Amanda the Adventurer 3 draws players into a tense psychological horror layered with mystery and puzzles. Navigating its VHS tapes and cryptic clues is essential to uncovering its full story and unlocking elusive achievements. Players must carefully track codes, solve interactive challenges, and connect puzzle pieces scattered across eerie locations to progress without dead ends or forced restarts.
Amanda the Adventurer 3 Walkthrough Guide
Carving its niche in psychological horror, Amanda the Adventurer 3 weaves story and gameplay through interactive VHS segments. This walkthrough explores every chapter and tape-based puzzle, highlighting crucial code inputs, dialogue choices, and detailed achievement conditions necessary to fully master the game.
The achievements in Amanda the Adventurer 3 break down into Progression-based, Missable, and Hidden categories. Many achievements require a continuous playthrough because some flags only reset when starting a New Game. Using Chapter Select doesn’t reset these flags, so missing conditions often causes players to miss certain achievements unless they restart fully.
Main Story and Progression
| Achievement | Description | How to Unlock |
|---|---|---|
| Popsci-Clown | Unlock the fridge after the Candy Shop tape using Blabbo’s code. | Enter the sequence 9036 after completing Candy Shop’s puzzles. |
| Tying Loose Ends | Complete the Amusement Park tape and play it at the Control Room. | Arrange Amanda’s preferred storyboard sequence and connect with red string on an evidence board, then play the resulting tape. |
| A Balanced Diet | Finish the Healthy Food Helps Us Grow tape. | Pause on specific frames to mix the correct smoothies and feed toy rats properly. |
| A Foggy Memory | Bring the A Day at the Beach tape to the Control Room. | Collect a smoothie, sunglasses, and crab, then play the completed tape to receive rewards. |
| A Close One… At a Cost? | Complete the Scavenger Hunt tape in the Pod Room. | Follow Chicken Scratch’s clues to solve lever puzzles in the correct order. |
| 7 Years of Bad Luck | Finish the When I Grow Up tape. | Solve the career-based puzzle to unlock a new game area. |
| Tea Party! | Complete the Let’s Have a Party tape sequence. | Solve the tea party puzzle to proceed further into the story. |
| CUT! | Finish the game having found every secret and lore tape. | Collect all four secret tapes during a single play. |
| End of an Adventure | Complete the main story without collecting all secret tapes. | Finish the game with fewer than four hidden tapes found. |
Optional and Missable Achievements
| Achievement | Description | How to Unlock |
|---|---|---|
| Don’t Sweat It | Complete the game without dialing 91111 on Blabbo the Clown. | Avoid calling this number during any part of the game, or restart with New Game if triggered by mistake. |
| Receptionist | Listen to every recorded audio log accessible through Blabbo. | Enter various codes in Blabbo to unlock logs. The initial one is linked to the Phone Tap achievement. |
| Dead Weight | Blend the goldfish from the kitchen aquarium. | Pickup the goldfish, place it into the blender, and blend to unlock. |
| Monster Mash | Fail both the Pod Room’s Scavenger Hunt and Basement’s Tea Party puzzles. | Pull incorrect levers three times each in both puzzle sequences. |
| Last Meal | Feed each pod with the correct food item according to its numbered list. | Use clues on the hallway bulletin board and fridge contents to match items correctly. |
Hidden Achievements
| Achievement | Description | How to Unlock |
|---|---|---|
| Phone Tap | Obtain the Red Tape by decoding Blabbo’s hidden messages. | Input code 75820 into Blabbo, listen to the audio log for code 4307, and use it to unlock the conference room box. |
| M-A-R-C-U-S | Discover a concealed employee ID badge in the Chapel. | Use the badge holder’s name during the When I Grow Up tape’s dialogue prompt. |
| Optometrist | Solve the Chapel’s candle and statue puzzle correctly. | Place candles correctly on statues after completing the When I Grow Up tape. |
| Last Meal | Complete the pod food-matching task that yields a special note afterward. | Feed pods correctly in the Pod Room following clues from bulletin boards. |
Puzzles Walkthrough
- Pick up the Access Card sitting on the conference table.
