The Finer Points of Dating Achievements

This guide contains help for getting the harder achievements in the game.

Introduction and Easy Achievements

Kitty Powers' Matchmaker contains 31 achievements several of which can be difficult, time-consuming or confusing. We'll go over here what you need to do for each of those.

To start, let's quickly run through the easy achievements. Most of these you'll get through normal game play or with a bit of determined effort. They are:

Normal Play Achievements:

• Tightwad - Get through a date without spending money
  
• Serial Dater - Go on 100 dates
  
• Abandonment Issues - Get walked out on 10 times
  
• Go Forth and Multiply - Have 50 babies

Pairing Achievements:

• Ermanerd! - Pair off a Glam and a Geek type
  
• Business, Man! - Pair off a Chic and a Hippy type
  
• Coffee Run - Pair off a Hipster and a Sporty type
  
• Dungaree Jamboree - Pair off a Practical and Arty type
  
• Punk Rockery - Pair off an Edgy and a Vintage type

Completionist Achievement:

• Happy Ending - Get all the other achievements

Some of the achievements listed below contain mild spoilers about things you normally discover through playing the game. If you want to retain the element of surprise I suggest not reading past the achievement Gay Pride and playing through the "end" of the game before continuing. You'll know when it happens!

Single Menu Achievements

Ask the waiter about all twenty dishes on the (cuisine) menu


There are 12 of these achievements, one for each restaurant except Australian, South African and Thai. You "ask the waiter" by spending 20 coins on a menu item to get its description. Unlocking a description is permanent. This will end up costing 400 coins to complete a menu, 4800 for all of them.

The mini-game always offers 5 items to pick from and will always include one exact match the date prefers, one that is usually close but not quite what they want, and the rest will be clear misses. This means the selection isn't entirely random. This becomes problematic when you need the last few items from a particular restaurant as the chances of them being on list are constrained by those choices.

The best strategy here is to try the target restaurant with different date companions each time since that creates the highest chance of getting a different menu list from the last attempt. If you insist on quitting and restarting a date with the same companion try for a different restaurant that also has menu choices you need to unlock. Repeating the same restaurant with the same couple almost never worked for me.

No matter how you go about this, getting these achievements is going to take a lot of time because of the expense, the low probability of getting the last item or two, and because of the envelope game for choosing which restaurant you go to.

I noticed that even with all 15 restaurants getting shuffled, a particular restaurant seemed to have a higher than random chance of returning to its starting position. So if you do lose track of it, clicking on its starting position might yield a better chance of nabbing it.

Important Tip!
If you quit out of the game before the date is completed the entire date is reset and any menu items you unlocked will be reset as well. HOWEVER unlocking the last one will pop the achievement for that restaurant the moment you buy it. It's important to continue playing through the end of the date so your final revealed menu item(s) are saved and count toward the "Gastronomical" achievement. Otherwise you'll have to try to snag them again.

Gastronomical

Ask the waiter about all the dishes on all the menus


This achievement is awarded for asking about the menu items in all 15 restaurants including South African, Australian and Thai for a total of 300 dishes. This will end up costing 6000 coins to complete.

The best strategy here is twofold:

First, buy the off restaurants when available at the appropriate difficulty level and work on them in tandem with the others. Don't wait until the end of the game to buy them! Doing so will delay your progress on the "Schadenfreude" achievement.

Second, keep track of how many menu items you unlock for the three off restaurants. This is really important since they have no individual counters to keep track of like the other 12. When you are down to the last couple of items for them it can be incredibly frustrating to not know how many are left in each.

Game play tip: The in-game achievement roster on your ID badge will show any discrepancies if you didn't finish a date properly and have a menu item still left in any of the 12 individual Steam achievement restaurants you have popped. This can help you track down stragglers you will have to re-ask about.

Ego-agogo

Find Big Head mode


There is a bell and a phone on your desk in the lobby area where clients are waiting. Click on the bell several times and then on the phone to pop the achievement.

You'll probably not get it right away. Some have speculated you need to click the bell in a pattern of some kind as if you are playing a song. Just keep trying and you'll get it.

Inappropriate Touching

Poke characters 1000 times


After a client is ushered into your office and they've introduced themselves you can click on them for a funny reaction.

This also works after you've selected a date but before you've selected the confirm dialog to make the date happen. At this point you can click on the client or the date for the reaction that counts toward the achievement. If you are playing on a touchscreen, you can tap both at the same time!

