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Walkthrough for Voodoo Detective

In the game, you play as Mike Mosely, a private investigator in New Orleans who specializes in solving voodoo crimes. You'll have to search for clues, talk to witnesses and suspects, and use your detective skills to solve puzzles. The game has beautiful hand-drawn graphics and an amazing soundtrack, and it's a lot of fun to play!

Act 1

Tutorial

After just starting to check out your office, the Office becomes on fire. Click on the Papa Legba Mask on the wall to their bookcase's right. This will reveal a Hidden Bar inside the Bookcase. Then click on this Hidden Bar and obtain the Seltzer Bottle from within it. Now you can access your Inventory by clicking on the briefcase icon at the upper right corner of their screen, and once inside the Inventory, click on the Seltzer Bottle to use it and put out the fire.

Answer Telephone

When someone calls your office on the phone, pick it up and wait a few seconds. Shortly after, someone will be at your door; answer the door.

Opening

You will be given money and a pendant if you converse with Mary and accept her case. After Mary leaves, pick up the candle on top of the skull that is on your desk.

Grammy’s Book of Voodoo

Leave the office and go to the Fontule mansion at the top of Main Street

Click on the door to the greenhouse and finds it's locked. Knock on the mansion's front door and speak with Benny, who is uncooperative; tell them you’re not waiting. Then try to enter the office at the top of the staircase, and a cutscene plays.

You should go to the ground floor and enter the Butler's Quarters (Billy’s). You should inspect the Desk to obtain the Tear Stained Letter, then look under the bed for the Hoodoo for Butlers book.

Exit Benny's room and talk to Benny. When talking to Benny, you should ask him about the letter and the greenhouse.

Leave and go back to Main street.

Donut Hole Billy’s

Back at the main street, enter Donut Hole Billy’s on the right.

Talk to the bartender, Ricky.

Ask him about his mortar and pestle.
Ask him about the locals.
Ask about Benny.
Give Ricky the letter.
Ricky will give you a letter in return.

While you’re here, pick up the bucket of water in the top right corner:

Use the bucket on the piano player, Donut Hole Billy (your brother)
Next, pick up the chair.
Use the chair on Donut Hole Billy.
Next, pick up the metal gauntlet.
Use the metal gauntlet on Donut Hole Billy. You’ll get a harmonica.
Use the harmonica on Donut Hole Billy.
Now you can finally talk to Billy.
Exhaust all conversation options to acquire Grammy’s Book of Voodoo

Grammy's Book of Voodoo can be found and accessed at any time, with its shortcut in between the Inventory and System menu icons.

Creating an Owner Honer

The Fontule mansion

Leave Donut Hole Billy's and go back to the mansion. Inside, talk to Benny and give him Ricky's letter. Ask again about the greenhouse, at which point Benny will give a key.

The Greenhouse

Exit the mansion and head to the greenhouse. Use the key on the door of the greenhouse and enter. Take a mint from one of the shelves and grab a lemon from one of the trees. After getting what you need, exit back out and head back to Donut Hole

Donut Hole Billy’s

Use the mint from the Greenhouse on Ricky to acquire the mortar and pestle. Leave Billy’s and head to Crumbsford Capital.

Crumbsford Capital

Use the candle from your office on the inkwell sitting on the teller’s desk. You will acquire a black candle.

Exit Crumbsford Capital and head for Island Trader on the main street

Island Trader

To the right of the front door, there is a camera. Pick it up and buy it. On the center display, there is a screwdriver holding a teddy bear. Pick it up and buy it.

Exit Island Trader and head back to The Office

The Office

Use the radio screwdriver to acquire the speaker, then combine the screwdriver and speaker in the inventory. Doing so will create an "Owner Honer".

There's a recipe in Grammy's book under "Spells" called Owner Honer. In your inventory, combine the following:

Black Candle with the Mortar and Pestle
Lemon with the Mortar and Pestle (Mixture)
Permanent Magnet with the Mortar and Pestle (Mixture)
Mortar and Pestle (Mixture) and the Pendant.

This should activate the Owner Honer. Use it and follow the Owner Honer compass to the cemetery on Main Street.

Gaining access to the Mausoleum

Cemetery

Follow the compass to the LeMoon mausoleum in the corner. Try to go to the mausoleum.

Talk to Eartha, the grave digger, to find out how to get into the Mausoleum.

Eartha saw someone enter the mausoleum, but she won’t tell you who unless you get her a new shovel.

Island Trader

Go to Island Trader and ask the shopkeeper about the shovel

The Fontule mansion

Go back to the mansion, go upstairs and talk to Victor. Ask him about shovels.

Island Trader

Go back to Island Trader and acquire a shovel from the shopkeeper.

Cemetery

Go back to the cemetery, and give the shovel to Eartha.

Laughton Law

Leave the Cemetery, go back to Main Street and enter Laughton Law.

