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BirdGut was created by Micah Boursier. You can get it on Steam for free (Windows and Mac OS). It takes about two to three hours to finish. The post In BirdGut, you try to escape a dystopian society inside a bird’s stomach appeared first on The Verge. Tags: Entertainment Gaming. There are a total of 22 achievements in the BirdGut. Check out our BirdGut Achievement Guide to collect all 22 of these. Walkthrough 0.
Unlockable Steam Achievements In This Stage
- Junk and Rubbish
- The Seventh of the Hidden
Head to the right and you'll find a switch at the end of this path. The switch will drop a bomb and you can detonate it by activating it. It's on a short timer and will blow up quick so get away before it kills you. There is a skull just below that requires some luck. If you go down and hug the left hand wall, you'll see a platform with a single torch on it. You need to get a bomb on this platform and blow up the wall to reveal the hidden skull. The best way to get this is to drop as many bombs down as you can before you blow up the passage. Eventually, you'll drop so many that one will bounce on you and it'll blow you up when you inadvertently activate it. The rest will all drop through the opening. Hopefully, at least one, will land on that platform. If not, just restart the level. You'll have to restart it from the level select screen and not by hitting load on the main menu because the checkpoint is when you break the passage open.
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Now drop down. You'll run into the remainder of your bombs. Blow up most of them so the path clears, make sure to leave one bomb down there. Push it to the far right and blow it up under the crate that is stuck in the garbage. This will break it loose. Push the crate to the left and use it to reach the platform above. This section will require some skillful and quick platforming. The walls will slowly close in and the spikes will kill you. Just jump up the platforms as quickly as possible to beat these walls. Go right at the top. Avoid the maggots and camera until you reach a section with moving platforms and buzz saws. This section is a bit tricky but straight forward. Just jump across the moving platforms while avoiding the buzz saws. Fall down the gap ahead and you'll run into a puzzle with lasers. There are two levers, the left will rotate the center mirror to the left and the right will rotate the center mirror to the right. Rotate the right lever until the laser is going into the housing on the right hand side to open the door on the right.
Now in the next room, you want to go under the platform through the small tunnel. Ride up the elevator and activate the switch at the top of the room to lower the top angled mirror. Now drop down and push the crate to the left until the laser bounces off the mirrors and hits the housing in the top left corner to open the next door. Continue to the right and flip the switch to unlock part of the door blocking your path. Now head to the left and up the elevator you came from before the first laser puzzle. You'll have to turn the left lever to reflect the laser into the left housing to open the left door. Now head to the right and jump up the first platform. Jump into the broken pipe and go left, then up to the next puzzle room.
The arrows here will turn the whole square here and you'll need to spin it so the fuel comes out. You want to spin it to the right twice. The fuel will be in the top right corner of its current position. Hit left twice as quickly as you can. You have to catch it while its in the middle to drop it down into the opening. Now take your time and hit left, right, right, left. Now it'll be in the lower right corner. Hit left and quickly run to the right switch. Hit right just as the fuel reaches the opening to make it drop down. Push it into the furnace to the right. Climb up the stairs that will lower and into the next puzzle room in the shape of a large plus sign. Head to the right and jump into this arrow to hit it twice. You'll now be on the left and the crate will be on the top. Drop down to the bottom and hit this arrow once. You'll be on the left and the crate on the right. Jump to the crate and push it to the left so it falls onto the closed door. Now jump to the left switch and hit it twice. The box will be at the top and you'll be to the right. Drop down and hit the arrow here once so you're to the right and the box is to the left. Jump to the box and push it onto the spikes below. Jump back to the right switch and press it twice. You'll be on the left and the box will be on the top. Now drop down and push this switch three times. The box will be to the left and you'll be to the right. Jump to the box and push it to the right so it falls into the same spot with the switch. Press the switch three times and the room will rotate so the opening is to the right with the crate on the switch. Deactivate the lock ahead and take the pipe back. At the end of this path, head to the right and push the door over. Head to the right to complete this short level.