- Use this card to open the locked door and proceed.
- Start the Scavenger Hunt tape:
- Identify all items Amanda names by matching pod symbols around the room.
- Pull levers in exact order: Door, then Sock, followed by Dog, and finally Power Pole.
Chapter 1: The Office
Candy Shop Tape
- Insert the Candy Shop tape into the conference room TV.
- Pause playback at every candy name mentioned, then correlate clues with cubicle screens.
- Input code 86309 into Blabbo corresponding to the sequence: JUNE B., LOUIS V., CARA M., BARRY S., CATHY T.
- Blabbo responds with fridge code 9036 (CATHY T., BARRY S., CARA M., LOUIS V.)
- Unlock the fridge door using the fridge code to complete the Popsci-Clown achievement.
Amusement Park Tape
- Pause the tape at prompts where you need to respond as a player.
- At the conference table, arrange storyboards reflecting Amanda’s preferred sequence.
- Connect these storyboards with red string on the cork bulletin board.
- The correct order is Carousel, Milk Bottles, then Rollercoaster.
- Insert the completed tape into the Control Room terminal to unlock the Tying Loose Ends achievement.
- After viewing, a new tape titled Healthy Food Helps Us Grow appears, along with a new code on screen.
Phone Tap (Red Tape)
- Enter 75820 into Blabbo.
- Listen carefully to the audio log revealing the code 4307.
- Use code 4307 to open the locked box beside the television and claim the Red Tape, unlocking Phone Tap and progressing the Receptionist achievement.
Chapter 2: Healthy Food Helps Us Grow
- Before playing the tape, grab the goldfish from the kitchen aquarium and blend it to unlock Dead Weight.
- Pause the tape whenever the food poster appears in the background.
- Use the poster combos to feed the toy rats correctly:
- First: Burger, Milk, Salad
- Second: Burger, Milk, Cake
- Third: Burger, Milkshake, Cake
- Completion is indicated when kitchen posters show satisfied mice.
- Afterward, Blabbo displays a new code unlocking the second audio log toward Receptionist.
Chapter 3: A Day at the Beach
- Obtain memory-linked items for Amanda:
- Pineapple Smoothie: Blend pineapple, banana, and milk.
- Sunglasses: Repair hallway bust lights to retrieve sunglasses.
- Hermit Crab: Place Willow D.’s conch shell in the aquarium to attract the crab.
- Return the completed tape to the Control Room to unlock a new story segment.
- Receive a Keycard providing access to the Pod Room.
- Completing this unlocks the A Foggy Memory achievement.
Chapter 4: Pod Room and Scavenger Hunt
Last Meal (Blue Tape)
- Inspect numbered pods 1 through 8 in the Pod Room.
- Match each pod with the corresponding food listed on the hallway bulletin board.
- Deliver the correct foods to the pods to unlock Last Meal and obtain the Blue Tape.
Scavenger Hunt Tape
- Intentionally fail three times to earn the Monster Mash achievement.
- Retry and solve by interpreting Chicken Scratch’s gestures and matching corresponding pod symbols.
- Pull levers in the proper order to complete the puzzle and earn A Close One… At a Cost?
The final chapter, The Chapel, intricately ties together audio logs, secret tapes, and achievements such as M-A-R-C-U-S, Receptionist, Monster Mash, End Of An Adventure, Optometrist, and CUT!. This segment covers all endings—both bad and good—while ensuring every collectible is preserved for those aiming for 100% completion.
The Chapel Walkthrough
When I’m Grown Up – Third Audio Log – Orange Tape – M-A-R-C-U-S Achievement
Upon entering the chapel from the elevator, inspect the bench next to Blabbo for a security card. This belongs to an employee named Marcus Moutman.
- Check the ID Card Number: The number is 61318.
- Input 61318 into Blabbo: Doing this unlocks additional audio logs and counts toward the Receptionist achievement.
- Start the When I Grow Up Tape: When prompted by Amanda “What do you want to be when you grow up?”, enter the name “Marcus.” This triggers the M-A-R-C-U-S achievement and spawns the Orange Tape next to Blabbo.
Solving the Orange Tape Puzzle