Reanimal Walkthrough: How to beat the horror adventure

The Reanimal developer is Tarsier Studios, the team behind the first two Little Nightmares games. Since the game shares the same DNA with Little Nightmares, albeit with more horror elements, you will want to know the Reanimal puzzle solutions, how to survive the enemies you encounter, and progress through each of the nine chapters.

Below is Adventure Gamers’ Reanimal full game walkthrough, guiding you through each puzzle and every twist and turn the frights have to throw at you.

• Chapter 1: Dead in the Water 
• Chapter 2: The Cleaning House 
• Chapter 3: After the Flood
• Chapter 4: No Shelter 
• Chapter 5: Down in a Hole 
• Chapter 6: Nobody Left Behind 
• Chapter 7: The Spoils 
• Chapter 8: The Watcher
• Chapter 9: All-Consuming Past 

Controls on an Xbox controller:

Chapter 1: Dead in the Water

The Reanimal walkthrough starts with the playable character (the brother) in a boat. Hold RT to drive the boat towards the light-up buoys. 

A cutscene plays, dragging the second playable character (his sister) out of the water. When the cutscene ends, continue driving the boat towards the red flashing buoy in the distance and continue on the path onwards.

Continue along the path, and you will come across mines in the water. Make sure to drive the boat around the mines, or you’ll be blown to pieces. 

After the mines, drive towards the right, and continue onward until you reach the shore. You will automatically disembark the boat once you drive onto land.

Open the briefcases on the land by interacting with them until you find a key. Use the key to open the right door.

After entering the door, climb down the ladder and into the hole in the wall. Upon exiting, pull the lever right in front of you to stop the fan. Run through the fan, and when you get to the other side, there’s another level to pull that will stop the fan again, so your companion can join you on the other side.

Open the hatch, and the characters will jump down. Hit RB to turn on your light source. Hold LT to crouch under the gap. Continue onward and climb the ladder at the end to exit the underground.

Go forward and turn left at the shutter. Interact with the wall to give your companion a leg-up. Interact again for your companion to pull you up. 

Go across the platform and up the ladder. Walk forward to the character behind the rails, and a short cutscene will play, showing the first character you will rescue, who appeared in the Reanimal demo gameplay.

Advance up the stairs that are on the right side of the screen, follow the path forward, and enter the door on the left. Interact with the lever at the top of the room.

Exit the room through the door and go down towards the ladder. Climb down the ladder, then follow the pipe right, then forward. Interact with the wall, using the gap in the rails above to give your sister a leg-up. Interact again to help her help you up.

Pull the lever next to the spinning barrel. Let go, and it will spin again, prompting you to use LB to call on your companion for help. While the sister holds the lever, jump onto the now stationary barrel. Go up, climb up, and then make your way up the short ladder.

Follow the platform to the right, and then down the stairs, and at the end, you will see an upright piece of metal. Interact with that piece of metal to push it down, so your companion can join you on the other side. You have now completed the first of many Reanimal walkthrough puzzles.

Go back up the stairs and enter the door you passed on the way. There are lockers to interact with if you wish, but entering the door at the top of the room progresses the game.

Follow the path, jump over two gaps, and interact with the ladder to climb down a level. Interact with the grate on the left wall to enter.

Go onward through the two gaps to begin chasing the character you briefly spoke to earlier, and you end up outside. Climb the ladder on the left of your screen. Go through the entrance where you see a monster walk through. 

You will see a cart. Next to the cart is a wheel. Interact with the wheel to pick it up, and interact with the top right side of the cart to place the missing wheel. To progress the Reanimal walkthrough, you must acquire a second wheel.

Enter the door on the right that has the light above it turned on, and there’s a gap to squeeze through next to the locked door in the bathroom.

Collect the plunger from the dead monster at the end of the room and use it on the fourth toilet from the left.

Pick up the key that drops, then go back outside to where the cart is, through the gap in the bathroom wall, and out the door. Use your newly acquired key on the door to the left of the cart.

Go down the stairs, jump over the gap, and up through the open door at the top of the room. Follow the path and pick up the wheel at the end. Then, run out of the room and back outside through the same door you came in as fast as you can, avoiding enemies along the way.

Attach the wheel to the bottom left of the cart. Summon the sister to control one side of the cart while you control the other. We are almost at the end of the Reanimal walkthrough for Chapter 1.

