Beginners' Guide

What I wish I knew before Chapter 5 — from my early run, not wiki.

Full route: Hub.

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• Start settings
• Movement & combat
• Pencil & healing
• Shop & upgrades

Start settings

1. New game, Normal, Mercenary — what I picked. I played the demo before and had fun; the dev sent me the full game early.

Start menu

Movement & combat

Chapter 1 facility, before first mini-boss:

1. Left shift = kick, F = flashlight, space in air = double jump. Triple jump works too.

2. Combine slide, jump, and dash to progress through the facility.

3. Keep freezer temp low — if not, things wake up.

4. Kick enemies into the freezer to deal with them.

5. Hide somewhere and wait until your manager contacts you.

6. Fight enemies using kicks and combos. Use the combo meter to track hits. I really like the combat in this game.

7. Jump on enemies to deal damage and stun them.

8. Use objects to build barricades and block enemy paths.

Pencil & healing

Chapter 3, vault 666, Object 808 — run changes here. Bombs auto-regen now and erasing corpses = heal, so in fight I erase a lot.

1. Use X to draw, throw a bomb, and V to erase corpses to heal yourself. You can also draw a cool S and add your own images. This is going to be OP. I remember being able to draw bombs.

Draw bomb

Erase corpses to heal

2. Bombs now automatically regenerate over time; no need to manually sharpen them. In the demo you had to sharpen bombs to get more; now they auto-regen, which is a nice change.

3. Erase corpses to restore health. Low on health, erase bodies first when low.

4. Pick up a gun; it has infinite ammo in this version. There used to not be infinite ammo in the demo.

Shop & upgrades

1. Blue button = items, red = upgrades. Buy the prop jump upgrade to pick up objects. I'm so glad I got the prop thing.

Shop — blue items, red upgrades

2. At the shop, buy upgrades. Purchase bombs manual regen speed and bombs auto.

Prop jump from Ch1 shop = pick up objects for barricades. I glad I bought early — genau worth it.