Walkthrough:
Levels 1 – 3 | Levels 4 – 6 | Levels 7 – 9 | Levels 10 – 12 | Levels 13 – 15 | Levels 16 – 18 | Jack-in-the-Box Locations
Level 16: Video coming soon!
Run right until you find a hole in the wall. Go through to the next room. Continue running in that direction until you see a small ladder. Climb up and jump out.
Notice the clue on the wall. You see it twice. It’s sheet music. You need to play those notes twice and only those notes. But if you jump on the piano from the stool, you land in the center. So jump onto the wooden part of the piano and move to the left side. Jump on the keys and then run straight to the right side. Then jump onto the wooden part of the piano and do it all a second time. Now a ladder should appear.
Climb up the ladder and go left to the elevator. Let’s focus on getting the jack-in-the-box first. Press the buttons in this order:
Up, Right, Up, Left, Up, Right, Down, Right, Up, Left, Up. Then head through the hole for the jack-in-the-box.
From there, go Down, Right, Up, Right, Down, Left, Down, Right. Then climb off and head through the door to complete Level 16.
Level 17: Video coming soon!
This level is annoying and a bit difficult to explain, but I’ll do my best. There’s a lot of trial-and-error involved and you don’t have any checkpoints for the worst part.
Make your way down the stairs. You first have to climb over some stuff in the way. At the top of the last staircase, tap under the stairs to find a hidden door that leads to the jack-in-the-box.
Once you’re in front of the door, position yourself so you can run quickly, because the second you head for the door, the telekinesis guy will show up and drop a chandelier on you.
Once you’re out the door, you have a very long and annoying chase scene. For the first few hand statues, go right first so you’re in the right lane. Then quickly run past them. When you see a rock in front of you, just run to the space right before it. Then, position yourself to the left of the rock and run past the last open hand. Go right again and then run past the close fists.
For the pillars, go right and then get close to the pillars and quickly run back so they don’t crush you. Then climb over the pillars and continue on.
For the toilet section, first walk under the bridge and stop right before the toilet, because it will fall. Then quickly climb up the ladder and run to the other side and down. Don’t linger, as even a box can crush you out of nowhere.
Keep going and help the little girl push the doors open before the bathtub crushes you. Go through the door and keep running.
At the electric fence, have the girl throw you up to the switch and then turn off the electricity. She’ll open the door and run through. Quickly follow her before anything can kill you.
Keep going and make a right when you see a tree blocking your path. Walk over the branch to the right, but don’t dawdle.
Once over that, you need to run over the long bridge. Then climb up it when it breaks. Keep going and run through the door. Head down the stairs to complete Level 17.
Level 18: Video coming soon!
Head out of the cave and enter the little cave entrance to get the jack-in-the-box. Then climb down the ladder. Then continue on to find a girl crying on a bench. She comes to attack you and will kill you if she catches you. So head right down the detour and just keep climbing down the cliff side until you see a broken tree. Knock down the tree so the other girl can cross and then continue running. Just keep running until you hit the end and the friendly girl will crush the mean girl with a boulder. Watch the end and the credits to complete the game.
If you’re missing any Jack-in-the-Boxes, check out my guide for those And the hidden achievement here.
App unwrapper, you are one quick son of a gun! This game just came out! I often read parts of your amazing walkthroughs! Thanks so much! Okay hereΓÇÖs where IΓÇÖm stuck.. you mentioned getting a hanger in this part. ItΓÇÖs the XO puzzle. I canΓÇÖt figure out which order it goes in.. top to bottom, left to right. Stuck on this part. If you could give me a hint IΓÇÖd so appreciate it., yes I have the piece from the wall where the gnome is painting and thereΓÇÖs a big red candle.
Thanks again
IΓÇÖll eventually add a video, but basically, notice that the XΓÇÖs are either left, middle or right. There are five of them. They go: Middle, Left, Right, Right, Left (I have it memorized because I restarted that level soooo many times). So just step on the X buttons in that order, making sure that you step back onto a non-button tile between each one.
Hi Appunwrapper! I am stuck in level 16, IΓÇÖm in the room with the piano. I need to get to the moving platform. If you could help me I would greatly appreciate it your awesome!
Ok, so you need to copy the sheet music on the wall, which is telling. You to run from the left side of the piano to the right. But you canΓÇÖt step on any other keys. So to do that, climb onto the wooden part of the piano, go to the left side, then step onto the keys and go all the way right. That should reveal a ladder.
