CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience: 👑 How to unlock all achievements [100%] 👑

In this guide, I’ll show you how to unlock all the achievements, what are the requirements to do so, and detailed information about the Strategies I’ve used to 100% complete the game, as well some Tips & Tricks I’ve discovered while playing.

This guide isn’t perfect, and I’m sure there are better ways to accomplish things in the game, but I wanted to share what I’ve learned in case anyone else is looking to 100% the game.

If you are looking for a specific achievement, I suggest using the shortcut “CTRL + F” and use the search bar to easily find it or by clicking on the guide’s section on the right side.

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🔺〈Side-note〉: I’ve played only the base game, since I don’t own the DLC. I don’t know what’s the new content included in said DLC, however, the strategies and tips should work regardless.
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🔰 Acquire any item (Clothing, utility, books, etc…) in a shop to unlock the achievement. Other items such as Food & Drinks, doesn’t count.

🔰 Encounter the dog, while sleeping outside.

If you are sleeping on the street, you may encounter a stray dog. The event is random, so keep doing so until you manage to get it.

🔰 Successfully make your first trade.

You need to locate the homeless traders, and exchange the items for whatever they are offering.

Alternatively, you can go to the Park, and trade with the trader located in the Bridge.

»⌠PARK⌡«

🔰 Successfully obtain any type of job.

You can unlock this achievement, by getting any type of job available to you. There’s quite a few options that can improve the chances of being hired, such as:

»⌠ITEMS⌡«
✔️ New Clothes: Increased Job Success.
✔️ Tie: Increased job success.
✔️ Comb: Increase begging and job success when at full hygiene.

»⌠WORK & STUDY PERKS⌡«
✔️ Confidence: Low stats has less effect on job success.
✔️ Experienced: Increased Job application success rate.
✔️ Pro: Increased job success if you studied recently.

»⌠STATS⌡«
✔️ Happiness: Having low happiness can decreased the chances of being hired.
✔️ Hygiene: Having low hygiene can decreased the chances of being hired.
✔️ Study Level: Higher study level can increase the chances of being hired.

»⌠PAPERWORK⌡«
✔️ Shelter residence card: Stay 5 days at the same shelter to get it.
✔️ Library card: Go to the library and get your Library card. (Needs shelter residence first)
✔️ Bank account: Go to the bank and open a bank account. (Needs shelter residence first)
✔️ Jobs applications: Every time you apply to any job you increase your paperwork.
✔️ Working: Each day you go to work, you’ll increase your paperwork.

To apply for a job, you need to locate the Job office:

»⌠JOB OFFICE⌡«

Once you’re in, you’ll be shown the current job avaliable and their requirements:

🔰 Unlocked when you befriend either: Bill, Maggie or Joe.

You can increase the relationship with the other homeless by giving them money, having special events together and ultimately, getting the “final” event when you have to decide who you want to backup.

»⌠BILL⌡«

»⌠MAGGIE⌡«

»⌠JOE⌡«

🔰 Withstand the Bliss addiction.

Bliss can be bought from the dealer for £6 (Or traded for a radio) and when used, it gives you massive happiness boost but it comes with heavy negative-side effects

Use every item, perk and building that grant you happiness to endure the happiness loss until the addiction is over.

»⌠DEALER⌡«

🔰 Reach the maximum level in any of the Perks category.

Obtain the maximum Perks available of the category of your choosing. To do so, simply keep doing the actions related to said category, acquiring enough experience to level up.

The categories available are:

✔️ 💭 Begging: Begging from pedestrian.
✔️ 🎶 Busking: Playing with the guitar.
✔️ ⁉️  Crime: Stealing in shops, breaking in cars and starting fires in the garbage bins.
✔️ ♻️  Scavenging: Getting scraps from the streets and searching the garbage bins.
✔️ 🏬  Street: Sleeping on street benches and having good interactions with other homeless.
✔️ 🕘  Survival: Eating healthy food or found in the garbage bins, walking and staying warm during winter.
✔️ 📚  Work & Study: Reading books, novels, studying in the library and working.

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🔺〈Side-note〉: You can use magazines to speed up the process, since they have a chance to grant you experience in a random category.
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🔰 Acquire all the perks in each category in a single run.

