Sentimental Death Loop Written Walkthrough Guide

written 8/11/2024, updated 8/19/2024

  • Published: qureate
  • Platform Played: Nintendo Switch
  • Price: $9.99 from MSRP: $19.99
  • Rated: M (Mature)
  • Genre: Adventure
  • Date Released: July 6, 2023

CLICK HERE for Simple Text Game Guide

CLICK HERE for Side Story Game Dialogue

Overview

Game Summary

Four university friends interact with each other. It is Noa’s (you) birthday, so Nemu invites her over to celebrate. What should be a joyful day with friends quickly devolves into an agonizing death loop when Nemu demonstrates her extreme yandere personality over a misunderstanding. Noa must uncover the truth while figuring out how to end her repeated, painful deaths. The game is rated M for violence, but has no hardcore H content, just a few undie shots, generous skin, and pinkish purple blood.

Characters

CG #1

Asashi NoaGame’s protagonist (you) – Typical university student

Tsukishiro NemuGame’s antagonist (Yandere) – Quiet, shy classmate with serious issues

Higuchi AkaneFriend – Outgoing, energetic, tomboyish classmate

Hayami SuzukaFriend – Mature, cool, smart classmate

Aichi Rinami – Classmate who is references but whose face is never seen

Game Mechanics (How to Play)

Main Goal: Interact/inspect items around the house to uncover the main story, as well as the stories behind each character, and resolve the death loop

  • Each interaction with items progresses time. There seems to be a set number of times of item inspection before a Chase Event triggers.
  • Carefully choose what to inspect, what items to take, and where to stand in order to prepare for or avoid a Chase Event
  • When a Chase Event triggers, set a trap for Nemu and either hide or lure her then escape

Inventory

Items

CandleBasement Upper-Left Corner

DiaryKey Item from Nemu

Fruit KnifeKitchen Counter

Kitchen KnifeKitchen Counter next to Sink

Small Wooden BlockPainting in Secret Room

Keys

Breaker KeyBathroom Padlock Puzzle

Front Door Trap KeyBasement Puzzle

Japanese Room KeyBedroom Safe Box

Study KeyJapanese Room Puzzle Box

Puzzle Clues

BookBedroom – “The dog drowns at sea, the bird and its yellow fade away with the sunset, the butterfly is eaten by the flower”

BookStudy – Regarding work PC:  A is “01;” B is “02;” Z is “26”

BookmarkBook from Bedroom – “I should reorder everything but the start… Yellow before green, after green comes blue”

Paper with Manufacturing DateLiving Room under sofa cushion – Red Rabbit: 12th; Blue Rabbit: 17th

Sheet of PaperLiving Room magazine case – “The number is XX48”

Sheet of PaperLiving Room houseplant – “The 1st page got away from me, so this is the 2nd 57”

Sheet of PaperNemu’s Bedroom in trashcan – My PC’s password: “Move each letter backward by one. Leave the numbers as they are”

Sheet of PaperBedroom – “Safe combination are animals’ birthdays: cat then puppy, then bunnies. Dial order is R, L, R, L”

Sheet of PaperJapanese Room Book (Last loop) – “…red and purple let it be the last one”

Sheet of PaperStudy – The password for work PC “1X X5 16 15 18 20”

Sheet of PaperStudy – The password for the work PC is “18 0…”

Standing Photo FramePuppy pic Nemu’s Bedroom – “Just born on New Year’s!”

Standing Photo FrameButterfly pic in Bedroom – “Not enough colors… I’ll put yellow after brown”

Standing Photo FrameCat pic in Bedroom – “Hana-chan, born on the 7th

Standing Photo FrameMarket pic in Study – “The last color is red”

Trap Items

BatteryBathroom & Bedroom

Cat PlushieNemu’s Room

ClothesBedroom

CosmeticsBedroom on Vanity

Detergent A Kitchen under Sink

Detergent BBathroom

Detergent CBathroom

Game ConsoleNemu’s Room

DVD Remote Player Japanese Room

IceRefrigerator

Ice PackRefrigerator

Medicine Case AStudy

Medicine Case BJapanese Room

Medicine Case CJapanese Room

Noa PlushieBasement

Plastic BottleRefrigerator

Plastic Packing RopeCabinet near TV

Red Car ToyStudy

TV Remote Living Room

Yellow Car ToyStudy

Item Combinations

Birdlime = Detergent B + Detergent C

Bait Trap – Use in Bathroom, Japanese Room, Tables, or Nemu’s Bed Frame

Effectiveness: Long

Birdlime = Slippery Trap + Medicine Case C

Bait Trap – Use in Bathroom, Japanese Room, Tables, or Nemu’s Bed Frame

Effectiveness: Long

Birdlime = Slippery Trap + Detergent A

Bait Trap – Use in Bathroom, Japanese Room, Tables, or Nemu’s Bed Frame

Effectiveness: Long

Slippery Trap = Medicine Case A + Ice Pack

Bait Trap – Use in Bathroom, Japanese Room, Tables, or Nemu’s Bed Frame

Effectiveness: Short

Slippery Trap = Medicine Case A + Ice

Bait Trap – Use in Bathroom, Japanese Room, Tables, or Nemu’s Bed Frame

Effectiveness: Short

Slippery Trap = Cosmetics + Medicine Case C

Bait Trap – Use in Bathroom, Japanese Room, Tables, or Nemu’s Bed Frame

Effectiveness: Short

Extra-Strength Birdlime = Medicine Case B + Birdlime

Bait Trap – Use in Bathroom, Japanese Room, Tables, or Nemu’s Bed Frame

Effectiveness: Permanence

DVD Player Remote = DVD Player Remote + Batteries

Timer Trap – Use in Japanese Room

TV Remote = TV Remote + Batteries

Timer Trap – Use in Japanese Room

Traps

Note: The liquids can be both Bait & Escape and Bait & Hide

To use a Timer Trap, you apparently need to be outside of the room once Nemu spawns? These can be used infinitely. I have not been able to do this successfully.

Bait & Escape

Items: Birdlime, XS Birdlime, Slippery Trap, Plastic Packing Rope

Locations: Nemu’s Bedroom, Bedroom, Japanese Room, Kitchen Table, Bathroom

Bait & Hide

Items: Birdlime, XS Birdlime, Slippery Trap, Cars, Cat Plushie, Noa Plushie, or Game Console

Locations: Nemu’s Room, Bathroom, Japanese Room

Timer

Items: Clothes, TV Remote, DVD Remote

Locations: Bathroom Washing Machine, Japanese Room (TV then DVD Player)

Puzzle Solutions

Living Room Dial Box

Puzzle: Figure out box password to play Nemu’s game

Clues:

  • Sheet of Paper magazine case – “XX48”
  • Sheet of Paper houseplant – “1st page got away from me so this is the second: 57”

Solution: Combine clues to get 5748

GET: Access to the basement

Nemu’s Bedroom Laptop

Puzzle: Figure out Nemu’s Password

Clues:

  • Sheet of Paper Nemu’s Bedroom trashcan – My PC’s password: “Move each letter backward by one. Leave the numbers as they are”
  • Note on Laptop says: “Password hint: QPXFS189”

Solution: Move the letters backwards one on the keyboard

QPXFS189 = POWER189

GET: Access to the basement

Basement Drawer

Puzzle: Not really a puzzle, but you have to know the right items to use

Clues: Candles above it, and Noa’s text

Solution: Get Fruit Knife from kitchen counter (not the Kitchen Knife), and Candle from the box in the upper left part of the basement under the Noa Plushie. Interact with both the Fruit Knife and Candle in the inventory to open the drawer and get your prize

GET: Front Door Trap Key

Bedroom Safe Box

Puzzle: Figure out the code to the safe box

Clues:

  • Sheet of PaperBedroom – “Safe combination are animals’ birthdays: cat then puppy, then bunnies. Dial order is R, L, R, L”
  • Standing Photo FramePuppy pic Nemu’s Bedroom – “Just born on New Year’s!”
  • Standing Photo FrameCat pic in Bedroom – “Hana-chan, born on the 7th
  • Paper with Manufacturing DateLiving Room under sofa cushion – Red Rabbit: 12th; Blue Rabbit: 17th
  • Inspecting the table in Nemu’s Bedroom that says that the blue bunny goes first

Solution: R7, L1, R17, L12

GET: Japanese Room Key

Japanese Room Puzzle Box

Puzzle: Moving tiles puzzle

Clues: None. (what’s weird is that the picture on the box appears in a frame in the Study. One would expect that would be a clue to the puzzle except you can’t get to the Study before completing the puzzle)

Solution:

GET: Study Key

Study Laptop Password

Puzzle: Figure out the Laptop Password
Clues:

  • Sheet of Paper Study – The password for work PC “1X X5 16 15 18 20”
  • Sheet of PaperStudy – The password for the work PC is “18 0…”
  • BookStudy – Regarding work PC:  A is “01;” B is “02;” Z is “26”

Solution:

Number – 18 05 16 15 18 20

Word – REPORT

GET:

1st Time: Bathroom Padlock Hint: “Here, so I don’t forget again. The number for the padlock is the leftmost column. Last is 5

2nd Time: Bookshelf Puzzle Hint: “From ‘Schaussen’s Diary: The Mad Artist.’ In order, my favorite colors are: brown, purple, red, blue, green. I notice a note on the laptop. ‘This is a good way to order the books. Brown will be first…”

Bathroom Padlock

Puzzle: Figure out code for padlock on lower cabinet next to washing machine

Clue:

  • Written on the padlock: “Note to self. The square is 3×3. Line 1 to 9 up in order, starting from upper left, going right.”
  • Study Laptop Password Puzzle clue: Here, so I don’t forget again. The number for the padlock is the leftmost column. Last is 5

Solution: The numbers on the combination wheel form a grid. The clue tells you how to orient the grid:

IMPORTANT: The clue on the padlock seems to be erroneous. You need to set up the grid with the upper left at 0

This is what it would look like if the in-game clue was to be followed.

