We survived space.

We survived the woods.

And now we’ve traveled into another time period.

⏰ OH NO.

Remember Paradox Junction?

“Okay, we messed around with space. Nothing bad could happen with time, right?”

Apparently Willard heard that and went:

🎬 “BET.”

😂

⚡ 1. TURN ON ALL FOUR POWER SWITCHES

Shaolin Shuffle goes back to the multiple-power-switch system. You need four generators:

1. Spawn Subway — on a pillar near the subway car.

2. Inferno Disco — on the rooftop near the door marked with the power symbol.

3. Deadeye Dewdrops area — mounted on the courtyard wall.

4. Bang Bangs Subway — underground, across the tracks from the perk machine.

Once all four are active, you’ve got access to the areas we’ll need later.

📽️ 2. UNLOCK PACK-A-PUNCH

Pack-a-Punch requires three quest items:

🎟️ Pink Cat Flyer
🪙 Token/Coin
🎞️ Film Reel

The Film Reel and Flyer can appear in several locations, so this isn’t one where you should memorize a single spawn and assume the item vanished if it isn’t there.

The goal is to gain access to the Pink Cat, open its projector room, and install the Film Reel.

The repaired projector creates:

🌀 A PORTAL.

Enter it and—

🔧 PACK-A-PUNCH.

As with Rave, you’re only allowed inside the projection room for about 30 seconds before the movie kicks you back out.

🥋 3. MEET PAM GRIER

Head to:

🐈‍⬛ BLACK CAT DOJO.

Inside is the Shaolin Sister herself:

🥋 PAM GRIER.

Starting around Round 5, Pam lets you choose one of four Chi fighting styles. You’ll complete the challenges shown on your HUD to level that Chi ability. For the Main Quest, the important milestone is unlocking your:

⭐ CHI SHURIKEN.

We need it for the rat hunt.

🐀 4. FIND THE RAT

Scattered around the map are rat cages.

One contains an actual rat.

Use your Chi Shuriken on that cage and:

🐀 A YELLOW RAT ESCAPES.

Follow him.

He’ll run to another cage.

Hit that cage.

Follow him again.

Repeat this process through:

SIX RAT CAGES.

At the end of the trail, the rat leaves you an item and a:

🟡 YELLOW MAGIC CIRCLE

appears.

🟡 5. FILL THE CIRCLE

Defeat zombies while they’re within the yellow circle.

After enough souls are collected, you’ll trigger a wave of:

🥷 NINJAS.

Survive it.

They’ll leave behind:

🔑 A LOCKER KEY.

Take that key underground to the subway by Bang Bangs.

Find the lockers.

Open the correct one.

Inside you’ll see:

🔑 SOULKEY.

Well.

That’s suspiciously straightforward.

We’re definitely nowhere near actually getting the Soul Key. 😂

🀄 6. THE FOUR CHINESE SYMBOLS

Now we have our first proper puzzle.

And we’re sticking to our rule:

❌ “SHOOT THE SYMBOLS.”

✅ “HERE ARE THE ACTUAL SYMBOL POSITIONS.”

You must shoot four markings in a specific order. Hitting the wrong one—or hitting a correct symbol extra times—can reset the sequence. A gong confirms correct progress.

🀄 SYMBOL #1

Outside spawn, to the right of the Black Cat Dojo.

There are markings there.

Shoot the LEFT symbol.

🀄 SYMBOL #2

Go inside the Inferno Disco bathroom.

Look through the zombie barrier/window where you’ll see four symbols.

Shoot the SECOND symbol from the left.

🀄 SYMBOL #3

Go to the Deadeye Dewdrops/Lion statue area.

You’ll see three markings.

Shoot the FIRST one.

🀄 SYMBOL #4

Same group.

Shoot the SECOND one.

Correctly completing all four produces a louder gong.

And now we’ve summoned—

👑🐀 THE RAT KING.

👑 7. RAT KING FIGHT #1 — THE EYE

Return outside the Black Cat Dojo.

A Rat King symbol has appeared.

Activate it to start your first encounter.

Damage the Rat King until he retreats/is defeated for this stage.