As previously mentioned, we already know the categories available and how to level them up.

You need to keep repeating the actions related to every category until you reach the maximum amount.

Now keep in mind that you need to acquire them all in a single play-though!

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🔺〈Side-note〉: This achievement was kinda tricky for me to unlock it, since I got it once I reached 79 perks in total.
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🔰 Rent a house.

This is the end-goal of the game. You need to meet the Real State office requirements to be able to rent a house.

»⌠REAL STATE OFFICE⌡«

You’ll need:

»⌠PAPERWORK (100)⌡«
You can acquired Paperwork by:

✔️ Shelter residence card: Stay 5 days at the same shelter to get it.
✔️ Library card: Go to the library and get your Library card. (Needs shelter residence first)
✔️ Bank account: Go to the bank and open a bank account. (Needs shelter residence first)
✔️ Jobs applications: Every time you apply to any job you increase your paperwork.
✔️ Working:Each day you go to work, you’ll increase your paperwork.

»⌠MONEY (£150)⌡«
✔️ Obtain £150 by any means necessary. Begging, working, selling scrap or stealing from cars.

You can also refer to the Strategy, Tips & Tricks section for more information on how to beat the game.

► The default experience. Starts with £5.
► Doesn’t have unique maladies.
► First character avaliable.
► Beat the game to unlock “Poverty story complete” achievement.

► Starts with a random item of clothing, £7 & unique maladies.
► Unique Maladies: Outcast, PTSD, A need to forget and Institutionalized.
► Unlocked after surviving 12 days.
► Beat the game as a Veteran to unlock “Veteran story complete” achievement.    

»⌠Outcast⌡«
Street reputation and crime level increase faster.

»⌠PTSD⌡«
You may suffer from night terrors and flashback events.

»⌠A need to forget⌡«
Increased happiness from drinking. Negative night events are worse.

»⌠Institutionalized⌡«
Job success rate decreased.

► Starts with cigarettes & unique addiction maladies.
► Unique Maladies: Dopamine Disorder, Masking Master and Recovering Addict.
► Unlocked after getting over any addiction.
► Beat the game as an Addict to unlock “Addict story complete” achievement.    

»⌠Dopamine Disorder⌡«
Addictive substances restore more happiness. Happiness decays faster.

»⌠Masking Master⌡«
You can still use buildings while intoxicated.

»⌠Recovering Addict⌡«
You become addicted very easily.

► Starts with £12 & 2 random mental maladies.
► Uniques Maladies: 9 in total. The ones you get are random each game.
► Unlocked after winning your first game.
► Beat the game as Mental Illness to unlock “Mental Illness story complete” achievement.    

»⌠ADHD⌡«
Brain drain effects are worse and studying takes longer.

»⌠Anxiety⌡«
Negative effects from unsuccessful begging and police interactions are worse.

»⌠Autism⌡«
Sensory Overload events may happen at work and job success rates are lower.

»⌠Bi-Polar Disorder⌡«
May become depressive or manic depending on days.

»⌠Depression⌡«
Lose the will to work or study when under 40

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🔺〈Side-note〉: Any character can develop this one if Happiness levels are drastically low, but they can recover by reaching maximum Happiness (100).
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»⌠Learning Difficulties⌡«
Study gains significantly reduced.

»⌠Paranoia⌡«
Lose happiness when using shelters.

»⌠Schizophrenia⌡«
You may suffer from delusional events.

»⌠Social Anxiety⌡«
Begging success rate significantly reduced.

► Starts with supplies, earn perks faster & unique maladies.
► Uniques Maladies: Dysfunctional Past, Guarded and Trust Issues.
► Unlocked when you befriend either: Bill, Maggie or Joe.
► Beat the game as an Abandoned to unlock “Abandoned story complete” achievement.    

»⌠Dysfunctional Past⌡«
Other homeless may be kinder.

»⌠Guarded⌡«
You barely ever gain happiness when people are kind.

»⌠Trust Issues⌡«
Charity events are less effective.

🔰 By completing the game with all the characters (Stories), you’ll unlock “Story Master”.

Doesn’t matter the order in which you complete them, as long as you beat the game with all of them.

