Unpacking achievement guide: all 25 objects, actions, and years to revisit
A PC guide to actions for all 25 achievements rather than unlock percentages. Separate hints and solutions cover coffee equipment, plants, underwear, and all seven toilets.
Edition: Unpacking PC (Steam) base game. Normal placement rules are the baseline; Allow items anywhere is explained separately. Covers 25 Steam achievements, excluding the PlayStation platinum and mobile or Unpacking+ specifics
Verification scope: Public sources cross-checked on 2026-10-04. Installed build and every possible placement cell have not been exhaustively tested. Left/right clicks refer to PC defaults; use current bindings if changed
Sources checked: 2026-10-04
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Return to the relevant year for Steam's 25 achievements
Steam's public page lists 25 achievements. This guide explains the object, year, and action rather than using unlock percentages as a difficulty rating. Official English achievement names provide a cross-check against the Japanese version.
- Check the locked achievement's name in Steam
- Choose a year to revisit from the targets below
- Open the specific answer and perform its required placement or action
- Verify the unlock in Steam as well as the in-game notification
PlayStation has a platinum trophy for earning every other trophy, but it is not added to Steam's 25. Unlock percentages change over time and are not repeated as fixed values here.
Revisiting through the album and free-placement cautions
Revisit completed years through their album photos. First try the action with the arranged room intact; many achievements do not require unpacking everything again.
- Open the relevant year in the same album
- For appliance achievements, right-click the placed object instead of picking it up
- For shape-changing achievements, hold the item and right-click repeatedly
- For alignment achievements, place the objects on the same surface, then check for a notification
You can pursue achievements with Allow items anywhere enabled, but required actions are not automatic. Green thumb in particular involves normal correct-placement checks.
Years to revisit without revealing answers
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| Year to revisit | Object to find | Action to consider |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Camera, small cube puzzle, and music equipment | Unpack, change its shape, or operate it |
| 2004 | Wooden artist's model, cookie jar, and electrical appliances | Pose, height, or placement |
| 2007 | Blue game console and green hat | Power or an object to put it on |
| 2010 | Existing underwear and kitchen drink-making equipment | Group together or gather a complete set |
| 2012 | Old belongings left in furniture | Find something stored away |
| 2013 | Microwave and number decorations | Change the display or arrange them |
| 2015 | Plants and stuffed toys | Find a place for all of them or put them side by side |
| 2018 | Toy blocks | Stack vertically |
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These are examples of years suitable for earning achievements, not claims that an achievement is restricted to that year. Achievements spanning several years have their own section below.
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Open answers for normal progression achievements
Eight achievements are earned by finishing each year and selecting its completion star. Including unpacking the camera in the first year gives nine.
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| Achievement | English name | Condition |
|---|---|---|
| Make some memories | Make some memories | Unpack the camera from a 1997 box |
| Beginning | Beginning | Complete 1997 |
| Get smart | Get smart | Complete 2004 |
| Fellowship | Fellowship | Complete 2007 |
| Too cool | Too cool | Complete 2010 |
| Home cooking | Home cooking | Complete 2012 |
| Independence | Independence | Complete 2013 |
| Love | Love | Complete 2015 |
| No place like home | No place like home | Complete 2018 |
No matching entries in this table. Shorten the query or clear it to restore all entries.
Green thumb is also easy to earn during normal placement, but has a separate section to help prevent missing it because of settings.
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Open answers for additional 1997 achievements
The first room lets you try actions beyond placing objects.
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| Achievement | Target object | Specific action |
|---|---|---|
| Solve a puzzle | Colored cube puzzle | Hold it and right-click repeatedly until its colors are solved |
| Blast some tunes | Red music player | Place it on a shelf or another surface, point at it, and right-click to start playback |
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Picking up and rotating the music player does not switch it on. The cube, by contrast, is operated while held.
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Open answers for additional 2004 achievements
You need the artist's model, cookie jar, and an electrical appliance. You can revisit from the album after finishing the room.
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| Achievement | Target or location | Specific action |
|---|---|---|
| Strike a pose | Wooden artist's model | Hold it and right-click repeatedly until it adopts a dab pose |
| A sometimes food | Kitchen cookie jar | Put it on the highest kitchen shelf |
| Electrical hazard | Toaster or hair straightener | Put the toaster in the bathtub, or the hair straightener in the sink |
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Electrical hazard is an in-game condition. After checking the notification, return the object to normal safe storage to continue the placement puzzle. Do not imitate this with real electrical appliances.
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Open answers for additional 2007 achievements
The key actions involve moving objects between rooms and operating them after placing them.
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| Achievement | Target or location | Specific action |
|---|---|---|
| Game on | Blue cube-shaped console | Place it in a free compartment on either side of the TV stand, then right-click to turn it on |
| Hat on head | Green bedroom hat and the top shelf of the dining-room display cabinet | Carry the hat into the dining room and put it on the bare mannequin head |
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If the dining-room head is not visible, move the view upward to reveal the top shelf. Simply rotating the held console does not satisfy its condition.
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2010: open Tidy whities solution
The targets are underwear already inside the bedroom wardrobe, not the protagonist's underwear unpacked from boxes.
- Open the wardrobe and check its upper two drawers
- Gather the scattered existing underwear into one drawer
- Rotate items if necessary to fit, and keep the protagonist's underwear elsewhere
- Collect every target and check for the unlock notification
Color order and straight rows are not required. Remember any target items you moved to other shelves. The English achievement name is Tidy whities.
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2010: open Brew some coffee solution
Gather the existing coffee-making equipment onto the same counter. Check equipment already placed in the room as well as cupboards and drawers, rather than searching only boxes.
