Fade: a step-by-step walkthrough

This guide follows the English Fade 1.09 story from New Game to the credits. It was reconstructed from the recovered scene scripts, inventory scripts, and decompiled engine. It contains puzzle and story spoilers.

Verification: the actions and puzzle conditions below were checked against the recovered data and code. The entire route has not been played through on the Android port. If the port behaves differently, use the checkpoints below to identify the first step that did not happen.

How to play

• Tap an object, then choose an action from its popup. An action such as Inspect often opens a close-up containing more objects.
• Use with means select an inventory item, choose that action, then tap the object in the scene. Open the close-up first when the target is inside one.
• Combine with means choose that action on one inventory item, then select the other inventory item.
• The red chest opens inventory. The green book opens the journal. The bottom-left emblem opens the main menu.
• Use the up/down arrows beside the text to read further pages. The down arrow also advances many story scenes. At the opening, you must press it; waiting will not advance the story.
• Dialogue choices can continue below the visible text. Scroll before assuming an option is missing.
• Use the available room exits to move between locations. A doorway can also have an Open, Enter, or Go to action.
• Save at the start of each major part. There are three save slots; rotate them so you can return to an earlier checkpoint.

A useful habit: examine a clue and finish its text even when this guide already gives you the answer. Some puzzles track whether Louis has actually discovered it.

Where you are going

1. Get ready and meet Belleville.
2. Return from Paris.
3. Find evidence of Anne's disappearance.
4. Escape the asylum.
5. Follow Anne's trail in Paris.
6. Complete the ritual.
7. Solve the Isle of the Dead.
8. Reach the ending.

1. Get ready and meet Belleville

Wake up and find the pills

1. Start New Game. Read the bedroom introduction and use the down arrow to continue.
2. In the conversation with Anne, choose the reply about wanting coffee before taking the pills. Continue into the daytime bedroom.
3. Inspect the chair and search Anne's jeans. Take the train ticket from the pocket.
4. You can inspect the bedroom table, but the notebook only contains work papers for now. Return to it after Félicienne's phone call below.
5. Leave the bedroom. Inspect the corridor's table with the plant and take the safe key.
6. Go through the lounge to the kitchen. Drink Louis's coffee if you have not already done so. When Anne is in the kitchen, talk to her about the pills and, when available, the safe's code and key. She points you toward your diary.
7. Go to the bathroom. Open inventory and Examine My Diary, then Use with the bathroom mirror. Louis reads the backwards writing: 1974.
8. Return to the bedroom. Inspect the small picture of a village street, then Move it to reveal the safe.
9. Choose Open on the safe with the key in your inventory and the diary clue discovered. You do not type 1974 into a keypad here; the game checks whether you learned the code and have the key.
10. Take the pills from the open safe. Louis takes the day's dose automatically. There is no need to select Eat on the bottle.

Help Anne and prepare the file

11. Return to the corridor. When Anne calls from the bathroom about the blocked bath, agree to help her.
12. Go to the toilet and take the plunger. This drops your car keys into the toilet bowl.
13. Use the plunger on the corridor's bathroom door, where Anne is calling. This resolves the blocked-bath request.
14. In the lounge, inspect the fireplace and take the poker.
15. Return to the toilet and open the toilet-bowl close-up. Use the poker on the car keys to retrieve them.
16. Answer the hall telephone when it rings. Tell Félicienne you have the file/photos and finish her reminder about the appointment. Now return to the bedroom table and Flip through the notebook to take the Antique picture. The completed phone call unlocks this action.
17. Leave through the front door to the garden. Inspect and open the mailbox, then take the envelope.
18. In inventory, Open the envelope to get the Incomplete file. Combine it with the Antique picture to make File complete.
19. Enter the car. Adjust the rear-view mirror if desired, then choose Start on the dashboard. If Louis says something is missing, finish the file first.
20. Accept Anne's request to ride with you. Continue the conversation until you arrive in the village.

Meet your customer

21. Enter the antiques shop. A stranger interrupts you outside. End that conversation with the reply telling him to leave or you will call the police, then enter the shop.
22. Talk to Félicienne, who is balancing precariously above the floor. Agree to fetch something to help her.
23. First visit the office, inspect the electric box, Open it, and Switch on the breaker. This lights the back room. Go to the back room, take the ladder, return to Félicienne, and Use with her. Despite the dialogue mentioning a stool, the required item is the ladder.
24. Félicienne now talks at length. Go into the office, open the desk drawer, and take the cigarettes. If the room is too dark, inspect the electric box, open it, and switch the power on.
25. Return to Félicienne and choose Smoke, or use the cigarettes' Smoke action. The smell makes her leave.
26. Go back to the office and choose Work on the desk. Finish the interruption about Belleville's arrival.
27. Talk to Belleville in the shop and invite him into the office. Accept hearing about his urgent task. The story moves to Paris.

