Powers in the BasementPowers in the Basement

Game Details:  Fantasy, 2023

Links:  Moby Games, Steam

Walkthrough Updated:  3/15/2024

Suggested Listening:  Where There's Smoke (Ash 25)

Powers in the Basement is a short comedy fantasy game styled after the LucasArts classics. You play as Will Phail, a lazy 15 year old boy on a search for your favorite t-shirt. There are 24 Steam Achievements, all documented in the walkthrough below.

Normal Game

Bedroom

Pick up the pants and slingshot from the floor on the right. Use the slingshot on anything twice My eyes! My eyes!. Open the wardrobe and pick up the clothes to get some candies. Also pick up the sock from the bottom of the wardrobe. Pick up the candle from the small table next to your bed, and the pencil, notebook and magnifying glass from the table on the left. Look at the pencil to see that it has no lead.

Look at all of the books in the bookshelf (1/3). Now open the door and go outside.

Entrance

After going down one flight of stairs, go through the archway into the kitchen.

Kitchen

Pick up a low-calorie energy bar from the shelves. Eat the candies and the energy bar Malnutrition Expert. Eat the energy bar another 9 times Diet Zealot.

Pick up the jar of beans from the shelves. Take the cheese, bread and salami from the left wall. Look at all of the books in the bookshelf (2/3). Hurt yourself by trying to pick up the knife, the fork and the chili peppers from the right wall. Pick up the pot and spoon from here, and the pair of bellows from further to the right. Continue through the right doorway.

Living Room

Look at all of the books in the bookshelf (3/3) Bookworm. Talk to Grandma and solve all her jigsaw puzzle questions with these answers Crosswords Master:

  • An Impasta
  • Madrid
  • Minimum
  • Velcrows
  • Baconcheeseburger
  • A mer...maid

Talk to Grandma about everything else. Use your mothballs on Grandpa, then pick up the dead flies from the ground. Use your beans on your slingshot, then use the loaded slingshot on the horn over the fireplace. Repeat this another 4 times Tailgunner. Leave this room again and go out to the entrance.

Entrance

Go down the stairs on the left (you can only do this after talking to Grandma about the generator in the basement).

Basement

Pick up the hockey stick, tongs and handbook from near the stairs. Use the handbook in your inventory Trolled. Take the hammer, piece of pipe and file from the workbench. Look at the fedora hat, fake beard and rubbery feathered pulleyed object Relic Hunter.

Open both doors on the generator and look at the plate on the inside of the larger door. Pick up the fuse from inside the smaller door and look at it in your inventory.

Climb up the ladder and pick up the rope. Try to push the anvil, but it is too heavy. Use the rope on the wooden board to the right. Use the dangling rope. Pick up the rope and the broken board (wood). Use your frayed pants on the spinning wheel, then use the spinning wheel and take the rubberband. Leave and return up to your bedroom.

Bedroom

Use the hockey stick on the old junk under your bed to get a teddy bear, then use it again to get a mug. Head back to the kitchen.

Kitchen

Use your mug on the barrel of liquor to the left. Go back down to the basement.

Basement

Climb up the ladder and use your mug full of liquor on the anvil, then push the anvil. Use your rope on the anvil, then use the dangling rope and the anvil will land on your head Headbanger. Use the anvil and you will stand on it. Try to pick up the torch 10 times I have no fingers and I must scream!. Now use your candle on the torch.

Pull the notepad in your inventory to remove a sheet of paper. Use the sheet of paper on the barbecue, then use your magnifying glass on the window Evidence destroyer. Return to the living room.

Living Room

Use your rubberband on the slingshot. Use your beans on the upgraded slingshot, then use this on the horn over the fireplace. You will automatically pick up the Phallarhorn. In your inventory, combine the piece of pipe with the pair of bellows, then add the Phallarhorn. Use the Mighty Roar from Hell (TM) that you have created Sound Engineer. Pull apart the device you just made.

Put your wood in the fireplace, then light it with your candle. Try to pick up the fire 3 times Recidivist. Now watch Grandma - when she puts the green pencil on the coffee table, use your unusable pencil on it. Use the pencil in the fire, then use the tongs to pick up the pencil residue and you will be left with the lead. Talk to Grandma again and listen to all of her jokes Joker.

In your inventory, combine the cheese and sock to make a stinking mousetrap. Use the Phallarhorn and a rat will appear from the hole near the doorway. Use your stinking mousetrap on the rat Exterminator. Leave this room again and go out to the entrance.

Entrance

Use the Phallarhorn to hear a squeak from the carnivorous plant. Use your dead flies on the plant, then pick up the hamster. Take the blue portrait from near the closed doors. Use your hammer on the nail where you found the portrait, then use your file on the nail to make it shorter. Go down the stairs.

