I cannot tell you how I went from watching good4gaming charity event over on Twitch to downloading the demo for this game. But it happened, and I loved the demo. Since the game was less than the 4 bucks that I had in my steam wallet and went ahead and bought it!

I regret nothing.

But this game reminds me of a story that my grandmother gave me where fairies were making the world and there was a blue one that just couldn't find her place. Yeah, this game sent me back like 30 years to that memory.

Anyways, I just wanted to share that. Who cares right? Lets move on!

So when you start the game its going to ask you how do you want to move around. You can ASDW or you can point and click. E will open up and close your inventory.

Personally... the point and click is to slow for me... after using the keyboard i couldn't go back to point and click.

Also, this game can be played with a controller, I want an ps4 controller, but that is one day in the future. Supposedly you can use your mouse to mess with your inventory, i never tried that, E works just fine.

Your mouse icon, when you can click on something, turns into a triangle. When you are stuck looking at something (hello briefcase and a few other places) you need to hold your mouse over an area outside of that to see a turn around arrow... Man, that was hard for me to remember for some reason.



So you start here and just wait until it opens and you see this:



See that red box... Yeah, that red box is important if you want the SPIES achievement! I'll get to that in a bit!

So what you want to do is walk over to the desk on the left and pick up the thingie! This is plot point, you actually have to do this step. In fact, unless I say otherwise, just assume these are things you are going to end up doing eventually. There is not a whole lot of optional content, but there is some, like that red box i pointed out a minute ago.





You got the doodad? GREAT!

I'm going to change sections now because the next part optional.

Did you notice that TV in the screenshot with the red box I pointed out?

Here, lets refresh your memory



You see it to the upper right? sometimes it flickers red?

Well to get the Spies achievement you need to go stand infront of the TV and just watch it until you notice that is counting down. It will not start the countdown unless you actively watch it... or it didn't for me



So it is going to count down for a minute, you can go grab everything, you can ignore it... really its not that big of a deal. However, if you want the achievement before it hits zero, you are going to want to be in the elevator.



because when the world flickers to grey, you can grab a crowbar from that red box... the walkthrough I watched made it sound like it was timed, you only had a little bit to grab it... maybe I should play again to see if you can just wait... for the room to turn grey.





That box under the tv, CLICK IT -



Now take the crowbar to the box!



WHAT IS THAT! THAT IS SPYWARE! @@@@ GET RID OF IT AHHHHH



Oh, color is back! Also, Hi achievement!

Now, for some extra content... I hate having wires open, also what is going on with the TV?







There, that is better! Lets move on!

So, really, I want to point out that you need the doodad in this screenshot:



And then walk around until you see a suitcase on the table and pick it up... My dumbbutt didn't take a screenshot of it on the table... but yoink it, open it and take out the viewer



grab the clear doodad and put it on the viewer:



then go through the door.

Hey, see this triangle on the ground. If you see some kind of three sided pointie thing on the ground that means you need to stand there and look at something.



in this case, you want to stand there and look at this photo with the viewer

I want to point out that in the demo the points of the secerets are a little different than where I am standing. I got them while playing full game and used that as my screenshots... I dont know if I can even open the Demo anymore to grab those screenshots.

I'm also only going to call out achievements that you are going to get by doing extra things... most of them you get just by playing the game.

So... Want the easiest optional achievement in the game?



walk to the moon. :D Hey! look, you got Loop!

Okay, lets get to the actual game.

You come to this diner, which I didn't take a picture of, play the game or watch a video :D

But to the left of diner there is a few things you are going to interact with during the game... Right now you want to focus on this bucket:



Pick it up and go to right side of the diner that has this interesting poster I want you to take a note of:



and the well that you are going to use TWO times.

Right now, put the bucket on the hook:



Lower the bucket, lift the bucket, take both the bucket and the hook.