Talk to the man sitting at the desk, Theodore Laughton. Ask him everything you can.

Leave the building; click on the ladder on the side to go to the roof. Use the screwdriver on the vent to the right, then click on the vent.

Chic Shell Hotel / Restaurant

Go back to Main Street to visit the Chic Shell Hotel

Enter the restaurant

There are various tables set up around the room. Sit down at the second table from the left, order the fugo fish, and then acquire a poison gland from the carcass. You must stop talking to the waiter and click on the fugo fish carcass to do this.

You should walk to the far right and talk to the woman in red, Kiki Laughton. Keep talking to her until you can ask about the LeMoons. Once you've asked her about them, inquire about her husband visiting the cemetery. Eventually, she will offer you a deal where she'll help you out if you catch her husband cheating on her. In exchange for your help, she'll give you a room key.

Leave the restaurant and enter the hotel

Talk to the elevator driver, after clicking on the elevator. Once you have done so, give the driver their room key and you are taken upstairs. Upon arrival, you must click on the far right door to enter and speak with Mary. Talk to Mary until you can ask her for help with a stakeout, after which a cutscene begins.

Island Trader

Go to Island Trader and give the camera to the shopkeeper to acquire Incriminating Photos.

Theodore is in his law office, and Kiki is on the hotel's top floor. The photos can be given to either person, but it is recommended to give them to Kiki so you can see her puppet show. If the photos are given to Kiki, you should go back to Laughton Law and click on the filing cabinet. You’ll obtain the LeMoon Mausoleum Key and LeMoon Bank Account Receipt.

Acquire Journal

Go to the cemetery and enter the LeMoon Mausoleum.

Examine the coffin with light streaming down on it. Click on all the coffins until you find Genevieve’s coffin. Remember Genevieve’s birthday.

Exit the cemetery and head to the bank.

Crumbsford Capital

Ask Penny about opening a bank account. Enter the office at the back of the bank and talk to the man behind the desk, Gordon Crumbsford. Ask him about an executive approval form, then ask him about his chocolate addiction.

Exit the bank and head to Island Trader.

Island Trader

Ask the shopkeeper about chocolate and buy his last box. Combine the poison gland from the restaurant with the chocolates in your inventory.

Head back to Gordon Crumbsford’s office.

Crumbsford Capital

Give Gordon the poisoned chocolates. Click on his filing cabinet to acquire the executive approval form. Exit Gordon’s office and talk to the woman behind the teller stand, Penny. Talk to her until you have a bank account.

Enter the vault. Try to open safe deposit box 203. 203 is the number on the LeMoon receipt. After opening the safe deposit box, read the journal to the end.

The Fontule Mansion

Head back to the mansion and talk try to talk to Victor. The Butler, Benny, will tell you there’s a letter waiting at your office.

The Office

Go to your office and open the letter. Watch the cutscenes

Act 2

Follow the Bad Guys

In the party room, you will need to pick up an apple from the fruit bowl and a knife on the buffet table. Then, you will need to talk to the bartender and ask for some simple syrup. After receiving the syrup, head into the bathroom through the door on your left. Once inside the bathroom stall, close the door and take hold of the golden toilet handle. With said handle, use it on Voodoo Detective in order to open him up and then attempt to leave by opening the stall door. Exit out of Party Room through doors located on your right and witness Billy escaping.

Power The Crane

Go downstairs and enter the engine room. Take a wrench and open the fire box. Watch Hannah go into the engine room and close the door.Use the wrench on the door, go upstairs, and enter the pilot house. Pick up a paper and pencil on the couch.

Go back to the party room and talk to the singer, Kenneth Crooner. Ask him for an autograph.

In Grammy’s Book, there’s a spell called Apple of my Eye. Make this recipe combining:

In your inventory, combine the knife and the apple.
Combine the cored apple and the autograph.
Combine the cored apple and the simple syrup.
Combine the knife and the Apple of my Eye apple.

Give one half of Apple of my Eye to Kenneth. He will protest, so you must be insistent. Give one half of Apple of my Eye to Barb. Once they’re distracted, take the aged rum from the bar. Use the aged rum on Voodoo Detective three times. Pick up the golden toilet handle.

Exit the party room and go back to the pilot house. Use the golden toilet handle on the fuse box.

Exit the pilot house and use the lifeboat. Once you are free to move again, use the harmonica on Billy.

Drain The Lake

On the beach, pick up the pail of sand. Go to your inventory. The ghost, Francois LeMoon, will talk to you, and you’ll acquire the locket. Talk to Francois and ask him to help you off the island. Stop talking, and click on the bag of charcoal to acquire charcoal. Click on the trophy to acquire the trophy. Click on the metal cup to take it with you too..Click on the cabinets to reveal cereal boxes full of Kooka Bunches . Take these with you as well. Use this trophy on the pot, then turn on the stove. Take the sulfuric condensation from the stove hood.

