DashBored Walkthrough

This guide will help you to finish the game.

Introduction

I noticed that there isn't any walkthrough yet and some achievements are tricky to get so i decided to make a guide. I'm not going to make the guide to be that detailed though - i will only list the important items that you need to get. You still have to search the whole area by yourself to get optional items.

Tips

- DO NOT disable attack animations. You can disable it by going to the menu > System > Battle Animations. Make sure it's set to Show.
- Feel free to Run from the fight if you want, especially in a place with lack of healing spots and/or save points.
- Inspect everything. There might be some items hidden in it.
- Box placement changed everyday so make sure you explore every area everyday.
- Learn to time your crits. The skill that requires your action to get crits are very beneficial since you can deal a lot of damage if you time it right every time.

Day 1

Vurrus Garden

Follow the tutorial and watch the cutscene until you can control Nicolas, the guy wearing sunglasses. Exit the area and head east. Inspect the mirror to get a 3-code clue. Return to the previous room and head to the northwest exit.

Inspect the safe next to the refrigerator and input the solution (364, it's mirrored) to get Front Key. Exit the house.

Follow the path until you reach the exit. Don't forget that there will be a "boss fight" after this. Don't hesitate to use your skills for this and land those crits.

Welcome to my Garden
Meet Vurrus

M&J

Head all the way to the west until you reach a place that is not raining. Talk to the nearby creature to get a hint. Read the hint. This is important if you want to go to an optional dungeon later.

Return to the previous area and head inside M&J's Garage building. Talk to the person inside to get a car. Exit the room to get a cutscene.

Exit the room to find a guitar. Play it to get an achievement.

Don't touch my stuff.
Snoop Around

If you're playing this after you finish Satellite ending or you're too lazy to replay the game twice later, head inside the house next to M&J's Garage and type the password. Solution: ENCOUNTER. Open the box to get Torn Paper. It contains clues for UFO sightings. Note that you won't find any UFO if you don't input the password.

Head into your car to go to the world map. Head all the way to the east (don't enter the area with TVs for now) to reach Ovok.

Ovok

Head north and inspect the locked gate.

Head all the way to the east and talk to the sleeping pumpkin to get Pumpkin Key. Save in the inn in the previous area and head to the house next to the pumpkin. Retrieve the Doll and exit the house. Be careful though since you can die from the white thingy. Note that it will only attack you if you walk to it so you can just stand on your spot until it got out of your way.

Exit Ovok and head all the way to the south to reach Coton.

Coton

Note: there are random encounters in this map. If you are low on health, there is a healing machine on the big building northeast of the mayor (the one with Wares sign on it).

Head to the south area and talk to the mayor to get your next task.

Exit Coton and head all the way east (past the snowy area) to reach Roke.

Roke

Note: there are random encounters in this map too. There are also Midori (save girl) and healing machine east of Mayor's Office.

Head north and enter Mayor's Office to get Sewer Keys.

Head 1 screen east, 2 screens north from Mayor's Office. Follow the northwest path until you find a tree with a sparkle nearby. Inspect the sparkle to get Shadow Key. Note that the key won't appear if you don't talk to the creature west of M&J Garage.


If you put in the password, a UFO will be on the back of the tea building (near D S building) in the southeasternmost area. Kill it to get Unidentified Object.

Head 1 screen east from the Mayor's Office. Follow the way to the east until you reach the sewer entrance (located near the Hotel). Enter the sewer.

Sewer

Note: You probably want to buy Lil' Kisser in Coton before proceeding. The boss is quite hard to beat.

Feel free to escape the fights in the sewer since they are pretty strong and there isn't any healing machine before the boss fight.

Follow the path and head to the northeast exit on the second screen to find the creature you meet on M&J. Inspect the statue to sacrifice your HP to get Pain Emblem.

Darkness Beckons
Make a sacrifice...

Return to the previous area and follow the path until you reach the boss room. Head north after the fight and inspect the koi pond to recruit your second party member.

I'm Walking Here!
Recruit Isaac!

Return to Coton. Don't forget to save beforehand.

Coton

You'll get a boss fight as soon as you enter the area. Talk to the mayor afterwards to get Gate Key.

If you haven't buy it already, buy Lil' Kisser for Nic. Buy Blast Cannon for Isaac too if you got the money.

Now it's time to explore other buildings. Return to the TV Land that you passed before (it's located west of Ovok).

