Sneaky Sasquatch – Game Review & Progress

Screenshot from the game Sneaky Sasquatch. The Sasquatch character is a creature that is entirely hairy apart from his bare feet, hands and face. On his face are 2 black dots for eyes and two small white fangs sticking up out of his mouth. Standing on two feet like a human, he is dressed in a smart black suit with a white shirt, a large black top hat, and a white sash across his chest with the word Mayor on it. He's also wearing headphones connected to a portable cassette player that is hooked on to one side of his outfit. He is standing in a large house that has an open plan living area, with a door leading to a small bedroom. The living area includes a fireplace, a kitchen with fridge and oven, a table with a radio on it and 4 chairs around it, a computer with a game of Solitaire on the screen, a TV, and a dog bowl with a small brown dog standing nearby. The bedroom has a double bed, a small round dog bed and a wardrobe. There are also a couple of framed pictures on the walls, of a snow-topped mountain range and a fish.

Now that I have more time on my hands, since leaving work to become a full-time carer, I’ve been getting back into video games as one of various ways to keep myself entertained. And I’ve started with Apple Arcade, seeing as I own a Mac and was able to use a special offer of 3 months for the price of 1. I played a few games on there during lockdown in 2020, but then stopped and have only recently taken another look at it.

My initial assumption was that I would just write relatively short reviews in my monthly Favourites posts, as I’ve done with other titles previously. But I’m currently playing a game that is absolutely massive in scope and has been keeping me busy for a few months already, so it warrants a post of its own to do it justice. I will move on to try other titles in due course, but I want to see how much of this one I can complete first.

The game in question is called Sneaky Sasquatch. It was one of the original launch titles on Apple Arcade back in 2019, but it’s still getting updates and high ratings now. So I thought I’d take a look to see what all the fuss is about, and it is indeed very addictive. There are some aspects I can’t do very well or at all because of my limited eyesight, but on the whole it’s a lot of fun.

I’m therefore going to share my general thoughts about the game here, along with a more in-depth look at the progress I’ve been making on the various tasks and missions you can do, which I’ll keep updated every so often. None of this is sponsored or connected with the developers in any way, so all opinions are my own, and I hope you enjoy!

Contents

Review

Sasquatch

In the game, you play a small hairy creature called Sasquatch who has a house near a camping ground, and is friends with some of the local animals. To begin with you have to sneak around the campground, avoiding the attention of visitors and the ranger, to steal food, make a bit of money and complete some tasks. But as you progress in the game, the wider world becomes available to you, with a bustling town centre, race tracks, a ski resort, a farm, an island and more. And you can get various disguises to roam more safely and do various jobs.

As you play, you also have to be mindful to keep Sasquatch fed, as his hunger meter gradually ticks down. He’s not at all fussy about what he eats though, so you can easily steal food from all sorts of places and also go fishing. Plus you can sell excess food to local bears or give specific items to a few people who ask for them. And in terms of health, Sasquatch can also get injured if he’s hit by traffic, burned while firefighting, knocked over by a tree he’s cut down, etc.

He’ll also indicate when he’s tired at the end of the day, at which point you’ll need to get him to bed, or give him some energy drinks if you need him to stay awake a bit longer. You can send him to bed earlier if you want though, which can be handy to quickly jump to the next day. The 24-hour in-game day passes by at about 1 hour every 40 seconds from our perspective, and several tasks, items and secrets are connected with the time of day in the game, so you will need to get the digital watch for your character at some point.

He’ll never die though, and the game never ends. If he doesn’t eat or sleep in time, he’ll just fall unconscious and wake up at home, having been rescued by his raccoon friend. And if he gets too severely injured, he’ll wake up recovered in hospital. So it’s not the end of the world, it’s just very inconvenient if you’re in the middle of doing something. It’s therefore best to keep him fed and safe, which takes very little effort anyway.

Explorations

While the game does have a big story mode, which itself is very engaging, you’re also free to explore and interact with the massive open world environment at your leisure. It’s abundant with secrets to find, people to meet, tasks to do, games to play, sports to compete in, vehicles to drive, jobs to get, money to earn, etc. Some of it is necessary to get through the story, but most of it is just for fun. There are badges you can earn for completing certain tasks and missions, and various other targets you can aim for.

