Sort Them Ducks
Sort over 4,000 unique rubber ducks, match them to themed shelves, earn money, unlock useful abilities, and turn a chaotic duck store into a perfectly organized collection.
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Everything you need to sort, upgrade, and complete your duck collection
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Sort Them Ducks 100 Percent: Step-by-Step Walkthrough
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Unlock all 20 Sort Them Ducks Steam achievements with a phased walkthrough covering progression, categories, upgrades, secret eggs, and the sub-4-hour run.
Sort Them Ducks All Ducks: Category List & Shelf Guide
Every duck category in Sort Them Ducks explained: visual clues, shelf matching, identification tips, upgrades, and completion help for all 4,000+ ducks.
Sort Them Ducks All Eggs: Location Hunt Walkthrough
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Sort Them Ducks Beginner Guide: Step-by-Step Tips & Strategy
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Sort Them Ducks Best Upgrades: Tier List & Buy Order Guide
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Sort Them Ducks is built around collecting rubber ducks, identifying their themes, and placing them on matching shelves. Correct sorting earns money that can be invested into abilities and upgrades, gradually making the large collection easier to manage.
Pick Up Unsorted Ducks
Start by collecting ducks from the unsorted supply. Pay attention to each duck's costume, accessories, colors, and overall theme before deciding where it belongs.
Identify the Duck's Category
Match visual clues to a shelf theme. Obvious outfits such as pirates, wizards, astronauts, knights, chefs, and dinosaurs are useful for learning how the category system works.
Place Ducks on Matching Shelves
Carry each duck to the shelf that represents its category. Building familiarity with shelf positions reduces the amount of time spent searching after every pickup.
Earn Money From Sorting
Continue correctly organizing ducks to generate money for progression. Consistent sorting is the foundation for unlocking tools that speed up later sessions.
Buy Useful Early Upgrades
Prioritize upgrades that reduce repeated travel or make identification easier, such as increased carrying capacity, movement speed, matching-duck highlights, shelf reveals, and nearby duck collection.
Learn Shelf Positions
Memorize where frequently used categories are located instead of searching from scratch each time. Route knowledge becomes increasingly important as more shelves and duck categories are involved.
Sort Similar Ducks Together
When several ducks clearly belong to related or familiar categories, deal with them in batches whenever your carrying capacity allows. This cuts down unnecessary trips between the pickup area and shelves.
Quick Tips
- Check a duck's costume and props carefully before carrying it across the store.
- Batch related ducks together to make the most of every trip.
- Reinvest early earnings into carrying capacity and movement speed.
- Memorize shelf positions for the categories you sort most often.
Upgrades improve how quickly you can move ducks from the unsorted collection to their correct shelves. Carry capacity and movement improvements provide broad efficiency gains, while highlighting, shelf-reveal, and collection abilities help manage the increasingly large number of categories.
Carry Capacity
Allows more ducks to be transported per trip, reducing repeated travel between unsorted ducks and their shelves.
Best for: Overall sorting efficiency
Reduces travel time throughout the sorting area and becomes increasingly valuable as you repeatedly move between distant shelves.
Best for: Faster routes and long sessions
Helps identify ducks that match the category you are currently working with, reducing visual searching when many ducks are present.
Best for: Finding related ducks quickly
Makes locating the appropriate shelf easier when you recognize a duck's theme but do not remember where that category is positioned.
Best for: Learning and navigating categories
Improves collection efficiency by helping gather ducks around the player, reducing the amount of individual pickup movement required.
Best for: Dense groups of unsorted ducks
Sort Them Ducks contains thousands of rubber ducks spread across hundreds of themed groups. Categories are represented by matching shelves, so identifying distinctive clothing, props, helmets, hats, armor, and other accessories is the key to deciding where each duck belongs.
Pirates
Visual clues: Pirate clothing and recognizable seafaring or pirate-themed accessories
Check strongly pirate-themed costume details first before comparing the duck with more general historical categories.
Wizards
Visual clues: Fantasy magic-themed clothing and wizard-style accessories
Use magical clothing and accessories to distinguish wizard ducks from other fantasy-themed groups.
Astronauts
Visual clues: Space suits, helmets, and other space-exploration styling
Helmet and suit design are the strongest clues when identifying astronaut-themed ducks.
Knights
Visual clues: Medieval armor and knight-themed equipment
Armor is the clearest indicator when separating knights from other historical or fantasy ducks.
