Every decision carries weight in The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan.
Every decision carries weight in The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan.
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The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan — tips and tricks for saving all 5 characters

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 9 min

This post is all about our tips and tricks for playing the interactive horror story of The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan, where your goal is to help five young adults survive their journey on a ghost ship.

This will have specific tips you’ll need to save every person in the circumstances where they can live or die during the game. This is a living document, which I’ll update as I discover more of the 69 different ways that the characters can die as they explore a floating wreck that dates back to just after the Second World War. (Check out our review here, as well as some other good tip guides).

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.