Directive 8020 Walkthrough: Full guide to saving all crew members and finding all collectibles

It’s been a while, but the latest entry in the Dark Pictures Anthology is finally here. Directive 8020 takes the series to space, putting you in control of the crew of the Cassiopeia. There only meant to orbit the planet of Tau Ceti f, but something has gone horribly wrong. Now you need to guide them to safety across multiple episodes, making important decisions that will change their lives as you go. Needless to say, saving all crew members in Directive 8020 will be a challenge unless you have a handy walkthrough.

Thankfully that’s what you’ve got right here – a Directive 8020 walkthrough that will enable you to save all crew members while also finding all of the game’s collectibles. And once you reach the end, you can use the game’s new Explorer feature to easily check out any alternative routes that interest you as well search out the game’s O Death secrets which we’ve also located. Hopefully you’ll find it useful as you play this latest, and possibly best, entry in the Dark Pictures series.

General tips before you start

Explorer or Survivor

Directive 8020 has two modes – Explorer and Survivor. Survivor offers an experience similar to previous games in the series, in which you have to live with your actions and decisions until you reach an ending. Explorer allows you to rewind and change any choices you’re not happy with. Upon completing the game in Survivor mode, you’ll be able to use Explorer mode to explore other routes.

Stealth

There are many stealth sections in Directive 8020, a new addition to the Dark Pictures series. This guide presumes you complete them all without being caught by your monstrous pursuers. Note, however, that if you are caught, if you’re carrying a wedge tool you can momentarily stun your attacker by completing a QTE, allowing you to escape.

Quick Time Events (QTEs)

Being a Dark Pictures game, there are of course lots of QTEs, or quick time events. This guide presumes that you complete them all, as failing them often leads to death. Go into the game’s settings if you want to make these QTEs more lenient.

Utility Strap

Another new feature of Directive 8020, the Utility Strap allows you to remotely activate some devices. Keep an eye out for places where it can be used and press the right trigger when prompted to use it. It’s particularly handy during stealth sections, where it can be used to create distractions.

Junction Boxes

As you explore the Cassiopeia in Directive 8020, keep an eye out for electricity symbols on the walls. These generally alert you to power junctions, which you can view with the scanner (activated by pressing Square/X) and then use to your advantage.

Wedge Tool

Once you get your hands on one, the wedge tool is invaluable in Directive 8020. Not only can you use it to defend yourself from attackers, it can also be used to unlock some doors. Stop the meter in the orange section once, or the grey sections multiple times to open a door with it.

Messaging System

There’s a messaging system in Directive 8020 that allows you to communicate with your fellow crew members. Press the Triangle/Y button to use it every once in a while. You don’t have to use it except in one or two scenarios, but it helps you to learn more about the crew and develop some traits.

Navigation

If you press ‘up’ on the d-pad, a marker will appear pointing towards your current objective. So if you’re ever unsure where you need to go, just press ‘up’.

Directive 8020 walkthrough: Episode 1 – Little Star

Character: Thomas Carter

• Watch the scene – there’ll eventually be a Turning Point.

• Investigate the chess board on the table and the calendar on the wall, then enter the dorm rooms on either side. In one there’s a data pad for you to Investigate on a desk and a Simms’ Recording to play via a device on a wall. In the other there’s a plant on a desk to investigate and a data pad on a bed.
• Go back into the main room and talk to Simms – there’s a choice to make (Check or Reassure – Choose Reassure). Leave the room via the main door and head up the stairs ahead. At the top, head left and pick up the Utility Strap device on the bed. You can use this to interact with various devices via the right trigger.
• Check the Cetus Mission sign on the wall, use your device to play the video via the console, then enter the washroom across the other side of the area, near the beds. Investigate the book inside and look at the back cover with the right stick. Go back into the main area and use your device to unlock the double doors. Go through them by holding the interact button.
• Watch the scene – choose whichever option you’d like (Volunteer or Request – Choose Request). There’ll eventually be a Turning Point.

• Watch the scene and complete the tap button QTE.

• Press the right shoulder button to turn your flashlight on, then head forward and investigate the Brave New World poster on the wall. Now investigate the door to the Medical Reception room.
• Press Square/X to turn use your scanner – follow the orange line on the floor into a storage area and use the Utility Strap in there to lift the lockdown using the console on the wall. Start making your way back to the Medical Reception room door.
• Before you enter medical Reception, look through the window to the right of the door. There’s a panel inside you can activate with your Utility Strap, opening a door.
• Enter the Medical Reception and go right into another small room – there’s a data pad on a desk to interact with.
• Head back into the main Medical Reception room and then up the stairs and activate Simms’ Recording via the console on the wall. Now go back down the stairs and investigate the door leading to the breached area ahead.
• Watch the scene and press the right trigger when prompted. Switch through the cameras suing the right shoulder button, then investigate the breach on the right when viewing the outside of the ship.
• After the scene you’ll be on the exterior of the ship. Head straight forward and activate the walkway with your Utility Strap. Across the walkway, head left and interact with the console. After the scene, keep moving on, heading down a ladder to reach the breach.