Chefs
Visual clues: Cooking-related clothing and chef-themed accessories
Look for recognizable kitchen or chef outfit details when deciding whether a duck belongs on the chef shelf.
Dinosaurs
Visual clues: Dinosaur-inspired appearance and prehistoric creature styling
Focus on the duck's dinosaur costume or creature design rather than its base color.
Secret eggs are hidden collectibles tied to the game's optional exploration and completion goals. They are separate from the normal duck-sorting loop, making them useful targets when working toward secrets and achievement completion.
Search While Unlocking New Areas
Check newly accessible parts of the sorting environment as progression opens them instead of postponing all secret hunting until the end.
Search checklistInspect the Environment Beyond Shelves
Secret eggs are exploration collectibles rather than normal shelf items, so search the surrounding environment while moving between sorting objectives.
Search checklistTrack Eggs as Soon as You Find Them
Keep a simple completed-location checklist during exploration so you can narrow down which areas still need to be searched.
Completion checklistRecheck Areas After Progression
Return to previously visited sections when new progression options or movement improvements make exploration easier.
Progression checkCompare Progress With Achievements
Use the game's achievement list to track secret-related completion goals and identify whether additional hidden objectives remain.
Achievement checkUse this achievement overview to plan a 100% completion run. Finish normal progression and category goals first, then focus on upgrade-related objectives, hidden challenges, and the demanding under-four-hour completion run.
Advance through the normal duck-sorting progression and complete the store's major progression milestones.
Play normally, sort ducks correctly, earn money, and continue unlocking progression.
Complete duck categories by finding and placing their remaining ducks on the correct shelves.
Track incomplete categories and revisit areas where a missing duck may be hidden or difficult to reach.
Progress through the upgrade system and complete achievements tied to improving your sorting abilities.
Keep reinvesting money earned from correctly sorted ducks instead of saving it without upgrading.
Complete the game's hidden achievement objectives.
After normal progression is complete, investigate unusual interactions and unfinished objectives that are not covered by straightforward sorting milestones.
Finish the remaining categories, progression goals, upgrade challenges, and secret objectives required for 100% achievement completion.
Clear easy progression achievements first so the final cleanup can focus entirely on missing ducks and special objectives.
Complete the game's time-based challenge in under four hours.
Attempt this after learning the store layout and progression route. Minimize unnecessary movement and prioritize upgrades that directly improve sorting speed.
Complete all 20 Steam achievements.
Treat the achievement set as three phases: normal progression, completion cleanup, then challenge and secret objectives.
Fast progression comes from keeping the sorting loop moving: collect ducks, identify their category, place them correctly, earn money, and immediately turn that money into useful improvements.
Sort Ducks Correctly
Pick up ducks, identify where they belong, and place them on the correct shelves to keep earning money.
Accuracy matters because incorrect sorting wastes movement and slows the entire progression loop.
Build an Upgrade Fund
Continue completing easy sorting tasks until you have enough money to improve your efficiency.
Avoid spending extra time hunting one difficult duck while easier unsorted ducks are still available.
Invest in Efficiency
Use earned money on upgrades that make collecting, identifying, or sorting ducks faster.
Efficiency upgrades become increasingly valuable as the store fills and remaining ducks become more scattered.
Sort in Batches
Collect and place multiple useful ducks during the same route instead of repeatedly crossing the store for individual ducks.
Group nearby tasks together to reduce empty travel time.
Finish Easy Categories
Complete categories that already have most of their ducks sorted before spending large amounts of time on difficult missing ducks.
Closing nearly finished categories gives you clearer information about what still needs attention.
Clean Up Missing Ducks
Once normal progression is strong, concentrate on high, awkward, or easily overlooked ducks blocking full completion.
Use a systematic area-by-area sweep instead of repeatedly searching the entire store.
Prepare a Faster Completion Route
After learning the store layout and progression order, repeat the process with fewer detours if you are pursuing the under-four-hour challenge.
Route knowledge and consistent sorting are more important during a timed completion attempt.
Late-game completion becomes less about sorting large groups and more about finding individual ducks that were overlooked, placed high up, or left in awkward areas. Work through the store systematically and isolate the category or area that is still incomplete.
Sort Them Ducks Updates, Bugs & Troubleshooting
If normal progression stops working, first determine whether the problem affects your save, upgrades, an individual duck, controls, or graphics. Simple restart and verification steps should be tried before repeating large amounts of progression.
Official update sources
Check developer patches and community reports through the official channels: