Route Summary

Play the early route as a loop: clear trash, keep cards and collectibles, recycle garbage, repair damaged cards, buy upgrades, then export tracker progress before a long session ends.

Step 1: Stabilize the Cleanup Loop

Start with simple recycling goals. Removal needs 7 garbage bags, Cleanup needs 69, Recycling needs 256 and Annihilation needs 999. Those milestones turn ordinary cleanup into useful achievement progress.

Step 2: Start the Card Sets

Collect your first card for A Nice Start!, then sort new cards by Blue, White, Red and Purple. Each color has a full-set achievement, so early sorting prevents a messy endgame checklist.

Step 3: Repair or Level Up Before You Judge Duplicates

Damaged and torn cards are part of the official loop. Repair cards before deciding whether a duplicate is worthless, then check whether three same-card, same-Quality copies can be Levelled Up before selling surplus cards.

Step 4: Buy Upgrades Carefully

Buy one upgrade for My Better Self!, then use Bag, Energy and Speed to reduce your actual route bottleneck. Exact prices are not published here because the August 21 update recalculated upgrade costs.

Step 5: Track Collectibles Early

Figurines, audiotapes and cosplay outfits have explicit Steam achievement thresholds. Mark them as soon as you collect them, because exact location data is still being verified.

Step 6: Use Cereal Boxes for Foil Planning

Cereal boxes matter for Just Don’t Eat It!, Gacha Addiction and foil-card planning. Open them when you are ready to record the outcome instead of batch-opening without notes.

Step 7: Move Into Rare and Foil Cleanup

Once base sets are organized, use Rare Cards for SR/SSR/Kotalion notes and Foil Cards for A True Fan and The Collector. Do not mix base-card set completion with foil completion.

Step 8: Troubleshoot Before Repeating Work

If achievements, saves, repair or upgrades behave oddly, use the Fixes pages before replaying a long route. The August 21 patch specifically matters for saves, upgrades and broken launch achievements.

Endgame Checklist

Finish the four color sets, finish figurine/audiotape/cosplay thresholds, max upgrades for Champion and Power Overwhelming, then clean up foil cards and high-count recycling or money achievements.