Basement

Use your shortened nail on the fuse holder Fuse Abuser. You will also get an achievement for finding the 3 achievements relating to the Mighty Roar, the magnifying glass and the shortened nail Hook, line, and sinker.

Place the pot on the barbecue. Collect some energizing feed (green) in your mug, then put it into the pot. Use your spoon on the pot. Repeat this process another 9 times Biohazard. By this stage you should get an achievement for trying to kill yourself multiple times Highlander. Use your mug to collect the following, each time emptying the mug into the pot:

  • energizing feed (green)
  • lubricating feed (blue)
  • anabolic feed (red) 4 times

Use the spoon on the pot, then use the mug on the pot to get a dose of feed. Use the hamster on the flywheel inside the generator. Try to give the dose of feed to the weary hamster. Give your low-calorie energy bar to the weary hamster, then give the dose of feed to the hungry hamster. Use your lead on the fuse holder. Go back up to the kitchen.

Kitchen

Talk to Grandma and ask her to iron your shirt. Look at the laundry basket and you will pick up your crumpled t-shirt. There is an achievement for picking up every possible object in the game Garbage Collector. Give the crumpled t-shirt to Grandma. Use the chainmail t-shirt in your inventory Adventurer.

Speed Run

Bedroom

Pick up the pants and slingshot from the floor on the right. Open the wardrobe and pick up the clothes to get some candies. Pick up the candle from the small table next to your bed, and the pencil from the table on the left. Look at the pencil to see that it has no lead. Now open the door and go outside.

Entrance

After going down one flight of stairs, go through the archway into the kitchen.

Kitchen

Pick up a low-calorie energy bar and jar of beans from the shelves. Pick up the pot and spoon from the right. Continue through the right doorway.

Living Room

Talk to Grandma about the iron and the generator. Use the candies in your inventory. Use the mothballs on Grandpa, then pick up the dead flies from the ground. Leave this room again and go out to the entrance.

Entrance

Go down the stairs on the left (you can only do this after talking to Grandma about the generator in the basement).

Basement

Pick up the hockey stick and tongs from near the stairs. Open both doors on the generator and look at the plate on the inside of the larger door. Pick up the fuse from inside the smaller door and look at it in your inventory.

Climb up the ladder and pick up the rope. Try to push the anvil, but it is too heavy. Use the rope on the wooden board to the right. Use the dangling rope. Pick up the rope and the broken board (wood). Use your frayed pants on the spinning wheel, then use the spinning wheel and take the rubberband. Leave and return up to your bedroom.

Bedroom

Use the hockey stick on the old junk under your bed to get a teddy bear, then use it again to get a mug. Head back to the kitchen.

Kitchen

Use your mug on the barrel of liquor to the left. Go back down to the basement.

Basement

Climb up the ladder and use your mug full of liquor on the anvil, then push the anvil. Use your rope on the anvil, then use the dangling rope and the anvil will land on your head. Use the anvil and you will stand on it. Now use your candle on the torch. Return to the living room.

Living Room

Use your rubberband on the slingshot. Use your beans on the upgraded slingshot, then use this on the horn over the fireplace. You will automatically pick up the Phallarhorn. Put your wood in the fireplace, then light it with your candle. Now watch Grandma - when she puts the green pencil on the coffee table, use your unusable pencil on it. Use the pencil in the fire, then use the tongs to pick up the pencil residue and you will be left with the lead. Leave this room again and go out to the entrance.

Entrance

Use the Phallarhorn to hear a squeak from the carnivorous plant. Use your dead flies on the plant, then pick up the hamster. Go down the stairs.

Basement

Place the pot on the barbecue. Use your mug to collect the following, each time emptying the mug into the pot:

  • energizing feed (green)
  • lubricating feed (blue)
  • anabolic feed (red) 4 times

Use the spoon on the pot, then use the mug on the pot to get a dose of feed. Use the hamster on the flywheel inside the generator. Try to give the dose of feed to the weary hamster. Give your low-calorie energy bar to the weary hamster, then give the dose of feed to the hungry hamster. Use your lead on the fuse holder. Go back up to the kitchen.

Kitchen

Talk to Grandma and ask her to iron your shirt. Look at the laundry basket and you will pick up your crumpled t-shirt. Give the crumpled t-shirt to Grandma. Use the chainmail t-shirt in your inventory. There is an achievement for completing the whole game within 15 minutes Speedrunner.

Final Achievements

On your keyboard, press these keys: up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, enter Cheater. For the final achievement, you need to purchase the Extended Soundtrack DLC Supporter.