Hello Kitty Island Adventure achievements work on two levels. Every version has an in-game Achievements app on the Menu Tablet, where the official wiki lists 63 achievement categories (42 for the base game, 15 for City Town, 5 for Wheatflour Wonderland and 1 for Tea Garden), each made of smaller goals. On top of that, Steam shows 53 official achievements, the wiki says PS5 trophies mirror that list plus one PS5-only trophy, and the wiki lists 11 Apple Game Center achievements, mostly tied to main story quests.
This guide reflects the Welcome Home update (version 3.0, released on all platforms on October 8, 2026), the official wiki and Steam's achievement data as checked on October 16, 2026. Goal counts come from wiki pages that are still being filled in, and platform availability, unlock rates and bug fixes can change with later patches.
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Where to find achievements in the game
Open the Menu Tablet in the upper right corner of the screen and pick the Achievements app. Each category, such as Fishing Goals or Chef Goals, opens a checklist of individual goals, and the wiki tracks which of those goals appear on Apple Arcade, Steam, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation. If you want a pop-up whenever you finish one, turn on Achievement Notifications in the Gameplay settings on the same tablet.
Many goals list a reward on the wiki. Fishing Goals, for example, gives 10 Sand Dollars for catching every Seaside Resort fish, a Mermaid Figure for catching 100 fish and a Volcanic Guitar for catching a fish in lava, while Friend Forever hands out Friendship Blossoms and apple pies. Most other rewards the wiki lists are small: dyes, Sticks, Paper and regional materials such as Sand Dollars or Mushrooms.
Three categories carry an asterisk on the wiki: Hospitality Goals, Five Star Visitors and Wheatflour Wonderland Explorer. The wiki says they can't currently be completed because they include unreleased content, so don't worry if one of those bars refuses to fill.
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Achievements on each platform
| Platform | What you can earn | Count in the sources |
|---|---|---|
| Every platform | In-game Achievements app on the Menu Tablet | 63 categories on the wiki |
| Steam (PC) | Steam achievements | 53, with 16 marked hidden (Steam, October 16, 2026) |
| PlayStation 5 | Trophies | Wiki marks all 53 Steam ones plus We're Proud of You |
| Apple Arcade | Game Center achievements | 11 on the wiki |
| Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 | No platform achievement list documented | None in the sources reviewed |
The Steam store lists Steam Achievements as a feature, and Steam's own stats page shows 53 achievements. The wiki notes that no Steam or PlayStation achievement requires any DLC, and that DLC categories in the in-game app are meant to stay hidden if you don't own that DLC. On Apple Arcade, DLC content is included in the subscription instead of being sold separately, although the wiki notes that item bundles such as the Deluxe Edition aren't available there.
For PS5, the wiki's table, which carries a note that it may be missing information, marks every Steam achievement as a trophy too and adds We're Proud of You for unlocking all trophies. No official PlayStation trophy list turned up in the sources reviewed, so treat the exact trophy count and grades as unconfirmed. The 11 Game Center achievements the wiki lists for Apple Arcade are mostly main story beats, such as Happy Landing!, Bog Champ and Reef Revival. The wiki documents no platform-level list for Switch, so there the in-game app is the one to follow, and you can compare versions in the platforms guide.
Watch out for shared names. In the in-game Explorer Goals, Tropical Challenge means finishing every Seaside Resort challenge course, while the Steam achievement Tropical Challenge asks you to craft the Gold Seaside Trophy. The wiki also lists one former Steam achievement, Stick Royalty for obtaining the Golden Crown, as removed after launch.
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Every in-game achievement category
If you only bookmark one part of this Hello Kitty Island Adventure achievements guide, make it the category tables below. They show every category with the number of goals the wiki listed on October 16, 2026. Many categories are tiered, such as catching 5, then 25, then 100 critters, so totals add up quickly.
