lily's world XD Walkthrough

What you are committing to before stage one

The route is short enough to finish in an evening, but it is built on passwords, and a password you misread stops the whole chain.

The full game is a linear investigation, so you cannot skip ahead by accident: each site or folder opens only after the previous one hands you the clue. That makes the order below the real route, not a suggested one.

Two things are worth fixing before you start. First, several in-game strings are stored in a Y2K-style font where 0 and 8 look alike, so read any number or email twice. Second, a small number of reports describe conflicting letter spacing on two passwords, which is why the variant list later on this page exists.

The route at a glance

Nine stages carry the story from the laptop to the ending. Each one hands over the clue the next stage needs.

The ending itself is a single reply, and it decides which of the two ending achievements you unlock. That fork is compared on the Radiant Path choice page.

Stage 1: booting the laptop

The game opens with you finding a computer and having no way in. The first password is the smallest one in the game.

1. 01Look at the login screen before typingThe password field has a small question-mark bubble beside it. Clicking it asks which animal is Lily's favourite, which is the whole hint.
2. 02Enter the boot passwordType cat. Capitalisation does not matter here, and the desktop wallpaper repeats the same answer if you want visual confirmation.
3. 03Read the desktop onceYou land on the main desktop with Email, Web, Messenger, Study Guide, Secret, Photos, Journal, Audio, Notes, Dress Up Game and Calculator. Study Guide and Secret are locked for now.

Stage 2: the Study Guide folder

This is the first real clue chain and it ends with a book title, so it is worth doing properly instead of guessing.

The clue is not in a folder. Change the background colour on Lily's blog, and a hidden address appears that leads to an emoji page spelling out a three-word instruction about her favourite book. The answer is the book itself, and Iris or Lily's Palster bio will name it if you have not read it yet.

Enter kiterunner as one word. Several sources transcribe the demo version with a space, so if the field rejects it, try kite runner before checking your spelling. Opening the folder gives you two recordings and an updated Web Watch page, which is the signal that stage two is finished.

Stage 3: Palster and the first account login

Palster is the game's social network and the first place where a clue sits in one window and the answer belongs in another.

The account name is an email address, and the password is built from two personal facts rather than a word. The Drafts folder in Lily's email states the two ingredients, and the Audio app and her journal supply the values.

Signing in opens Lily's profile, her photo albums and the friend list that stage 5 depends on. The exact address, the two clues and the accepted format are on the Palster password page.

Stage 4: Seclink and the photo date

Seclink is an encrypted chat between Lily and Iris, and the code comes from a photograph rather than a message.

Open the red-dress photo in Lily's gallery and read the date printed on it: 25 March 2003. The chat accepts that date as a single string of digits, and the two accepted orderings are covered in the format traps below.

The unlocked conversation is where the cult thread starts. Iris is already suspicious of the Radiant Path, and the archived messages are the ones you will quote back to yourself at stage 9.

Stage 5: the 5Star forum chain

This is the longest stretch without a password, because it is a reading stage that hands you three more names.

1. Iris sends you two forum boards. Open the Radiant Path board and read the thread asking whether the group is a cult.
2. The thread leads to Melanie, whose posts carry the earliest version of the story outside Lily's own files.
3. Melanie's links take you through the Hope Therapy Centre and then Oberon Plastic Surgery, which is where a patient record chain begins.
4. The Oberon code ETAN8 corresponds to a date of birth of 04/08/1968, which resolves to the name the game wants.
5. Follow the people-search site until the same person appears under more than one name. That identity is the thread the rest of the game pulls.

Keep the browser tab open when you finish. The 5Star board is the source of one of the two codes you type at stage 9, and coming back for it later is more work than noting it now.

Stage 6: the Secret Folder and the Diet Log

The Secret Folder password is the one password the game never hints at on the desktop. It is written in Iris's own posts.

Read Iris's Flutter account until the highlighted post gives you the word. The full trail, the accepted spelling and what to do if you cannot find the post are on the Superpower clue page.

Inside the folder, the Diet Log is the item that matters: it names a private project for Iris and points at the Maze Game. Read it before you leave, because the game will move you on without asking.

Stage 7: the forced Maze Game segment

The maze is not optional. The desktop hands control to it, and the hidden word inside is the last piece of mid-game lore.

Walk the purple path to the yellow square to finish the required section. The hidden word sits off that path, in the upper-left area of the board, and the Black Light page has the exact route if you want it.

Call Iris afterwards. The conversation that follows the maze is short but it is where she mentions the pens, and that detail matters if you are chasing the optional lore rather than just the achievements.

Stage 8: the reset and the Members Area

After the bedroom scene the laptop resets, and the game hands you a new set of accounts to break.

Read Web Watch and the Recovered Files in the new desktop state before you go online. Then sign in to the Radiant Path Members Area with the address the blacklight photo revealed.

Inside, the knowledge check at the Commune takes a five-digit answer built from the group's own history, and the Retreat Schedule and member pages carry the two identifiers you need at stage 9. Without the Commune code the Ohio Site stays closed.

Stage 9: the Incident Report and the ending

The last stage is two ID fields, one report, and one sentence to Iris that decides your ending.

Open the Incident Report on the Ohio Site and fill in both required fields. The manager ID is built from the commune manager's name and comes from the Retreat Schedule, and Lily's subject ID is built from hers and comes from the Life After Cults forum. Field labels vary slightly between transcriptions, so check the Incident Report page if a field name does not look familiar.

Reading the report is what makes the ending land, and the Share Files button is the point of no return for this playthrough. Both endings are reachable in a single save file only by replaying the final reply, which the Radiant Path choice page explains.

The four strings players get wrong

Each of these has two spellings in circulation. Type the first one; if the game rejects it, try the second before assuming you are wrong.

• The Palster email: [email protected]. One guide transcribes it with two digits reversed as 008. The Y2K font is the reason, and the long form with two eights is the version the majority of sources use.
• The Study Guide folder: kiterunner as a single word in the full release, with kite runner recorded for the demo build.
• The Seclink code: 03252003 in month-day-year order, with 20030325 used by sources that write the date year first. Both describe 25 March 2003.
• The report IDs: LH-2834 and CA-1947 with the hyphen, and LH2834 and CA1947 without it in some transcriptions.

Achievements along the route

The full release lists seven achievements. Five unlock automatically as you follow the stages above; the last two are the ending fork.

Steam lists the pair in lower case as Expose the Radiant Path and Take revenge on the Radiant Path, while most guides capitalise the group's name inside them. The same two unlocks are meant either way.

The ending pair needs two passes through the final reply. Nothing else on the list is missable, because every other achievement fires on the main route.

If a step stops working

Three things account for most stuck saves on this route, and only one of them needs a replay.

• A rejected password is usually a spacing problem, not a wrong answer. Re-read the string that failed, then try the variant listed above.
• If the in-game browser will not leave the top of the screen, save and reload before you retry the puzzle you were on. A known report describes the browser window parking over the desktop icons.
• If the ending does not trigger after you share the files, check whether you are on a save made before the developer's June demo fix, which addressed one save-specific case of the ending failing to fire.