This is the correct orientation and successful solution.

=1475

GET: Breaker Key (and batteries)

Study Bookshelf

Puzzle: Figure out correct order of books

Clues:

  • BookBedroom – “The dog drowns at sea, the bird and its yellow fade away with the sunset, the butterfly is eaten by the flower”
  • BookmarkBook from Bedroom – “I should reorder everything but the start… Yellow before green, after green comes blue”
  • Sheet of Paper Book in Japanese Room – “…red and purple let it be the last one”
  • Standing Photo FrameButterfly pic in Bedroom – “Not enough colors… I’ll put yellow after brown”)
  • Standing Photo FrameMarket pic in Study – “The last color is red”
  • Study Laptop Hint: “From ‘Schaussen’s Diary: The Mad Artist.’ In order, my favorite colors are: brown, purple, red, blue, green. I notice a note on the laptop. ‘This is a good way to order the books. Brown will be first…”

Solution: Brown, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple, Red

GET: Secret Room (Access to end of game)

Main Game Guide

The Journal Memos denote loops in the game, and double as story checkpoints. Selecting one will start the chapter over again.

While not necessary to finish the main game, completing 100% of the Side Stories (as denoted by the red numbers on the bottom right of each memo on the diary screen) is required to unlock the last CG and the best ending of the game. To do this, you must inspect every item until your partner starts talking to you and giving you backstory. There is a set number of items to inspect before this occurs, getting harder and harder at the end of the game.

**Warning! Spoilers Ahead!!**

If you’d like to view a simple text, no spoiler, non-detailed version of this guide CLICK HERE

To read all the Side Story dialogue written out (plus extras) CLICK HERE

Prologue

Deaths: 3

You go up to Nemu’s room on your birthday and are looking around. Inspect the only thing you can which is the desk and the photo on it which is a photo of you and some girl with her face scribbled out. Then you die. (CG acquired)

Uh. Was that a dream? Inspect the picture again. Die again.

Nope. Not a dream. So what’s happening? You drop your lasagna when you realize from the pain you keep feeling that you’re death looping. Inspect the desk one more time. You try to explain things to Nemu who twists your words and kills you. You die. Yet again. (CG Acquired)

Memo 1 – Tutorial Section

Deaths: 2

No! I’ll be killed by Nemu-chan again if I stay here!

You try to rip the diary, but it won’t rip and Nemu grows upset, so you stop, trying to not aggravate her into killing you again (pain is real and raw even if you keep resurrecting). Unfortunately, she’s still blocking the door, so start investigating items in the room.

Investigating Tutorial. After investigating things (I did all 6 items), Nemu moves away from the door. (This is the point you start at every time you die from now on)

Make a run for it! …Or not. You make up an excuse to leave the room to heat up the lasagna. It works. You try to act normal, but it’s hard. Then you think of your phone, but it doesn’t work and Nemu tells you the house phone is conveniently broken (teehee)

Puzzle Tutorial. You can walk around if you’d like and Nemu will creepily follow you (you can’t leave even if you try), but there are only 3 items to inspect. Take the notes from the magazine case and plant, then inspect them via the inventory. Solve the easy puzzle and get a special pen for your diary.

Dial Box Solution (click to expand)

Dial Box Code: 5748

Check out the Puzzle Solution Section for how to work through any puzzles

Nemu demands that you go back to her room to show you something special. You try and fail to stay in the living room, so you head up first and notice the wallpaper is peeling off, and underneath are multiple images of YOU. Nemu appears, enjoying your shock, and explains that she wanted you to understand exactly how much she’s obsessed with you. You get a little bit of insight into why she wants to kill you before… YOU RUN AWAY

Trap/Chase Event Tutorial. You end up in the living room where your diary glows and red letters appear on the page. There are a few more items you can inspect now. If you check out the kitchen table, you are instructed on how to place traps. Go get the Plastic Packing Rope from the cabinet next to the TV and set it up at the table. Inspect everything you can, pick up the Kitchen Knife next to the sink, and make sure to inspect Nemu’s phone. After looking at things (about 8ish inspections), Nemu will appear at your trap. If you have the knife in your hands she will pretend to be sorry and try to stab you, but you dodge and stab her instead. She ends up stabbing you anyways and you die again. (CG obtained)

Note: if you don’t pick up the kitchen knife and check Nemu’s phone, the story will not progress, and you will keep looping until you do

Another Note: The good news is that when you’ve already read scenes, you’re allowed to skip them with the + button on the Switch

Go to the living room again and this time, Akane appears! Thank GOD! While you cry from relief, Nemu is not happy but doesn’t act out… yet. You suggest Nemu prepare food while you try to convince Akane that Nemu is crazy and you’re in a death loop.

When she asks you to prove it, first go to the desk and save using the yellow pencil cup (the game will prompt you). Then look at ~10 things until Nemu shows up and kills both Akane and you because she’s jealous. You die.

Go down again and this time when Akane asks you to prove yourself, save if you want.

Don’t look at anything else except first, the BOOK on the desk and second, the PLANT in the corner in that order. A cat will meow twice and convince Akane. She follows you into the Parents’ Bedroom where she overhears Nemu’s psychotic exclamations (CG obtained)

Memo 2 – Enter Akane

Deaths: 1

Chase Events: 3

Nemu for sure isn’t herself right now. We probably can’t get through to her so let’s make our way out of here

Chase Event Tutorial. At this point, you’re going to try and unlock Side Stories, but you’ll also trigger Nemu’s Chase Events when you reach a certain number of inspections, so you’re going to want to find trap items and trap areas to use them.

Start inspecting items in the Bedroom. 5 inspections will get you Side Story 1. Pick up the Clothes from the wardrobe, and the Batteries from the floor cabinet. 15 inspections in (total, so 10 after the first 5), get Side Story 2. After about 25 Inspections, Nemu will yell, “Where are you?!” The music will change, and the screen will pulse like a heartbeat. You have a few inspections before the music ends and Nemu comes to kill you, so set a trap and either hide or lure her towards your trap to escape. In this instance, you can either use the Cat Plushie or the Game Console and set it up at the frame of Nemu’s bed. After inspecting a few items and the music stops she will come and try to kill you. Once she leaves and the music and screen returns to normal, you’re safe until the next chase scene.

Chase Event Hints:

  • After you get the Chase Event warning, you get around 2-4ish inspections before she comes into the room
  • You’ll know you’re on the last turn when you hear Nemu mumbling creepily to herself
  • If you don’t have your sound up or can’t hear it, you’ll know you need to hide when you try to inspect something and it says, “It’s not time to investigate.”
  • If you have a friend with you, the friend will automatically walk to you when you need to hide ASAP.
  • The screen will get really grainy when Nemu is in the room

NOTE: Do NOT go into the entryway of the house yet, otherwise it will trigger the next part of the story progression, and you won’t have all the side stories yet, meaning you’ll have to start the checkpoint over again to get them. If you don’t care about 100% completion, then head there

Side Story 3 pops up at around 30 total inspections. After you finish both bedrooms upstairs, head downstairs to look around. Make sure to set up the Plastic Packing Rope trap at the table to prepare for another Chase Event which happens around the 55-inspection mark. Escape either upstairs or into the bathroom. Keep methodically inspecting everything and unlock Side Story 4 around the 65 total inspections. You are able to take the Kitchen Knife and the Fruit Knife in the kitchen. In the bathroom, you can get Detergent B. When you hit around 85ish inspections, another Chase Event starts. Head to the bathroom and use either the Cat Plushie or the Game Console on the laundry hamper, then hide in the tub. Inspecting around 100 things will finally net you the last, the 5th Side Story.

Now, you can head to the entryway and get the holy heck out of–

Good grief. This girl really is INSANE. Yep. Not only did you watch Akane die by gaseous poison right in front of you, but you die too. (CG Obtained)

Go to the living room. Convince Akane by looking at the BOOK and then the PLANT in Nemu’s Room. Go straight out to the entryway this time. Noa will know about the trap and warn Akane.

Memo 3 – Basement Horror

Let’s find a way out, alive. It’ll be fine. We’ll definitely find a way.

