Bobby's Daycare Progression Guide: Every Completion Milestone and What to Aim for Next

Quick answer

Bobby's Daycare marks its completion milestones with four badges — The New Janitor!, Complete Your First Night!, Complete Chapter 1! and Nightmare Survivor — a ladder that runs from new hire to the rarest badge in the game, which requires surviving 5 nights on nightmare difficulty.

• Just started? The New Janitor! is the entry rung — essentially every player holds it.
• Next goal: Complete Your First Night! — get the whole crew through Night 1 and out the safe zone before the countdown ends.
• After that: Complete Chapter 1! — held by about 9% of players at the time of writing, the first milestone most runs never reach.
• Final current milestone: Nightmare Survivor — survive 5 nights on nightmare difficulty. Only a handful of players had earned it when these numbers were checked.

Bobby's Daycare doesn't hide its endgame: every completion milestone in the game is a badge, so the badge list doubles as a progression roadmap. The four badges sit in a clear order, and their earn rates show exactly where the difficulty spikes — the first two sit at 100% earn rates, Chapter 1 drops to 9.3%, and Nightmare Survivor was held by fewer than ten players when these numbers were checked. Counts move as more people play, so treat the numbers here as a snapshot; the badges page keeps the current list.

The four completion milestones

Data table

Data table

Badge	What it marks	Earned by (snapshot)
The New Janitor!	Welcome newbie, get ready to clean.	~146K players (100%)
Complete Your First Night!	First night shift unscathed.	~48K players (100%)
Complete Chapter 1!	How did you get this far?	~4.2K players (9.3%)
Nightmare Survivor	Survive 5 nights on nightmare difficulty.	5–9 players (~0%)

Read from top to bottom, the table is the whole endgame: the first two badges are effectively the onboarding experience, Chapter 1 is the first rung where the crowd thins out dramatically, and Nightmare Survivor is the game's current wall.

Milestone 1: The New Janitor!

The New Janitor! is the starting rung. Its description — "Welcome newbie, get ready to clean." — greets you as the newest employee at the daycare, and it arrived in the same 10/23/26 update as the first-night and chapter badges. In practice there is no challenge attached: about 146K players hold it, a 100% earn rate, so this rung is behind you almost as soon as you start playing. If everything else is still new — the chores, the map, staying alive — the beginner guide covers that first stretch.

Milestone 2: Complete Your First Night!

The badge reads "First night shift unscathed." — and knowing what a finished shift actually looks like is half the battle. Night 1 opens with an intro card (NIGHT 1 MONDAY - 12:00 AM), then a prompt to turn on the powerbox to start the shift. The work is a chore panel of five chores, with progress tracked per chore and per floor; chores pay cash along the way (a trash pickup is worth +$14), and glowing pickups grant batteries. A shift is also about staying unnoticed: broken glass makes sound, and when loud steps come close the game tells you to hide or stay quiet.

The ending is the part that matters for the badge. Once the chores are done, a glowing blue SAFE ZONE appears at the front door with a countdown attached. Get the whole crew inside before it runs out and the shift closes with NIGHT 1 COMPLETE - THE WHOLE CREW MADE IT OUT. That full-crew exit matches the badge's "unscathed" wording — everyone through the shift and out the door is what completing your first night looks like.

For a complete route through the shift, the first night walkthrough covers it step by step, and the stay-quiet guide goes deeper on the noise hazards.

Milestone 3: Complete Chapter 1!

Complete Chapter 1! — "How did you get this far?" — landed in the same 10/23/26 update as the first two badges, and it is the first real filter in the progression: roughly 4.2K players (9.3%) held it at the time of writing, against about 48K for the first-night badge. That gap tells the story — finishing Night 1 does not finish Chapter 1. The chapter has its own completion badge, and most runs stop somewhere between the two. Keep playing through the chapter's shifts until the run is complete and the badge pops; the Chapter 1 walkthrough follows that route.

This milestone also comes with a reason to re-check your badge list later: a "CHAPTER 2! BENNY'S ENTERTAINMENT!" update was listed as upcoming, scheduled for 11/14/26 at 20:00 UTC. If it ships as planned, a second chapter milestone may exist after this snapshot — the updates page is the place to confirm what shipped.

Milestone 4: Nightmare Survivor

Nightmare Survivor is the current finish line: survive 5 nights on nightmare difficulty. The badge's own description sets the scale — "Survived 5 nights on nightmare, you basically did the impossible." It was added 10/29/26 and had between five and nine earners when trackers were checked, which makes it both the rarest badge in the game and the hardest milestone currently in it. The skills the earlier milestones teach — clearing chores quickly, staying quiet around hazards, the timed safe-zone exit — are exactly what a five-night nightmare run leans on. The five nightmare nights page breaks down that run, and the core habits in the survival guide apply throughout.

What to aim for next

The milestones stack into a clear ladder, so after any one of them the next goal is the same:

• Just started, or hold The New Janitor!: aim for Complete Your First Night! — one clean shift with the whole crew out the safe zone.
• First night done: aim for Complete Chapter 1! — the first-night badge is one shift, the chapter badge is the full run, and this is where most tracked players currently stop.
• Chapter 1 done: Nightmare Survivor is the only badge beyond it right now — five survived nights on nightmare difficulty, held by fewer than ten players at the time of writing.
• After the scheduled Chapter 2 update (11/14/26): re-check the badge list in game; a new chapter milestone may have been added.

Do paid skips count toward the badges?

The shop sells Skip Day (listed at R$ 39), Skip Spin (R$ 9) and Skip All Days tiers from R$ 70 for two days up to R$ 275 for seven, and buying your way past the early nights is tempting. What is not established is whether a skipped night still counts toward the night and chapter badges. If you are chasing these milestones, do not assume skipping counts — treat skips as a convenience outside badge runs, or test one cheap skip before spending on the full set. The developer products page lists the whole range.