Please help IΓÇÖm on level 13 when I finally pull the lever down to open a little get away the floating weird man comes and I donΓÇÖt know what to do.
If it where I think you are you need to get the stream right place where it spray in front of the door then you pull the lever and the guy come in the doorway grab the string and it stream hits him and then run to the opening quick you can grab the string twice before he kill you on the third one hopefully this helps
She has to jump on the bench first to get to the wooden part and then go from left to right twice on the keys. This works. I couldn’t jump on the wooden part without first jumping on the bench, although I tried several times.
How do you get the coat hanger?
ItΓÇÖs just hanging there once you get through that door upstairs.
hey app unwrapper! i beat the entire game already i just canΓÇÖt find the jack in the box in level 10, have you found it yet??
Yep, I have all the jack-in-the-boxes here: https://www.appunwrapper.com/2019/05/30/very-little-nightmares-secret-jack-in-the-box-locations-guide/
I just need the last one because I havenΓÇÖt completed Level 17 yet.
So confused on 17. Been stuck for a while, just keep getting killed by the chandelier. Any idea what to do?
You have to just run out the door, but it apparently has to be from a specific spot. It’s kind of dumb and I only really got it by accident. But things only get worse fr there. 😞
I used the hanger to pull the box down but then it got stuck on the side. How do I get the scarf down?
Did you already stretch out the scarf?
What do I do with electric box room? I set it up in the way it describes behind the door and I always get electrocuted.
I think the clue is wrong because I flipped the switches differently before seeing the clue and it worked. Try doing ON ON OFF ON.
Actually that seemed to be a glitch, too. IΓÇÖm not sure what I did to get it to shut off. Hold on.
Try OFF ON OFF ON.
That was it! Thanks. Maybe the clue is right, but since the wires are tangled, you have to untangle to get that order. Idk
Oh didnΓÇÖt think of that! That could be it!
I guess thatΓÇÖs why the door is hiding half of it.
Ok yeah the red wires are OFF and the yellow/green wires are ON, so that makes it easier. CanΓÇÖt believe I missed that. Updated my guide to explain it.
Hey! IΓÇÖm on level 13 in the steam room where it opens a door in the ground. IΓÇÖm blowing steam at the guy when he walks in but I canΓÇÖt ever make it to the hatch in time. Am I doing something wrong??
IΓÇÖm stuck on level 13 in the steam room where the door opens in the ground and no matter how much I try I canΓÇÖt make it to the hatch before the guy gets me. IΓÇÖm blowing steam at him and then running to the door in the ground. Am I doing something wrong?
No, thatΓÇÖs all you need to do. If you got the correct pipe blowing steam, he should be distracted just long enough for you to run to the hatch.
Hey! I am missing one achievement in iOS Game Center after finding all jack-in-the-boxes and completing the game. I have these: Step by step, Work in progress, No way back, The End is Near, It’s all over now, What’s in the box? Hobby getting out of hand, Connoisseur & Collector, Lots of knick-knacks, Obsessive completist, Nightmare Architects, Curiosity killed the child, Death Master. The one I am missing is the one after Nightmare Architects and before Curiosity killed the child.
Can you please tell me how to get this?
Sorry, I donΓÇÖt have that either. IΓÇÖm guessing itΓÇÖs either a ridiculous number of deaths, or maybe dying in every possible way? Or maybe completing the game with no deaths? That seems insane. No idea what else it could be ΓÇö thatΓÇÖs the problem with hidden achievements. :/
Not sure if you still need it but I just added it.
What is the hidden achievement? I still need to get it. Thanks.
ItΓÇÖs found near the beginning of the third level, but you have to complete the game to access it.
I have complete the game and done again 2nde and 3rde level but i didn’t find anything to complete this last hidden achievement 🙁 please help
ItΓÇÖs a secret room you can only access after you complete the game. ItΓÇÖs level 3 under the first security eye.
I’m stuck on 12
Which part? I explained how to get through it, but if you tell me which part is giving you trouble I can try to help.
IΓÇÖm on lv 3 and I have no idea what to do.. can you help me ? Please?
IΓò¼├┤Γö£├ºΓö£├╗m on lv 3 and I have no idea what to do… can u help me? Please?
I have both a video and a text explanation, but if you tell me where youΓÇÖre stuck, IΓÇÖll try to help.