He drops:

👁️ THE RAT KING’S EYE.

Pick it up.

🥋 8. TALK TO PAM

⚠️ DON’T SKIP THIS.

Return to Pam after collecting the Eye.

Talking to her activates the next quest stage.

The Eye gives you temporary supernatural vision.

Use its activation and you’ll be able to see hidden:

🟠 RAT KING SYMBOLS.

You need:

SIX.

But they appear one at a time in random order.

So unfortunately we can’t simply say:

1 → 2 → 3 → 4 → 5 → 6.

You have to search the possible spawn locations after every successful symbol.

👁️ 9. FIND SIX HIDDEN RAT SYMBOLS

Possible locations include:

🐈‍⬛ Above the Black Cat Dojo door

💈 Through the barber-shop window beside the Dojo

🚇 Behind/near the subway stairs at Bang Bangs

🪩 On the Inferno Disco marquee

🚓 On the police car near Bombstoppers

🏢 On a distant building around the RPR Evo rooftop

👕 On the hanging sheet/clothesline near Deadeye

🚇 High on the metal structure behind the train at Spawn

🔊 Behind the large speaker near Heebie Geebies

💧 On the distant water tower from the Disco roof

🪩 On an air duct visible through the Disco rooftop

🔥 In the blue room near Trail Blazers

…and another elevated window location around the rooftops near the Dojo.

Use the Eye.

Find the glowing orange Rat King marking.

Hit it.

Then start searching again.

After:

👁️ 6/6

something happens underground.

☎️ 10. THE PAYPHONE STARTS RINGING

Head into the subway.

One of the payphones will be ringing.

Answer it.

And the game plays:

• — • • — — • —

MORSE CODE.

Oh good.

📚 ZOMBIES HAS BECOME HOMEWORK AGAIN.

😂

The code represents a three-digit number. Community documentation lists the possible results as:

713

420

407

596

281

818.

Short tones are dots.

Long tones are dashes.

Write each Morse character down, translate the digits, and keep your resulting three-digit number.

🎬 11. FIND THE MATCHING “NIGHTMARE SUMMER” POSTER

Around the map are Nightmare Summer movie posters.

Look at the small three-digit number printed on them.

You’re looking for:

YOUR MORSE-CODE NUMBER.

For example, if your telephone translated to:

☎️ 713

you need the:

🎬 NIGHTMARE SUMMER — 713

poster.

Interact with the matching poster and collect it.

And now comes one of those Zombies puzzles.

🧠 12. THE CIPHER

This part is randomized, so there is no universal answer I can responsibly give you.

The poster/cipher stage ultimately requires you to determine and enter the correct word rather than copying somebody else’s playthrough. Successfully entering the correct cipher solution produces another gong and advances the quest.

And once you’ve successfully deciphered it…

Guess who’s back.

👑🐀 RAT KING II:

THE RATENING.

🧠 13. RAT KING FIGHT #2

A second Rat King symbol becomes available around the Deadeye/RPR Evo rooftop-water-tower area.

Activate it.

Fight the Rat King again.

After enough damage, he drops:

🧠 THE RAT KING’S BRAIN.

Collect it.

Current collection:

👁️ EYE

🧠 BRAIN

We need one more.

🥋 14. RETURN TO PAM

Take the Brain back to Pam at the Dojo.

Speak with her.

Then prepare yourself, because the quest intentionally makes you wait before the next attack.

After the required round progression:

🔥 THE DOJO LOCKS DOWN.

Enemies pour in while magical fire blocks the exits.

Survive the entire siege.

Once it’s over, a piece of a:

🚇 SUBWAY TURNSTILE

appears near the Dojo entrance.

Grab it.

🚇 15. REPAIR THE TURNSTILE

Take the piece back to the Spawn subway.

Find the broken turnstile and repair it.

Next, head toward the Mule Munchies/Bombstoppers alley and climb up.

Look through the open window across the way.

There’s another hidden symbol.

🎯 ACTIVATE IT.

This spawns a sequence of:

🟡 MAGIC CIRCLES.

