Items

Items are used throughout the game IMSCARED, in order to open gates, doors, or otherwise interact with the world. Most of them are keys.

## Gate Key

This key is found during the tutorial stage, resting on a table near a gate. In the 2016 version, this is the first item you find.

## Red Flower

This item is found in the tutorial as well. This is the first item that requires you to crouch to pick it up. Picking it up will replace the fog with darkness, and text appears saying "Now give that flower to me".

## Small Key

Found in Begin, under a table next to the bed, and used to unlock the wardrobe, opening which opens a secret passage behind you, leading to the basement. In the 2012 version, this is the first item you find, and in the 2016 version, this is the first item you find outside of the tutorial.

In the pre-updated 2016 version and the 2012 version, this item is called "Little Key".

## Rusty Key

Found in the basement, in one of the rooms, used to unlock the door behind which is the Pulsating Heart.

## Pulsating Heart

Required to open the exit door, but as soon as you pick this item up, an entity will attack you, and ask if you know its name. At some point, you will return to begin, where you will need to use this item, which you happened to still have.

## Gate Key

Is found in the street, the area after the Car Park stage, laying in a pool of "blood", which you are led to with a trail of "blood".

## Tongs/Pincers

Found in the House stage in a cabinet near one of the doors. Required to get Key Number 8 in Room 1.

In the 2012 original release, the item is called "Pincers", which are located under a small yellow table.

## Key Number 1

Found in an empty room in the house, behind an unnumbered door. Required to open Room 1 and use the tongs/pincers there to get Key Number 8.

## Key Number 8

Used to open Door Number 8, which has nothing interesting in it, but entering it unlocks another door, from which you can access the balcony and get Key Number 7.

## Key Number 7

Used to open Door Number 7, which is White Face's Room, before being teleported back, being able to get Key Number 2.

## Key Number 2

Used to get Key Number 6, making the whole house fleshy.

## Key Number 6

Used to open Door Number 6, and get the second fake ending (which is the real ending in the 2012 version).

## Piano Key

Found by the piano at the Parlor after you try to unlock a locked door that leads to a small green colored room, used to open the door on the left hand side.

## Cellar Key

Found after encountering HER for the first time. Used to open the cellar door near HER's portrait, behind a fake wall.

## Rope

Collected after solving the billiard puzzle in the Cellar. Used to climb down into the Labyrinth.

## Labyrinth Key

Found in a secret passage in the Labyrinth. Used to unlock the only door you can access.

## A Shard of the Mirror

Four in total, they are scattered around the Labyrinth's labyrinth (what). In the 2022 Update, the player must place the shards onto the mirror by themselves.

## Station Key

Found in the hallway section after beating the Labyrinth level. Used to unlock a door in the basement.

## Metro Key

Found after navigating the Station maze, finding and destroying all three of the gramophones (or four on the 2022 Update). Yellow arrows will appear on the floor, guiding the player to the key.

## Lucky Tickets

Two train tickets that can be collected by changing the time on your computer to the times on the schedule next to "Work" and "Home". Collecting these two tickets gives you the Lucky Tickets achievement, which is necessary to complete the game.

## Metro Ticket

Used to spawn the Metro train. Obtained by setting the computer time to 0:00, "Truth".

## Refridgerator Key

Found between shelves in the Market, can be used to open the Refridgerator near the inner electric panel.

## Letter

Found in the Refridgerator, must be slipped under some white doors and sent into a red mailbox to complete one of the tasks.

## Office Key

Found on the till section of the Market, after sending the mail into the big red mailbox.

## Oxidized Key

Found in the basement after you restart the game after reaching Pipes. Lets you open the first door to the right, and return to the Pipes quickly.

## Flower

Identical to the Red Flower, but this time the player makes the choice on whether to give it to White Face or to proceed through the Door.

If you choose to return and give White Face the flower, all progress is reset.

If you choose to open the door, the final ending will begin, and you are sent to Final Begin.