Defoliation Game Written Walkthrough Guide + Red Leaf Locations (Nintendo Switch)

writ­ten 6/13/26, updat­ed 6/17/26

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  • Pub­lished: COSEN
  • Devel­oped: Ris­ing Win Tech
  • Plat­form Played: Nin­ten­do Switch 2
  • Price: $1.99 MSRP: $9.99
  • Rat­ed: T (Blood, Vio­lence)
  • Genre: Adven­ture, Puz­zle, Sur­vival
  • Date Released: May 31, 2018

This is a puz­zle, adven­ture game set in Tai­wan. The con­trols are a bit clunky on the Switch, the trans­la­tion is not per­fect, and there’s a bit of a cul­tur­al gap. The east­ern-mind­ed puz­zles are dif­fer­ent from the west­ern-mind­ed ones I gen­er­al­ly play. I wrote this to help any­one who needs it (and also to help myself try to work through some of them), because there are zero walk­throughs any­where… In Eng­lish, at least. It’s rec­om­mend­ed to have a notepad or some way to write out the puz­zles to under­stand them bet­ter. I don’t 100% know how some of the answers are got­ten, but I did work through the ones that make sense to me.


Table of Con­tents

*Use the search func­tion (ctrl+f) or click on the links below to nav­i­gate the page


GAME START


Chapter 1: The Accident

  • Read the dia­logue
  • Choose: “Beg again and again”

Bad Ending 0: Nothing Happened

  • Choose: “I give up this time”

Chapter 2: The Cabin

  • Read dia­logue
  • Take Pot­ted Plant
  • Take Hand­ker­chief
  • Look at win­dow, read dia­logue, and take Iron Crow­bar
  • Look at red bricks, inspect the mid­dle upper one, get Red Bolt
  • Look at the shoe rack

Shoe Puzzle

Solve using Hand­ker­chief clue found

Solu­tion (click to expand)

Top Row: Blue slip­per, Yel­low boot, Green boot, Blue slip­per, Green slip­per, Red boot, Red slip­per, Yel­low slip­per

Bot­tom Row: Red boot, Blue boot, Green slip­per, Yel­low slip­per, Blue boot, Red slip­per, Green boot, Yel­low boot

  • Get Scis­sors and Red Bolt
  • Look at chair; Use Scis­sors; Get Red Bolt
  • Equip Pot­ted Plant and use it on the ground
  • Get Paper with Win­dow Graph­ic
  • Look at rug in front of the door
  • Click on the top left cor­ner, then use the Iron Crow­bar
  • Get Red Bolt
  • Look at the door

Lock Puzzle

Look at the win­dow. First, you have to solve this puz­zle to get the code for the door using the clues you’ve read and found:

  • Clock­wise
  • Loca­tion of num­bers to use
  • Mid­dle cir­cle of num­bers in win­dow indi­cates this is math-ori­ent­ed
  • Using the last dig­it
Solu­tion (click to expand)

Num­ber Code: 52351247

Add Red Bolt x4

  • Go inside

Chapter 3: The Old Lady

  • Read dia­logue
  • Take Green Leaf Bolt from tree on shelf
  • Look at the code input

Shelf Lock Puzzle

  • Look at books, read all of the titles and dia­logue
  • Look at the dec­o­ra­tive dish’s num­bers, ele­ments, and direc­tion­al nota­tions
  • Solve the code
Solu­tion (click to expand)

Num­ber Code: 2385

*Hon­est­ly, I have no idea how this is the answer. I think you have to know some­thing about Chi­nese his­to­ry and stuff, which I don’t.

  • Get Rag and Green Leaf Bolt
  • Go into the Kitchen
  • Take Pot from the counter; Use on the faucet
  • Use Pot Filled with Water on the stove
  • Look at the sink; Get Clump of Hair
  • Use Clump of Hair on the pot on the stove; Boil it
  • Get Green Leaf Bolt
  • Use Rag on dirty poster

Kitchen Utensil Puzzle

Ori­ent the kitchen uten­sils into the cor­rect order using the clue

Solu­tion (click to expand)

If: 123456

Then: 653412

  • Look at top unlocked cab­i­net; Get Tile with Num­ber On It
  • Look at bot­tom unlocked cab­i­net; Get Green Leaf Bolt
  • Look at the floor; Use Tile with Num­ber On It

Kitchen Door Lock Puzzle

Using the rules of Sudoku puz­zles, solve the puz­zle to get the door code

Solu­tion (click to expand)

Answer:

2314

4132

1243

3421

Using the clue from the Sudoku Puz­zle, open the door lock

Solu­tion (click to expand)

Code: 3234

Use Green Leaf Bolt x4

  • Go inside

Bad Ending 1: Die at the Cabin

  • Go into the old lady’s room

Chapter 4: Trapped

  • Choose: “Don’t open it
  • Take Coin from the near bath­tub rim
  • Take Han­dle from far bath­tub rim (how you did­n’t get killed I have no idea)
  • Use Coin above toi­let; Get Handrail
  • Look under sink; Take Plunger
  • Com­bine Plunger + Han­dle = Plunger
  • Use Plunger on toi­let; Get Clump of Hair
  • Use Clump of Hair on bath­tub; Get Cat Toy
  • Look at the mir­ror

Plumbing Puzzle

Solve the num­ber puz­zle under the sink using the clue from the mir­ror

Solu­tion (click to expand)

Answer: 13, 7, 12, 9 (Blue, Red, Yel­low, Gray)

I think I fig­ured out why (below). Which is kind of mis­lead­ing giv­en the way the green shape is ori­ent­ed. This is only way the answer works. #6 is there to mis­lead

  • Now that the water is off, open the cur­tain
  • Take the Cur­tain
  • Use the Handrail on the wall, start­ing on the south­east cor­ner of the cube and work your way counter-clock­wise just as the graph­ic indi­cates