Checkpoint: you wake in room 315 at the Hôtel des Lilas.

2. Return from Paris

Get your wallet, coffee, and pills

1. Answer the hotel-room phone and finish the wake-up conversation.
2. Choose Dress on the bed, then leave the room and go to the café across the street.
3. Choose Order on a café table. Louis realizes that his wallet is missing. This makes searching the hotel bed useful.
4. Return to the hotel. Take the Room315 key from the key shelf at reception when available.
5. If the maid blocks your return upstairs, talk to the nervous café customer about his relationship, admit that Anne proposed to you, and encourage him to go and see his girlfriend. This clears the maid obstruction.
6. At the room door, use the Room315 key if the door is locked, then enter.
7. Search the bed and take the wallet.
8. Return to the café and Order again. Louis has his coffee and remembers the pills in the hotel bathroom.
9. Go back upstairs into the hotel bathroom and Take the pills. Louis takes a dose automatically.
10. Talk to the café customer who can tell you about transport. Ask about a taxi, then the nearest metro station. This opens the way to the station.

Buy a ticket

11. At the station, go to ticket desk 3. Ask for a ticket to Robertville sur Angeais, then finish the reply about being sent to another desk.
12. Go to desk 6, ask to join the waiting list, and continue until the clerk sends you to desk 8.
13. At desk 8, say you want to get to Robertville sur Angeais. When asked about a discount card, choose the reply saying you have a slight disability but forgot the card. This gives you the ticket. Saying simply No sends you back around the desks.
14. Board the train. In the carriage hall, open the compartment door.
15. Talk to the young woman. Continue until she asks for a cigarette and the inspector approaches. Follow the conversation about the missing ticket and hiding in the toilet.
16. Advance the train-toilet text. Louis loses consciousness and wakes in Jean's bathroom.

Checkpoint: you are back in St Jeoire, but Anne is missing.

3. Find evidence of Anne's disappearance

Restore electricity at home

1. Leave Jean's bathroom, talk to Jean in his living room, then leave his house for your own garden.
2. Enter your house. The electricity is off. Go through the dark lounge and corridor to the bedroom.
3. Inspect the alarm clock on the pedestal table. Open it and Take batteries.
4. Inspect the other bedroom table and take the battery-powered lamp.
5. In inventory, Combine Battery + Lamp.
6. Return to the dark lounge. Use the assembled Lamp on the Wallpaper. This places it on a suitable surface and changes the room to its lit version.
7. Inspect the fireplace. Move the hearth contents, then Take the shining object to obtain the Cellar key.
8. Outside, approach the cellar door. Use the Cellar key on the closed door and enter the cellar stairs.
9. Inspect the circuit breaker, choose Think, and take the burnt fuse. Thinking about the problem opens the visit to Jean for help.
10. At Jean's front door, inspect the flower pot and take the hidden Jean's key. Use it on the door and enter.
11. Visit the bedroom containing cigarette cartons. Inspect a carton and take a pack of cigarettes.
12. In inventory, Open that pack to get Aluminium. Combine Aluminium + Fuse to make Repaired fuse.
13. Return to your cellar stairs, open the breaker close-up, and Use Repaired fuse on the fuse position. Turn on the breaker.

Collect the camera and repair the photo lab

14. Go to the village centre and enter your ransacked antiques shop.
15. In the back room, Shake Félicienne to get her attention. Finish her account of the burglary. She gives you your camera, containing the film she used to photograph the damage.
16. In your office, inspect the handbag on the desk and take Trankill 2000.
17. Go to the bar and talk to the bartender. Ask about Xavier to make the back alley accessible.
18. In the bartender close-up, Use Trankill 2000 on his beer. He falls asleep.
19. Leave the bar and inspect the decorative lights outside. Take the red bulb. If you tried earlier and were told off, return now that the bartender is asleep.
20. At home, enter the cellar and approach the photo lab. Try the safelight to discover the broken bulb, then Use the red Bulb on it. Turn it on and enter the working lab.
21. Open the camera in inventory. You receive Robbery film and the empty camera.
22. In the working lab, Use Robbery film on the Tray. You receive three Picture evidence items. Keep all three, including the blurred photograph.

