Murderous Muses Trophy Guide

General Walkthrough
The game consists of 3 days and nights to find out the clues you need to try to solve the murder mystery. Each time you play, the murderer will be different, as the scenarios and circumstances around the mystery will change.

Begin the game and follow the instructions as they are given.
Day 1:
Open the crates of the paintings that are scattered around the gallery. There will be 7 crates on Day 1 as one box gives the Key to the Staff Storeroom (says Staff Only on the door). See the All Paintings with their titles to easily match the paintings and hang them up in the gallery. After you have hung a painting, there will be a button that will light up that you can interact with to hear some history of the area. After correctly hanging up all 6 paintings you can proceed back to the front desk area to interact with the Security Monitor.

Night 1:
You will interact with the painting of a key to collect it, hang it on the wall, interact with the button below it. Remove the painting from the wall, hang it up again, and then interact with the button below it. Do this again until you need to remove the painting, place it on the Eye Table, collect the red ball called and “Eye” from the pedestal, and place it in the left hole. Next, interact with the Restore button and the Eye will go back into the frame of the painting. Collect the painting, hang it again, interact with the button below it, and then collect the Key from the pedestal. Use the Key to open the door to get into the gallery. Read any notes that you find laying on the floor, desk, chairs, etc.

The gallery will now be setup as follows:
1. Where the Staff Storeroom door was, this will lead to a hallway with 6 doors for the Suspect Room, 1 room for all of Sasha’s videos and the Tips Hotline, and up the stairs where the Urns are placed for the Kira videos.
2. The galley part that had the paintings of the murder suspects will now be a hallway with a TV for an important episode on the Murder Suspect information.
3. The other part of the gallery will have the paintings, but it is pretty much the same as the day until Night 3. However, the paintings will have a different narration on the history of it so listen to these as you like.

Watch the TV for the Murder Suspect information. There are a number of different stories (three examples shown below) and these will be important for determining who the murderer is during your current playthrough. After watching it, a new doorway will be revealed, leading to an area where there is a Suspects Board with the 3 Words that you will need to watch for each. There will be titles of these Words on the walls in this area and there may be more than one room in this area so check them all. Also, there will be Eyes scattered around on the floor, baseboards, carpet, benches, display cabinets, boxes, etc. However, typically there are 1 – 3 Eyes that can be found this way during Night 1. In your inventory triangle button), you will have all 6 Suspect paintings available for you to use. IMPORTANT: Do not hang any yet. Go to the 6 Suspect Rooms, here you might want to write down the 5 lists of words with any roman numerals (I) for each of the 6 suspects. This will greatly help you out when trying to make sure that you see as much content as needed for each Suspect. Each playthrough will only have a certain set of words available for the Suspect Boards and the Word titles where you hang the paintings.

Go back to the Suspect Board. In this room there will also be 2 Exhibition Board lists that show the order for the words for the Word titles for when you hang and then remove a painting. Sometimes there may be a blank and you will need to determine what it is yourself by hanging a picture, watching the FMV, and then removing the painting. It is recommended to write these Exhibition Keys down also to save time. The order is top to bottom, and then back to the top to start over again. Each Exhibition Key is independent of the other.

Look at the Suspect Board, the Word List needs to be done in order 1 – 3. You can choose any word or task on the list that you want to do, but be aware that when you return to the Suspect Room, the Word List will change, with the exception of the word you chose. If you make strategic choices with how you hang the paintings for the words you can complete the Suspect Board and also some of the words from the Suspect Room, especially the words with roman numerals beside them if they are available.

At the Suspect Board, interact with the name of the Suspects to watch their police interview after their 3 words have been highlighted. After the entire Suspect Board has the available Suspect word list filled in, you will have a grandfather clock sound during the FMV of the last word that you are completing.

You can use the Eye Table to restore Eyes if you need to or recycle them. After completing the Suspect Board and any Suspect Room words with roman numerals, you can place your paintings individually on the Eye Table to recycle the Eyes (it costs 2 Eyes to get 1 for your inventory). So if a painting has 2 Eyes left in the frame, you will get back 1 Eye. However, if you have 1 or 0 Eyes, you will not get an Eye back. This is a way that you can make sure to increase the number of Eyes that you have available throughout this playthrough as they will carry over to the next day/night cycle.

Also, there will be a Puzzle and a locked door within the room where the Suspect Board is located. The puzzles are either: Code Puzzle, Tickets Puzzle, Telephone Puzzle, or Matching Puzzle. The puzzles are explained in more details in the video below.

Solve the puzzle and then collect the Key to use on the locked door. Go into the room, collect the Urn, place the Suspect paintings on the word title in this room, watch the FMV for each Suspect, and then finally watch the Sasha video. Go to the Urn Room, rotate the Urn to see the roman numeral on the bottom, place it on the same numbered pedestal, and then watch the Kira video on the wall behind it. There will be 17 Urns to collect through multiple playthroughs, they will never repeat, and once you have collected and placed all of them, they will be replaced by Eyes you can collect.

You can use the Telephone Hotline if you have 6 Eyes in your inventory to activate it. This will rule out one of the Suspects. Finish the night by interacting with the Security Monitor.