Bad Ending 2: Killed by a Monster

  • Choose: “Open it” as soon as the chap­ter starts, or any­time before turn­ing off the water valves

Chapter 5: The Wardrobe

Fun Note: If you did­n’t take the cur­tain or use the hair in the water, you’ll still end up with the Cat Toy and Cur­tain in this chap­ter

You have to fig­ure out (through tri­al and error, super obnox­ious) how to get out of the wardrobe alive

Solu­tion:

  1. Choose: “Do not open it
  2. Use Cur­tain
  3. Choose: “Do not open it
  4. Equip Cat Toy, click on the bath­room hole; Grass will drop the Cat Toy
  5. Wood will say: “I can’t hold it any­more”
  6. Choose: “Go through door

Bad Ending “4”: Killed by the Old Lady

This is a typo as it’s sup­posed to be End­ing 3

You get this if you do any of the fol­low­ing:

  1. Don’t do any­thing and let the timer count down
  2. Go through the door
  3. Use Cur­tain and go out the door
  4. Use Cat Toy and go out the door
  5. Use Cur­tain and Cat Toy and let timer count down
  6. If you try to go back into the bath­room, Grass will drop Cat Toy. If you count down, or go through the door

Chapter 6: The Door Downstairs

  • Look at the yel­low jack­et 2x; Get Blade and Red Leaf Bolt
  • Look at the blan­ket; Get Red Leaf Bolt
  • Look at the win­dow; Note the pat­tern
  • Take Bot­tle from foot of bed
  • Take Bot­tle from head of bed
  • Use Blade on floor cush­ion; Get Red Leaf Bolt
  • Take Bot­tle from table
  • Take Bot­tle from shelf
  • Look at the indents in the shelf

Cabinet Lock Puzzle

Fig­ure out what to put in the indents, and in what order using clues from before

  • Smash each Bot­tle on the floor (just like the pot­ted plant in the begin­ning)

IMPORTANT: Do not smash the bot­tles with­out first mem­o­riz­ing which shape of bot­tle you’re smash­ing

  • Remem­ber what col­or belongs to each Bot­tle
  • Order the spheres cor­rect­ly on the shelf
Solu­tion (click to expand)

Answer: Blue, Green, Yel­low Red

  • Look at the antique phone; Take Fin­ger Plate
  • Use Fin­ger Plate on the cab­i­net at the head of the bed

Bed Cabinet Puzzle

Using the clue from the phone­book, solve the num­ber puz­zle

Solu­tion (click to expand)

Answer: 984955956

*I have no idea how this is the answer. Maybe I don’t under­stand some­thing about Tai­wanese phone num­bers? If some­one can fig­ure it out, let me know in the com­ments

  • Get Paper with Maze on It and Red Leaf Bolt

Basement Door Lock Puzzle

Ooo almost out! Using the clues received, solve for the code

Solu­tion (click to expand)

Num­ber Code: 215

Place Red Leaf Bolt x4: up, down, up, down

  • Go through the door

Chapter 7: Downstairs

  • Smash the vase; Get Point­ers (Clock hands) and Bolt
  • Use Point­ers on wall clock

Clock Puzzle

For once an easy puz­zle. Pull on the 3 ropes to change the hands so that the time is cor­rect on the clock (denot­ed by the red marks)

Solu­tion (click to expand)

Answer: Left (x5); Right (x2); then the Mid­dle

  • Get Black Chess Piece
  • Go to the Tea Room
  • Take Match from the couch; Use it on the wood han­dle to the right of the couch; Get Lit Match
  • Take Bolt from the padded chairs
  • Look at the rug near the padded chairs; Get a Bolt
  • Look at Go game­board on couch

Gomoku Puzzle

Look at the game and place the Black Chess Piece in the cor­rect place. Con­sid­er what the char­ac­ters have already said about the game

Solu­tion (click to expand)

Answer: Place it on the bot­tom mid­dle, in sur­ren­der

*Yeah… I don’t know how to play Go

  • Get Teacup and Bolt
  • Use Teacup on tea set on table; Get Cab­i­net Han­dle (Flower men­tions that it fell out of nowhere after they replaced the teacup. Creepy…)
  • Use Lit Match on teapot
  • Lis­ten to dia­logue; Choose Drink
  • Go back to the stair­case; Use Cab­i­net Han­dle on the holes under the stairs
  • Get Bolt and Piece of Draw­ing Paper

Stair Lock Puzzle

Using the pro­vid­ed clue, solve the lock puz­zle

Solu­tion (click to expand)

Code Num­ber: 521846937

Place Bolt x4

*Nope. I don’t get it.

  • Open the door

Bad Ending 4: Killed by Teenager

  • Choose: “Do not drink” when asked about drink­ing the tea

Chapter 8: Leave the Cabin

  • Take Note­book
  • Take Knife
  • Lis­ten to dia­logue
  • Choose: “Note­book
  • Look at the wall that’s just been opened up

Othello Door Puzzle

Using the rules of Otel­lo, place the pieces into the game board

Solu­tion (click to expand)

Solu­tion:

  • Go inside

Bad Ending 5: Killed by a Teenager

  • Choose: “Knife” when prompt­ed

Chapter 9: The Pond

Option 1

  • Lis­ten to the dia­logue
  • Choose: “Yes”
  • Things are get­ting more unnerv­ing

Option 2

  • Lis­ten to the dia­logue
  • Choose: “No
  • Look at things
  • In the end, no mat­ter what, you have to give Yifeng the Knife

Chapter 10: The Well

  • Click any­where but the puz­zle; Get Knife
  • Look at col­or­ful puz­zle

Colorful Puzzle

Match the col­ors to com­plete the puz­zle

*Good luck to any­one with vision impair­ments! It’s real­ly small and dark!