Find Anne's recording and photograph the graffiti

23. In the bar's back alley, inspect the garbage and take the crowbar.
24. Visit Astrid, the clairvoyant: approach her door in the dark alley and use the door knocker.
25. Tell her your wife has disappeared. Accept the card reading and finish all its pages. She gives you the Dairy key.
26. At the village dairy, Use Dairy key on the door and enter.
27. Inspect the cashbox, then Use Crowbar on its drawer in the close-up. Inspect the opened drawer and take Anne's tape recorder.
28. Return to your house's hall. Listen to the phone's strange noise, then Use Tape recorder on the Phone. Louis records it. This adds an internal proof flag as well as updating the recorder's description.
29. Go to the bus stop. Inspect the abandoned bag, then Search the camera inside it. Take the Empty film.
30. Combine Empty film + your empty Camera.
31. At your garden mailbox, open its close-up and choose Take a picture on the graffiti.
32. In your lounge, inspect the globe and choose Take picture on its symbol.
33. Now Open the loaded camera in inventory. Louis removes the Roll of film containing both pictures. The game will not let you do this usefully until both pictures have been taken.
34. In the working photo lab, Use Roll of film on the Tray. The mailbox and globe photographs become developed evidence.
35. Go to the police station and Open its front door. Read through the conversation and the disturbing sequence that follows.

Police checkpoint: you need three developed burglary photographs, the developed mailbox photograph, the developed globe photograph, and the phone recording. Both exposed rolls must have been developed. Carrying an undeveloped roll blocks entry even if other evidence is present.

4. Escape the asylum

Spend the first night and meet the patients

1. Finish the conversation with the singing stranger in the park, then explore toward the main building.
2. Enter the building and go to reception. Ask where you are and insist that you want to leave. Zampano takes you to your cell.
3. In My Cell, choose Sleep on the bed. Advance the night text until morning.
4. Go to the refectory and talk to the patient with the conspicuous shoes, the one who distrusts the food. Continue until he asks to meet at the feeding mother: the she-wolf statue.
5. After the meal, speak to him by the she-wolf statue. Ask about getting out and what he eats. You learn that he wants insects and that Parx has escaped before.
6. Go to the infirmary. Tell the nurse you feel really sick. He gives you a sample container, named Bowl in inventory, and sends you back to the cell.
7. In your cell, inspect all four places: wash basin, bucket, shelf, and floor. In each close-up, Take the bug. The first capture changes the container to a Bowl holding insects; the others are tracked separately.
8. Return to the patient at the she-wolf statue. Use the insect-filled Bowl on him. You must have collected all four bugs. He gives you a Denture.

Uncover the treasure and distract Zampano

9. At the chapel entrance, talk to the other patient. Ask about his tricks and continue until he tells you about the hidden treasure and the poem, Panting stars crying with spleen.
10. Visit the library and talk to the librarian about that phrase. Finish her explanation. This enables inspecting the treasure location.
11. Before leaving the library, inspect the register and Read its page. The cook repeatedly borrows Terrestrial Feeds by Gides. Remember this for the kitchen.
12. Return to the park's left path. Inspect the tree stump and Use Denture on the stones in the close-up. You find a Flask of white wine and a small key.
13. In the chapel, talk to the priest and offer white wine. He says he wants kir, made with white wine and blackcurrant.
14. Enter the kitchen from the refectory. Tell Mario someone is about to borrow Terrestrial Feeds. He leaves to protect his preferred book.
15. Inspect the kitchen bottles and Use Flask on the blackcurrant bottle. You now have Kir.
16. Return to the priest and choose the conversation offering him Kir. Continue the drinking conversation. He gives you a Bible.
17. At the toolshed, Use Bible on the meditating patient. He exchanges his Playman magazine for it.
18. At the front of the main building, Use Playman on Zampano. He leaves for the staff toilets, and you can speak properly to reception.
19. Tell Gelsomina at reception you want to see the doctor. She leads you to him.

Complete the doctor's two tests

20. Ask the doctor about the formalities for leaving. Complete the first five questions. Choose substantive answers rather than repeatedly asking for clarification.
21. The first test always ends in failure. It unlocks information around the grounds, but there is no combination of replies that releases you.
22. You can inspect the newly available clues if you wish: the fountain says 1924, and the librarian identifies Antonio Guiseppe as the author. These are useful story clues, but the doctor offers deliberately unsuitable answers and changes the test on the next attempt.
23. Return to the doctor and agree to take the second test. Answer all four questions. You will fail this one too and be taken back to your cell. That is the required progression.
24. Sleep on the bed. The next morning, return to the refectory and advance the choking-patient scene. This opens the next set of rooms and conversations.