♥♥♥♥♥ Galore

Tap the cat 25 times


When a date is finished you'll be outside the restaurant and a cat will randomly show up sitting on the boxes in the background. Click on the cat when it appears, but do it quickly because once the dialog boxes show up they'll block you from petting the kitty. You'll also get some coins for successfully doing so.

This achievement takes a lot of time. I finished the "Serial Dater" achievement (100 dates) long before I got this one.

Friends with Benefits

Pair off 3 Steam friends


The wording is misleading. You can get this achievement as long as you have one other Steam friend who plays Kitty Powers' Matchmaker.

You first have to turn on the in-game online mode and upload your own dating profile. This allows the game to create entries for your Steam friends in your black book.

Then all you need to do is pair up your clients with a friend three times.

If you have only 1 or 2 friends who play just make sure you pair them off with someone who is a below-average match. When you get their break-up letter in the mail they'll return to the black book and can be paired up again.

You can get a below-average match by making sure the client and friend differ from each other in three or more personality traits. Just play through the date interactions focusing on positive responses to superficial characteristics and interests.

Opposites might attract in this game, but they don't tend to work out in the long run.

Gay Pride

Have 50 same gender relationships


There's no secret to getting this achievement, but it takes a long time.

At almost 30 hours into the game, I still only have 29/50 on this achievement. LGB clients show up at a rate of about one quarter to a third of your clients in the lobby.

It's possible to progress on this achievement faster than I have, but to do that you need to use the "Kick" option. After a client has introduced themselves, it costs 25 coins to boot them out of your office. (Incidentally, this doesn't affect your reputation score.) Do this to winnow out the straight clientele, but it will end up being rather expensive.











*****

If you want to avoid minor spoilers, save the rest until you've reached the game's "end"

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Kitty's Little Helper

Pair off Kitty Powers


This is actually the achievement for the "end" of the game, so I lumped it into the minor spoilers section.

There is nothing special about this achievement, just find a nice companion for Kitty Powers. It is "difficult" because it is only possible upon reaching max level 20. At that point she temporarily becomes the only client in your lobby. By this time you'll have played the game long enough to know how find her a good match, and she can date both men and women.

I don't know what happens if she has three failed dates. Anyone care to comment?

(Thanks to James & Michelle): ... Regarding Kitty's dates at the end of the game. You can't lose with her as she's effectively a final "Boss" of sorts. Getting 3 or more dates going bad won't do anything. The fact she's bisexual gives you a pretty wide range selection to choose from

Just take into consideration she's a VIP candidate so always go with a Hard restaurant but pick a lower level match for her, the date will be easier to impress and you get more hearts on her side as a result.

Pants on Fire

Spin the Wheel of Misfortune 4 times in one date and pair the couple off


I haven't gotten this achievement, but I'm going to give my best guess as to how it's possible based on what I've tried. It takes a little bit of prep plus some luck.

First, try this with couples who have lower star ratings combined with harder restaurants. It'll give you more chances to lie and each person on the date will be easier to please. Also the lower the star rating of the date the better your chance of a lie going undetected.

Bottom line: don't try this with ultra-picky VIPs.

Next, pick a date in your black book who is a different type so that they have opposite interests, clothing, make up and hairstyles. Use the date booster options to make sure your client doesn't have features that have overlapping appeal to the date's type. Change out as needed. But one caveat -- matching hair and eye color preferences are a good thing to have. They only come up at the very beginning of the date as positives, if matching, so they help in the decision to pair off. Discussing hair in conversation is about style, not color, so that's where you want to trigger a lie.

When you spin the fruit wheel, go for discussing those differing topics. You are guaranteed at least three spins for any date. Sometimes you can even get topics the client agrees on but you can lie by expressing even greater interest (truth: I like it, lie: I love it). If you get a failure on the Wheel of Misfortune, cheat to re-spin the wheel.

Two mini-games also give extra chances on the Wheel of Misfortune:

• "The Ex" allows you to lie about who came up to the table.
  
• "Who Farted?" allows you to lie if you pass gas.

The key here, I think, is to make sure your client isn't so turned off by their date that they reject them at the conclusion. For this reason you should stick to the superficial topics and avoid talking about personality traits (e.g., Relaxed vs Active) because:

• if they are the same, you'll waste a chance to spin the Wheel of Misfortune.
  