Solu­tion (click to expand)

Solu­tion

  • Go in

Chapter 11: The Hallway

  • Choose: “Yes” when asked to tie up Yifeng (oth­er­wise you play through the entire chap­ter and then die)
  • Take Key from the pond; Use it to unlock the bul­letin board

Kaleidoscope Wall Lock Puzzle

Solve for the code using the clue from the bul­letin board

Solu­tion (click to expand)

Answer: 7369

Rea­son­ing: The num­bers are sup­posed to be set up like a cal­cu­la­tor (if you try the hints, it will men­tion cal­cu­la­tor).

Num­ber Sequence:

789

456

123

So, if the clue is Blue, Pur­ple, Black, Green, then the answer accord­ing to loca­tion of the col­ors is 7, 3, 6, 9

  • Get the moth­er­load: Book, Pen­cil Case, Pen, Eras­er (Pen­cil), Piece of Chalk, and Eras­er (Chalk Board)

Scale Puzzle

Weigh each of the items from the pri­or puz­zle to ascer­tain their weights

Solu­tion (click to expand)

Answer: 7528 (Pen, Pen­cil Case, Pen­cil Eras­er, Book)

Rea­son­ing: Book > Pen > Pen­cil Case > Board Eras­er > Pen­cil Eras­er > Chalk

Book = Chalk + Pen­cil Eras­er + Pen­cil Case

Pen­cil Case = P Eras­er + B Eras­er

B Eras­er = P Eras­er + Chalk

Pen = Pen­cil Case + P Eras­er

So,

Book = 8

Pen = 7

Pen­cil Case = 5

B Eras­er = 3

P Eras­er = 2

Chalk = 1

  • Look at the ground that just unlocked

Water Pipe Puzzle #1

Ori­ent the water pipes so that the col­ors near the arrows are con­nect­ed

Solu­tion (click to expand)

Click on the eye­ball piece to fin­ish the puz­zle

  • Get Col­or­ful Beads x3

Water Pipe Puzzle #2

Uuu­ugggh. Now you have to do it again!!!

Solu­tion (click to expand)

Click on the eye­ball piece to fin­ish the puz­zle

  • Get anoth­er set of Col­or­ful Beads x3
  • Can you guess what’s going to hap­pen next?

Water Pipe Puzzle #3

*Sigh* Again it is…

Solu­tion (click to expand)
  • Lemme guess… Col­or­ful Beads x3!!

Aaaaand no more pipe puz­zles!!

  • Except now there’s a new puz­zle because 9 col­or­ful beads seem like they would match…

Overhead Door Colorful Bead Puzzle

Using the kalei­do­scope again, place the beads in the cor­rect order

Solu­tion (click to expand)

Answer:

Blue, Black Green

Yel­low, Red, White

Orange, Light Pur­ple, Dark Pur­ple


  • Choose: “No” when Yifeng asks to be untied

Bad Ending 6: Killed by a Teenager

  • Choose: “No” when asked to tie up Yifeng in the begin­ning. (Super bum­mer because now you have to play the entire chap­ter again!!)
  • Choose Yes” at the end when Tifeng asks to be let go

Chapter 12: The Stairwell

  • Enjoy the dia­logue
  • Take Cards x8 from the floor and stairs
  • Take Rag from the stairs
  • Look at the lights on the stairs

Stairwell Card Puzzle

Place the cards in their appro­pri­ate places accord­ing to the clues (Hint: either col­or or sym­bol need to touch)

Solu­tion (click to expand)
  • Get a Long Pole
  • Com­bine Rag + Long Pole = Mop (a Swif­fer, it looks like)
  • Use Mop on the stain on the ceil­ing
  • Look at the tele­phone

Rainbow Telephone Puzzle

Using the clues pro­vid­ed, solve for the tele­phone num­ber

Solu­tion (click to expand)

Num­ber: 7445665

Rea­son­ing: Count the num­ber of col­ored stars on the ceil­ing. The phone has a rain­bow on it explain­ing the order of num­bers (Red, Orange, Yel­low, Green, Blue, Pur­ple, Teal)

  • Lis­ten to the dia­logue (Good. There’s a clear plan now)
  • Get Win­dow Han­dle; Use it on the win­dow
  • Go through

Chapter 13: The Red Leaf

  • Lis­ten to the dia­logue (The trans­lat­ed Eng­lish is dif­fi­cult to fol­low… Or maybe the sto­ry is just dif­fi­cult to fol­low)
  • Choose both ques­tions
  • Lis­ten some more (Weird sto­ry all around)
  • Choose: “Red Leaves
  • Choose :“You’re right, but she’s our old lady.

Bad Ending 7: Atonement

  • Choose: “No, I killed the old lady”, and you’ll decide that you should stay in that world alone to atone for your sins

Chapter 14: The Adventure

  • Take Key from the ground; Use it on the teacher’s desk
  • Get Rag; Use it on top of the desk
  • Read the papers on the wall
  • Take Note from top-left desk with shoe prints and a bag on the side
  • Take Note from mid­dle-left desk with cracks in the top
  • Take Note from bot­tom-left desk’s floor with the glue stick on top
  • Take Note from bot­tom-mid­dle desk with heart doo­dles on it
  • Take Note from top-right desk with can­dy
  • Take Note from mid­dle-right desk with all the words on it
  • Take Note from the bot­tom-right desk with the green mat on it

Warn­ing: If you haven’t been pay­ing atten­tion to what the notes say, do it now. Write it down some­where or take screen­shots. Once you com­bine them, you won’t be able to see what they say again! …Or just don’t glue them togeth­er until you solve the puz­zle

  • Go back to the bot­tom-left desk and click on the glue stick (You should have Notes x7)
  • Choose: “Yes
  • Get Com­plete Note (“Luoyu”)

Teacher’s Desk Schedule Puzzle

Using the clues from the Notes, fill in the blanks on the sched­ule

Notes:

