After the crane is bought, the pile recounts every 6 minutes during manual crane operation, or every 2.5 minutes with crane autopilot enabled.
Potato Please
Potato Please is the first-person peeling shift Golden Horn Studios released on Steam for Windows on November 3, 2026. The current build is Hotfix 1.0.2.
Six of the twenty achievement rows are marked hidden, and the board includes every description and global unlock percentage.
Steam app5266240
ReleaseNov 3, 2026
Current buildHotfix 1.0.2
PlatformWindows
The live build
Hotfix 1.0.2 — November 5, 2026Golden Horn Studios shipped Potato Please on November 3, 2026, followed by Hotfix 1.0.1 on November 4 and Hotfix 1.0.2 on November 5. Across those two post-launch updates, the studio tuned pile recount intervals, hopper persistence across saves, troubleshooting cooldowns, and camera controls at the peeling bench.
The key potato stays in place until you pick it up by hand. Neither the potato vacuum nor the puppy can take it.
Even with Muscle Memory unlocked, the last spots on a potato can still require a final pass with the hand knife.
Unstuck, Wheelbarrow troubleshooting, and Sack troubleshooting all run on a 60-second cooldown, and Repile sits in the pause menu.
Hotfix 1.0.1 lets a finished save replay the ending without restarting the entire potato pile from the beginning.
Hard difficulty uses the Strict peeling rule rather than No Mercy, while Invert Y turns only the camera view.
Station desks and shift reference
Every shift starts with a knife, a bucket, and an outdoor mountain of potatoes beside the bunker. As your count climbs from the warm-up shift toward the 1,000-potato and 10,000-potato milestones, the work moves from thin manual cuts at the kitchen water channel to hoppers, sacks, cableways, and crane recounts.
| Station desk | Shift focus | Key numbers and rules |
|---|---|---|
| Peeling counter | Manual blade angle, thin cuts, Muscle Memory hand finish, and the key potato pickup rule. | Strict peeling on Hard; Invert Y affects camera only; separate hand-shake slider. |
| Machine bay | Peeling drums, machine hoppers, water channel speed, crane recounts, vacuum tank, and puppy rules. | 6-minute crane recount; 2.5-minute autopilot recount; every second loudspeaker call. |
| Upgrade ledger | Printed in-game currency table from the first replacement knife to full drum overclocking. | 9 printed rows from Rusty Knife at 0.30 up to Claw Crane at 2,100. |
| Achievement board | All 20 Steam achievements with visibility filters, descriptions, and global unlock percentages. | 14 visible rows and 6 hidden rows, from First Cut (100.0%) to Unauthorized Passenger (2.7%). |
| Endings and letter | The five hidden ending rows, the Dear Papa letter signed Pavel, and finished-save replay. | 5 hidden ending achievements; replayable on completed saves since Hotfix 1.0.1. |
| Update log | Chronological release and hotfix breakdown across November 3, November 4, and November 5, 2026. | Launch post plus Hotfix 1.0.1 and Hotfix 1.0.2 delta table. |
| Shift desk controls | Pause-menu Repile, Unstuck recovery, Wheelbarrow and Sack troubleshooting, and camera settings. | 60-second recovery cooldowns; hold E on a loaded villager crate to send it. |
| Steam store posting | Windows system requirements, introductory US and Euro pricing, and the 19-language support table. | $9.99 list ($8.99 intro until Nov 15); 19 interface/subtitle languages; Windows 10 64-bit. |
Store flags
Potato Please runs as a single-player Windows shift with controller support, cloud saves, and pause-anytime saving across long peeling sessions.
Single-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily SharingSave Anytime
The other potato sim
Players searching for Potato Please on Steam also run into separate app IDs, playtest builds, and launch-week press coverage. Keep these three distinctions straight when checking store listings or patch notes.
Potato Please Playtest is a separate Steam app, 5391760, dated October 19, 2026.
1,000,000 POTATOES is Steam app 5027010 and is not a Potato Please version.
PlayGround.ru and App2Top report a copy accusation around launch. Those articles are press reports rather than a studio patch note.