Nov 19, 2024

Loco Motive Walkthrough – Prologue & Part 1

Rahul Shirke

Walkthrough Table of Contents

Welcome to the Into Indie Games walkthrough for Loco Motive.

This is a point-to-point walkthrough that takes you through the critical path to completing the game. Loco Motive has a lot more to offer apart from the steps outlined in this walkthrough, so we highly recommend that you explore and interact with its world as much as possible.

For more information on Loco Motive beyond this walkthrough, check out the official website here.

After a sequence of cutscenes and dialog, you’ll find yourself chained to a desk in a police interrogation room.
The keys to your chains are hanging from a coat to the left, so you need to get those keys if you want to escape.
Pick up the desk fan on the shelf to the right of the radiator.
Pick up the newspaper on the desk.

In your inventory, combine the fan with the newspaper to create an air funnel.
Use your air funnel on the blue coat to the left of the door.
Pick up the umbrella and then use it on the keys.

Now you’re free. To escape, use the shuttered window on the right side of the screen.

Prologue: Adversary Proceeding

On gaining control, go left and enter the cabin with the open door.
After the cutscene, pick up the sealed envelope on the desk.
Break the seal.

After reading the letter (or not), interact with the blue suit to put it on.
Head back out of the cabin and go right to the dining carriage.
You can talk to several passengers here, but your objective is to get to Lady Unterwald’s cabin to the far right.
In Lady Unterwald’s room, interact with the window to slide it open.

After the sequence, exit the cabin to join the speech.

Part One: The Late Lady Unterwald

As Arthur says, Lady Unterwald’s carriage could have some clues, but there’s a guard blocking the way there.
While in the dining carriage, talk to the ‘uncouth slob’.
Give the letter you receive to the blonde woman sitting behind him.

Return to Don and talk to him.
After the sequence, grab the keys lying on the floor.
Examine the keys in your inventory to learn his room number.
Return to the sleeper carriage (go left) and find Room 303 by examining each door.

Knock on Room 303’s door.
Examine the room as you wish, but be sure to open the closet door and pocket the wire hanger. Then, exit the room.
When you need to hide, interact with the cabinets underneath the sink.

After the cutscene, exit the room for real and run all the way right until you get to the guard guarding Lady Unterwald’s room.
If you talk to the guard, you’ll learn that he is allergic to perfume.
Give the guard the perfumed love letter.
Once inside Lady Unterwald’s room, use the wire hanger you got from Don’s closet, on the left-hand-side drawer.
Pick up the ledger that’s inside.

Return to the dining carriage now and go to the table where the blonde lady (Susanne Goldschmidt) was sitting before.
Talk to Mr Bergmann here and mention the ledger to him.
Once you’re done talking to him, head back to the sleeper carriage and enter Don’s room.
Grab the big magnet that’s on the desk to the right.

Now go to the casino carriage and stand near the roulette table.
Wait for Don to put his chips on the table and call a color.
Pull out the magnet from your inventory and wait for Don to start using his magnet. When he does this, quickly use your own magnet on the roulette table.
If timed right, you’ll cause Don to lose at roulette.
Follow Don to the dining carriage and then overtake him to reach the sleeper carriage first.
Note that Don will stop to chat with Bergman if you want to eavesdrop.
If Don reaches his room first, he’ll refill his chips and you will have to repeat the magnet-on-the-table trick to make him lose and go back for more chips.
After getting to the sleeping carriage before Don gets there, enter Don’s room.

After Don leaves, interact with the secret panel below the bed.
Grab the casino chips and head out of the room.
After the sequences that follow, Part 1 of Loco Motive will conclude.

Check out the next part of our walkthrough of Loco Motive here! (Part 2: Burden of Proof)

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Rahul Shirke