Move down the track until you hit a dead end. Jump into the abandoned vehicle on the right. When you get outside, climb up the ladder on the next abandoned vehicle to the very right and go down the hatch.

Keep going forward, and when you spot the monster outside the window, crouch under one of the seats before it gets inside to hide. Stay there until it leaves, then follow it outside.

Use LT to crouch behind the path of stacked briefcases, then proceed left to the briefcases on the ground that let you climb into the window of the next abandoned vehicle unseen.

Proceed up through the carriage and pull the lever at the end. Run back through the carriage and out of the door to your left. Go up the ladder straight ahead and continue running. This is where the Reanimal demo gameplay ended.

The third character you were following all along will then join you on your travels, which continue by jumping down from a height and then turning right.

Jump across the gap and continue onward, avoiding enemies and further gaps along the way. When you reach the end of the area, jump over the fence.

From here, go down and pick up the saw in the tree stump. Go back up, running past the fence you just climbed over, to saw the tree, pulling the tool back and forth with your companion.

Walk over the fallen tree. Go forward, then take the path left and climb over another fence. You will see an ice cream truck.

The ice cream truck will begin chasing you. Run down and follow the path to jump to safety. Your third companion is kidnapped by the monster inside the ice cream truck.

Proceed down, turn left, and you will find a car that’s too heavy to push. Pull open the driver’s side door to get the car going. Follow the car, and the next part of the Reanimal walkthrough begins.

Chapter 2: The Cleaning House

Advance onward through the town. The ground will collapse in front of you. Close the boot of the abandoned car to the left of the sinkhole, and climb on top of the car to go through the broken building and jump out at the other side of the sinkhole.

Another sinkhole will appear, so you must interact with the shutter on the left to partially open it and crawl under.

Push down a mannequin, pick up its head, and use X to throw the head through the window to smash the glass and climb out.

Enter the ice cream truck to drive it forward and out of the way, then go right of the cinema through an open building and through the hole.

Go forward and jump onto the bin, over the fence, and pick up the pliers. Use the pliers to exit and then go back through the broken building and enter the cinema. Use the pliers on the cinema door, which is locked with a chain.

Sneak through a row of dead moviegoers, and the monster will walk through and open the next door. Follow him through there, and enter the next door ahead.

Back outside, go through the gap beside the next door. Go through the next door that’s in that room, and you’ll be back outside again.

Walk around the sinkhole, and there’s a bin overflowing with bodies next to the stairs. Pull that bin to the right and enter the gap in the wall.

Proceed left and make sure to sneak to avoid detection from the monster. You can climb into an empty washing machine in this part of the Reanimal walkthrough to hide if needed.

Go through the grate on the wall to the left of the shutter. The monster will follow you inside, so hide behind the baths until he leaves for the next room. Wait for him to exit that room, and then you can enter. 

Towards the bottom left, there’s a gap in the fencing. Enter and pull the crowbar from the body. Use that crowbar to get the metal door open by the entrance of the room to free the character that was kidnapped during the ice cream truck segment of the Reanimal game.

Go back through the room with the baths, back through the room with the washing machines, and back outside.

Sneak behind the bin as it’s pushed by the monster. When the monster turns around, sneak behind the shopping cart and to the next bin.

Make your way left and enter the original door you came through to get outside, which is next to the sinkhole and has a bell above it. The bell above the door will alert the monster when you open it.

Reanimal walkthrough tips and strategies for survival: here is to crawl under the row of tables, and stay on the move to avoid the tables the monster is about to check under. When the monster leaves, use the crowbar to break the double doors open and exit.

Go back through the door on the right to enter the cinema again. Go back through the screening room and pull the wooden planks off the door with the crowbar and enter.

Advance through the door at the top of the corridor, and you’re back at the cinema entrance. When you’re outside the cinema, go back through the building right across from the entrance of the cinema and through the hole in the wall, where you went to get the pliers. Only this time, break off the wooden planks on the gate to the left using the crowbar.

Jump across the gap. Grab the gas can from the dead body and fill it with gas. Enemies will then begin chasing you, so run down and through the cars.

Run to the right and climb onto the car next to the fence to jump over it. You will be back at the cinema’s entrance. Run down to the ice cream truck you moved earlier and fill it with your newly-acquired gas.

