Bills Must Be Paid Achievements Guide: All 27 + Global Unlock Rates

Every Bills Must Be Paid achievement with global unlock rates and how to get it — Maxed Out, Prestige Jewelry, Super Jackpot, Eyes on the Piggy — plus the Maxed Out softlock answer and what the 3-5 hour 100% run looks like.

Last updated: 8/5/2026

Quick Answer: Bills Must Be Paid has 27 achievements, all public since July 31 with descriptions and global stats. The whole set is a 3-5 hour, one-sitting 100% — nothing needs a second playthrough. The natural arc plus three deliberate systems covers everything: the gambling trio (50/50, All or Nothing, Eyes on the Piggy), the loan pair (Take a Loan / Pay Back a Loan), and the completion trio (Bought It All, Prestige Jewelry, Maxed Out). The rarest is Maxed Out at 26.9%, and it has a trap: beat the final boss first and you must keep playing the same cycle to finish the tree, because bankruptcy resets it.

Version note: Global rates below were captured July 31, 2026, two days after release, and early numbers skew toward dedicated buyers. Assembled from the official Steam achievement list and global stats, official screenshots, developer forum replies and the first community achievement guide, linked inline. Updated August 5.

The Piggy Shuffle table: three green piggies with star glasses, a $39,807 stake and a possible win of double the amount Piggy Shuffle: pick the right piggy after the shuffle to double your stake — and to unlock Eyes on the Piggy. (Screenshot: Rike Games)

All 27 Achievements, in Unlock-Rate Order

Sorted by global rate, the table doubles as a rough completion order.

%AchievementRequirement
100%Rookie SmasherSmash 10 piggies
100%Bills Must Be PaidPay your first bill
100%Better than NothingEarn $100 in a single run
100%Not a Single MissComplete a run with 100% accuracy
100%Twice as PreciseMaintain 100% accuracy across 2 consecutive runs
99.0%Serial SmasherSmash 100 piggies
97.3%Fresh StartDeclare bankruptcy and start a new cycle
97.0%One Step at a TimePay 5 bills
93.0%50/50Win a coinflip
92.8%Strong StartDestroy 2 piggies with your first hit of a run
92.8%High RollerEarn $1,000 in a single run
90.0%Making ProgressPay 10 bills
87.1%MultismasherDestroy 3 piggies at once
77.9%Five FiguresEarn $10,000 in a single run
75.7%Take a LoanCall Big Toni and take a loan
70.9%Keeping UpPay 20 bills
64.8%All or NothingGo all in on a gamble
52.8%The Richest Broke PersonOwn $1,000,000 at once
51.4%Pay Back a LoanPay Big Toni his money back
48.3%Eyes on the PiggyPick the correct piggy in Piggy Shuffle
39.1%Super JackpotHit the Super Jackpot once
37.1%Piggy Bank CollectorUnlock every piggy bank
35.1%Coin CollectorComplete the full coin collection
34.8%Bought It AllBuy every item in the shop
34.0%FreedomPay all your bills
30.6%Prestige JewelryUnlock all rings and bracelets
26.9%Maxed OutBuy all skill tree upgrades

Ignore any list that names a 28th achievement. Steam exposed only 13 of these on day one, and a launch-day forum thread floated an extra name that doesn't exist in the official set.

Maxed Out (26.9%) — Keep Playing After the Boss

Beat the final boss without a full skill tree and it looks like you've locked yourself out. You haven't. The developer's answer in the forum thread: "You can just keep playing. If you've not declared bankruptcy you'll be able to purchase all the missing upgrades" — and the player confirmed it worked.

The flip side matters more. Declaring bankruptcy resets that cycle's skill upgrades, so if you reset after the boss you must refill the tree in a later cycle.

Expect the tree to keep growing at the end. Beating the boss unlocks around a dozen extra nodes, and paying off the final bill unlocks more still — two players independently hit Maxed Out only after buying those late arrivals. If the tree looks fully bought early on and the achievement hasn't popped, it isn't bugged. Keep paying bills and keep buying until the checkmark actually lands.

Prestige Jewelry (30.6%) — The Case Is Bigger Than It Looks

You need every ring and both bracelets. Early "100%" posts claiming completion while missing rings predate the full achievement list and don't hold up.

There's a second layer. A player who bought everything visible in the jewelry case saw nothing pop — until they declared bankruptcy, returned to the case, and found a hidden piece priced at 1,000,000 waiting (single report, self-answered, and it matches the skill tree pattern exactly). Buying it landed the achievement.

Prestige Points only come from new bill records, which is why completionists run cycles 3-5. The Bankruptcy & Prestige Guide covers how to farm PP efficiently.

Eyes on the Piggy (48.3%) — Film It

The shuffle is faster than most players can eye-track, which is why this one lags the achievements around it.

The community cheese, from the first player-written guide: record the shuffle with your phone and scrub the video in slow motion. You only need it to land once, and the minimum bet works.

The Gambling Trio and the Loan Pair

Do the gambling three — 50/50, All or Nothing, Eyes on the Piggy — early, when your stake is pocket change. The mini-games are optional for beating the game, so there's no reason to bet real progress on them.

On the coinflip: the developer says it's a genuine "50/50 (physics)" simulation, acknowledged it "does not feel or turn out to be fair enough," and is considering tilting it toward the player. Nothing has shipped. Flip small and retry.

For the loan pair, call Big Toni, borrow, then repay through the entry beside your bills in the bill menu. The cut Toni skims off your earnings does not count toward repayment (community report), so repay fast — the skim is pure loss.

The Rest of the Late List

  • Super Jackpot (39.1%): jackpot multipliers proc while smashing. Invest in the skill tree's luck branch if it's being stubborn; no proc rate is documented.
  • Piggy Bank Collector (37.1%) / Coin Collector (35.1%): both fill passively across a full arc. Check the collection tabs before your final cycle so you're not hunting one last coin after Freedom.
  • Bought It All (34.8%): the shop ladder runs $4,000 → $50,000 → $250,000 → $1,000,000 → $10,000,000 for hammers, plus décor up to $210,000. The $10M ceiling lands late, once per-run earnings go exponential. The Richest Broke Person ($1M on hand, 52.8%) falls on the way.
  • Freedom (34.0%): pay every bill. Build PP off new bill records, buy the permanent rings and bracelets, and the final bills fall.

FAQ

How long does 100% take? Roughly 3-5 hours. Around ten players who posted completions in the first two days report 2.9 to 4.7 hours, finishing on prestige cycles 3 to 5. The developer's pre-release estimate of "around 2-5 hours" agrees.

Are any achievements missable or luck-gated? Nothing is permanently missable — the game is cycle-based and every system stays available. Two soft traps: Maxed Out (don't bankrupt after the final boss) and Eyes on the Piggy (cheese it with a slow-motion recording). Super Jackpot is the only pure-luck gate, and it retries indefinitely.

Do the hidden achievements need a second playthrough? There are no hidden achievements. All 27 are public as of July 31, and the full set falls inside one 3-5 hour sitting across a few prestige cycles.