Hylics Walkthrough

This guide is intended to get you from the start of the game to the end credits.

Walkthrough

Introduction

This guide is intended to get you from the start of the game to the end credits.
You can talk to NPCs for suggestions and clues to where to go next, to get more story, but it is not necessary most of the time.
Enjoy the environment and atmosphere, no need to rush through the story! Hylics is a short game, around 3 hours.
This is not a 100% playthrough. For extra content and maps, you can use Teufelsabbiss guide here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2152701466

Controls:

Walk – Arrow Keys
Confirm – Enter or Z
Menu/Cancel – Esc or C
Spacebar – Special Interaction
F1 – Properties/Full Screen
F12 – Return to Title Screen

ACT 1 - Part 1

Walk over to the switch above the ACT 1 words and use it to start the game!

WAYNE’S HOUSE

You are in your house.

*Interact with the Crystal close to the stairs.

*Open the bag to get Money.

*Interact with the TV to learn the skill Ablative Holo-Pleather

Go upstairs.

*Open the toilet to get Warm Burrito.

*Get Toilet Paper.

*You can use the bathtub to heal.

Leave the house. (Don’t Forget to save, there is no autosave)

*Open both trashcans.

*Move left, you will see your Garden. Interact with Every “Green Tree” to get Vegetables. (healing item)

*Interact with the trashcan on the northeast most corner of the map.

*Open your menu, go to Get Dressed and optimize to equip your items.

*Move to the edge of the screen to move to the World Map.

WORLD MAP

For now, move to the big city on your right.

CITY

This is the main city with vendors and shops.

*Walk left, among the white insects, open the chest by the wall to get dynamite. (Don’t use the dynamite)

*Go up the stairs here. You will be at an Item Shop, don’t buy anything. Continue going up making your way to the Accessories Shop. Buy the Bleak Cellophane and equip it. (There is a microwave by the Item shop, you can warm Frozen Burritos there. Frozen Burritos deal damage when used and Warm Burritos bring characters back from the Dead State, when their HP is zero)

*Leave the shop by going south, ignore the second stairs (Armor Shop) and continue over the bridge.

*Activate the Yellow Crystal. Continue following the path up north and descend the stairs.
*You will be in a place with a bathtub, you need to pay to use it. Don’t pay, since you can heal for free in many places.

*Open the chest in front of the bathtub for a Juice Box.

*Leave through the South exit, follow the path to a spiked floor with 2 NPCs. The stair in the north is the way to the Weapon Shop. Go South, descending 2 stairs, back to where you entered the City.

*Walk left a bit until you see a stairway going up under the bridge passage you were before. Go up the stairs and follow the path until you teleport to the top of the mountain/city.

MOUNTAIN

There are enemies here. If you die, before activating the next Crystal (Red Crystal), activate the Yellow Crystal to return to the bridge passageway, rest in the couch in the afterlife and go through the portal. Make your way back to the Mountain.

*Evade the enemies as best as you can going to the left side and to the north until you find an NPC with a tent and a Crystal. If you are engaged by an Enemy, press left arrow key and choose escape.

*Activate the Crystal (Red Crystal). Speak to the NPC, named Dedusmuln, and accept his request.

*Enter the tent, use the button on the left side of the machine. (The machine is something like a fan, it is on if the object is displaying an animation)

*Sleep in the bed. You will wake up somewhere else, go South.

*Here you will see where the paper cup is buried.
(There is also a staircase by the right side. You can go down and talk to the Sage for a Token. This is extra content and not required)

*Go back to the bed and sleep. Turn the machine off. (You will use the bed a lot, so turn it off to disable the “dream” sequence)

*Leave the tent and go east, avoiding/escaping the enemies, you will see the place where the dream took place. The paper cup is buried right in the middle, use spacebar to dig around. (On the steam deck, I had to assign spacebar to a key)


*After getting the paper cup, fight the enemies until you die. (The enemy Cone Statue loves to throw around Shining, which blinds your character. If you equipped the Bleak Cellophane, you won’t be affected)

AFTERLIFE

Dying is a pretty normal part of Hylics, and very forgiving. And also, kind of required!

Here you will find a grinding machine to the right of the portal. Enemies you defeat drop meat, grind the meat in the machine to increase your HP. (Flesh)

Heal completely at the couch to the left of the portal.

When you die 3 times, go to the southeast part of the map. The fish in the stairs here will let you pass to grab a powerful weapon. The fish also tells you how many more times you need to die.
Check at the end of the guide to know which Crystal takes you to each place.