  • There is only one sec­tion ‘E’
  • There is no ‘M’ and “E’ before noon
  • The after­noon class has ‘M,’ ‘C,’ and ‘E
  • No lessons in sec­tion 1 and 2, except Wednes­days
  • There are four sec­tions ‘C’
  • The morn­ing class on Mon­day is dif­fer­ent from Tues­day
  • Mon­day has 4 sec­tions ‘C’ and Fri­day only has 1 sec­tion ‘E’

Hint: The char­ac­ters on the top row are 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 (Fri­day, Thurs­day, Wednes­day, Tues­day, Mon­day), as they read from right to left

Solu­tion (click to expand)

Answer:

Rea­son­ing:

  • C: Only 4 total; Only on Mon­days; Can be either morn­ing or after­noon
  • M: Only in the after­noon
  • E: Only 1 total; Only on Fri­days; Only after­noon
  • S: Only morn­ings
  • Fri­days only have 1 les­son??
  • And I don’t under­stand why Wednes­day 1st sec­tion does­n’t have class even though it specif­i­cal­ly states that no lessons on the 1st and 2nd sec­tions (peri­ods) except Wednes­day. Per­haps it’s a cul­tur­al thing I don’t know about their schools
  • Notice the 17:10 (5:10pm) etched in what appears to be blood sud­den­ly on the table­top
  • Look at the far­thest left desk with the col­or­ful graf­fi­ti on it; Click on the box

Desk Lockbox Puzzle

Use the clue to solve for the code (Thank good­ness for a straight­for­ward, easy one…)

Solu­tion (click to expand)

Answer: 1710

  • Get Wal­let with Leaf Pat­tern and Chalk
  • Use Chalk on the chalk­board

Chalkboard Door Puzzle

Fig­ure out the cor­rect pat­tern to open the board using the giv­en clue

Solu­tion (click to expand)
  • Choose: “Open it

Chapter 15: Another Person

  • Read the dia­logue to learn about Xifeng and Beiyue’s back­ground sto­ries

Note: You can look around the class­room if you’d like, but Zhiqiu will just tell you there’s noth­ing to find. The only one that’s dif­fer­ent is the far-left desk where the lock­box was. Zhiqiu will men­tion that the col­or­ful graf­fi­ti is evi­dence of bul­ly­ing

  • Go Behind the Black­board
  • If you want to be a creep­er, choose “No” and keep ogling the sleep­ing beau­ty
  • Choose: “Yes

Chapter 16: Run Away

Great. Now that they teamed up, they imme­di­ate­ly want to kill us and we’re play­ing the ulti­mate cat and mouse game. AND there’s a 60 sec­ond timer

Author’s Note: There’s only 1 pos­si­ble path to take. I tried them all. You’re wel­come

  • Choose: “Let’s hide in the stair­well
  • Choose We run down­stairs
  • ChooseMove to Main Hall­way
  • Choose Go to the near­est Stair­well

Bad Ending 8: Time to Kill Game

  • Let the timer count down
  • Choose: “Go down­stairs first
  • Choose: “Let’s hide in the back of the class­room
  • Choose: “Quick­ly go through Hall­way
  • Choose: “Hide in the restroom
  • Choose: “Fol­low them
  • Choose: “We hide in the oppo­site class­room
  • Choose: “Stand still
  • Choose: “Run to the base­ment

Chapter 17: The Truth

Note: If you did­n’t both­er gath­er­ing or com­bin­ing the notes in the class­room, you won’t be able to wake up the girl and will have to redo Chap­ter 14 and get the Com­plete Note

  • Use Com­plete Note on the girl
  • Read the dia­logue (con­fus­ing at best, but made worse through the trans­la­tion)

Chapter 18: Back to the Cabin

  • Read the dia­logue (It’s start­ing to all come togeth­er…)

Chapter 19: Bleeding Tree


Bad Ending 9: Not Going Back

  • Read the dia­logue (All is revealed!)
  • Take Key
  • Go Inside the Cab­in
  • Take Key from the Kitchen
  • Go to the Bed­room
  • Use Key x2 on the draw­ers in the Bed­room
  • Get Gaso­line and Match
  • Go back to the Out­side of the Cab­in; Click on the tree
  • Choose: “Burn it
  • Read the dia­logue (Luoyu says “Grand­moth­er, wait for me.” Beiyue and Yifeng stay. The old lady dies in the hos­pi­tal before the 4 of them arrive)

Play Chap­ter 19 again


Bad Ending 10: Sorry

  • Take Key
  • Go Inside the Cab­in
  • Take Key from the Kitchen
  • Go to the Bed­room
  • Use Key x2 on the draw­ers in the Bed­room
  • Get Gaso­line and Match
  • Go back to the Out­side of the Cab­in; Click on the tree
  • Choose: “Burn it
  • Read the dia­logue (Luoyu says “Grand­moth­er, I’m sor­ry,” and stays behind with Beiyue and Yifeng, telling you to apol­o­gize to the Old Lady, but she already passed away at the hos­pi­tal)

Play Chap­ter 19, yet again


True Ending

NOTE: You need to get 100/100 Red Leaves to get the good end­ing of this game. This means you need all 10 end­ings (as each end­ing gives you Red Leaves) and all of the leaves through­out the game. So now, you need to go back through all the chap­ters and find them all. The good news is that it will auto­mat­i­cal­ly save once you find one, so unless you did­n’t com­plete the dif­fer­ent End­ings, you don’t have to do the puz­zles over again.