Prepare Parx's fire

25. Upstairs, visit Parx in Cell 3. Ask him to help you escape. He wants the gardening hut/toolshed burned down.
26. Distract the doctor in the morgue by provoking the two quarrelling patients: visit the patient in Cell 1 and Salvatore in Cell 4, passing their insults back and forth.
27. Start with Cell 1's message calling Salvatore a Terrone. Tell it to Salvatore, carry Salvatore's reply back to Cell 1, then continue carrying each new insult to the other man until both are threatening violence.
28. At reception, talk to Zampano about the trouble upstairs. He tells you to ask the doctor in the autopsy room.
29. Go to the morgue, tell the doctor the patients are fighting, and let him leave. Inspect the table and take the M-Oroid instant camera.
30. Visit the laundry in the basement. Take the broom, then inspect the table and take the two clothespins.
31. Upstairs, Use Broom on the attic trapdoor at the dead end of the third corridor. Enter the attic.
32. Talk to the silent man if you wish, but the useful action is Search on the crate he points toward. Take the matches.
33. Return to Gelsomina at reception and tell her about the man in the attic with a cloth over his head. Continue that conversation until Louis gives up trying to explain. It unlocks the next distraction.
34. Go to the staff toilets. Talk to the occupied toilet door and tell Zampano that Gelsomina likes him. He leaves to see her.
35. Enter the now accessible toilets and take the toilet paper.
36. In the backroom off the lobby, Take a bottle from the crates to obtain White-spirit.
37. Visit the gardening toolshed outside. Choose Photograph on the hut, or Use M-Oroid on it. You get a Picture of the intact shed.
38. Combine Picture + Clothespins.
39. At the entrance gate, inspect the security camera. Use the Picture with clothespins on it. The camera now sees a photograph of the undamaged hut.
40. Combine White-spirit + Toilet paper to make a Cocktail. Combine Cocktail + Matches to make Burning cocktail.
41. Return to the toolshed and Use Burning cocktail on the hut. If Louis mentions the camera, finish the photograph trick first.
42. Choose Think on the burning toolshed to leave the scene.
43. Return to Parx and talk to him. He tells you to hide in the laundry being sent to the village.
44. In the laundry, choose Hide in on the table/pile of laundry. Advance the text.

This escape must fail. Parx betrays you. Continue through the guard, doctor, and cell scenes; you do not need to redo the fire.

Find the underground exit

45. After the failed escape, finish the doctor's conversation and the scene showing writing covering your cell. You are placed in a high-security padded cell.
46. Choose Call on the cell door three times, reading each response. On the third attempt you hear it unlock. Choose Open and leave.
47. While the strange sound is playing, go to the empty reception. Inspect the table, then inspect its drawer and take the Envelope.
48. In the same close-up, choose Turn off on the Tape Recorder. This stops the hospital sound and enables the normal clue actions. Do this before trying to read the fountain statues.
49. Return upstairs to your original cell. Inspect the bed to recover the small key found with the wine; your inventory was cleared when you entered the padded cell.
50. Visit the burned toolshed and Search its remains. Take the wrench.
51. At the she-wolf statue, inspect the panel/lock. Use the small Key on the lock, then inspect the opened section. Use Wrench on the pipes/valve. The well drains.
52. Open the reception envelope to get a Sheet. Use Sheet on the embers/remains of the burned shed. The heat reveals a Letter. In inventory, Read it: the fourth sign is Cancer, and the signs must follow their zodiac order.
53. At the fountain, inspect and Examine the three statues bearing signs. They reveal Libra, Leo (called Lion in the game), and Gemini. The fourth statue has no useful sign.
54. Go to the well, inspect it, and Go down the drained shaft.
55. Approach the bronze door. Push Gemini → Cancer → Lion/Leo → Libra, then Push the central button. Open each symbol's popup and select Push; merely reading it does not enter it.
56. Follow the tunnel and the slope in the cave. Advance the ritual and sacrifice scenes until Louis wakes at home.

Checkpoint: the zodiac lock opens after those four signs and the central button. If you entered another sign, press the central button to clear the failed attempt, then retry.

