There are 15 achievements in The Sorting Bureau. Most unlock naturally as you progress, but several require specific actions, waiting, or playing through multiple days.
Here is a clean achievement-by-achievement walkthrough.
The Sorting Bureau Achievements Guide – Walkthrough Guide
The First Bit of Order
Requirement: Complete the first box.
This is an automatic progression achievement. Continue through the opening section and complete your first box.
Someone at the Window
Requirement: See the cat appear at the window.
Continue playing normally until the cat arrives at the window. No special action is required.
A Gift from the Bureau
Requirement: Obtain the album.
The album is acquired naturally during the game’s progression.
Matryoshka
Requirement: Find a box inside another box.
Continue working through the Bureau until you encounter the nested box. The achievement unlocks automatically when you reach this event.
Interaction-Based Achievements
Just Right
Requirement: Arrange the items neatly on the paper.
When the game asks you to organize the objects on the paper, arrange them neatly in rows with consistent spacing.
Once the arrangement is accepted, the achievement unlocks.
Click
Requirement: Photograph the window with the in-game camera.
Use the game’s camera when the window is available and take a picture of it.
First Sip
Requirement: Choose your first drink.
When you’re offered a drink for the first time, simply select any drink.
This Way Works Too
Requirement: Choose not to drink.
When the game offers you a drink, select the option to have nothing instead.
Continue progressing afterward until you reach the relevant section where you can choose the organization yourself.
Time & Waiting Achievements
Just Sit a While
Requirement: Sit at your desk for five minutes without moving.
This one is straightforward but easy to accidentally miss.
- Sit at your desk.
- Don’t interact with anything.
- Don’t move around.
- Wait for 5 minutes.
The achievement should unlock automatically.
The Quiet Shift
Requirement: Continue working until evening arrives.
Keep playing normally as the day progresses.
Eventually, the lighting changes to yellow and the city outside becomes quieter. The achievement unlocks when the evening shift begins.
Customer Achievements
Familiar Faces
Requirement: Complete orders for 8 different customers.
Keep serving customers throughout your days.
You don’t need to do anything special beyond completing orders from different customers. Once you’ve served eight different people, the achievement unlocks.
A Day Together
Requirement: Correctly choose the drink for a specific customer’s order.
Pay attention to the customer’s preferences and select the drink that matches their order.
If the achievement doesn’t unlock immediately, continue serving customers and watch for another opportunity to correctly identify their preferred drink.
Desk & Seasonal Achievements
A Whole Mountain
Requirement: Completely clear the desk after it becomes covered with objects.
As you progress, your desk can become increasingly cluttered.
Keep working until the desk is heavily covered, then clear everything from it.
Once the desk is completely cleared, the achievement unlocks.
All Four Windows
Requirement: Experience all four seasonal window scenes.
You need to continue playing long enough to see all four seasons.
The reported seasonal durations are:
| Season | Duration |
|---|---|
| Spring | 17 days |
| Summer | 22 days |
| Autumn | 17 days |
| Winter | 14 days |
So this is one of the longer achievements and requires substantial progression.
Tip: The guide reports that choosing green tea may reduce the number of orders you receive, potentially allowing days to progress faster. However, this effect isn’t confirmed, so treat it as a possible time-saving method rather than a guaranteed mechanic.
The Bureau Waited for You
The Bureau Waited for You
Requirement: Play through two different days.
This achievement is slightly unusual because it involves saving and returning to the game.
Method
- Start a day.
- Open at least one box.
- Continue until you have some boxes remaining on the shelves.
- Save your progress.
- Exit the game.
- Load the same save later.
- Continue playing into the following day.
The achievement should unlock after you’ve successfully progressed through the two different days.
Alternative Method
The original guide reports another workaround if the achievement isn’t triggering:
- Start a game.
- Open one box.
- Close the game.
- Advance your PC’s date by one day.
- Launch the game again.
- Load your previous save.
- Continue playing.
Most of the achievements can be earned naturally during a normal playthrough. The main things to deliberately watch for are:
- Just Right — arrange the paper items properly.
- Click — remember to photograph the window.
- This Way Works Too — choose not to drink when offered.
- Just Sit a While — deliberately remain seated for five minutes.
- A Day Together — pay attention to customer drink preferences.
- A Whole Mountain — completely clear the desk once it becomes cluttered.
- All Four Windows — keep progressing through the days until all four seasons appear.
- The Bureau Waited for You — make sure you save and return across two different days.
The biggest time investment is All Four Windows, while the easiest achievements are generally the story and progression-based ones.