Earth Must Die walkthrough: Full guide and puzzle solutions

If you’re just about to jump into Earth Must Die, let us tell you: you’re in for a treat. This alien adventure game, akin to a classic point and click, is as hilarious as it is enjoyable. With fantastic characters, even better voice acting and a story about overlords and galaxian invasions, there’s so much to love. Some of its puzzles can sometimes be a bit tricky, though, and that’s where we come in: this Earth Must Die walkthrough will lead you through all the tough bits. And the not so tough bits. All of the game, basically.

Earth Must Die isn’t quite a traditional point and click game. It’s best played with a controller, with you using the left stick to move your character around rather than clicking a location. You will move a cursor to interact with objects, however, so it sits somewhere in the middle of point and click and modern adventure. Its controls take a little while to get used to, but they are easy to learn and intuitive once you’ve got the knack.

So: if you want help playing through Earth Must Die, read on. You can use the quick links below to jump to a specific chapter. We’ve also added subheadings that should help signpost key points in the game, so either follow through step-by-step, or jump to the section you need. Have fun!

Earth Must Die walkthrough: How to play, and how to use this guide

We’ve mapped out most of what you need to do in Earth Must Die over the course of this walkthrough. What we haven’t done is give you dialogue options every time. For the most part, you can choose your own dialogue, deciding how you want your version of Vvalak to act. Where dialogue is important, we’ve highlighted the choice you need to make.

To play the game, you’ll use your left stick to move around the environment. Press RB and use the left stick to see what you can interact with. Release RB when you’re over an object, then use the left stick to choose how to interact. Up is look, down is talk, right is command and left is cancel. All four options are not always available – you can’t always command someone, for example.

When you do command someone, you’ll be presented with a black line linking your cursor to the minion you’re commanding. Move your cursor towards another object or being, then press A for your subject to interact with them.

Prologue

• Move right towards your father and talk to him. 
• Go back left and use the comms station – the big red button.
• Go and talk to Allus. Tell him he’s the older twin, then that Pfysus has no right to the throne. 
• Talk to Pfysus. Tell him Allus believes he’s older, then if Allus is even Tyrythian anymore. 
• Interact with Allus, select order (push right) then select Pfysus.
• Talk to your father. 

300 Years Later

• After the cutscene and dialogue options, go through the door to the right of the throne (it opens as you approach it).
• Talk to Marvap. Interact with him, then order him to press the red button. 

• Talk to him again. Ask about authorisation. 
• Then ask Milky about the Underwriters. 

The Underwriters

• Leave through the door and go through the door to the left of the throne. 
• Go to the Gardens.
• Move right and talk to the Underwriters. Choose ‘Lead into it a little’, then tell them to write a story about space zombies. 

• Talk to them again and pitch a story idea. Back out after pitching and talk to Milky to see the Milkypedia.
• Click on ‘The Tyryth Ascendancy’ and ‘Notable Enemies’.
• Back out and pitch an idea to the Underwriters again. Choose ‘Shadow Lords’.
• The Underwriters will move to the right. Don’t follow them: instruct Milky to go listen in. 
• Talk to the Underwriters again. Choose a story to drop. 

Skwid’s Mansion

• From the map, go to Skwid’s Mansion.
• Move right, and go to talk to the guard on the left. He’ll turn around to face you. Without moving, interact with Milky and command her to interact with the trees behind the gate. After that, still without moving, command her to interact with the intercom.
• Go through the gate on the right. 
• Shout for Skwid. Show him respect, then choose this is fine. 
• Walk on stage during Skwid’s presentation.
• Once you’re in Sqwid’s office, approach him and bring up the software update. Say please. Request the update. Bail.
• Talk to Sqwidbot. Ask how it’s feeling. 

• Talk to Milky and access the Milkypedia. Click Notable Members of the Populace, then Phelonius Skwid. 
• Talk to Skwid. Play on his sense of humour. Defund the power grid.

Invasion!