Is there anything more to do on level fourteen when you push the cart over? Just standing in the spot doesnΓÇÖt seem to work. Glitch maybe?
Not sure which cart youΓÇÖre referring to. Are you sure youΓÇÖre on level 14?
*Level 15
Well 17 is sooooooo annoying… Just canΓò¼├┤Γö£├ºΓö£├╗t get past the chandelier and no idea what to do╬ô├½├¡Γò₧├åΓö£ΓöÉΓö£Γòó
Try positioning yourself differently near the door each time (left, middle, right) and then just run for it. It only gets worse from there!
After you get to bottom of the stair just run as fast as you can and you miss the chandelier
Im having trouble on Lvl 14 I got all the nomes but the bed isnΓÇÖt breaking I got the nome in the toilet, the nome IΓÇÖm the vase, the balloon nome, the painting nome, and the bathtub nome but when I stand in front of the bed its not breaking
Not sure why that is. You tried tapping on the bed? It could be a bug.
I was having that problem too. you found 7 gnomes. You have to drop through the twisty slide in the bedroom.
Which twisty slide?
IΓÇÖm having the exact same problem. Tapping on the bed doesnΓÇÖt work, leaving the room & coming back doesnΓÇÖt work. I closed & reopened the app: didnΓÇÖt work. So frustrating.
You have to find all the gnomes. Toy box, the slide in the toy room, vase, picture, balloon, toilet, bathtub
Exactly. You probably missed the one in the toyroom slide and or box, they count as total on the bed along with the two in the two bathrooms, the one in the vase, the one behind the picture and the one on top of the wardrobe
I had the same problem ellie thanks for the hint, in the video it does not show the name of the toy box in the room
Hey thanks for all your walkthroughs! IΓÇÖm stuck on level 15. When I move the food cart there is no hole for me to fall through and IΓÇÖve walked all over. Help!
ItΓÇÖs a loose plank. You wonΓÇÖt really notice its loose until you walk on it.
On level 15 I am having trouble reaching the jack in a box I fell through the floorboards but canΓÇÖt seem to go very far left and canΓÇÖt see a hole to crawl through
IΓÇÖm stuck on level 3 in the last spot light.
Did you do everything upstairs that you were supposed to?
IΓÇÖve gotten all of the bones and am standing in front of the bed how long until it breaks?
IΓò¼├┤Γö£├ºΓö£├╗m on level 10, trying to avoid the killer garbage. When you said Γò¼├┤Γö£├ºΓö¼├║run like the dickens down the left pathΓò¼├┤Γö£├ºΓö¼├æ do you mean MY left, or the little girlΓò¼├┤Γö£├ºΓö£├╗s left? When I go down the path to MY left, I can get up on the box under the hook, but the only thing I can do from there is jump back down again… and get killed. When I go down the path to HER left… well, nothing happens except the aforementioned getting killed. IΓò¼├┤Γö£├ºΓö£├╗ll keep trying, IΓò¼├┤Γö£├ºΓö£├╗d just like to know which side to hammer away at. Thanks!
I can’t seem to run fast enough to not fall off the log towards after running through the gate and turning right towards the end of the game…??
Holy crow! How fast do you have to be to run from one ironing board to another in level 12? I have been killed about a thousand times. Is there a secret to it? I canΓÇÖt get farther than right by the boxes.
Hi. First of all, many thanks for your excellent guides. With that out of the way… ╬ô├½├¡Γò₧├åΓö£ΓöÉΓö£┬╜
Just installed, I’m on Level 2, after activating the lever i can’t sprint reliably, double tap doesn’t work as expected, I died several times. What am I doing wrong?
It just doesnΓò¼├┤Γö£├ºΓö£├╗t have very good controls. 🙁
Thanks. 🙂
Hi, where and what level is the grandfather clock in? Thank you
I’m having a problem with level 18. I keep getting caught half way down the wall. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a way to climb faster or something?
No itΓÇÖs just a really annoying part.
Hi, can you please tell me the trick to crossing that river on the thin log!!(just after the electric fence etc) I get half way across and then she just falls!
Can you recommend any other games similar to this one?
i cant seem to pass the barrel level idk if im missing something but my barrel keeps rolling all the way down the big ones,i have the two squares facing up on the barrel im just not sure how to get it to stop rolling on the second square pls help :((