Hey, the game is quite complex, so if you want to read up on a mechanic, a game wiki is available here. It's the same wiki version as the one you find in-game.
Since we have a lot of players from a brazilian streamer Cellbit, there is also a portuguese version made by "Null" from our Discord (invite), you can find it here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DnyNi4mrdNn8ICiFIBv90rCVvLp4glkRZ1zLRz-3O-A/edit
Quick info
The pills from the AlphaMedicine appear at the corner of the motel, near other packages. "Turn the lights on/off" means turning off both the main lamp and the ceiling lamp; desk lamp and toilet light don't matter. Stalkers are the human-like hallucinations, demons are the monster hallucinations. Hitmans are the ones which shoot you with a gun.
General Information
To win the game, you must explore all 71 links on TheHiddenWiki and complete all three NSA sites which can be found in the late game. Exploring the wiki increases your anxiety. Having over 100 anxiety points kills you. You are hunted by hitmans and have fixed amount of time to get rid off them. You get rid off them by searching their name in the Scanner app and then putting their information on various dark web sites. You're hallucinating about Stalkers and Demons. You must turn on / turn off your lights based which type of hallucination is more stacked, otherwise you'll go insane and lose. When lights are turned on, you must look around from time to time to scare off Stalkers. You also have to deal with other horror events.
All websites must be found using TheHiddenWiki first; you can't metagame by typing them in the browser. All available websites are on TheHiddenWiki; there are no other sites in the game. The order in which you discover websites differs only by +/- 5 positions, so early-game websites will be found early on, medium-game later and end-game like NSA sites at the end. The hitmans chain-of-information complexity scales in the similar way: you will be able to dox first hitmans using just first couple TheHiddenWiki links, but as the game goes on, you will need to explore TheHiddenWiki deeper to be able to solve more complex hitman puzzles.
You need money for:
- Paying "intelligence gathering" websites for their help in finding enemy hitmans.
- Paying a murderer to counter-hit enemy hitmans.
- Buying AlphaMedicine pills which relieve your anxiety.
- Buying combolists from TheDarkHub for the Checker app.
- Buying money-earning apps like the Checker or Proxyware.
You gain money by:
- EasyLeads App: Scamming people with your text.
- Proxyware App: Extracting money/other from your customers.
- Checker App: Selling cracked accounts on TheDarkHub (most profitable method of earning).
- Solving hacking minigames.
- Delivering Buyer's Bay products.
- Blackmailing people.
Demons
Demons spawn when the lights are off. You can scare them away by turning the lights on, even if just for a second. With every demon event, you will gain one demon stack and lose one stalker stack. You can find out how many demon stacks you have by looking how many demons spawn during an event. There are three types of demon events: a) on the bed b) on the wardrobe c) on the floor. With the maximum number of stacks (3), every type of demon will spawn. After that, you should definitely keep your lights turned on for some time: otherwise every next demon spawn will trigger an attack minigame.
Stalkers
Stalkers spawn when the lights are on. You can scare them away by looking at them or turning the lights off. If you don't scare a stalker off within 60s, he is going to kill you. With every stalker event, you will gain one stalker stack and lose one demon stack. You can find out how many stalker stacks you have by looking how many stalkers spawn during an event. There are three types of stalker events: a) near the toilet b) inside the wardrobe c) outside the window. With the maximum number of stacks (3), every type of stalker will spawn. After that, you should definitely keep your lights turned off for some time: otherwise the next stalker event will kill you.
Hitmans
Hitmans are people sent to kill you. After a hitman spawns, MARKOV will send you a message containing hitman's nickname. You must /scan [username] in the Scanner app to find some more information about the username. Then, depending on what information you receive, you must put it in one of the webpages found in TheHiddenWiki. For example, if the Scanner app outputs you a CryptoBros account, you must go to the CryptoBros.onion website and search for his username there. Then, you will receive his crypto address: this one goes in the Blockalysis.onion. You must follow this chain of various information until you find out hitman's home address. Then, you can go to HireAMurder.onion site and pay to have him killed. As time passes and more hitmans spawn, the chain of information will become more and more complex. All of the mentioned websites must be first found on TheHiddenWiki.
Anxiety
You can see your anxiety by pressing TAB. The more anxiety you have, the shorter the cooldown on various horror events, up to -50%. If you gain more than 100 anxiety, you will be killed in a cutscene. You can relieve your anxiety by buying and consuming pills from the AlphaMedicine site. They will decrease your anxiety by -50%, so it's worth it to wait until you have a lot of anxiety to take it down. Every pill purchase will increase the price, until it hits a cap.
Proxyware
Proxyware is the second app to earn money. You can download it from the Proxyware website found in TheHiddenWiki. Buying ads will increase your customer amount by the % shown in the app. Because it is a % increase, you should try to accumulate as many customers as you can before extracting any valuables out of them. E.G a 2% influx from 5000 customers is 100 customers per second and 2% influx from 500 customers is just 10 customers per second. You should extract ETH, credentials and proxies from your customers only when you really need to or when the app hits the limit of maximum 10 000 customers. Proxyware link is at position ~11 in TheHiddenWiki.
Checker
Checker app can be found at position around ~26 in TheHiddenWiki. It consumes credentials and gives you cracked accounts, which sell for a lot on TheDarkHub. Checker is the most profitable earning app available, especially with bought Checker modules. Remember to use EXP to upgrade it.