Hop in the driver’s seat and drive through the gates ahead. Continue along the road ahead. For the first time in the Reanimal walkthrough, you’ll have to engage in combat. When the monster tries to infiltrate the ice cream truck through the service window, crouch behind cover and time attacks to hit it with your crowbar.

Chapter 3: After the Flood

Sure enough, you’re back on the beach with the briefcases, the same location from Chapter 1 of the Reanimal walkthrough. But, you now have a crowbar to pry open the fence door on the right, below the original door you entered at the beginning. 

Follow the path, climb up the ladder, and enter the door. Enter another room to the left and pick up the wheel. 

Go back outside and place the wheel right of the building you just exited. Interact with the wheel to open the gate, but turn the wheel only partially so you can make a gap to jump across to the other side.

Pull the lever on the other side, jump back over the gaps you created, and use the wheel again to fully open the gate.

Climb back down the ladder and make your way back to the shore. Push the boat in the water and use it to drive through the gates you just opened up.

Drive forward past the two cars, and there are more mines to avoid ahead. Keep going and drive your boat through the building you will come across.

After you crash through the doors ahead, turn left and then turn the next right using LT to drive faster to avoid enemies.

When you get outside, turn the first left, turn right, and then right again past the body and through the tunnel. The tunnel behind you will be blocked off, and there’s a surface up ahead to disembark from your boat.

From this point onwards in the Reanimal walkthrough, you will get access to harpoons. Climb up and give the sister a leg up to the roof, then interact again to join her. In the room on the left, pick up the harpoon ammo from the dead body, go back to the boat, and interact with the boat to throw the ammo inside. 

Push the boat back on the water. Throw the harpoon ammo at the mine using X to blow it up and clear the way forward.

Harpoon the first enemy, turn right, and there will be more enemies to harpoon. Throw a harpoon at the mine in front of the hotel to open the way forward. Keep following the path onward, harpooning enemies along the way.

Drive through the brown double doors and follow the flashing lights of the buoys until you get to the shore.

Go right, and after fighting some seagulls, take the ladders up. Go ahead through the flower fields.

Advance through the gap in the fence that’s attached to the barn. You will find a locked door. Leave that area to give enough time for seagulls to land on the barrel in front of the barn and knock it over to reveal the key inside. 

Fight off the seagulls, pick up the key, and go back through the gap in the fence and unlock the door.

Nudge the pig blocking your way and make your way through the group. 

Leave through the first door on your left and continue left until you reach the lighthouse. Once you’re in the lighthouse, climb the stairs, and interact with the cage to free the character inside.

Then, get ready to be chased out.

Re-enter the barn, and follow the scrambling pigs out. Run forward from the burning barn and sit at the bus stop. A short cutscene will play before moving to the next chapter of our Reanimal full game walkthrough.

Chapter 4: No Shelter

Travel on the bus that arrives. Peep through the door of the building you’re dropped off at. Then, climb up the ladder on the right that’s attached to the building.

Follow the path across the roof until you get to the clock. Pull the clock hands all the way, and you will hear a chime. Give the sister a leg up and interact again to climb through the broken glass on the right side of the face of the clock.

Drop down onto the bed, continue right, and break the statue that’s sitting in front of a wardrobe with your crowbar. Pry the wardrobe door open with the crowbar and enter. 

This part of the game doesn’t require a whole lot of Reanimal puzzle solutions, but the focus is on combat instead.

Push the box covering the hatch. Open and enter the hatch. With your crowbar, break the way ahead and fight the enemies.

Go through the grate on the left wall. Fight the enemies inside the next room. Once they’re all cleared, go up the stairs, destroy the statue in your way, and continue ahead. Go through the door, jump over the gap, and go down towards the next door and enter.

Continue onward until you see a lever on the wall on the right. Interact with it to turn the lights on. 

Proceed through the first door on the left, directly opposite the lever. Fight the enemies inside, who will open up the way as you eliminate them.

After exiting the door, go through the next door on the left. Go up, crouch under the desk, and use your crowbar on the door with the wooden planks to free them.

Drop down on the cloth and jump across the plank. Push the bookcase so the sister can follow. Enter the door.

Turn the wheel on the stage to pull the rope up and interact with what’s at the end of the rope to try to reach it. A cutscene will play, leading to the next part of the Reanimal full game walkthrough.

Chapter 5: Down in a Hole

Press X to free yourself and continue forward. From here, you and your sister are attached.

