Medal Game Walkthrough Table of Contents

Narcolyxii is a defense game, set inside your worst nightmare. Literally. The gameplay is pretty straightforward, so I will present in this guide some general gameplay tips, followed by in-game specific information, followed by the list of medals.

Gameplay Tips
You don't need to actually move when between nightmares, but going to the right reveals sentences.

Your gun will hit whatever is closest to it in the direction it's pointing, even if it's technically past the end of the barrel.

Your gun will hit two targets at once if they overlap.

The pig-looking thing that comes out of the second-level enemies counts as something to hit, so if it's between your gun and what you're aiming at you'll hit the pig-looking thing instead of what you want to hit. Similarly, your chaingun and TLOD will target it on its way down, making the weapon useless until the pig thing is out of range.

You can hit things that are off-screen to the right, which means they don't count as inside your base for quite a while.

If you're firing at the end of a level, and you're using the mouse, you don't need to keep holding the mouse button to keep firing; it will have you stuck on firing, so all you need to do is aim. This will continue after a level of only aiming as well, which means you only actually need to hold the mouse button for one level.

When mashing the spacebar at the end, make sure you don't hit the Alt key, or it will stop working properly.

You don't ever need to play past level 4 to get to an ending, you only need to do so if you want the various gun purchasing medals. In fact I recommend not playing past level 4 if you don't have to.

When the black enemies that bob up and down show up, make sure you aim just below their life bar regardless of their visible location on the screen. They take damage where the shield is, not where they are, and your weapons will just go right through them. Aim where they should be, not where they are.

When your bullet hits a reality fragment, your next bullet if fired during the flash of reality will not actually fire.

The game gets laggy in later levels, and it resets to high quality every level. You can reduce the quality by right-clicking and setting the quality manually.

Starting on level 30 there are serious gameplay problems, where entire groups of enemies will spawn indestructible, and after failing the level more enemies will spawn during your little walking expedition. You will then be thrown back into the nightmare without getting a chance to restock on powerups. If you're still playing at this point, I recommend closing and re-opening the game window, as enemies that didn't make it off-screen between nightmares will count as breeches during the nightmare, although you cannot hit them with anything.

If you load your game after winning, you cannot win again as you can only achieve exactly 100% reality once. To get both endings (and thus both medals) you need to start the game over again after the first one.

Game Information
The following levels have reality fragments: 1, 4, 7, 10, 13, 15, 20, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29, 30 (may be more after 31, but I wasn't able to get there).

Research Purchases
Interior Defense - $4000 (doubles number of allowed breeches)
Strong Will - $4000 (makes it much easier to get the good ending)

Upgrading Your Starting Cannon
Firing Speed - $400, $900, $2000, $6000, $10000 (Super Generator)
Damage - $600, $1000, $4000, $7000, $12000 (Magma Core)

VX Land Obliterator - $5000 to purchase
- Angle Upgrade - $4000 (bugged? Seems to take your money but have no effect)
Liquid Nitrogen Generator - $2000 to purchase
- Intensity Upgrade - $1000, $1000
- A.I. targetting - 3000
Stasis Generator - $10000 to purchase
Denarian Chaingun - $7000 to purchase (only fires forward, always targets most recent enemy in range)
- Intensity Upgrade - $4000, $5000
The Line Of Death (TLOD) - $15000 to purchase
- Intensity Upgrade - $7000, $12000

Medals (11 medals, 420pts)
Enter The Nightmare (5pts) - Survive the first wave of attackers. Pretty self explanatory, I think.

Deadzone (10pts) - Purchase the Stasis Generator. Do what the man says.

Frosty The Ownman (10pts) - Purchase the Liquid Nitrogen Generator. Ditto.

Imma' Chargin' Mah Laser (10pts) - Purchase the VX Land Obliterator. Who needs land, anyway?

Spray Them Down (10pts) - Purchase the Deranian Chaingun. Those Deranians and their toys...

Ol' Skinny (25pts) - Purchase The Line of Death. Even Death has lines to memorize...

Lazy (50pts) - Purchase all of the Auto-fire turrets. This medal requires the LN Generator upgraded to A.I. Targetting, the Land Obliterator, the Chaingun and the TLOS. No other upgrades are required.

Lock And Load (50pts) - Purchase every single turret. - Lazy + Stasis Generator - A.I. Targetting.

The Eternal Sleep (50pts) - Get the bad ending. After you collect 10 reality fragments you'll get to mash the spacebar for a bit, and if you do it fast enough you get the good ending. If you don't, you get the bad ending. To get this medal, fail the spacebar mashing.

The Awakening (100pts) - Get the good ending. You know how you need to fail the spacebar mashing to get that last medal? Don't do that.

The VX Specialist (100pts) - Beat the entire game without purchasing a single gun. Get to level 4, and go no further. Collect the reality fragments on level 4 when they appear, and kill a bunch of things, but don't kill enough to beat the level. When you have $4000 built up, buy the Strong Will, but don't buy anything else. Once you have the Strong Will and 10 reality fragments, you'll get the medal, and then which ending you receive will depend upon your spacebar mashing ability.