Base game categories
| Category | Goals | What it asks for |
|---|---|---|
| Island Mystery Stories | 12 | Main story quests, from Happy Landings to Revive the Oasis |
| Explorer Goals | 19 | Reach each region, clear every challenge course in a region, get 5 Stamina Apples, enter every mine room |
| Friend Forever | 9 | Best Friends with Hello Kitty and with 3, 8 and 15 characters, 500 gifts, a gift with all three liked tags |
| Fishing Goals | 10 | Every fish in five regions, tiny and huge fish, 100 fish, a fish caught in lava |
| Comic Goals | 19 | Finish each comic series, collect 10 to 500 comics, recycle or buy a comic |
| Nul Goals | 3 | Put a hat on a Nul, take one off, hat 40 Nuls |
| Wardrobe Goals | 7 | Buy from Tuxedosam, dye clothing, own 7 to 50 pieces of clothing |
| Decoration Goals | 6 | Get and place furniture, put food or a critter in a cabin, put a fish in an aquarium and a critter in a terrarium |
| Fixer Upper Goals | 11 | Repair the bridge, three ziplines and 2 to 25 visitor cabins, claim a Personal Cabin |
| Cabin Themes | 8 | Place 10 pieces of one furniture theme, such as Spooky or Kawaii, in one cabin |
| Hospitality Goals | 76 | First star or first request for each visitor (can't be completed yet) |
| Puzzle Goals | 5 | Finish 1, 3, 10 and 20 puzzle rooms, plus every Cloud Island room |
| Chef Goals | 20 | First recipe at each station, cook 10 to 75 recipes, unlock set recipe counts per station |
| Crafting Goals | 14 | Craft each regional set, chests, an ingot, a spark, a mechanism and 10 to 75 plans |
| Nature Preserve Goals | 14 | Donate 5 to 50 critters, every critter of an area, and get each biome's Critter List |
| Critter Catcher Goals | 9 | Catch 5 to 100 critters, 5 in each region, 5 with the bubble wand |
| Friendship Island Goals | 3 | Fall through the Haunted Mansion floor, use a bed to change the time, craft the Golden Stick |
| Theme Park Goals | 6 | Try Gem Match, Red Hot Rampage, Bogging for Apples, Seapony Racing, Rockadoodle Roundup and Crane Craze |
| Gudetama | 10 | Find every gudetama in each region, up to Icy Peak and the Moon |
| Five Star Visitors | 74 | A fifth star with each visitor (can't be completed yet) |
| Challenge Courses | 58 | Beat the Bronze time on each course |
| Sky of Stars | 6 | Cloud Island and LittleTwinStars quests |
| Fwishing Goals | 4 | Donate 5 to 100 fish to the Fwishing Well |
| Basement Library | 5 | Find the Haunted Mansion's Basement Library and clear its four rooms, which need two players |
| Spirit of Friendship | 12 | Story chain from The Mystery Tree to The Final Challenge |
| Furniture Customization | 4 | Customize 5 to 100 furniture items |
| Fields of Flowers | 2 | Discover Merry Meadows and repair its seed machine |
| Cabin Upgrades | 3 | Upgrade a cabin, max one out, fill a maxed cabin with visitors |
| Flowers | 39 | Get each flower color and pattern, fill a flower box |
| Creation Station | 4 | Create 5 to 100 Instructions |
| Photo Ops | 18 | Discover each base-game Photo Op |
| Music | 8 | Collect 10 to 500 music discs |
| Greenhouse | 4 | Unlock, upgrade and max out the Greenhouse, then go Extreme |
| Friends and Family | 72 | Friendship and visitor story quests |
| Hidden in the Storm | 2 | Discover Blizzard Peak and the Snow Village |
| Roller Coasters and Rockets | 1 | Finish the This Tall to Ride quest |
| Treasure Hunting | 5 | Start the treasure hunt, find 10 to 100 Hidden Treasures |
| Fish Derby | 5 | Unlock the Fishing Derby Board, collect 5 to 50 derby rewards |
| Undersea Finds | 5 | Follow 1 to 50 currents through Rainbow Reef |
| Ice Breaker | 4 | Clear 1 to 20 boards on Moppu's game console |
| Rocky Rail Ride | 5 | Ride once, then balloon, Rock Candy, crystal and power-up targets |
| Homes for All | 6 | Build 1 to 12 Island Homes, get 30 Cornerstones, build a Mailbox |
Several categories overlap with other guides. Five Star Visitors and Hospitality Goals follow the visitors guide, Fishing Goals and Fwishing Goals pair with the fishing guide, and the critter goals line up with the critters guide. Homes for All arrived with version 3.0 and builds on the Island Homes covered in the homes guide. Three flower colors, Black, Gray and Brown, need the Fairest of Them All quest first.
