Pigeon Simulator 100% guide

Pigeon Simulator has 10 Xbox achievements worth 1,000 Gamerscore. All 10 belong to the base-game list, with no DLC or title-update achievements in the Xbox stack as of 2026-10-13.

Online co-op is supported for 2-4 players, but no achievement requires multiplayer. The entire completion can be done solo.

There are no traditional missable achievements, difficulty requirements, alternate endings, or multiple campaign playthroughs. The important exception is the run structure behind You are an eagle now!: the game only saves after a successful mission, and dying or failing a mission wipes your save back to a fresh start — money, pigeon upgrades, and map unlocks all reset. The final upgrade grind needs to be completed without registering a failed mission.

The efficient route is:

• Finish the tutorial while farming the three device-use achievements and attempting the tutorial shortcut for Dutiful agent!.
• Buy one piece of equipment.
• Start a mission and deliberately fail it immediately for You are fired!.
• Continue on the fresh save the failure leaves you with.
• Spend the fresh starting money on your first pigeon upgrade.
• Complete the first quota for Collector!.
• Continue succeeding at missions, funneling almost all money into pigeon upgrades until everything is purchased.

The first two successful missions are effectively your setup phase. After completing the second, the map-selection station becomes available. From that point, repeatedly using Outskirts is a reliable solo strategy because its open layout makes anomaly collection and escaping enemies easier.

Do not fail a mission once the real upgrade run begins. If a run starts going badly, prioritize meeting the quota and leaving over squeezing out a little more money.

Continue until the tutorial introduces the Anomaly Revealer in the room with the car and hidden anomaly.

The next relevant room contains the statue and flying objects.

Continue to the room with the pink dimensional material and a central statue.

After the tutorial, enter the mission-preparation area containing the equipment shop, Upgrade Station, and mission van.

Enter the mission van and begin a mission.

A fresh save begins with enough money for the cheapest pigeon upgrade.

Go directly to the Upgrade Station before starting the first mission.

Enter the first mission and concentrate on learning the anomaly loop.

Use Pigeon Vision and the environment to identify suspicious objects, bring anomalies back to the extraction point, place them into the system, and send them for analysis.

The first mission's minimum quota is 400. Always follow the quota displayed in-game.

Complete the second mission normally.

Again, meet the required quota first. After that, grab nearby high-value anomalies or easy enemy drops only while the risk remains low.

Spend the money at the Upgrade Station when you return.

Avoid repeatedly purchasing disposable equipment. The Echo Sensor can be useful if you struggle to locate anomalies, but equipment money is money not being spent toward the full upgrade tree.

Portals can contain valuable rewards, but their appearance and payoff are not consistent enough to make them mandatory. Enter one when the situation looks safe. Skip it when your health is low or the current mission is already becoming dangerous.

Your priorities remain survival and mobility. Faster movement lets you escape threats, return anomalies more quickly, and spend less time exposed while Chaos continues increasing.

After completing the first two successful missions, the map-selection station becomes available.

Choose Outskirts for subsequent missions when possible.

Repeating one map is more efficient than constantly learning new layouts. Outskirts has open roads, numerous accessible anomalies, and enough space to fly away when hostile enemies begin appearing. The burger hut and the nearby University are good starting areas for anomaly hunting.

Use the same general pattern each day:

• Secure the required quota before taking unnecessary risks.
• Collect extra nearby anomalies while the map is still calm.
• Learn which objects regularly appear as anomalies on your route.
• Use rooftops and flight to move quickly between clusters.
• Kill enemies only when doing so is safer than ignoring them.
• Pick up useful cash drops when they are directly on your path.
• Leave once additional exploration becomes more dangerous than valuable.

As the Chaos level rises, stronger threats become more common. Do not stay in a mission merely because another anomaly might be nearby. If the screen suddenly darkens or an unusual high-risk enemy appears, extract promptly if the quota is met.

The goal is not to maximize the earnings of one mission. The goal is to keep the run alive long enough to purchase the entire upgrade tree.

Keep buying upgrades after every successful mission.

If Dutiful agent! is still unfinished, it should unlock once your cumulative total reaches 50 anomaly sends. Failed missions from before the real run do not erase that achievement progress.

As your pigeon becomes stronger, later missions become much easier to survive. Mobility lets you disengage from bad fights, while health and shooting upgrades give you more room for mistakes.

Continue repeating safe missions and spending essentially all available money at the Upgrade Station.

There is no requirement to defeat every enemy, completely clear every map, or purchase every piece of equipment.

Do not restart the entire game repeatedly trying to force an old shortcut.

Crime investigator!, Stop! Don't Move!, and Portal Wrapper! are cumulative use achievements. Continue using the corresponding devices during missions until their required totals are reached.

Dutiful agent! is also cumulative. If the tutorial extraction shortcut does not work, simply continue sending real anomalies during the upgrade run until the 50th send triggers the achievement.

None of these fallback routes requires another successful full-upgrade run.

Protect the run before protecting your income.

If your health is getting low, stop hunting extra anomalies. Meet the quota and extract.

Do not assume the van is completely safe from every attack. Area-of-effect enemies have been reported to damage players even when they are trying to shelter near or inside it.

The save behavior itself is reliable: the game saves only after a successful mission, and a failed mission wipes the save. The two recovery options below are community-reported, not guaranteed:

• Preferred: if a mission is going badly and failure looks likely, quit to the main menu before the failure registers. This reportedly sends you back to your last successful save, so you replay the current mission without losing earlier upgrades.
• Fallback: if you die, close the game from the dashboard immediately, before any fail or results screen appears. This reportedly also returns you to before that mission, but the exact cutoff is not documented, so do it the instant you die.

The reliable strategy is simpler: upgrade survivability early, learn one map well, stop overextending once the quota is secure, and never deliberately risk a completed mission for optional money.