The money you get can be spent on food (although it’s easier to steal it), clothing, vehicles, home improvements, construction projects, items in town, bus and ferry tickets, and much more, as well as being used to open a bank account (which you need later in the story) and invest in a couple of businesses (which then earn you passive income every day). Sasquatch can also rent a home in town and stay in a few other places on the map, if you want him to have close access to other areas. And he can even get a dog, which he can feed, stroke and clean up after, and it will learn new tricks and abilities if you show it enough affection.

So it’s easy to get very absorbed in it all, as you explore the world to see what you can find. The developers are still expanding it as well, with the recent introduction of a new bird sanctuary in September, so it’ll be interesting to see what else they come up with in the future.

Accessibility

The game is entirely visual, so you do need a reasonable degree of eyesight to play it – which thankfully I do, although I have to be careful not to play for too long at once, which is easier said than done when you get sucked into it!

Even the dialogue isn’t spoken, although given the sheer number of characters in the game it’s not entirely surprising. Instead, speech is shown using captions, which I find very easy to read for the most part, because they consist of white text on a dark tinted background. I like the way they sometimes emphasise words by making the letters shake a bit as well, without doing it too much. Many key words are displayed in red though, which are harder to focus on against the dark background because of the reduced contrast. So it takes more effort to read those elements, but I have plenty of time to zoom in on things if need be, because you have to tap on the keyboard or click the mouse to reveal the next line of dialogue. And once you’ve played the game for a while, you know what some things say without having to read them anyway.

A screenshot from the game Sneaky Sasquatch. The title character is facing an animal called Hungry Duck, who is saying I can't stop thinking about Steak, can you bring me one? Most of the dialogue is displayed in white in a very dark tinted box, so it contrasts clearly. However, the word Steak is in red to emphasise it, which doesn't show up quite so clearly against the dark background.

I’ve also been able to complete a lot of the activities in the game, which I’m glad about, even if some require more intense concentration than others. Indeed, it’s testament to the design of the game that many of the tasks are enjoyably challenging without feeling frustratingly unachievable. It’s good when failing at something in a game leaves you with the sense that you know you can do it, and you’re keen to get better at it, rather than wanting to throw your computer out of the window in annoyance.

There are still things I can’t do well or at all of course, particularly the faster races or some other tasks that require a lot of speed and accuracy, so I won’t be able to earn every single achievement. But that’s fine, as so much of the game is optional that you can specialise in whatever areas you fancy and ignore others without consequence. So I’m not upset about the things I can’t do, because most of the game is still playable for me, including everything required for the story. Just like in real life, I’ve found I can still enjoy myself a great deal in this virtual world despite my limitations.

I’m therefore really enjoying it overall, because it’s very flexible with a wealth of possibilities for gameplay. I love the free-roaming nature of it all, the wide variety of quests and tasks, the cute animation, the humorous dialogue, and the music by A Shell In The Pit and scntfc (which is available on the Volume 1 & Volume 2 soundtrack albums). It all comes together really nicely.

My Progress

Overview

As of 4 October 2026, I have 56 out of 80 badges (70%).

To keep things up to date, and give more of an insight into the activities in the game, I’m going to review the things that I’ve done and still need to do so far. I am sometimes using online walkthroughs and Youtube videos to help me find secrets I would never have spotted otherwise, or to guide me on a few of the tasks, but I’m trying to do as much as possible by myself. I’ll keep this section updated every so often as I go along.

Badges are linked to the Achievements system in Apple’s Game Center, so are the big things worth aiming for. In the game you redeem them at the Racoon Club near your home, where they’re added to a book and can be used to get camping accessories once you’ve earned enough of them. I reckon I can get at least 60 of them altogether, but there are some I know I can’t get.

Screenshot from the game Sneaky Sasquatch, showing an open book with 8 badges that have been earned. These have been awarded for completing chapter 4, earning the lowest and highest promotions as a Paramedic, Doctor and Delivery Driver, and completing 50 fares as a Taxi Driver. Each badge has a relevant design, such an ambulance for the Senior Paramedic, or a stethoscope and a white shirt for the Junior Head Doctor.

Local Tasks

The first 6 badges can all be achieved in the local area around the campground quite easily, so I have them all. You get one automatically on your first day. There are 3 available for helping the talking fish in the pond by your home, the bear by the lake and the duck in the RV Park. You get another for causing an explosion in the cave, which is off a path next to the RV Park and requires a torch to enter. And you get a badge for completing the little maze on the south side of the lake.

