Overview
This guide will give you the locations for all 16 hidden flowers required to unlock the Flowers achievement, complete with images and descriptions. It also contains notes on the other current achievements.
Introduction
Before referring to this guide I recommend trying your best at locating the flowers yourself, as some of them are very cleverly hidden and thus are very satisfying to find on your own.
If you’re only reading this guide to get a hint at which chapters to explore further, stop reading at the “Flower Achievement” section. It contains a list of the number of flowers you’ll find in each chapter.
Story Achievements
The following achievements all unlock during the course of the game:
- New Beginning (complete chapter Outskirts, section 1)
- Stolen Colors (start chapter Zeppelin, section 1)
- The Fall (complete chapter Zeppelin, section 8)
Conscience Achievement
At the end of section 4 in the Factory chapter you’ll find a room with two huge inactive presses, a robot and three levers.
Use the robot to reach the platform on the left, walk to the left edge and jump up to a platform on the left. From here leap onto the middle lever without touching the left lever, and jump from the middle lever to the right lever to open a garage on floor level.
Now go down and park the robot safely at the left end of the garage, so that you can still climb from it up to the levers. Only now activate the left lever to start the presses and unlock the achievement.
Flowers Achievement
This achievement is rewarded for collecting all 16 flowers in the game and is the main focus of this guide. The distribution of flowers per chapter is as follows:
- Outskirts: 6
- Ghetto: 4
- Factory: 5
- Zeppelin: 1
Use these numbers as a reference if you’re still looking for flowers and only want to narrow down your search.
The following sections will show you how to find all 16 flowers in Monochroma.
Flowers in Outskirts
Close to the beginning. In the next room to the right from where you start, you’ll find the flower on the upper left ledge.
Towards the end of the section there’s a shed with a burning barrel inside. Drag the barrel out to the left and let the rain put out the fire. Then stand on the barrel to reach the top of the shed.
In the corn field you climb over a well just before you get to where the truck starts chasing after you. Enter the well from the right and climb down the ladder. You’ll find the flower floating at the bottom.
At the very beginning. After pulling the container over the edge to clear your passage, climb all the way back down the ladder. You’ll find that the container has cleared a passage for you to reach the flower.
At the very beginning. Jump off to the second floor from the bottom while climbing the ladder to find the flower.
After avoiding the red fumes while standing on and hanging from the moving platform, jump down and go all the way to the left.
Flowers in Ghetto
At the very beginning. Just walk a short distance to the left from where you start.
At the very end. Jump off the wire to the window below that of the robot’s apartment.
After getting to the roof past the area with the two elevators, use the hanging pallet as a ram to knock down the wall to the right.
Close to the end, in the area with the huge hollow tube. Push the crate past the red fumes, but don’t let it drop. Climb onto it and jump as far up and to the right as you can get. Then jump back left to the opposite ledge and walk left to reach the flower.
Flowers in Factory
Close to the beginning. After using the platforms to knock down the crate, align them so that you can cross to the upper left pipe in the room when you have ridden the crate up on the rising water. The last jump can be a bit tricky because of the camera angle.
Towards the end of the section. Climb up the left ladder and go left to find the flower.
In the room with the four platforms going left and right, reach the upper right ledge and climb down the ladder to reach the room containing the flower.
Close to the beginning of the level. After pulling loose the flame throwing pipe, you can climb up onto it. Walk left through an opening and all the way left over the beams to reach a small balcony with a flower.
In the middle of the level with the eye chasing you. It’s in plain sight when you reach the far right before climbing up to start going back in the other direction.
Flower in Zeppelin
At the very beginning. On the balcony with the lever which controls the jaw of the crane, step up to the left to go through the window into a room containing a small bouquet of flowers.
Freedom Achievement
As far as I know it’s currently not known how, if at all possible, to unlock this achievement. It’s possible that it’s related to content that was a part of the Monochroma Kickstarter‘s $160,000 stretch goal that wasn’t reached. You’ll come across the kite at the very end of the first section of the Outskirts chapter, but I have so far found no way of actually reaching the kite.
EDIT: It has now been confirmed that the “Freedom” achievement is unachievable:
Originally posted by Burak Tezateser:Sorry for the extra Freedom achievement, we will be removing it in a few days in our next update. Achievements have been designed before the release and we were hoping to implement that feature but we didn’t have enough time.
EDIT 2: The achievement has now been removed, but it will hopefully be added back in the future.
Originally posted by Nowhere Studios:Kite achievement will be executed in 5 steps, you must free the kite in secret places in order to get an additonal ending change (Not an alternative ending, just a bit addition to it). We hope we will add this achievement later!
Notes
I welcome suggestions on improvements for this guide. If I find that some of the screenshots or descriptions aren’t clear enough, I’ll do my best to improve on those parts.