5. Follow Anne's trail in Paris

Find her hidden message

1. Leave the bedroom and answer the hall telephone. Identify yourself as Louis and finish the police message asking you to come to The Love Woods.
2. Return to the bedroom, inspect the chair, and choose Wear it on the jeans. Louis takes his pills and changes clothes.
3. Leave through the front door to the glade. Examine the body, then Turn it to see the face.
4. Advance the funeral and gathering scenes. At the gathering, talk to Belleville and Félicienne, then talk to Jean when his second conversation becomes available.
5. After the flashbacks, examine and turn the body again. Choose No, it's not her, I'm sure of it for the clearest account of Louis's discovery. All three identification replies continue to the same next scene.
6. Back at home, go to the toilet and choose Fix on the flusher. Attempt to Open the water tank; Louis explains that he needs to turn off the water first.
7. In the kitchen, choose Turn valves off on the cupboard/plumbing beneath the sink.
8. Return to the toilet and Open the water tank. Take the Plastic bag of photographs.
9. Advance the three photographs. They point to Louis's mother's apartment in Paris; the journey there follows automatically.

Search your mother's apartment

10. Go into the bedroom and choose Sit on the bed. The grating sound enables Look under. Open that close-up and take the Key A.S. from the springs.
11. Open the armoire. Take the Coathanger; Louis also packs the clothes into Anne's Briefcase.
12. In the bathroom, choose Refresh yourself at the wash basin. It does not drain.
13. Use Coathanger on that Wash basin to retrieve the music-box key. You also keep a bent coathanger for later use.
14. In the foyer, inspect the music box and Use its Key on it. Take the Notebook from the opened box.
15. Read every available Notebook page in inventory: pages 2, 5, 7, 10, and 12. This supplies names and enables the corresponding telephone choices.
16. In the living room, Search the closet, then Take the bottle to get Trankill 6000.
17. Use the foyer telephone to Call Montfort. Gisèle hangs up, but Louis can now visit her. The apartment exit becomes usable once you also have the Key A.S. and Trankill 6000.

Get inside Gisèle's building

18. At Gisèle's building, inspect the intercom. Read the names beside the buttons.
19. Ring Gradoux twice. Her second response supplies information about Ramon and his other relationship.
20. Ring Josephine Petipas twice. The second call reveals that Ramon drinks with the doctor.
21. Ring Doctor Ali Kafour once, then again after hearing the neighbours' responses. Louis impersonates Ramon, and the doctor lets him in.
22. In the conversation with Gisèle, choose the forceful third reply demanding that she listen. Finish her account of Anne's childhood, accident, and visits to the EXIT club.

Arrange a visit to the EXIT

23. Outside the EXIT, talk politely to the streetsweeper: ask for information, then ask about the club's special features. You learn that entry requires a couple and suitable clothing.
24. At the hotel reception, question the clerk about illegitimate couples, the couple with a red-haired/brunette woman and a ponytailed man, and whether they have visited recently. When asked whether you are an investigator, say Yes, something like that. Finish the conversation identifying Saint Arman. It opens the visit to Félicienne upstairs.
25. In room 315, inspect the poster and read its handwritten clue. Its wording differs from the journal, so treat it as a story clue; the later keypad uses 2319.
26. Talk to Félicienne and invite her to dinner and a nightclub. When ready, choose OK, let's go.
27. At dinner, explain that the nightclub is the kind that requires a couple. She refuses. Finish that refusal so Spill becomes available on the appropriate glass.
28. Spill the glass. She leaves to clean her dress.
29. While she is away, Use Trankill 6000 on her Trankill 2000 medication on the table. This replaces her usual medication; the target is the medication, rather than her drink.
30. When she returns, ask whether she is still taking her medication, then suggest the nightclub again. She agrees.
31. Outside the EXIT, the bouncer refuses your current clothes. In inventory, choose the newly available Wear action on Briefcase to put on the club clothes.
32. Speak to the bouncer again. He admits you and Félicienne.

Meet Christine and leave the club

33. At the bar, talk to the man trying to attract Félicienne. Ask him to take your friend for a walk along the Seine. This occupies her.
34. Take the Towels/Napkins from the bar.
35. Visit the couches and talk to the man about dancing. Decline; he gives you his Glass of alcohol.
36. Combine Glass + Napkins to make alcohol-soaked napkins. You will need these to escape quietly.
37. Talk to the woman on the couches who knows Christine. Ask where Christine is; after moving around the club, ask again until she says Christine is near the restrooms.
38. Go to the restrooms and talk to Christine about Anne, then Saint Arman. Finish the scene announcing his arrival.
39. Louis retreats into the bathroom. Unscrew the wash-basin pipes, then Take the loose PVC pipe.
40. Approach the window. Use the alcohol-soaked Napkins on the window, then Use Pipe on the softened/covered window to break it quietly.
41. Try Go through on the broken window. Louis refuses to leave in club clothes. The intended next action is changing back using Briefcase, then choosing Go through again, but the recovered scripts contain the progression issue described below.

