This guide will help you to figure out how to do the tutorial (quicker). In case you got any questions, feel free to write below this post, join the discord or add me!

In the end of this guide I'll put a full video tutorial as a link for youtube, where you can check out any steps closer.

Consider...

I personally would recommend turning the nerve mode off while learning the game. It drains the sanity a lot and often makes learning how the investigating works, harder. In the end, it's up to you. Your sanity will drain whenever a ghost manifests, or you miss gathering the evidence it gave you. You can quickly restore it with heading back to the base-camp. But if you want to turn it off to learn the game without a „threat“, you can turn it on/off in the settings.

This guide is about the ghost investigation part.


Head into the Dining Room.



2. The EMF – Meter

1. Press B to open your backpack and equip the emf-meter (either left or right click)




2. Walk through the room and check every power outlet in the room



3. Orbs will spawn in the room now (many, almost looking like dust), position yourself close to them and wait until Stephanie gives you 2 voice lines (about something being odd/paranormal) and the tutorial moves on. The EMF Meter has to spike

(Check the Thermo part to see how the orbs look! I forgot this here, sorry, will change it soon!)

1. Press B to open your backpack and equip the thermometer (either left or right click)



2. Walk through the room and check every possible source for temperature fluctuations (heaters, possibly windows, but mainly about the heaters)



3. Orbs will spawn again. Move to the position and get close to them to gather evidence, until Stephanie gives 2 voice lines and the tutorial moves on.

1. Press B to open your backpack and equip the laser pen (either with left or right click)

2. Turn the laser pen on (depends on which hand you got it equipped in, click that mouse button)




3. A ghost will spawn around the table now, so wait for it to happen. As soon as the ghost spawns, point the laser pen at the ghost and away from it. Notice the light-color changing. Do that until the tutorial moves on




4. Press V to place the laser pen down. Try to place it well around the table, so that the ghost moves through it. The color changes to yellow if the ghost crosses the path with the dots.

1. Open your backpack and equip the EMF-Pod (either left or right click)



2. Turn the Pod on (depends on where you did equip it, press that mouse button)


3. As you did before for the emf-meter, check every power outlet in the room.



4. Orbs will spawn again (this time 2-3 golden/yellow quick moving ones, these may be hard to spot sometimes). Move to the orbs and gather evidence with placing next to them. The EMF-Pod has to react to them with beeping.



5. Press V to place down the emf-pod. In the end, it's up to you, where it works best. Just have in mind, the emf-pod reacts with outlets etc!

1. Open your backpack and equip the camcorder with right clicking it

2. Turn on the camcorder with right click



3. A ghost will spawn in a bit, give it some time and hold the camcorder at it. The free slots counter will go down to 4 slots as soon as it picked up something paranormal.




4. After recording a video, open the manager mode. You enter the manager mode with holding the right mouse button while having the camcorder equipped. Click on the small arrow pointing up, to upload the video to your deduction board.



5. Press V to place the camcorder. I would advise to place it close to a wall, so that you cover a lot of the room.

1. Open your backpack and equip the camera (right click) and the recorder (left click).



2. Wait until the ghost manifests or an item is being thrown. Right click then (you can see me spamming the trigger, just to already increase the ghost lvl).



3. Wait until a ghost gives you paranormal noise or a voice line. Left click as soon as you can hear something. If you recorded something paranormal, the track-number will increase. Whenever you hear an unusual noise, left click. Doesn't matter if it was ambient noise or not, like that you make sure, you didn't miss anything.



4. After you've obtained a photo, hold right click to enter the manager mode. Next to the screen, the small round button (bottom right), is where you can upload the photo. In the manager mode you can also view the evidence taken and delete it if it's not needed anymore.



5. The same now for the recorder. After you've gathered the audio evidence, hold left mouse button and click the small button (right side) below the screen to upload the evidence you've taken. You can also listen to the tracks you got so far in this mode.

1. Press F to open the provocations' menu. In this menu you can use different lines to get the ghost to do something. The symbols next to the questions give you information, which evidence type you are provoking. Eye = visual, ear = audio, green arrow = increase ghost lvl for a short time, and the last one is about the ghost activity.
So click on a question-type (who, what, where, when, why) and choose a question (you can later change them on the laptop). Click the question you want to ask. (I recommend using an audio or visual one)

Another „screen“ will open and click as soon as the symbol is visible.