• Return to the Spire. You’ll be invaded. Oh no.
• Interact with the rebel leader on the right. Act cool and dismissive. 
• Guess that he’s Altican.
• Send him to the snake pits.
• Command Marvap to press the big button.
• The button doesn’t work. Remain calm. Select violence is not the answer. Demand to know what a MicroWorld is. 
• Say ‘Days is unacceptable’. 
• Send Marvap in. Choose either ‘I should go in’.

The Microworld

• Talk to the Mayor, the creature on the right with a sash. Choose ‘good cop’, then ask about the investigation. Push it further. Threaten to look into the paperwork. 
• Intimidate him, then move to obvious threats. 
• Choose ‘I should find out what’s good to do in town’. Choose fairground. Back out of the conversation.
• Look at the shops nearby then talk to the mayor again. He’ll drop his book- back out of the conversation and look at the book. 
• Go into the XXX shop.

• Talk to Meebap, the shop assistant. 
• Ask about the mayor. Demand to see customer records. Ask about the missing shape. 
• Command Milky to interact with the mannequin behind the shop assistant. 
• Ask Meebap about the mayor again.
• Examine the counter at the other side of the store. 
• Go back outside and through the pub door. 

• Talk to Spiffy, the bartender. Introduce yourself, then ask about Druce. Go through the other dialogue options. 
• Command Milky to break the table to the left. 
• Talk to Spiffy and ask about Druce again. 
• Talk to the creature in the bottom right corner – that’s Druce. Cut to the chase and get the info you need. 

• Leave the bar and return to the XXX shop. Talk to Meebap.
• Back outside, talk to the ‘filth’ to get the kids taken to the tower. 
• Command Marvap to push the button. 
• Go through the dialogue options then leave the room.

Occupation 

• Go through the invasion dialogue.
• Go through the door to the left and visit the snake pit.

The Snake Pit

• Talk to your father – he’s on the bottom left.
• Talk to Plug Bot, the pink robot near the pit. Ask to drain the pit.
• Examine the big snake, then talk to to find out what it’s looking at.
• Interact with the pendulum and set it swinging. Command the snake to look at the pendulum and talk to the guard.

• Repeat three times until the guard gives you the full code.
• Talk to Plug Bot and give it the code.
• Talk to your father.
• Go to the docks
• Try to walk through the barrier. Talk to the woman. Flirt with her and ask about her day. Show interest, and butter her up some more.
• After the date, go through the gate. Talk to your father.
• Interact with the vehicles below and choose Defence Grid mission.

Mission 1 – The defence grid

The cabbage problem

• Make a note of the code your father gives you (ours was 102048151136) and, at the bottom of the lift, move right. Move right again to get on the ship.

• Talk to the pilot, then talk to Ian. Ask Ian about time travels, then to use the portals. Bamboozle him.
• Go through the right gate, to the future. 

• Try to call the green bird over. Talk to Milky to access the Milkypedia.
• From the homepage go to The Tyrythian Ascendancy, then Tyryth Indigenous Species. Choose ‘chukchuks’.
• Back out, and call the bird over again.
• Stand near the gate and call the bird over. Go through, and the bird should come with you.
• Go stand next to Ian and call the bird over. Whoops. Sorry Ian.
• Stand next to the past gate and call the bird over. Go through. Stand on the mud patch and call the bird. Go back through the gate. 

• Walk onto the ship.

How to sabotage the ship

• Look at the workbench, the conveyor and the circles on the wall.
• Talk to Skwidbot. choose ‘line’, and switch to laundry. Go back and this time choose workstation
• Choose garage, and activate spray. The clothes should be covered in oil, and rather flammable.
• Switch to kitchen. Activate toaster several times until your toast burns..  and the kitchen.
• Talk to Skwidbot, ask a question and ask about escape pod.
• Talk to the tree. Ask about music.
• Talk to Skwidbot and change music settings. Play music, and choose experimental jazz. Choose to turn up the volume. Next, choose turn down the volume to move the speaker closer to the tree. 
• Talk to Skwidbot and select power core settings. Jettison it.
• Command Milky to move the corpse. Look at the photos on the wall.
• Ask Skwidbot about the power core again. You should have the password now.
• Now ask Skwidbot to open the escape pod. 
• Go into the escape pod.

