Shred the Secrets All Badges — 30 Badges with Earn Rates

Official badge description: "Complete 10 runs." Finishing a full run takes 40+ minutes, so ten completions is a serious time investment — fewer than 0.1% of players have it, with 216 awards on record.

Official badge description: "Complete Ending 2 as a full squad." This is the rarest badge in the game, earned by only 0.2% of players, and it cannot be earned solo. Video walkthroughs pin "full squad" at 4 players — the elevator out of the basement requires everyone aboard ("there must be four of us in") — community-reported, high confidence.

Official badge description: "Earn $10,000,000 across all runs." With a $1M goal per room, that is roughly ten full room clears' worth of cash — earned by only 0.7% of players, one of the rarest grind badges in the game.

Official badge description: "Purchase every upgrade in a single run." Only 0.8% of players have bought out the whole Skill Tree in one run. Video footage of the upgrade purchase UI confirms each upgrade line has 5 levels and that Carry Amount level 1 costs $6,000 — the first verified price point toward the total; all other per-level prices remain unpublished.

Official badge description: "Get caught by the FBI." Video guides reveal the mechanic: when an agent flashes on screen you must look away — so to get caught, just keep staring at him. A badge guide calls it "pretty easy", yet only 1% of players have it. Being caught is a badge event, not an ending.

Official badge description: "Shred every last document in one run." You must clear the full document counter in all eight rooms within a single run — earned by only 1.5% of players. Speedrunners advise that you normally only clear a path, so this badge demands the opposite playstyle.

Official badge description: "THE CAKE IS A LIE" — a Portal reference, added 2026-07-29 and earned by 1.9% of players. A framed "THE CAKE IS A LIE" poster hangs on a dark wall in Room 10 (the testing lab added in the [ENDING 3] update) — walk up and interact with the painting to earn the badge. Poster location confirmed in Room 10 walkthrough footage.

Official badge description: "Complete the Mad Scientist Quest." Added in the July 30 [ENDING 3] update, earned by 2.7% of players (API snapshot, September 2026). In Room 9, repair the broken ladder to open the attic, talk to the Mad Scientist (PROJECT: CAFFEINE chalkboard), and recover his blueprints from the floors below.

Official badge description: "Complete a run in under 45 minutes." Only about 3.3% of players have pulled it off; speedrunners say a coordinated 4-player squad is practically required, with community-reported full clears around 40 minutes. The exact timer start point is unverified.

Official badge description: "Complete Ending 2." Only about 4.3% of players have finished it. Video walkthroughs document the chain: grab the glowing crowbar in the cobweb room, break the planks into the basement, brew coffee, ride the elevator up with everyone aboard, then clear the "under renovation" final room — the reveal: the company drugged the coffee with illegal sweeteners to force overtime, and your shredding covered it up (video-reported, high confidence).

Official badge description: "Complete Ending 3." Added in the July 30 [ENDING 3] update and earned by 4.3% of players. The route: repair the broken ladder in Room 9 to open the attic, take the Mad Scientist's blueprint quest, then solve the bank vault dial in Room 12 — the number gives the order, the arrow gives the direction. Full route: /guides/ending-3.

Official badge description: "Break every plank off the boarded-up doorway." The doorway is the basement entrance at the bottom of the Room 6 cobweb room, and you need the glowing crowbar found in the same room to smash every plank — video-reported, earned by about 6% of players.

Official badge description: "Complete a full run solo." No tricks required — just finish all eight rooms alone, which about 6.3% of players have managed. The recorded solo playthroughs on video took roughly 40-53 minutes.

Official badge description: "Shred 5,000 stacks of paper." The count is cumulative across all runs, so it is a pure grind badge — about 6.6% of players have stuck with the game long enough to earn it.

Official badge description: "Ride the elevator out of the basement." Video walkthroughs show the route: the basement sits below the Room 6 cobweb room behind a boarded-up doorway — brew a pot at the basement coffee machine (2 minutes), then get everyone into the elevator cabin to trigger the ride and this badge (about 9.1% of players).

Official badge description: "You weren't supposed to see that." About 9.9% of players have stumbled onto it, but neither fan wikis nor badge videos explain what the hidden discovery actually is — trigger unknown.

Official badge description: "Clear 20 cobwebs." Cobwebs show up in the later rooms — a dedicated cobweb room appears in the back half of the run — and you clear them with the broom; about 11.4% of players have done twenty. Whether the counter is cumulative across runs is unverified.

Official badge description: "Shred with the Golden Shredder." One video walkthrough shows the Golden Shredder as the reward for returning the Sketchy Coworker's phone, while a badge video says it comes from upgrading the shredder — both unverified, earned by about 18.4% of players.

Official badge description: "Find the key in Room 3." Video walkthroughs show the key hiding inside one of Room 3's lockers — open them all, including the easy-to-miss ones — earned by about 19.3% of players. The exact spawn is community-reported, unverified.

Official badge description: "Find the Sketchy Coworker's Phone." After using the Room 3 key to meet the Sketchy Coworker, his phone is lying nearby in the unlocked area — earned by about 21.3% of players. One badge video claims it sits in Room 2 instead; treat the room number as unverified.

Official badge description: "Complete Ending 1." Earned by about 22.9% of players, making it the most common ending. The chain is confirmed by multiple video walkthroughs: find 4 hidden buttons between paper-stack columns, grab the golden secret document, and the FBI arrives with a cat and a grocery list — escape achieved.

Official badge description: "Find the fake exit." Walkthrough footage shows a hidden exit door in Room 4 that opens straight into the badge — earned by about 23.3% of players. Note the fake exit is a secret, not one of the numbered endings.

Official badge description: "Collect $1,000,000." Each room's money goal is $1M, so clearing Room 1 should get you close — earned by about 26.5% of players. Whether it counts a single run or cumulative cash is community-reported, unverified.

Official badge description: "Open 20 filing cabinets." Filing cabinets fill Room 3's office area — just open every one you see and it unlocks (about 30% earn rate). Whether the counter is shared across the squad or resets between runs is unverified.

Official badge description: "Crank shredders 100 times." Every shredder runs on stored energy that you refill by manually cranking (F key), so this stacks up on its own — about 57.1% of players have it. Whether the counter is per-run or cumulative is unverified.

Official badge description: "Unlock your first door." Doors gate progress between rooms, so this comes naturally as you play — about 94.7% of players have unlocked one. The exact mechanism of the first locked door is community-reported but unverified.

Official badge description: "You played Shred the Secrets!" It is awarded the moment you join the game, so effectively every player owns it (about 100% earn rate, over 5.3 million awards).

Official badge description: "Shred your first stack of paper." The Room 1 tutorial walks you straight into it — grab documents, crank the shredder, done — which is why about 100% of players have earned it.

Official badge description: "Buy your first upgrade." Spend any amount of in-run cash on the Skill Tree (Shred Amount, Carry Amount and so on) and it pops — about 100% of players have it.

Official badge description: "Shred 100 stacks of paper." The counter is cumulative across runs, so normal play gets you there quickly — about 100% of players have earned it.