(Optional) after you've asked, hold left click to check your watch.

2. As soon as the ghost gives you evidence, after you've used the provocation, gather the evidence the ghost gives you.

1. Even though the tutorial does show otherwise, I would start with open the backpack, equip the recorder and the paramic (left hand for recorder, right hand for paramic). Wait until the ghost gives you an audio line and use the recorder (the paramic just assists, it's not there for recording.) As soon as you recorded and audio line with both tools equipped, the step should be done


2. Now you got to increase the ghost lvl with gathering evidence. I mostly use the audio or visual evidence. Just whenever the ghost gives you evidence, gather it until the step's done, or you can hear chimes. This means the ghost has max lvl.



3. In case the ghost didn't give you a hint about its death visually, I recommend using a provocation for it. I mostly use „Did you end your life?“ Sometimes the ghost does show it by itself, though.
My ghost here was waving his arms around a lot and looked around a few times. Keep the death animation in mind or take lots of photos/videos of it, so that you can recall what it was.


4. The same now for the passion or the death cause of this ghost in terms of audio lines. I mostly use following provocations to trigger this evidence (remember you can change the provocation questions at the pc). Sometimes the ghost also gives you these lines without a provocation.

- Tell me when you died
- What did you enjoy in life
- I know you took your life, tell me why

In my case the ghost gave me buzzing of wasps and screams.

1. After you've gathered the cause-of-death animation/audio lines, so as soon as you have a clue what could have happened, head back to the laptop and open the fallen apple app. Since you saw if the ghost was male or female, you can rule the opposite gender-profiles out. Open the profiles on the fallen apple app and search for a person which „article headline“ could fit for your ghost. For me, it was „Lethargic Response Leads to Death“. Upload that one to your deduction board. While we're at it, we can check for the relic of this ghost. Click on the .png below the article to see, what relic you're now looking for, to be able to release a ghost. You can find the information in this .png.



2. Open your Deduction board after you've uploaded the profile and click on the small box next to the ghost's profile. You can see an icon next to the ghost location room in your deduction board. Put the same icon next to the profile to organize your deduction board. This is helpful for the moment when you'll have 5 active ghosts in the later game.



3. Since you've taken a look at the relic (you can still check it on the deduction board if you forgot) you're now heading to the place where you can find the relic. Grab the relic and head back to the ghost room. The tutorial will move on, if you got the relic right.

1. In the ghost room, open your backpack and equip the Jacob's Ladder. Turn it on (click the mouse button in which hand you equipped the ladder). You need to find the ghost locations, means you need to see sparks at the end of the arch after you've turned it on. Move around in the room until the tool does that. After you've found the spot, put down the relic and then put down the ladder with pressing v (important the tool needs to spark still, otherwise you need to relocate.)



Later in the game you'll come across different ghost types, you can also (while equipped) hold the mouse button for the ladder and get into the „manager mode“. You can switch the frequency there. 9 = Intelligent, 12 = shadow, 20 = Residual

2. Grab the relic (e) and start the release (when the arch still sparks). Open the provocation menu and head to the Release section. First, start with its name. As soon as Stephanie said her line, open the menu again with pressing F and choose the passion/hobby you've found out. Once again, after Stephanie said the line, press F and go for the cause of death. Click on that one and if there will be a bright light, after Steph said everything, the ghost should be released.

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In case at one point, Stephanie says „What was I doing“ or shows any sign of confusion, either the ghost lvl got down (if you boosted the lvl with a provocation) or you got a wrong profile. Investigate more to figure out who the person was then or, if it was about the lvl, boost the ghost lvl once more with the provocation for it.

1. Leave the mansion. Congrats, you've hopefully released your first ghost!



Here is the video from the full tutorial video: https://youtu.be/DrSVdzhzE8c



Addition for the Archives


On the following investigation, you'll receive a call from Conrad. Follow their dialog.

He'll tell you about the archives you can find in this mansion (I'll upload a guide for their location in a few days)

Walk around in the mansion and in some areas you'll find colored papers or items (purple/magenta), take a photo of them and upload them in the deduction board.

Once you've uploaded the archives, click on the hand icon in your deduction board and click once more on the chapter to get to the archives notes.