🟡 16. FILL EVERY MAGIC CIRCLE

The circles can appear around places such as:

Mule Munchies/Bombstoppers alley
Disco private room
Park path near Deadeye Dewdrops
RPR Evo area
Spawn subway.

At each one:

🧟 GET ZOMBIES INSIDE THE CIRCLE.

💥 DEFEAT THEM THERE.

Roughly 5–10 are needed per circle according to detailed community documentation.

When a circle is finished:

✨ IT DISAPPEARS.

Move to the next.

Finish all of them until:

🔔 GONG.

🪩 17. DISCO INFERNO HOT POTATO

Go into:

🪩 DISCO INFERNO.

Interact with the DJ booth upstairs.

Down on the dance floor appears a zombie carrying a glowing:

🪩 DISCO BALL.

Here’s the part you actually need to understand.

Bring another normal zombie onto the dance floor.

Then defeat:

ONLY THE ZOMBIE CURRENTLY HOLDING THE DISCO BALL.

The ball transfers to another zombie.

Repeat.

You need to transfer it through approximately:

🪩 10 DISCO ZOMBIES.

⚠️ IMPORTANT

If you eliminate the Disco Zombie when there isn’t another valid zombie on the dance floor, you can reset your progress.

So don’t just blast everything in sight.

Ball carrier → next zombie → ball carrier → next zombie.

Once you’ve completed enough transfers:

🔔 GONG.

❤️ 18. RAT KING FIGHT #3

Another Rat King symbol appears outside, around the street in front of the Pink Cat/Theater area.

Activate it.

And for the third time:

👑🐀 RAT KING.

Defeat him.

This time he leaves:

❤️ THE RAT KING’S HEART.

We now possess:

👁️ EYE

🧠 BRAIN

❤️ HEART.

That is an extremely concerning inventory.

⚠️ 19. FINAL BOSS PREPARATION

THIS IS OUR POINT OF NO RETURN.

Return to Pam and speak with her once you’re ready.

Before entering the Rat King’s lair, make sure you’re fully prepared for a long fight. One particularly important warning from detailed community documentation is to bring something with plenty of ammunition because the Eye challenge requires you to hit symbols, and running dry during that section can effectively stall the run.

When everybody is ready:

🐀 ENTER THE RAT KING’S LAIR.

Complete the required round inside to initiate the final encounter.

👑🐀 20. RAT KING — FINAL BOSS

The Rat King appears with his shield, staff and accompanying enemies.

Damage him until you’ve dealt enough for him to retreat upward.

Then the three organs appear:

👁️ EYE

🧠 BRAIN

❤️ HEART.

Here’s the cool part:

YOU CAN CHOOSE THE ORDER.

Each organ starts a different boss challenge.

👁️ EYE CHALLENGE

Activate the Eye challenge.

Use the Rat King’s Eye ability.

Hidden symbols begin appearing around the ceiling as the Eye moves around the arena.

Without Eye vision:

❌ YOU CAN’T PROPERLY SEE THEM.

With Eye vision:

👁️ SYMBOL VISIBLE.

Hit the symbols quickly as they appear until the Eye phase is completed.

🧠 BRAIN CHALLENGE

Activate:

🧠 BRAIN.

Enemies begin swarming around the Brain while the Rat King interferes.

Your priority is managing the Rat King and protecting/progressing the Brain objective until the phase completes.

Finishing an organ challenge gives you a Max Ammo in the center, and detailed guides note that these drops don’t immediately disappear—so don’t waste one when you’re already stocked.

❤️ HEART CHALLENGE

Activate:

❤️ HEART.

The arena becomes covered with hazardous green acid zones.

The solution is:

DEFEAT ENEMIES WHILE THEY’RE IN THE ACID.

Successful kills progressively clear the acid.

Continue until you’ve cleaned all the required sections and complete the Heart challenge.

👑 21. FINISH THE RAT KING

Complete:

👁️ EYE

🧠 BRAIN

❤️ HEART

and finish the remaining Rat King confrontation.

👑🐀💥 RAT KING DEFEATED.

That triggers the ending sequence and completes the Main Quest.

And most importantly:

🔑 SOUL KEY #3 — ACQUIRED.