• Watch the scene – there’s are some choices to make (Worry or Wish – Choose Wish), then (Confide or Compliment – Choose Compliment).
• Complete the tap button QTE to save Simms.
• After the next scene, you need to find Simms. Head forward into the Fuel Injection room and go down the stairs. Keep moving forward and go up a small set of stairs ahead to trigger a scene. There’s a choice to make (Empathize or Joke – Choose Empathize).
• You now need to run away from Simms. Simply head back the way you came. You’ll eventually end up in a stealth sequence. Sneak up the stairs on your right, then enter the room on the right at the top. Make your way to the doors at the other end of this room – Simms will appear as you approach them.
• Backtrack a little, then go through the doors when you can, heading left and going downstairs in the next area. At the bottom, turn right and go up the stairs ahead. Go through the door at the top – Simms will appear again in here. Just run straight ahead to the Crew Quarters to escape to safety.

Episode 2: Best Laid Plans

Character: Brianna Young

• Watch the scene – there’s a choice to make (Contemplate or Question – Choose Question).
• Look up to the light. There’s a choice to make (Joke or Inquire – Choose Inquire). Talk to Stafford behind you. Use the right stick to interact with the screen.
• After the scene, head up the right side of the room to find a video you can play using your Utility Strap. Once you’ve done that, check in on Mitchell in the pods behind you.

Character: Nolan Stafford

• Watch the scene – there’s a choice to make (Confess or Assert – Choose Confess). After that there’s a Turning Point.

Character: Brianna Young

• Investigate the 3D Printing poster on your left. Move forward to get a tutorial for the game’s Messaging feature – press Triangle/Y to bring up a messaging app, allowing you to send messages to crew mates and form new traits.
• Before heading to the reactor, head down the corridor ahead and investigate the Are You in Denial poster on the wall. Now head towards the reactor, but don’t activate it just yet. Instead, head up the stairs to the right of it and watch Simms’ Recording via the console on the wall.

• Go back to the console for the reactor and activate it. There’s a Turning Point.

Character: Nolan Stafford

• Watch the scene – there’s a choice to make (Accept or Dismiss – Choose Accept).

Character: Brianna Young

• Watch the scene – there’s a choice to make (Disapprove or Joke – Choose Joke).

Character: Laura Eisele

• Go through the recordings using the right shoulder button. when you reach the Pod Room camera, highlight Simms and interact to fast forward.
• Watch the scene – there are some choices to make (Question or Accuse – Choose Question), then (Contemplate or Demand – Choose Contemplate).
• In the Atrium, first head left and trigger the audio recording using your Utility Strap with the panel on the wall. Next, check the seats near the statue in the middle of the room – there’s a data pad on them to interact with.

• Now head to the upper level of Atrium via the stairs on the right hand side of the room.
• On the upper level, there’s a panel you can activate with your Utility Strap to raise a shutter. In the room beyond, use the your Utility Strap on the panel on the right hand side to open the nearby door.
• Enter the now opened room and investigate the cake and the data pad. Finally, interact with the console on the wall – cycle to the second security camera with the right shoulder button and press interact button on the screen in front of Simms.
• Now head back downstairs and start making your way to the Crew Complex. You’ll need to use your Utility Strap on the panel next to the door to open it.
• In the crew Complex, pick up the data pad on the seat ahead, behind the cargo on your right. Now backtrack a little and head up the stairs to find a data pad with a note on it.
• Go through the nearby door on your right to find another data pad in the large room. Leave the large room via the door ahead, then go down the stairs to the left. There’s a frame on the floor just to your left – pick it up and turn it around to reveal a medal.