TV Land

Traverse through the area and answer the quizzes. Flip the red switch after you answer the fourth question to unlock the red door on the previous area. Solution:
1. Vurrus
2. Gourdmoore
3. 8
4. SAPU
5. Temprocal and Damicelle

After you complete the area (doesn't matter if you get it right or wrong), ask 'Where's the exit?' to Telle (the TV robot) and retrieve the memory (yellow shaped ball) at the end of the screen.

Vidiot
Complete TV Land

Return to M&J.

M&J

Head all the way to the east. You'll find a bar. Head inside from the back entrance and register for a fight by talking to the man in red clothing. Don't forget to save beforehand.

You should have enough money to get geared at this point. We'll explore the snowy area on day 2 because the boss is kinda hard at this point. Head back to Ovok when you're ready.

Ovok

Head north and unlock the gate.

Little Angel's Orphanage

Head north to talk to the Madam. Head west 2x and explore the area to reach a box containing Pumpkin Locket. Explore the area to get Kitchen Key and head to the east area from Madam Lochhart to reach the kitchen. Traverse through the area.

Undersyde

Head to the town by heading north at the intersection. Head to the chief's house (the house with wolf mark on the wall). Accept his offer (either is fine but if you ask him for a fee he'll also give you money after you kill Boulder).

Return to the previous intersection before you enter the town and head west to kill Boulder. Head inside the cave behind him and take the pig. Return to the town and talk to the guy near the chief's house. Give him the pig to get $50. Now, report back to the chief. You'll get $300 if you ask for money beforehand. Head inside the nearby cave. Make sure you have saved and prepared beforehand.

Cave

The path is pretty straightforward here but if you get lost, just keep on heading east. Try not to touch the floating guy in the next room (the round thingy is enemies so it's fine if you want to battle them) and head for the exit. If you find a dead end with a broken bridge, inspect it.

Hidden Desert
Leave Undersyde

Return to the Orphanage.

Little Angel's Orphanage

Kill the boss to proceed to day 2. I suggest you to save beforehand.

Unsavory Orphaner
Defeat Madame Lochhart!

Day 2

M&J

Choose your third party member to get an achievement. You can load your save afterwards and choose the other party member to get both achievements at once. If you're not sure who to take, Midori is a good healer if you don't want to use items. Jack is a good damage dealer and healer if you want to use items and money.

Wanna Save?
Recruit Midori!

Penny Pincher
Recruit Jack!

Head to the house you woke up on day 1 and kill the resident.

Head back to the fighting club on the bar's back entrance to get your next fight. If you find it to be too hard, feel free to do it later after you recruit 2 more party members. Just do not go inside the Metro station before you finish this.

Now head to Ovok to get your fourth party member.

Ovok

Head to the orphanage entrance and you'll notice that it's been blocked. You'll see another door with a pumpkin nearby. Enter and follow the path to reach Gourdmoore.

Gourdmoore

Hallowed Hoedown
Find Gourdmoore

Keep on heading north and you'll see a masked man next to a guillotine. Talk to the man and he'll give you Jack-O-Lantern.

Head to the east area and you'll notice a house with an entrance faced to the north side. Keep on reentering the house until a ghost girl is inside. Talk to her and give her the Pumpkin Locket to recruit her.

Orphaned Apparition
Recruit Eliose!

Keep on heading north until you reach an intersection in a cave-like area with wooden floors. Head to the northeast exit and follow the way to find an area with a statue. Inspect the statue and offer a sacrifice to receive Suffering Emblem. Return to the area where the masked man that gave you Jack-O-Lantern is.

Head inside the house in the southwest area that is guarded by a pumpkin head. Use Jack-O-Lantern from your inventory and head inside the house to get your second memory. It's the green colored ball upstairs.

Exit the area and go to Coton.

Coton

Talk to the mayor on the south area. Buy equipments for your party members because we're going to explore another optional area after this.

Head west from Coton, to the snowy area when you're ready.

Temple

I don't know the name of this area so i'll just put it here for now.
Head to the building to the east of you and talk to the captain to get 2x Potato Soup. Make sure you remember the symbols order, from top to bottom, carved in the pillars near and inside the temple.

Head inside the temple. You'll see some arrows if you go left or right in the first intersection. Remember it. The path will be divided into left and right in the next room.