Deaths: 1

Chase Events (100% Completion): 3

Go back to the Living Room and save the game, if you want. After that, first inspect Nemu’s phone on the table (this will allow Suzuka to arrive on the next loop), then return to the entryway and start investigating things. Side Story 1 received after 5 investigations. Continue checking out all the items in the entryway, then move to the living room. Side Story 2 received after 15 investigations. Remember to pick up the Plastic Packing Rope (“Nani Kore?!”) in preparation for another Chase Event… which rears its head around 25ish inspections. Now go up to Nemu’s Bedroom. Akane will say, “Something seems… off?” and it turns out the laptop is in a different position. You can save here if you’d like, then pick up the Cat Plushie and/or Game Console as trap ammo, then check out the trashcan near the closet for a Sheet of Paper. Read it in your inventory. It’s time to unlock the laptop, so inspect the laptop for another clue, and SOLVE THAT PUZZLE! A word document is still open that says, “I found a great new spot! I’ll take stuff that won’t fit in here over there. I can put up even more photos! Who’d expect a place like this to be in the basement.”

Laptop Password Solution (click to expand)

Password: POWER189

Check out the Puzzle Solution section above for a work through

Before investigating the underground storage in the kitchen, continue methodically inspecting things to unlock Side Story 3 around the 30ish mark. Other things you can pick up are: Detergent B in the bathroom, Kitchen Knife and Fruit Knife in the kitchen, Clothes and Cosmetics from the Bedroom. Honestly, the only one you actually need is the Fruit Knife which you want to make sure you have before you go down into the basement.

But don’t go down yet! Around the 55-60 inspection mark another Chase Event occurs followed by dialogue with Akane. This does NOT count as a side story, however, so keep going until you get to the 120-investigation mark to finally get Side Story 4. Make sure to check your Memo in the Diary tab and be sure you got everything, and also that you inspected Nemu’s phone in the living room.

When you’re ready, go ahead and inspect the underground storage in the kitchen and climb down into the basement. (CG obtained)

Memo 4 – Exit Akane

Deaths: 1

Chase Events: 1

…Anyway, let’s focus on getting out of this house for now

You’re in the basement now and it’s… disturbing to say the least. Pictures of you all over with resentful words written in blood over them. Akane says that Nemu is clearly insane. You find an old note from one of the diary’s original owners explaining that the diary is magical and giving it your blood forms a contract that activates its powers. These powers will remain until the contractor’s wishes are fulfilled, so make wishes with absolute surety. The diary doesn’t actively grant wishes per se, it just gives the contractor the power to fulfill their desires. The note further warns that the power will be a never ending, inescapable curse until the body and soul are destroyed. So, the only way to be freed from the diary, you must give the contractor what they want. You and Akane construe this to mean that they have to fulfill Nemu’s wishes… and you don’t know exactly what a madwoman wants!! You focus instead on simply escaping the house.

Check out all the things in the basement, making sure to take the Noa Plushie (creepy, much?) and the Candle underneath. If you didn’t grab the Fruit Knife from the kitchen, go get it now and return to the basement. Over on the far wall under the candles, you will automatically use the two items to get into the drawer and snag the Front Door Trap Key. At this point (about 10 investigations), you’ll get Side Story 1. Go back upstairs.

Note: Do NOT go to the entryway if you want 100% completion

Save here if you want to, then start investigating everything. A Chase Event will trigger around 25 investigations. Look at 10 more items for a total of 35 for Side Story 2. Once that’s done, now you can go to the entryway, use the key on the trap, and watch both Akane and yourself die again while losing it and telling Nemu that she is NOT your frie– Wait. Did she just say a name? Is Rinami-chan the name of that faceless friend that saved you from crippling loneliness? (CG Obtained!)

Memo 5 – Enter Suzuka

Chase Events: 1

There’s something here that can disarm the trap at the entrance. Follow me.

Back in the room again. Go to the living room. You brood about Rinami and think you understand what Nemu wants, but you have to stop Akane from dying again… Wait. Suzuka-chan! What’s she doing here? Never mind that, you convince her to come with you to Nemu’s room where she doesn’t believe you at all so must convince her the same way you convinced Akane. Save if you want, then select the Book then the Plant. Next door, Suzuka believes you when she hears Nemu’s death declaration. You realize that if Nemu’s wish was for you to die, then it should have been finished by now as you’d been killed so many times already (8 so far if you haven’t messed up). What the holy heck does she want then?

Combining Items Tutorial: From here on out, you can combine items you find to create traps to survive. A successful combination will be logged into the automatic combo list for future ease.

Before investigating the Bedroom, go back to Nemu’s Bedroom. Suzuka will point out the picture frame as something odd. She’s talking about the picture on the desk. Take the Standing Photo Frame of the puppy, Cat Plushie, and the Game Console. Check out the table with the bunnies, too. After 10 inspections, you get Side Story 1.

Go back to the Bedroom where Suzuka points out something on the nightstand. She’s talking about the nightstand against the wall which has a Sheet of Paper that tells you how to open the Dial Safe on the floor. Take the Standing Photo Frame of the cat on the shelf. 30ish inspections will bless you with a Chase Event. Go back to Nemu’s room and bait then hide. This triggers Side Story 2. (Unlock Memo 6)

Memo 6 – Exit Suzuka

Chase Events: 2

Let’s talk about this again… when we get out of here.

Return to the Bedroom to finish investigating things, then head downstairs. Suzuka will point out the sofa. If you’ve read the note and photo frames, then the last part of the puzzle is the smaller sofa. Take the Paper with Manufacturing Date from there. You now have enough information to open the Dial Safe in the Bedroom. Before going upstairs to do that, check out the items in the area, particularly Nemu’s phone on the table. Other things you can do now that you couldn’t before is get Detergent A from under the sink and open all 3 drawers on the refrigerator for Plastic Bottle, Ice, and Ice Pack. All items are used for traps (check out the item combination section above). Around the 60th inspection, a Chase Event occurs.

Once you’re ready, go on up to the Bedroom and solve the puzzle.

Bedroom Dial Safe Solution (click to expand)

Code: R7, L1, R17, L12

Check out the Puzzle Solution section for a breakdown

You get the Japanese Room Key for your trouble. Head across the way and unlock the door! Woohoo! More stuff to explore. First up, move both the futons on the right and the stack of cushions above (that way you can be prepared for another Chase Event). Then obtain Medicine Case B, Medicine Case C, and Detergent C from the medicine rack on the dresser and from the right side of the closet. Be sure to mix them to get Birdlime, Slippery Trap, and/or XSBirdlime (though at this point I still had the Plastic Packing Rope which works in Nemu’s Room or the Bedroom). 70 checks gets you Side Story 3. When that’s done, inspect the puzzle box under the floor cushions and solve it.

Puzzle Box Solution (click to expand)

You just got the Study Key! Head on over and unlock it. Save point! Just in time, too because 90ish inspections nets you another Chase Event. Trap her in either bedroom, then head back to investigate the study. Here, you get several Sheets of Paper, a Book, Medicine A, and two Cars to use as trap bait. We hit the 100th inspection, triggering the 4th Side Story, which means that we can now progress with the story!

Go down to the kitchen to get the Fruit Knife, then into the basement for the Candle and Noa Doll, then snag the Front Door Trap Key. Go on out and undo the trap for a cutscene where Suzuka betrays Noa, saying that if you leave, Nemu will be sad. She says that someone needs to be by Nemu’s side and that she’s the only one who can do it. Suzuka shoves you into the vase and accuses you of hiding Rinami the whole time. She runs off revealing that she has the hots for Nemu. (CG Obtained)

Memo 7 – Lights Out

Chase Events: 1

(Suzuka has been acting strange since the start… But I didn’t expect for her to do this.)

The knocked over vase has short circuited the whole house, cutting off the lights.

Immediately go up to the study and inspect the bookshelf for a cutscene between Suzuka and Nemu where Suzuka unveils that she’d been stalking Noa because she’d delved into Nemu’s past and knew all about Rinami’s betrayal. Suzuka paints a picture of Noa’s evil, trying to get close to Nemu just to betray and hurt her like Rinami in High School… all because Noa is Rinami’s friend in university. Suzuka ends it by professing her love to Nemu. You now know why Nemu is trying to kill you: a misunderstanding, and work towards this new goal. (CG Unlocked)

Important: Leave the study and go back in. The laptop should be open now (you must have watched the bookshelf cutscene for it to open. No other item is required)

You can go ahead and save in the Study now. Investigate the stuff there, making sure you’ve snagged items that will help you set traps (i.e. the Cars, Medicine A), and the 3 clues that will unlock the laptop (Desk, Table, Book). Solve the puzzle.

Solution to Study Laptop Password (click to expand)

Word – REPORT

See Puzzle Solutions section for a break-down

Then, go into the bathroom, get the Breaker Key from behind the padlocked cabinet by solving the Bathroom Padlock Puzzle using the clue on the padlock and from the laptop.