Day 2:
Open the crates of the 6 paintings and hang them according to their titles. Listen to the history if you like. Proceed to the Security Monitor and interact with it. Sasha may ask you to “Choose Portrait(s) for Sasha.” . This means you will need to select a painting or more from the Suspect paintings which may or may not be returned the next day depending what shs says. This means that there could be a painting that will not be available for your Suspect Board that night so choose wisely and pick someone or ones that you do not suspect as the murderer(s) so far. Place the Suspect painting(s) you choose on the Easel(s) near the front door and interact with the Security Monitor to finish the day.

Night 2:
Check the Suspect Rooms to see which words now have roman numerals (II) beside them, make note of this as these can only be asked during this night. Proceed to the hallway leading to the Suspect Boards and there will be a new hallway with another TV for you to watch another episode of the Murder Suspect information. After it finishes go into the new area, search for any scattered Eyes in this area as there could be 2 – 4 Eyes available. Check out the Suspect Board, Exhibition Keys, and the word titles on the wall. Your inventory will be missing one painting, so you will not need to worry about highlighting the words for this Suspect that night. After the words are highlighted on the Suspect Board and you have completed any of the Suspect Room words with roman numerals are completed, watch the police interviews for each Suspect on the Suspect Board by interacting with their name. Remember to restore or recycle the Eyes as needed. Always remember to recycle the Eyes before ending the night so that your number of Eyes increases in your inventory.

Move onto completing the puzzle to obtain the key to the locked room. Go into the room, collect the Urn, place the Suspect paintings on the word title in this room, watch the FMV for each Suspect, and then finally watch the Sasha video. Go to the Urn Room, rotate the Urn to see the roman numeral on the bottom, place it on the same numbered pedestal, and then watch the Kira video on the wall behind it.

You can use the Telephone Hotline if you have 6 Eyes in your inventory to activate it. This will rule out one of the Suspects. Go to the Security Monitor and interact with it to end the night.

Day 3:
Open the crates of the 6 paintings and hang them according to their titles. Listen to the history if you like. Proceed to the Security Monitor and interact with it. Sasha may ask you to “Choose Portrait(s) for Sasha.”. This will mean that you will need to select 1 or 2 paintings from the Suspect paintings, but one may or may not be returned the next day depending on what she says. This means that a painting or more will not be available for your Suspect Board that night so choose wisely and pick someone or ones that you do not suspect as the murderer(s) so far. Place the Suspect painting(s) you choose on the Easel(s) near the front door and interact with the Security Monitor to finish the day.

Night 3:
Interact with the note on the Security Monitor counter and pick up the Auk statuette. Proceed to the hallway leading to the Suspect Boards, however you will be told to go find the Crystal Ball. This will be found in the gallery part, one room will have a large red Eye on the floor. Go past it, then go down the stairs and place the Auk statuetteon the pedestal. Then move to the left or right as the large red Eye will roll down the stairs and break through the wall. Go through the opening in the wall to a hidden room. In this room collect the Urn, use the Suspect painting on the word title on the wall, watch their FMV, and finally watch Sasha’s video.

Check the Suspect Rooms to see which words now have roman numerals (III) beside them and make note of this as these can only be asked during this night. Place the Urn in the Urn Room and watch Kira’s video.

Proceed to the hallway leading to the Suspect Boards and there will be yet another new hallway with another TV for you to watch another episode of the Murder Suspect information. After it finishes go into the new area. Search for any scattered Eyes in this area as there could be 2 – 6 Eyes available. Check out the Suspect Board, Exhibition Keys, and the word titles on the wall. Your inventory will be missing one painting so you will not need to worry about highlighting the words for this Suspect that night. After the words are highlighted on the Suspect Board and you have completed any of the Suspect Room words with roman numerals are completed, watch the police interviews for each Suspect on the Suspect Board by interacting with their name. Remember to restore or recycle the Eyes as needed. Always remember to recycle the Eyes before ending the night so that your number of Eyes increases in your inventory.

Move onto completing the puzzle to obtain the key to the locked room. Go into the room, collect the Urn, place the Suspect paintings on the word title in this room, watch the FMV for each Suspect, and then finally watch the Sasha video. Go to the Urn Room, rotate the Urn to see the roman numeral on the bottom, place it on the same numbered pedestal, and then watch the Kira video on the wall behind it. Go to the Security Monitor and interact with it to end the night.

Before you complete the last night, you can review the police interviews for each Suspect near the Security Monitor on the wall behind it. You can use the Telephone Hotline if you have 6 Eyes in your inventory to activate it. This will rule out one of the Suspects. Interact with the Security Monitor and then you will be back in the gallery. Enter where the hallway that use to lead to the Suspect Boards, however this time there will be a room where you will need to hang the painting of whom you suspect is the murderer. Next, interact with the Accuse button and watch for the cutscene reveal.

Next playthrough will carry over all of your word choices for the Suspect Rooms and eventually they will turn into a painting once a list of words is completed. It will also be noted on the door of the Suspect’s Room with a yellow square. The Urns placed will still be there too.