  • Take Key from Out­side the Cab­in
  • Go inside; Use Key on the shelf
  • Get ‘Civil­ian’ Card (“Strength”)
  • Take Key from the Kitchen
  • Take Key from the Bath­room
  • Take Key from the Clos­et
  • Go Down­stairs, then into the Tea Room
  • Take Key
  • Use Key on locked cab­i­net at the bot­tom of the stairs
  • Get Witch Card (“High Priest­ess”)
  • Go Pool­side; Take Key
  • Go back to the Bed­room
  • Use Key x4 on draw­ers in Bed­room
  • Get Gaso­line, Match, King Card, and Queen Card
  • Go back Out­side the Cab­in
  • Choose: “Don’t burn it
  • Read the dia­logue for the REAL ENDING OF THE GAME!!! (Luoyu says, “Grand­moth­er, thank you.”)

Final Puzzle

Match the cards with the right char­ac­ter using the hints from Wood

  • Civil­ians do not lie
  • Witch­es lie
  • The King tells one less lie than the Queen
Solu­tion (Click to open)
  • Civil­ian (“Strength”) = Luoyu
  • Queen = Beiyue
  • Witch (“High Priest­ess”) = Zhizhu
  • King = Xifeng

GAME OVER!!


Story Spoiler

Open to see the end­ing spoil­er (Click to Open)

Sum­ma­ry: Instead of burn­ing the tree, they all dec­o­rate the tree with the 100 red leaves they’d gath­ered. The weath­er turned from stormy to sun­ny. Beiyue and Xifeng are ner­vous about going back, giv­en their lives are crap­py. Wood’s real name is Lu Heyuan. They get back to their world (out of Luoyu’s heart/soul world, because that’s her pow­er). They get a call that grand­ma is ill. They all go to the hos­pi­tal where they get to talk to her, then watch her pass away. Time pass­es and their lives change for the bet­ter, slow­ly, while they all remain friends, nev­er for­get­ting the adven­ture that pushed them togeth­er.

End­ing dia­logue (word for word):

Zhizhu want­ed to share the good news with the old lady, but she was­n’t home. The phone range. It was the hos­pi­tal. The old lady passed out at the front door. She is in crit­i­cal con­di­tion. We picked up Luoyu, Xifeng and Beiyue on the way to the hos­pi­tal. The old lady was so weak when we arrived. Luoyu cried out loud when she saw the old lady at the hos­pi­tal. The old lady smiled at Luoyu. Luoyu could­n’t stop cry­ing. The old lady looked at us and smiled. She asked Luoyu to come clos­er and then she whis­pered to her.

Grand­ma: “Luoyu, you are spe­cial and unique. Be your­self!

Luoyu: “I will, grand­moth­er!

The old lady passed away with a smile. Time flies! Luoyu’s par­ents appre­ci­at­ed that we had spent a lot of time with the old lady and brought Luoyu back. After­wards, Luoyu began to take care of Xifeng and Beiyue’s mat­ters. Luoyu report­ed the orphan­age’s direc­tor’s behav­ior to the police. I still remem­ber when I saw Beiyue at the orphan­age. She was skin­ny and wore dirty clothes. Luoyu pulled some strings to help Beiyue so she could be adopt­ed. Not sure that this is the right deci­sion, but at least Beiyue can live in a bet­ter place.

Beiyue: “I sud­den­ly think that you are the best.

Luoyu: “What are you talk­ing about, Beiyue?

About Xifeng, his moth­er went back home to take care of him. Luoyu con­vinced his father to divorce his moth­er while he was in jail. Zhizhu also helped Xifeng. Zhizhu hired Zifeng to work for him, so Xifeng could cov­er his own expens­es. This way, Xifeng could spend more time study­ing. Xifeng took the job and thanked Zhizhu.

Luoyu: “Well! Like grand­moth­er said, ‘Be your­self!’ ”

Xifeng: “You are!”

Heyuan, Zhizhu, Luoyu, and I went back to the old lady’s house. The house was sim­ple and ele­gant, just like before. We walked around and thought of the old lady and every­thing that had hap­pened.

Zhizhu: “Hey! Let’s make an apple pie!”

Great idea. How­ev­er, we don’t have any apples. Zhizhu rush­es to buy some.

Luoyu: “Zhiqui, your apple pie tastes just like the old lady’s!

Zhiqui: “Ha! I can teach you how to make an apple pie.”

ZhiZhu: “Haha. What did you just say? Are you sure you can teach her, haha!

Zhiqui: “What did you say?!

We spent the day at the house and had a great time togeth­er. We all know that we need to move on.

Luoyu: “It’s unbe­liev­able!

Heyuan: “What’s the mat­ter?

Luoyu: “We’ve been through a lot.

Heyuan: “We have. I won’t for­get what we have been through.

Luoyu: “Me too.”

Luoyu did­n’t under­stand what I was talk­ing about, but she will some­day

Note: I don’t under­stand what they’re talk­ing about, either, or who, exact­ly, is nar­rat­ing

.…

Zhizhu: “Look.”

Xifeng and Beiyue wave to us. They are late. Every­one is inside the house, enjoy­ing apple pie and chat­ting. Luoyu and I stay out­side to watch the red leaves fall down from For­ev­er Red.

Zhiqui: “It’s beau­ti­ful.

Luoyu: “Yeah, It’s beau­ti­ful. Thank you.