🔰 Complete the game with 3 different characters to unlock it.

This achievement is quite tricky & confusing to get. In my case, it was one of the few achievement left to complete, since it didn’t unlock when I completed the game (Several times), with all the characters.

What I noticed and managed to work out, is the following:

• Beat the game with 3 characters.
• After you complete the game with the 3rd character, DON’T SKIP the final cut-scene.
• You should get the achievement, once the Credits cut-scene appears.

Seems like if you skip the final cut-scene, the achievement won’t unlock.

These achievements are pretty straight forward, you are going to unlock them organically most-likely.

If you are having troubles, you can also refer to the Strategy, Tips & Tricks section for more information on how to beat the game.

I suggest doing them, on Reality Level 0.

Reality Levels are a new challenge that can be unlocked once you complete the game with any character. You unlock a new Reality Level upon successfully completing the previous Reality Level.

The difficulty of the game gets harder with every Reality Level. Here’s what each of them does:

             Level          

                                        Impact                                        

»⌠Reality Level 0⌡«

Starter difficulty. Default Experience.

»⌠Reality Level 1⌡«

Lower the chance of charity events in shelters.

»⌠Reality Level 2⌡«

Increased loss of hygiene when searching garbage bins.

»⌠Reality Level 3⌡«

Increased hunger loss when sick.

»⌠Reality Level 4⌡«

First winter arrives in 4 day (Instead of 5).

»⌠Reality Level 5⌡«

Lower the chance of charity events in shelters.

»⌠Reality Level 6⌡«

Decreased the amount of hunger recovered in shelters.

»⌠Reality Level 7⌡«

Decresed “Warmed” effect duration.

»⌠Reality Level 8⌡«

The first city event happends on day 5.

»⌠Reality Level 9⌡«

Increased chance of bad events on the streets.

»⌠Reality Level 10⌡«

Increased city events rate.

🔰 Reach the maximum level to unlock every item and building rewarded. (Experienced)

Every time you beat the game, you’re awarded with experience and once you level up, you unlock new things as a reward like new items and buildings. Said rewards are:

               Item

        Visual

   »⌠Coffe⌡«

   »⌠Leather Gloves⌡«

   »⌠Cup⌡«

   »⌠Chocolate⌡«

   »⌠Burger⌡«

   »⌠Hot-Dog⌡«

   »⌠Scratchcard⌡«

   »⌠New shoes⌡«

   »⌠Winter coat⌡«

   »⌠Shawl⌡«

   »⌠Tie⌡«

   »⌠Textbook⌡«

   »⌠Novel⌡«

   »⌠Sanitizer⌡«

   »⌠Soap⌡«

   »⌠Pills⌡«

       Buildings

                                     Appareance

   »⌠Restaurant⌡«

   »⌠Bar⌡«

   »⌠Clinic⌡«

   »⌠Subway⌡«

»⌠CHARACTER / STORY⌡«
🔰 I highly recommend playing as the character “Abandoned”, since my experience with him was quite good. I managed to complete runs much more quickly than other characters, thanks to his special trait.

His maladies aren’t that bad and you can counter them pretty easily. His special trait however, is pretty good. You can get perks faster, which makes it easier to progress in each category and spend your time doing other things.

»⌠ITEMS⌡«
🔰 I ALWAYS tried to search for these items, in every run I’ve played. They’ll make your life so much easier and gives you really good benefits. Keep in mind these are the items I tend to prioritize over the rest. Every item will make you better overall, but you should focus on getting the most important one first.

🔶 ◢FOODS & DRINKS◣ 🔶

 

Item

Description

»⌠Cake⌡«

One of the best food item overall. Once you unlock it, it’ll make maintaining both hunger and happiness much more easily. It gives you 70 hunger and 3 happiness. (Start stock-piling them whenever you can and if you can afford it)

»⌠Energy    Bar⌡«

Complementary snack that can boost your walking speed for a whole day. I believe it’s much more efficient than the Energy drink, since it restores food and gives you the increased walking speed bonus either way, although it’s only for 1 day instead of 2, but since you’ll be constantly eating it won’t matter as much.

