Save & progress recovery
New guide: match lost abilities, Steam Cloud differences and counter bugs to the official Patch 1–4 fixes before touching a save.
SOURCE-CHECKED PLAYER GUIDE
Sort Them Ducks Guide
Sort 4,000+ ducks. Keep your last one.
Fast answers for every shelf, all 10 hidden eggs, the full achievement list, and the fixes that stop one missing duck from blocking the ending.
4,000+ unique ducks10 hidden eggs20 Steam achievements
SORTING
IN PROGRESS
IN PROGRESS
NO TIMER · NO FAIL STATE
POPULAR ANSWERS
Fix the problem in front of you
ABOUT THE GAME
What Sort Them Ducks is, and where the game stands
Sort Them Ducks is a duck-sorting game for Windows on Steam about turning a chaotic shop into a finished collection display. The official Steam store page describes more than 4,000 unique rubber ducks across hundreds of categories. You pick up a duck, read its name, costume and props, and carry it to the matching themed shelf. Correct placements earn money for the upgrades the store page lists: carrying more ducks, moving faster, highlighting matching ducks, revealing the correct shelf and collecting nearby ducks. Player guides document 19 regular shelf themes, four special displays and 10 hidden eggs, and Steam lists 20 achievements, six of them with hidden conditions.
Where the game stands: the official store listing, checked on 20 August 2026, confirms the Windows release on Steam and does not announce console or macOS versions. The developer’s Steam announcements, last read on 21 October 2026, list four patches in August 2026. Patch 1 addressed endings blocked by a missing duck or a wrong count; Patch 2 closed map gaps that let ducks escape; Patch 3 fixed ducks trapped behind shelves plus save-load and inventory display problems; Patch 4 fixed Steam Cloud save corruption between devices and added a save-backup system, followed by a hotfix for a counter that only showed Rainbow Tower ducks. The newest post in that feed, dated 5 October, asks for multiplayer testers. It is not a patch, so this site does not describe multiplayer as released.
Sources: official Steam store page, Patch 4 announcement and multiplayer tester call. The save recovery guide and missing-duck guide link the individual patch notes.
11 FOCUSED GUIDES
Every guide on this site
01START HERE
How to play
Read the duck, choose a theme, earn money and buy the abilities that cut walking time.
Open guide →02COLLECTIBLESAll 10 egg locations
A counter-friendly route from the cashier chair to the office lampshade.
Open guide →03TROUBLESHOOTINGMissing one duck
Update, respawn and check the places confirmed in the official patch notes.
Open guide →04REFERENCEDuck categories
The 19 regular shelf themes, four special displays and easily confused ducks.
Open guide →05WALKTHROUGHEnding requirements
What completes the shop, and which challenges are optional rather than required.
Open guide →06100% GUIDEAll achievements
Every Steam achievement, with hidden conditions clearly marked as third-party findings.
Open guide →07BUILD ORDERBest upgrades
Choose capacity, movement and active abilities by the bottleneck they remove.
Open guide →08SPEEDRUNUnder four hours
Practice the shelf map, use a speed build and keep optional goals outside the timed route.
Open guide →09STATUSPlatforms
Check confirmed Windows support and the current evidence for console or Steam Deck versions.
Open guide →10REFERENCETotal duck count
Use the official 4,000+ total and avoid unsupported 393/394 counter claims.
Open guide →11SAVE TROUBLESHOOTINGSave & progress recovery
Separate missing abilities, Cloud sync problems and counter bugs before risking a completed save.
Open guide →20 STEAM ACHIEVEMENTS
Achievement checklist
Steam lists 20 achievements: 14 with visible conditions and six with hidden ones. The checklist marks which conditions are official and which come from third-party guides, and gives step-by-step notes for the ones that need a plan.
CHANGE LOG
Recently updated
All 20 achievements
Ten short achievement pages were merged into this checklist as step-by-step notes, with one FAQ.
About & editorial approach
Now names who runs the site (Yawen Guides), how guides are researched and updated, and how to report an error.
Site terms
New page: how to use the guides, source attribution and external links.
Privacy policy
Advertising now comes from Google AdSense only; analytics stays off until you allow it, and a privacy contact was added.
Contact
New page: email us about guide corrections, image rights or removal requests, and advertising or privacy questions.
All 10 egg locations
The route is now labeled as a suggested order (not timed against other routes), and a 10-egg checklist was added.