Story

There is a story mode at the heart of the game, with 4 distinct chapters, and that in itself is very good. I won’t spoil anything about it, but I’m happy to say that I was able to complete it, to earn all 4 badges. There were only a couple of occasions where I had to get a bit of help online because of things I’d missed or hadn’t seen clearly. Defeating the final boss takes a fair amount of concentration because he keeps you on your toes, but it gets easier as you learn how he moves and what you need to do, so I was able to win after a reasonable number of attempts.

Emergency Services

I’ve gained all the promotions in all the emergency services roles. For the police there’s no achievement badge, as getting promoted is part of the story anyway. But for the paramedic, doctor and firefighter roles, I have the 2 badges for getting the lowest and highest ranks in each case.

  • Police – This is quite a varied job. You have to be quick off the mark to catch speeding vehicles, but as long as you can get your siren on as you follow them, they’ll then slow down. And when it comes to checking under the hoods you can just stop any random people to see if they have anything hidden away.
  • Paramedic – This isn’t too bad once you get used to the sequence of events in each dispatch. Provided you can get to the patient’s location in time (which is easy if you know the way), it’s not essential to complete the remaining tasks within their time limits. You just lose a bit of pay if you’re late, that’s all. Being visually impaired, it’s hard for me to do things really quickly, so not having to worry about the time too much is really good.
  • Doctor – So far this is my favourite job, as you’re guided through everything by the hospital computer, you don’t have to travel anywhere, there are no time limits on treating each patient, and the pay is pretty decent. I can easily earn over 2,000 coins in a day doing this, now I’m getting the highest salary.
  • Firefighter – This takes a lot of perseverance and patience, as I find it very frustrating at times. In particular, it’s really hard to see what I’m doing when there’s dark smoke obscuring the view inside buildings, and it can be difficult to see where all the fires are if they’re obscured by plants or furniture. So it’s taken me a long time and a lot of concentration to complete some of the call-outs, and the longer you take, the more the fires spread. There are several I’ve had to abandon as a result, and a few cases where Sasquatch has ended up in hospital as I couldn’t get him out to refresh his oxygen. Thankfully the severity of each fire is random, so if I’m assigned a Level 5 mission at any time, or Level 4 when it’s late in the day, then I just ignore it, as the number of fires to put out is impossibly large. However, because I can do some of the missions, I have persisted with the job to earn all the promotions and the fire station upgrades. Getting the fire axe is particularly useful to chop down trees, so the Sawmill can convert it into free lumber for your construction projects, which saves a lot of money. The job also pays really well, especially when you’ve got the highest promotion and the top bonus pay percentage. But I won’t be doing any more fire jobs now, as there are much easier ways for me to earn money.
Screenshot from the game Sneaky Sasquatch. The title character is in the hospital diagnosis room, dressed as a doctor with a white shirt and a stethoscope. He is also wearing headphones connected to a portable cassette player, and has a backpack on. He is facing the Head Doctor, who is saying Hello Junior Head Doctor Glen, do you want to take over my shift? The job title and name in that sentence are in red, while the rest is in white. There are tick and cross buttons below the question. Nearby in the room, a patient is sitting on the bed, and there is a computer with a virtual doctor on screen giving instructions for what to do.

Driving Jobs

I’m fully promoted in all the driving jobs in the game:

  • Delivery Driver – I have both badges for getting the lowest and highest ranks. If you like driving around the map, this is pretty easy and pays a good amount of money too. You do have to deliver things by a certain time, so you need the watch to keep track, but you don’t usually have to rush unless you’re picking up something late in the day. While I now have my own delivery van, I’ve also added a delivery decal to my super car in the garage, so I can use that as an even faster delivery vehicle as well.
  • Taxi Driver – I have the two badges for completing 50 fares and getting my own taxi cab after earning an average rating of at least 4 out of 5 stars. Once you sign up for the job you can use almost any vehicle to pick people up, so doing 50 fares in itself is easy. Getting a decent rating, however, requires a bit of care, as customers will dock your score if you hit anything or drive erratically. It’s worth it though, as having your own taxi then allows you to pick up multiple fares at once.
  • Ferry Captain – I have the two badges for completing a ferry route as the substitute captain, and then completing 15 trips to get the ferry captain disguise, which allows you to ride it for free. This is very easy, once you’ve got the ocean map from the island and learnt the general layout, as you just steer the ferry off screen and then select the destination from the map that pops up. I did all the required trips over two days. The only frustrating thing is that if you want to drive the ferry yourself (e.g. to transport lumber and visitors when you’re developing the island campground), you have to go to the island first and tell the captain there, who will then unlock it at the marina for you the next morning. That gives you a full day to do what you need to do, then the next day you have to repeat the process by asking the captain if you want to drive it again. So you can only really drive the ferry every other day. It’s not worth driving it just to get money though, as it doesn’t pay a lot per trip. And you can buy much faster boats if you want to zoom around the ocean and up the river by yourself.