Bathroom Padlock Puzzle Solution (click to expand)

Middle Column: 1475

See Puzzle Solutions section for breakdown and special note

If you’re aiming for 100% completion, then head to the other rooms to investigate things. A Chase Event occurs around the 30ish mark, so foil her, then continue until you hit the 35-mark for Side Story 2.

It’s time to go into the entryway. Interact with the breaker on the wall twice.

Well, well… Welcome back, Suzuka. You try to reason with Suzuka explaining that you legitimately wanted to be friends with Nemu, appealing to her familiarity with Nemu’s shy personality. Suzuka has clearly been rejected by Nemu who admits that she always knew that you weren’t out to get Nemu, she was just trying to claim Nemu for herself. You continue to accept Suzuka as a friend and successfully convince Suzuka to work with you. (Unlocks Memo 8)

Memo 8 – Basement Confrontation

Deaths: 1

This diary has magic powers, so there might be something in the basement

The diary directs you to go into the basement. With nothing else to accomplish or get, head to the basement and…

Come face to face with Nemu, herself. Suzuka attempts to reason with Nemu, explaining how she had set all of this in motion by trying to take Nemu for herself, and that you had nothing to do with it. Hearing this Nemu stabs Suzuka (CG unlocked). Nemu explains how when Rinami first betrayed her, life lost all meaning and she shut down her emotions. She accuses you of trying to do the exact same thing Rinami did to her in high school. You try to reason with no success. Nemu eventually claims she’s tired of being betrayed, being suspicious of “friends.” So much so that she stabs herself in the neck (CG unlocked), then slits her own throat. She reveals her wish: to not have friends. You’re freaking out and realize that if you leave now, nothing will be resolved, so you pick up the knife and stab yourself.

You Die.

You know the drill: go to the living room, convince Suzuka (Book then Plant).

Memo 8 does not have any side stories, so just go to the kitchen to get the Fruit Knife, then to the basement and get the Noa Doll and Candle. With those, snag the Front Door Trap Key. Saving at this point is helpful. Go ahead and disarm the trap! Suzuka knocks you over, shorting the house again, and runs off. You wish that Akane was there because you feel that all 3 are needed to convince Nemu. All of the sudden, the doorbell rings and in walks… Oh! Akane! Clearly the diary is responsible for this… (Memo 9 unlocked)

Memo 9 – Getting Close

Chase Events: 7

All right. Honestly, I can’t wrap my head around what you’re saying, but how can I say no when you help, Noa?

Important: Missable CG – To get this don’t do anything and just go into the basement with Akane. You die painfully (CG obtained)

Back through the motions: Book then Plant. This time, you can either grab some trap items before heading to the basement for the Front Door Trap Key and welcoming Akane, or just reload your save file and start from there.

If you’re aiming for the 3 Side Stories, start investigating everything like normal, picking up trap items along the way. There’s no reason to not turn on the lights at this point, so go ahead and grab the Breaker key and turn it on, if you want to. Around 28ish investigations, a Chase Event will trigger, along with some dialogue with Akane — it won’t count towards the Side Stories, however. Keep checking things out to get Side Story 1 at the 35ish point, another Chase Event around 58-60 mark, and then Side Story 2 at 68-70 investigations.

NOTE: Do NOT go into the basement with Akane because you’ll trigger the trapdoor death scene

This time around when you solve the Study Laptop Password with the same solution as before, you get a different clue because now it’s time to solve the Study Bookshelf Puzzle. If you haven’t gotten Side Story 3, however, DON’T solve the puzzle yet until you do. Going into the Bedroom will have Akane point out that something is odd.

Study Laptop Password Solution (click to expand)

Password: REPORT

The next Chase Event appears around the 90ish, 115ish, 145, 180, and 205 inspection-marks, while the last Side Story appears after a whopping 215ish inspections (admittedly, I may have lost count a few times. Number is approximate)!! WHEW! (Memo 10 unlocked)

OKAY. Now that that’s over, it’s time to solve the Study Bookshelf Puzzle. You should have all the clues by now, so go on up and solve it!

Study Bookshelf Puzzle Solution (click to expand)

Correct Order: Brown, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple, Red

See Puzzle Solutions section for a breakdown

You will find Suzuka standing around in the secret room (interesting note, here: if you happened to trigger a Chase Event, it will clear as soon as the cutscene launches). Where you convinced Suzuka who is extremely apologetic, to work with you all as a team. (Unlock CG)

Memo 10 – End Game

Deaths: 1

Chase Events: 0

Yeah, Suzuka-chan’s my friend too. That hasn’t changed, even now.

From here, it’s time to go to the basement as you have determined, but before you do that, check out the painting on the ground for a Small Wooden Block. It looks suspiciously like the puzzle cube in the Japanese Room., so head on over and insert it for a small newspaper scrap that is too small to read and doesn’t go in your inventory. Go down to the living room and SAVE your game.

Approach the basement hatch and choose: “Acts with Akane and Suzuka.” Watch the cutscene (Obtain 3 CGs)

Welp. That didn’t work. Let’s try again. Either load Memo 10 or, better, reload your saved game. Make sure you got the small newspaper piece, and this time choose “Acts separately from Akane and Suzuka.” (Obtain CG)

Finishing 100% of the side stories will net you the Epilogue and the last CG after the credits roll.

CG #20

Congratulations! You Beat the Game!

Side Story Summaries

To read the full dialogue of the Side Stories and other scenes CLICK HERE

Memo 2: Side StoriesAkane

5 Investigations: Akane tries to understand why anyone would dislike Noa because Noa is so nice. She narrates Noa and Akane’s first meeting where Noa helped Akane with her schoolwork despite them not knowing each other. Noa doesn’t think she’s a good person, though she can’t seem to remember who she failed.

15 Investigations: Akane admits that she’d noticed that Nemu was obsessed with Noa, describing once instance where she saw Nemu steal Noa’s belongings. Nemu said she didn’t want to buy one, she wanted the item because Noa had used it. Akane didn’t want to ruin their friendship, so she didn’t say anything until now. Noa makes up an excuse for Nemu, but realizes that she doesn’t know much at all about Nemu.

30 Investigations: Akane tells Noa to follow her because she has memorized the layout of the house. Noa remarks that Akane has great memory as a whole, but questions why she’s not good at studying. Akane admits that whenever she tries to study, she just falls asleep. Aside from schoolwork, her memory is great.

65 Investigations: Akane questions whether Nemu liked her at all this whole time as friends. Noa quickly jumps to Nemu’s defense, insinuating that this behavior is just a one-off. Akane describes how whenever Akane talked to Noa, that Nemu didn’t like it, and seemed to have had some sad experience in the past. Akane wishes that she’d tried to talk to Nemu more. Noa assures her that everything will turn out just fine and that they’ll be able to get through to Nemu.

100 Investigations: Noa begs Akane to abandon her and escape if it comes down to it. Although Akane refuses, Noa insists, saying that it’s just awful to watch a friend die in front of her. Noa then trails off like she’s experienced it personally before. (Foreshadowing and clues to the past, much?)

Memo 3: Side Stories – Akane

5 Investigations: Akane first thought that Noa had ulterior motives for helping her with her schoolwork, but it turns out that Noa is just a nice person, so Akane had been wanting to return the favor somehow, but Noa never seemed to need help with anything. She feels happy despite the harrowing situation that she can now repay Noa for her kindness. Akane then mentions how Noa had been missing from school for a month without telling anyone anything and Noa explained that it was a health matter.

15 Investigations: Akane and Noa explore how Nemu doesn’t socialize with others much, wondering if something bad happened in her past. Noa mentions that Nemu said that there had only been one other person who’d seen her room before, so they speculate that she had at least one other friend either in High School or another University.

30 Investigations: Noa laments that she wishes she was as sociable as Akane. Noa admits to being very shy and waiting for other people to make the first move. Her only friends in university are are Suzuka, Akane, and Nemu… Oh. Akane says that it’s Nemu that destroyed the friendship, but Noa wonders what she did to earn Nemu’s hatred.

Post-Chase Event 60 Investigations (Doesn’t count towards Side Stories): Noa tells Akane that she felt a connection to Nemu because Nemu’s loneliness reminded Noa of herself. In Noa’s case there was an unnamed friend that helped Noa from her own loneliness. That’s why she drummed up enough courage to go talk to Nemu: she wanted to be more like that friend. Noa was about to reveal the name of the friend, when they knocked something over and Akane scolded her. At first Nemu didn’t open herself up to Noa, but soon, she did. However, even Noa noticed Nemu’s possessiveness and felt bothered by it. Akane states that the Nemu now is beyond just possessive, and not normal. Noa sadly (or begrudgingly?) agrees.

120 Investigations: Noa and Akane explore Suzuka, describing her personality and Suzuka and Akane’s friendship. They also explore how Suzuka is acting strangely recently and won’t divulge no matter how hard Akane pushes the subject.

Memo 4: Side Stories – Akane

10 Investigations: Noa asks why Akane wouldn’t mind risking her life to help. Akane is a likeable person with many acquaintances yet doesn’t consider any of them close friends like Suzuka or Noa who wouldn’t expect anything in return for help. She would gladly help Noa.