In the left area, you must traverse through the area in the order of the arrows that you encountered. Solution: right left right right left left left right left. Kill the enemy and press the button.

In the right area, go through the passage and you'll see buttons behind the three enemies. Press the buttons in the order of the symbols in the pillars you encountered. Solution: right, left, middle.

If you have finished both areas, talk to the man in the area before the path forked and he'll say something about the elevator. Head down. When you enter the room with a red pool with two spikes (it is the last room right before the room with the boss awakening button). Look at the wall, there'll be 2 murals. Go directly through the left one. Break the glass, take the Ancient Sword, equip it. It'll grand you a new ability - Holy Strike.

Head back and fight the boss. You'll be given three choices after you beat him: spare him, kill him, and ask for 3 wishes. Sparing him will grant you 1x Demon's Promise while asking for 3 favors will grant you 3x Demon's Promise. Demon's Promise is an item that can only be used in battle that will fully recover your HP, MP, and buff your attack and defense. I don't see any reward for killing him though.

Demonic Detractor
Defeat Rhassago!

Take the memory on the next area and exit the building. Enter the leftmost building in the temple afterward. A path should be opened that lead you to the next room. Pick up the Burnt Key. Equip it to Nic and head to Roke.

Roke

If you do it right, you should be entering a darker version of Roke.

Darkness...
Find Blackout Roke

Feel free to unequip the key if you want. Follow the path until you see a creature at the end of the path. Talk to it to get teleported to another place, and talk to another being in this room for a boss fight. The boss is tough, so make sure you're ready.

The Feel...
Kill the Feeling.

You can equip Lost Song to get a new skill with the same name.

Reenter the town and head south from Isaac's house. Open the box. Beat the knight to recruit him.

In the name of all that is Holy...
Recruit Occidere!

Head to the southeasternmost area and talk to the mayor in front of the metro station. Return back to Coton.

If you haven't beat the fighting club yet, do it now. You won't be able to do it after this point.

Coton

Talk to the mayor and enter the metro.

Metro

Enter the train and kill the "person" inside. After you can get out, remember the letters above the train. There are two batches of letters: 3 in the east (AKA), 3 in the west (JKL). Enter the office room to get hints for the password. Enter the password on the elevator to the left of the office. Solution: JACKAL.

Save and enter the room. Here's the area map by TurtleBoi in case you are stuck. Click on the image and open it in a new tab if needed.


Follow the path until you reach a save machine. Head east until you reach a building and turn the pneumatic drill on. Return to the place you were in (the one with strange white thingy) and head through the white thingy to exit.

Village

Head north to find your Coton folks. Buy Foglight from the shop.

If you put in the password in day 1, head west from the lost passengers. You should find a rope there. Climb on the rope and kill the UFO to get 2x Unidentified Object.

Head southeast from the passengers and follow the path to reach the chief house. Talk to him and head to the old village (return to the first foggy area and head east).

- Day 2 (cont.)

Old Village

Head east and enter the house in the first area. Watch the TV and remember the sequence. The white color represents a pause so you'll only need to remember the yellow and red. Exit the house and head to the next area when you're ready.

Exit through the west exit and follow the path (it'll be quite long) until you reach a save point. Kill the boss inside.

Demented Dancer
Defeat Ballon!

Take the memory orb behind her and return to the previous area. Head to the other exit until you reach an area with balloons. Solve the balloon puzzle based on the hint from the TV you watched. Solution: yellow red red yellow yellow red yellow red.

Follow the path and take the Eye of Vurrus.

Village

Report to the chief and kill the boss. Follow the path until you reach Roke.

Railroad Traveler
Escape the Metro

M&J

Finish the boss fight.

Horrendous Hellion
Defeat Milly!

Exit the garage.

Phone Calls
Recruit Alex!

After you can move, head north and read the left file on the table.

Redacted
Read the Files

Exit the area.

Roke's Water Treatment Facility

Enter the building and room inside. Take the Putty on the table. Inspect the coffee mug on the next table (the one next to a computer) to get Putty Mold. Inspect the flask next to it to get Wax Fingerprint. Use the fingerprint on the elevator.

Head east in the intersection and enter the pipe when you reach a deadend (inspect the handle to get inside). You'll reach a boss at the end of the path.

Plumbing Call
Tamper with the Water Treatment Plant

Retrieve Pump Station Keycard in one of the boxes that you find. Return to the previous intersection and head west instead.

