Find the birds on furniture, ledges and room fixtures
Playrooms has 20 collectible Sparrows spread across the Playroom, Waiting Area, Backrooms, Poolroom, School, Office and Hotel; use the checklist below to inspect each hiding place and collect the bird through its interaction. For a missing final Sparrow, start with the display above Ball Pit 6, the School locker and projector classroom, and raised furniture in the Office and Hotel.
Sparrow totals by area
| Area | Sparrows |
|---|---|
| Playroom | 4 |
| Waiting Area | 2 |
| Backrooms | 3 |
| Poolroom | 2 |
| School | 2 |
| Office | 3 |
| Hotel | 4 |
Collect each Sparrow and track the pickup
- Approach the visible Sparrow and look for its Collect interaction. Inspect the bird itself rather than continuing to collect the surrounding balls.
- Use Collect on the Sparrow. Confirm the interaction before treating that hiding place as a completed pickup.
- Open stats.exe → Overview → Progress on the starting computer after your first rescue. This records your collected Sparrow total.
- Mark the actual pickup in your own checklist. Keep a separate note for a place you inspected without finding a bird, so those visits do not become mistaken pickups.
Sparrows do not chirp before you pick them up, so search by sight. Cleaning every loose ball can still leave a bird behind, and the ball-finding display does not mark their exact positions. Give furniture tops, seats and shelves a separate inspection after looking at the floor.
Complete Sparrow location checklist
The Hotel search leads below use rooms 005, 137, 202 and 716, recorded in a guide's playthrough. Guest-room positions vary, so read the door plates instead of memorizing corridor turns. Players have also reported finding birds on later visits, making a return visit worthwhile when your Hotel checklist remains short.
| Area and landmark | Where to look and collect |
|---|---|
| Playroom — light-blue round stool | Inspect the upper surface of the large circular stool among the central play equipment. Look directly at the perched bird and use Collect. |
| Playroom — tall pink padded block | Find the tall pink rectangular block beside the yellow block. Inspect its top, changing your viewing position if the structure hides the bird. |
| Playroom — padded rim of Ball Pit 6 | Check the top of the pink padded border surrounding the pit. Collect this bird separately from the bird perched on the display above it. |
| Playroom — display above Ball Pit 6 | Look upward from beside the pit. The Sparrow sits on top of the black ball-count display, above the green digital counter. |
| Waiting Area — middle hallway chair | Inspect the chair seating in the middle hallway near the Gramophone door. Move beside the chairs so their seats are clearly visible. |
| Waiting Area — back of the left hallway | Search the chair at the back of the left hallway. Use your flashlight to inspect the seating in the darker part of the area. |
| Backrooms — chair beneath the wall clock | Find the yellow room containing a wall clock. Inspect the seat of the wooden chair directly beneath that landmark. |
| Backrooms — wooden counter ledge | Search the yellow room with the wooden counter and nearby loose balls. Raise your view to the counter ledge above the floor clutter. |
| Backrooms — chair beneath the cat picture | Locate the room with the cat picture, then inspect the wooden chair underneath it. The chair is the bird's hiding place. |
| Poolroom — railing beside the green slide | Inspect the railing beside the green slide for the perched Sparrow. Check the rail itself before moving your search up to the slide. |
| Poolroom — top of the green slide | Look toward the slide's upper edge above the pool deck. Change position if necessary to bring the bird into view from below. |
| School — thirteenth right-side locker near the principal | Open the indicated red locker and inspect its upper shelf. Look inside the locker carefully before returning to the corridor. |
| School — dark projector classroom | Search the wooden desks and benches in the dark classroom or projector room. Use your flashlight to check the furniture surfaces. |
| Office — first dark leather couch | Inspect the top of the couch's backrest near the Office entrance or adjoining hallway. Raise your view above the seating surface. |
| Office — third monitor in an early right-hand computer row | Look along the top of the indicated computer monitor. Inspect the monitor's upper edge when checking the cubicle desks. |
| Office — blue chair near the Feeding Bowl | Inspect the seats in the room containing blue rolling chairs. Confirm the Sparrow pickup separately from collecting the nearby office decoration. |
| Hotel — reported room 005 | Use the door number as a search lead. Inspect wooden tables and raised furniture for a visible Sparrow, then confirm it with Collect. |
| Hotel — reported room 137 | Check raised furniture when you find this numbered guest room. Record an actual bird pickup separately from simply inspecting the room. |
| Hotel — reported room 202 | Inspect the guest room's tables and other raised furniture. Use Collect if the bird is present, and note whether you completed the interaction. |
| Hotel — reported room 716 | Search the numbered room's raised furniture and collect any visible Sparrow. Consider another visit if Hotel birds remain missing. |
Check Hotel furniture separately from the cleaning schedule
Useful Hotel furniture landmarks include a wooden table beside a bed and another wooden table beside a chair. Inspect the tabletops even when balls cover much of the room. Keep Sparrow pickups separate from the Cleaning Schedule, because crossing off a room records ball cleanup rather than rescuing its bird.
Recover the Sparrow you missed
If your total is 19, return to Ball Pit 6 before searching distant corridors again. Its pink padded rim and the black count display above it hold separate birds. Checking the rim leaves the display above it still to inspect.
Next, revisit the School locker shelf, the dark classroom furniture, Office monitor tops and rolling chairs, and the Hotel's tables. In the Poolroom, inspect both the railing and the upper slide; in the Waiting Area, check both hallway chair locations. When searching the School, walk through its corridors, where sprinting is prohibited.
Confirm the full set with All the chirps
Rescuing your first bird unlocks First sparrow, while collecting all 20 unlocks All the chirps. Check your total in stats.exe and the achievement's status on Steam after the final pickup. Sparrow collection is optional for the normal ending, so you can pursue the remaining birds as a separate completion goal.