Quick Answer: ReStory's 50 achievements are almost entirely cumulative, not skill-gated. Five tracks carry the whole list: repairing and cleaning, running the business (licenses, reviews, money, bills), buying and selling devices, customising them (paint, stickers, reprogramming), and simply playing enough days — the rarest achievement in the game is being open for 365 of them. There is no timed challenge and nothing is announced as missable. Five achievements are secrets with cryptic descriptions, which we do not guess at below.
Version note: Every achievement name, description and unlock rate below is read directly from Steam's public achievement statistics for ReStory, captured August 7, 2026 — day two of release. Early-window percentages climb fast; treat the column as a snapshot of where players are, not a fixed difficulty rating.
Three separate achievement tracks meet on this screen: painting to order, stickers, and the customisation work that makes a device worth reselling. (Screenshot: Mandragora / tinyBuild)
The Full List
| Achievement | Requirement | Global % |
|---|---|---|
| How did I do this? | Repair a part using a soldering iron | 97.1% |
| First fix! | Repair a device for the first time | 94.1% |
| All bills paid! | Pay 2 bills | 92.5% |
| Master of the Internet | Accept an order by email for the first time | 89.3% |
| First reviews! | Get 5 reviews for your work | 73.4% |
| Twist and turn | Buy a professional screwdriver | 67.1% |
| Official Partner | Buy any license | 64.1% |
| Origami | Help a child out for free | 57.6% |
| Clean Job | Clean the workshop | 57.5% |
| Flipper | Buy 5 devices at the marketplace | 57.2% |
| Big cleaning! | Remove dirt and dust from 100 parts | 47.5% |
| Lootbox | Buy a box of parts | 41.4% |
| WWW | Complete 25 email orders | 36.9% |
| Getting popular! | Get 25 reviews for your work | 29.7% |
| Golden Partner | Acquire 5 licenses | 25.8% |
| Business Shark | Earn more than 100,000 yen in a single day | 23.3% |
| Cozy! | Buy something to make the workshop more cozy | 19.1% |
| Making money! | Sell 5 devices in total | 17.5% |
| Frugal | Do not buy any new parts for 10 days in a row | 17.4% |
| Custom orders available! | Paint a device by a client's order for the first time | 13.9% |
| Hands Free | Buy an automatic ultrasonic bath for cleaning | 12.3% |
| Garage sale! | Buy 25 devices at the marketplace | 11.5% |
| Shredder | Buy a shredder for broken parts | 11.2% |
| A Place Of Zen | Accumulate more than 100 Zen points | 9.8% |
| Millionaire! | Earn 1,000,000 yen | 7.4% |
| Best shop in Akiba! | Get 50 reviews for your work | 6.9% |
| Promise of Akiba | Win a device assembly competition | 4.4% |
| Star of Akiba | Win 3 different device assembly competitions | 3.6% |
| Instant Cool | Apply a sticker to a device | 3.5% |
| Hacking 101 | Reprogram a device for the first time | 2.2% |
| Internet Business | Complete 100 email orders | 1.3% |
| Akiba never sleeps! | Do not end the day for 7 days in a row | 1.1% |
| Are you serious? This is absurd! | Buy the most expensive license | 0.3% |
| Instant Cool-er | Apply 25 stickers | 0.2% |
| Bankrupt | Get an overdue bill warning | 0.2% |
| Jack of all trades | Complete an order involving painting, cleaning, repair and hacking | 0.2% |
| Legend of Akiba | Win at least 1 assembly competition for each device type | 0.1% |
| Platinum Partner | Acquire all licenses | 0.1% |
| Galactic cleaning! | Remove dirt and dust from 1000 parts | 0.1% |
| 11001 | Reprogram 25 devices | 0.1% |
| Quarterly Report | Play through 90 days | 0.1% |
| Employee of the Month | Play through 30 days | 0.1% |
| Akiba Feels Like Home | Play through 365 days | 0.1% |
| Sticker Bombing | Apply 100 stickers | 0.1% |
| Gambler | Buy 50 boxes of parts | 0.1% |
| Ghost in the frame | "Eye in the sky looking at you…" | 0.1% |
| Ronin | "It is possible to perfectly fulfill one's calling as a warrior." | 0.1% |
| Melancholy | "I don't need no normal people!" | 0.1% |
| Rock for the ages! | (no description shown) | 0.1% |
| Globalization | (no description shown) | 0.1% |
Where Players Actually Stop
The list has one shape: a wide top, then a cliff at everything that requires repetition.