DLC categories
| Category | DLC | Goals | What it asks for |
|---|---|---|---|
| City Beyond the Sea | City Town | 24 | City Town story quests, from Ship Shape to Talk of the Town |
| Imagination Cafe | City Town | 13 | Make each cafe dish, complete 10 to 1,000 cafe orders |
| Plush Pals | City Town | 9 | Collect and customize 10 to 250 Plush Pals, own 5 styles |
| Rooftop Gardens | City Town | 2 | Collect every sapling and every Rooftop Garden fruit |
| City Town Photo Ops | City Town | 5 | Discover each City Town Photo Op |
| City Town Five Star Visitors | City Town | 5 | Fifth star with Buppi, Panya, Wanwa, Sora and Nyako |
| City Town Hospitality | City Town | 5 | First request for the same five visitors |
| City Town Explorer | City Town | 1 | Complete all City Town challenges |
| City Town Puzzles | City Town | 1 | Every Sewers puzzle room, opening every chest in each |
| City Town Gudetama | City Town | 2 | Every gudetama in the Sewers and in City Town |
| City Town Challenge Courses | City Town | 6 | Bronze time on each City Town course |
| City Town Friends and Family | City Town | 7 | City Town friendship quests |
| City Town Figment Puzzles | City Town | 1 | All 72 figment puzzles |
| City Town Arcade | City Town | 12 | Mail Day, Perplexing Pipes and City Run milestones |
| Imaginary Sushi Boat | City Town | 2 | Find and complete the Sashimi Spire |
| Wheatflour Wonderland Photo Ops | Wheatflour Wonderland | 6 | Discover each Photo Op |
| Wheatflour Wonderland Explorer | Wheatflour Wonderland | 16 | Wands, transformations, Bell Garden, Sun Peak, Noodle Grass recipes (can't be completed yet) |
| Wheatflour Wonderland Wheathearts | Wheatflour Wonderland | 1 | Collect all 150 Wheathearts |
| Wheatflour Wonderland Training Courses | Wheatflour Wonderland | 9 | Bronze time on each training course |
| Guardians of Wheatflour | Wheatflour Wonderland | 11 | Wheatflour Wonderland story quests |
| High Tea | Tea Garden | 15 | Tea Garden story quests, from Rhymes & Recompense onward |
On Steam, Switch and PS5, the wiki says DLC categories are meant to appear only if you own that expansion. A few are big projects on their own: City Town Puzzles needs every chest in every Sewers room, and the wiki notes the City Circuit room hides two of them.
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Steam and PS5 achievement list
Here are all 53 Steam achievements in the order Steam listed them on October 16, 2026, with Steam's descriptions lightly shortened, Steam's hidden flag, and the related quest or tip from the wiki where it gives one. The wiki marks every one of them as a PS5 trophy too.
| Achievement | What to do | Hidden | Wiki note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Happy Landing! | Another Happy Landing! | Complete Happy Landings | |
| Dinosaurs Not Included | Open the Resort Gate with Chococat | Complete Power Up the Gate | |
| Bog Champ | Restore the Spooky Swamp | Complete Re-Haunt the Spooky Swamp | |
| Definitely Haunted | Restore the Haunted Mansion | Complete Re-Haunt the Spooky Swamp | |
| A New Home | Open the Nature Preserve | Complete Open the Nature Preserve | |
| Reef Revival | Fully restore Rainbow Reef | Complete Reef Revival | |
| Mermaids are Real | Activate the Mermaidifier | Complete Comic Relief | |
| Swing Partners | Reboot the Dance Hall band | Complete Bring Back the Swing | |
| Paradise in the Desert | Restore the Oasis | Complete Revive the Oasis | |
| Rage Mode | Ignite the Volcano with Retsuko's Rage | Complete Fire Up the Volcano | |
| Friendship Forever | Free Big Challenges and reunite TOPHAT with his best friend | Yes | Complete A Challenging Rescue |
| Haunted | Fall through the floor of the Haunted Mansion | Yes | |
| Nap Time | Use a bed to change the time of day | Yes | Place a bed in a Visitor Cabin and interact with it |
| Stick Nation | Craft the Golden Stick | Yes | Plans unlock after 96 gudetama photos |
| Happy Hattery | Put a hat on a Nul | Yes | Walk up to a Nul and interact |
| Hello Bestie! | Become Best Friends with Hello Kitty | ||
| Everyone's Bestie | Become Best Friends with 15 characters | ||
| Baking Bliss | Unlock 20 recipes at the Oven | ||
| Pizza Perfection | Unlock 11 recipes at the Pizza Oven | ||
| Soda Satisfaction | Unlock 14 recipes at the Soda Fountain | ||
| Delicious Desserts | Unlock 16 recipes at the Dessert Boat | ||
| Excellent Espresso | Unlock 13 recipes at the Espresso Machine | ||
| Candy Connoisseur | Unlock 10 recipes at the Candy Cloud Station | ||
| Egg-cellent Chef | Unlock 14 recipes at the Egg Pan Station | ||
| For the Love of Baking | Cook 100 recipes | ||
| Superb Gift Giver | Give 50 3-star gifts | ||
| Master of the Ruins | Complete 20 puzzle rooms | ||
| True Gamer | Play all the mini games around Friendship Island | Complete the in-game Theme Park Goals | |
| Everyone is Welcome | Have 20 visitors at 5 stars | ||
| Time for Milk | Have Milk as a 5-star visitor | Yes | |