Leave the shipwreck. Use the cereal on the colorful bird to acquire a feather.

In order to make Grammy's Flamin' Hot Sauce, you must first head into the jungle and find a rock covered in bat poop. Once you have acquired the bat guano, there is a recipe in Grammy's book that will walk you through the rest of the process. You will need to combine the bat guano with a metal cup, as well as sulfuric residue and charcoal. Once all of these ingredients are combined, you will have made Grammy's Flamin' Hot Sauce.

You should exit the jungle to the left to get to the mountainside. Once you're there, pick up the skeleton's teeth and the book. Then, grab the blasting plunger and head to the top of the mountain. When ready, use Grammy's Flamin' Hot Sauce on the edge of the mountain. Finally, use the blasting plunger on Grammy's Flamin' Hot Sauce.

Handle The Hounfo

Optional: Go back to the shipwreck and Talk to Francois to find out he’s a jerk

The passage describes how to enter the Hounfo, a spiritual world. In order to enter, click the exposed pillar on the mountain top. To get inside, various tasks must be completed to progress. These include picking up a red clay pot and a broken ason, and combining teeth and the ason in your inventory. There is a spell in Grammy's book called Nine Tenth of the Lwa, that these ingredients are needed for.

Use the pail of sand on the central pillar and the ason on the central pillar. Upon completing these steps, you will end up entirely in another world.

Optional: Click on the statue.

Statues

To acquire the cane, head north and use the feather on the statue. Then, return to the crossroad and go west. Click on the central statue to activate it; optional: use the harmonica on the central statue. Finally, click on each statue until they are all in sync with each other (the arms of the statues should look like the screenshot). Take the hat from the central statue.

Head back to the crossroads and go east. Put your hand in the box. Read the book of tax law. Put your hand in the box again to acquire the pipe.

Head back to the crossroads. Use the pipe, the hat and the cane on the statue. Then watch the cutscene.

Return To Beach

In your office, talk to Papa Legba to acquire the sign of Papa Legba. Leave your office.

Act 3

Get The Govi

Make sure you’re standing next to the Hounfo and use the Sign of Papa Legba on Voodoo Detective to enter the spiritual crossroads. Click on the exit that says “Ventures Island”.

Enter the forest

Walk in a straight line until Voodoo Detective tells you he’s heading back. Use the sign of Papa Legba to head back to Zo Wanga.

Chic Shell Hotel

Talk to the zombie to acquire the Centennial Dragon Heart Plumeria.

Crumbsford Capital

Take the ink bottle

Cemetery

Go to the cemetery and enter the Crumbsford mausoleum. Once inside, speak with Gordon's ghost and offer him a deal. After doing so, stop talking.

There’s a spell in Grammy’s Book called Urn a Soul
1. Use the red clay pot on Gordon.
2. Use the money on the pot.
3. Use the ink on the pot.
4. Use the locket on the pot.
5. You’ll acquire the govi.

Go back to Main Street and use the sign of Papa Legba to head back to Venture Island. This time you’ll make it through the forest with Gordon’s guidance.

Open The Safe

Enter the factory and take a coffee cup. Open the cabinet under the coffee machine to find a washcloth.Use the washcloth on the coffee machine, combining the Centennial Dragon Heart Plumeria and coffee in your inventory. Finally, use the coffee on Voodoo Detective.

Enter the office and use a desk to reveal a safe. Use the safe to rip it open, then watch a cutscene. Acquire a gum wrapper from the trash can and a battery from the filing cabinets and combine them to create a fire. Use the aged rum and washcloth. Combine these items to create a molotov cocktail, light it with the fire, use it on Victor and watch the cutscene. Pick up a diamond from the now-open safe and use the diamond on the window before climbing out.

Save Baron Samedi

Go to the south part of the factory, use the fire box to acquire the Halligan, head east in the Factory, use the console, pick up a barrel and drop it down the exhaust turbine. You need to escape by jumping on a conveyor belt, jump on the southern conveyer.

On the North Floor in the Factory, use the Halligan on the manhole cover. You may run out of time before you’re able to enter the manhole. If you do, hop on the conveyor belt and try to open the manhole in Factory (Floor East). Eventually, you’ll have one of the manholes open. When you do, click on it to descend.

Use the machine and power up both the juicer and the beacon. Climb either of the two ladders and head towards the main machine in Factory (Floor South). Use the machine console and turn it up to full speed. Watch the cutscene.

Stop Victor

During the battle, there are three rules you have to follow to win. Don’t worry if you lose. You can always retry.

You need to block if you ever see Victor reload his gun
Don’t bother attacking Victor when he’s blocking
Use Private Eye to figure out victor’s current weakness, then attack him with that weakness.
Bonus: If you get the opportunity to use Apple of my Eye when it’s one of Victor’s weaknesses, and he’s not blocking, then do that. While he’s spellbound, Use Private Eye again, then attack him with whatever weakness you learn. This will do lots of damage.