You always need to activate a crystal to go back to the game.

*If you defeated an enemy, grind the meat.

*Go to the southwest side and descend the stairs.

*Activate the statue with your head to get a Hot Dog.

*Go east and enter a stairway by the cliff.

*Talk to the NPC, give him the Dynamite. (If you used the Dynamite, you can buy more in the city or ignore this part as it is optional) With the path open, use the TV to get Calibration.

*Go back upstairs, activate the Red Crystal. Sleep on the couch to recover health.

*Use the portal.

MOUNTAIN 2

*Talk to the NPC. Accept his request and he will join the party.

Note that party members do not receive the skills/powers you already have. Every time you get a new party member, you will need to interact with all the TVs you previously used to give them the same powers. Reuse the TVs as you see fit and when you see you need the powers. Check the 100% guide in the start of this walkthrough if you forgot where the TVs are.

*Enter the tent and use the Water Container. (Water Containers give more Magic Points)

*Time to grind, leave the tent. Start killing every enemy close to the tent, heal after every battle in the bed inside the tent or when necessary. Focus on killing the Cone Statues first. Try not to use too many items right now. If you die, grind the meat and return here through the Red Crystal.

Grab all the money you see lying around and use the TV that is walking here too for the Space Shuriken power.

It is recommended to activate the TV as soon as possible, as Space Shuriken is pretty useful against the Cone Statues and hits even if the character is blind.

Enemies do not respawn.

Cone Cultist – HP 40
Cone Statue – HP 100
Fleshtache – HP 240

*After killing the entire area and grabbing all the money, descend the mountain back to the city. Buy equipment if you want.

*Leave the city.

COMPUTER GALLERY

*Go to the Computer Gallery. (small island under the boat connected by a bridge)
Note that the wandering skulls will instakill you when touched. Avoid them.

*Avoid the enemies and rush to the northeast to activate the Green Crystal so you can easily come back if you die.

*Activate the TV for Mystic Meat.

*Pounding time again! Kill every enemy. When you die, just use the Green Crystal. (Avoid the Skulls!!!)

There won’t be a lot more grind going forward! But it is recommended to kill everything you see to get meat.

Spiral Polycerate – HP 60
Foothead – HP 80
Despair Puff – HP 40
Slughead – HP 125

*Southwest you will find a skull. Avoid the skull, open the trashcan. (Descend the stairs to get another Sage Token)

*On the Southeast side, there is a water container if you have another cup, money and a muscle applique in a bag. There are 2 skulls here, lure both of them to the left side, stay just behind the red line. When they get close, rush to the other side and grab the items.

*Return to the center and activate the moving warp.

ACT 1 - Part 2

RECOLORED WORLD

*Descend the stairs to grab another paper cup, go back up and leave north.

*Go south and enter the location by the ocean.

*Try going up to the NPC 3 times to start a fight.

Mustelid – HP 80
Guard – HP 150

*After the fight, grab the money, open the bag for an Artificial Bicep, open the toilet for Bad Juju and use the TV for Detonation.

*Go back to the north and follow east, cross the bridge. The yellow house to the north has a place for you to sleep to heal on the second floor.

*Continue going east, then north, up the stairs.

*Don’t enter for now, continue going west. Ignore the fleshy tentacle monster.

*Cross the bridge west, immediately go south to cross another bridge.

*Enter the place that looks like a temple. Activate the device and teleport.

*Go south. You are back at the World Map, go to the only house available.

SOMSNOSA’S HOUSE

*Go up the stairs.

*Talk to the NPC and agree to help.

*The TV will give Bubbles!

*You can heal going north to the bathroom and using the sink.

*Go downstairs into the basement.

*Activate the Crystal and enter north. (Yellow Crystal right side)

*Your objective here is to avoid the Skulls and go north!

*You will find an NPC here too, talk to it if you want to buy food for a pet. Grab the money behind the couch. If you can’t go back because of a skull on the way, die and return using the yellow crystal on the right side of the afterlife.

*You have to go north using the left side of the screen, rope the skulls to follow you to the spikes on the floor and slip past them.

*You will get to a staircase and gloves on the floor. Grab the gloves. Go up the stairs.

*You are now behind her house, go down. Grab the money and reenter the house.

*Talk to the NPC and Somsnosa will join the party.

*Make your way back to the overworld, teleport back to the Colored World and make your way back to the Castle, but stop at the fleshy tentacles monster.