Use the keycard on the machine. Head west to fight a boss and exit the area, east to get some items.

Day 3

M&J

Head inside the garage and play the newly installed machine inside until you win.

Chiptune
Play to Win

Head to the fighting club in the back entrance of the bar and defeat your last opponent.

Head to Ovok, but don't head inside the town. You should notice that there is a fountain-like area to the south of the city. Enter the area.

Fountain

Place both emblems on the hole near the door and head inside the door when you're ready. Make sure you buy some HP and MP restorative items and revives. For reference, I used 15 Meds, 6 Mega Meds, 2 Special Meds, and 4 Revival in total.

This area is full of enemies and spikes and you're not allowed to open the menu whenever you're inside. There's a shortcut to finish the dungeon - you have to go through 30 randomly-generated rooms to reach the final boss room. Feel free to run from the enemies if you can. Don't accept the offer of the statue that offers you health in exchange of speed. You'll get more damage from the spikes later on if you have slow walking speed.

Kill the boss to get an achievement.

Server Shutdown
Defeat Receptaculum!

You'll encounter a robot on your way to the exit. Follow it to a room, talk to it, and exit the room to let it join your party.

Ancient and Abandoned...
Recruit Enoch!

Before we continue, the story will diverge in 4 different paths after this point, giving you 4 endings. The first one is Satellite ending, where you head to the M&J Garage (remember the machine and memories?) and use the satellite. The rest requires you to go to MPG building.

The Home ending requires you to say that you don't trust Alex when he asked you while the City ending requires you to say that you trust him. The last ending, UFO ending, requires you to find 4 UFOs scattered through the city after you input the password in the first day. You should have beaten 2 UFOs so far and have 3 Unidentified Objects in your bag.

- Satellite Ending

Head inside M&J Garage and go to the machine area to the north. Inspect the machine and talk to Midori when you're ready.

Satellite's Main Boiler

Art-Sat
Rediscover the Satellite

Note that this area might be hard to clear with two people. You can just escape the random encounters if you want.

Head east in the intersection and retrieve Magma Bone from the box. Head back to the central area and give it to the guy next to the lava monster.

Satellite's Central Power Mainframe

Follow the path (be careful with the electricity and light all blue lanterns before you proceed) until you reach places with experiment logs. You'll need to retrieve password for the main room. The passwords are hidden in each numbered logs, with the number in capital (except for one log) as the password. Solution: 52917.

The rest should be pretty straightforward. The last boss is kinda formidable though so make sure you stock up on a lot of HP and MP recoveries as well as Revives. You'll get an achievement after you kill the boss and when the cutscene ends.

Cruel Creation
Defeat the Puer Ultimum!

Sunset
Get the 'Satellite' Ending

Note that Cruel Creation achievement was not awarded to me when i played it for the first time. You might want to redo it again if it doesn't grant.

- Other Endings

Head to Ovok.

Ovok

If you put in the password in day 1, head to the orphanage entrance. Kill the UFO to get 3x Unidentified Object. Go inside the building on the east and talk to the soldier. Go to Roke and enter the tall building in the southeastermost area.

MPG Compound

You need to go through the elevator to travel between areas. In this building, you need to retrieve 4 machine buttons (they are square shaped item with 3 stripes and red border on it). They are located in:
- On the far left side of Dorms. Don't forget to make a coffee on this floor.
- In Research and Development floor: Head north to allow access to the east side of the elevator area. Head to the portal 2x (to blue colored area) and the button should be on your right side (near the door).
- From the previous button, head west and enter the house. Give the man his coffee.
- Head to the portal on the left side of the house and follow the way.

After you retrieve all buttons, enter the room near the second button location. You can get the solution by inspecting the vending machine on the left. Solution: 7482. Allow access to the main room. Return to the ground floor and keep on heading north until you reach a new area.

The main room is an infinite loop. Head southwest whenever possible and head northwest if you feel like you're going on a loop to head to the next room. The rest of the path should be pretty obvious until you reach the boss fight.

Bloodcurdling Bomb
Defeat Bombaugmire!

Vurrus Garden

Head east to find your party. Head east again (you'll find a car) and keep on heading southeast to find a house that you can enter to get a Store House Key. DO NOT ENTER THE HOUSE SOUTH OF THE CAR YET.

