In Falsus Story Walkthrough

• ▸Story scenes are visual-novel style: click to advance, with back, auto-play, fast-forward and log buttons in the top-right corner — nothing story-related is missable.
• ▸The first choice you're offered — Prioritize Scenario or Challenge Rhythm Game — only affects the initial tutorial; it locks nothing.
• ▸The Scenario Timeline organizes the story by month, day and time of day, with one color-coded line per character; finished scenes can be re-read at any time.
• ▸Story progress unlocks songs, cards and Encounters — in the demo, Arc 1 ends by unlocking 'Deep Into The Vibe' and a card battle against the Thief.

Everything through the 'How the Scenario works' section is spoiler-free — mechanics only. The Arc 1 section at the bottom shows real demo scenes (v0.3.x) with light story spoilers, and a warning sits right before it starts. This page covers only what the current demo shows on screen — nothing here comes from datamining or the full release.

Screenshots come from two full playthroughs: iami's clean no-commentary run (used for the prologue and the priority choice) and TrappyTheDemon's demo v0.3 scenario run (used for the Timeline and Arc 1). Every image deep-links to the exact timestamp it was captured from.

The Scenario is In Falsus's story mode, and the v0.3 demo update added a fresh slice of it: new Scenario content, a trial of the Card Integration system, and an additional unlockable song. Here is the whole loop, mechanics only.

1. 1

   Read (or skip) the opening narration

   The game opens on black with a narrator's lines — "This is it. Let her hear it: / A requiem for a world bound by 'truth'." Story scenes play like a visual novel: text types out and advances on click. If you're here for the charts, every scene can be fast-forwarded and re-read later.

   

2. 2

   Choose Scenario-first or Rhythm-first

   Early on, the game asks you to pick between "Prioritize Scenario" and "Challenge Rhythm Game". The dialog states outright that the game can be progressed at any difficulty level and that this option only affects the initial tutorial — it does not limit your game experience. Pick whichever matches your mood; nothing is locked behind either answer.

   

3. 3

   Learn the ADV controls

   Story scenes keep four buttons in the top-right corner: step back, auto-play, fast-forward and the backlog log. The backlog is the one to remember — it replays any line you clicked past too fast, which matters in a game where names and dates pile up quickly.

   

4. 4

   Enter the Scenario from the Hub

   The Hub's SCENARIO panel shows your current position — arc number and name, the point-of-view character, and the in-world date down to the time of day — with a VIEW TIMELINE button. After the v0.3 update a tooltip points you there: "Continue your journey by visiting the Scenario Timeline."

   

5. 5

   Read the Timeline tutorial

   The game introduces the Timeline in its own words: "This is the Timeline where the Scenario can be read. Previously read scenes can be re-read at any time." and "Navigate through each character's entries and uncover the interconnecting narrative of In Falsus." Re-reading is free and unlimited.

   

6. 6

   Read the Timeline itself

   The Timeline lays the story out as a chart: a month selector on the left, a day ruler across the top, and one colored horizontal line per character with their portrait. Each node is a scene, stamped with its day and time of day — Morning, Noon or Afternoon. Padlocked nodes are not available yet (in the demo they read 'Not available in demo version'), and available scenes carry an UNREAD tag until you finish them.

   

7. 7

   Select a node to play the scene

   Click a node on a character's line — here, the 8/28 Noon scene on the green line — to view its details and start reading. Scenes play in the visual-novel format from step 1, and once finished they stay on the Timeline for re-reading.

   

From here on, this page shows real Arc 1 scenes from the demo. Spoilers stay light — who appears and what a scene looks like, not plot resolutions — but stop here if you'd rather go in blind. The demo's Arc 1 interleaves two point-of-view threads, Mei's classroom storyline and Iris's alley confrontation, and ends with a song unlock and an Encounter.

1. 8

   Mei's classroom (POV thread 1)

   Arc 1 opens inside Mei's head — literally: you read her first-person inner thoughts ("I look at my teacher.") rather than an omniscient narrator. Each scene belongs to one character's point of view, and the Timeline's per-character lines are what keep the threads straight.

   

2. 9

   Meeting Nia

   Mei's thread soon crosses with Nia's. Dialogue scenes show both characters on screen under the city skyline, with a color-coded nameplate on the current speaker — pink for Nia here. The stammer in her first line ("Y-You're li...listening to the") tells you who is nervous before any plot point does.

   

3. 10

   Iris's alley confrontation (POV thread 2)

   The second thread follows Iris, and it is a different register entirely: a shakedown under the expressway that she narrates in clipped first person — "My phone hits him, and he stumbles. Something clatters to the ground—a knife." The demo intercuts the two threads day by day on the Timeline.

   

4. 11

   The shatter cutscene

   Iris's thread peaks in a wordless special cutscene: the world fracturing into a tunnel of red shards. It arrives with no dialogue at all — the ADV text box disappears and the CG does the talking. What it means is exactly the kind of question you expect the full story to tackle.

   

5. 12

   Story progress unlocks a song

   Finish the Arc 1 sequence and the scenario pays out in gameplay: the song "Deep Into The Vibe" by rejection unlocks straight from the story, revealed with its jacket art and three difficulty tiers — 3, 6 and 10. The LOADOUT button leads directly into the fight the scene has been building toward.

   

6. 13

   Equip cards at Loadout Select

   Before the Encounter, the game runs its Loadout Select tutorial: "New Cards are unlocked by progressing through the Scenario. Later, you will also unlock the ability to improve existing Cards." You equip two cards by dragging them into slots, and the screen compares your total Power and Defense against the opponent's — Iris versus the Thief.

   

7. 14

   Fight the story Encounter

   The Encounter itself is a rhythm battle, and the tutorial spells out the stakes: EXACTs deal standard damage, NEARs deal half, and BREAKs deal none while letting the opponent land a 5x Critical Hit. You play the chart over the course of the song and your accuracy is the attack roll — story, cards and charts all cash out on the same screen.

   

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