Other Jobs

I’ve got the highest promotions in nearly all the other jobs in the game:

  • Office Worker – Again, working here is part of the story, so it doesn’t earn a badge in itself. It’s pretty easy though, as you have to deliver mail, pop out to buy things, fix computers and attend meetings. Eventually you get to play golf with the boss, and the good thing there is that it doesn’t matter if you beat his score or not, as that’s not the point. You get paid a reasonable amount of money for each office job you do, but working elsewhere can earn you much more.
  • Port – I have the badge for getting all of the promotions across the 3 jobs at the port. The security job was the hardest for me, as it was impossible to see things on the cameras. I soon learned to just go out and drive around the port instead to spot intruders, as it was much easier that way. Operating the crane is also rather fiddly, in terms of lining it up to pick things up and drop stuff off correctly, so I was glad of the large icons popping up when I was on target. The forklift job is easier in terms of lining things up, but it’s the only vehicle where you can’t use the keyboard to drive it, so you have to use the mouse, which is more awkward. So they all have their difficult aspects, but I persevered and completed them all. Owning your own forklift is quite useful for transporting a large amount of logs to the sawmill to be turned into lumber. I know it’s possible to do a heist at the port to steal crates as well, but I know I would struggle to do that as you really need your wits about you, so I don’t plan on trying it. There’s no badge for that anyway.
  • Farmer – I’ve done the tutorial for this out of curiosity so far, but haven’t tried to do any actual farming beyond that yet. I’ve just been too busy focusing on other elements of the game, as the farm is quite well tucked away to the very east of the landscape. I will give it a proper go in due course though, to see how many of Grandma’s stars I can earn.

Collecting

There are various things you can collect in the game, but I haven’t got everything yet:

  • Vehicles – I have 22 out of the 26 possible vehicles I can own, and a badge is available if I can get them all.
  • Disguises – I currently have 23 out of the 31 disguises that Sasquatch can wear, and a badge can be earned for all of those too.
  • Dinosaur Bones – I’ve got the two badges for finding the first dinosaur bone and then all the rest, for the exhibit in the museum (which I’ve also successfully built for another badge). You need to have the dog for this, and just take him everywhere you go while doing other things all over the map. It’ll take several days but he’ll track them all down eventually, alerting you when he smells treasure to dig up in the current area. When you tell him to search, he’ll sniff around and point in the direction you need to go within the current area, but his paw is very small, which makes it hard to see sometimes, so I just go by the general direction he’s facing. When he’s eventually led you to the correct spot, he’ll loosen the earth so you can dig it up. And if you’re really lucky, it might be something even more valuable than a dinosaur bone.
  • Mushrooms – I have the first badge for getting the foraging tools, so that I can collect mushrooms for the mushroom hunter. But I haven’t found them all yet, which would get me the second badge, and my dog would then learn to sniff out truffles. I have 25 out of 29, so I’m not too far off. Some are quite hard to find though, as they don’t spawn very often or are well hidden, but I’ve actually been able to buy a couple of varieties by monitoring the shopping channel on the TV in my house each day. And I have already found enough to get all the hunter’s sticks of dynamite, which I’ve used to open up the shortcuts along the river and the cave on the island. It’s very amusing to me that the hunter is visually impaired, mistaking the dynamite for scented candles! It sounds like the sort of thing I’d do! And in general, it’s always well worth picking up any mushrooms you come across on your travels, as there’s no limit on how many you can carry in your basket, and he’ll buy all of them off you for a decent rate, even if they’re varieties you’ve given him before. It’s amazing how fast the money accumulates.
  • Fishing – So far I’ve caught 20 out of 24 species of freshwater fish and 7 out of 24 varieties of saltwater fish, and given them to their respective fishermen. I haven’t focused too heavily on completing this yet, but my aim is to get the Fish Finder to help me track down all the other varieties I need. Unlike the mushrooms, the fishermen won’t take any types of fish from you more than once, so any extra ones you can simply eat, sell to a bear, feed to the dog, put in the cooler on the island campground, etc.
  • Underwater Trash – I’ve earned the badge for fully upgrading the scuba gear by collecting waste from underwater. The more you upgrade, the longer you can stay submerged, enabling you to travel further and pick up more items. After you’ve completed the upgrades, the scuba shop owner will then pay you 8 coins for every item of waste you bring back, which doesn’t sound like much but it soon adds up. The smaller items are worth 1 point each and can be hard to spot, but a nice big icon pops up each time you pass over any item of waste, which you can then click on to collect it. Larger items are worth more though, the caveat being that they take Sasquatch a bit longer to tie them up and store them away. In any case, there’s no limit as to how much waste you can carry, as it doesn’t count towards the space in your backpack. It’s treated as a currency that you exchange for coins instead. So you can earn a lot of easy money this way, by taking waste from the ocean and other bodies of water. There are bonus food items you can stumble upon underwater occasionally too.
  • Cassette Tapes – Once you’ve acquired the portable cassette player and VR goggles from the arcade, you can find these tapes all over the place. They allow you to play any piece of music from the game, either by selecting a track yourself or letting the player shuffle them, and if he’s not moving around then Sasquatch will dance to it. Most can just be grabbed fairly easily, but some can only be found at specific times of day or if certain things happen. I have 54 out of the 57 tapes, and I know where the last 3 are. Two are related to holiday events, and the other requires me to do some farming work. So I will get them.
  • Friends – You can make friends with various characters in the game, by meeting up with them, feeding them and doing the activities they ask to take part in with you. You have to befriend 6 people as part of the story anyway, but there are many more. Currently I have 7 out of 65, as I haven’t tried to do many beyond the story yet, especially as there’s no badge available as an incentive. But I will try and complete that target anyway at some point, as I think you can still get special perks for befriending one or two people.
Screenshot from the game Sneaky Sasquatch. The title character, wearing a leather jacket, jeans and dark sunglasses, is standing among a collection of vehicles in parking spaces marked Reserved. They include a pickup track, golf cart, go kart, taxi cab and police car.

