Karisvale: All Achievements Guide

Two playthroughs are needed to get all achievements: Altruistic and Euthanized can’t be obtained in the same playthrough, and you definitely need to do Something About Karisvale in a separate run. Try to get most achievements in your first run, and just speed run your way in your second run to get the last 2 achievements.

For your reference, the game took 1.1h to finish in my first playthrough, and ~10 minutes in my second playthrough.

Hey, Vincent!
Speak with Echo.

Interact with the dog in Central Karisvale.

You, Season 4
View Itsy-Betsy’s photos.

Interact with the photos inside the dilapidated tower in Central Karisvale. You just need to enter the tower to the northeast corner from the north side.

You Have No Respect for Boundaries
Read the Mayor’s Journal.

Read the mayor’s journal in the bedroom. Head right from Mayor’s Estate to reach it.

Ace Ventura
Interact with the bear’s 2 children.

Interact with the bear with the same stature as the achievement icon. There is one in the bedroom in Mayor’s Estate, and the other is inside the house in Senescence Ridge. Head downstairs to talk to the Old Bear, and follow the path until you fall down the hole. The other bear is in the north exit, to the east.

Percipient
Complete Ms. Minerva’s quiz.

Ms. Minerva is 1 screen north from Mayor’s Estate. Answer:
– Itsy-Betsy.
– History of a location.
– To locate a Lost Man.

GDQ World Champion
Pull the lever in the maze and complete the challenge.

In Distant Chaparral, flick the switch below the fountain, then head all the way to the east to reach a dead flower.

Loquacious
Speak to every resident of Karisvale.

– Old Wanderer: the man in Central Karisvale
– Echo the Shiba: the dog in Central Karisvale
– Itsy-Betsy: woman in Central Karisvale’s north exit (before entering Mayor’s Estate)
– Ms. Minerva: woman 1 screen north in Mayor’s Estate
– Mayor Valentine: Mayor’s Estate, 1 screen west from where Ms. Minerva is
– Dozey Bumpkin: Distant Chaparral, from dead flower 11/20, head north
– Old Bear: inside the house in Senescence Ridge, head downstairs and talk to the bear
– Lady Kara: inside the house in Senescence Ridge, head upstairs and talk to the woman
– Lost Man: inside the house in Senescence Ridge, head downstairs, and fall down the hole. head to the north exit and go through the steel door

Altruistic
Serve the Admin towards his important objective and keep the AI’s alive.

Self-explanatory. Choose the option to the left at the end of the game.

Euthanized
Destroy Karisvale and free the AI’s from torment.

Self-explanatory. Choose the option to the right at the end of the game.

Something About Karisvale
Complete the game in under 10 minutes.

Self-explanatory. Just skip all the dead flowers and head straight to Mayor Valentine and Lost Man.

Botanist
Collect all 20 dead flowers.

Surreal
Experience the hidden ending.

1/20 South of Karisvale, right after you start the game, before the bridge

2/20 right after you enter Central Karisvale

3/20 Central Karisvale, near body of water to the east

4/20 Central Karisvale, near the house at the northwest

5/20 Central Karisvale, inside house in the northwest

6/20 Central Karisvale, enter the dilapidated tower north of “Welcome to Karisvale!” sign from the north side.

7/20 1 screen north from Central Karisvale, bottom left corner

8/20 Mayor’s Estate, dining room (left from entrance)

9/20 Mayor’s Estate, bedroom (right from entrance)

10/20 Mayor’s Estate, check Percipient achievement

11/20 Distant Chaparral, check GDQ World Champion achievement

12/20 Distant Chaparral, head north from dead flower 11/20

13/20 Distant Chaparral exit, in the cave, beneath the rock. Kick the glowing rock to get it.

14/20 Senescene Ridge

15/20 inside the house in Senescence Ridge, interact with the flower frame

16/20 inside the house in Senescence Ridge, head upstairs

17/20 inside the house in Senescence Ridge, head downstairs and fall to the hole

18/20 inside the house in Senescence Ridge, head downstairs, fall to the hole, and head to the north exit. Head east.

19/20 inside the house in Senescence Ridge, head downstairs, fall to the hole, and head to the north exit. Flip the switch and head west.

20/20 from dead flower 19/20, head north to exit Senescence Ridge, or simply just head 1 screen west from Central Karisvale

You should get Surreal achievement sometime when you are nearing the end.