Resident Evil Requiem has a “Final Puzzle” that fans have been trying to figure out since the game’s launch on Friday, and as of this writing, no one’s quite figured out all the steps Capcom intends for players to take. However, through some datamining and brute force, some players have managed to complete it anyway.
It all started when Gengar Collects, a Pokémon YouTuber, posted a video on their channel showing that they were able to get Requiem’s Final Puzzle achievement seemingly by accident. To do this, they had to acquire the Marie’s Doll item and have it in their inventory, which you can only do by filling up the meat-packing area with zombie bodies by waiting there for 15 minutes as it drops bodies into a vat. After this, you have to flush a toilet eight times; then the doll will appear in a segment after Grace escapes Rhodes Hill Care Center.
Once you put the doll in your storage box, it’ll be available in your inventory in New Game+. Once you start this new playthrough, you must bring the doll and Emily, a blind girl you meet in the care center, to a locked safe in the lead researcher’s office and input a code you find through actually solving the puzzle, at which point you’ll hear a child laughing.
This is the last step in solving Resident Evil Requiem’s Final Puzzle and registers the challenge as completed, but because it was datamined, no one’s quite sure what all the intended steps are to reach this conclusion in the first place. There must be some clue that tells you to wait for 15 minutes in the meat-packing plant, as well as to flush the toilet repeatedly. So while a brute-force “solution” may have been found, fans are still trying to figure out the rest of the puzzle. In the days since Requiem launched on Friday, fans have been scrambling to figure this game-long puzzle out, and have even created a subreddit dedicated to figuring it out.