Treasure

There are tons of extra coins hidden away all over the game world, and I’ve found most of them, using online lists to locate the ones I couldn’t track down myself:

  • Pirate Treasure – I had to use a walkthrough to track this one down, but it was worth it for the reward, and the badge.
  • Secret Caches – I’ve opened 39 out of 40 of these (one of them being the pirate treasure). I know where the last box is, but it’s the one where you need to have one of every colour pepper, which requires me to do some farming to get the white one. Once I open it though, I’ll get the badge for doing them all.
  • Dig Spots – I’ve dug up 114 of the 116 dig spots according to the game, with a badge available for finding them all. I know that there will be one behind the greenhouse when I do enough farming to get that built, but I haven’t yet figured out where the other one is. I’ve gone through a whole list of the dig spots online, revisiting each of the locations, and I’m sure I’ve got all the others, but there must be one I’m overlooking, unless it’s another one that’s dependent on my farming skills. I’m sure I’ll get it in the end!
  • Bank Account – I’ve also got the badge for having 100,000 in my bank account. It didn’t take long to build up to that once I had the campground and spaghetti businesses earning income for me every day.

Photography

There are a few missions that involve taking lots of photos, most of which I’ve completed. I sometimes find you have to click on the camera frame first to move the keyboard focus to it, before you can then use the arrow keys to position it precisely. It’s extremely hard to see the white camera frame against the white background in the ski resort though – they really ought to switch it to something like black or red in that environment to make it easier.