END


Red Leaf Locations

Total: 104

Note: I went to play through a 2nd time and end­ed up with extra leaves! I already hit 100 and got more Which means that I’m not sure where the extra ones came from, and that there’s pos­si­bly 105

For every end­ing, you get Red Leaves, and they are scat­tered through­out the game. You basi­cal­ly have to click/poke every­where to find them

Anoth­er Note: Some­times some leaves give you +2, and some­times it does­n’t. I’ve played through at least 5 times now, and ones that gave +2 changed to +1 and some that were +1 changed to +2. It seems super ran­dom

Chapter 1: The Accident

Total: 2

  • +1 — for fin­ish­ing the chap­ter
  • +1 — for Bad End­ing 0

Chapter 2: The Cabin

Total: 6

Note: For­got to fix the pic­ture, sor­ry! Did­n’t cir­cle the one on the low­er left cor­ner of the win­dow

  • +1 — Mid­dle pan­el under shoes
  • +1 — Fold­ed cor­ner of rug, near the hole
  • +1 — Pot­ted plant/handkerchief
  • +1 — Remov­able brick
  • +1 — Low­er left cor­ner of win­dow
  • +1 — Fin­ish­ing chap­ter

Chapter 3: The Old Lady

Total: 11

  • +1 — Under branch, right side of tree
  • +1 — Locked pan­el on shelf
  • +1 — Low­er left of door frame to bed­room
  • +1 — Mid­dle black frame
  • +1 — Trash­can next to sink in kitchen
  • +1 — Mid­dle of upper cab­i­nets
  • +1 — Water stream at the lev­el of the sink
  • +1 — Low­er left cor­ner of bath­room door in the kitchen
  • +1 — Wall Pic­ture (Leaf icon does not show, but counter goes up)
  • +1 — Fin­ish­ing chap­ter
  • +1 — Bad End­ing 1

Chapter 4: Trapped

Total: 7

  • +1 — Between base of toi­let and bath­tub
  • +1 — Cor­ner of tub with han­dle
  • +1 — Under cab­i­net doors
  • +1 — Low­er left cor­ner of mir­ror
  • +1 — Mid­dle of bath­tub (no cur­tain)
  • +1 — Fin­ish­ing chap­ter
  • +1 — Bad End­ing 2

Chapter 5: The Wardrobe

Total: 4

  • +2 — In between fold­ed clothes #2 and #3
  • +1 — Fin­ish­ing chap­ter
  • +1 — Bad End­ing 3

Chapter 6: The Door Downstairs

Total: 6

  • +1 — Pock­et of yel­low jack­et
  • +1 — Bot­tle at end of bed
  • +1 — Upper right cor­ner of mat­tress
  • +1 — Upper right leg of floor table
  • +1 — Low­er right cor­ner of glass door
  • +1 — Fin­ish chap­ter

Chapter 7: Downstairs

Total: 7

Note: There’s more in the tea­room, but if you wait until the next chap­ter you can avoid run­ning into dia­logue while search­ing. Your choice

  • +1 — Upper left cor­ner of rug, near wall
  • +2 — Bot­tom right cor­ner of han­dle door
  • +1 — Bot­tom of post, 2nd from the top
  • +1 — Bot­tom right edge of rug
  • +1 — Fin­ish chap­ter
  • +1 — Bad End­ing 4

Chapter 8: Leave the Cabin

Total: 7

  • +1 — To the right of the left arm­rest
  • +1 — Low­er left leg of the tea table
  • +2 — Upper edge of the left padded chair
  • +1 — Low­er right cor­ner behind couch
  • +1 — Fin­ish chap­ter
  • +1 — Bad End­ing 5

Chapter 9: The Pond

Total: 1

+1 — Fin­ish chap­ter

Chapter 10: The Well

Total: 3

  • +1 — Mid­dle of puz­zle
  • +1 — Mid-right between well and well-top (after puz­zle, but before leav­ing)
  • +1 — Fin­ish chap­ter

Chapter 11: The Hallway

Total: 7

  • +1 — Key next to plant bed out­side
  • +1 — Low­er right cor­ner of wall
  • +1 — Low­er right cor­ner of door frame
  • +1 — Low­er left root of scale plant
  • +1 — Blob of root under floor hatch
  • +1 — Fin­ish chap­ter
  • +1 — Bad End­ing 6

Chapter 12: The Stairwell

Total: 11

  • +1 — On the Rag
  • +1 — Low­er left most cor­ner of lev­el
  • +2 — Low­er right-most cor­ner of lev­el
  • +2 — Upper right cor­ner of upper stairs
  • +2 — Bot­tom of pil­lar where rag was
  • +1 — Upper right por­tion of ban­nis­ter
  • +1 — Upper left por­tion of stairs (I just poked in the area a lot and got one)
  • +1 — Fin­ish chap­ter

Chapter 13: The Red Leaf

Total: 2

  • +1 — Fin­ish Chap­ter
  • +1 — Bad End­ing 7

Chapter 14: The Adventure

Total: 9

  • +2 — Lock on door
  • +1 — Left cor­ner of desk #4, mid­dle
  • +2 — Left side of teacher’s dais
  • +1 — Left side of 2nd desk back, far left
  • +1 — Glue stick
  • +1 — Top of green desk
  • +1 — Fin­ish chap­ter

Chapter 15: Another Person

Total: 2

  • +1 — Beiyue’s out­stretched fin­gers
  • +1 — Fin­ish chap­ter

Chapter 16: Run Away

Total: 6

  • +3 — Get caught and killed
  • +3 — Fin­ish chap­ter

Chapter 17: The Truth

Total: 3

  • +3 — Fin­ish chap­ter

Chapter 18: Back to the Cabin

Total: 3

  • +3 — Fin­ish chap­ter

Chapter 19: Bleeding Tree

Total: 6

  • +3 — Bad End­ing 9
  • +3 — Bad End­ing 10

Thank you for read­ing!


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Nintendo Switch Indie Game Recommendation List

Writ­ten 4/27/2025, updat­ed 4/27/25

I’ve invest­ed in and played sooo many indie games for the Nin­ten­do Switch since I first got the con­sole (and con­tin­ue to scour the Recent­ly Released page in the eShop for any­thing else fun), that I’m afraid to see exact­ly how much mon­ey I’ve spent on games in total. While many of them have been well worth it, many of them have been total busts that I wish I nev­er wast­ed my mon­ey on. Here, I will list my rec­om­men­da­tions and non-rec­om­men­da­tions along­side those that are just kind of meh, in the hopes that maybe it will help some­one else. Some of them will have a mini review attached

Games I enjoy are:

  • Point-and-click
  • Farm­ing sims
  • Puzzle/mystery adven­tures
  • Par­o­dy
  • Action

I don’t like:

  • First-per­son view (makes me very ill)
  • Frus­trat­ing game­play
  • If game­play is good, I can for­give bad graph­ics, but not if it’s espe­cial­ly nasty
  • Poor trans­la­tions
  • PvP

I also like Visu­al Nov­els and Kairosoft games, but they will be in dif­fer­ent posts. I won’t add first-par­ty games because the vast major­i­ty of the time there’s a rea­son that they are first-par­ty. They’re GOOD. Almost like a breath of fresh air after play­ing lots of indie games.

