The hidden bonuses behind the kiosks
IGTAP's visible upgrade economy runs on kiosks: spend watts to add clones, raise clone speed and size tiers, boost course rewards, and eventually convert power into atoms. Alongside that official menu, the courses themselves hide secret upgrades — bonus pickups placed off the obvious path that reward exploration and precise platforming rather than raw watt income.
Two Steam achievements confirm this system exists. Not all those who wander are lost unlocks for finding a single secret upgrade, while Definitely not lost requires finding all of them. The gap between the two unlock rates — 92.1% versus 1.1% — is the clearest possible signal that the first pickup is nearly impossible to miss while the complete set is a genuine endgame collection challenge.
| Achievement | Unlock rate | Official description |
|---|---|---|
| Not all those who wander are lost | 92.1% | Find a secret upgrade |
| Definitely not lost | 1.1% | Find all secret upgrades |
What the community calls hidden bonuses
Players of the free web build on galaxy.click described "all the secret bonus upgrades hidden across the map" in detail. One commenter specifically mentioned nearly tearing their hair out on "the highest one on the far right" of a course, a pickup that demanded a movement technique they had not yet internalised — a dash wall jump, performed by wall-jumping the instant the dash touches the wall to launch straight up.
The same player highlighted a design nicety worth knowing before you hunt: hard secret bonuses can be revisited later. A pickup that is brutal at an early stage can be collected far more comfortably once you have unlocked additional movement abilities, so nothing is missable in a permanent sense — you can always come back with more power and better tech.
MaybeNotHex's video "IGTAP Tutorial: Every Hidden Upgrade/Easter Egg" walks through the secret and hidden upgrades found in the demo version, and defaultt67's "IGTAP: all secrets" covers similar ground. Exact counts and effects for the full Steam release are not officially documented, so treat video inventories as community reports tied to the version each creator played.
Why the first one is so easy to find
With 92.1% of players earning the first secret upgrade, the opening hidden bonus functions more like a tutorial for the game's secret philosophy than a real challenge. It teaches you that courses have off-route space worth probing: dead-end corridors, high ledges above the recorded clone path, and alcoves near hazards.
That lesson pays compounding interest. IGTAP's core loop already rewards shaving seconds off your course times, because your clones replay your recorded route to generate power. Secret upgrades sit naturally inside that loop — the same exploration that finds hidden bonuses also reveals shortcuts that make your recorded runs faster.
How players hunt the full set
The community-reported approach to Definitely not lost is methodical rather than lucky. Creators and commenters suggest sweeping every course edge-to-edge once your movement toolkit is complete — wall jump, dash, double jump, block polarity swap, teleporters, zip movers, and the omni-dash all open doors that were sealed on your first pass.
The polarity swap deserves special mention. Player comments on the web build noted that certain spike colours could not be passed at all without it, and the developer confirmed one late course was effectively unenterable in the demo for exactly that reason. If a secret upgrade sits behind hazard-gated traversal, unlocking every movement ability is a hard prerequisite.
Because a pickup can require movement tech you gain late, many players do two sweeps: a casual pass early for anything obvious, then a completionist pass after finishing the main progression. That second pass is where the 1.1% earn their icon.
Secret upgrades and the rest of the hidden content
Hidden bonus pickups are only one layer of IGTAP's secrets. The same exploration mindset that finds them also leads to the facility escape and the dark overgrown garden beyond it, to the community-documented bonus level, and eventually to the B-Side challenge content. The secrets overview page in this section maps all of those, and the achievements pages list every unlock tied to hidden content.
If your only goal is the completionist icon, plan for the full sweep to happen after You win! and the Vman courses, since late movement abilities unlock the awkward placements. If your goal is simply a richer run, start peeking into every alcove from your very first course — the game clearly wants you to wander.