  • Camera Club – I’ve got the badge for completing all 8 levels by taking all the specified photos. It’s quite a fun little challenge to work your way through them bit by bit. I had to use online walkthroughs to help me get a few of the pictures, but the vast majority I did by myself.
  • Newspaper – I’ve got the badge for creating a custom newspaper, which was only possible after completing the editor’s 41 photo requests. He asks you to take pictures of Sasquatch (i.e. yourself out of disguise) in various situations, not realising it’s you because you have to approach him while dressed up. Some of the scenarios can be quite tricky, especially when you have to capture yourself next to people, where you know the authorities will be called instantly. But if you plan the shot and your escape route or hiding place carefully you can get away with it. You can only do one photo request per day, so it takes a while to complete them, but you earn a nice bit of money for each picture you take, and over 41 requests it adds up to quite a lot.
  • Birdwatching – This is the big addition from the update they did in September 2026, which has added a new bird sanctuary. You can use the camera to take photos of birds around the game world and sell them to the sanctuary, earning funds which you can then use to expand the sanctuary further (for which you’ll need lumber too). The arrow on the sanctuary’s computer turns from white to black though, which makes it really hard to spot, unlike other computers in the game where it stays white. I’ve managed to get photos of 21 out of the 34 species of birds anyway, which is purely through luck at stumbling upon them. There’s no badge for getting them all, but I have got the birdwatching outfit. The slow motion filter on the camera makes it easier, along with the telephoto lens that covers a longer distance. It’s still hard to spot the birds sometimes though, as they’re usually very small or don’t stand out well from the background they happen to be against. Or if they’re flying, they’re very hard to capture even with slow motion enabled. I’ve managed to snap a few in the air, but luck’s played a big part in that, and it’s a lot simpler when they’re just standing around. So I will see how many more birds I can get, but I’ll stop if it gets too difficult to find them all.
Screenshot from the game Sneaky Sasquatch, showing the frame of the camera as it's being lined up to take a photograph of a small colourful bird on top of a sign in the bird sanctuary.

Arcade Games

I’ve somehow managed to beat all the video games, earn all 7 badges and claim all the prizes in the Arcade. The first badge you earn is simply for playing in there for the first time, then there are badges for winning each of the 4 games, and 2 other badges for finding particular secrets. What I also like is that the clock stops while you’re playing any of the games, so Sasquatch won’t try to fall asleep midway through a session.

  • Hurdle Jumper – This involves jumping over hurdles that come at you with increasing speed. So I’m rather surprised I did it, as I had to really concentrate hard to react in time as it got faster. I must have got into a good rhythm.
  • Parking Meter – This game requires you to park cars in increasingly difficult spots without touching any walls or other vehicles. I got stuck on Level 4, as the degree of accuracy required for the parallel parking was just too difficult. But fortunately there’s a cheat zone you can get to from the first level, and you get a bonus badge for finding it. It allows you to skip to later levels, including the final one (Level 9), which surprisingly is easier to complete. So I was able to win the game that way.
  • Super Quest – This is a little adventure game where you have to collect coins, health and armour in order to defeat the final enemy. I had to use a Youtube video to help with this, as I couldn’t work out what to do.
  • Arcade Simulator – This places you in a virtual arcade, where you have to play some nostalgic retro games on the ground floor and figure out how they connect to the rooms in the basement, so that you can activate the switches down there. The use of the joystick control is a bit fiddly and requires some intense concentration given the constant movement in the games, but I’m glad I was able to do it, and I was very proud of myself for working out how to complete the simulator without any help. However, I did need online assistance to get the bonus badge, which requires you to complete 4 additional requirements on top of winning the game (collecting the extra dollars, entering the secret room, washing my hands every time I use the toilet, and getting back upstairs before the final countdown ends). All in all it’s quite cleverly put together, and you earn a lot of prize tokens each time you complete it, so playing it through a few times is the best way to afford all the prizes from the store owner.

Computer Games

There are a few games you can play on a computer that Sasquatch buys for himself or on the Fire Chief’s computer, and I’ve won them all:

  • Virtual Bread – I’ve earned the badge for beating this. It’s an easy game in itself, as you just have to feed 25 loaves of bread to the duck on the screen. Acquiring the disc itself is much harder though, as you to have to get the VR goggles from the Arcade, and then collect all the coins from across the entire game world within a single real-life day, before they reset. So you have to be very systematic to ensure you explore everywhere outdoors (thankfully they’re never inside buildings). The Virtual Duck by your home will tell you how many are left, and will hint at where more can be found if you’re stuck. The ocean and river are particularly difficult, in terms of finding them all and trying to steer your boat to pick them up. Every virtual coin is added to Sasquatch’s real tally though, along with the hefty reward for winning the game and then selling the disc to the Virtual Bear, so you make a lot of money from it altogether.
  • Virtual Firefighter – I’ve got the badge for winning this game, and despite the name it doesn’t require the VR goggles. Instead, you get the disc from the firefighter watching TV, by changing the channel to 9 with the fire on screen and then talking to them. In the game you have to keep the campfire burning for 400 seconds by dragging logs on to it from the pile. You need to add them individually, waiting for each one to almost fully burn out before putting the next one on, to make it burn for as long as possible. It means you have to be quite patient for around 7 minutes in total, as you also have to wait for the fire to burn out completely after crossing the 400 mark to get your prize, but it’s worth it for the prize.
  • Solitaire – I’ve earned the badge for beating this game as well. This is a mock-up of the Solitaire game on Microsoft Windows, to the extent that it even does the bouncing cards animation when you win, which is a nice touch.

