📋 Mouthwashing Walkthrough: Progression, Five Cards and 18 Achievements

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🎯 Opening and crash-reference notes

• Pay attention to the opening imagery: Observe the controls, alarms and viewpoint. Exact visual details should be checked against the scene rather than inferred from this overview.
• The opening and Jimmy’s viewpoint: Curly’s injuries and Jimmy’s account establish an incomplete picture of the disaster. This is a topic grouping, not a verified numbered gameplay chapter.
• Damaged cryopods: Escape options are limited, but one pod remains working and becomes important later. The earlier statement that every cryopod is disabled was incorrect.
• Anya’s employee card: Left interior wall of the cockpit locker in the opening emergency-key scene, community chapter 1. Collect it during that scene for Anya’s achievement.
• Progressing beyond the scene: Follow the current objective. An exact chapter-ending command announcement has not been verified here; the story remains linear.

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🎯 Survival-reference notes

• Lounge conversations: Shared-space conversations establish Anya’s discomfort, Daisuke’s optimism and Swansea’s cynicism. Their placement is not asserted as one verified all-crew ration scene.
• Caring for Curly: Medical scenes show Anya’s care and discomfort around Jimmy. Specific gestures should be distinguished from interpretation.
• Inspecting the cargo: Finding mouthwash instead of useful supplies connects the crisis to the title and the company’s priorities.
• Exploration details: Inspect available Lounge and ship objects. Individually visitable crew bedrooms and hidden diaries are unverified; employee cards have five specific scene locations.
• Jimmy’s inner account: Compare his explanations with what other characters say. An exact chapter-ending monologue has not been established here.

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🎯 Daisuke and the damaged vent

• Jimmy sends Daisuke through the vent: This is internal access through a damaged vent, not an external spacewalk. Question how Jimmy uses the intern’s trust and authority.
• Anya’s absence at this point: She has already locked herself in Medical and dies before Daisuke’s death; an objection scene at the vent is not established.
• The fatal injury: Daisuke is gravely injured entering through the damaged vent. The event is fixed, without a rescue branch that prevents it.
• Utility and the vent context: Swansea guards access to Utility, where the cryopods and damaged vent matter. A separate searchable Engine Room and Daisuke preparation items are unverified.
• The axe: A player guide gives 2609 for the axe used to free Daisuke from foam. This is separate from the later fatal vent injuries and does not prevent his death. Actual inputs on the current version have not been tested here.
• Progressing beyond the scene: The injuries destroy the remaining trust. An exact fade-out into a subsequent hallucination chapter is unverified here.

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🎯 Surreal-sequence notes

• A central part of the presentation: Jimmy’s distorted perspective brings together Polle, cake and birthday imagery; symbolic meanings remain interpretive.
• Polle, the horse mascot: A threatening version appears in the warehouse sequence among mouthwash crates. Reading it as denial or guilt is analysis, not an official definition.
• Cake and birthday imagery: The contrast between celebration and violence can be read as denial. Related imagery returns in the final scenes.
• Distorted subjective spaces: Faces and environments distort within Jimmy’s perspective. A reading about fractured identity is possible; an exact repeated “Who am I?” line is not verified here.
• Questioning the narrator: Compare the surreal account with established events. No measured claim about what most players conclude at this point is made.

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🎯 Pre-crash revelation notes

• Pre-crash scenes: Flashbacks provide context for Jimmy’s behavior. A port stop exactly three months before the crash is not established by the sources checked here.
• What happened to Anya: This is among the story’s most distressing subjects,involving dialogue and implications of sexual assault, rather than a directly depicted assault scene.
• What Curly knows: Anya discloses her pregnancy and fears. His response raises questions about what a captain should do to protect a crew member, and what he fails to do.
• Reading Jimmy’s motives: Fear of accountability is one interpretation of his deliberate crash. The precise balance of motives is not an official diagnosis or explanation.
• The weight of Curly’s pre-crash viewpoint: Earlier interactions contrast with the post-crash situation. Not every pre-crash scene is happy; these scenes also reveal harm already present.
• Pace the experience to suit you: Pause if needed after distressing scenes; there is no requirement to continue in one session.