** denotes Favorite games in the Yes col­umn and ABSOLUTE WASTE OF MONEY in the No col­umn

Yes

  • Arcane Arts Acad­e­my
  • Artifex Mun­di games
  • **Bar­barous: Tav­ern of Emyr
  • Brok the Inves­ti­Ga­tor
  • **Big Farm Sto­rya lit­tle short, but great
  • Break­fast Bar Tycoon
  • Bro­ken Sword 5 — The Ser­pen­t’s Curse
  • Cape’s Escape Game series
  • Cook­ing Fes­ti­val
  • **Crowns and Pawns: King­doms of Deceit
  • Dark­estville Cas­tle
  • **Demetrios — The BIG Cyn­i­cal Adven­tureabsolute­ly hilar­i­ous even if the graph­ics are unat­trac­tive. Not bad, just unat­trac­tive, though I think it adds to the silli­ness
  • Dis­ease ~Hid­den Object~
  • Escape Trick: 35 Fate­ful Enig­masthough it made me hor­ri­bly ill, this game launched my love of puz­zle games. Walk­through
  • **Ever­dream Val­leyMy Walk­through
  • **Fae FarmGreat, sol­id game. A lit­tle short.
  • Fish­ing Par­adiso
  • FiveBN games
  • **Gar­den Sto­ryVERY cute, awe­some game. Too short!
  • Goe­tia
  • **Irony Cur­tain: From Matryosh­ka with LovePos­i­tive­ly hilar­i­ous, awe­some point-and-click
  • **Kitaris FablesSim­i­lar to Rag­narok Online
  • Leisure Suit Lar­ry Wet Dreams Don’t Dry -NSFW though most­ly innu­en­do and lewd art. On the low­er end of the rec­om­men­da­tions, but fun over­all
  • **Lost Hori­zon 1 & 2- good point-and-click puz­zle adven­ture
  • Lost Phone game series
  • Mahjong Sto­ries: Vam­pire RomanceShort, enjoy­able
  • Metrop­o­lis: Lux Obscu­raa lit­tle bit of NSFW, intense, short game
  • Mom Hid My Game!
  • **My Time at Por­tiaPlay this before San­drock
  • **My Time at San­drock
  • One Night Stand
  • Pantsu Hunterweird yet fun game
  • Pock­et QuestNot bad, a lit­tle dull
  • **Potion Per­mit
  • Prison Princesslots of fan ser­vice
  • **Puz­zle Bat­tler! MiraiSur­pris­ing­ly awe­some game
  • **Puz­zle Quest: The Leg­end ReturnsFan­tas­tic just like the orig­i­nal
  • **Root Let­ter: Last AnswerNEATO game. Very much enjoyed it. You can play with either ani­mat­ed or live graph­ics. Insight into Japan­ese life
  • Secret Files games series
  • Sen­ti­men­tal Death Loopdis­turb­ing yet inter­est­ing. My Walk­through
  • Sher­lock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles
  • **The Tes­ta­ment of Sher­lock HolmesMy Walk­through
  • **Song­bird Sym­pho­nyMy Walk­through (incom­plete)
  • **Spir­it of the IslandGood. Short and repet­i­tive, but fun
  • **Strand­ed Sails: Explor­ers of the Cursed Islandsthought I would­n’t like it at first, but it grew on me, and I had a good time play­ing
  • **Sum­mer in MaraGood game, a lit­tle slow to start. All oth­er games in the series are not near­ly as good
  • **Tell Me Your Sto­ryReal­ly nice game. My Walk­through
  • The House of Davin­ci Series — Nice puz­zle games. My Walk­through
  • The Mahjong Huntress
  • **The Raven Remas­teredVery much enjoyed this game and the music
  • Time on Frog Islandshort
  • **True Fear: For­sak­en Souls Series — Final­ly releas­ing the 3rd game this year 2025! My Review
  • **Turnip Boy Com­mits Tax Eva­sionAMAZING game!
  • Turnip Boy Robs a BankGood, just not as good as the first game. My Walk­through
  • **Voezgreat music/stepmania type of game
  • **Wel­come to Prim­rose Lake
  • **Yon­der: The Cloud Catch­er Chron­i­clesREALLY liked this game despite some the short­com­ings