35 Investigations: Noa explains how she can commiserate with Nemu’s loneliness having been lonely herself before meeting the nameless friend who was effectively her savior. Akane expresses a desire to meet and befriend this person in the future. Noa realizes that while she has memories of the person, she can neither recall their face or name.

Memo 5: Side Stories – Suzuka

10 Investigations: Noa comments that Suzuka is great with her hands (explaining the ability to combine items, I guess) and Suzuka said she’s been like that since a kid when she copied her mom. She goes on to say that she made Nemu the cat plushie she keeps on her backpack, and she wishes that Nemu would smile the way she smiled when Suzuka originally gave her the cat plushie.

Post-Chase Event (doesn’t count towards Side Stories): Suzuka can’t believe that Nemu is trying to kill Noa because they were so close before. Noa expresses her feeling that they can go back to being friends, but Suzuka shuts that down and can’t restrain herself anymore. She accuses Noa of hurting someone she considers a friend, clearly knowing the root cause of Nemu’s rage, but refuses to tell Noa right now. She promises to get Noa out of the house alive to continue the conversation.

35 Investigations: Suzuka tells Noa that Nemu liked Noa so much because she’s a kind person, and Suzuka agrees with that. This is why Suzuka can’t wrap her brain around why Noa would purposefully hurt Nemu. The betrayal from a kind person is always the worst. Suzuka tells Noa that she has no trust for her at all.

70 Investigations: Suzuka recalls the first time Noa introduced Nemu. They didn’t hit it off right away because Nemu was so antisocial, then one day Nemu asked Suzuka for help with an injured cat. Appreciating Nemu as an awkward, yet nice person, Suzuka would engage with Nemu until they became close. Suzuka refuses to hate Nemu because she can see the good in her.

100 Investigations: Suzuka asks Noa thinks of Nemu, but then rejects her answer, saying that if Nemu is such a dear friend, why does Noa not know that Nemu was horribly bullied in High School. Noa defends herself saying that friends don’t have to divulge everything, but Suzuka continues to shoot her down saying that Suzuka knows more than Noa about Nemu. Suzuka believes that Noa is only pretending not to know, and warns her that Suzuka will side with Nemu and never betray her (Ooo, foreshadowing)

Memo 7: Side Stories – Noa

5 Investigations – Now that you know why Nemu is so angry, you feel bad for unintentionally hurting her by being friends with the person who betrayed her. Though you refuse to let her kill you, you resolve to stay alive so that you can clear up the misunderstanding so that Nemu no longer has to suffer the brutal pain of betrayal.

35 Investigations – Noa refuses to believe that someone as nice as Rinami would have done something like that to Nemu. She recalls how Rinami had helped her, when Noa was lonely and wanted to meet with Nemu to help her smile when Noa talked about a friend that seemed sad and lonely. However, when it came time to meet, Rinami grew pale at first glimpse of Nemu and the mention of her name. Rinami suddenly rushed home that instant.

Memo 9: Side Stories – Akane

Post-Chase Event: 30 Investigations – Akane starts to believe what you’re saying about Nemu. You further prove that your death loop is real by naming the weird monkey poppers Akane just got before arriving. Akane admires your strength and resolve in trying to right things with Nemu despite it all.

35 Investigations – Akane bugs you to reveal how many times and how she died already, but you get mad because it’s super painful to bring up memories of friends’ deaths.

70 Investigations – You recall a time when the four of you went to an amusement park. Suzuka got sick on a roller coaster and Nemu got a fun hat that she didn’t take off all day. You want to have that fun again and see everyone so happy.

215 Investigations: Akane apologizes on behalf of Suzuka because the two of them are so close-knit Akane knows all of her feelings instinctually, especially her powerful attraction to Nemu. You quickly jump in and assure her that Suzuka is your friend regardless of what has occurred

Memo 10: Endings

Despite all the other spoilers, I won’t spoil the endings here and you will have to either play the game or check out my Side Story Dialogue post.

CGs (20 Total)

#Name Memo #Description
1Alive, Together Prologue Where we began, each with different feelings
2Visiting NemuPrologue I was still oblivious
3The Storm Called “Nemu”Prologue I was ignorant to everything the first time I died. I watched Nemu watch me
4Keen EarsMemo 2Akane and I listened to Nemu rage on. Akane then believed my time travel theory
5Ladder Memo 3I followed Akane down toward a strange underground room despite my fear
6Escape Memo 6Suzuka betrayed me and made off. There was still so much I didn’t understand
7A Private Talk Memo 7Suzuka and Nemu’s talk in the secret room led me to many discoveries
8Secret RoomMemo 9The three of us decided we’d have to convince Nemu to work things out
9Convincing? Unconvincing?Memo 10My belief didn’t waver despite Nemu’s blade pointed toward me
10Cursed DiaryMemo 1How many times have I died? The cursed diary touches my right hand
11To the Depths of HellMemo 9I needed to work with Suzuka or I’d forever be caught in Nemu’s traps
12Nemu, By Her Own HandMemo 8Nemu killed Suzuka and then herself. There was nothing I could do
13TrapMemo 2Even Akane died because of me. Why did our way out become a trap?
14Suzuka’s FeelingsMemo 8Nemu took even Suzuka’s life despite how desperately Suzuka tried to stop her
15In Death Memo 1Nemu died by my hand, and I by hers
16Despair Memo 4I wanted to escape with Akane, but she died protecting me. I followed soon after
17Almost ThereMemo 10 I thought it would be resolved with four of us safe
18Another FailureMemo 10I gazed up at them as I fell into darkness. My efforts still weren’t enough
19RevivalMemo 10Now the four of us will resolve things. Rinami, we won’t forget you anymore
20Alive, TogetherEpilogue It’s a miracle. I can’t believe it! The five of us are finally together

Everdream Valley Written Walkthrough Guide

Everdream Valley Written Walkthrough Guide

written 11/24/2023, updated 1/5/2024

  • Published: Untold Tales
  • Platform Played: Nintendo Switch
  • Price: $14.99 from MSRP: $24.99
  • Rated: E (Everyone)
  • Genre: Adventure, Lifestyle, Simulation, Arcade
  • Date of Release: June 23, 2023

Fan-written and completed as I play through the game

You arrive on your grandparents’ farm for the summer to find it in disarray after their extended hospital stay. Everything is a mess, and the animals have all run away. Mom leaves you to be free labor for her parents while she and dad work sans kid for a few months. Help renew the farm, make it even better than before, and solve the mystery of the familial property!

Quick Jump

  1. Notes
  2. Game Mechanics
    1. Stamina Bar
    2. Time
    3. Sleep
  3. Main Tools
  4. Map
  5. Main Quests
    1. Talk to Grandpa
    2. Repairing the Chicken Coop
    3. Chicken Collector
    4. Four-Legged Friend
    5. Dog Training
    6. Find Willow
    7. Repair Willow’s Homestead
    8. Mission – Milk
    9. Feed the Animals
    10. Preparations for Cooking
    11. More Vegetables – More Cooking
    12. Scarecrow – Do it Yourself
    13. Put Up the Scarecrow
    14. Sheep on the Farm
    15. More Sheep
    16. Bring the Ram to the Farm
    17. Find the Duck
    18. Bring the Ducks to the Farm
    19. Find the Goat
    20. First Steps in Beekeeping
    21. Build a Home for the Bees
    22. Materials for the Goat
    23. Find the Alpaca
    24. Companion for the Alpaca
    25. Check the Location Indicated by the Alpaca
    26. Bring the Pigs to the Farm
    27. Look for the Girl in the Old Forest
    28. Get Rid of the Water from the Boar’s Home
    29. Mouse Hunter
    30. Explore the Heart of the Old Forest
    31. Mysterious Hut
    32. Magic Lantern
    33. Main Quest End
  6. Side Quests
    1. The Second Youth of the Old Orchard
    2. First Eggs
    3. More Chickens!
    4. The Missing Rooster
    5. Field Restorations
      1. Main Island
      2. Southeast Island
      3. North Crescent Island
    6. Preparing for a Birthday
    7. Lost Sheep
    8. Small Photographer
    9. Take Care of the Sick Animals
    10. Mysterious Noises
    11. Irrigation System
    12. On the Lookout for a Bee Smoker
    13. Feeders for Animals
    14. Catch Butterflies for the Merchant
    15. New Millstone
    16. Entertaining Goats
    17. Mr. Alpaca
    18. Wild Bee Honey
    19. A New Home for Wild Bees
    20. Scrambled Eggs with Chanterelles for Grandpa
    21. A Horse in the Valley
    22. A Boar in the Valley
  7. Dreams
    1. Wolves
    2. Chicken
    3. Ram
    4. Magpie
    5. Duck
    6. Bee
    7. Goat
    8. Alpaca
    9. Pig
    10. Wild Boar
    11. Fire
    12. Horse
    13. Green Frog
    14. Mouse
    15. Fireflies
    16. Cat – Remenedes
    17. Dream Lottery
    18. Post-Game Quests
  8. Bridges
  9. Cooking Recipes
  10. Tips

Notes

  • December 2023 – Was stuck after Green Frog Dream, being unable to sleep without the game freezing and therefore unable to proceed with time. An update to game software performed on Switch, reverted my game to before the Green Frog Dream. Successfully saw the dream, then next sleep successful without any crashing.
  • After finishing the main quests, the game stated that I’m missing 8 quests, but I can’t seem to find any way to start them.

