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

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

Game Mechanics (How to Play)

Inventory

Puzzle Clues

Trap Items

Item Combinations

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.

Puzzle Solutions

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.

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

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.

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.”

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

…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

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.

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.

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

(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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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.

Congratulations! You Beat the Game!

Side Story Summaries

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

CGs (20 Total)

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