Discovering the Universal Map

While the game can be hard to complete itself, doing this won't be as hard as beating the actual game. You won't even need to go into the basement!

This is a guide on how to discover the secret in Dark Riddle! Assuming you've seen my guide on how to beat the game, this will be a less detailed guide as you are probably more familiar with the layout of the house by now. If you didn't read my walkthrough, I would encourage you to do so!

Now, when you load into your game, you want to jump over his gate to get inside his house. Go inside and get upstairs into the attic. In the area where the nippers and telescope are, you'll want to take the item next to the nippers, which should be a rocket part. Now, the easiest way to get into the room to put the rocket together is by jumping out the window and jump onto the right lower roof. Then to your left, you'll see two front windows. Break one of them and climb inside. Finally, on a shelf to the left side of the room will be the bottom of the rocket part. Tap the "use" button on the rocket part to put the rocket back together. When you have done it, the shelf will move out of the way! Then, tap the sun in the middle of the room to get the text "Universal Map Discovered"!

And that's all to it! I have a few theories on this and about the neighbor, like maybe he is an alien??? But that's the tutorial on how to do it! It doesn't give you anything special, but it's a cool secret to find!

Walkthrough

- - Breaking in the House - -

Swipe to look around and use the thumbstick for walking. If you try to open the gate of the neighbor's house, it is locked, so you'll need to grab a crate right outside of your house and set it down near the gate. Then, jump onto the crate, and over the fence. The police officer might try to attack you if you get on his fence, so be careful!

TIP: You can swipe the jump button down to crouch. Walking while crouching will make no noise. If you are not seen by the neighbor, but he is near, crouch to avoid making noise.

After you get over the fence gate, take an apple from the neighbor's porch. Use it to break one of the front windows. After you break a window, climb inside the house and take the key from the desk. You can use this key to unlock the gate! After you unlock the gate, head to the neighbor's backyard to the barred window, and look inside the house. After this, a cutscene will play and the neighbor will see you spying. Run back to your house! If you get caught by the neighbor, you will have to go back into his backyard. If you do make it, there will be a treasure chest waiting outside of your house, it will contain a single apple. You can take it and then visit Mr. Cao's shop. <| WARNING: Playing offline will cause you to be glitched and you will need to exit and restart the entire tutorial! |> After you visit Mr. Cao's shop, you need to go inside your house and wait. After you are done waiting, it will be night time and you want to sneak back into his house.

TIP: Every time you get caught by the neighbor or police officer, anything you've moved or windows that were broken will be fixed. However, your backpack and belt will stay how you had them.

Be sure to bring some apples when you go inside, you are most likely going to encounter the neighbor and break some windows. When you go into his house, make sure he isn't near and break one of his front windows again. After that, go into the left door and you will be in a room with a table in the middle of the room. On the table will be a copper key, take it for later.

TIP: If your belt becomes full, store some items in your backpack to hold other items.

Go back into the room that had the gate key, and go through the right door. In that room, between two windows will be a wardrobe with a copper lock. Use the copper key on it to open it. Take the battery and silver key out. Head back into the room that had the copper key and go up the stairs. Near the next set of stairs, there will be a door with a silver lock, use the silver key to unlock that door. This room does not have another key in it but will contain batteries you may need for later. After you exit that room, go up the stairs leading to the attic. You'll see a big telescope and a small table near it. On the small table will be the nippers. Pick those up for later.

TIP: Anything you pick up besides crates or other props, can be stored in your inventory!

After you got the nippers, head back down the attic stairs. You will see another room with a different kind of lock on it. Use the nippers to unlock that door. In that room, there is a battery and gold key that you'll need to grab. After you have the gold key, head back up the attic stairs.

TIP: There is no fall damage in this game! Jump from wherever without dying!

Go out the window where the telescope and nippers were. After you are on the roof, turn left and drop down onto the lower roof. If you fall, you will need to make your way back up without getting caught!

TIP: The neighbor likes to take walks! He will occasionally leave the house!

When you are on the lower roof, break the window that is right there. Climb inside and you will see batteries, apples, and the gold lock. Take everything and unlock the gold lock to get the taser! Press the battery icon to charge the gun. When it is done charging (3 seconds), you can shoot it! every time you use the taser you will need to recharge it, so you'll need tons of batteries later!

TIP: Throwing anything at the neighbor stuns him for five seconds, but using the taser on him stuns him for ten seconds!

