We can keep every single contestant alive if we play as Abella! I’ve heard you can also avoid her moonscorching by avoiding certain tiles if you play other characters but I cannot find any info on this.

Early game as Abella is frustrating. Keep your health topped up and use glass shards when needed. You will probably need to reset to Bobbies, Needles or Crimson Fathers. Avoiding all encounters is our priority until we get another teammate. I HIGHLY recommend you have done Ending A already as Red Arc is very useful and probably necessary to prevent deaths. Keep in mind you will need one cloth fragment to save Pav so make sure you keep at least one.

This guide assumes you are reasonably familiar with the game and can navigate maps without directions. If you need a reference for the maps and/or more detailed walkthrough I highly recommend this guide by CuddilyWuddily.

We are quite reliant on glass shards in the early game, which are being nerfed in a future update. Strategic changes may be required in future updates.

My run was completed with no Sylvian affinity, but it may not be possible without Gro-goroth and God of Fear and Hunger skin bibles.

This is the most annoying and reset-heavy stretch of gameplay due to dangerous and difficult-to-avoid enemies. Things are pretty smooth sailing after this.


Pick Abella

Learn mechanics, rescue the officer, learn weaponcraft, stock up on medical goods or spare parts (not too important).

Save Henryk.

Go to Prehevil Central through the sewers, go to the church, cut down the chandelier and drop the corpse with the Betel Stone. Talk to O’saa in the confessional.

Go to the basement and go left to get the effigy and church keys.

Return and open the first cell on the bottom left with the pillarman, go down and through the Rher circle. Convince Samarie to return to the train.

DODGE THE CRIMSON FATHERS. Unlock the elevator shortcut but go back through the church to the Staircase in Prehevil.

Wait for Needles to spawn and kill him (unless you already found heroin, then get Levi first.) Needles is annoying and can still kill you if he’s blinded. If you have a rifle you can shoot off his arms, or you can use a trap (getting a free turn from a booby trap to blind him is great). Utilise Wrench Toss and prioritise his right arm.

Dodge the bobbies, if we encounter one and can’t run it’s a reset. Bear trapping one of the two at Staircase makes dodging them much easier.

Go to the restaurant and recruit Levi.

Go back to the old town through the gate, kill villagers/moonscorched/woodsman etc and get heads. Leave the sickle villager and the dead soldier to use necromancy on if you get Gro-goroth affinity. There is a bug in the manor where you get the Manor Key that lets you drop down to the basement and get the Fluted Fauld, I suggest you do this now. (If this bug is fixed in the future you will need multiple teammates to deal high damage to the door and possibly also Black Orb, OR a Vinushka skin bible to draw in the upstairs sigil for this shortcut to work as intended.)

Go back to the house, sacrifice heads, craft your soul stones and save.

Our priority are Gro-goroth skills -> Sylvian skills -> Other. We also NEED Short Circuit from Abella’s skill tree for later. If you haven’t got Gro-Goroth or Sylvian things will be harder but still possible. If you get the Gro-goroth skin bible at any point onwards, draw a ritual circle and necromancy+sacrifice one ghoul OR draw two ritual circles (no sacrifices needed). I highly recommend Red Arc and Moth Swarm (Moth Swarm is kinda ass but I like it for heals occasionally.)

Blow off the priest’s arms with the rifle, kill and behead. I like crafting Sandman’s Kiss to give to Levi here but it’s not necessary.

Go defeat Moonless (glass shards, Red Arc paws, prioritise killing Miasma) and activate the Telelectroscope. Kill+behead doppelganger Tanaka. Don’t worry if you got panophobia after Moonless, it doesn’t really change anything.

Go to shopping street, loot PRHVL Bop, get the Leechmonger Ring and buy from Kefer. Giving Levi a Small Thing’s Amulet will counteract the addiction debuff and let him attack first, but you need a Purifying Talisman so buying one is priority if you don’t have one. Dodge the sew jobs, they’re dangerous and you gain nothing from killing them.

Go to the school, shoot and behead all cherubs. You can hit the ghosts if you unequip your weapon or use a magic attack.

Shoot the headmaster, don’t enter the battle. Leave him if you don’t have enough rifle bullets, don’t waste your trenchgun ammo. I highly recommend also using your rifle to shoot off the Ronteals’ arms as they are very dangerous at this point- if you don’t have enough, come back later for the effigy. You need 4 bullets to disarm (hehe) the Ronteals and 10 to kill the Headmaster.

Sacrifice heads, craft soul stones, rest and save.