Ehh

  • Car Mechan­ic Sim­u­la­tor
  • Cast­away Par­adiseReview
  • Chex Quest HDI played the holy heck out of the orig­i­nal and for some rea­son the remake does­n’t hit right. It’s some­how bet­ter yet clunky and while it’s cool to have remade such an old game, did­n’t like it much
  • Com­man­der Keen in Keen Dreamsdoes­n’t hit like it did in the 90s
  • Elec­tri­cian Sim­u­la­tor
  • Enchant­i­ng Mahjong Matchgreat if you like speed mahjong games and unlock­ing illus­tra­tions of females
  • Fable­dom - Ehh. The con­trols aren’t clear and seem to be made for PC. Could be a good game
  • Fall of the New Age: Col­lec­tor’s Edi­tionI real­ly enjoy this type of game, but this was very unin­tu­itive. I’ll still buy these types of games, though because I have an insa­tiable appetite for them. My Walk­through
  • Gems of Warmade by cre­ators of Puz­zle Quest. I just dis­like things you have to play online PvP
  • Half Past FateGood sto­ry, just put me to sleep at least 10 times while play­ing it. Bor­ing… or relax­ing…
  • Horse Tales: Emer­ald Val­ley RanchCould be good. Made me hor­ri­bly ill
  • Hun­gry Shark Worldfun for about 30 min­utes
  • Japan­ese Nekosama Escape: The Local Train
  • Jew­el Fight: Heroes of Leg­end: Sim­i­lar to Puz­zle Quest, not near­ly as good
  • Lego Worldsnau­sea!!
  • Long Ago: A Puz­zle TaleMis­lead­ing cov­er art. Repet­i­tive and bor­ing puz­zle game
  • Love on LeaveInter­ac­tive visu­al nov­el game. Played halfway and then stopped
  • Mon­ster Prom: XXLEhhh
  • Nelke & The Leg­endary Alchemists “Ate­liers of the New World”Put me to sleep a few times, but over­all fun. Ate­lier series crossover
  • Ocean­hornSol­id game­play, just could­n’t get over how it’s a shame­less Zel­da knock­off
  • Par­adise Lostkind of creepy, just an ehh game. Great graph­ics
  • Rem­i­nis­cence in the Nightit’s okay…
  • Rune Lord
  • Sher­lock Purr 2 - Made me ill instant­ly
  • Storm Tale 2match‑3 and hid­den object. Just eh.
  • Sun­seed IslandGame con­tent behind pay­wall. Unable to zoom in and out of map, slow. Could be good
  • The Book of Unwrit­ten Tales 2It’s actu­al­ly a sol­id game. I just stopped play­ing halfway because I lost inter­est
  • The Future You’ve Been Dream­ing ofIt’s good. Dif­fer­ent. Fan-ser­vicey. Just repet­i­tive to unlock every­thing. My Walk­through
  • Lega­cy Games games — They’re okaaaay. Game­play not the best. At least voice act­ing is bet­ter than oth­ers and graph­ics are good
  • Yes­ter­day Ori­ginsIt seemed good at first, and then some­thing both­ered me about it, gave me a headache, and then I stopped play­ing it about halfway through
  • Yooka-LayleeWant­ed to enjoy it. Just kind of fell flat

No

  • Alba - premise seemed cute, but game is insane­ly bor­ing
  • Buried Alive: Breath­less Res­cuemade me ill imme­di­ate­ly
  • **Cop Car Police Sim­u­la­tor ChaseTer­ri­ble, ter­ri­ble game all around
  • Deponia series — As much as I love point and click par­o­dy games, I dis­liked this whole series. I found it to unin­tu­itive and tremen­dous­ly dis­liked the char­ac­ters
  • Detec­tive Di: The Silk Rose Mur­ders
  • Doo­dle HuntI dun­no, I thought I’d enjoy some­thing so sim­ple more, but I hat­ed it.
  • Erob­lastI loved HuniePop and thought this would sim­i­lar. I real­ly hat­ed the char­ac­ters and the whole tex­ting thing
  • **Fred­er­ic game series — I just real­ly real­ly hat­ed these games. Wish I’d nev­er wast­ed mon­ey on them
  • Gal*Gun 2Way too annoy­ing
  • **Grow: Song of the Evertreevery dis­ap­point­ed by this game espe­cial­ly hav­ing loved a dif­fer­ent game they made
  • Half Past Fate: Roman­tic Dis­tanc­inggave it a try, very bor­ing
  • **Har­vest LifeQuit with­in 5 min­utes of try­ing it. UGLY graph­ics, just awful game
  • Hokko LifeAni­mal Cross­ing knock­off, bor­ing. My Review
  • **Koa and the Five Pirates of Marautter dis­ap­point­ment after play­ing the oth­er games in the series
  • Leisure Suit Lar­ry Wet Dreams Dry TwiceToo much back and forth, los­es the spir­it of the first game, not fun­ny. Unin­tu­itive, over­all repul­sive. Does offer the explic­it, raunchy stuff miss­ing from the first game.
  • Let’s SchoolCon­trols bet­ter suit­ed to PC
  • Life in Wil­low­dale: Farm Adven­turesLooks like it should be good. Did­n’t make it past 10 min­utes. Char­ac­ter very unat­trac­tive
  • Lit­tle Friends: Dogs & CatsHav­ing played Nin­ten­dogs way back when, this does­n’t even come close. Cute, but bor­ing
  • Nora: The Wannabe Alchemistdon’t both­er
  • Ocean Media games — They’re ugly, puz­zles are bad, and over­all, not rec­om­mend­ed despite being one my favorite gen­res. All I do is spam the hint but­tons
  • OmegaL­abyrinth LifeNope. Thought it would be good. Lots of boobs.
  • **Orange Sea­sonTried real­ly hard to like this game, but it’s been out for so long and still unpol­ished. Fell asleep sev­er­al times play­ing it. NOT rec­om­mend­ed.
  • Reg­u­lar Fac­to­ry Escape Roomnau­sea
  • Schem­ing Through the Zom­bie Apoc­a­lypse Ep 2: CagedEh. Played 15 min­utes.
  • Sprout Val­leylooked cute, but extreme­ly con­fus­ing with no direc­tion. Tried to like it.
  • Sword & Fairy Inn 2Clunky, not fun
  • Sybe­ria 1 & 2
  • **Tardyjust nope
  • VTM Coter­ies of New York
  • **What Comes AfterSUPER short game, all you do is talk to dead things. Tries too hard to be deep. Just bor­ing
  • **Wind­boundUggghh! I get frus­trat­ed just look­ing at the name. My Review
  • Yeah! You want “Those Games,” Right? So Here You Go!Yes, I want­ed the pin pulling game. Yes, I played a few lev­els. No, I do NOT rec­om­mend.