Sports & Races

This is where things get particularly tricky for me, as I’ve won some events but am unable to complete several others:

  • Beating The Pros – I’ve earned the 3 badges for beating the golf pro, ski pro and racing pro, who each offer you an individual challenge. They’re easy to beat with a little bit of practice, and one of them you have to beat for story purposes anyway.
  • Golfing – I’ve earned the badge for winning all the golf events, and miraculously also have the badge for getting a hole in one. Thankfully there’s no time limit on taking shots here, and you can be quite precise using the mouse, so I was able to concentrate and take each shot at my leisure, and I got used to aiming the ball fairly well.
  • Running Races – I’ve completed enough of the rabbit’s challenges to get the running shoes and earn the first badge. But I’m unable to complete the rest to get the sprinting shoes and the second badge. Each challenge requires you to run from one point to another in a very strict time limit, and without a disguise so you risk being spotted. So you have to take the most direct route without bumping into anything or being caught, and there’s no margin for error. I gave up on the sawmill race in the end, because it’s deliberately designed for a ranger to come at you, and getting past him is nigh on impossible, as I can’t react fast enough to dodge him. What makes it all the more frustrating is that when he does catch you, he takes you all the way back to the campground, so you have to travel all the way back to the sawmill again if you want another go. If he were to pop you back at the start of the sawmill entrance road, I might be inclined to have more attempts. But as it is, I’ve conceded defeat on that.
  • Driving Licenses – I’ve managed to get 5 out of the 6 licenses available at the race track, but the S license is beyond my capabilities. It gets increasingly hard to pass the driving tests, because you have to go round a track made of tiny cones in the car park, without touching any of them, and finish within a short time limit. It takes a lot of visual effort, and I don’t know how I managed to get as many as I did. But the final test is just too complicated with all the twists and turns you have to do.
  • Race Track – I’ve won 5 out of 8 events here, and some of those have required very intensive focus because of how fast you have to be. But I’ve found the drifting tests too difficult, and I can’t even attempt the Sasquatch 100 because I can’t get the S license, although trying to concentrate for 100 laps of the track would be too much for me anyway.
  • Dirt Track – I’ve managed to do 5 out of 7 events here, although I’m not entirely sure how, as it’s quite difficult, and I had to try some of them multiple times to get used to driving around the track. So I’ve gone as far as I feel I can there.
  • Animal Night Races – I haven’t attempted any of these yet. I will do, just to see what they’re like, but I suspect they might be quite difficult.
  • Boat Races – I was able to complete the first couple of events, but just like the road races things got too fast for me after that.
  • Skiing & Snowballing – I managed to win one skiing event somehow, but I’ve given up on anything beyond that. I just find it too difficult to compete in these contests because of the bright glare from the white snow, combined with the speed and accuracy required.
  • Surfing – I’ve had a little go at this, but it’s another sport I find very hard, so I’m not planning on doing any more of it.
Screenshot from the game Sneaky Sasquatch. It shows the title character near the fourth hole on the golf course, hitting the ball into the face of a spectator who exclaims Ouch in response.

Construction

There are various construction projects you can do to improve some of the environments in the game. Most of them require a lot of lumber as well as coins, but once you have the axe from the firefighting job you can cut down plenty of trees and have the Sawmill make it into lumber for free. Just don’t let anyone see you chopping them down, as they’ll call the police or the ranger on you. It’s quite funny to try taking the raw logs to the Construction Duck first though, because he freaks out at the idea of you destroying the environment.

So far I’ve earned the 5 badges for completing all the construction projects at Sasquatch’s home, building the snow cabin and Cone Zone that provide extra jump points on the map, getting the museum built, and putting the island campground together.

I’ve also funded 6 out of the 18 Mayor projects to alter the appearance of the town so far. It costs quite a lot to do everything, so I’m having to save up for the rest. It’s fun to be able to change the colours of buildings and street furniture though, and to expand the bus route. Putting the speed limit down to 10mph also makes it easy to steal any vehicle that’s driving along and reduces the risk of you getting run over when crossing roads, plus you don’t have to obey that limit when you’re driving either.