Time to move inside... now is as good as ever to end the chapter

This is a nice little diner... I would like to point out this thing:



That you can grab at any time up until you need to make a phone call, grab it now, grab it later... you do actually need to have it on you to use the phone. :D I tried :D

So the demo has three achievements. One can be done right now. I hope the spoiler tag works... IT DOES... okay, hover your mouse over the black bar and it will show you the picture of where you need to look through the viewer. I could have the pic of what it looks like, but you can find it in my screenshots or play the game.

these chairs:


Lets go upstairs to the left since you cant go into the kitchen (BOOO)

There is a few clocks around:



note the time.

So i want to stop and put the second demo achievement real quick that you can grab, and you can already have colors when you look at the items. I'm showing you stuff out of order.

TV


Also, yes, there is a door that doesn't have a doornob, well get to that later, and the room with a tv? well you in there if you open the drawers by the bed right now you see these two things:




Honestly, the empty one is just a decoy. and the blue box one is important later.

we might as well look at the TV while we are here:



The fact that the top nob turns is pretty darn important later.

lets leave the room. Look up to the left of the clock....



I am embarrased to say i had to find a video to tell me about it. Who looks up during video games? I LOVE IT! MORE!

Okay, back to actual story progression.

There is one thing upstairs that I was ignoring on purpose. Why? because it moves the story forward, and that is no fun, I wanted a fun chapter. I'm having fun making this... if you cant tell.

So, doesn't that plant look a little sad? lets give it a drink!



does anybody else see a leg?

Yup, take the bucket and put it on the plant.



The plan it so happy that it gives you a doodad for your thingie!@

I'm going to put two pics, and then explain them for those who dont get it:

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look at the register with the thingie after you put the doodad in it... and it gives you a green triangle!

didn't the pant have a green outline? Lets put them together!



HEY there is now GREEN.

Okay what I didn't take a picture of and am trying to show you in that last shot is I grabbed the pole that was sitting above the plant and am attaching the hook to it... which I am going to use on the attic door I showed you in the last chapter. Here is a refresher:



You want to open it so you get this:



Now, go take out the green thing. Yes, do it...

Why?

do you want to deal with this?



if you dont take it out your going to have to make an extra trip.

But I think now is a good time for a new chapter!

Since we are in the attic we are going to steal the moon and I want it to be its own chapter because I'm writing this and as much as i like the Minion series I wanted to make this joke.

I would like to point out that once you open the attic you can do this at any point before you make the phone call.





Apparently I deleted all the extra pictures, but do you really need a step by step? basically, get the crane to the top picture and then put the moon in the back of the truck!

They made it really easy, a crane game you can win on your first try!@

Moving on!

Okay, so you went into the attic. You took out the green thing right... RIGHT?

No? okay.. Well... grab this thing since your up here...



Now go downstairs, take out the triangle, upstairs you need to open the cubby:

Congrats, you finished the demo!

This is where the blue triangle is going and also, its got some grey circle thing your gonna grab in a bit.

Know I told you to grab that lever? And remember when I said you were going to use the well twice? Guess what time is it.

If you said Hammer Time you are showing your age.

No, its time to go back down to the well... another thing that took way to long for me to figure out the first time.





Hey, that blue thing looks like the green thing, but blue! I bet you know where it goes!



You said the cubby right? Please tell me you said the cubby.

By the way, no, you can not put the colors in the wrong holes, I tried.

And with that, we are going to go to the next chapter!

HEY, there is a thing with the triangle



See the green record? YOINK

Then around the corner, by the bike



Hmm... Now is a good time to show you the last demo achievement!

So here:



That is all of the Demo's achievements! YAYYY okay...

So you have a green record and a blue doorknob.

If you take out a triangle, the colored item becomes unusable. so you really want both of those in their places right now.

Do that door with out a knob earlier... guess what:



You can now go in there... and



its a closet... Blue suitcase?



Nope portable record player...