Game Mechanics

Stamina Bar

  • Temporary Decrease – Using tools, running
  • Permanent Decrease – Beestings, not eating
  • Increase: Eat berries or tree fruit up until the third bar is filled, then only more ingredient-foods after that will increase. To gain new bar, eat crafted food with more ingredients in them

Time

Animals get hungry, plants grow and need water, seasons start to change

Time stops progressing after 2200 hours. If you’re outside the farm in the night, wolves will attack you resulting in a dreamless rest and reappearance at the farmhouse

Sleep

You can sleep at the farmhouse or in a tent

You must sleep in order to start dreams

Main Tools

  • Hammer – Complete Talk to Grandpa Quest (use to repair fences)
  • Axe – Complete Talk to Grandpa Quest (use to chop trees, small trees, and shrubs, also to disassemble fences)
  • Wooden Sword – Complete Repairing the Chicken Coop Quest (use to cut grass and shrubs and small trees)
  • Spade – Can find around the farm (e.g. the orchard near the wheelbarrow – Use to transfer trees, shrubs, and vegetables)
  • Watering Can – Get from next to the Well (Use to water plants)
  • Cat ToySitting on a rock right at the end of the fence line between the Chicken Coop and the Kitchen (Use to train cat)
  • Insect Net – Catch your first beetle and talk to Grandpa (equip to catch butterflies)
  • Basket – Tend to the garden patch then talk to Grandma (keep on person to automatically pickup fruits and vegetables)
  • Magnifying Glass – After finishing Sheep Quest, talk to Grandpa (use to change animal names)
  • Hoe – Finish Preparations for Cooking sidequest (Use to prepare crop beds)
  • Tent – Repair bridge near the farm (Use as portable bed, dreams will occur)
  • Camera – Enter the island North of the barn after repairing the bridge which will initiate dialogue. Talk to Grandma (Use to take photos for a side quest)
  • Bee Smoker – Find near the 3 beehives west of the barn (Use to calm bees when catching or collecting honey. Works as long as the smoke is present on screen)
  • Pickaxe – Get from Grandpa during the Find the Goat Main Quest (Use on rocks)
  • Fishing Rod – Get from Grandpa during Find the Alpaca Main Quest (Catch Fish)

Map

*This is a fan-made map, not official. I’ve tried to mark the X Rocks, but some may be missing. The names of the islands and bridges are some that I made up for easier reference and are not actual names. Hopefully it’s helpful!

Main Quests

Talk to Grandpa

Get: Hammer, Axe, & Denim Overalls

  • Find and Talk to Grandpa

Repairing the Chicken Coop

Get: Wooden Sword & Dungaroos

  • Use Axe to chop some trees and get wood. Walk up to the chicken coop to repair it, then talk to Grandpa

Chicken Collector

Get: Recipe for Chicken House, White Down Jacket, Permission to get a dog

Find 3 runaway chickens around the outside of the farm. Catch them and carry them back to the coop area. They’re hidden in bushes. You will hear and see movement when you get close.

  • Right on the other side of the fence (due east) near the coop
  • Near the duck pond southwest of the farmhouse
  • Northwest of the barn on top of the hill

Go talk to Grandpa

Four-Legged Friend

Get: Dog, Orange Pea Bow

  • Go talk to the merchant. Choose a Dog. Return to Grandpa.

Dog Training

Get: Stick, Cow Bell, Treats

  • Throw the stick for your dog until the 2nd level of training above his head is reached (I threw it 7x).

Go Talk to Grandpa

Find Willow

Get: Cow

Recommended: Before going to find Willow, repair an enclosure

  • Raise your dog’s level to 3 by playing with the stick
  • Equip the Treat (from grandpa) and use it on the dog
  • Immediately equip the Cow Bell
  • Wait for the dog to process the scent
  • Follow the dog (or just head due East of the barn) to Willow the Cow
  • Either chase and pet her to get her to follow you, or chase her back to the farm

Talk to Grandpa

Repair Willow’s Homestead

Get: Recipe for Fence, Recipe for Gate, Cow Sign

  • If you haven’t, either repair or build an enclosure and place a cow sign in it

Talk to Grandpa AND Grandma

Mission – Milk

Get: Recipe for Hay Bale, Recipe for Hay Rack

  • Grandma gives you a milk jug and asks you to milk Willow (make sure it’s a Milk Jug and not any other vessel)

Talk to Grandma and Grandpa

Feed the Animals

Get: Striped Sweater

  • Craft a Hay Cube and put it in Willow’s pen

Preparations for Cooking

Get: Recipe for Vegetable Stew, Recipe for Milkshake, Recipe for Pumpkin Soup, Recipe for Berries and Cream, Recipe for Milkshake

  • Collect 3 different veggies from the garden
  • Fix the kitchen next to the farmhouse
  • Make Vegetable Stew (Tomato, Carrot, Eggplant, and Milk)

Talk to Grandma

More Vegetables – More Cooking

Get: Hoe

  • Use Hoe to dig 6 new patches
  • Plant 3 different crops in the patches
  • Cook 3 different recipes (I made Milkshake [1x Milk], Bottle of Cream [1x Milk, 1x Bottle of Water], and Scrambled Eggs [2x Eggs])

*Hint: Get Bottle of Water by filling Empty Water Bottle from the well or any body of water

Head towards the crop patches and talk to Grandma

Scarecrow – Do it Yourself

Get: Recipe for Scarecrow, Scarecrow Hat

  • Gather materials:
  1. Hay Cube – Craft or find on farm
  2. Wood 2x- Find on farm or chop trees
  3. Rope 1x- Find on farm
  4. Old Gloves – Steps of old Mill (southeast of Farmhouse)
  5. Old Scarf – Right of the Farmhouse front door

Put Up the Scarecrow

Get: DREAMS, Red, Blue, and White Birdhouses 1-3

  • Craft Scarecrow
  • Place in yellow ring

Sheep on the Farm

Get: Hairpin

  • Build a sheep pen by either repairing/fixing or building a new enclosure
  • Place sheep sign in enclosure

Talk to Grandpa

More Sheep

Get: Whistle, Wool

  • Either use the dog to track or go due East of the barn to find a herd of sheep
  • Either use the Whistle on your dog to herd the sheep to the farm, or just pet them one by one and lead them to your enclosure (I did 3 at a time)
  • Talk to Grandpa and Grandma

Bring the Ram to the Farm

Get: Ram, Next Dream

  • After the first Dream after placing the scarecrow, talk to Grandpa. Either buy a Ram or find one (Southwest of the duck pond near all the mushrooms) and lead it back to the sheep enclosure

Talk to Grandpa and Grandma

Find the Duck

  • Head to the ducks (on a peninsula due west of the barn)

Bring the Ducks to the Farm

Get: Drought Season, New Quest, Next Dream

  • Using either snails (collect when it rains), or chasing/grabbing, bring 6 ducks back to the farm

*HINT: Catch a mallard (male duck) and bring it back to the duck pond. Go to sleep, play the dream game, and the rest of the group will appear on the farm afterwards

**NOTE: Finishing this quest will initiate a drought

Find the Goat

  • Go to the Southwest bridge and repair it
  • Go up to the rocks and bees
  • Talk to Grandpa
  • Do the Bee Quests
  • Get the pickaxe
  • Break the rocks
  • Find the goat
  • Bring it back
  • Go to Sleep

First Steps in Beekeeping

Get: Bees, Recipe for Yellow Beehive

  • Catch 20 bees with the Insect Net

Build a Home for the Bees

  • Craft a Yellow Beehive and place it near some wildflowers,
  • Talk to Grandpa
  • Go to sleep
  • Talk to Grandpa

Materials for the Goat

  • Place in the Barn: 10 each of Hay Cubes and Wood Planks
  • Talk to Grandma
  • Go to sleep

Find the Alpaca

Get: Fishing Rod, Fish, Nails, Green Rubber Boots

  • Recommended: Take a few fence panels with you and then find the Sick Alpaca north of the barn if you haven’t, and bring it with you
  • NOTE: Make sure you have your tent with you unless you enjoy running back and forth across the map
  • Go across the southwest bridge where you found the goat and look for the Sad Alpaca across the bridge. You can’t get to it because you need 4 nails to repair the bridge
  • Build a temporary enclosure and put the Sick Alpaca in it
  • Talk to Grandpa
  • Do your best in the fishing game
  • If you don’t win, just keep playing by approaching the stool next to the pond until you get 4 nails (you can’t get more than 4 nails, so don’t keep trying once you get all 4)
  • Repair the bridge (35x wood, 4x nails)
  • Approach the alpaca
  • Set up your tent and sleep

Companion for the Alpaca

Get: Alpaca, Owl Stand, Yellow Rubber Boots

  • Bring Sick Alpaca into the range of the Sad Alpaca
  • Bring both alpacas back to the farm
  • Build and place into enclosure
  • Talk to Grandma

Check the Location Indicated by the Alpaca

Get: Small straw hat with black ribbon

  • Head to the southeast bridge
  • Repair it with 35x Wood and 6x Nails
  • Go to the place indicated on the map

Bring the Pigs to the Farm

Get: Green Down Jacket

  • Gather and bring to safety 3 pigs without running into any geese
  • Bring a pig back to the farm

Look for the Girl in the Old Forest

  • Go to the location on the map on the Central island
  • Go to sleep
  • Talk to Grandpa

Get Rid of the Water from the Boar’s Home

  • Go kick the dam blocking the water on Central Island
  • Craft Forest Nurseries and place next to parent trees

NOTE: Do NOT plant down the saplings immediately after you harvest them. Hang onto them until you gather 15 total saplings, otherwise they will not count towards the next part of the quest, and you have to gather 15 more.