• if they are different, it will more sharply reduce the chance your client will want to pair off at the end

It also helps if you get a random Kitty cherub to shoot a love arrow. Aim for your client. Successful lying will be boosting the date's positive impression, so they won't need it.

Remember that if things aren't playing out the way you need to you can always quit and restart with the same date companion. You'll get the same mini-games regardless of which restaurant you take them to.

Any others want to comment?

Schadenfreude

Fail every minigame in the funniest way


There are a total of 18 mini-games -- one for every restaurant and three that begin the game.

The mini-game of ordering off the menu doesn't count toward this achievement.

The games are:

1. Who's Our Waiter?
   
2. Calculate the Tip
   
3. Bathroom Quick-Change
   
4. Compliment the Chef
   
5. Tell a Good Story
   
6. Date Finder Photo
   
7. Manager Introduction
   
8. Power Blackout
   
9. Call a Taxi
   
10. RPS Flirting
    
11. Box of Chocolates
    
12. Snap a Selfie
    
13. Emergency Deodorant
    
    Failure at the following games are at least partially determined by the date's personality:
    
    
14. Dessert Trolley
    
15. Who Farted?
    
16. The Spider
    
17. Pachinko Bill Pay
    
18. The Ex

To get the achievement, you have to fail at each game in the "funniest" possible way. Most games have only a single way to fail but some have degrees of failure. You need to get the worst possible outcome on each of those for the achievement to pop.

• Calculate the Tip - when the correct answer is the highest or lowest pick, choose the opposite
  
• Call a Taxi - get the wrong number on all three tries
  
• RPS Flirting - lose all three rounds
  
• Box of Chocolates - pick three yucky ones
  
• Snap a Selfie - take a picture where both members look their worst
  
• Emergency Deodorant - use barely any (or way too much??)
  
• Who Farted? - fail at lying about who passed gas. (It's also possible to fail by owning up to it when the date is an introvert, but not sure if this qualifies.)
  
• The Ex - fail at lying about who the Ex is (they come back and embarrass the client)

You'll probably fail the simple ones at some point. For the others it is possible to quit and replay the date with the same companion because the same mini-games will occur. Some also have cheat options that make failing the game slightly easier.

In all honesty, I might have missed some detail about games that have degrees of failure. I just assumed based on my own experience what might have triggered a failure without realizing what I did to get the funniest outcome. Any comments from other players?

Summary

That's it!

Please post comments, questions and clarifications if you want.

Also, this was my first ever game guide on Steam. I hope you all liked it.

May all your future dates be good to you and you to them!

[Wesku]

Oh and also, I think guilty pleasures work like bad habits so they'd also allow for 2 lies? I have a new playthrough and haven't unlocked them yet so can't check.

And while I didn't test it, I'd assume that the hearts from gifts and going on a second/third date can be used to off-set failed lies to lessen the amount of restarts.

[Wesku]

Pants on Fire: I just did it with 3 star characters. So, so many restarts, def should have done it with lower star people. But I have a few things to add in case anyone needs it:

1. Welcome to restarts and memorizing/writing down notes! "Test dates" are needed to find good topics, and then you'll be restarting because RNG is screwing everything up.

2. Some topics allow you to LIE TWICE , first for how client reacts to their date's answer and if successful, second time for client's answer. The ones I've found are Interests, Horoscopes, Occupation and Bad Habits . Note that you won't get two opportunities if your client loves the date's answers, or if both hate Horoscopes.

3. Spins don't accumulate. It also doesn't count if you got four spins on the first date and then paired them off on the second. The 4 spins date needs to end with a successful asking out.

4. Failing rolls and using cheat rolls is fine (for the achievement), but cheat rolls don't add towards it.

[James & Michelle]

Glad I could help :)

[BigBlueWolf]

I added your comment to the guide. Thanks!

[James & Michelle]

This is very out of date but regarding Kitty's dates at the end of the game. You can't lose with her as she's effectively a final "Boss" of sorts. Getting 3 or more dates going bad won't do anything. The fact she's bisexual gives you a pretty wide range selection to choose from

Just take into consideration she's a VIP candidate so always go with a Hard restaurant but pick a lower level match for her, the date will be easier to impress and you get more hearts on her side as a result.

[Jiminy Wicked •°]

Thank you!