*runs off on a tanget.. phonograph was invented in 1877 by Edison, that jerk Bell (he was a jerk, trust me) added wax which led to the graphophone... Bell was a jerk because he invented the telephone because ... ... nope, I'm not going into that here...

but lets drop a blue suitcase :D
https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B06XJ9CYB2/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_TRJ6MVGB225FPHRE2248?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

I was looking for when those became a thing... but nope... Maybe it was the 1960s that had the stereo playback, and it was an automatic turntable?

Considering diners were popular at the time... Yeah, I can totally see this being in the 1960s out in the middle of no where... I need to go read the about for this game or maybe reach out to the Devs... I like history and fun worthless facts....

Okay... so put the green circle in the blue square

It's happy, but while its thinking about giving you a reward turn around and grab this thing.



Bar stools are totally a thing... I didn't realize we were missing one before I found that....

turn back around and hey, the record player is saying thank you



Now, dont be a me and go downstairs...

go to the room with the TV



That blue rectangle in the drawer now has a book!




Clock face a few triangles... who knows what is going to happen... okay.

NOW go downstairs!





We are in a mostly black and white world in an abandon diner in the middle of the desert and you want me to go into a basement...

Yes, we are infact going to go into the basement.

Suck it up buttercup. It's not *that* bad.

So, look around, to the right there is some logs...



Grab a few of those

Now, there is this green furnace... open it up and put in the logs.... Here, have some pictures!







Okay... Question. Do you have the blue book from earlier?

No? sigh I'll wait right here for you to go get it.

Looks at her watch

are you back yet?

How about now...

Okay, You have to be back by now... What do you mean you need one more moment...

Okay, I'm moving on without you then

No, I am not waiting. This is a written thing, tech I'm waiting for you to get to the next line indefinitely.



Red on green, its CHRISTMAS... bleh

and you turn around and get



Crud... Okay, I need that book NOW ... Come on



See, its a clock... Remember how i told you to note what time it is?

No? Really?

Okay, fine, here is a reminder.



Push the arrows!



that's the time right? Umm... No...



When you get the right time it opens





Okay, straight ahead there is box, slide the buttons!



Now we need to go outside...

But before we do... If you looked at the suitcase before the world lost color eailer, it has a red button... PUSH IT...



This is the wrong screen shot... the one i wanted got deleted... but once you push that button you get a BRAND NEW DOODAD for later :D

TIME FOR A NEW CHAPTER!

Okay, we are going back outside... But before we do I want to make sure you have three things...



The ticket this thing gives you



The moon



And the little packet of seeds I forgot to call out earlier... Tell me you grabbed those even though I didn't tell you to right?

Look, I'm going to keep going, you can catch up after you grab them.

So you now have all three of those things in your inventory. GREAT

Lets go outside.

Hey, when you grabbed the bucket earlier did you notice the small hole in the ground that I didn't point out to you?

No...

Right, This is the person who needs me to repeat screen shots that are just a scroll up.



You are going to put the seeds in this hole



Click the hole, and put in the seeds, hey look, a new ticket.

Once you click out the hole fills itself



Now you can make it rain...

But how?

Call a number on the phone of course, how else! I mean you have a phone booth... the Dev's wouldn't put it in the game if they weren't going to use it

Okay, the put doors to the kitchen and there is no kitchen, fair point.

Just go into the phone booth silly!



Back in the day there was phoneboothes all over, common as they come... I mean Superman needs a place to change right?

Hey, is that why he isn't as big of a thing? Cause places are getting rid of the booths?

Okay, old overused bad joke... Moving on...

But you put in a quarter and you could make phone call. Um, I dont have a quarter, I have a moon...

Sure, lets use that!





Dial 12277334 and then push the rain button.

Now its raining!

What? you dialed the wrong number? That's okay... The moon automatically jumps back into your inventory... It's like it wants you to make it rain or something.

You brought an umbrella right?

People who are not me typically dont like walking under wet stuff.

So do you remember that poster I pointed out a while ago by the well?