- Clear a spacious counter, such as the central one, for the equipment
- Take out all the objects listed above and arrange them on the same counter
- If it does not unlock, check the original cupboards and drawers for small drink-making tools or a forgotten cup
- After the notification, you may restore normal storage
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| Object to find | Approximate starting location | Visual clue |
|---|---|---|
| Espresso machine | Counter on another side | Large brewing machine |
| Coffee grinder nearby | Beside the brewing machine | Small appliance; equipment already on counters is also a candidate |
| Another grinder | Central counter | Rounded body with a transparent top |
| Coffee bag | Upper-left cupboard | Brown bag |
| Pour-over equipment | Upper-left cupboard | Narrow-waisted container with a filter above |
| White mug | Central upper cupboard | Bring out the drinking vessel as well as equipment |
| Kettle | Lower drawers on the right | Existing water-heating vessel with features such as a black handle |
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The English achievement name is Brew some coffee. Sources disagree on equipment names, the minimum count, and whether sugar or press equipment is required, so this guide does not assert that exactly these seven items are mandatory. The table helps locate commonly mentioned objects by shape and original location.
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2012: open Rediscover childhood solution
Open the storage beneath the window, take out the old rolled poster, and hang it on the wall. The English achievement name is Rediscover childhood.
- Look inside the under-window storage, not only the new boxes
- Pick up the old rolled poster and move it to a clear wall
- Hang it unrolled and check the notification
This is separate from the photo that normal progression asks you to store away.
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The kitchen's two achievements require changing displays or arrangements, beyond simply putting items in the correct room.
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| Achievement | Target | Specific action |
|---|---|---|
| 12:00 | Microwave | Place it on a counter, point at it, and right-click repeatedly to set its clock display |
| Brilliantly solved | Number and symbol magnets on the refrigerator | Arrange 1, +, 2, =, 3 horizontally from left to right as an equation |
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This equation is a confirmed example in the source. Try it without assuming whether other equations work or how few actions are required. Operate the placed microwave instead of rotating it.
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2015: open Green thumb solution
Place every plant in a location accepted by normal rules. Many start outside boxes, so organizing plants before unpacking helps you keep track of them.
- Check pots in the living room, bathroom, bedroom, and kitchen
- Include the small workspace cactus from the previous year, using ten pots as a checklist
- Place them on suitable shelves or counters, such as beneath the living-room window
- Check that none remain inside storage or on unsuitable surfaces
- If you completed the year with free placement, return to 2015 and reposition plants to meet normal placement conditions
The English name is Green thumb. Finishing the year with free placement does not necessarily satisfy it automatically. The small cactus is easy to miss, so do not stop after checking only the four rooms with boxes.
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2015: open Fuzzy friends solution
Put the new tiger stuffed toy beside the existing pig stuffed toy. The English achievement name is Fuzzy friends.
- Gather the pig and tiger on a surface such as a bed in the same room
- Adjust their orientation and place them side by side
- If there is no response, check the gap and move them to neighboring cells
Place them beside each other, not stacked. The same pair is also available in 2018, so this can be recovered later.
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2018: open Baby builder solution
Stack five small nursery blocks vertically. The English achievement name is Baby builder. This is not a puzzle about arranging letters into a word.
- Unpack nursery blocks and gather them on a clearly visible surface
- Use one as a base and add the others one at a time
- Build a five-block tower and check the notification
Five blocks in a horizontal row do not form a tower. Zoom in and aim at the lower block's top surface if stacking is difficult.
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Gotta flush 'em all solution: count seven toilets
Point at each year's toilet and right-click to flush it. Confirm a flushing response rather than only moving the seat or lid.
- If you flushed only one toilet in the final house, visit the other one
- If still locked, revisit the six years listed above in the same album and flush all seven toilets in sequence
- Revisit completed photos to check without unpacking and arranging everything again
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| Year | Target count | Room to check |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 1 | Bathroom toilet |
| 2007 | 1 | Bathroom toilet |
| 2010 | 1 | Bathroom toilet |
| 2013 | 1 | Bathroom toilet |
| 2015 | 1 | Bathroom toilet |
| 2018 | 2 | Both the large bathroom toilet and the small toilet room's toilet |
No matching entries in this table. Shorten the query or clear it to restore all entries.
There are no target toilets in 1997 or 2012. The English achievement name is Gotta flush 'em all. Combining progress across albums has not been tested here, so the instructions check every target within one album.
When the achievement still does not appear unlocked
First check that you have the correct target and action state. An achievement remaining locked does not mean you need to delete the album.
- Match Steam's locked achievement name to the guide's English name and its Japanese counterpart
- Return to the relevant year and check whether the action requires the item held or placed
- For collection conditions, find any targets moved to other rooms: small plant pots, existing underwear, and coffee equipment including the cup
- Reposition items one by one while checking both in-game notifications and Steam
- If still uncertain, record the year, settings, and a screen showing the target, then consult official support instructions
This source comparison cannot diagnose Steam display delays or bugs. It does not recommend untested claims such as reinstalling being guaranteed to fix it.
Frequently asked questions
Must I restart from the beginning for all achievements?
Normally, revisit the target year from the album. Do not reset finished arrangements or the album first merely to pursue an achievement.
Does free placement disable achievements?
You can still pursue them, but individual conditions remain. Perform each action and put plants on surfaces accepted under normal rules.
Does Steam also have 26 achievements?
Steam's public list has 25. PlayStation lists totaling 26 include an additional platinum for earning every other trophy.