Interact with the street light to turn the lights on, and keep doing so as they dim to prevent them from going out.

The ground will break in front of you. You must navigate the broken path. Your player character should take the route on the left, and wait for the sister to go right and make the jump, simply taking the AI’s lead if you’re completing the Reanimal walkthrough puzzles solo.

Proceed forward. Wait for a third character to push down the plank and walk over it. Follow the pig left, then turn right once it has gone through a hole, and exit through the gap in the wall.

A chase scene featuring the next monster in the Reanimal walkthrough will take you right and up some stairs. At the end, you will be free from the rope that attached the two characters together. 

Continue right, over the plank, and out of the door. Go up the stairs, give and receive a leg-up at the wardrobe that blocks the rest of the staircase, and continue up and through the door.

When outside, jump over the gap, walk down the pipe, and jump over to the next part of the roof. At the window, use your crowbar to breach and enter.

Pick up the key on the floor on your way to a locked hatch. The key is on the ground in front of the seat on the right, and unlock the hatch.

Free the sister by interacting with her and sneaking behind the boxes to the left to stay undetected by the monster.

Continue left across the roof, and push down the pipe to open the way forward. The chase sequence will carry on.

Pick up the harpoons thrown at you by smaller enemies and use them to throw at the monster, all while dodging his sweep attacks. Luckily, it only takes a few hits for the monster to scarper. 

Follow the monster through the hole it left. You will find it lying on the ground. From here, enter its mouth to save your friend who was captured by the monster earlier on in the Reanimal walkthrough.

Continue pushing your left joystick forward until you’re spat out again.

After, you will burst out of the building you were in, and two of your friends have been saved and are in the back of a truck. Interact with them to climb into the truck.

Chapter 6: Nobody Left Behind

The truck you are in crashes. Exit the truck by going down, and then enter the hole to the right.

Continue through the door and the next door. Turn on the generator by interacting with it. Go back to the previous room that your friends are in and pick up the binoculars from the table.

Look out into the distance at a wooden box that shows the combination the lights on the device next to the window that need to be put in. The Reanimal puzzle solutions relating to the lights are a different combination in every playthrough. 

Use the buttons to change the position of the lights on the display to match what you’ve seen on the boxes outside. Once the order is correct, pull the lever.

You will see a package fly in from outside the window. Exit through the newly opened door on the left.

Climb down the ladder and back down onto the shore. Fight off the seagulls that have infiltrated your boat, which is now floating on the water. Then, fully push the boat back in the water to hop inside.

Turn around and drive to the red shining light on the island, which is where the package dropped after you completed the Reanimal lights puzzle.

Pick up a bullet from the package that dropped on the island and enter the dome through the right side. This is where you will complete the Reanimal cannon puzzle.

The Reanimal puzzle solution to get the cannon working is to first press the button on the wall where you entered the dome to open the window. Use the large wheel to move the cannon to the left and aim it at the monster.

Use the small wheel on the cannon to hold it open. Summon the sister, and she will load the ammo you collected from the package into the cannon. Use the lever next to the cannon to launch the attack.

Go towards where you shot the monster and through the large gates ahead. Blow up a mine to clear the way using your harpoon, go towards the red light, and disembark your boat by driving it onto the surface next to the buoy.

Proceed left, fight the seagulls, and give the sister a leg up at the wall. Interact again to join her. Continue left and climb up the chain to enter the shipwreck.

Continue down, then jump onto the shipping container and onto the ground.

Continue ahead, across the beam, and give the sister a leg-up at the first left. Interact again to join her. Use the wheel to open the metal doors and go through them.

Give the sister a leg-up to the left and join her to avoid the creature right ahead. Proceed on that path and interact with the diving equipment at the end to change into it.

Pull the lever beside where you changed and enter the cage. At this point in the Reanimal walkthrough, you will be taken underwater.

Continue right, past the mines, and pry open the door ahead with your crowbar. Keep going forward and jump over any barriers and platforms along the way.

When you reach the head, approach it, use the crowbar on its eye, and pull it out.

Run back to the cage you descended in with the eye and back through the metal doors you opened previously to complete the chase sequence.

Approach the creature and place the eye in its eye socket. A cutscene will play.

After automatically changing out of your scuba equipment, go up the ramp to the right and go through the gap to get back to your boat.