*Touch the monster, you will be teleported to a small area, grab the Deutoplasm on the yellow “shells”. If you stay too close or too long on the screen, the monster will attack you. The fight is optional.

Creature – HP 600

*Go to the Castle to the east.

CASTLE

*Kill the 3 enemies patrolling.

Malign Hologram – HP 100
Guard – HP 150

*Get Vegetables on the east side of the screen.

*Go north into the entrance.

*Activate the harbor controls. This will enable you to use the boat. In turn, the guard will attack you. Kill the guard first. Leave Somsnosa to heal the party.

Guard – HP 150
Horrid Projection – HP 400

*Leave the Castle and go south, then west across the bridge, back to the warp.

*Warp back to the Gallery and leave to the World Map.

ACT 2

*You will be the white man once again, interact with the hole up the stairs.

*Activate all the switches and buttons.

WORLD MAP

If you want/need need equipments, now is the time to go to the city and buy them.

I recommend diversifying your party equipment and weapon, and not making everyone to use the same things. Change equipment as needed for each fight.

*Back as Wayne, make your way and enter the boat.

You can only dock on the same type of harbor “bridge” that touches the water. If you teleport somewhere and need the boat, you can just go to the harbor “bridges” and press the Confirm button to summon the boat.

*Leave the harbor area, go west a bit and north to dock on the island in the center.

CENTER ISLAND

*Go north to the small house.

*You will see a bunch of symbols on pedestals. Memorize the symbols, draw them, take a photo or look at the link below.


*Leave back to the World Map and enter the house to the west.

*Enter the house and activate only the symbols that were on the previous screen. (check photo if needed, there is no penalty for getting it wrong)

*Enter the opened door and speak to the NPC to fight him. Use Dynamite and Hot Dog if you have.

Guard – HP 150
Dark Knight – HP 600

*Defeat him for the last party member.

Congrats! Your Party of 4 is now complete! You are now immune to the Skulls that instakill you.
*Interact with the TV to get Dark Flame.

*Note also that you can kill the white insects to get a few might bonus.

*Leave the house all the way back to the boat.

*Venture a bit to the west to a slim island looking like a worm.

*Walk all the way across and enter.

GRAVEYARD

Be careful of the ghost enemies, try to avoid fighting them, they love to drain all your Magic Points and are immune to normal attacks. It is best to escape and dodge the ghosts. But, if you have the patience, you can kill them one by one by dying, healing over and over. Just spam Dark Flame every turn. Use the Juice Boxes that the Ghosts drop.

*Go north and interact with the tombstone. Go down the stairs.

*Check the map, you have to activate the corresponding tombstone, go down all the stairs and activate the switches. (Alternatively, just activate all tombstone if you don’t want to look at the map)


*Activate the Blue Crystal (You will need it!!!)

*Go back upstairs and start the hunt.

Ghost – HP 300
Despair Puff – HP 40

There are some enemies that spawn only inside the tombstones.

Dread Meat – HP 350
Malign Hologram – HP 100
Cone Cultist – HP 40
Mustelid – HP 80
Sub Shrub – HP 120

*There is a TV with Health Chant (very useful healing magic) in the northeast staircase tombstone.

There is a couch and a microwave on the northwest, above a slim staircase. To the east of the couch, another slim pathway to go to the east side of the graveyard.

*After activating all switches, go back to the one in the center that had 3 switches in the same room and activate the center switch that was stuck before, in front of the green cable.

*Go back upstairs and go north, entering the door that was closed before.

DARK ROOM

*In this next room, go south past the patrol. Evade or kill the enemies.

Fathead – HP 200
Monoops – HP 350
Spiral Polycerate – HP 60
Malign Hologram – HP 100
Foothead – HP 80

*Cross over your huge body clone south, defeat the enemy and get Demon Skull from chest on the west side.

*Go east in the narrow path to the body of Dedusmuln. Continue east until have to go north, where Pongorma lies. Go north to get Duck Blade.

*Continue east. There is a boss fight incoming.

Tomb Shrub – HP 1250

A boss, Tomb Shrub spawns Sub Shrub during the fight. Focus first on him or use Dark Flame to hit everyone. If there are too many enemies alive, switch to killing the smaller ones. Raise your might when he debuffs you, but priority is keeping everyone alive. Take a turn to heal and cure everyone when needed.

*After the boss, walk east a bit and descend the stairway south.

*You are back at the World Map briefly, continue on the path to the next stairs.

DEADLY STATUES

*Descend the stairs and note the Crystal east of you. Activate it for some relief.