Jump back out the window and onto the ground. Go to the left side of his house, and break the window closer to the backyard. Be careful though, as there are cameras that will make noise and alert the neighbor your position! Once you climb inside, You'll notice a white door with a shocked lock. Stand back and aim the taser at the lock! If you did it correctly, the door will swing open! After it opens, run to the desk with a sword on it, and take the phone. The phone will have a four digit code and that will be used to open the basement door.

TIP: If you try to cheat and look up the phone code for the basement door, it won't work! Every code is randomized!

Grab the phone and run into the room that had the copper key. Near the stairs, there will be a blue metal door with a safe lock on it. Put in the four-digit code that is displayed on your phone and press the checkmark! If you did it correctly, the door will start to open and the basement door will be unlocked!

                                                                  - - Into The Basement - -
Before you continue, you will need to get rid of some items you won't need anymore. The game pauses when you open your backpack, so go in there and drop these items.
- Silver Key
- Copper Key
- Gate Key
- Gold Key
Everything else is important for the basement.
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When you open the basement door, you will notice a large room. Go to the big yellow fuel truck and jump on top of it. There will be a blue key card that can be used for later. After that, go back up towards the tons of crates and three lockers. Open the one on the very left and it will have a green key card for later. Now, jump down and go to the right corner. If you see another four-digit number, you'll need to remember that. But where you are standing, there is going to be a door with a blue lock to your right. Click on the blue lock with your blue key card to open the door.

TIP: If you are being attacked by the neighbor, don't forget to use the apples you picked up earlier! While the taser stuns the neighbor longer, the apples are reusable but the batteries can get used up!

When you enter that room, there will be a door that needs a four-digit code to your left. There will also be a drone that will tell the neighbor where you are! You can shoot it with the taser gun so it doesn't alert him. Input the code that you saw earlier to open the door. Now, before you enter the room, there will be a machine that shoots at you and freezes you. You'll want to immediately enter the room and jump off to the right and press the blue button. This will turn the machine off.

TIP: There are quests at the top of your screen! Clicking on them will give you a list of things you can do and give you a reward! Also, if you happen to complete a quest that gives you a trap, you can throw traps on the ground to set them up! When the neighbor walks near it, he'll get paralyzed for 10 seconds!

After you've turned the machine off, run to the other side of the room. There will be three levers, a red, green, and blue one. Pull all the levers up to open a secret door! Underneath where you entered the room, will have a door with a green lock. Use your green key card to unlock it. There will be an electrical box with wires. Use the pliers to shut off the electric field. Head back out of the room and then immediately turn to your left. There will be two items, the Laxian key & the valve.

TIP: If you get caught by the neighbor in the basement, you won't end up back outside. Instead, you will start back at the basement door inside of the basement!

First, equip the Laxian key and head back into the room with the three levers. To the left of the room, will be a machine that looks like an arcade machine. Use the Laxian key on it to put it in. Then, press the purple button. Now the Laxian key is activated and you can take it out. Go underneath where the three levers were. You will see a hidden door and it will open if you get close. That is the secret door that we unlocked earlier!

TIP: If you didn't know already, anything you unlock will automatically be saved even if you get caught! So you won't need to redo some steps!

Into the secret room, there will be a ton of water and a slot. This slot is where you put the valve. When you put the valve in, it will automatically turn and the water will drain. Once the water has fully drained, take the valve out and jump down. There is a red key card in the corner. Take it for later. You will also see a staircase that is blocked off by bars. Luckily, there is another slot for you to put the valve. The other room with bars is not accessible.

TIP: There is a small shed in the neighbor's backyard. If you find the yellow key card (in the basement), you can get helpful supplies!

After you climb the stairs, you will see a room with a portal. Ignore the portal for now, but use the elevator in the left corner. You can use it by pressing the red button to bring it down, and the red button on the elevator to go up. After you use the elevator's button, you will see a door with a red lock. Use the red key card to unlock this door. The door unlocks the area from the beginning of the basement. You will see two slots, a slot for the Laxian key and a slot for the red key card. Use both items for their slots. Every time you put one in, a cutscene will play. Then, when both items are inserted, press the big red button.

An alarm will play. Go through the door that had the red lock into the room with the portal. The portal is now activated and you jump through it to win!

I really hope you enjoyed this guide as it took me about two hours to make! I will make a walkthrough on my channel if this is a bit confusing. But thank you so much for reading this if you are new to the game or not! I might even add a speedrun tutorial for you guys. See ya!

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Discovering the Universal Map	Donomite 4 years ago
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