  • Place nurseries next to parent trees (you’ll know you did it right when you see little tree signs after you sleep), water, sleep for a total of 4 sleeps in your tent watering in the meantime, gather 15 saplings
  • Go across the bridge to the place indicated on the map, and plant the 15 saplings
  • Chase 5 Beavers into the new forest you just planted (I did 3 for the first round, then the last 2. Use the map to help find them, and best of luck getting them across the bridge. Be careful not to allow them back across! Make sure all are within the yellow boundaries)
Good luck with this…
  • Go back and destroy the dam
  • Talk to Grandma

Mouse Hunter

Get: T-Shirt, Mouse Dream

  • Catch mice (Will immediately complete if previously caught mice)
  • Go to Sleep

Explore the Heart of the Old Forest

Get: Blue Fireflies, Boar Plaque from Merchant

  • Go towards the location on the Southwest Island (must complete Get Rid of the Water from the Boar’s Home Quest first to clear the water)
  • Go to sleep when prompted (Tent) and play the mini game with the fireflies. If you lose, you need to keep playing until you beat it (reach the goal by collecting fireflies and looking for the large blue orb.)

HINT: Try really hard to capture at least 10 fireflies. Will save a lot of frustration with the next part

Mysterious Hut

Get: Answers to the weird happenings

  • Inspect the house
  • Follow your dog
  • Use your shovel on the X rock
  • Return to the house next to the large gnarled tree and use the Key to release Remenedes the Cat
  • Go to sleep

Magic Lantern

Get: GAME END (sort of)

  • Catch 10 Blue Fireflies
  • Hopefully you’ve already caught 10 blue fireflies because the only way to get them is to catch them in the dream mini-game. If you don’t, then you have to try sleeping until you hit the firefly dream and play it again.
  • Obnoxiously, the firefly dream wasn’t even an option for me until the 3rd try and then I FAILED so I had to try again!!! The mini game itself on top of the dumb random mini game wheel is annoyingly hard, too. I can never find the blue orb goal!
  • Do your best, save before something goes wrong, and fabricate the Magic Lantern (5x Wood, 6x Board, 10x Blue Firefly) at the crafting station
  • Read the Cutscene

Main Quest End

  • Your mom shows up to check on you
  • You get a rundown of your farming exploits
  • Mom wants to take you home, but you don’t want to
  • You get a rundown of things left to discover
  • Watch End Credits (or not)
  • See the Goose Squad planning to get up to no good

Side Quests

The Second Youth of the Old Orchard

How to Start: Go towards the Orchard behind the farmhouse. It will prompt dialogue. Go find Grandma and ask about it.

  • Cut down 5 old trees or shrubs
  • Find, dig up, and place 10 new trees (need Spade). They are scattered all over the map. Trees are indicated by white-painted trunks, while bearing shrubs have fruit on them.

Talk to Grandma

First Eggs

How to Start: After returning chickens to the farm talk to Grandma

Need: 4 Hay and 5 Boards for each Perch, for a total of 12 Hay and 15 Boards

Get: Recipe for Scrambled Eggs, Incubator

Make 3 Perches for chicken

  • If you haven’t done so, repair the Crafting Table near the barn in order to craft them.
  • Find the Boards and Hay inside and around the barn or elsewhere on the farm.
  • Place them near the Chicken House.
  • Now wait until the chickens lay the eggs.
  • Gather 3 eggs (1 day wait)

Talk to Grandma

More Chickens!

How to Start: Finish First Eggs sidequest

  • Place the Incubator and add an egg and wait 2 days

Talk to Grandma

The Missing Rooster

How to Start: Pick up feathers around Chicken House and talk to Grandpa

  • Either use your dog (using treat and feather) or just go find the rooster (in a huge brown tree southwest of the duckpond)
  • Bring the cat over right beneath it causing it to jump down
  • Bring it back to the coop

Field Restorations

Main Island

Primrose – Near Mill – (Get: 5x Yellow Common Foxglove)

Chicory – West of farm/East of Bee Houses – (Get: 5x Yellow Primula)

Knotwood – North of barn, across bridge with Sick Alpaca – (Get: 5x Blue Common Foxglove)

Southeast Island

Dandelion – Deep southeast next to river – (Get: 5x Yellow Canterbury Bells)

Bellflower – Northeast, just east of bbridge – (Get: 5x Purple Primula, Orange wide-leg pants)

California Poppy – Just southeast of the bridge – (Get: 5x Pink Primula)

Daisy – Southwest portion – (Get: 5x Pink Canterbury Bells)

North Crescent Island

Scarlett Clover – Northeast – (Get: 5x Blue Canterbury Bells)

Lupine – Northwest at the “throat” of the crescent – (Get: 5x Red Common Foxglove, Orange Wool Cap)

Preparing for a Birthday

How to Start: Finish Ram quest and talk to Grandpa

Get: Recipe for Wood Stool, Recipe for Log Table, Recipe for Firefly Lamp

*Hint: find fireflies randomly around the map at night, there are some near the entrance of the farm. Use the Insect Net

  • Gather materials (Planks x20, Fireflies x10)
  • Talk to Grandpa
  • Place items in the yellow area next to the Farmhouse (1x table, 3x stools, 4x firefly jars)

**NOTE: Finishing the quest will immediately end the day and initiate the next dream

Talk to Grandpa

Lost Sheep

How to Start: Lose a sheep during wolf dream

Get: Japanese Pajamas

  • Locate and return sheep to farm

Small Photographer

How to Start: Repair bridge north of barn, go onto the island, then talk to Grandma

Get: $500

  • Go to 5 locations on the map and take a photo for Grandma
  1. North island
  2. In front of Sad Alpaca’s Island in South-Central Island
  3. Southeast Island next to Dandelion Field deeply southeast next to the river
  4. Southwest portion of North Crescent Island
  5. Central area of the West Island

Talk to Grandma

Take Care of the Sick Animals

How to Start: Find the alpaca on the island north of the barn across the bridge, then talk to Grandma

Get: Purple Rubber Boots with a Yellow Bow

  • Use Animal Bandage on a sick animal
  • Talk to Grandpa
  • Craft an Animal Shelter
  • Cure a sick animal
  • Talk to Grandma

Mysterious Noises

How to Start: Talk to the merchant

Get: Bull

  • Go across the Southern bridge
  • You’ll find the bull if you follow the western shore past the cabbage patch and up a hill
  • Free him by picking up the boards
  • Lead him back to the farm

Irrigation System

How to Start: After the Duck dream, drought season will initiate. Talk to Grandpa.

There are sprinklers behind the house!
  • Gather the materials:
  1. Water Pump – On South-Central island near the sad alpaca inside the abandoned house
  2. Turbine (Engine)- North Crescent just north of the 2 goats
  3. Sprinklers – Southeast Island SE house inside and behind the house
  4. Garden Hose – Around the farm
  5. Electrical Wiring – Next to the windmill-looking thing between the Farmhouse and the duckpond
  • Connect the system:
  1. Set the Sprinklers where you’d like
  2. Repair the Turbine with the Engine
  3. Place the Water Pump against the pond
  4. Equip the Electrical Wiring and connect the Water Pump to the Turbine
  5. Equip the Garden Hose and connect the Water Pump to the Sprinkler
  6. Connect any additional Sprinklers to the first connected Sprinkler

On the Lookout for a Bee Smoker

How to Start: Get stung by bees

Get: Bee Smoker

  • Go to the cluster of 3 beehives west of the barn and get the Bee Smoker

Feeders for Animals

How to Start: Find deer in the orchard. Talk to Grandpa

Get: Recipe for Feeder

  • Craft a Wildlife Feeder
  • Place in orchard

Catch Butterflies for the Merchant

How to Start: After the Irrigation System Quest starts, talk to the merchant and then Grandpa

Get: Jeans, Reduced prices

  • Catch 4 type of butterflies (Go to 4 different wildflower fields and catch the butterflies there)
  • Talk to merchant

