank you for the guide

Gun Metal Grey 22 Jun, 2020 @ 10:37am

Nice fun little side game up to 2 hours, thanks for the guide

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