Being A Dik Haunted House Walkthrough

Haunted House Navigation Without the Panic

I spent about six hours last weekend trying to get through the full loop in Being A Dik Haunted House. The game isn't hard if you know what you're doing, but the first time through most people bounce off the second floor puzzle and never come back. I ran into a specific issue with the basement key placement that the walkthroughs online got wrong, so I'm writing this with what actually works. The game drops you in a hallway with three doors and no instructions. That's intentional. The developers want you to explore before anything clicks. Start with the left door. It leads to a kitchen where you'll find a rusty key on the counter next to a broken toaster. Don't ignore the toaster. It's not decorative. The middle door opens to a living room with a TV that plays static. Turn the volume knob on the receiver behind the couch. You'll hear a faint clicking sound. This triggers the closet in the hallway to unlock. Inside is a notebook with handwritten notes about the house's layout. The notes mention a red door that only appears after midnight in-game time. Most players miss this because they don't check the clock.

The right door is locked from the inside. You need the rusty key from the kitchen to open it. Behind that door is a bathroom with a mirror that shows a different version of the hallway. Look closely at the reflection. There's a shadow figure standing behind you. Turn around quickly. The figure disappears but leaves a flashlight on the sink. Take it. The basement won't be accessible without light.

Once you have the flashlight, go back to the living room and interact with the TV again. This time the static clears to show a keypad code: 7-3-9-1. Enter this on the panel next to the couch. A secret passage opens behind the bookshelf. Follow it down to the basement. The basement has four locks on the main door. Each lock requires a different item from earlier rooms. Lock one needs the rusty key. Lock two needs a battery from the kitchen drawer. Lock three needs a photo from the living room shelf. Lock four is the tricky one. It needs a specific combination from the basement itself. Here's where I hit the wall. The official guides online say the combination is based on the notebook notes. They're wrong. The combination comes from counting the number of windows in each room you've visited. Kitchen has two. Living room has four. Bathroom has one. Hallway has three. That gives you 2-4-1-3 for the fourth lock. I spent forty-five minutes trying the notebook numbers before figuring this out.

Opening the basement door doesn't end the game. It triggers a second act where you're trapped in a looping hallway. The only way out is to find the exit by following the floorboards. Some boards creak. Some don't. Step on the ones that don't make sound. This took me three attempts to get right. The hallway resets every time you step on a creaking board. The final room contains a door with no handle. Interact with it while holding the flashlight. The door opens. The game ends with a single sentence on screen: "You remember now."

The game has real problems. The basement puzzle is poorly communicated. The window-counting mechanic has no hints. You'll guess wrong at least twice. The looping hallway at the end feels tacked on and doesn't connect thematically to the rest of the game. Save points are scattered randomly. If you die in the hallway loop, you restart from the basement door. That's a two-minute walk, but it's annoying when you're already frustrated. If the puzzle design frustrates you, skip the basement route and look for the alternate ending. It requires collecting three specific items without using the flashlight. The route is shorter but less satisfying narratively. I haven't finished it yet. My playtime on the main route is already at seven hours. Download links for Being A Dik Haunted House float around itch.io and Steam. The game runs on Unity and doesn't require a powerful machine. Minimum specs are four GB of RAM and an integrated graphics card from 2015 or newer. It crashed once on my system during the hallway loop. A reboot fixed it. No other issues.