• Now turn around – in the corridor behind you there’s a book on the floor. Pick it up and look at the back cover. With that done, enter the Locker Room on your left.
• In the Locker Room, activate Simms’ Recording via the console in the wall, then turn around and use your Utility Strap to open the locker on the left hand side – there’s a data pad to look at inside.
• Now interact with the screen in the centre of the room. Thanks to the security camera, you have the code that’s required to open another locker: 13576. Use your Utility Strap to open the locker on your right, then pick up the book that’s inside. Turn it around and look at the back for a secret.
• Leave the Locker Room and head left up the stairs. Enter the Crew Quarters at the top. In the Crew Quarters, head down the stairs ahead, then go though the door that opens in front of you.
• Head into Carter’s room on the right and interact with his computer – you need a code to access it. The clue is Luna. Go back into the previous room at look at the calendar – Luna’s birthday is marked on it – August 28th.
• Go back to Carter’s computer – 2808 is the code.
• After the scene, you need to follow Simms while remaining undetected by her. Head up the stairs then go left. Hang around in the next room until she leaves, then follow her down the stairs into the Fuel Junction room.
• Move through the Fuel Junction room and investigate the terminal that Simms was using. Press the right trigger to restore power.

• Continue following Simms, going down the nearby stairs, under the walkway, then climbing another set of stairs that lead to a door. A scene will trigger when you reach it.
• There’s a choice to make (Demand or Appeal – Choose Appeal). You’ll then have to make another choice against the clock (Plead or Threaten – Choose Plead).
• Get to the open vent ahead and make your way through it. Climb the ladder at the end, then go through another vent. Head right once you’re out and move ahead to find Simms. Go down the corridor and press the right trigger when prompted. Remove the cover, then look at the sparks to trigger a scare.

Episode 3: The Sample

Character: Josef Cernan

• Watch the scene – there are some choices to make (Challenge or Refuse – Choose Refuse), then (Appeal or Refuse – Choose Appeal).
• You now need to sneak to the Control Room up ahead. Just make your way forward carefully. When you get close to the door, you’ll realise you need to power it up. With the control room door behind you, the panel to power it is in a room up ahead.
• Use your Utility Strap on the panel tor raise the shutter, then climb through the window into the room. Head right and climb through another window – in here you’ll find the panel you need activate with your Utility Strap to power the Control Room door.

• Upon powering the Control room door, the other doors in this area will also have power, meaning your pursuer can enter. Activate the panel above the vent in this room with your Utility Strap and use it to loop around into the previous room, then make your way to the Control Room door and go through.

Character: Brianna Young

• Interact with Carter to help fit his body into the pod. Follow the prompts as they appear on screen. After that, inspect his head, shoulder, torso, wrist and knee.

Character: Nolan Stafford

• Watch the scene – there’s a choice to make (Speculate or Check – Choose Speculate). After that there’s a Turning Point.

• Watch the scene – there’s a choice to make (Inspire or Command – Choose Inspire), followed by another Turning Point.

Character: Josef Cernan

• Watch the scene – there are some choices to make (Demand or Question – Choose Question), then (Pray or Assess – Choose Assess).
• Head to the other end of the room and interact with the controls on the wall to the left.
• Watch the scene – there’s a button tap QTE to complete.
• Go the end of the room and go down the ladder.

• In the lower area, cross the walkway and go right – use your Utility Strap on the panel on wall to open up the vent behind you, then go through it. After going up a ladder you’ll enter another vent, before finally emerging in a room with large pipes. Head left and jump over the small gap.
• Enter the Hub room and make your way to the door of Tool Storage – it needs power. Turn around: between the doors to the Pump Room and the Reactor there’s a window – use your Utility Strap to interact with the panel ahead and unlock the Tool Storage door.
• In Tool Storage, first go left and activate Simms’ Recording on the wall, then head to the other side of the room and grab the wedge tool that you need. There’s a Turning Point.

• Watch the scene – there’s a choice to make (Confide or Encourage – Choose Confide).

Character: Samantha Cooper

• Use your new wedge tool to open the Tool Storage door (press the right trigger in the grey section multiple times, or the orange section once) and start making your way back to the Pod Room, leaping over the gap in the toom with the large pipes and heading straight ahead. Use the wedge tool to open the Pod Room door.

• In the Pod Room, talk to Anders – there’s a choice to make (Compliment or Joke – Chose Compliment). Now talk to Williams – there’s another choice to make (Joke or Reassure – Choose Reassure). Head to the end of the room and unlock the door with your wedge tool.
• Watch the scene – there’s a choice to make (Appeal or Rebuke – Choose Appeal).
• Now you need to find Simms. Investigate the book on the table to your right, then head to the end of the room and open the shutter using the Utility Strap on the panel on the left wall. Climb though the window into the next room.
• Go left and activate the console in the wall with your Utility Strap, then turn around and climb over the fallen racking ahead. There’s a locker here that you can open with the code 0402 – interact with the leaflet that’s inside (the clue for this locker code is found in the doorway of a room you open later on, FYI).
• Carry on further into the room, grab the power cell from the shelves on the left hand side, and use it to power the door.
• Go through the door and head right – use the Utility Strap on the panel to raise the shutter. Climb through the window, grab the power cell you just placed, then climb back through the window again. Now head left and investigate the data pad.
• Open the door to your right with the wedge tool – there’s another data pad inside. Now go back into the main room and talk to Anders – there are some choices to make (Joke or Advise – Choose Advise), then (Reflect or Reassure – Choose Reflect).
• Head to the corner of the room where there’s yet another data pad to investigate and another door to open with the wedge tool. In this room, squeeze though the gap then interact with the console ahead – move through the cameras with the right shoulder button to spy on the crew. When you’re done, return to the main room.
• Use your Utility Strap to open the large shutter on the right hand side of the room and look through the window to see someone go through a door ahead. Now head left and place the power cell into the panel next to the Mess Lobby door to power it up.