If you put in the password in day 1 and want to reach the Secret Ending, you'll find another UFO somewhere around this area. Kill it to get 4x Unidentified Object. I suggest you to save in another file before you kill this UFO if you haven't got City or Home ending and too lazy to restart the game from the beginning.

Return to the area where you're reuninted with your party and head south to reach a house where you can find Gasoline in it.

Save your game and head south from the car to find a house from the foggy village. Wait until you get a game over screen to get an achievement.

Skinwalker
Never heard from again...

Head to the area with your car when you're ready. I suggest you to save beforehand because the ending will diverge after this.

Vurrus Mansion

You'll make a decision for the ending when Alex asks you whether you trust him or not. Saying that you don't trust him will lead to Home ending while trusting him will lead to City ending. If you already killed all of the UFOs (there are 4 of them; you should have 10 Unidentified Objects with you if you killed them all), then this doesn't matter.

You can go through mirrors. Explore the area until you reach the room with a lot of buttons. The hint is in the sign that is located in mirror world in one of the rooms. The room number position is:
1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8
0
Solution: 1158000
Head to this same area in mirror world and retrieve Ultimate Key.

If you couldn't seem to find your way through the mirrors, here's the order on where you must go: top right, input the room number, top right, re-enter top right (mirrored).

Return back to the entrance and head to the east area.

If you collected all 4 UFOs, you'll be transported to a different place. Kill the boss to get your ending.

From Beyond the Garden...
Get the Secret Ending

If you haven't collected the UFOs, you'll still be in that place. Kill the boss there.

Distressing Demigod
Defeat Vurrus!

If you chose that you don't trust Alex, you'll get the Home ending after the cutscene ends.

Stay at Home
Get the 'Home' Ending

If you chose that you trust Alex, the game will progress to the next area.

Nowhere

Lost Continuum
Reach for Nowhere

Just follow the area to meet your final boss. You'll get an achievement after you kill her and another one after the cutscene ends.

Unstable Undead
Defeat Nash!

Into the Workforce
Get the 'City' Ending

Afterwords

4 endings done! To be honest, i was only planning to make an achievement guide at the start, but i noticed that some puzzles might be a bit tricky to solve so i end up making a walkthrough instead. I'm too lazy to make it in details though so you'll have to find non-important items by yourself. Anyways, i hope the guide helps you to find the achievements.

References and Credits

Dashbored Memories Guide (True Ending) by its maxine!
Steps to get the special ending with info given after you beat the game once. by Jimmy Rustles
4 Achievemets left. by ezwinis&viidy
Party Member: Ghost by SketchyNonsense
Karbonic's comment in Crystal Clear Update: Secret Boss and Burnt Key?

kapekkapusniak for Skinwalker achievement
lyubov741 for helpful info in Ancient Suffering update
dave. for some nitpicks and tips regarding day 2, Ancient Sword info in the Temple, and confirmation of the number of rooms in the Fountain
wcc for helpful info in Crystal Clear! update
TurtleBoi for Metro's generator map and mirror world navigation info

[aquatorrent]

@IARRUS: as Kyan⚧ said, you can try to ctrl + f emblem in the guide for a precise location, but in short, it is in gourdmoore :)

@Kyan⚧: aw, im sorry to hear that. I guess you didnt have another save in separate slot ? :')
Anyways, glad you figured it out regardless!

[Kyan⚧]

Also i realized my issue with the fighting club. I seem to have messed up the order completely missing my chances . Im just having to restart the run now lol

[Kyan⚧]

@IARRUS do control F on the guide and search for suffering emblem! you should be able to deduce from there as its hidden within a secret area you must unlock first along with the memory

[IARRUS]

Hello, I have an emblem of pain, but I can't figure out what kind of second emblem is needed for the fountain, can you tell me where it is located?

[aquatorrent]

@Kyan⚧ : hmm have you tried talking to everyone in the room? If yes, you might have finished the fight on that day? You can only fight there once a day :)

[Kyan⚧]

oh no i went there i just dont know where inside im supposed to start the fight . Somehow

[aquatorrent]

@Kyan⚧ : do you mean you dont know the location? It is on the back entrancd of the bar :)

[Kyan⚧]

Im having trouble figuring out how to do the fight club apparently

[aquatorrent]

@Crob: you are welcome!

[Crob]

been a few years but thanks for this