Heavy Dreams

Heavy Dreams

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100% Achievements: Heavy Dreams
By Mercury and 2 collaborators
A quick guide describing an optimized route that'll get you all achievements.
   
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Introduction
Heavy Dreams is a puzzle game in which you explore puzzles you find on an old laptop in your attic.

See the developer's official guide here:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1502444726

I am writing this guide to give an explanation for when each achievement pops, as well as a walkthrough that just gets you all achievements. See the developer's guide for a more thorough explanation of the puzzles as well as a walkthrough that will take you to the end of the game. This guide will take you on an extremely optimized route, and brings my time following the official guide (~45 minutes) down to a mere 5-10 minutes.

Leave a comment below with any errors or optimizations that could be made to this guide.

DISCLAIMER: To save, click the door icon in the taskbar, and press "Back-up data." How reliable this is, I'm not sure, so try to do the game in one session if you can. It's insanely quick anyways.

If you ever need to delete your save, you can find it in
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local
and in your registry (type "regedit" into your taskbar's search on your PC) at
Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\DirectInput\

They're located in weird spots, so I thought I'd note this if you were having any troubles and felt the need to delete your save. You need to delete both of those folders to wipe it.
Walkthrough
Press the spacebar to skip the intro.

Upon starting the game, type the following for the username and password:

Username: zhangj18 Password: bubblegum1

Upon logging in, open up the web browser (globe icon on taskbar) and type in "jmcgames.com/11182022" and click the "Go to URL" button. This will bring up an easter egg that opens in your default web browser.
One Last Time This is Jay A. Zhang, signing off

Open up the calculator (2nd icon on taskbar) and type in "0915" then "=" (you'll need to press the = button for all of the calculator related tasks)
Well Someone's A Cheater Where did you even find this code???

Type "13000" into the calculator.

Type "317537" into the calculator.

Type "88224646" into the calculator.

Type "5552368" into the calculator.
I ain't afraid Apparently someone knew who to call.

Type "2314" into the calculator.

Type "12" into the calculator.

Type "1804" into the calculator.
Raise a Glass... I'm not crying, you're crying!

Update the computer by pressing the door icon on the taskbar and clicking "Update."

Open up "Kingdom Come" and get a score of exactly 18500.
You shoot by pressing the spacebar and move using WASD. You can reload ammo by waiting at the far left or far right buildings at the bottom of the screen. You cannot shoot while in the reload zone. You lose by letting 3 missiles or zeppelins destroy the cities below. It's not a hard game.
To achieve a score of 18500, you need to shoot 18 zeppelins/missiles (both yield 1000 points) and collect a powerup. The powerup is a blue orb sometimes dropped by enemies upon death, and with it you get a big spray with every shot, as well as another 500 points. Be careful with the powerup and don't go over 18500 points!
It's possible if you kill two enemies that are too close to each other that two of these powerups will spawn on top of each other, granting you 1000 points, so if this happens be sure to just get another powerup.
It's also possible that you might not get a powerup before going over 18500. In this case, just try again, and hope RNG is in your favor. It shouldn't be too bad.
Once you hit 18500 points, kill yourself by running into a zeppelin or missile, or let them destroy the cities. Don't close "Kingdom Come" yet!

On the game over screen in "Kingdom Come" click the capital "C" 6 times, the capital "H" 12 times, and finally the capital "O" 6 times.
NERDDDDDD Someone still remembers sixth grade biology.

Open up "Hopes, Dreams, pt. 1," scroll down to near the bottom; right click, click on "Insert Image," and click on "Ribbon." (you should've earned this by getting 18500 points in "Kingdom Come," if you don't have it just do that segment again). Put it into the trophy case (see picture if you need help)
Achievement Unlocked! Achievement Unlocked!

And that's a wrap!
Conclusion
Hopefully this guide helped with the 100%, and it was clear enough. If there's anything that could be improved on in this guide, please comment below.

Credits:
The developer for his official guide, which helped a ton with the puzzles
DDtective for helping me out on my initial playthrough
lylat and Hikikomori for testing the guide
GENiEBEN for figuring out how to get One Last Time and Well Someone's A Cheater

23 Comments
rodrigoglatz 14 Nov, 2020 @ 3:36pm 
I can't click the numbers from the calculator either, just a few of them and can't reset it.
Mercury  [author] 8 Jul, 2020 @ 1:11pm 
I'm not sure why you can't click on the numbers, the game hasn't seen an update since 2018 so it must be on your end. No one else has had this issue, so please let me know if you figure it out so I can add it to the guide for anyone else who faces the same problems :(
Markus𓆩ꨄ︎𓆪 8 Jul, 2020 @ 12:59pm 
after typing in the numbers (since i couldn't click them) for "well someone's a cheater" I cant hit enter so the number list is too long for the calculator (which doesn't reset upon open and closing like a calc app would on the computer). Any fix for this?
Tammiej 5 Jun, 2020 @ 12:52pm 
Thank you!
RVK 29 Jun, 2019 @ 2:32pm 
Thank you for this great guide! I got stuck after completing the NERD achievement because I could not see the Hopes Dreams pt 1 file. All I had to do was Update again, perhaps include that in that segment of your guide (or maybe I missed it).
Zera of Palestein 23 Oct, 2018 @ 9:38am 
Thanks a lot! that was helpful
PunkSteve 21 Oct, 2018 @ 12:33am 
Thanks for the guide. :ss13ok::cybereye:
shpasic 11 Oct, 2018 @ 2:10pm 
ok, i've finally got it. the funny thing is that it works with "quotes" signs (proper page is loaded), like in the guides, but the achievement unlocks when typing the link without the quotes.
Mercury  [author] 11 Oct, 2018 @ 1:47pm 
try restarting the game, that shouldnt happen, weird; make sure no typos were made
shpasic 11 Oct, 2018 @ 1:40pm 
yes, it's loading a hidden page in real browser, but no achievement. others meanwhile worked as expected.