»⌠Hot     Chocolate⌡«

Say goodbye to being cold! The best item that’ll give you once you drink it “Warmed” effect and restores 1 point of happiness. You won’t waste time warming up with other alternatives and you can carry it around.(Start stock-piling them whenever you can and if you can afford it)

🔷 ◢CLOTHES & UTILITIES◣ 🔷

 

Item

Description

»⌠Deodorant⌡«

Hygiene no more. With this item, you’ll negate the Hygiene need for 2 whole days. You can do any of the actions that can lower your Hygiene without having to worry! (Start stock-piling them whenever you can and if you can afford it)

»⌠Magazine⌡«

Excellent for acquiring experience in random categories. You can get either Study, Happiness or Experience when used. (You should start getting these once you have a good economy or surplus of money)

»⌠Trash Bags⌡«

Bread & butter for your early / mid game. It increases your scrap capacity and value when recycling.

»⌠Bigger Bag⌡«

Another excellent item that’ll improve your recycling process, since it increases your scrap capacity. Best used in combination with trash bags for even more space.

»⌠Litter Picker⌡«

Improves your chances of getting better items while searching in the garbage bins, and it reduces your hygiene loss as well.

»⌠Umbrella⌡«

Rain … BEGONE! With this item you negate the rain effects.

»⌠Fingerless     Gloves⌡«

Increases your success chances when stealing. Overall I was able to steal more often.

»⌠Waterproof     Trousers⌡«

Increases your walking speed in bad weather.

»⌠New Shoes⌡«

Increases your walking speed overall.

»⌠Wrist Watch⌡«

You can wake-up 1 hour earlier, making it very useful to take advantage of the extra time.

»⌠Textbook⌡«

You can study anywhere once per-day. Excellent to start increasing your study without the need of a library.

»⌠Novel⌡«

Same as the Textbook, but beside granting you study, it also gives you happiness.

»⌠Flask⌡«

This item essentially allows you to duplicate any drink that you consume. Once you drink something, it’ll copy said drink and then you can use the Flask for a 2nd sip!.

»⌠Bus Pass⌡«

With this item you’ll be able to take the bus and move anywhere without paying, making it extremely useful. Basically, it’ll become your fast-travel to any destination on the map!

I try to focus on these one first:

⁉️ ◢CRIME◣ ⁉️

 

           Perk

                                                 Description

»⌠Agile⌡«

Reduced stealing difficulty when stealing multiple items.

»⌠Harmless⌡«

Daily crime decay when committing no crimes is doubled.

»⌠Stealthy⌡«

Pedestrians not longer react when starting fires or breaking into cars.

»⌠Lookout⌡«

You can see when police are approaching.

»⌠Opportunist⌡«

Increased speed when breaking into cars or starting fires.

»⌠Slippery⌡«

When caught stealing, small chance of not laying low.

»⌠Thief⌡«

You are slightly better at stealing.

»⌠Sneaky⌡«

When stealing food, small chance to get extra.

»⌠Thrill Seeker⌡«

Gain happiness on successful steals.

♻️ ◢SCAVENGING◣ ♻️

 

           Perk

                                                 Description

»⌠Collector⌡«

When you pick up scrap, you might get 2

»⌠Hoarder⌡«

Gain a cash bonus when you turn in max scrap.

»⌠Recycler⌡«

Gain bonus for every 20 pieces you recycle.

»⌠Totter⌡«

Increased scrap value, but max scrap you can carry reduced.

»⌠Strong Back⌡«

Increased scrap capacity.

»⌠Trash Master⌡«

You can search trashcans twice, but increases hygiene loss from searching..

»⌠Scourer⌡«

Increased hygiene loss when searching trash, but significantly better item chances.

»⌠Gatherer⌡«

Increased chance of items in trash.

»⌠Dumpster     Diver⌡«

Better items found in trash.

»⌠Morsel Master⌡«

You get a better look at trash food.

🏬 ◢STREETS◣ 🏬

 

           Perk

                                                 Description

»⌠Alert⌡«

Decreased chance of getting mugged.

»⌠Connected⌡«

Better trading.

»⌠Social⌡«

Other homeless will accept you more easily.