• In the Mess Lobby, go down the stairs and head right to find a Simms’ Recording you can play in the wall. Now turn around and approach the mesh door ahead – interact with it and complete the tap button QTE to move it to the side. Squeeze through the gap ahead and grab Carter’s Utility Strap on the crate to the left.
• Squeeze back through the gap. Head left and go down the stairs to find the Elevators. Use your wedge tool to open the door and you’ll rejoin Cernan and Williams.
• Watch the scene – there’s a tap button QTE to complete, then a choice to make (Agree or Disagree – Choose Disagree).
• Approach the alien substance and press the right trigger when prompted to take a sample.

Episode 4: Dragnet

Character: Samantha Cooper

• After the scene, use your Utility Strap on the screen to distract Williams.
• Sneak down the corridor and enter the door on your right. In the next room, enter the vent and follow it around. Wait for Williams to pass before you leave the vent and head left, Before you reach the kitchen, take cover behind the desk on your right and wait for Williams to pass again.
• Go into the kitchen, head left and climb through the window. Hide behind the counter, avoiding Williams, until he moves away. When he does, go to the door on the left and unlock it with your wedge tool. Follow Anders to the door at the end of the corridor to escape… For now, at least.

Character: Laura Eisele

• Watch the scene – there are some decisions to make (Honor or Implore – Choose Honor), then (Doubt or Consider – Choose Consider). There’s a Turning Point.

Character: Nolan Stafford

• Watch the scene – there are some choices to make (Doubt or Believe – Choose Doubt), then (Check or Reassure – Choose Check).

Character: Brianna Young

• Follow the corridor around to find a locked shutter. Press Square/X to use your scanner and reveal a power device in the wall – interact with it and direct the flow of power to the vent to open it.

• After the scene, enter the vent and make your way through it. After climbing a ladder, head right and go through the first shutter. Keep making your way through the vent, passing through shutter two. Eventually reach shutter three. Interact with it to trigger a scene.
• Continue making you way through the vent, squeezing under the debris when prompted. You’ll eventually find an exit and trigger a scene.
• Now you need to avoid Simms while finding a way to extend the bridge. Start by following Simms down the stairs ahead. In the lower area there’s a panel you can remotely activate with your Utility Strap to distract Simms for a short while while you sneak around the back. When you reach the panel for the bridge, you’ll realise it needs power.
• To your left are sone stairs leading to the Control Room – that’s where you need to go next. As ever, just ce careful to avoid being seen by Simms. Pick up the power core behind the crate on the right when you reach the doors to the Control Room. Keen an eye on Simms – when she goes to the far end of the area to loop around, sneak into the Control Room and use the power core in the panel at the end of the room.

• Now the bridge control panel is powered up, Simms will come to investigate. Quickly head to the closed door in the room and open it with your wedge tool. Make your way back to the bridge control panel, extend the bridge, and move across it.
• Watch the scene – there are sone button press QTEs to complete, so be alert.

Episode 5: Mr. Williams

Character: Laura Eisele

• Episode starts with a chase sequence, so run! Go left at the junction and follow the walkway around to the Control Room. Move ahead and activate the control panel to trigger a scene.
• Now you need to go back to the Power Supply area and activate three switches while avoiding Stafford. Just take things slow and steady. You’ll want to go right, through gap into a lower area after pulling the first switch, use a panel there to distract Stafford so you can get back to the walkway and activate the second switch, then go down into a lower area on the left and climb up the other side to reach the third switch on your right.
• With all the switches pulled, make your way to the Central Core room behind you to trigger some scenes.