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🎯 Reconsidering the crash

• Curly’s viewpoint adds context to the crash: Different scenes change the initial account; an exact one-to-one replay of every opening action is not established here.
• Jimmy deliberately causes the crash: The controls and surrounding revelations establish his deliberate action; this is stronger than merely a possible fan interpretation.
• Curly before the injuries: His response around the collision and his later enforced silence can be compared without claiming access to every private thought.
• Reconsider the initial account: Another viewpoint overturns the apparent accident. A further run can reveal details missed initially.
• Progressing beyond the scene: Continue through the remaining story objectives. The earlier assertion that no save points exist after this scene is unverified.

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🎯 Surreal scenes and the ending

• One fixed outcome, without branches: Jimmy arranges the bodies at a birthday table with Curly. The player cannot choose an alternative story ending.
• Birthday and cake imagery: The imagery can be read as distorted celebration and failed denial. This remains interpretation rather than an official symbolic key.
• Possible meaning of “Mouthwashing”: Reading the title as Jimmy trying to wash away wrongdoing is one interpretation; no measured claim that it is the most supported reading is made.
• Connecting violence, the crash and denial: The final scenes invite the player to reconsider earlier events as a witness. Not every symbolic detail has one confirmed answer.
• The final cryopod and suicide: Jimmy puts Curly into the working cryopod, claims to have fixed things and dies by suicide off-screen. The final perspective is Curly’s; Go Home is associated with finishing the game.
• After finishing: Responses differ. If helpful, compare interpretations with videos or player discussions, while respecting your own pace; no particular duration of distress is predicted.

🎯 Planning achievement cleanup

1. Focus on the story first: Experience the ending and clues first, without forcing every collectible into the first run.
2. Five employee cards: Curly, Jimmy, Anya, Daisuke and Swansea: Each unlocks the achievement named for its crew member. See the five-card guide below.
3. The Good Ending achievement: Be killed by Swansea ten times in the graveyard. This Steam achievement does not create another ending.
4. The Yimpy secret: Maintain eye contact with Yimpy for ten seconds. Two player references identify the Medical corkboard; exact chapter numbering and any zoom requirement remain uncertain.
5. 「The Name Of The Game」: Use a bottle of Mouthwash, as stated by Steam; an exact inventory rejection prompt is unverified here.
6. 「Wasteful」: Mix Pony Express’s special mocktail for Curly’s birthday party. The earlier cake-order requirement is unsupported.
7. 「Sock Puppet」: Sock Puppet requires repeatedly opening and closing Curly’s mouth, as stated by Steam.

📊 Achievement notes

• Total: 18 achievements
• Story-related entries: Some accompany required story actions; not every achievement is automatic.
• Do not confuse The Good Ending with an ending: An optional achievement, not a separate ending.
• Missable scenes: Cards and interactions can belong to specific scenes; collect the cards in their listed scenes.
• Repeat playthrough: Plan missing cards and optional achievements on a further playthrough.

🎭 Details to reconsider

• Anya’s dialogue and behavior: Reconsider her fears and constraints after learning the context. Do not assume a first impression that blames her or invent a fixed chapter-2 sequence.
• Jimmy’s decision about the vent: Knowing the consequences changes how an apparently useful order can be read as exploitation and self-preservation.
• Cake imagery in surreal scenes: Compare earlier images with the final birthday table; symbolic connections remain interpretive.
• Curly’s silence: Compare his enforced inability to speak after the crash with his earlier response to Anya.
• Swansea’s sarcasm: His words gain context from his working life and bond with Daisuke. The claim that he already knows everything is not established.

💡 Planning your time

• First-run estimate: around two hours, varies: A concentrated session can help connect scenes; taking a break does not invalidate the experience.
• Cleanup-run planning: the earlier 3–4-hour estimate is untested: Prioritize the five card scenes and any missing interactions rather than exhaustive searches of invented rooms.
• Leave time between runs if useful: Reflecting on the story may help; waiting exactly one day is not a requirement.
• Choose a comfortable setting and audio level: Headphones can help with sound cues; a dark room or late-night session is optional.
• A concentrated alternative to a hundred-hour roguelike: Its appeal is the concentrated story. This does not guarantee one fixed playtime for every player.