Businesses

There are a couple of business ventures you can help to build, which then earn a decent amount of passive income that you can go and collect. If I’d known how lucrative they would be, I’d have set them up earlier:

  • Island Campground – This is particularly profitable. Once you’ve ferried over the first few customers and got 5 entries in the guestbook, the Ferry Duck will then transport people there for you, providing you rent a billboard advertisement and visit the campground every day. You can just pop over there quickly at the end of each day, using the fast travel option on the ocean map, to grab the money from the safe and keep the cooler topped up with food (as the guests pay extra for that). Then you can use the other map to teleport home again.
  • Spaghetti Hotline – This is a good little business in town. You have to order from it yourself to begin with, and the inexperienced owner encounters various issues that you need to pay him to sort out. But once it’s fully up and running, it brings in good money each day that you can collect. You don’t have to visit every day, but the till can only hold a limited amount of cash, so you need to empty it every few days or so.

Animals

  • Pet Dog – I have the two badges for getting the dog and then teaching him every trick. I’ve called mine Freddie. To get the dog initially, you have to gain his trust by tracking him down and being affectionate towards him on several occasions, and eventually his owner will give him to you. Once you have him, you then have to feed and stroke him every day to build up his love meter, and each time he advances a level he’ll either learn a new trick, run a bit faster, or develop a new like or dislike for something. By level 11 he’ll have learned all the tricks and earned you the badge, but his love will keep growing beyond that if you keep looking after him. It’s nice to have him following you around, but sometimes you do have to tell him to go home so he doesn’t get in the way. I have a dog bowl at the house that I keep topping up with food though, so he can eat from that without me feeding him by hand. And you do of course have to clean up after him, especially if there are people nearby as they’ll call the police otherwise.
  • Mischievous Fox – I’ve earned the badge for completing all the dares for the fox. He pops up at various locations and the tasks are quite fun to do.
Screenshot from the game Sneaky Sasquatch. It shows a close-up of a brown and white dog, smiling as Sasquatch's hand strokes the top of his head. Above him is the name Freddie. At the top left of the screen is a heart shape divided into 6 sections, with small red hearts emanating from it as the sections fill up with red. There is a number 22 in the centre, to signify the level of affection that has been reached. At the top right of the screen is a circle divided into six sections, all filled with a green colour, next to an icon of a knife and fork, indicating that the dog has had enough to eat.

Holidays

There are special Halloween and Christmas events that take place in the game as well, and you can get badges by winning all the prizes in each one. They automatically happen during the relevant periods of the year, but you can also pay for them to take place at any other time by finding one of the Jacks in the caves. I’ve also been able to acquire some extra Halloween sweets and Christmas candy canes via the shopping channel on the TV, so I’ve stored them away ready for the next time I do these events.

  • Halloween – I’ve had a little go at this already, and won 4 out of the 12 prizes so far. To get the rest, I may as well wait for the celebrations to happen automatically in October now it’s not far away. Apparently it runs from October 21 to November 1.
  • Christmas – I haven’t had a proper go at this yet, and as it takes place in the ski resort I’m assuming the events will be harder for me to complete, for the same reason I can’t do the skiing and snowballing easily. I gather it automatically takes place from December 15 to January 1, but I might trigger it sooner than that to see what it’s like.

Conclusion

As you can see, there’s a huge amount going on in Sneaky Sasquatch, and there are plenty of things I still want to do if I can manage it:

  • Open the last secret cache.
  • Unearth the final dig spots.
  • Acquire as many disguises as I can.
  • Own as many vehicles as I can.
  • Catch all the species of fish.
  • Collect all the mushrooms.
  • Get all the cassette tapes.
  • Fund all the Mayor’s projects.
  • Photograph more of the birds.
  • Try the animal night races.
  • Win all the holiday prizes.
  • Make friends with everyone.
  • Earn Grandma’s stars on the farm.

I never expected to get so drawn into it, but I understand why it’s so popular now. There are limitations as to how much I can complete with my level of eyesight, but I accept that, and I’m delighted that there’s still a vast array of things I can get involved with. So I’ll keep going for the time being and see how much more I can complete, and I’ll update this post every so often accordingly.

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Author: Glen

Love London, love a laugh, love life. Visually impaired blogger, carer, accessibility advocate, culture vulture and London explorer.

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