Unlockable Steam Achievements In This Stage
- Armed Insects
- The Eighth of the Hidden
The first thing you will run into is a bug that shoots three shots towards you. It doesn't shoot right at you, it'll just shoot towards either left or right, depending on what side you're on. You can easily run and wait under its shots if you want. Jump over it and get to the right of it. You can just stand right next to it as its shots will push the crate. Soon the crate will let go of the weight and crush the bug. Now we finally get a way to defend ourselves! Pick up the bugs gun and you can shoot it with your mouse. Use the gun to break open the door blocking your path to the right. Climb up the platforms ahead. You'll see some pipes on each side of the wall. Each pipe will spit out a fly that just flies around. Kill them as quickly as you can because letting them pile up on screen can get dangerous. At the top of this room, enter the room on the left and hit the switch. Now head through the open door to the right.
Shoot the string holding the crate up ahead. Push the left crate closer when the higher crate drops and use them to reach the platform above to continue. You will soon run into some bouncing enemies. Don't kill them. Instead, lure them to the right. You'll run into a board blocking a hole in the floor. The only way to break this board is to make one of those jumping bugs jump on it. Once the path opens up, jump down there. Head to the left. You'll see a cracked board in the upper right corner of this room. Shoot it to lower a set of stairs. Hit the button at the top and continue to the left. The image below will show which board to shoot, simply look at the crosshair on screen.
Kill the bug that appears in the next room. The left side of the platform above will have another crack in it, similar to the one in the previous room. Just shoot it to lower a ladder. At the top of the ladder, shoot the wall to the right, another cracked support, to lower the large ball. Use the ball to jump into the pipe in the upper left. Move to the right a little and you'll see a bug with bombs appear out of the upper tube here. Head to the far left wall and wait for it to drop a bomb. Time your jump so you can bounce into the lower pipe on the left wall as seen in the image below. Go through this pipe for the skull of the eighth.
Climb out of this pipe and head to the right. This room is really tedious just because of how slow it can be. You have to stand just to the left of the weight and have the flies drop bombs to push the weight to the right. This will take a while as the bombs don't really pack much of a punch against this huge weight. Once it gets close enough to the wall, use it to jump over it. Have the flies drop a bomb on the board blocking the hole and fall in. Be ready to fire your gun once you land! There are several fast enemies in here that will just run right at you. They can't jump so just spam shots in both directions as you head to the right. Climb up the platforms at the end of this path. In the next room, climb another set of pipes to crawl through the pipe at the top. A bug shooting lasers out of its head will appear in the next room. Just leave it so the lasers will open the door to the right via the switch in the top middle section of the room. The next room is essentially your first boss encounter.
Place your radio down in the computer in the center of the room. You'll see the monitor go up and start filling up a loading bar. There are 4 spots enemies can spawn from, the two pipes on each wall and the two elevators on the ground. The spawns are completely random here. My suggestion is to stay in one corner, don't stay in the center. If you stay in the corner, you only need to shoot in one direction to deal with ground enemies and then focus on the flying enemies. The bomb dropping flies are probably the most annoying that you want to deal with ASAP but don't let the fast enemies get too close. A good tip here is that if you're in a corner and a jumping enemy appears on the far elevator, it won't start jumping until you get close enough. Staying in the corner will leave that enemy on the far lift and prevent more enemies from spawning there. It's luck of the draw to get a jumping enemy there but it does make the onslaught a little easier. Once the loading bar is stuck at 99%, clear the room to enter the real boss fight here. It'll be a large praying mantis that can fly. Its attacks are:
- A scream that will make debris fall from the ceiling
- Flying towards you and then slamming the ground when you're below
- A slash with its claw
- Spitting at you
- Spawning small bees
You want to shoot at this boss at all times while just avoiding its attacks. When it's flying at you, just stay on the far wall and keep shooting. It won't slam the ground until it's over you. When it gets really close, just run past it. At that point, keep shooting again. The attacks are really easy to avoid and the fight shouldn't cause you too much trouble. Once the boss is defeated, head to the right for the final stage of Birdgut.
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