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Return of the Obra Dinn: How to Get to the Lazarette

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Developed by Lucas Pope, best known for releasing Papers, Please a few years back, Return of the Obra Dinn is a story-driven puzzle game that requires you to find out what exactly happened to the crew of the Obra Dinn after a mysterious incident at sea that killed everyone. Here’s how to get to the Lazarette in Return of the Obra Dinn.

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How to Get to the Lazarette in Return of the Obra Dinn

There are a total of 10 chapters in Return of the Obra Dinn, and the eighth chapter is titled The Bargain. This is the only chapter that will allow you to access the Lazarette. However, this chapter won’t be available to you until the very end of the game, and you need to have solved all 58 fates on the ship up till this point.

Simply put, you’ll need to have discovered all 58 bodies throughout the course of the other nine chapters as you’re exploring the ship, and identify them and correctly deduce their cause of death. Once you’ve done so, the game will explicitly tell you that there is nothing left to do on the ship, and you can leave.

At this point, head back up to the main deck and go to the small boat where you first started the game. If you have all 58 fates solved, leaving the ship will allow you to start Chapter VIII: The Bargain, which is where you can access the Lazarette.

Do note that if you leave the ship before solving all 58 fates, you’ll get the bad ending. However, you can simply reload your save file from the main menu, and the game will allow you to rewind some of your progress to before you left the ship. This gives you another chance to tie up any loose ends before leaving, and you’ll be able to unlock the good ending that way.

To recap, here’s how to get to the Lazarette in Return of the Obra Dinn:

  1. You need to have solved all 58 fates in the nine chapters you’ve explored in the story.

  2. After doing so, the game will inform you that there is nothing left to do.

  3. Head back to the main deck and leave the ship by going to the small boat.

  4. This will unlock Chapter VIII: The Bargain, where you can access the Lazarette.

That’s all you need to know about how to get to the Lazarette in Return of the Obra Dinn. Be sure to search for Twinfinite for more tips and information on the game.

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Zhiqing Wan

Zhiqing is the Reviews Editor for Twinfinite, and a History graduate from Singapore. She's been in the games media industry for nine years, trawling through showfloors, conferences, and spending a ridiculous amount of time making in-depth spreadsheets for min-max-y RPGs. When she's not singing the praises of Amazon's Kindle as the greatest technological invention of the past two decades, you can probably find her in a FromSoft rabbit hole.

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