Mothmen 1966 100% Achievement Guide

A no-nonsense guide to help you 100% the game featuring every achievement, all deaths and puzzle solutions.

Intro

Hello!

This is a quick guide detailing how to get every achievement, including where to get all deaths, and puzzle solutions for each chapter.

Each section title will also tell what to look for in each chapter in regards to achiements and ways you can die.

While you can skip through the game very quickly you'd be better off making a save at the start of each chapter just in case you miss (or mess) something so you can go back quickly.

The game is basically a visual novel with some puzzles and several choices are there just for flavour, I won't talk about those but will warn you when an important one comes up.

PROLOGUE (1 Achievement)

You'll eventually start sorting shelves, and this is where our first achievement is so SAVE,
You have to stack items so each shelf has the same things on it.
There's several possible ways but here's how I did it:

GRAB SOMETHING FROM THE UPPER SHELF - BOTTLE

REPLACE SOMETHING FROM THE LOWER SHELF - BOX

REPLACE SOMETHING FROM THE UPPER SHELF - EMPTY

GRAB SOMETHING FROM THE MIDDLE SHELF - BOTTLE

REPLACE SOMETHING FROM THE LOWER SHELF - CAN

REPLACE SOMETHING FROM THE MIDDLE SHELF - EMPTY

It'd look like this.
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Once you have one type of each product on the same shelf choose CHECK SHELVES to unlock ILLUSION OF CONTROL.

CHAPTER I (2 Deaths, 1 Achievement)

DEATH 1

After something hits the Mustang's antenna you'll get this choice:
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Choose DON'T STOP THE CAR to get Death 1/7.

DEATH 2

Shortly after you'll face a pack of coyotes, in this screen choose RUN TO THE CAR! to get Death 2/7.
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The next achievement requires you to successfully avoid being mauled by this coyote pack.

The way the coyotes come at you is random so I can't give you a simple solution, but here's how it works.

You'll have to:

YELL AND GESTURE/ YELL AT ONE OF THE COYOTES ON THIS SIDE OF THE CAR/ three times, picking the one closest to you as seen on the screen.

Heres an image to help you choose, simply pick depending on which coyote moves close.
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When three coyotes move on you and the game says "yelling or waving your arms around won't be enough this time" simply BANG ON THE HOOD.

You'll now have to throw stones to press the offensive, any order seems to work so do your thing!

Surviving this ordeal will unlock THEY HUNT IN PACKS

CHAPTER II (3 Achievements)

You'll have a small puzzle about adjusting your binoculars, once solved you'll get a story achievement.
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Solution:

Start by choosing ADJUST THE DIOPTER and MOVE RIGHT.

Then choose BACK then ADJUST THE FOCUSING WHEEL and then click MOVE LEFT three times.

Once done you'll unlock FIRST SIGHTNING.



Right after you'll be asked to draw what you've seen, there's two mutually exclusive achievements here so SAVE before you continue!
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Look at the solution below and choose something else first for each area to get UNRELIABLE WITNESS.



The correct solution here is LITTLE OWL-HEAD, HUMAN CHEST WITH HUGE WINGS and WEIRD BIRD-LIKE LEGS: use these to get RELIABLE WITNESS.

CHAPTER III (2 Achievements for Solitaire)

You'll get a scene about Holt's solitaire, choose to have it explained so that you get familiar with the rules.
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This game has two achievements, one is easy and requires you to lose while having more than 25 cards in your deck, the other is unlocked by losing with 15 or less cards.

You can save and reload here or simply try from the main menu as the solitaire'll also become accessible from there from now on, your choice.
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Honestly, for the good run achievement since since the game is random you'll need a good amount of luck and maybe even take some notes to guess what color is more present in the stock.
Still having to bet on red or black whenever you turn over a card from stock can easily screw you...but if you keep at it you'll get it eventually.

I suck at solitaires but managed to get good run in a few tries, so don't give up!



The bad run one is super easy thankfully, just start a new game and keep betting until you lose.

CHAPTER IV (1 Achievement)

SAVE at the start of this chapter as soon you'll be distracted by your thoughts, and a barking dog, thus missing Lee's question.
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When this comes up choose ANSWER ANYTHING followed by YES... to unlock DIALOGUE WIZARD

CHAPTER V (1 Death, 1 Dialogue choice for a future achievement).

SAVE at the start of the chapter, as usual, and BE WARNED you have a dialogue choice that'll unlock an achievement later so don't mess up or you'll have to replay from here!

DEATH 3

Your conversation will be interrupted by noises outside and you'll be grabbing a chain.
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The first choice doesn't matter, but you have to pick HOLD ON TO THE CHAIN for the second prompt to get Death 3/7.