Source inconsistency at the club: the recovered briefcase script removes the briefcase from inventory when you first dress for the club. The window escape later expects that same item to change back, and its refusal enables the first Wear action rather than the second action that unlocks the escape. No intervening script restores the briefcase. This looks like a progression bug in the recovered data; this guide cannot guarantee that step 41 works on the port. Keep a save before entering the club. The remaining chapters describe the recovered route after the escape; this point requires a data/port fix if your build reproduces it.

Search Saint Arman's apartment

42. At Saint Arman's building, Open the door and enter the lift.
43. Inspect and Open the toolbox, then Take its contents: Screwdriver and Hammer.
44. Use Key A.S. on the lift's lock and Turn it. The key sticks in the lock, but you can enter the apartment.
45. In the entrance hall, inspect the statue and take its Lance/Spear.
46. In the kitchen, inspect and open the cupboard. Take the Flour.
47. In the bathroom, inspect the large mirror. Use Screwdriver on it. You obtain a Mirror and the Piece of paper bearing 2319.
48. In the lounge, inspect the window area and take the Musket. Inspect the wine glass on the table and note the fingerprints.
49. Open the corridor door and Use Flour on the Sides of the corridor. The flour exposes the laser beams.
50. Visit the bedroom from the corridor. Inspect the dressing table and take the Small mirror/Hand mirror.
51. In the bloodstained room across the corridor, inspect the table and take the Roll of tape. Watch the camcorder tape if you want the story evidence.
52. Combine Mirror + Hand mirror to get Mirrors.
53. Combine Lance + Roll of tape to get the wrapped Lance. The roll remains available.
54. Combine wrapped Lance + Mirrors to make the lance carrying two mirrors.
55. In the corridor showing the laser beams, Use the assembled Lance on the Sides. This bypasses the beams. Crawling or jumping is not a solution.
56. Approach the far door and Open it to enter the office.
57. Inspect the desk. Tear a blank page from the Notebook. Read the notebook to learn Belleville's address.
58. Inspect all four photographs on the desk. Each counts separately toward permission to leave through the secret passage. Do not skip a picture because you think you already understand it.
59. In inventory, Open Musket while you have the Blank page. Louis uses the page to hold the Gunpowder.
60. Return to the lounge's wine-glass close-up. Use Gunpowder on the glass to reveal its fingerprints.
61. Choose Cut on the Roll of tape, then Use Piece of tape on the powdered glass. This produces tape bearing Saint Arman's fingerprint. The powder operation also supplies paper you will need later.
62. Back in the office, inspect the bookcase's digital scanner. Use the fingerprint-bearing tape on the scanner. The bookcase opens a secret passage.
63. Go through the opened passage and Climb down the ladder. If Louis says he forgot something, return to the desk, Read the notebook and Inspect all four photographs.

Search Belleville's garage and collect the bank papers

64. Visit Belleville's house at the address found in the notebook. Break in at the garage door twice. The first attempt loosens it; the second opens it.
65. At the back of the garage, inspect the cupboard/bottle and take the Acid.
66. Inspect the Digicode and push 2 → 3 → 1 → 9, then the bottom-middle confirmation button. This is the button described as validating the combination, not the hash or star button.
67. The car trunk becomes available. Open it and Take the Painting and the Paper/notes.
68. Search Anne's shoes in the trunk. You find the Attorney paper, her bank authorisation.
69. Back in the garage, Use the bent Coathanger on the car door. Open the car.
70. Inside, Open the glove compartment and take the Note reporting on Anne.
71. Leave the garage area after collecting Attorney paper, Note Belleville, and the Note from the glove compartment. Those three items are the actual departure check.

The acid also opens the trunk if you use it on the trunk. The keypad route above uses the code and preserves that alternative.

Open Anne's bank box

72. Continue the argument with Félicienne at your mother's apartment and the phone conversation with Alex. Ask where he lives. You travel to his apartment.
73. Open Alex's door. In the apartment, inspect the floor and Open the cigarette pack to get a Lighter.
74. Inspect Alex's body and Search him to get a Key. Taking both items advances the story to the hotel and then the bank.
75. At the bank, approach the banker. In the authorisation conversation, choose the reply asking whether you must return with your lawyer. He leads you to the vault.
76. Use Alex's Key on the bank box Lock, then take the Bible from the opened box.
77. In inventory, Open the Bible. It contains an M-Oroid photo. Look at back on that photo to read the invitation, which takes you toward the EXIT.