After your priority Gro-goroth -> Sylvian skills and Short Circuit, just get whatever you want.

Go to the book store and recruit Marina. You need to tell her you’re going to the church and then approach the front entrance and she’ll join you. If you have the God of Fear and Hunger skin bible, use Engrave and get the agility for double turns.

Go to the apartments and get the effigy. Neighbours are dangerous, I like to Red Arc an arm t1 to minimise the damage and then Black Smog.

Place the effigies in the church and defeat Rancid. I glass shards and Red Arc one arm t1, then Black Smog for safety.

Save Pav and bring him back to the train.

Drop off Levi but keep Marina.

Go to Bunker 7 and activate the telelectroscope.

Rest and save.

Enter through the main gate. Marcoh and Tanaka will go to the train.

First order of business is recruiting O’saa. Go through Prehevil West and grab Karin on the way. If you trigger the mob, shoot them down in the overworld or Red Arc the meat grinder and Glass Shards mallet t1 + Black Smog t2. Kill+behead Doppelganger Olivia on the way through the woods.

DODGE THE CENTAUR. If you encounter it and can’t run turn 1 you’re dead. I get the best results if I sprint from above the bunker building on the way back but it’ll probably make you reset because it sucks.

Shooting Stitches in the overworld is useless, don't waste your ammo. Red Arc her left arm and double guard with your party t1, then Black Smog. If Abella gets trapped, use Marina’s Pyromancy Trick on her head and hope it hits. She can use Cross Stitching with both arms so keep your party healed up and guard when needed.

Get O’saa, activate the telelectroscope, then go back to the train and drop off O’saa and Karin. If you haven’t already moved Henryk to another location do it now or Caligura will attack him at noon.

Go to the apartments and grab Daan.

Go to the sewers and kill+behead Doppelganger Levi.
Rest and save.

Now is the time to choose our final party. Unfortunately we cannot recruit Marcoh as he can’t be recruited until D2 Night, and we won’t be timeskipping again because that triggers Caligura to moonscorch (not that he deserves to come back home with us, but anyway…) Grab your screenshots of everyone together in the train now if you like!




I chose Abella, Marina, Daan (for Magna-Medical) and O’saa. Blood Golem+Pheromones may not be sufficient for damage to bypass Logic stage 2 but I didn't check so (shrug)

Head to the museum. Loot the fluted armor pieces, craft it, and loot the Yggaegetsu Amulet or Greatsword. Buy a Book of Enlightenment from Pocketcat. Open the door with the clock puzzle (long hand 7, short hand between 1 and 2, double hand Sulfur God symbol). If you have the God of Fear and Hunger skin bible, exit and save in Donovan’s house and then come back.

Enter the White Bunker and go grab the gas canister from Old Site first unless you already have a couple, there is another canister in the area past the connecting bridge. Make your way through to Logic. Don’t run blindly and keep an eye out for the flamethrower guards who will kill you in the overworld. You need to activate the generator and use Short Circuit to open the door to the bunny trooper.

Come to the bunny trooper and use your Book of Enlightenment here. My equipment from here onwards:

Abella- Sergal Spear, Fluted Armor, Small Thing’s Amulet, Betel’s Stone, Leechmonger Ring
Marina- Black Steel, Bremen Elite Chestplate+Helmet, Small Thing’s Amulet, Ring of Wraiths
Daan- Meat Grinder, Chainmail Dress, Salmonsnake Rune, Small Thing’s Amulet
O’saa- Meat Grinder, Arm Guards, Yggaegetsu

All are engraved with Funger God sigil (but only Marina and Daan have double turns right now). Other slots are less relevant. If you’re only using one Meat Grinder, make sure that teammate has Yggaegetsu.

The Platoon spams instakill coin tosses, use your lucky coins. RED ARC IT!! You can fully stun it while the trooper is still alive.

For Kaiser: Red Arc and prioritise his sword arm, kill the asterisk then hit the torso. DO NOT REMOVE BOTH ARMS as he will cast Black Orb.

Heal up and craft as many healing items as possible. Use all your heroin and give everyone Pep Pills. Time for Logic. You can’t apply DOTs or stun her and your Black Smog won’t kill all the exhausts so you must hit them individually. We have Daan for Magna-Medical so focus on keeping Abella and Daan alive. Defeat her before Turn 13 to bypass phase 2.

And you’re done! Your party will unfortunately not return on the train but we haven’t technically lost anyone sooooo all 14 are alive in my mind :]