| Traveling Party | Have one of your friends join you as a companion | ||
| Through Thick and Thin | Have a character follow you to the lowest trench and the tallest peak | Same character for both | |
| A Bakers Dozen! | Take photos of 13 gudetama | ||
| Dozens Surely! | Take photos of 120 gudetama | ||
| Open for Visits | Unlock a Visitor Cabin | ||
| Cabin Crazy | Repair 25 visitor cabins | ||
| Tropical Challenge | Craft the Gold Seaside Trophy | Yes | |
| Swampy Challenge | Craft the Gold Swamp Trophy | Yes | |
| Rocky Challenge | Craft the Gold Gemstone Trophy | Yes | |
| Volcanic Challenge | Craft the Gold Hothead Trophy | Yes | |
| Aquatic Challenge | Craft the Gold Reef Trophy | Yes | |
| Floating Challenge | Craft the Gold Cloud Trophy | Yes | |
| Floral Challenge | Craft the Gold Meadow Trophy | Yes | |
| Floral Pattern | Obtain a patterned flower | ||
| Flower Collector | Obtain 10 unique flower types | ||
| Adorned in Flowers | Create a Flower Crown | ||
| Behind the Waterfall | Find the Hidden Meadow | Yes | Complete Curious Caverns |
| Regional Explorer | Reach every region on Friendship Island | ||
| Master Angler | Catch 100 fish | ||
| Critter Master | Catch 100 critters | ||
| New Heights | Reach the paradise in the clouds | Yes | Complete Stargazing |
| Friendships Restored | Reunite the Island Spirit with her best friends | Yes | Complete Return to the Heart: Part 2 |
| Ruining Rampage | Explore the Red Hot Ruins | Complete Enraging Ruins |
According to the wiki, PS5 players also have We're Proud of You for unlocking every trophy, which it marks as missing on Steam.
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The hardest achievements and how to plan for them
Steam's global stats show where players stall. As of October 16, 2026, about 97 percent of Steam players had Happy Landing!, while the rarest was Time for Milk at 1.1 percent. A likely reason comes from the wiki: Milk is often the very last visitor players unlock, because he needs all the earlier Cafe Cinnamon visitors first.
As of the same date, the seven Gold trophy achievements each sat between 2.5 and 3.4 percent. You craft each one from matching Gold Trophy Pieces. Take the Gold Seaside Trophy: its pieces come from Gold runs on Seaside Resort challenge courses, it needs 7 of them, and its crafting plans arrive after your first Gold run there. The wiki lists 7 pieces for the Swamp trophy, 10 for Gemstone and 6 each for the Hothead, Reef, Cloud and Meadow trophies.
Stick Nation (7.4 percent as of October 16, 2026) needs the Golden Stick. Its plans come after you take 96 gudetama photos and check the Gudetama Sign in Seaside Resort to claim the reward from Pochacco, and the craft costs 99 Sticks. Everyone's Bestie (7.3 percent) asks for Best Friends, meaning maximum friendship level, with 15 characters. The wiki rates Keroppi and Tuxedosam as fairly easy and Kiki, Lala and Wish me mell as extremely difficult, so start the slow friendships early.
A few smaller tips save time. For Through Thick and Thin, the wiki notes the same companion must follow you to both the lowest trench and the tallest peak. In the in-game list, the Basement Library goals need a friend, since the Spooky Secrets quests only start while you host a multiplayer session and the puzzle rooms need two players. The multiplayer guide explains how to set that up.
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Platform gaps and known fixes
Going by the wiki's platform marks, the in-game checklists are almost identical across versions, which fits a Sunblink statement quoted on the wiki that the team is contractually required to keep the experience the same across platforms. Updates usually reach Apple Arcade first, though, so newer goals can appear there before other versions get them.
The wiki flags a few gaps. On the Chef Goals page, Snack Pack and Vending Venture, the two Vending Machine goals, are marked available on Apple Arcade and Switch but not on Steam or PlayStation. The Hospitality Goals page, still marked as a work in progress, lists its last five entries, including President Elephant, Keroppi's Mama and Keroppi's Papa, as Apple Arcade only, yet the Five Star Visitors page shows those visitors on all four platforms. Treat both sets of platform marks as unconfirmed.
Several achievement bugs have been addressed along the way. The March 7, 2025 update notes on Steam say the Cabin Crazy Steam achievement became achievable. Sunblink's Content Update 4 details from November 12, 2025, which the wiki's Steam update history reproduces, listed planned fixes so the Magic Master goal pays out as intended and Open House unlocks after either Making Yourself at Home or Home Sweet Home PT2. The CU7 patch notes on Steam from June 11, 2026 list fixes for achievement and count tracking issues, including Wheatflour Wonderland achievements and the Sashimi Spire count. For the newest changes, start from the Welcome Home announcement on Steam.