Character: Samantha Cooper

• Talk to Williams – there are some choices to make (Check or Joke – Choose Check), then (Explain or Probe – Choose Probe), followed by (Explain or Defend – Choose Defend).
• Before going to talk to Anders, head into the other large room – there’s a display on the wall for you to interact with.
• Go to the room in which Anders is in to trigger a scene – she wants you to get some sedative. Before you lave the room, there’s a video to activate with your Utility Strap in the far corner.
• Now make your way back into the room in which Williams is in and interact with the panel on the wall. You need to synthesise a sedative – the chemicals displayed below are what you need to combine.

• Use your Utility Strap to open the storage cabinets to the right of you, then combine the chemicals Chloroacetyl Chloride, Ammonia and Dimethyl Sulfate – that’s 168. That will get you Diazepam.
• Return to Anders and give her the Diazepam – there are some choices to make (Doubt or Consider – Choose Consider), then (Approve or Disapprove – Choose Approve), followed by (Question or Implore – Choose Question).
• Leave the room and talk to Anders again to trigger a scene.

Character: Brianna Young

• Watch the scene. There’s a Turning Point.

• After the scene, successfully open the door with your wedge tool to save Anders.
• Watch the scenes.

Character: Josef Cernan

• Go up the stairs in the room you’re in, then head down the long corridor and enter the Cockpit – there’s a data pad inside to investigate. There’s also a post-it note in here with a clue written on it: CAIF. This is a clue to the code you need to access a panel in the room you just came from.
• Leave the Cockpit and go back down the long corridor. Before going down the stairs, look for a panel on the wall to interact with – the code for it is 3196. Make sure you cycle through all the pages to trigger the secret.
• Now go down the stairs to return to where you started and go through the door to leave Bridge Ops.

• After going through a few doors, head left. After hopping over an obstacle, there should be a power symbol on the wall ahead. Use your scanner and then interact with it and divert power to the door on the left.
• Enter the room on your left and activate the Simms’ Recording on the wall at the far end.
• Leave the room, divert the power back to the elevators and then take the elevator to your right.
• In the next area, push forward until you see Cooper go into the Crew Lounge, before following her, head down the nearby stairs.
• There’s a picture to investigate on some seating down here – turn it around to see that it’s of Cernan. Now go back up the stairs and enter the Crew Lounge.
• Watch the scene – there’s a choice to make (Inquire or Inform – Choose Inquire). You’ll also have to cycle through some security cameras.

Character: Laura Eisele

• There’s a Turning Point.

Episode 6: Hostile Takeover

Character: Brianna Young

• Watch the scene – there’s a choice to make (Sympathize or Resist – Choose Sympathize).

Character: Nolan Stafford

• You need to find a power cell to power the door to Hydroponics. First, move around the edge of the room and go through the only door that opens, in the next area there’s a vent you can crawl though that leads to a small room – there’s a panel to activate with your Utility Strap inside. In the adjoining medical room there’s another panel of a wall with a message for you to read.
• Go back through the vent and return to the main room where you started. Now use your wedge tool to open the Exec Office door. Inside you’ll find a Simms’ Recording to watch on a wall. Return to the large room again and enter the vent in that room to proceed.
• Make your way through the vent until you emerge in a large room. Interact with the control panel ahead to view the security cameras. You’ll see there’s a power cell there’s you can use in Science Control.
• Head right and investigate the door ahead – you’ll need to find another way into the room. Go down the stairs to your left and drop down into the lower area, then squeeze through the gap. Climb over the barrier ahead and to the right, then go around the storage containers on your left. Use your scanner to reveal the power junction box in the wall – interact with it to divert power to the Science Storage.
• Jump back over the barrier and open the door to Science Storage with your Utility Strap.

• Go through the Science Storage room, down a set of stairs and hop into the Office via the broken window – there a data pad for you to investigate inside.
• Now go back and leave Science Storage, climbing over the barrier again. Interact with the power junction and send the power to the Crane Operations Console on the right.
• Interact with the Crane Operations Console and pick up the large crate. You’ll get a warning message. Go back to the power junction and divert the power to the Crane Platform and Clamps. Now go back to the crate that’s been picked up and find an angle that allows you to release the clamp with your Utility Strap.
• Go and divert the power to the Crane Operation Console again. Return to the console and move the crate right and then up before placing it with the right trigger to bridge the gap in the walkway ahead.
• Head up the stairs ahead and make use of your handiwork to enter the room on the right – grab the power cell from inside. The door behind you will open. Go though it and start making your way to Hydroponics. The vent you used to get to the area you’re in will now be shut, so you’ll have to jump over a gap in the walkway and leave via the door to Science Central instead.