Checkpoint: you have the bank Bible, Alex's lighter, the paper retained from the fingerprint work, and access to your mother's apartment.

6. Complete the ritual

1. At the EXIT, knock. Tell the bouncer you know Saint Arman and your name is Louis Everett. He admits you.
2. Talk to the cult member and ask to see Saint Arman. Follow the conversations down the stairs.
3. In the crowd, ask the cult member to lead you to Saint Arman, then Go closer to Saint Arman at the altar.
4. Ask Saint Arman all five main questions: Anne, Alex, the asylum ritual and Jean, Christine, and the tobacco. The game records each topic; the next scene waits until all five have been covered.
5. Continue through Belleville's arrival and the fire. Choose Flee when that action appears on the cultists.
6. In the burning altar scene, Talk to Saint Arman, then Take the Painting he tells you to use. You return to your mother's apartment.
7. Use Lighter on the room's Candles. This lights the room and changes the lighter's usable target to the braziers.
8. In the bathroom, examine the bank Bible under the ultraviolet light. Its covered writing becomes readable here. Finish reading the ritual instructions.
9. Inspect the plants in the bath and Pick some Tobacco. Lighting the living-room candles in step 7 enables picking; the Bible explains why you need it.
10. Combine Tobacco + Paper to make Incense. Use the paper from the earlier fingerprint work, not the keypad note.
11. In the living room, Use the Painting taken from Saint Arman's altar on the Spot where the painting belongs.
12. Use Incense on the Brazier, then Use Lighter on the Brazier to light it.
13. Advance the smoke, raid, and escape scenes. You arrive beside Astrid's boat.

Ritual checkpoint: the final ignition needs both the correctly placed painting and incense loaded into the braziers. The earlier painting taken from Belleville's trunk is a different inventory item and does not replace the altar painting for this check.

7. Solve the Isle of the Dead

Arrive and collect Alex's miniature

1. Talk to Astrid by the boat. Finish her request for proof that your eyes are open.
2. Use Denarius on Astrid. The coin is added automatically when you arrive on the shore. Board the boat.
3. Advance the journey's recap, then Astrid's farewell on the island.
4. Search the small boat and take the Boat hook. In inventory, choose separate to obtain Hook and Staff.
5. Go up the landing steps and follow the path to the Fountain. From here, the right-hand path leads toward the house, the left-hand path to the temple, and the mountain steps to the astrolab.
6. Climb the mountain steps to the Astrolab. Inspect the bowl containing a small statue and take the Alex statue. You can also reach it from the close-up by the central hole.
7. Return to the fountain and take the route past the house toward the bridge. Follow the path to the rock entrance named Tartar, open its door, and enter the Amphitheater.

Repair Alex's memory and restart the fountain

8. Examine Alex Statue in the amphitheater. Use the miniature Alex statue on the Pedestal beneath the full-size statue.
9. In the memory of the village square, greet Alex as someone you remember, then invite him for a drink. Finish the bar conversation. This returns you to the island and opens Alex's box.
10. Inspect the opened music box by Alex's statue and take the Spike Roll.
11. Examine the Empty Pedestal in the amphitheater. Use Spike Roll on its broken Music box. You hear water start moving.
12. Return to the Fountain, inspect its now drained basin, and take the Christine statue.
13. In the amphitheater, Examine Christine Statue and Use the miniature Christine statue on its Pedestal.
14. In the train memory, Talk to Christine. Accept her offer of help with the ticket. She pays the inspector, and you return to her now-open box.
15. Inspect Christine's opened music box and take the Babylon battery.

Power the device and solve the temple disks

16. Go to the house/villa off the fountain's right path. Enter and approach the Device.
17. Inspect its Power source and Use Babylon battery on the Empty hole. The two indicator symbols light up, and the temple's central buttons become functional.
18. Return to the fountain and take the left-hand path to the Temple. Inspect its entrance, Enter, and approach the central structure, called Heart.
19. Inspect the disk under Isis. Choose Touch on the symbol directly left of the centre, at about 9 o'clock. Leave the other five symbols untouched. Then Touch the central Button once.
20. Inspect the disk under Mnemosis. Choose Touch on the symbol at the upper right, at about 1–2 o'clock. Leave the other five symbols untouched. Then Touch the central Button once.
21. The female sarcophagus opens. Inspect it and Search inside to take the Jean statue.

Disk reset: if you touched an extra symbol, press that disk's central button once to submit, then a second time to reset it. Repeat the correct single-symbol selection. The required state is one correct symbol submitted on each disk. The missing battery must already have been installed.