Checker modules
Buying Checker modules multiplies your credentials. You have one module "Amazoom" by default. After buying the second one, you can reuse all your credentials on the new module. It's very profitable when you run out of credentials with current modules.
TheDarkHub
TheDarkHub is at position ~25 in TheHiddenWiki. The main page has thread links which let you buy credentials for ETH. The Seller's Bay lets you sell cracked accounts. You can click KappaMeister's name and receive optional quest to kill/blackmail him.
4+ Hitmans
First three hitmans spawn at fixed time and have fixed time until they kill you. Fourth hitman and every next one are not fixed: their chain-of-information pattern is very variable, and the time until they kill you is based on how complex their doxing sequence has generated, e.g +2 minutes for every information needed to dox the hitman. This means complex hitmans will give you a lot of time to solve them.
TheHiddenWiki
TheHiddenWiki contains all .onion sites relevant to the gameplay. It consists of useful websites, like the ones you need to dox hitman, but also harmful websites: those will increase your anxiety and force you to buy pills from AlphaMedicine. One specific type of blogs has hidden hacking links in them, which will give you EXP and ETH.
Blackmailing
Most of the intelligence gathering websites have some form of author username on them. You can scan this username and doxx him like a regular hitman. You can then chat with him and blackmail him for some money. It's hard to find time to blackmail a person with all the hitmans hunting you; consider doing it only when you're ahead.
Luxury Shops
Those are used for Buyer's Bay you find later in the game. See below.
Buyer's Bay
The Buyer's bay marketplace pays you ETH for shipping a specific item to the right post box id specified on the order. You will have to invest some money to buy the item on various "luxury shops" located on TheHiddenWiki and then receive your money (which is more than what you paid) on Buyer's Bay. To ship an item, copy the "post box id" on Buyer's Bay order and paste it on the website that allows you to buy that item. The orders refresh every x minutes. The marketplace can be found at position ~50 on TheHiddenWiki.
NSA Sites
Completing all NSA sites will let you win the game. They consist of three minigames that must be successfully completed in order to gain access. The username:password to access the NSA site will be given to you by MARKOV in a text message. After completing all three NSA sites, talk to MARKOV and download an app from him.
Electricity Shutdown Event
After +20 min in the game, there is a chance for the electricity to be down. You have to outside to the place where AlphaMedicine pill box appears and restore electricity using the red box there.
Eye Event
Eyes appear after +20 min in the game. They let you check if you're being watched by a stalker: they hide and stop talking when there is one watching you. The eyes will appear and disappear in waves.
Cockroaches, Goat Demon Event
During a cockroach event, there is a % chance for the lights to start blinking red. This means a goat demon will spawn in a couple seconds. You must hide in the wardrobe to avoid being killed.
Scanner Application
Scanner application is always the first step in doxing a person. The first piece of information you have about a person is always their username. You can open the Scanner app and run the command /scan [username] to search for links between their username and various social media websites they might have registered on with that username. A Scanner search will put the person in your DoxDocs app and give you the next piece of information associated with that person which must be explored further (see Doxing reference).
Doxing Reference
The only way to defend from hitmans is to dox them first. To do that, you need to follow the online traces they've accidently left on the web. This can be done using intelligence gathering sites. They work in a very simple way: you input a piece of information in them, pay the fee, and then you receive some other piece of information, which can be explorer further in another website. Sometimes it's hard to know what to do with a specific information.
Here is a full list of them:
[Information => Website name]
Username => Scanner app
Full name => Phonebook.onion or LeakScanner.onion
Photo => Geolocator.onion
LinkedIT account => LinkedIT.onion
Full address => HireAMurder.onion (you can kill the hitman now)
Video => Geolocator.onion or ENF.onion
Selfie => CleanView.onion
Crypto Address => Blockalysis.onion
Timestamp => Geolocator.onion (need to click a button)
CryptoBros account => CryptoBros
Instagramme account => Instagramme
Phone number => Phonebook.onion or LeakScanner.onion or HaveIBeenHacked.onion
Password => DigitalIntelligence.onion
IP Address => DigitalIntelligence.onion
Domain => CodeReuse.onion or UnshieldDomain.onion or WebArchive.onion
Support ID => CryptoExchange.onion
Email => HaveIBeenHacked.onion
To solve a hitman's chain-of-information puzzle, you will need to visit multiple of them, until you arrive at the site which gives you his "home address" information, which can be then put in the "HireAMurder.onion" site to order a hit on him.
DoxDocs Application
DoxDocs application is a database containing every person you are trying to dox (mostly hitmans). People are added to DoxDocs after you search their username in the Scanner App. Information that has already been explored will be displayed on a white background. The last information which has not been expolored yet, will be on a red background.
After DoxDocs app displays person's status as "DEAD", he will not be able to kill you and you can move on the next task/hitman. If the DoxDocs app displays person's status as "Doxxed", you have doxxed the person but not killed him yet; you can do that by paying for a hit on the HireAMurder website. If it's a normal person and not a hitman, you can also add him to your Chatter app and blackmail him for money. You can't blackmail a hitman and if you do not kill him, he will kill you after some time.
If the DoxDocs app displays his status as "Undoxxed", you must keep trying to find more information about the person: if you don't know how to advance to the next information, see #Doxing-reference above. It's possible that you haven't explored TheHiddenWiki deep enough to find the right website.