• Head into Science Central, then open the door to Astroscience with your wedge tool. Inside, there’s a panel you can activate with your Utility Strap to trigger a video on a wall, a data pad on one of the desks in the middle of the room, and a power junction in the wall at the far end. Use your scanner and then interact with the latter to send power to the Observation Corridor door if you want to get a closer look at the strange organism overtaking the ship.
• Leave the Astroscience room and enter the large room at the end of the corridor to find yourself back where you started. Use the power cell to power up the door to Hydroponics. Go down the corridor that’s being overtaken by the organism, then head left and activate the video on the wall with your Utility Strap. Now go through the second Hydroponics door to your right to trigger a scene.

Character: Laura Eisele

• You need to avoid the alien version of yourself an get to the ladder to escape. Wait for it to come towards you and pass by before making your move forwards, following the signs that lead you to the ladder. Eventually you’ll reach a dead end.

• Use the device on your left to distract the monster when it’s nearby, then when it starts patrolling the area on the right hand side make your move, heading around to the right to reach the ladder. A monster may appear ahead of you as you make your way around – retreat and take cover behind a crate if it does, then make your way to the ladder when it passes by to trigger some scenes.

Character: Nolan Stafford

• There’s a Turning Point.

• Watch the scene – there’s a choice to make (Concede or Defend – Choose Defend). There’s another Turning Point, too.

• Watch the scene – there’s another Turning Point.

Character: Brianna Young

• Talk to any or all of the characters in the room with you if you’d like, then head upstairs and talk to Stafford in the cockpit.
• Watch the scene – there are choices to make (Plead or Inspire – Choose Inspire).

Character: Nolan Stafford

• There’s a Turning Point.

Episode 7: Revelation

Character: Brianna Young

• Watch the scene – there’s a choice to make (Empathize or Lament – Choose Empathize).

Character: Josef Cernan

• You’ll now be outside the ship, on the surface of Tau Ceti f. Just follow the drone – eventually you’ll trigger a scene.
• Now you need to find Anders. Make use of the messaging system to chat with her. Move forward and then crouch to go under the rocks on the left. When you emerge, message Anders again – there’s a choice to make (Order or Reassure – Choose Reassure). She’ll then turn on her emergency trail, allowing you to track her with your scanner.
• Press Square/X to use your scanner, then follow Anders’ emergency trail. You’ll eventually reach a dead end. Backtrack a little until you drop down a ledge, then head right – use your scanner and you should see the emergency trail ahead.

• Move towards the trail, jumping over numerous gaps, shimmying across a ledge and then climbing another ledge. Message Anders again – there’s a choice to make (Caution or Embolden – Choose Caution).
• First take the left path. At the top there’s a helmet – pick it up and rotate it so that you can see through its visor. Now head back and take the right path, following your crewmates.
• After the rocks collapse, use your scanner and you’ll find the emergency trail goes both ways ahead. Message Anders again – she says she’s somewhere where there’s stalactites on the ceiling.
• Take the right path and eventually you’ll see some stalactites hanging from a rock in front of you – drop down and push forward, crouching to go through the tunnel. You’ll see Anders ahead – message her again and things won’t quite seem right, but keep moving forward and you’ll reunite with the real Anders.
• After the scene, follow the path around to reach the probe. Talk to Mitchell – there’s a choice to make (Contemplate or Encourage – Choose Encourage).
• Interact with the probe and remove the broken chip – you now need to find a replacement. Luckily for you there’s one just around the other side of the probe. Interact with the panel and take it.

• Replace the broken chip and now you’ll need to find the probe’s serial number. The plates on the device indicate that it starts with a 2 and ends with 40, which narrows things down. Put in the code 2540 to gain access and send your message.

Character: Brianna Young

• After the scene, play the recorded transmissions. WTF indeed!
• You’ll now be back on the ship, and it’s become very infested. Make your way to the Pod Room ahead. Use your Utility Strap to open its doors a little, then squeeze through.
• Cut off from your team, you now need to make your way across the Pod Room while avoiding the life form. The door you need to go through is locked, so you’ll want to make your way to the Bathroom on the left hand side to open it up. Take things slow and steady.
• In the bathroom, use your Utility Strap on the panel to lift the lockdown, opening the door you need.

• Leave the Bathroom and start making your way to the door across from it – the life form will emerge from the floor ahead of you. Sneak around to the right to avoid it and make your way nearer to the door, keeping safe in cover. Wait until the life form is facing away from you to use your wedge tool on the door and open it.
• After going through the door, respond to Cernan’s message if you’d like, then push forward into the North Corridors. Enter the vent on the right when you see the life form ahead. When you leave the vent, use your wedge tool to open the door to Fuel Systems and go through.
• In the large room you’re now in, first head over to the left hand side and lower the ladder with your Utility Strap. Head up the ladder and interact with the panel on the wall ahead. Now go back down the ladder and make your way to the other end of the room, leaving via the door.
• Keep moving forward. Hop over the obstacle and squeeze through the gap. Go straight ahead and use your Utility Strap to activate the video. When you’ve done that, interact with the thing covering the entrance to the Reactor elevator and complete the button tap QTE events.

