Haunted Paws Beginner Guide

The first hour is three places

Place one is the owner's apartment. Place two is the street outside, where a cat detective trades keys for two fish. Place three is the approach to the factory the board names, including a dig for an ID card if you reach locked doors. Do not open a mansion map and try to clear wings the demo has not started.

A how-to-play pass is that spine in order. The next section is the setup screen, because a bad coat choice is the only "build" this game asks for.

Kitten fur is a coat, not a third character

The kitten-in-disguise fur is still one of the two puppies. In one demo session that coat did not offer a black-cat recolor, so do not promise a black kitten until the swatch is on your screen. A black cat as the cause of the kidnapping is a media claim and stays Unverified. It is not a fur you must equip to open the apartment.

Hats do not unlock doors

Nine accessories were in the October 19 drop. Choose one you can see past in a dark room. They identify your puppy. They are not keys. The full accessory write-up is the breeds page.

Once both puppies are readable at a glance, the next section is the messy room. That is the first real prompt.

Hold the door with both puppies

Apartment doors that separate you use a hold, not a tap. If your hold does nothing, the other puppy is not on the handle yet. Call which side you have, then hold together. One press from one puppy is how pairs lose a minute on the first door. Role splits like this are collected on the puzzle page.

Sniff in this order

Start on the broken window. Claw marks beside it are a second pin, not wallpaper. Then sniff the owner's shoe. It is evidence. Toys, snacks, and a ball on the floor are not the board's question.

A small creature in the fridge is a board item. Bark at it when the room is quiet. That bark surfaces the snack ad the board uses for "why was the owner taken?" If something is already moving toward you, skip the bark and leave. Barking in a chase is covered in the creature section below.

Leave the evidence where it lies

Sniff and pin. Do not rearrange the messy room to "clean the scene." The useful habit is: sniff, walk to the board, read whether it still says it needs more, sniff the next object. The window alone will not satisfy the board.

Those sniffs only count once they are on the board. The next section is that board, prompt by prompt.

Use the spelling on your board

The apartment board shows a snack ad and a factory. In the demo that company reads as Chompos. If your build spells it differently, follow the letters on the board.

Names that are not on the board

Some previews call the owner Kira Pawsley. That name is Unverified. The board says owner. Use that word with your partner. A black cat behind the kidnapping is also a media claim and stays Unverified. Do not search the apartment for a black cat to unlock the factory sentence.

Say the factory sentence out loud before you take the street. Until it is on the board, the next section's two-puppy work has nothing to aim at.

Call the role before you grab

The cat detective on the street wants two fish, then gives up keys. One fish is close enough to sniff. The second is a short search, including a shop interior. Deliver both before you expect the keys. A spoken name for that cat is Unverified. Follow the fish line.

The car is the same idea: the prompt splits the job. Use the words on screen. The puzzle page holds the pattern for later doors. Give the puppies different coats first, or you will swap the pedal and the wheel in the dark.

Once you are outside, a creature can end the puzzle. The next section is the run, before you learn a factory dig.

Bark is a tool with a volume problem

Bark at objects when the room is quiet. The fridge is the apartment example. Do not bark to "fight" a chase. The warning in the demo is literal: the monster hears it. The creatures page is where evade routes belong. This page only needs the first-night rule.

The spider option was on the setup screen

If you chose the arachnophobia-friendly presentation, keep it. That toggle changes how spiders are shown. It does not add an attack. A spider-bodied creature still means turn around. Media names for it stay Unverified.

The ID card dig is a search, not a boss. Stay on the dig prompt until the card is in a puppy's mouth, then use it on the doors that asked for it. Missing posters in that area are extra reading. Pin one only if the board asks.

You now have the first-night loop. Next: the demo page, for how long this build actually runs, which of those errands are the secrets, and what to do if Steam drops you out.