Shutter 100% Walkthrough

This is a walkthrough filled with spoilers that will grant all achievements.

If needed, at the bottom, a section with screenshots showing documents & cassettes to help narrow which you are missing compared to your own game progress.

Hi.

Shutter is a lovely short game that is a product of graduation project from a student (or students) at ArtFx.

It's not very hard to get through alone, but I did miss a few documents on my first run so thought others may. Besides I have friends who don't like hunting through a second time for missed items, so why not.

After finishing the game, you can Continue from the Main menu so don't fret. It will load at the cafeteria. As long as you got the collectables at the start you won't miss any achievements.

Spoilers ahead!

This walkthrough filled with spoilers that will grant all achievements.

It is possible to search CTRL + F in the page for key words to potentially spoil less for those who don't want all the answers.

At the bottom you can find screenshots showing all collectables to compare to your own game progress.

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Cassette 1, The first day at L.I.E

Right side, on counter
Cassette 1
1. The first day at L.I.E

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Document 1, AWESOME

Right side on a chair.
Document 1/12
AWESOME magazine Vol 22.



Continue through doorway.
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Document 2, Employee Contract

Continue forward.
Jumping up/over the white steps with lilypads/water flowing.
Shown above on the top left corner of the screenshot.

The AI Robby will greet you.

Go forward and into the door on the left.

By the window,
E to activate the lever which opens the door.



Go through.

Place your belongings in the tray.
Flip the wall switch to agree.
Document 2/12
Employee Contract

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My first day here (Take the camera)

Go through the door.

Robby will start talking.

Wait for the conveyor belt
Take camera.

Achievement My first day here (Take the camera).

📷 camera intro 📷

You will use the camera to photograph blue items which you can resize based on distance, items are used to progress by creating a path or a weight on pressure plates.

• Right click, aim, Left click to take a photo.
  
• Right click, hold middle mouse, move trackball/mouse to zoom closer/further.
  
• Moving the photo closer to your face makes it larger.
  
• Moving objects further from character and dropping them, at say max distance makes them really large.

Document 3, Blueprint Dimensional Camera Prototype - V14

Through the door.

On the right side on a desk.
Document 3/12
Blueprint Dimensional Camera Prototype - V14

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Document 4, Confidential Type-D Anomaly

On the left, take a picture of the blue computer.
Reveals a door.
Use it on the purple pressure plate (shown above) to open the door.


In this room you will need to use the boxes to create a path to the room on your left close to the ceiling when you enter.
Shown in front in the below screenshot.

After which you will leave through the door on the ledge that will be in front of you when entering this room.
Shown on the right in the below screenshot.



Once in the room.
On the table.
Document 4/12
Confidential Type-D Anomaly


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Document 5, Flyer: Learn. Investigate. Exploit

Back down into the original room.

Use a blue box to get on the ledge where the pressure plate is.
Then use one to put on the pressure plate and continue through the door.

* I took a blue box with me first play, but you really don't need anything extra to advance.
Each room provides you with what you will need.

Run down the black path.

In this large room.

On the right center desk.
Document 5/12
Flyer: Learn. Investigate. Exploit

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Cassette 2, Unexpected Accident

Go forward behind & little below Robby.
Activate a switch that raises some stairs.


Cafeteria

This is where your outfits & hats will be kept.
Also where you appear after finishing the game and hitting Continue.

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Go behind the cafeteria hut, left side and forward.
The far left corner of the room.

Cassette 2/5
3. Unexpected Accident
Unsure if this was a labeling typo being the 2nd but #3, or somehow finding the next cassette could have come first.

Document 6, DON'T TRUST THEM

Move right couple steps towards center of the room.
On your left in the corner a table up some circular steps. Left of the elevator lever.
Document 6/12
Napkin, DON'T TRUST THEM

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Document 7, Termination Letter

The Elevator in the Cafeteria doesn't work right now.

Head to the doorway across from the Cafeteria hut.
Likely, behind and left of your location now.

Progress forward until Robby greets you again.
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Turn left and walk up the stairs.

On the table in front of you.
Document 7/12
Termination Letter

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Cassette 3, Research Begins

When leaving, on your left is a small balcony.




