Markus Ritter: The Lost Family
Game Details: Mystery, 2021
Steam Achievements: Completed (8/8)
Links: Moby Games, Steam, Adventure Gamers
Walkthrough Updated: 1/6/2025
Suggested Listening: Caught Up in the Panic (Ash 25)
Day 1
Apartment
Pick up the phone from the small bedside table. Leave the bedroom to enter the main living area. Examine the shelves on the right side of the room, then try to use the coffee machine - you are out of coffee. Back out from the shelving. Try to go outside by walking left from here, but you won't go outside without getting changed. Turn around and use the door on the left to get dressed - you will also get a call from your boss.
Back in the kitchen, use the sink to drink water twice, then turn around and go through the left door to use the bathroom flush.
Now head outside by going left from the kitchen. Examine the mailbox and take the bright yellow package of coffee (as well as the rest of your mail from the mailbox). Go back inside. Put the mail on the dining table, then examine it thoroughly. Take the coffee from the yellow package.
In the kitchen, go to the shelves again and use the coffee on the coffee machine. Now you can go back outside and walk away from your apartment to see a map of the area (for the rest of the game, you can get to the map by using the map icon on your phone). Select the church, which is the white building to the northwest.
Church
Walk forward twice to enter the church. Go right and use the camera in your inventory to take a photo (1/9). Back out, then go left and take a photo (2/9). Continue right from here to take another photo (3/9). Use the map on your phone to travel to the castle, which is to the southeast.
Castle
Start by going right, forward and right again. Take a photo (4/9), then interact with the water Quack. From here, go back, left and forward 4 times to reach a park bench. Take the left path and go forward 4 more times to find another bench. Sit on this bench chill.
Go back 5 times to return to the previous bench. Now take the right path and continue right and forward 3 times. Take a photo (5/9). Head back 4 times, then go forward twice, right and forward. Take another photo (6/9). Use the map on your phone to travel to the ruins, which are to the southwest.
Ruins
Go forward 12 times, then take the path up to the right and go forward twice more. Take a photo (7/9). Head back 3 times, then take the lower path to the left. Continue forward 4 times and take another photo (8/9). Now go right, forward, right and forward. Take the final photo (9/9) picture perfect. Use the map on your phone to travel to your publisher (with the icon of a book and glasses).
Publisher
Examine the white button on the right wall and you will go through to meet with the receptionist, then the publisher. Once you are alone, walk forward into the next room and examine the papers at the bottom left - further examine the Voodoo Murders manuscript. Once you are back outside, use the map on your phone to travel to your apartment (the coffee machine).
Apartment
After automatically heading inside, go into your bedroom and examine the bed another dream another nightmare.
Day 2
Apartment
Go out to the kitchen. Examine the shelves on the right and use the coffee machine. Turn around and enter the bathroom to get changed, then return to the kitchen and go outside by heading left.
Check the mail, then go back inside and put the newspaper on the dining table. Examine the newspaper, then use the laptop. Click on "Pottendorf" on the left, then click on the photo of the woman. Use the map on your phone to travel to the graveyard, just to the northeast.
Graveyard
Walk forward 5 times to come to a large intersection, then take the road leading to the right in the distance. Continue forward 7 times, then examine the graves on the right. Examine twice more and you will suggest getting some candles the lost family.
Back out from the graves, then go forward to return to the large intersection. Go back 5 times. Examine the shop on the right to buy 2 red candles. Go forward 5 times to the intersection again. Take the far red path and continue forward 7 times to reach the graves. Place candles in the 2 candle holders on either side of the central gravestone. Use the map on your phone to travel back to your apartment.
Apartment
Look at the small side table in the living area and read the letter near your camera - you will find a key. Use the map on your phone to travel to the house, marked by a red cross to the east.
House
Walk forward and use the key on the wooden door to the right. Enter the room on the left and search the small white refrigerator to get a pot. Go back 3 times to leave the house, then go forward twice, continue forward to the left, and go forward once more. examine the axe on the ground and you will chop some wood. Go back 4 times, then enter the house again.
Go left into the left and examine the old oven on the right. Put your wood inside the oven, then place the pot on top of it. Examine the pot to get another key. Go right, then back twice to return outside. Head forward twice, then turn right and climb up the stairs. Continue forward and examine the chest, then use the key on the lock the end.
You will end up back in the kitchen. Look at the high shelves on the left, then examine the wine to take a bottle. Go back, then enter the room on the right. Examine the chair, then use the wine on the chair unclear future.