Getting the public vote

• Command Skwidbot to interact with the panel near the teleporter on the right. . 
• Look at the Milkypedia. Click on ‘Terranoids’ then ‘governance and voting’. 
• Go over to the backdrop and prop set up. Change the backdrop to a pub, change the prop to a beer and the outfit to green check jacket. Stand behind the outfit, Interact with the camera and say cheese.

• Talk to Sqwidbot and make a slogan. Choose ‘Run’, ‘Sun’, then ‘Done’. Run, Sun, Done!
• Talk to Journobot. Be disingenuous. Go through all answers until the vote swings in your favour. 
• Stand on the teleporter and talk to Skwidbot. Say it’s time to leave. Choose the right coordinates – you made a note of them earlier!

A mosquito prisoner

• You’re now a prisoner to mosquitoes. Huh. Interact with the green bird on the right and call it over. 
• Talk to the small mosquito it woke up. When he asks what number he’s thinking of, choose ‘none’. 
• Command the mosquito to go to the blacksmith. Now command the mosquito to open the lock. 
• Command the blacksmith to stand behind his Anvil. 
• Talk to the big mosquito on the left. 
• Command the small mosquito to confront the big mosquito.
• Move over to the right of the screen and call over the bird. It should pull up a scale on the ground, revealing flesh.

• Command the small insect to suck the flesh, then command it over to the blacksmith.
• Command the big mosquito to go over to the blacksmith’s anvil. Now command it to pick the big lock.
• From back in the throne room, take the left door. Go to the docks, and endure your second date.
• Go through the gate and talk to your father.
• Interact with the vehicles and choose spaceport security mission. 

Mission 2 – Spaceport security

• Go down in the lift and walk right to begin the mission.
• Talk to Krall.
• Move left and enter the VIP capsule.

Skwid’s boat party

• Go through the door. Talk to the big creature with the eggs.
• Move left and enter the room with the pink door.
• Examine the… gyrating mass. Talk to the pink creature over on the left. Examine the painting on the wall.
• Go back outside. Talk to the creature with the eggs about the orgy room. Examine him, then ask him about the tattoo on his chest.

• Examine the green monster head on the right wall.
•  Then talk to Skwid – the purple creature sat on the side of the pool. Make sure you ask about the painting.
• Talk to Arnold Jobson, the human to the bottom left. Find out what drink he’s waiting for.
• Talk to Milky to open the Milkypedia. Go to Terranoids, then Popular Beverages, then Alcoholic Beverages. 
• Examine the ice statue and the pool (you’ll need to move down the screen). Talk to Skwid to ask him about both.

• Go through the right door and interact with the teleporter machine. Set the glyphs to be Bahrr Gree Dee Stedd.
• Talk to Zarlaph.
• Interact with the teleporter again and select Nomm four times.
• Command the big dude with the eggs to go in the pink door. Follow him in.
• Command him again to go near the vent on the back wall.
• When the vent opens, command Milky to go through it.
• Go through the now open door.
• Examine the clouds at the top of the room.
• Command Milky to interact with a round glass. Then interact with the big creature and ask for a Silver Lining.
• Command Milky to interact with a round glass again.
• Interact with the big creature and ask for a Red Tape.
• Leave and go back out to the main room.
• Approach Arnold Jobson and talk to him.

Arnold Jobson’s Microworld

• Talk to the soldier hanging on for dear life and tell him you’re in control.
• Distract the shooter so he shoots at you.
• Command the bottom soldier to approach the shooter.
• Command the soldier to get the bayonet.
• Command the soldier over to the corpse, then to grab the radio.
• Talk to the pilot. Ask him to bring the chopper in close. 

Robot police interrogation

• With the robot officers, examine the remains on the table. Look at the eyeball. 
• Examine the angry robot’s tic. Look at his hands and gun. 
• Look at the wanted poster. 
• Examine the muffled voices coming from behind you. 
• Command the smiley robot to examine the remains. 
• Talk to the angry robot and accuse Danzan. Present all pieces of evidence. 
• Ask to leave. 
• Back in the throne room, go through the door on the left and choose the docks. 
• After your third date, go through the gate and talk to your dad. 
• Interact with the vehicles and choose tremblo-bomb (choose Earth first for an achievement).