Character: Josef Cernan

• Turn around and head to the end of the corridor. On your left, in the wall, is a power junction. Use your scanner and divert power to the nearby door.

• Enter the room you’ve just opened and look through the window in there – there’s a panel you can activate with your Utility Strap to open some shutters at the far end. Leave the small room and enter the room via the now open window – there’s a data pad in here to investigate.
• Leave the room and squeeze through the gap to proceed. Keep moving ahead until you find the door to the Geoscience Lab – you need to find a power cell for it. Go down the corridor to the left and enter the small room at the end.
• Use your Utility Strap to open the gate, then climb onto the crates ahead. Move forward and you’ll find there’s a another gate you can open with your Utility Strap in the distance. Go back and drop from the crates. Go through the gate you just opened and grab the power cell.
• Return to the Geoscience Lab door and use the power cell to power it. Go inside and the life form will appear again – you need to sneak past it.
• Head left and quickly enter the room before the life form spots you. There’s a power junction in the wall here – use your scanner and divert the power to the right, even though it’s not active yet.
• Now hop over the obstruction and head to the window in this room. When the coast is clear, leave the room by hopping through the window and head left, following the walkway around to the door you need to go though. You’ll find it’s not powered up – you’re going to need to go downstairs to divert power to it.
• Drop down to the lower level via the broken railing near the door, being careful of avoiding the broken glass which will alert the life form. There’s a power junction box behind you.

• Use your scanner and interact with the junction box, diverting the power to another junction box in the area. Now make your way to that box using your scanner, avoiding the life form as you go. It’s to the left of the stairs on the lower level.
• Interact with the power junction and divert the power upwards to the power junction you activated earlier – the door you need will now be powered up. Make your way up the stairs and then head right, to the door – you’ll need to sue your wedge tool to open it.
• After going through the door, keep moving forward. After squeezing though a gap there’ll be a chase scene. Run down the corridor then head left at the end. Squeeze through the gap ahead and complete the button tap QTE to escape.

Character: Laura Eisele

• Watch the scene – there’s a choice to make (Question or Probe – Choose Probe).

Episode 8: Come True

Character: Brianna Young

• Watch the scenes – there’s a choice to make (Question or Lament – Choose Question). After that there’s a Turning Point.

Character: Laura Eisele

• Watch the scene – there’s a choice to make (Probe or Question – Choose Probe). There’s a Turning Point.

Character: Nolan Stafford

• First, turn around and investigate the data pad on the floor near the chairs. Now turn around again and head down the corridor, squeezing though the doors at the end.
• After the scene, you need to reach the elevator shaft while avoiding life form. Go forward and head down the stairs to the right. At the bottom, on your left, there’s a power junction in the wall. Use your scanner and interact with the junction, diverting the power to the right to unlock the Locker Room.

• Go to the Locker Room to your right and activate the Simms’ Recording in the wall. Leave the Locker Room and head right. Start making your way to the other end of the corridor, being careful of the life form ahead. Halfway down the corridor, you can remotely activate the panel on the left with your Utility Strap to cause a distraction, allowing you to slip by and reach the door ahead.

Character: Laura Eisele

• Go through the door ahead, and in the next room keep to the right hand side and move to the next door. A scene will trigger, and you’ll be left in the room with the life form.
• Sneak to the right when you can – as you move forward the life form will appear ahead of you. Backtrack a little, go around crates and head to where the life form just appeared from. Go left from this point and hop over an obstacle – on the right, near the door, you’ll find a power cell which you should pick up.
• Now keep moving around the edge of the room, avoiding the life form. After hopping over another obstacle you’ll find somewhere to use the power cell, opening a door which will allow you to get to the upper level.

• After going up the stairs, first head left to find a data pad on a chair. Then turn around and start making your way around the upper walkway, heading to the door at the opposite end of the room. Around the halfway mark you’ll be attacked – complete the QTE and then run to the door as fast as you can.

Character: Nolan Stafford

• Go straight down the corridor and enter the Colony Control room. In the room beyond there’s a console to interact with on the wall. Now head back the way you came and use your wedge tool to open the door to the Mess Hall.
• As you enter the Mess Hall the life form will appear. Sneak around the left edge of the room if you can, avoiding the life form as you go. Be particularly careful of the glass on the floor here. When you reach the door you need to go through for safety at other other end of the room, you’ll find it needs a power cell.
• Head to the corner of the room at the opposite side if the door. There’s a power junction in the wall near the door there – use your scanner and divert the power to that door. You then need to use your wedge tool to open it. Inside you’ll find the power cell you need.

