A Game About Flicking A Switch: 100% Achievement Guide

You will need to play the game at least twice because of the 3-switch room. I highly recommend choosing “Stay in this room forever” the first time. Then restart the game. You will start in the room again, where you can select “Restart” for your second time. You will need to play the game again up to that point. Then select the final option.

I recommend this approach because I’m unsure if there’s an easy way to reset your progress after selecting the 3rd option, to continue flicking the switch. If you know of a way, please let me know.

Most of the achievements are pretty straightforward and you will get them as long as you press through the game trying to stop you from playing.

This is the only complicated part of the game, and therefore warrants its own section.

If you read this guide before entering the dark room, it will make your life so much easier if you drop off the stairs, turn around to face them, and then walk around them. There is a switch on the back side of the stairway. It will turn on the lights, and make your life much, much easier.

A screenshot of the room when lit, provided by another Steam user

To leave the room, you must flick the 3 other switches in the room:

• One is at the top of the stairway
• Another is against a wall near the doorway with the 3 red/green lights above it
• The other is the giant switch in the air. To get to it, go to the second switch and look at the wall opposite of the metal door. You will see a ramp that is invisible from most angles. Climb that and follow the precarious path upward until you can reach the giant switch and flick it.

Click the switch instead of pushing E

Flick the switch

Continue playing the game after the credits

Flick the moving switches

Flick all the many switches

Witness the fake Windows Blue Screen of Death Error

Enter the piano recital room.

I don’t recall the specifics, but this achievement occurs naturally while playing. Let me know if you have a hard time finding it.

I don’t recall the specifics, but this achievement occurs naturally while playing. Let me know if you have a hard time finding it.

Enter the dark room.

At one point, the game will quit on your behalf. Restart the game.

Flick all 48 switches

Leave the piano recital room.

It’s possible you need to do so quickly, which means you’d need to play this room twice. I recommend trying to stay in the room until you get the other Debussy achievement, and then leaving.

This one appears to happen randomly after you’ve been playing for about 20-40 minutes. I’ve seen it occur in The Dark Room as well as The Alien Planet

This one seems to be the same as The Scream–it occurs randomly after a certain amount of time, doesn’t matter which room you’re in.

Enter the options menu, and then select “No”

Upon entering the forest / low poly world, look for the big arrow painted on the other side of the ravine. Walk up there. It’s a bit of a pain to walk up the mountain, you have to go back and forth a bit.

Enter the options menu after saying “no” the first time.

I don’t recall the specifics, but this achievement occurs naturally while playing. Let me know if you have a hard time finding it.

Continue playing the game after the game tries to tell you to stop

When you are presented with the 3 switches, select the leftmost one.

You can restart your game after doing so.

I don’t recall the specifics, but this achievement occurs naturally while playing. Let me know if you have a hard time finding it.

In the piano recital room, go to the stage and head to the back left. There is a light shining down on a piece of paper sitting on a desk. Push E on it.

Minor Spoiler: The QR code is a Rick Roll

Reach 1,000 flicks of the switch

This guide is a work in progress and this will be updated.

When you are presented with the 3 switches, select the Restart option.

This will reset your progress and restart the game. If you are going for 100%, this will help you out anyway. Make sure to select this and the Purgatory options before the “Stay in the room” option

Here the knocking sound

This seems to happen after a certain amount of playtime -or- a certain number of flicks of the switch. For me, it occurred in the final room while flicking the switch.

Quit the game and launch the game

Unsure, but this might need to occur during the last room of the game

Stay in the piano recital room until the song is complete.

I recommend doing this during your first run, you may be able to get both Debussy achievements (and the Hidden Letter achievement) in one run.

Flick the switch at 11:11:11.

For me, it was AM, but PM might also work.

You should be able to change your clock to get this to work.

This guide is a work in progress, but I believe this occurs after flicking the final switch many, many times. Over 12,000 times.