»⌠Peaceful     Sleeper⌡«

Slightly increase happiness gains from most good events.

»⌠Pride⌡«

If you don’t beg, gain happiness each day.

»⌠Shelter     Regular⌡«

No curfew for shelters, if staying in the same as the previous night or resident shelter.

»⌠Street Savvy⌡«

More choices for future perks.

»⌠Vermin Hater⌡«

Pests at night take less food.

 

           Perk

                                                 Description

»⌠Conserver⌡«

Reduced hunger decay from walking alot.

»⌠Explorer⌡«

Significantly increased walk speed, if your hunger is over 80.

»⌠Healthy⌡«

Healthy items restore more hunger or happiness.

»⌠Morsel Miser⌡«

Cheap food items restore slightly more hunger.

»⌠Rationer⌡«

Slightly increased hunger recovery from all food.

»⌠Power Walker⌡«

Greatly increased walk speed, but walking drains hunger faster.

»⌠Traveller⌡«

Moderately Increased walk speed.

»⌠Strong Legs⌡«

Bad weather has much less effect on walk speed.

»⌠Warmer⌡«

Staying warm for a whole day in winter increases happiness.

»⌠Survivor⌡«

Hunger decays slower, if your happiness is over 90.

📚 ◢WORK & STUDY◣ 📚

 

           Perk

                                                 Description

»⌠Ambition⌡«

Gain a little happiness when you study well.

»⌠Bookworm⌡«

Increased study gains from books and magazines.

»⌠Focused⌡«

Study speed greatly increased if happiness over 90.

»⌠Student⌡«

First study each day is shorter & decreased hunger decay while studying.

»⌠Pro⌡«

Increased job success if you studied recently.

»⌠Cautious Worker⌡«

Greatly reduces day labour risks.

»⌠Employee⌡«

You can arrive at work an hour later.

»⌠Experienced⌡«

Increased Job application success rate.

»⌠Work Ethics⌡«

More cash earned from jobs.

»⌠Hard Worker⌡«

Increased chance of job buffs.

Regarding Begging and Busking category, I didn’t focus on them on my runs, since I find the other categories more reliable stats & money wise.

These are the factors that will help me start my economy setup, since I will be ensuring the best income possible per day.

The bread & butter of my runs is the Scavenging and Crime category, since I’ll be picking up scrap and recycling non-stop for money, stealing what I can from shops since you can get lucky enough to snatch some of the expensive items and food as well, breaking into cars either money (Really good boost) or items, and trading with other homeless thanks to the beers & cigarettes found in the garbage bins.

Once I manage to get the primarily items that can secure my economy, I can focus on the rest of the items & utilities that can improve everything else like:

► Staying warm for longer.
► More time before the clothes gets dirty.
► Items that increase job chances
► Better study gains
► And many more.

Now, food-wise, it shouldn’t be an issue in the early / mid game since I invest heavily in scavenging category perks that give me better items and an increased chance to find more while searching the garbage bin. Both recycling and searching in the garbage bin are my main sources of income and food. You can get TONS of items, like beer & cigarettes to trade, magazines if you are lucky enough, and many types of unspoiled food.

Also, you can find food in the trash that you can identify (Thanks to the perk “Morsel Master”) and avoid getting sick, although getting sick isn’t a big issue since you’ll be feeding off the garbage bin anyway.

When you start your run, the first thing that you want to do is search for the shelter and get to know what buildings are near it.

Now, how do you know when you find the “perfect” shelter spot? Well, it needs to be near:

»⌠Office Job⌡«

»⌠Real State Office⌡«

Buildings such as shops (You won’t be visiting them as often when you reach the end-game), Toilets, and the police department aren’t that useful to have near your shelter.

While you do so, you’ll be:

✔️ Picking up every single scrap that you can carry along the way and recycle once you’re full.
✔️ Searching every garbage bin that you see so you can start getting items and finding food.
✔️ Checking the stores that you manage to encounter, and see what items are available.       Remember, you need to prioritize!
✔️ Searching every pay phone you see for extra cash.
✔️ Breaking into cars. I suggest doing this if you have “Opportunist” perk. I’ll explain more about a trick you can do later on.
✔️ Stealing from shops after 8:00 p.m. You’ll get better results if you have “Night owl” perk.