Enter your boat and continue hugging the left, through the area the creature crashed through after you gave it an eye.

Follow the red lights and be prepared to harpoon some enemies and mines ahead.

Simply keep going forward, between the two large buildings, and through the tunnel, until you can disembark the boat again.

Continue up the stairs and interact with the sister to help her, and a short cutscene will play. Go through the door. 

Follow the creature and your friends out of the building to begin the next part of the Reanimal walkthrough.

Chapter 7: The Spoils

Continue onward and leave through the trenches.

Climb up the ladder and crouch behind cover to avoid gunfire. Proceed to follow the cover to the right while the gun is being reloaded. Jump down into the next trench.

Run down to complete the chase sequence and take the door to the right.

Climb down the ladder. Call the elevator and press the button inside to activate it. Use the crowbar to pry the elevator door open when prompted.

Continue onward and enter the first room to the right. Give the sister a leg up at the green locker so she can grab the pliers on top. Pick up the pliers.

Use the pliers on the chain on the door that’s below the room you were just in, but on the left side of the corridor.

Avoid the explosions from enemies inside. After the explosion, exit through the gap and continue forward.

At the end of the corridor, enter the door on the left. After the cutscene, follow the monster out, and this concludes Chapter 7 of the Reanimal walkthrough.

Chapter 8: The Watcher

Continue straight and enter the building with its entrance between two trees.

Go up the stairs, enter the room to the left, go up the stairs, and continue right, sprinting and jumping up the stairs to avoid gunfire.

Help the sister up the ledge and go through the door. 

Advance by going through the first door you see, hop in the bath, and out of the window. Go across the plank to the next building and jump in the window.

Go down the stairs and out the door. Jump over the washing machines to the right to go back outside.

Proceed to the body lying over the barbed wire. Jump over the body, onto the wooden box, and drop down to the other side. Go down to avoid an explosion, and continue right and go through the door.

Continue past the hanging bodies and pick up the gun. Shoot the body that’s holding the key using X and pick up the key when it drops. Continue through the door on the right.

Climb on the car bonnet and continue through the gap in the wall on the right.

Sneak past the monster, and when it turns away, push the shopping cart to the right, against the wall. Give the sister a leg-up and interact again to join her on the other side.

Enter the door on the right, and then the next door on the right. Go right to use the cover to avoid bullets (with even more gunfire to come in what’s left of the Reanimal full game walkthrough) and then proceed down, continuing to use cover. 

Enter through the open door on the right. Continue right, still using cover to avoid gunfire, and go through the already opened door.

Jump over the first car and proceed forward. Carefully make your way to the car with the lights on, which is to the right. Interact with the back of it to push it forward until it reaches its limit. Then pull the next car backward to clear the path and keep pushing the first car forward. Continue to follow the car closely.

Go left, enter the yellow bus, then continue left and stay behind cover.

Pick up the cannon on the floor and aim it at the hole in the clock tower, which is where you are being sniped from. Shoot the cannon to take out the sniper.

Continue forward, past the clock tower and through the battlefield.

After the red light stops glowing around you, there’s a tank up ahead. Use the cover to advance toward the tank, moving left as you go and through the crack in the wall.

Continue onward using the cover. Pick up an explosive from the ground and throw it at the tank to destroy its operator.

Chapter 9: All-Consuming Past

For the first time in the Reanimal walkthrough, you get to deal some serious damage. Interact with the front of the tank (from the direction the cannon is facing) to climb inside. Continue onward by driving the tank, shooting enemies, and blowing the way open with X.

When reaching the hole in the ground, shoot the broken wall to the left and continue through it.

Advance onward. When you reach the open door, shoot it to clear the path forward.

Drive up the stairs and continue blowing up the way forward.

When the monster begins chasing you, drive the tank down while continuously shooting at it. When the monster grabs your tank, move the cannon to point it at the monster and keep shooting at it until it lets go of the tank.

After exiting the tank, you will be put in control of the sister if you are completing the Reanimal walkthrough solo. Begin running left and follow the path around as it breaks and forms in front of you.

A cutscene will play. As the sister, press LB to call and continue walking forward as you do so to light up the way.

Follow your friends into the wooden building and interact with the dead animal on the ground.

After being switched back to the brother, drag the sister’s body to the well that’s ahead.

A cutscene plays, and the game ends. That concludes our Reanimal walkthrough, explained step by step.