*Go east. Careful! Some statues are alive and will chase you. Like the skulls before, they instakill you.

The last sage token is here, if you want it, you will have to lure the statue out of the corridor that leads to the northeast staircase.

*In this mini labyrinth, keep going west and north at every turn until you get to a staircase.

*Go up the staircase.

ACT 3

*As the white character, go all the way south.

*Activate every switch and button.

WORLD MAP

*Back as Wayne, you are at the World Map by a wiggling object.

*Activate the Wiggling object to summon your airship.

The airship can be summoned by one of this wiggling objects in certain islands. The airship can land in any open space.

Use this moment to go back to the main city and equip your characters, but don’t use all the money. Get all the TVs you want/need, cups, etc.

*Take the airship and go to the center of the map, a bit south there is a tall white tower, land there and go all the way up.

LAB

*Enter the door north and talk to the NPC with the Clam head. You don’t have the password, answer anything to start the fight.

Clawman – HP 1400

Make sure to keep 2 characters able to heal, as Clawman has confusion and paralysis, use Mystic Meat.

Prioritize healing. Poison the boss and keep attacking or use Space Shuriken between heals.

*After killing Clawman, go south to the previous screen and go east to enter the lab.

*Activate every button and switch here. You will get lots of money.

Now you must have around 750k+ of money.

*Leave the lab and go back to the airship.

WORLD MAP

*Go to the city and buy 50 Dynamites. Warm all your frozen burritos. Take about 20 Warm Burritos.

*Go all the way center north and land on a donut shaped island. Enter the place up north.

SPACE PORT

*Buy 50 Hot Dogs from the vendor and 1 space ship key!

*Go up the stairs. Kill the enemy.

*Activate the controls in the center to go to the moon.

MOON

*Go all the way south to the Moon Overworld.

*Follow the path to the Palace, there is nothing to interact with.

PALACE

*On the left side, open the chest for an axe.

*Talk to the guard, they will die automatically as you touch them. Kill every single one you see, as they give meat. (And kinda making it hard to see the floor to walk on)

*Continue going north crushing all the guards and enter the doorway.

*Activate the Dark Red Crystal.

*Save the game and prepare for the final boss.

*Proceed north and talk to the guy in the chair.

Gibby – HP 2500
Statue – HP 500

Hope you like explosions!

Strategy here is very simple, spam dynamite!

First turn use Wayne’s Mystic Meat to guard the party against ailments. The rest of the party should focus on throwing Dynamites, with 1 active healer.

After the 2 statues are dead (their sprites won’t disappear from the battle), focus on healing with Hot Dogs and throw Dynamites when you can.

Be careful not to get all your party stuck in a Confusion loop. If the Vital Statue is healing everyone too often, focus attacks on her with Space Shuriken.

Go all out, use all your items and tricks.

If you die, deposit meat to gain a lot of health. (But don’t forget to restock on Hot Dogs and Dynamite)

*Congrats! You are now rich and full of EXP!

*Gibby has his final dialogue. Go south and exit.

EXPLOSION! No more high tides.

*After Wayne’s last dialogue, flip the switch on your left.

THE END

Or is it? Exit the screen to the left to go back to the overworld and to continue playing if you want.

THE END²

Wiki Link: https://hylics.fandom.com/wiki/Hylics_Wiki

AFTERLIFE CRYSTALS

There are 2 sets of Crystals in the Afterlife.

Left Side

Blue – Your House/Wayne's House
Yellow – Bridge in the City
Red – Tent in the Mountain
Green – Computer Gallery

Right side

Yellow – Basement in Somsnosa’s House
Blue – Graveyard Map
Red – Deadly Statues
Dark Red – Last Boss Room


Leave any comments or errors below!

[Metalslayer]

Gorgojoplos, glad you liked the guide! Good gaming!

[gorgojoplos]

this game is a must for everyone, thanks for making this guide!! it helped me a lot through my first playthrough

[Metalslayer]

I know! That's exactly why I decided to make this. Also so people can use it with the steam overlay, no need to leave the game.

[LobotomyLover]

with more obscure games like this, it's always worrying getting into them because their potential lack of direction might make it frustrating. guides like these are so incredibly helpful. thank you

[Dan]

thanks my little cutie-pie

[Metalslayer]

Thanks, opossum, Patrick and Pepe!

[Pepe]

Great guide! Thank u for the help

[Mentzen2025]

thank you!

[opossumfacts]

Thanks for this! It was a huge help

[Metalslayer]

No problem!