This is going to be your daily task for the first few days. By doing this, you are going to start acquiring experience and perks that will improve your scavenging category primarily, getting your few first important items, building up your economy and stockpile items for trading later on.

You can sneak in a few begs here and there to earn extra money. Keep in mind that you need to have good Hygiene when begging to reduce the chance of people rejecting you. (I’ll explain more about a trick you can do later on).

If you manage to find a great spot for your shelter that has good buildings near it, you can start sleeping inside, so you can get the residence shelter early on.

Keep in mind that you’ll get city events, so watch out for those and be aware of the impact on your city!

After you have enough perks & items that can ensure your daily income and needs, you are going to start working on getting:

► Residence shelter card.
► Paperwork.
► Reputation.
► Trading
► Study.
► Job.

All of this, meanwhile you keep doing your daily tasks. You should focus first on getting the residence shelter card, since it’ll allow you to open a bank account so you can safely store your money and start saving up the 150 needed to beat the game, and get a library card which grants you temporary benefits that can last 2 days if you borrow a book and also allows you to study as many times as you want.

Paperwork, on the other hand, will increase naturally and gradually as you start obtaining what was previously mentioned.

Reputation will come in handy since it can benefit you from better trading, and for more positive events inside the shelter, thus, reducing the chance of getting robbed. You can help out other homeless by giving them money or items, and choosing positive actions during events either in the street or in the shelter.

Since you’ve been scavenging non-stop, you should have a pretty decent stockpile of items to trade, so head to your nearest trader and check what’s the trade offer for the day.

You can save a lot of money by trading, and it’s totally worth it, since it won’t cost you a penny, and you can even get every item with enough time!

You can also check the park for the trader on the bridge as well.

You can still be productive, while increasing your study level, by getting the “Textbook & Novel” items and “Study & Work” perks as well, so you can study twice per day and still have time to do others activities.

Getting a job is the ultimate goal. It’ll become your main source of income, and the last step towards the end-game! One of the biggest advice I can give you is to avoid at all cost “Daily Issuer” job, you WON’T gain any Paperwork if you keep working. (I’ll explain more about this later on).

Now, by this time, you should have your first Winter. It can be a little bit worrying, since you’ll be constantly freezing and your happiness will decay faster, BUT, fear not! You can NEGATE the Winter duration completely if you stockpile “Hot Chocolate”.

If you have extra money and a decent amount of food & items, you can invest on Magazines! Not only it’ll grant you experience, but it might also give you either happiness or study gains, allowing you to free-up time and do other activities.

Now you reached the final stage. By this point, you should have:

► Excellent money income.
► Every item that you should need.
► Stockpile of food.
► Max out perks.

Using everything at your disposal, the only thing left to do is keep working until you manage to reach the real state requirements!

Now at this stage, you shouldn’t be doing your daily task any further thanks to having a job.
Needs wise, they shouldn’t be a problem anymore:

► Food & Happiness: You can keep them 100% most of the time by eating healthy food (Cake) or by eating at a Restaurant, since you can now afford it.

► Hygiene: Simple, deodorant FTW! If your clothes get dirty, pay up a visit to your nearest Laundry!

The main loop you should do, is go to the Office job, read either the “Textbook & Novel” to skip time (Remember the time you need to be at work), do your daily work shift, and once you’re done, grab a bus and go to a restaurant, and eat until you have your happiness completely full. Go to the shelter, and repeat!

»⌠Breaking into cars, without risk⌡«
With this method, you can guarantee the spawning of cops, and breaking into cars risk free. I suggest doing this if you have: Stealthy, Lookout and Opportunist perks

► Click on the car. Time will froze, but pedestrians and cops will keep moving.

► While you’re still on the breaking in window, wait for a cop to spawn from either of the sides. Once you spot him, you need to wait until he leaves from the opposite side he spawns.

► You can start breaking in, 3 seconds after he leaves your screen..

»⌠Begging⌡«
With this method, you can beg without time passing by. This way you can ask every pedestrian you see. Of course you still need to be aware of cops.

► Click on the pedestrian, and as soon as you barely see your dialog bubble, open your menu (By pressing ESC).