Take a photo of the sphere across from you.
Use it on the pressure pad above the door.



Continue through the door.

When you encounter another blue door take a photo and use it on the left doorframe.



Proceed forward.
Go up some stairs until you find a door on your right.

Loking inside, a large room with a big blue box in the distance.




As soon as you walk in,
On your right, on the table.
Cassette 3/12
2. Research Begins


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Alaska (Find the cowboy hat)

In front of you on the right is a door with 2 pressure plates.
A small one on the wall.
A large one on the floor.

! Don't get ahead of yourself here and miss going through the original door :D

Take a photo of the blue box.
Put it on the small pressure plate on the wall.

Stand on the floor pressure plate.
Take a photo of the door.



Use it on the back wall where the large blue box was.




Walk in.
Take a photo of any blue item.



Back out.


Use that blue item on the large pressure plate you were originally standing on for the first door.

Take a photo of the door again.
Use it back at it's original location where you found it.



Walk through.

The switch on the right controls the door you just came through.

Go forward, up 3 sets of short stairs.




Turn right and go up another short set of stairs.

Follow it around the right corner into a large room.

To your left, below a movie poster, Cowboy Hat.

Achievement Alaska (Find the cowboy hat).


Progress towards The fool (Try all the hats)

Document 8, Certificate of Death

In the back, right of the room on a desk.
Document 8/12
Certificate of Death - Cause of Death: Affected by Bluforia during research.

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Document 9, Blueprint Robby the Robot

Return to the room after the 3rd set of steps.

Ahead of you on a table.
Document 9/12
Blueprint Robby the Robot

Electrician hat

Turn right and up the stairs.

On the left use the lever to open the door.
Take a photo of the blue door (behind you).
Use it on the door frame across from the door you just opened.



Drop into the room.
This is where you had taken the blue item a moment ago.



On the ground level is lever to Enable/Disable gravity.
To the right in the below screenshot.
Flip it.

Use the boxes to build a path up to the new door.



Head up and through the door.

Robby will start talking and mention a reward in the Cafeteria.
So head through the right door.
Follow the path to the Elevator.
Floor 0

You now have a Pink Suit.
There is also an Electrician hat available. You will want to equip it for the next part.
Progress towards The fool (Try all the hats)

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Document 10, Resignation Letter

The elevator in here (Cafeteria area) will work now so use it.
Floor 2

Follow the path through the next door.

You will have to put specific cubes into the spaces on the right.
They will turn white when correct.

Left is some short stairs into a small room.
Document 10/12
Resignation Letter

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Cassette 4, Strange Dissapearance

Take a photo of blue cube to your right.

Go back to the main room.

The order is staring at you while you look through the glass.

1st slot, Cube with a circle and crosshair (5 dots). Taken from the small room a moment ago.
2nd slot, Cube with a line (2 dots). If facing the machine, should be to your left and behind.
3rd slot, Cube with a crosshair (5 dots). To the right closest to the machine.



This opens the door to your left.

Robby will tell you the lights are out.

Head through the door.


On the left. Take a photo of the blue lava lamp.
On the right. Flip the purple lever.



Through the next door.
And the next.


There are 3 pressure plates here.

Use the lava lamp on the pressure plate to the back right.
Jump on the platform that raises.



Take a photo of the computer.
Use it on the lower pressure plate you walked past when entering.
Jump on the next platform.



Across from you is another blue lava lamp.
Take a photo of it.
Use it on the pressure pad to the left of it.
Jump to the platform.



Jump across to the ledge leading to the next door.


Inside this room head straight to flip the switch.



Power is back on.


Leave through Right door.


In front of you is a desk.
Cassette 4/5
4. Strange Dissapearance
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Document 11, Note

Proceed forward.

In this room you can see a conveyor belt of cubes on the top right.
Two pressure plates
And another machine requiring 3 cubes.

Take photos of any 2 cubes for the 2 pressure plates.
Go through the door.

On the left table,
Document 11/12
Note about needing a robot to automate recruitment.

Why not? (Find the tray hat)

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On the right (or now behind you) a blue square/wall.



Take a photo to remove it.

Walk inside the opening and flip the lever to turn the 3 computers.



Go back to the first room.

