Love ritual: Walkthrough with Puzzles & Common Bugs

Currently the achievements don’t appear on Steam, the developer explained they were working during the closed beta, but not anymore after the full release. Despite the fact they stated they are working on a fix together with Steam, there is no update regarding this bug and the incoming fix since April 2019.

CG replacing the background

This one is particularly annoying as it prevents you to load or to save anything as the CG will replace the menu. This bug seems to happen with a specific CG you get at the end of the game and you start another game or load a save after finishing the game and having unlocked said CG.
The best way to get rid of this is to log out from your computer session and to log back in after. Quitting the game or Steam don’t work on their own. If the problem persists after logging off, try to restart.

If your skip is set on “Seen All” and you click on Skip while the next text hasn’t been seen, the skip mode will bug and no matter how many time you’ll click on the text, this one won’t change.
Click a second time on the Skip button to unlock the chat. When the skip mode is on, the triangle of the button are green, but the color difference is honestly hard to see, but that’s the reason why you’re stuck: The game can’t skip, yet keeps you in skip mode, preventing you to manually progress.

This bug happened to me only once, the chat box was empty and there was no choice for me to make. I could interact with the light in the room, but was stuck with the text not appearing.
First try to click on the skip button then back on the chat. Try that twice as you may not have been in skip mode yet it bugged you.
If it persists, try to launch one of the auto save (1st page of saves, the two at the bottom). I encourage you to try to use an automatic save or to load a previous save to get rid of that bug as even if you save and load back the save after quitting the game, your save will be bugged all the same.

If you have the feeling that you’re completely stuck during a puzzle and whatever you’re clicking on, the story doesn’t progress, it may be because you didn’t click on everything.
Check the puzzles walkthrough bellow to find the appropriate combination and order (when relevant) to make sure that you clicked everything. More precision will be given for each puzzle as I noticed they can bug in different points depending on the puzzle.

The important choices are in bold type.
The puzzles are underlined and in bold type.

• Shake Shanrae’s hand first.
• I’ll be seeing you first .
• I’d love to, but work first.
• Acknowledge his opinion but remain neutral.
• First Crime Scene puzzle.
• Yes.
• Ritual Reconstitution puzzle.
• Continue (unlock “Demolition Expert” achievement).
• Thank you, this will help a bit.
• Not really.
• Protect the innocents.
• I promised the truth.
• People are good and bad.
• Break the law ?
• Accept.
• I have a duty.
• I must get something ?
• No one yet.
• I go by the book. (unlock “Proper Princess” achievement).
• There’s something bigger at stake here.
• Meet with Shanrae today.
• Second Crime Scene Puzzle.
• Pick any option during Riilai’s explanations regarding the second ritual (unlock “Elementary, my dear Watson!” achievement no matter what you pick).
• The innocents may suffer.

• Shanrae, he looks more reliable.
• Offensive Ritual puzzle.
• Pick the option you prefer, it doesn’t affect the end of the story.
• Attack the Spheres (unlock “Ideal Partner: Shanrae” achievement).

• Shake Kalaseth’s hand first.
• I’ll be seeing Kalaseth first.
• Probably.
• Protect the innocents.
• I promised the truth.
• People are good and bad.
• Break the law ?
• Accept.
• I have a duty.
• I must get something ?
• No one yet.
• I go by the book.
• We don’t have time.
• Calling him out on being too forceful.
• First Crime Scene puzzle.
• Yes.
• Ritual Reconstitution puzzle.
• Continue (unlock “Demolition Expert” achievement).
• There’s something bigger at stake here.
• Meet with Seth today.
• Second Crime Scene Puzzle.
• Pick any option during Riilai’s explanations regarding the second ritual (unlock “Elementary, my dear Watson!” achievement.
• The innocents may suffer.

• Seth, even drunk, he still is the better mage.
• Offensive Ritual puzzle.
• Pick the option you prefer, it doesn’t affect the end of the story.
• Attack the Spheres (unlock “Ideal Partner: Seth” achievement).

• Shanrae, he looks more reliable.
• Offensive Ritual puzzle.
• Pick the option you prefer, it doesn’t affect the end of the story.
• Attack the Spheres.

• Seth, even drunk, he still is the better mage.
• Offensive Ritual puzzle.
• Pick the option you prefer, it doesn’t affect the end of the story.
• Attack the Spheres.

Make a mistake during the Offensive Ritual Puzzle (unlock “Are you sure you’re a ritualist?” achievement).

During the fight, pick any of the two firsts options.

• Tree piercing the Ceiling.
• Torches.
• Incense.
• Shanrae.
• Pentagram.
• Cauldron.
• Bowl.
• Pins on the wall.
• Fireplace.
• Bones.
• Accumulator (the bamboo structure).

The order to click on the elements doesn’t matter.
If you can’t select any element on the scene, try to click on the skip button.

• Incense
• Torches (drag them to the pin on the wall).
• Bones.
• Cauldron.
• Shanrae (he will put the cauldron in place).
• Accumulator’s groove.
• Fireplace.
• Bowl (drag it under the cauldron).
• Pentagram.
• Select “Continue” to unlock “Demolition Expert” achievement.

If you can’t select any element on the scene, try to click on the skip button.

• Incense.
• Cupboard (will give you keys).
• Torches (hidden behind wall, use the wooden beam).
• Chest (will use the keys).
• Small pouch.
• Pentagram.
• Square (will give you square).
• Cauldron spout.
• Bowl.
• Cauldron.
• Accumulator.
• Bones.
• Retort (glass shards under the accumulator put them back in place as shown on the screenshot below).
• Set of small pouches.
• Ring (Table on the extreme right, use the hammer on the square to get the “Lvl. 99 Safecracker” achievement or the file to get “Perfect Crime” achievement).
• Ring Stone (burnt logs next to the torches).

The order to click on the elements doesn’t matter.
If you can’t select any element on the scene, try to click on the skip button.