How do I find all specks of dust?

[Fetito Fazzito]

I have finished the game, but was able only to find 63 of 75 specks of dust.

[LowLevel]

This achievement is cumulative. If you don't reach it in the first playthrough, you have several options to get it.

For example, you can play also the "casual" version and collect the speck of dusts on this new game.

Or you can load a previous savegame and visit again all those places in which you didn't collect a speck of dust during your first visit (because there wasn't one). It's possibile that these places will contain a speck of dust now (excluding the hotel rooms, that never contain specks of dust).

Or you can just launch a new "Hard" game and collect the specks of dust from there.

[Fetito Fazzito]

Ah, since I have already beaten it on hard, so I could start again on easy and collect the remaining specks of dust?

[LowLevel]

Originally posted by Fetito Fazzito:

Ah, since I have already beaten it on hard, so I could start again on easy and collect the remaining specks of dust?

Exactly. That's also a way to get other achievements that you didn't get while playing on Hard.

[-NN-]

Specks of dust are in the game to show how vacuous we are in achieving some goals (such as pointless game achievements that amount to nothing more than purposeless bean counting like collecting specks of dust).

There is some nuance. I always had strong suspicions but still collected them just in case they were needed for a more practical purpose. Once one completes the game though and realises they are unimportant to the game progression there's no real need to continue.

Our "free will" is coerced by achievements dictated to us by others. In theory you can make all your own imaginary achievements, they just won't present themselves in some official manner through steam profiles and whatnot.

Wait, I think I just spotted some glitches in the matrix.............

[LowLevel]

That's very probable. I also like the explanation that Chuck gives at the end.

They also are a mechanism to artificially fulfill the psychological need and habit of most adventure gamers to put in their inventories anything that is not fixed down with nails.