Welcome to our walkthrough for Reanimal Chapter 1: Dead in the Water. In this beginning chapter we escape the factory and collect all masks, coffins, statues and posters. We also complete all the available achievements.
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You start the game on a boat in the middle of the ocean. Drive the boat towards the red buoys, lighting up the path. You can hear the bells in the distance when you can’t see the light.
Eventually, you will fish up your sister on board. She will attack you. The camera will pan out and you will see a huge wall. Drive the boat towards the wall and you will find a gap in the wall that you can steer the boat through. There are mines you need to avoid. Eventually you will come across an area with lots of dead trees. Keep going till you see a house and you will be able to come to shore.
Head to the left and check the second suitcase from the left and top for a key.
Take the key and head to the right and you will find a door.
Enter this room and jump down. Go through the tunnel up ahead with the grills cut off. Come out the other side and you will see a giant fan on the far north end. Pull the switch to turn it off. You need to be fast to go through the gap.
Go through the fan’s gap now and open the hatch at the other end. Drop down and go north. Climb up the ladder at the end. Once out, you will see a man pull down a shutter to close your path. Climb up the wall on your left.
Collectible 1: Mask
Follow this path and go up the ladder and turn to the left. Eventually you will come up to a door. Head outside and follow the path that has broken off. There is a crack in the wall you can go through.
You will find a mask in a chest inside. Go back inside and to the right. You will see one of your friends inside a makeshift cell. Go to the right up the ramp on to the walkway, past the cracked tube. Take the door on the left. In this room use the chair behind the tables with the computer to rest your legs.
Go north and use the switch on the wall in this room.
This will bring power to this section and also start to rotate the tube you just passed. Come down the walkway with the ladder and cross over to the other side. Use each other to get over the wall.
Pull the lever at the end of the walkway. This will apply a brake to the rotating tube. While one holds the lever down the other needs to run over the tube. Next, climb up the ladder and go around the corner and push the beam down at the end so the other player can cross over.
Exit through the door up north.
Collectible 2: Mask
In this room, open the locker door on the right and go through. You can pick up a mask near the sink.
Next exit through the door on top after coming back out of the locker. Go down the stairs and jump over both gaps in the walkway and push the ladder down at the end. Go down the ladder and open go north and the left to find a tunnel.
Go north in the next room and squeeze through the gap in the grill. Follow the tunnel down and exit through the other side.
Achievement: Dark Tourism
Climb up the ladder on the left and cross over to the other side past the railway tracks and you will see two chairs set up on a cliff. You can rest your legs on one and kick one down for the achievement “Dark Tourism”.
Collectible 3: Poster
If you go north from here you can pick up a poster. This will unlock concept art.
Go up and through the railway tunnel. Turn to the right and go through the door with a light on top to enter the toilet.
Collectible 4: Poster
You can pick up another poster from the wall near the sink.
Next enter through the crack in the wall in the south.
You will see a man dive inside another man. Pick up the plunger from next to him.
Now use the plunger on the toilet bowl on the right. This will pull a creepy skin creature and a key.
Pick up the key and exit back into the courtyard.
Collectible 5: Mask
Head south towards the camera and enter the door on the right.
Go up the walkway and into the room. You can pick up a third mask from near the table with a bomb.
Go back out into the courtyard. On the right side of the minecar you can find a wheel, attach it to the car. Go past the minecar and use the key to unlock the door on the other side. Go down the stairs and jump across the gap and on the far end you can find a chair to rest your legs.
Go north now and through the door at the top of the stairs. Go round the corner in this room and at the end you can find a wheel for the minecar outside. Pick it up and start running, back to the courtyard and the minecar. Put this wheel on as well. Both players now need to pump the car to cross over the bridge into the forest.
Collectible 6: Coffin
Get off the car and head to the right to the crashed train car. Go through the door.
Go out the other side of the train (near the bottom) and follow the path to the right. You will find a coffin here.
Go back the way you just came through the train car and head north into the train tunnel.
Collectible 7: Statue
Right before the dead end and past the right turn you can find a crack in the wall.
Inside, you will find a big statue in the middle, surrounded by smaller ones. Light the candle to collect it. Go back out and climb into the train on the right. Both players need to be involved. Once you reach the train yard, go to the train on the far right and climb up the ladder and drop down the hatch.
Squeeze through the door inside and the hide under the benches by crouching when the guy comes looking and checking. He will soon leave the train. Exit through the door he opened and keep hiding behind the luggage outside. Climb up the window at the bottom of the screen.
Head up towards the north of the train till you reach the cockpit. Pull both levers at the same time. Once the train stops, get up and run down south towards the open door on the left. Lock the enemy inside and climb up the ladder on the train with the red light on the left. Run over the trains as they bend and creak, till your partner pulls you up. Jump down and go to the left. Jump across the chasm and past the rocks till you reach a narrow path with the skin monsters. Avoid them and keep going north. Over the gap and to the right. Go around the corner here to make the skin monsters follow you and then head through the gap up north.
Keep running and climb over the fence. Run up to the tree and pick up the saw from the stump. Use it on the tree on the right and saw it down to create a bridge.
Cross over the tree bridge and through the forest. You can hear an ice cream truck in the distance. Cllimb over the fence and start running south, away from the ice cream truck. Keep running till you slide down a hole and your friend is caught. Run to the left.
Collectible 8: Poster
You can find a poster on the camper van with the light.
Go around and on to the street and you can find a car under a streetlight. Open the door and push the handbrake down and it should crash through a gate. Go through the gate into the small forest town for the achievement “Home from Home”.
This concludes our walkthrough for Reanimal Chapter 1: Dead In the Water.
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