You'll then be getting into the forest and Lou will start spouting irritating nonsense at the worst time, as in finding your dog is dead, you'll be faced with these choices:
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You HAVE to pick the first option (...) to stay silent so that Victoria intervenes telling him to shut up, this will make Holt trust her and unlock an achievement in Chapter VII.

CHAPTER VI (1 Achievement)

SAVE as always.

You'll be walking through the woods as Lee, and see the meteor shower again.
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Here choose to CRY when prompted, getting MACHO CRY for not being afraid to express your feelings.

CHAPTER VII (1 Death, 1 Achievement, tied to choice in Chapter v)

SAVE as we have a missable death.

The achievement here will unlock automatically only if you decided to stay silent when confronting Lou in Chapter V.
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If you did everything correctly he'll mention it and spill the beans on Lee, unlocking NO SECRETS in the process.



Now keep playing until you get back to the gas station until Holt and his grandma get in trouble, you'll be faced with a choice.
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DEATH 4

Simply pick RUN TO ELSIE AND HOLT to get Death 4/7.

Now you have to clear the way, to do so:

-AIM FOR THE CENTER LAMP ON THE RIGHT and SHOOT

-AIM FOR THE CLOSEST LAMP ON THE RIGHT and SHOOT

-AIM FOR THE FARTHEST LAMP ON THE RIGHT and SHOOT

CHAPTER VIII (1 Death, 3 Achievements)

Keep a SAVE as there's many things we have to do in this chapter.

You'll have several scenes with the group and eventually decide to use the Winans Gun, this'll start a puzzle with two achievements so SAVE in another slot before we continue.
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The actual puzzle starts when you are prompted to EXAMINE PIECES.

Let's get the easiest achievement first, simply rotate one piece at random, go back and choose TEST THE PIECE ON THE MACHINE GUN: Lou will offer to help and a new choice, TALK TO LOU, will appear. Select it to unlock PUZZLE HISTORIAN.



Now Lou will offer to actually solve the whole thing for you, this is up to you as either having Lou solving it or doing it yourself will unlock THE ROTATION OF THE EARTH, REALLY MAKES MY DAY.



If you want to do it yourself here's a screenshot of the final configuration you need to aim for:
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You'll then go outside and set up a defense using the gun you've just fixed, SAVE just in case.

First we need to get this chapter's Death!

DEATH 5

You'll get this by intentionally shooting in spaces containing no enemies, keep doing this until Elsie can't help you and you're overrun thus getting Death 5/7. And yes it's gonna take quite a few waves so have patience.

Once you're dead hit RETRY, I'll give you the correct choices for each enemy wave starting from this one:
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Shoot LEFT, CENTER then RIGHT

After this wave Elsie will talk about deserters and you'll have to decide whether to stay shooting or send her away, choose STAY SHOOTING BIPEDS and NEVER choose to send Elsie looking for the others for the final achievement in this chapter, you need to complete this puzzle before it'll pop though so let's continue.

More waves! For this one:
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Shoot RIGHT.

Another wave follows:
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Shoot LEFT then RIGHT.

The final wave.
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Shoot CENTER, RIGHT, LEFT and CENTER.

If you've done everything right you'll unlock WINANS LAST STAND.

CHAPTER IX (1 Death)

SAVE right away.

DEATH 6

After a short conversation you'll encounter Elsie.
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Choose PUSH right away to get Death 6/7.

With that out of the way choose PULL, PUSH and PUSH again to finish the chapter.

CHAPTER X (1 Death, 1 Achievement)

SAVE as we're getting the final death.

DEATH 7

You'll be running away from the gas station and Lee will tell you to go left.
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Ignore his advice and choose RIGHT, GET DOWN or simply let the timer expire to get Death 7/7, click through its text to get SUDDEN ENDINGS COMPLETIST.



Hit Retry and to escape follow Lee's advice by choosing LEFT, GET DOWN and RIGHT before the timer hits zero.

SAVE once you reach the car, now go through the final scenes and DO NOT skip the credits of go back to the main menu as they roll! Let them finish to get an extra scene and unlock NOT JUST MARVELLOUS... which'll also 100% the game if you've done everything else.

Thank you and a request

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If you spot any mistakes or wrong info please lemme know in the comments.

Also follow this link for my other guides, maybe one of em will catch your fancy:

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198006541362/myworkshopfiles/?section=guides

Stay safe and happy gaming.

[trollnest3]

The game has just let me save at the wrong time. (VII)

[stranger1982]

Glad to help and to see more people playing this game!

[teemu92]

Great guide, thanks!