Nearly everyone completes a first repair, pays two bills and accepts an email order — those sit between 89% and 97%. The first real filter is reputation: 73.4% collect 5 reviews, 29.7% reach 25, and only 6.9% reach 50. The second is money: 23.3% clear 100,000 yen in one day, and 7.4% ever bank a million.
The floor is time. Playing through 30 days, 90 days and 365 days are three separate achievements, all sitting at 0.1% two days after launch — which is a statement about the calendar, not about difficulty. On day two nobody could have finished them, so expect these three to rise steadily for months.
The Five Tracks to 100%
Repair and clean. First repair, soldering, 100 parts cleaned, then 1000 parts cleaned. The jump from Big cleaning! (47.5%) to Galactic cleaning! (0.1%) is the single widest gap on the list — ten times the work for a tenth of a percent of players.
Business. Bills, licenses, reviews, money. The license chain is the backbone: any license (64.1%) → five (25.8%) → the most expensive one (0.3%) → all of them (Platinum Partner, 0.1%). Licenses gate what work you may accept, so this chain is also your progression track.
Buying and selling. Buy 5 devices, buy 25, sell 5, buy 50 boxes of parts. Cheap to chase while doing everything else, since the flea market is where your repair stock comes from anyway.
Customisation. Paint to order, first sticker, 25 stickers, 100 stickers, first reprogram, 25 reprograms. This is the track most players leave alone — a first sticker sits at 3.5%, and Jack of all trades asks for a single order that involves painting, cleaning, repair and hacking at once (0.2%).
Competitions. Win one (4.4%), win three different ones (3.6%), then win one in every device type (Legend of Akiba, 0.1%). The narrow gap between the first two suggests players who enter competitions tend to keep entering.
The Two Achievements That Ask You to Stop
Most of the list rewards doing more. Two reward restraint, and both are easy to miss precisely because they conflict with normal play:
- Frugal — no new parts for ten consecutive days (17.4%). Stock up first, then run a fortnight off salvage.
- Bankrupt — get an overdue bill warning (0.2%). The one achievement that asks you to fail on purpose. Do it deliberately when your finances can absorb it, not by accident.
Akiba never sleeps! (1.1%) belongs in the same category: seven consecutive days without ending the day. Another player's forum answer confirms the shop can stay open indefinitely as long as you have devices to work on, so this one is planning, not exploitation.
The Five Secrets
Five achievements carry cryptic or empty descriptions — Ghost in the frame, Ronin, Melancholy, Rock for the ages! and Globalization — and all sit at 0.1%. Their wording points at story moments or hidden interactions rather than statistics. We are not going to guess conditions for them; when a verifiable source documents one, it goes in this section.
Known Issue: "How did I do this?" Fires Early
The top entry on the list describes soldering, but a player reports it unlocking immediately after brushing dust off a phone case during the first repair, and posted it as a bug on the official forum.
Two data points support them. At 97.1%, the achievement is more common than "First fix!" at 94.1% — meaning thousands of players got the soldering achievement before finishing a single repair. Any real soldering milestone should sit below the first-repair one.
Nothing here needs action on your part. It is an achievement firing early, not one failing to fire. Treat 97.1% as a mislabel rather than a claim about how common soldering is, and expect the rate to look odd until it is patched.