HR: Human Remains walkthrough
Group the route into opening offices, the Archives, the post-office story scene, city detours, factory/basement tasks and the ritual. Collect the archive phone and Q/R figurine before leaving their area; inspect the box after Chihu’s release.
Use this route index to find the next task or a missed side stop. HR: Human Remains has three chapters; the developer described Chapter 2 as the largest and Chapter 3 as the shortest. Below, early demo interactions stay separate from the full-game Archives, city, factory and ritual tasks.
Opening offices and Silk's Lair
Take the assigned work, read nearby notes and learn where objects return when dismissed. In the opening demo, right-click sends a held item back to its pickup point. If a screwdriver disappears, check there before restarting the task.
The early route includes the key and med kit, disc drive and a screwdriver gate. Adjust brightness until locks, shelves and interactables can be seen; the beginner guide explains the original demo's darkness reports.
For Ninja, cross Silk's Lair with no more than two web contacts. Patch 1.1 corrects its achievement trigger. The opening industrial corridor also contains the first figurine in a worker's locker; check the collectible route before leaving it behind.
The Archives: task first, optional stops before departure
The Archives combine a patrol with file retrieval. Shadow asks for a crossing without alerting the Archivator. The community achievement route advises completing the heartbeat sequence without a failure if the patrol sees you; a calm route that avoids the patrol is the safer plan for a clean attempt.
Two optional stops are easy to separate from the file task:
- The small room beside rows Q/R holds a figurine.
- Section H's balcony holds the usable phone. The developer describes pushing a cart into place and jumping through a third-floor opening to reach it.
The community route also describes a request from someone speaking through a vent, leading through a file-and-post-office favor to a hacking tool. Treat that favor and a demonic-upgrade choice as different route preparations. Details and conditions belong on the choices page.
After the post-office sequence
When you wake and speak with Laila, inspect the large room before moving on. The community figurine checklist places Demi on a blue container there, reached by climbing. This is a pickup stop, not a reason to search every earlier server rack.
Bring the archive phone back to the shelter for Connected!. The developer later cancelled the old secret numbers, so use the number shown by a relevant character or shop rather than repeating an obsolete launch-week list.
City detours and the construction area
The community achievement route describes the doctor's experiment, the bartender's cat, an arcade challenge and buying a plushie as city side activities. For the doctor route, inspect the open cell and cardboard box in the room where you wake; another figurine is there.
In the construction area, inspect the portable toilets for a figurine. The cat is a separate rooftop destination. The secret-route page gives the reported platform chain through the container, construction floor, excavator, arches and sanitation truck.
Access to this area has reported hacking-tool and demonic-upgrade alternatives. Do not restart a run solely because you followed a guide claiming only one of those is allowed.
Factory and basement blockers
For the bait machine, compare the weight after grinding: the developer's edited answer gives 648 for the processed two-light/one-heavy reference. The raw total of 720 is not the target after processing.
For LiDAR, trace the wiring branches to electrical panels, approach until the panel lights, then operate the switch. Multiple wiring sections need exploration. Patch 1.5 fixes the basement entity being absent from the scanner. The puzzle solutions explain both tasks step by step.
Ritual and server-room completion
True Guardian asks you to finish the ritual without losing a building. The community achievement route recommends dealing promptly with attacking demons and repairing buildings. Keep a defence objective separate from simply surviving the sequence.
For Liberation, the community route describes returning to Chihu's server-room conversations until the release request. After freeing Chihu, the developer says a box falls and opens with the last figurine inside. Check it before leaving the room; the story interaction and the collectible are two separate actions.
Use the achievement checklist for the individual unlock tasks, and the choice guide before comparing a hacking-tool run with a demonic-upgrade run.
Sources
- Developer answers and the community achievement route, October 1–15, 2026.
- Developer's LiDAR directions, October 11.
- Developer's bait-weight explanation, October 18–19.
- Developer on upgrade choices, October 4.
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BasicsHR: Human Remains beginner guide
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100%HR: Human Remains achievements
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