► Once your menu is open (By pressing ESC), you can see in the middle of the screen the pedestrian bubble, and if the begging was positive or negative, since you’ll see your stats changes accordingly. (Acquiring money & getting / losing happiness)

»⌠Cleaning yourself in Drinking Fountain⌡«
You can rise your Hygiene by cleaning yourself in the Drinking fountain, without wasting time.

► Once you find any Drinking fountain, click on them.

► As soon as the cleaning animation start, open your menu (By pressing ESC)

► Wait until you are fully clean, by watching your Hygiene rise.

»⌠Library multi-study⌡«
You can read books and novels at the same time as you study in the library for the same duration of both actions! You may even eat food without needing to leave the library.

► Go to the library, and once inside open your quick-inventory tab (Blue pocket). However, the icon won’t show up in the usual spot, but, it’s still accessible!

► Click on your Textbook to begin studying, and, as soon as the Studying windows pops up, click on the Study option from the library menu. Once it’s done, you’ll be awarded study gains twice! One window notification from the Textbook and the other from the library.

If you use this method, you’ll be able to double your study gains and make the most of your time. Also, you can only eat food that’s on your quick-inventory tab and when you aren’t studying.

»⌠Bench Multi-task⌡«
With this method, you can study and read magazines, while resting on the bench. Time will still pass, but you can still do other actions to maximize your time!

Keep in mind, if you are using magazines, time will briefly stop, and it’ll resume once you close the notification window.

► Find a bench, and as soon as you start resting on it, click on your quick-inventory tab (Blue pocket).

► You can access any item that you’ve previously assigned in your quick-inventory, such as food, books and magazines.

If the quick-inventory item tab doesn’t show, click it again until it does. Sometimes you might need a few tries before it shows.

Remember to put items first in your quick-inventory tab before resting!

This method can be very expensive and RNG based, since you need to find a shop that sells you the sandwich bags. If you have extra money, and you can’t find an specific item, you could try your luck and re-roll it!

You can re-roll the items sold by shops, if you manage to find “Sandwich bags” on the 2nd slot. As you can see if you keep buying it, you get new items on the 3rd slot.

► You can give money up to 3 times to Bill, Joe and Maggie per day (+4 Reputation per character).

You can increase your reputation very quickly, if you can afford it.

► Pay phones can increase your happiness by 1 point, if you manage to find change in them.

► You can find food & items rarely on the street! They are hard to spot, so keep an eye out!

► Be carefull when begging. Don’t walk and beg at the same time, since you can get caught by the traffic-cop standing on the street or a cop walking your way!

What you can do to avoid this, is just walk in the desired direction, then backtrack a little bit and perform the action safely.

► Street vendors usually sells items & food cheaper than shops.

Also, it’s a good alternative to get items that you might be missing and food.

► Remember to talk to the NPC in the starter area when you begin a new run.

It’ll give you a few choices for items or perks that you can pick, if you survive winter in your previous run.

► Use your A & D, keys to move around. You can avoid any miss-click and walking should be faster.

One thing that I’ve noticed is that the game is full of bugs that can soft-lock you and straight up mess-up your run so be careful!

The achievements are pretty easy to get, however, the most time-consuming were the “Reality Master & Hardcore Reality Master” ones. In my case, it became very repetitive and dull, since you’ll have to keep beating the game over and over again, doing the same thing every time.

I suggest muting the game, putting music or videos in the background, and doing a few complete runs per day. That way, it’ll be less boring, and you can make decent progress!

It took me 60 hours to 100% the game. More than I expected to be honest! You might get it in less time if you manage to get good RNG and good rhythm per runs.

Holy, that took a WHILE. Well, you finally reached the end of the guide, so:

Big shout-out to:

• Gabriel A. for the wonderfull Like & Fav gif!

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  🔺〈Side-note〉 1: Apologies in advance if you see lots of typos and grammatical errors. I’m Spanish, so I tried to write this review as best as I could.
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  🔺〈Side-note〉 2: If there’s any information provided in this guide that is incorrect or outdated, please let me know! I’ll make the necessary corrections and change it as soon as possible.
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  Thank you for reading and I hope you have a great day!