Now to place the correct cubes into the machine.
They can all be found along the conveyor belt above you.

1st slot, Cube with line (3 dots)
2nd slot, Cube with a sideways T (4 dots)
3rd slot, Cube with a crosshair (5 dots)




Go through the door that opens.



A large conveyor belt is ahead.
To your right is a blue box.
You can use it on the pressure plate across from it to enable the treadmill and launch yourself onto the conveyor belt
Or. Use it to climb up.

As soon as you round the first corner jump off to the left.
Walk forward to a small table.




Pickup the Tray hat.

Achievement Why not? (Find the tray hat)


Progress towards The fool (Try all the hats)
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Fashion Victim (Equip a hat over the protective suit)

To the right.
Climb back up and into the next room.

Ahead of you, take one of the cubes from the machine.
Use it on the pressure plate.
Hit the switch beside it which will deliver another cube.

Now place them in the machine.

1st slot, Cube with a crosshair (5 dots)
2nd slot, Cube with line (3 dots)
3rd slot, Cube with a circle and crosshair (5 dots)



Go through the door.


Robby will talk to you about a new protective suit available in the Cafeteria.

Head out the left door to the elevator
Floor 0

In the Cafeteria put on the protective suit.
Equip a hat if you don't have the tray on. But you should since we just got it.

Achievement Fashion Victim (Equip a hat over the protective suit).

Everything can be a ball (Dunk an object inside the lobby lamps)

While here there is a blue sphere now.
You could take the blue sphere and drop it through the circular ceiling lamp.

Achievement Everything can be a ball (Dunk an object inside the lobby lamps)


*Note:
If you struggle with the camera adjusting feel free to wait till the end as you can launch yourself in.

Document 12, Blueprint Anomaly

Elevator
Floor 3

Follow the path back to the room you were just in.
Through that door.
Left and out the next left door, Containment.


Follow the broken path to the next room.
You will see a blue phone and a pressure plate.



Take a photo of it, put it on the pressure plate.
Get on the platform that lowers.

Take the photo of the same phone.
Raises the platform.
Jump forward to the next one.

To your character's left is another pressure plate on the other side of the room.
Put the phone on it.
Raises the platform you're on.
Jump forward to the next one.



Take a photo of the same phone, once more.
Put it on the pressure plate which will be in front of your character.
Raises the platform you are on.

To your characters left, across the room on the ceiling is a blue box.
Take a photo of the blue box.
Use it on the last pressure pad, to the left of the door.



Jump across on the new platform that extended horizontally.

Jump again to the door ledge.
On the right, flip the lever to open the door.



Follow the path around and up some stairs.
Robby will ask if you're sure.


Go through the door
Down the colorful hall.

In this room a machine for 1 cube and 2 pressure plates.

To your left are 2 boxes in the corner.
Take a photo of a blue box.



Use it below the upside down door just to it's right.


Pass through the short tunnel into an other room.

In front of you on the desk.
Document 12/12
Blueprint Anomaly Resistance Suit - V2
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The Company (Collect all documents)

Achievement The Company (Collect all documents)

Cassette 5, Too Late

Jump over or walk around the desk and drop through a door.
Back in the room you started.


Take a photo of the blue box or any blue item in the room to use.

Use the pressure plates to control the platforms in the closed room behind the window and to navigate / push the cube to you.



Push the button to send a cube out.
It drops down on the red platform.

Stand on Red pressure plate to raise the platform.
Use the blue item on the purple plate to push the cube off.

Get off the Red pressure plate.
Remove the blue item by taking a photo.

Repeat 2 more times for the other 2 sets.
And there's your blue cube for the machine.
Put it inside.


Behind the machine is another pressure plate.
Take a photo of the blue box or the floating item above you.
Put it on the pressure plate.



Go through the tunnel.

At the end, take a photo of the box or other item you used on the pressure plate.
Removing it to rotate the room ahead.



Walk through and at the end use the blue box (or other item) to climb up.

In the doorway.
Cassette 5/5
5. Too Late
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The scientist (Listen to all the cassettes)

Achievement The scientist (Listen to all cassettes)

The end of something (Finish the game)

Proceed through the door.
Walk on.

