Photomaly Achievements — All 10 Unlocks

Fast checklist

Achievement	Published requirement	Confidence
Picture Perfect	Complete the first customer order	Official
Did I See Someone?	Notice movement in the distance	Reported hidden description
Chemical Romance	Develop the first film roll	Official
Totally Normal Behavior	Set a customer photo as the PC wallpaper	Reported hidden description
Customer Service	Give a customer the wrong order	Official
I’m Something of an Artist	Make the first edit in the paint app	Official
Family Matters	Earn the agent-route reward	Reported hidden route
Reset Protocol	Have the player’s memory erased and return to Day 1	Reported hidden route
No Face, No Case	Photograph the agent	Reported hidden description
Not So Fast	Catch the customer who tries to escape	Reported hidden route

Before starting a completion run

Let Steam update Photomaly before playing; the latest checked developer post is Quickfix #4.
Keep one save focused on following the pixel-faced agent’s daily requests.
Treat the opposite agent outcome as a separate run until save and chapter recovery are verified.
When a customer or agent scene begins, finish the interaction before leaving the area.
If a hidden achievement does not unlock, record the day and scene and use the corrections channel instead of repeating an unverified workaround.

Unlock condition: Complete your first customer order.
Missable / recovery: Expected during normal progress. Recovery has not been tested, but a new game reaches another first order.

Follow the customer’s visible request through capture or processing, preparation, and delivery. Steam publishes this condition directly.

Unlock condition: Notice something moving in the distance.
Missable / recovery: The exact trigger window is hidden. A community route places it after a later breaker/power interruption.

Continue the story until the power fails again, then approach the breaker area and watch the scene rather than rushing through it. The public Steam page hides the description; Exophase exposes the short condition, while the scene timing comes from a Steam community guide.

Unlock condition: Successfully develop your first film roll.
Missable / recovery: Part of the normal studio workflow when a film order appears.

Complete the game’s film-development process and produce the requested result. Steam publishes this condition directly; this guide does not guess at chemical timings that are not in the public source.

Unlock condition: Set a customer photo as your desktop wallpaper.
Missable / recovery: Requires retaining access to a customer image and the studio PC wallpaper action.

Use a customer’s image as the studio computer wallpaper when that option becomes available. The official store confirms that the PC can use favourite prints as wallpaper; the hidden achievement wording is exposed by Exophase and aligns with the community route.

Unlock condition: Give a customer an incorrect order.
Missable / recovery: Deliberately conflicts with correct-order play. Use an expendable order or a separate run if consequences matter to you.

Hand over a result that does not match the customer’s request. Steam publishes the condition directly. The downstream story or economy consequence has not been verified here.

Unlock condition: Make your first edit in the paint app.
Missable / recovery: Available when the studio PC and paint app are accessible.

Open the paint application and make an edit. Steam publishes this condition directly; no specific drawing or quality threshold is stated.

Unlock condition: Earn your reward.
Missable / recovery: Reported to require completing the pixel-faced agent’s requests across the run. Skipping them leads toward the opposite outcome.

The community route says to complete the agent’s daily anomaly-photo tasks and deliver the requested prints. If the sequence is maintained, the agent returns on Day 6 and leads to the reward/family outcome. This timing is not exposed in Steam’s public achievement description and needs a clean-save re-test.

Unlock condition: Have your memory erased and return to Day 1.
Missable / recovery: This is the reported opposite of the completed agent-request route.

The available community route says to leave the pixel-faced agent’s requests incomplete. The resulting outcome erases the player’s memory and returns the run to Day 1, matching the hidden description exposed by Exophase.

Unlock condition: Take a photo of the agent.
Missable / recovery: Requires the agent to be present and the camera to be available during the route.

Photograph the pixel-faced agent when the story gives you a clear opportunity. Both the hidden description mirror and the community guide agree on the action; the exact earliest valid scene remains unverified.

Unlock condition: Catch a customer trying to escape.
Missable / recovery: Community-reported as a Day 5 customer scene. Missing the escape window may require replay.

The reported route identifies a customer in a red jacket on Day 5. After the delivery, a distraction makes you turn away; turn back and intercept the customer as he tries to leave. The published hidden description confirms the goal, but the day, clothing, and timing are community-reported.

Source confidence and recovery limits

The Steam global achievement page is the authority for the achievement count, names, public descriptions, and live rarity. Exophase exposes the hidden short descriptions. The detailed scene routes were cross-checked against a Steam community achievement guide; that guide is user-generated and currently carries a Steam removal/incompatibility notice, so its route details remain Reported, not Verified.

Map the two documented outcomes

Compare the reported Day 6 agent route without invented lore. Open the ending guide →

Playing after Quickfix #4

Check the current fixes before retrying a scene. Open the quickfix tracker →

Found a different trigger?

Send the day, scene, game version, and clean-save result. Open corrections →