Repair Jean's memory and open the second sarcophagus

22. At the amphitheater, Examine Jean Statue and Use the miniature Jean statue on its Pedestal.
23. In Jean's living-room memory, choose the reply saying your vision is blurry and asking Can I sleep here? Finish his answer. You return to the island.
24. Take the Dagger from Jean's opened music box.
25. Return to the temple's Heart room. Inspect the closed male sarcophagus and Use Dagger on it. The dagger breaks, but the sarcophagus opens.
26. Search inside and take the Doctor statue.
27. In the amphitheater, Examine Doctor Statue and Use the miniature Doctor statue on its Pedestal.
28. Complete the doctor's yes/no memory test. Either answer is accepted at each question in this version. Finish all six questions to return to his opened box.
29. Take the Rope from the doctor's music box.

Find Saint Arman's miniature and the stone

30. Combine Rope + Hook to make the Grapnel.
31. From the bridge, follow the route to the Mountain with the high stone table. Use Grapnel on the Table, then Climb the rope/slope.
32. Take the Oil Lamp from the table close-up.
33. Return to the landing beach. Inspect the moss-covered dog statue and Use Oil Lamp on the Moss. The moss burns away.
34. Inspect the cleared statue and Search the Hole. Take the St Arman statue.
35. In the amphitheater, Examine St Arman Statue and Use the miniature St Arman statue on its Pedestal.
36. In the memory of the EXIT fire, Talk to Saint Arman, then Take the Painting. This time Louis stays in the fire scene.
37. Use the Painting on the Flames. Advance the text about burning it, then return to Saint Arman's now-open island box.
38. Take the Stone, the talisman with a piece missing, from Saint Arman's music box.

Reach Anne and complete the talisman

39. Return to the Astrolab. Inspect the large Belleville statue and Use Stone on the Spot in his hand.
40. Approach the central Hole. An elevator is now accessible below its rim. Choose Jump to step into it and descend.
41. Follow the gallery to the Lava lake, then Climb toward the figures on the ridge.
42. Talk to Belleville and complete his replies, especially the final one about the absurdity of the situation. Return to the ridge.
43. Talk to Anne, hear her replies, and finish the conversation about proving she did not betray you. Once you have visited both conversations, the confrontation advances.
44. Advance the struggle and shooting. Talk to the wounded Anne and choose the reply offering to carry her to help. Promise to finish what she started.
45. After her final words, Inspect Anne, then Take the Pendant from her hand in the close-up.
46. Return through the gallery and elevator to the Astrolab.
47. Inspect Belleville's statue again. Use Pendant on the Stone/Talisman already in his hand.
48. Advance the lightning and memory scenes until Louis wakes beside the tubes.

Island reward checklist: Alex gives the Spike Roll; Christine the Babylon battery; Jean the Dagger; the Doctor the Rope; Saint Arman the Stone. Each box opens after placing its matching miniature and finishing that character's memory.

8. Reach the ending

1. In the tube room, Inspect the Screen by the door. This opens the controls close-up and records one discovery. Try Manipulate if you want its description; it is not the required extra puzzle.
2. Back in the room, Inspect the other Screen, the one displaying the landscape. This records the second discovery.
3. Go to Anne's tube, then Inspect Anne. This records the third discovery. Return to the main room if the rescue scene does not start immediately.
4. After those three discoveries, the door-opening/rescue sequence begins.
5. Keep advancing the text with the down arrow through the doctors' explanation and the final conversation. These are story scenes, not a new escape puzzle.
6. After Louis's final I HAVE TO WAKE UP!!!, the game runs its ending/credits event. You have finished Fade.

If you are stuck

Source notes

The walkthrough uses local recovered sources, with no external walkthrough used:

• Scene scripts and dialogue: 448 records; these control locations, actions, and progression.
• Inventory scripts: 145 records; these specify item combinations, valid targets, rewards, and hidden progress markers.
• Journal entries: player-facing objectives and clue summaries.
• Decompiled engine: ParseSceneScript at 0x1a638, ExecSceneScript at 0x1b954, Game_UseInventoryItem at 0x2579c, and Script_Run at 0x283b0 establish how those records execute. In particular, _If tests inventory membership, including hidden marker items.
• Android controls and verification limits.

The main checks are independently traced by tools/walkthrough_audit.py in the local source workspace. Run python3 tools/walkthrough_audit.py from the repository root to recheck the zodiac sequence, keypad, temple symbols, evidence gates, and ending trigger against the current recovered data. It checks script logic; it does not simulate taps or prove that the entire port campaign works.