Mission 3 – The tremblo-bomb

• Move right to start the mission. 
• Move the cursor around the screen to gain a signal for each monitor – you’ll see their signal start to fill up as you get to the right spot.
• Examine the monitor on the right and choose to recruit Parrch.

Parrch

• Talk to Parrch.
• Talk to Milky to see the Milkypedia. Click Notable Members, then Parrch Fsm.
• Talk to Parrch again. 

Chizz

• Next, interact with the middle screen and choose to recruit Chizz. Move right to talk to Chizz.
• Once again open the Milkypedia. Click Chizz Lyttenz on the Notable Members page. While you’re there, click Blorr’s name. 
• Go left to the bar and order a drink. Then go back to talk to Chizz.

Blorr

• Finally, interact with the final screen and choose to recruit Blorr. Talk to Blorr.

Museum heist

• Command Blorr to smash the panel behind the bars, then get Chizz to hack it. 
• Next, get Parrch to use the panel outside the bars. 
• Get Blorr to open the window and, as the curator goes to close it again, get Chizz to hack the phone. 
• Answer the phone. 
• Get him to say sausage. Get him to say spaceship (he’ll say blue). Then twilight. Five and spaceship will take a bit more trying. Keep going through dialogue until you’ve ticked off all words. 
• Command Parrch to steal the Magic 8 ball in the top right screen.
• Get Chizz to hack the left head on the central screen, and play ‘last words’. 
• Now get Chizz to hack the door panel on the right screen. 
• Have Chizz hack the head again to get the attention of the curator. Just as the curator walks past, have Blorr hit the other head to squirt out goo.
• The curator will go to the toilet, leaving the door slightly ajar. Have Parrch to sneak in and, when the curator puts their eyeball down, quickly grab it. It can be hard to time, so keep trying – Parrch can stay in the bathroom until next time, which makes it much easier.
• Now, command Parrch to go to the access panel to scan the eye.
• Command one of them to move through the now open door (they’ll all follow).

Shifting the blame

• Command Blorr to Parrch, Chizz to Parrch and Parrch to Blorr. Then Blorr to Chizz. 
• Choose to shout ‘bang’.   
• Now all hell has broken loose. Interact with the hoover to the left. Talk with it until it agrees to help, then command it to go over to the toilet, on the right side of the screen.
• Command the hoover-toilet to go to the bar.
• Open the toilet seat.
• Interact with the bar and order nuts.
• Close the toilet seat.
• Command the hoover-toilet to go under the drone, and open the toilet seat.
• Interact with the bar and order a magnum of champagne.
• Walk towards the wreckage. 

To Earth!

• Go through the door on the left and to the docks. 
• Talk to your father. 
• Interact with the parked vehicle and choose the remaining misson.
• Head forward and talk to your father. 

Get in the ship

• Walk around the back of the ship and interact with the service machine. Ask it to void waste pipe. Quickly command Milky to enter the pipe. 
• Climb in the pipe yourself. 

Earth

• Command Milky to look for parts in the wreckage. 
• Walk towards the enemy Spire. 
• Command Milky to open the door. 
• Head right. 

The final battle

• Now it’s time to fight against Milky.
• Use your left fist to hit Milky twice and get her close to the server. Use your left tentacle to hit her one more time.
• Talk to the alien on the right to get them to overload server A. Just as it’s close to overloading, hit Milky with your tentacle to the left to deactivate the shield.
• Repeat the process but this time use your right fist to get her close to server C.
• Now, for server B. Get Milky back into the middle, along with the explosive. It doesn’t matter her shield is up. Use the tentacles either side to push the server. Ask the alien to overload server B, and push it when the countdown is around halfway.

And that’s it: you’ve completed the game! We hope you found our Earth Must Die walkthrough helpful.