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I welcome you to this guide, hopefully I can help you out. There are spoilers here, so go forward at your own risk. This game and guide is community driven so feel free to share your thoughts on anything missing here. Especially if you find any secret, no matter how small.

This guide includes these sub-guides:

• Gameplay mechanics
  
• Map for reference
  
• Achievements
  
• Collectables
  
• Secrets

You can skip right to the sub-guide you want to access by using the chapter menu.

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You can use WASD or the LEFT STICK to move. With LSHIFT or L2, R2 you can toggle between walking and running, holding the button will make you sprint and use up your stamina. Releasing the button will refill your stamina over time. With SPACE or LOWER BUTTON you can jump, normally you can free jump (even while running), but sometimes there specific jump guides indicated with a line, to help you jumping up on higher elevations.

You can use RIGHT MOUSE CLICK or UPPER BUTTON to bark. This also can be used to interact with the world and objects or Cailey, and also to activate cutscenes in specific places.

You can use LEFT MOUSE CLICK or LEFT BUTTON to activate the color bubble. This is used to interact with puzzles. It can also activate glowing animals, and bring life back to thistles.

Wisps are a collectable that will increase your stamina permanently. To collect them you need to walk close to them, then they will start fleeing from you, most of the times stopping here and there, where you have to walk into them again. At some point they will reach their last spot and walking into them will collect them.
(More info in the collectables chapter)

Music notes can be found when you are on the waters with the canoe. They can be found around islands and if you get close Cailey will trigger a dialogue of remembering a part of the song.
(More info in the collectables chapter)

These rest spots can be found on some islands or skerries. To use them you have to jump on them, there should be a jump line. After that you can rest up.
(More info in the collectables chapter)

There are five lighthouses that can be found on different islands and skerries. You will find them in a broken down state. To get them into shape again you need to run into the middle where a lamp is flying. This will activate a path you can sense (see) that if you follow this line will bring you to a specific point. There you have to dig (Normally the key E or UPPER BUTTON), and pickup (also E or UPPER BUTTON) the lantern, now bring it back to the middle of the lighthouse. This will activate the restoration of it, and the light will shine bright once again.
(More info in the collectables chapter)

There are the normal and the simplified controls schemes. In the normal mode you use A, D or L2, R2 to paddle left and right. Q, E or L1, R1, are used to back-paddle. In the normal mode you have to time the paddling to gain momentum. A visual indicator will help you with the timing.Alternatively in the simplified mode you use W,A,D or LEFT STICK to move around. No timings.

This can be accessed in the canoe with TAB or D-PAD DOWN and will show you unfinished islands (orange) and skerries (blue). There are also visible markers in the sky to lead you on your journey.

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Glowing Flora and Fauna
Through the whole game you can find glowing plants, flowers and different animals. These can be activated with your color bubble.

Thistles
When activated, these flowers can be picked up when interacting with them. They color the world around you in a small circle. This can be used to walk over broken paths, some blocked areas and they can also activate other flora and fauna.

Hidden Objects
Are most times broken paths or objects, these can be repaired of finding the right perspective. At the right point, you can use the color bubble to activate the restoration.

Fairy Lights
Found on Bròn. These are chains of light, that you need to activate until the whole chain is fully lit up. You activate them with the color bubble.

Time Gates
These gates are mostly two trees resting on each other, forming a gate. They emit a orange glow from some perspectives. Walking through them (or specifically the player camera) will change to an alternative time of the same spot. This can be done over and over.

This is a very basic low compression map of all areas. Everything is marked here, but for more information and detail, have a look at the collectables sub-guide.

I will list all achievements here with a description. There are no missable achievements, you can get them all post game if you miss some. For reference look at the big map that I included in this guide, if you don‘t know where you need to go.

These are guaranteed while playing through the whole game.


For these you need to do something specific or find something.


All of these will unlock after collecting the last thing respectively.

These are a bit harder to find, that‘s why I included a bit more information.


Info: If already unlocked you can find the minigame also on the main menu screen.
This is the bench you have to interact with:

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These are the four spots. They are very easy to reach when you just backtrack the island.

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The time gate and coos are marked on the map. I also added some additional photos from the time gates.

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The collectables are sorted by islands and skerries. For reference of position please have a look at the Map for reference.


Detailed overview of Sealladh

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Detailed overview of Nevi

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Detailed overview of Farray

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Detailed overview of South- & Northray

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Detailed overview of Teaghlach

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Detailed overview of Ronaldsay

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Detailed overview of Bròn

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Detailed overview of Eynhallow

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Detailed overview of Burray

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Detailed overview of Uair

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Detailed overview of Eday


More info about the music note:
This music note is only accessible if you go through a specific time gate on Eday.

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Detailed overview of Hoy

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Detailed overview of Linga Holm

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Detailed overview of Soraidh

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In here I will list some secrets and fun information I know or noticed myself. If you find or notice some on your own, please share them here! I would love to add them.


Comfy Boy (Rest in Peace Barney)
This might be the most obvious one if you found the little minigame. Comfy Boy was one of two dogs that lives with Kyle Banks, the developer of this game. The game on it‘s own is a homage to the early life of Farewell North as a game. To say, bringing the beginning to the end.
(He passed away in February of 2025. Farewell.)

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Old canoe on Sealladh
You can find a stranded old canoe on Sealladh that is actually an early model of the canoe from the alpha of the game.

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Last island Soraidh
This word "Soraidh" has a meaning for Farewell in Gaelic. This just adds a little teaser if you can read Gaelic.

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A map Cailey holds on Eynhallow
This real map of Scotland depicts the islands above Caithness that were the inspiration of where the game takes place.

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Thanks to,
Kyle Banks (Dev) for making this wonderful game
& for providing some awesome overview maps for us!

@CesiScribbles for most art included in this guide. (It looks so awesome!)
@chernia_ for the island outline art included in this guide.

This is my first bigger multi categories guide and I'm still a bit new to the steam formatting..So:
If you notice anything that is wrong or missing in this guide, please write a comment under this guide and I will add it to the guide!

I hope I could help you out in any way. Have a wonderful day~

Guide Version: 1.0