This one?



First of all... That picture looks super familiar, wasn't that in the basement?

Well why dont you go take a quick peek at the poster right now



It's falling off, I guess it doesn't like wet stuff...

You know what, I've had enough of it too... Lets move on to inside.

Yup, you are going back upstairs to the TV...



Note, that cause of the red, you cannot change the channel... But right now... you have a poster and a TV that doesn't work.



Yup, putting the poster on the TV makes it work... but you can't change the channel... So guess what you get to go do...

Run down into the basement take out the red thing and come back up.



Okay, man, taking red out of the world really does change it huh? But now you can change the channel....



and there is a cup on the table...

FYI, while you were downstairs getting the red thing, No, no there wasn't a cup there...

But guess what, you get to go back down and YUP there is a cup...

Nice trick...

So lets add the red back to the world...



and now we have a paintbrush...

hmm



I'm gonna gonna paint a picture!!!! I wonder what of!

okay... Picture painted, lets go upstairs

and the world is grey

and



Didn't I take out your spyware...

By the way it BLINKS

It's so creepy we are going to the next chapter...

Ha, okay this game can be beaten in about 20 minutes and get all the achievements, I'm just making the guide very detailed and i'm in a weird mood so i'm being "funny"



Honestly right now the smart thing to do is "NOPE" and go back inside.

Well that is a reason to go back in anyways. Run around and grab all the colored things... There is only three, and its not hard to find them or figure out what they are.

Also... While you are getting the red one, that pretty picture you painted ealier, go look at it:



that thing is IN the triangle... my dumbutt didn't take the picture at the right moment.

Okay... Once you have all those things go back ouside... put doodad in the thingie...

You know that tower over by where the bucket was... plants grew...

into



A climbable ladder?

I guess you should go up!

BY THE WAY

FOR THE LAST OPTIONAL ACHIEVEMENT DO THIS THIS THING OR YOU HAVE TO PLAY AGAIN CAUSE YOU CAN MISS IT:

Look up inside the tower and grab the thing:





So there is a thing that you can put the colors on, and depending on the order you put colors, depends on what color it turns...

but what happens when you mix red, blue, and green?



Now go back down.



Hey, there is a triangle on the ground...

Lets go stand on it!

Hmm... optional achievement

look at the evil moon with doodad in thingie



HEY

looks at



looks at the tower

Guess what you need to do now:



and.....



next chapter!

Hey did you push the red button on the suitcase earlier?



Cause Right about now you need the doodad to put into the thingie.

and to go back up the ladder...

that thing for the last achievement... Yeah, if you look for it now, its gone... You now have to start the game ALL over unless you are a weird person who likes to save.... who does that

So as you get to the top of the tower a frame opens up and yup point the thingie at the frame...



And you are now in a different office than ealier... and OMG the static... Thankfully that optional thing i told you to grab earlier will fix that

Guess what



Now change the channel! achievement!

So there is a map to right with a triangle



When you click the triangle someone comes in your office and leaves something...









And now...

Now you are looking at the beginning of the next game which I didn't buy even though its only like 3 bucks right now....

Man, this guide took me about three and a half hours to right and I played the whole game three times in less than hour...

In fact, most of the screen shots are from my second run.

But when I write a guide I like to give all the information. I love getting 100% and I hate looking in 5 or 6 places for what I'm looking for.

If you play this as you read it, it should be a pretty quick run. I tried to make it so you didn't run around and look stupid like i did the first two times I played this. Okay, yeah, the third time i messed up too... and these were all back to back runs. You'd think Id learn.

But the game is a lot of fun and can be found here:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/933860/Discolored/

Though how you got to my guide without finding the game... Maybe you clicked the twitter link if i posted it over there

but Now you beat the game... and

One day, I'm gonna get

https://store.steampowered.com/app/566190/The_Search/?curator_clanid=33594103

and maybe I'll make a walk through of that too.