Achievement The end of something (Finish the game)

Everything can be a ball (Dunk an object inside the lobby lamps)

Back on the main screen.

Click Continue.

You are back at the Cafeteria wearing a new Anomaly skin.

Towards the front of the room there is a treadmill that will launch you through the circular light.

Achievement Everything can be a ball (Dunk an object inside the lobby lamps)


* Also the conveyor belt is continuous blue items you can use now.

The Hunt (Find the hyena ears)

Change your outfit into Suit or Casual.
* This won't trigger if you are wearing the Anomaly or Protective Suit. - Thanks to DDetective for this.

Update:
Note from the developer, Niluji:
We'll definitely patch the problem with this achievement, it's indeed not triggering because of the suit.

Developer tip:
The best path to get to the Hyena Ears is going through the tunnels at the end of the bridges, jumping down from the 4th floor.

Achievement The Hunt (Find the hyena ears) .

Previous method:

Take a photo of a blue box.

Elevator
Floor 4

You want to build a path to the U shaped ledge/path on the right.

After using the blue box you brought.
Look down off the edge to photo/pickup more to use to build this bridge/path over.
If you need more, grab some along the conveyor belt and you can pile a few into the elevator :D

The fool (Try all the hats)

Achievement The fool (Try all the hats)

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Cassette screenshots

In order they were found.
Uncertain if #2 and #3 are just mislabeled in game.

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Document screenshots

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Closing

If you see a correction that needs to be made, or information to add, feel free to drop it in the comments.
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A lot of sites are taking Guides on Steam to build their websites. They don't bother asking or even informing the authors. So, if this shows up on a website outside of Steam they just copied it without a second thought. To them I say, would have been kind of you to at least say you did it even if you weren't going to ask.
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Updates

• 04/29/2023: Changed hyena ears section with information from the developer. ❤
  
  
• 05/21/2023:
  
  • Uploaded pictures for clarification after comments about some confusing bits.
    
  • Adjusted some wording for clarification.
    
  • Added a note on first mention of Everything can be a ball.

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[Dahl]

Hi Caluplino. If you obtained all the things mentioned above then you have everything to my knowledge. I wondered about the empty spots as well but never asked. Thought it possible more was going to get added but ran out of time before graduation.

[Colluplino]

I found the four hats that this guide features: cowbow, tray, hyena, electrician.

I also found four suits: the default blue, the pink, protection, and anomaly.

But there are still two empty hat manequins
and two empty suit manequins in the caferteria.

Any idea how to get those?

[Dahl]

Same here first run. I included that method at the end in second mention of the achievement.
Just mentioned it sooner as i noticed the sphere my 2nd run testing the guide and it was easy enough to knock out too.

Just to make sure no one gets hung up on that first mention of it, i added a note there.

[CorvusCorax]

For the achievement "Everything can be a ball": no need to drop anything just use the jump pad in the cafeteria. It will launch us to the lamp and our hero will automatically grab the edges and climb on top. This is how I got the achievement.

[Dahl]

Yeah. Sorry thought I mentioned that about the camera in the section after receiving it. Will review it, but atm, as per my reply before your last two I am adding pictures at this very moment.

[CorvusCorax]

Ah, moving the objects not only makes them bigger but it affects the distance. I managed to put the sphere on the pressure pad from the balcony. Initially, I tried to get close by jumping from the statue (there are some floating items) or in front of the door by jumping up and "releasing" the photo.

It takes some time to get used to it but I think I got it.

I understand I have to start from scratch because of the items I missed.

[CorvusCorax]

How do I put the sphere on the pressure pad as there is no access to the top and jumping is not possible? Would you mind adding more screenshots or being more descriptive?

This is at cassette 3.

[Dahl]

Aw. If following from the start it was quiet linear initially i thought. It was linear up to document 3, as soon as you picked up camera and walk into the next door its to your right on that desk.
Anywho, I will include some screenshots to help the visual process.

[CorvusCorax]

Thank you but I already lost you at around document 3. I have no idea where you are for document number 4 and I've already gotten cassette number 2...

[Dahl]

Thank you, happy to know it helped. And I agree that does stink. Would be nice if you could walk back through past doors once you have finished the game.