Hiveswap – Gameplay Walkthrough (Act 1)

A guide for zipping through the game’s gameplay!

Harley Manor

You’re playing as Joey unless specified here.

Joey’s Room

• Grab the tap shoes next to you. 
• Walk left a bit, grab the keys from the lion plushie thing on the window seat. 
• Grab the talkie on the floor. 
• Walk left to the second portion of the room; open the closet. 
• Play Simon Says (Y, YR, YRG), get batteries. 
• Talk to Jude. 
• Write in diary (on the desk). 
• Leave for the hallway. 

Hallway

• Walk towards the bottom of the screen to the next map. 
• Open the closet. 
• Tap dance! Viola, flashlight. 
• Head back to the first map, then all the way back to the attic stairs (next map, right of the bedroom door in the archway if you’re confused). 
• Take the stairs to the (surprise! Not really) locked door. Whoops. 
• Head back and go downstairs to the living room (power should cut on the map prior). 

Living Room

• There’s literally nothing here for you. Walk through to the kitchen. (Back door, just keep walking ‘straight’.)

Kitchen

• Turn off the radio, get the batteries from the compartment on the top left (held shut by bandaids). 
• Power your flashlight. 
• Walk right, go to the basement (back door in the mini hallway). 

Basement

• Walk left, tap-dance the pile away. 
• Click the breaker, start it up. 
• Walk right and strife! (Tap-dance + Ballet away.) 

Trophy Room

• Walk through the Kitchen (left) and Living Room (first panel you arrive in, to the right) to get here. 
• STRIFE! (Dog treats x3) 
• Pull the deer’s antler. 

Treehouse | (Jude)

• Grab a green and red marble from the desk drawer, then grab the pouch. 
• Click the pigeons and send them away (all three of them). 

Kitchen

• Leave the Trophy Room and go back to the Kitchen. 
• STRIFE! (Tap-dance, Flashlight, Spices (sparkly thing behind you on your right; grab this first!).) 
• Cracker from the cabinet on the left; feed the birb. 
• Take birb and marbles back to the Trophy Room. 

Trophy Room

• Take the birb/marbles and put them on the tiger’s eyes on the right. 
• Spin the globe. Viola, key. 
• Head back towards the attic. 

Living Room

• Joey: Get decked (just click the monsters on the right). Swap to Jude (top right icons if you have your panel open). 
• Jude: Get flare gun from the box on the right and flares from the metal box on the left under the desk; load the gun and shoot a flare into the busted open wall from the window. 
• Swap back to Joey, use the flashlight, then swap back to Jude. 
• Rinse and repeat twice more. 

Hallway

• BOOK IT FOR THE ATTIC. 
• A/N: You can Game Over here by swapping to Jude. ;D 

Attic

• Beeline for that portal bois (walk right, then straight back). 
• Pull off the tarp, then move off to the side. 
• Use the Very Obvious Key on the portal door.

Alternia

Any chats noted with (auto) happen automatically.

Dammek’s Basement

• Pick up the tablet on the floor and talk to Xefros (auto; I like Xerox better pfffft <3). 
• Grab the piece of paper on the ground towards the cube of icky purple junk. 
• Talk to Xefros again; walk over to the control panel by the forklift and play the (stupid) snake game on the tablet. 
• The doors should unlock and Joey’ll run into the next room after seeing [Deercat]. Talk to Xefros once more (auto). 
• Click the big ol’ screen and talk to Xefros /again/. 

Xefros’ Balcony | (Xefros from here on for now.)

• Click the box, get the FLARP Manual, head inside. 

Xefros’ Bedroom

• Use your telekinesis (top, middle purple hand icon) on the spoon pile. [Spoon!] 
• Walk right to the tablet on the desk and talk to Joey (auto). 
• Leave the room; walk through the hallway to the door on the right to enter the Game Room. 

Game Room

• Get the bat from the wall with the spoon; head back out into the hallway. 

Hallway / Living Room

• Walk right and go downstairs. Whoo. 
• From the Living Room, walk left into the Kitchen. 

Kitchen

• Grab the book from the table and a drink from the fridge. 
• Head back upstairs to the game room. 

Game Room

• Play the little door game. (YOU CAN’T TELL ME THAT ISN’T ERIDAN ON THE CAN.) 
• Get the Lusus snacks and go back to the kitchen. 

Kitchen

• Feed the lusus after naming it and get the hell out of dodge. 

Backyard (?)

• Grab the software. 
• Get beaned by rubble via missile. 

Dammek’s Basement (Joey until End)

• Crawl on the pile of junk after talking to Xefros (auto) to get to Dammek’s… Uh. We’ll call this the Safe Room??

Safe Room

• Walk to the left and grab the giant book towards the bottom of the screen. 
• Use the newly obtained green cube on the door panel. 
• Congratulations, you triggered the security. Whoops. 

Computer Room

• Click the panel on the wall to trigger the next snake game; talk to Xefros after failing (auto). 
• Walk to the left to the next ‘map’, then to the right to the computer. Have Joey note the little paper on there with the scribbles. 
• Head back to the panel and beat the stupid snake game. 
• Hi [Deercat]! Time to book it to the kitchen! 

Kitchen

• Talk to Xefros (auto). 
• Click the cabinet for a bowl and the fridge for the milk (lower left of the door). 
• Combine the two then click the door with the bowl of milk. This’ll feed [Deercat]. 
• Head upstairs into the… We’ll call this an Attic too. 

Attic

• Grab the hoverpad and talk to Xefros (auto). 
• Grab the vet bag from the couch in the back off to the left. 
• Walk further left and remove the junk with the hoverpad, then talk to Xefros yet again (auto). 
• Walk downstairs into the Safe Room and head back into the Computer Room. 

Computer Room

• Walk left to the next panel; the one with the [Deercat]. 
• Use the book you got from the Safe Room on the [Deercat] to learn about it. 
• It’s actually a Cuspidated Grimalkin but we’re going to keep calling it a [Deercat] too. 
• Use the vet bag on the [Deercat]. 
• Ride the [Deercat]. Talk to Xefros (auto). 

Xefros’ Backyard

• Talk to Xefros (auto). 
• Use hoverpad on debris to free Xefros.