New Millstone

How to Start: Get the pickaxe while talking to Grandpa

Get: Mill use

  • Gather 10 stones
  • Craft millstone
  • Repair Mill

Entertaining Goats

How to Get: After finishing Materials for the Goat Quest, talk to Grandma

  • Find goat companions for your goat. Both are sick so make sure you bring 2x Medicine for Animals

Talk to Grandma

Mr. Alpaca

How to Get: Finish Companion for Alpaca Main Quest and talk to Grandma

Get: 10x Scarlett Clover, Male Alpaca

  • Sow 100 Clover in little island where Sad Alpaca was found
  • Head back to where you came from and you should see a brown alpaca
  • Lead male alpaca back to farm

Wild Bee Honey

How to Get: Finish Companion for Alpaca Main Quest and talk to Merchant

Get: Wild Honey, $226, Garland of Field Flowers

  • Head to spot on map
  • Using a Bee Smoker, collect Honey of the Forest Bees under the tree
  • Head back to Merchant and sell the honey

A New Home for Wild Bees

How to Get: Catch a Forest Bee and talk to Grandpa

Get: recipe for Hive of Forest Bee

  • Craft Forest Bee Hive and place it in a flower meadow

Scrambled Eggs with Chanterelles for Grandpa

How to Get: After a downpour, talk to Grandpa

Get: Recipe for Scrambled Eggs with Chanterelles, Recipe for Scrambled Eggs with Boletus

  • Find Chanterelles (South Island)
  • Make dish
  • Return to Grandpa

A Horse in the Valley

How to Get: Talk to merchant after bringing pigs to the farm

Get: Horse, White Everdream Valley T-Shirt

  • Head to the Western part of the North Crescent Island
  • Lead the horse back to the farm

A Boar in the Valley

How to Get: Talk to Grandpa after going to the Central Island

Get: Half-boar

  • Find the half-boar as marked on the map on the Central Island
  • Chase and pet the boar
  • Ride it back to the farm (it’ll knock you off a few times)

Build a Treehouse

How to Get: Talk to Grandpa after the Fire dream (mine came after finishing the Horse side quest)

Get: Mathematica T-Shirt

  • Choose a location for a treehouse (3 choices)
  • Build with materials:
  1. 20 Boards
  2. 50 Boards

The Little Aquarist

How to Get: Finish Build a Treehouse side quest and talk to Grandpa

  • Catch 2 small fish (taking fish from your storage box doesn’t count)
  • Put them in the aquarium

The Medium Aquarist

How to Get: Complete The Little Aquarist side quest

  • Place Medium Aquarium in treehouse
  • Catch 5 small fish
  • Place in aquarium

Frog House

How to Get: Talk to Grandma after Build a Treehouse side quest

Get: Small Frog Terrarium

  • Catch 1 frog
  • Place in treehouse

Frog Hunting

How to Get: Complete Frog House side quest

  • Catch 5 frogs
  • Make Big Frog Terrarium
  • Place somewhere on the farm

Beetle House

How to Get: Talk to Merchant after Build a Treehouse side quest

Get: Small Beetle Terrarium

  • Catch 1 beetle
  • Place in treehouse

Contaminated Pond

How to Get: Reach the far southwest portion of the North Crescent Island

  • Clear out 20 trash and weeds (use shovel)
  • Clear out 6 dead bushes (use sword or axe)
  • Go talk to Grandma who gives you Calamus
  • Plant 100 Calamus around pond
  • Go to Sleep

Dreams

Wolves

Get: Pumpkin Hats, Matches, Bonfire, Lost Livestock Quest, Wool

  • As the dog, chase away the wolves which will try to attack livestock and will damage the enclosure (affects persist when you wake up). Be sure to use the Run command!
  • NOTE: This mini game cannot be skipped like the others in the lottery

Chicken

Get: 5 Eggs

  • Run and jump on the Chicken Perches to collect the eggs within the time limit

Ram

Get: Find the Duck Quest

  • Talk to the Ram

Magpie

Get: Recipe Log Bench, Any money you collect

  • Collect objects. You can only carry 3 at a time, so drop them off at the nest. Get money by flying through yellow circles

Duck

Get: Magic Flute, Orange Down Jacket

  • Swim around and collect the 5 ducklings

Bee

  • Fly to the blue circle

Goat

Get: 10x Wood Board, 5x Milk Jug

  • Do your best and try to navigate the obstacle course

Alpaca

Get: 6x nails

  • Talk to the alpacas

Pig

Get: 12 Nails

  • Talk to the pig who directs you to the Central island

Wild Boar

  • Talk to the Boar

Fire

  • Put out the fire with your Watering Can

Horse

Get: Saddle (merchant)

  • Race the other horses to the finish line (not only did I find it hard to maneuver, but I got lost, lol)

Green Frog

Get: Fish stocked into originally contaminated pond

  • Talk to the Frog

Mouse

Get: No mice for 3 days

  • Head to the highlighted spot and sit on top of it to eat until the wheat bag at the bottom of the screen is completed
  • Avoid the cat by hiding in grass

Fireflies

Get: Blue Firefly, Owl Stand

  • Reach the goal by following the trail of fireflies before the last firefly’s light goes out

Cat – Remenedes

Get: Recipe for Magic Lantern, Magic Lantern Quest

  • Talk to Remenedes the magic cat
  • Find out that the Scarecrow’s hat is Remenedes’ owner’s (a witch) magic hat

Dream Lottery

Random Game or a Prize

Post-Game Quests

Bridges

SW Bridge (to goat) – 35x wood

NE Bridge (to alpaca) – 35x wood

Southern Bridge (to sad alpaca) – 35x Wood, 4 nails

SE Bridge – 35x wood, 6x nails

W Bridge – 35x wood, 12x nails

North Crescent Island Bridge: 35x Wood

Cooking Recipes

There might be more! This is all I could find from both my game and the internet. I’ve attempted them myself to confirm that they work. Mashed Potatoes apparently does work, you just need to officially find the recipe in-game.

RECIPEINGREDIENTS
Apple PieFlour, Apple, Bottle of Water, Egg
Berries and CreamStrawberry x2, Bottle of Cream
Bottle of CreamMilk, Bottle of Water
BreadFlour x2, Bottle of Water, Egg
Caramel AppleGreen Apple, Honey
Cherry PieFlour, Cherry x2, Bottle of Water, Egg
CheeseBottle of Cream x2
Corn on the CobCorn
Creamy Mushroom SoupBoletus Mushroom x2, Bottle of Water, Bottle of Cream
French FriesPotato x3, Sunflower Oil
French Fries with TrufflesPotato x3, Sunflower Oil, Truffle
Fried CabbageCabbage, Flour, Cornish Cross Chicken Egg
Fruit SoupStrawberry, Cherry, Bottle of Cream, Bottle of Water
Fruit SaladStrawberry, Raspberry, Blackberry, Gooseberry, Cherry
Green Vegetable DishPeas, Broccoli, Bottle of Cream
Mashed Potatoes*Potato x2, Milk, Egg x2
MilkshakeMilk
Omelette with TrufflesEgg, Milk, Truffle
PieFlour, Water, Egg
Pumpkin SoupPumpkin, Bottle of Water
RatatouilleTomato x2, Carrot, Eggplant, Red Pepper
Scrambled EggsEgg x2
Scrambled Eggs with BoletusEgg x2, Boletus
Scrambled Eggs with ChanterellesEgg x2, Chanterelle
ShakshukaTomato x2, Egg x2
Fried VegetablesCarrot, Peas, Bell Pepper
Strawberry JamStrawberry x2, Honey, Bottle of Water
Sunflower OilSunflower x2
Tomato SoupTomato x3, Bottle of Water
Vegetable SoupCabbage, Carrot, Potato x2, Bottle of Water
Vegetable StewTomato, Carrot, Eggplant, Milk
*Mashed Potatoes require finding the recipe via X Rocks

Tips

  • Save often not just relying on autosave because the Switch version crashes a lot, mostly during autosaves
  • Do not go down the rocks behind the Sad Alpaca without an Owl Stand! Game breaking stuck area despite there being a recipe rock there!
  • If there are no more forthcoming quests, go to sleep and/or talk to Grandparents
  • You don’t actually have to play the Dreams. Just cancel out of them. The only exception is the wolf one.
  • Most animals are happy to eat Calamus grass
  • Eat lots of Ratatouille (easy in the beginning)
  • Carry and eat lots of berries/fruits to quickly replenish stamina and easily manage goose attacks
  • Keep playing the fishing game against Grandpa to get enough nails for the Sad Alpaca bridge
  • The game gives you just enough nails to advance at the pace it intends for you
  • Most of the minigames are frustrating and difficult
  • After getting the pigs onto the farm, there will be truffle-loving pigs roaming around. You can ride them!
  • Turn on “Calm Horse Camera” in the Gameplay Settings if you’re prone to motion sickness like I am
  • If your game continually freezes on the loading screen after a dream or trying to sleep, just run around until the wolves come out and kill you. That will avoid dreams and allow you to progress to the next level. Hopefully this massive bug/glitch has been resolved with the update.