• Now leave the small room and sneak across to the other side of the large room. By using the power junction again and diverting the power to the display monitor you can enable a handy distraction near the door. Place the power cell in the wall and go through the door to reach safety.
• After going down the stairs, head right down some more stairs, go through the door to Maintenance, and then go down the stairs in there. Head right, going to the back of the server racks to find another data pad to investigate. At the other end of the room, past the door, there’s a message console in the wall to interact with.
• Now go to the centre of the room and use the lever on the wall to purge the elevator. Leave the room going back up the stairs, then turn right at the top and open the Elevators door with your wedge tool. Go through the door and enter the elevator et the end.
• After the scene, move down the corridor. Before emerging into the large room at the end, grab the power cell from the wall and backtrack a little until you find a vent on the left – use the power cell to power it up. Enter the vent and head right until you emerge in a new area.
• Use the Utility Strap on the panel on the left to lower some nearby server racks. Now use use scanner and interact with the power junction that was behind them, diverting power to the door behind you.
• Enter the next room and look for a gap between the server racks where you can use your Utility Strap with the panel on the wall to lower them. Enter the area and interact with another power junction, diverting the power to the panel on your left. Use your Utility Strap on that panel to lower more server racks.

• Hop over the barrier on your left and squeeze through the gap ahead. Go right and crouch to get through the small opening. Use your utility strap to lower yet more server racks, and then use your scanner and activate another power junction ahead, diverting power to the server control panel on the left.
• Crawl back through the opening and use your Utility Strap to lower the server racks ahead of you remotely though the small gap. Head left and go through the door. Ahead of you is the last Simms’ Recording to activate on the wall. To the left of the recording you’ll find an Obol on the floor – this will enable O Death secrets which you’ll have to use Turning Points to discover.
• Open the nearby door with your wedge tool to get back to Eisele and continue. Head up the stairs to trigger a scene. There’s a button tap QTE which I believe you’ll always fail. Now you need to run away from the horrendous life form. Just follow Eisele and complete the QTEs along the way. Go through the vent at the end to escape.

Character: Laura Eisele

• You need to overload the reactor. Start by making your way forward and completing the QTEs. There’ll then be a time sensitive Turning Point.

• Complete more QTEs to overload the reactor and escape the life form.

Character: Samantha Cooper

• Watch the scene – there’s a Turning Point.

• Watch the scene and complete the QTEs.

Character: Brianna Young

• Watch the scene and complete the QTEs.

Character: Nolan Stafford

• Watch the scene and complete the QTEs.

Character: Laura Eisele

• Watch the scene and complete the QTEs.

Character: Josef Cernan

• Watch the scene and complete the QTEs.

Character: Brianna Young

• Watch the scene and press the prompts as they appear onscreen.

Character: Samantha Cooper

• Watch the scene and complete the QTEs.

Well done, you’ve completed Directive 8020 and saved all crew members in the progress – hopefully you’ve found our walkthrough useful. There’s still work to do though. Use Explorer mode and track down the O Death secrets for a nice surprise.

O Death secret locations

Episode 8: Come True (Scene – The Way Back)

• You’ll already have this if you followed our walkthrough above, but if not, head down the corridor at the start of the scene and grab the power cell. Backtrack a little and use it to power the vent.
• Enter the vent and follow it around to the right. In the next area, use your Utility Strap to manipulate the server racks and your scanner to interact with the power junctions to progress, and you’ll eventually find a room with the last Simms’ Recording. The Obol is on the floor to the left of it.

Episode 1: Little Star (Scene – Medical)

• After gaining access to the Medical reception room, the O Death secret can be found laying on the floor surrounded by the console in the middle of the room. It’s a data pad.

Episode 3: The Sample (Scene – Search)

• When you reach the Mess Hall, the O Death secret is in the far corner of the room. Look for the power symbol on the wall – it’s the console to the right of that.

Episode 5: Mr. Williams (Scene – Radio Silence)

• At the start of this scene, go up the stairs and make your way down the corridor leading to the Cockpit – the O Death secret is on the left as you make your way down. It’s a panel in the wall.

• After using the elevator, progress forward until you see Cooper entering the Crew Lounge ahead. Instead of following her, head down the stairs to the right, had left down the corridor, then take the stairs up on the left ahead. The O Death secret is a data pad on some seating.