Chapter 7: The Spoil ends with the lamb creature swallowing your friend, while you and your sister watch from behind a bed. You follow it into another room, and that’s where Chapter 8: The Watcher begins.
Reanimal Chapter 8 Walkthrough
The Piano Building
Follow the path forward until you spot a building with its entrance nestled between two large trees, with a hanging lamp above the door. Head inside and climb the stairs. You’ll witness a creature playing the piano before it’s suddenly shot from across the building by an unseen shooter. Go through the door on the left and climb the next flight of stairs. Inside the upstairs room, you’ll find the first Propaganda Poster of this chapter hanging on the wall.
Exit the room and make your way to the right. Be careful — the unknown shooter who took out the soldier earlier, will also fire at you through any gap or opening they can see. When you spot a staircase ahead, don’t go up. Instead, duck into the room underneath the stairs, where you’ll find the second Propaganda Poster hanging on a wooden pillar.
To stay out of the shooter’s line of sight, avoid the stairs entirely and climb the large container beside them — the staircase itself provides cover from above. Give your sister a leg up, and she’ll reach down and pull you up from the top. Use the door up here to enter the next section of the building.
Crossing to the Washing Room
Head to the door at the far end of the aisle and go through it, crossing straight to the other side of the room. You’ll step out onto a high ledge running along the edge of the building — be very careful not to fall here. A wooden plank is already in place to help you cross over to the window of the building across from you. Walk through into the adjacent room and head down the stairs.
You’ll enter a room packed with washing machines. It’s very dark in here, so light your matchstick to see where you’re going. Keep following the path straight through.
The Backyard
Head outside into a ruined backyard area. You’ll notice a plane wreck in the yard, and a creature will emerge from behind it. Dodge and stay out of its reach — before it can catch you, the unknown shooter eliminates it from across the yard.
Keep moving straight and enter the next building, where you’ll find four corpses hanging from wooden pillars, each with a target painted on their body. Whoever the unknown shooter is, they’ve clearly been here before.
On the floor near some crates, you’ll spot a gun — pick it up and shoot the third corpse from the left, as it has a key in its hand. Collect the key and use it to open the door on the right side of the room.
Outside, you’ll find what looks like a safe. Pry it open with your pry bar, and a small mouse-like creature wearing a gas mask will bolt back into the previous room. Head back there, pick up another shotgun, and take it down. Doing so rewards you with this chapter’s first collectible — the Gas Mask.
The Creature Encounter
Go back outside, climb up onto the broken car, and pass through the hole in the crumbling wall. A creature is already waiting on the other side and the screen will wash red the moment you enter. You’ll need to crouch and move carefully, using trolleys as cover to avoid being spotted.
You’ll find the second trolley sitting in the water ahead — get behind it and slowly slide it toward the wall, only moving when the creature isn’t looking in your direction.
When the coast is clear, start climbing the wall. As you do, you’ll accidentally pull down a corpse hanging there, sending it splashing into the water below. The creature will notice immediately. Stay behind the trolley and wait for it to lose interest and move away. Once it does, climb up to the next area safely.
The Upper Floors
Go through the door beneath the red light — you’re now on the fifth floor. Ahead you’ll see an elevator. Pry the doors open with your pry bar to find another Propaganda Poster inside.
Continue into the next room. A soldier will appear directly in front of you and raise his weapon — but just like before, the mysterious shooter takes him out first.
Find your way into the parking lot and head straight through toward the next area. You’ll need to jump across a gap using a car that’s half-hanging off the edge — it’s unstable, so move carefully and quickly, as the shooter will continue firing at you.
After making the jump and landing on a long platform, you’ll spot a car with its red hazard lights on. Get behind it and push it forward with your sister. Keep pushing until it makes contact with the car in front of it. Then pull the car on the left backward to clear the way, and continue pushing the first car forward.
When you see a bus on the left side, run around and take cover inside it — the bus walls will shield you from the shots. From here, you’ll finally be able to see where the shooting is coming from: a tall clock tower directly ahead.
On the left side of the bus, look for a broken section of wall. A bazooka is lying on the floor — crouch down and work with your sister to pull it up. Aim it at the clock tower and fire. The shooting stops.
The Battlefield
Now, walk toward the clock tower. You’ll pass the fallen soldier lying dead in the rubble, and yes he is The Watcher in this chapter. Keep walking straight through into an eerie open battlefield covered with dead soldiers. The path here is straightforward — just keep moving forward.
When you exit the battlefield, you’ll enter a destroyed city with bombed-out buildings on all sides. Artillery strikes will begin raining down around you, so stay alert. Each time a bomb drops, pause and wait, and then sprint forward immediately after. Use cars and piles of rubble as cover whenever you can.
On the left side of the street, you’ll spot a tall opening in a wall with a glowing lamp above it. Head through it. Continue through the passage until you reach a tank. Wait for the soldier guarding it to be taken down, then climb inside with your sister.
That’s the end of Chapter 8: The Watcher. You’ll pick up in Chapter 9: All-Consuming Past, where you’ll be driving the tank.
All Collectibles in Reanimal Chapter 8 – The Watcher Walkthrough
| Category | Item | Location/Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Masks | Gas Mask | Dropped by the mouse-like creature after being shot in the corpse room |
| Propaganda Posters | Poster #1 | On the wall in the upstairs room of the piano building |
| Poster #2 | Hanging on a wooden pillar in the room under the staircase | |
| Poster #3 | Inside the elevator on the fifth floor — pry the doors open to access | |
| Bosses / Encounters | Creature (Backyard) | Eliminated automatically by the mysterious shooter — just dodge until it’s gone |
| Mouse Creature | Shoot it in the corpse room after prying open the safe — drops the Gas Mask | |
| Clock Tower Soldier | Eliminated using the bazooka found next to the bus |
Chapter 8: The Watcher is about always feeling like something is watching and chasing you. It starts with slow sneaking sections, then changes into more intense bombing runs near the end, which keeps things interesting. After you get into the tank, you move on to Chapter 9: All-Consuming Past.