Stellar Mess Chapter 1Stellar Mess Chapter 1

The Princess Conundrum

Game Details:  Sci-Fi, 2023

Links:  Moby Games, Steam, Adventure Gamers

Walkthrough Updated:  5/30/2024

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

Stellar Mess Chapter 1: The Princess Conundrum is an old-school point-and-click adventure game. You play as Diego, a comic store own from Argentina, coming face to face with the heroine of a movie franchise that has become real. There are 13 Steam Achievements, all documented in the walkthrough below.

Space

Look at Lanor's communication device (in your inventory). Press the open/close button, then select these 3 buttons:

  • Introduction: Princess, representative of the galactic council
  • Performance: Princess captured, princess in danger
  • General Greene: Possible treason by Terrans, alert the rebellion

Try to give Lanor's communication device to both General Greene and the Stellar Armada soldier Sharing with the enemy. Now use it with the abandoned drain on the left Message send.

Argentina

Comic Book Store

Look at the list on the wall behind the counter Coffee Buyers. Open the cash register. Look at the student travel coupons, then pick them up Student of life. Look at the comic books on the right and you will find a screwdriver. Use this on the Maneki Buta on the desk - you will break it but end up with a key. Use this on the door to the right. Open the stockroom door.

Look at the poster and both sets of shelves, then look at the 5 1/4 floppy disk Ups, that's not good. Pick up the loose piece of wallpaper from the right wall. Now open the bathroom door.

Pick up the wooden stick, then pick up the plastic bucket (you will take a rubber cup from inside). Combine the rubber cup with the piece of paper, then combine this with the wooden stick to make a plunger. Look at the plunger This is not a plunger. Now use the plunger on the sink. Open the stockroom door.

After the conversation, you will automatically pick up Lanor's communication device. Use the alarm keypad on the right - you will see a message about Robots. Open the store door. Now look at each of the robots on the shelves behind the counter. Pay attention to the dates and numbers for each robot. In date order, they are:

  • 1963: MetalMan 28 (2)
  • 1973: Maginzer X (1)
  • 1981: Poltron (5)
  • 1984: Mortimus Prime (2)

Open the stockroom door and use the alarm keypad again. Enter the code 2152 - you will automatically leave the store Beyond the demo. Try to open the trash bags (1/2) in the dumpster. Open the fence door to the left.

San Martin Avenue

Pull the bush just to the right and you will end up with a riddle. Look at the writing on the wall in the shelter to the left Narciso's count. Further to the left, go inside Televic. After talking to David, pick up the black ink and the strange card. Leave the store again and keep going left until you reach Plaza Bitto.

Try to pick up the trash can (2/2) Garbage collector. Open the Plaza Bitto door to go inside. Pick up the lost and found box on the right and you will get some dental retainers. Go back outside again. Just to the left, talk to Narciso at the bus stop. Use the bus stop and you will board the next bus.

Polonia Avenue

When you get off the bus, you will decide to keep the bus ticket. Use the bus stop again.

San Martin Avenue

Give your bus ticket to Narciso, and he will give you a newspaper sheet in return. Look at this in your inventory. On the yellow apartment building to the right, look at the intercom. Press all the buttons and take note of the messages. Use the bus stop once more.

Polonia Avenue

Outside the Wings Arcade, talk to the pirate. Enter the Wings Arcade and try to talk to Marty, then talk to the strange kid twice. Head back outside and go left, entering Pulgarcito's. Talk to Emma, telling her about the bet from the arcade, but she will ask for proof. Look at the doll in the shelves Voodoo Ritual. Pick up the toy mouse from the table, and the baby shampoo from the counter.

Return to the Wings Arcade and talk to the strange kid, who wants a black rose and a milkshake before he will lend you his brochure. Leave the arcade again.

Look at the water tank outside Pulgarcito's, then use your black ink on it. Now enter the Video Show Club to the right. Talk to the kids in disguise and agree to help them. Now talk to Carl Docto about everything. Leave here and walk to the right, entering the basketball court.

Talk to the strange girl (Lucy) and you will get a donut. Pick up the pair of pliers from the left and use them on your dental retainers to get a wire. Use this with the broken toy mouse to repair it. Make sure you look at the graffiti here. Leave the basketball court and talk to Max Martinez just to the left.

Go to the far right and enter the Phone Booth Center. Pick up a coffee cup from the right, and use your diluted black ink with it. Now add the baby shampoo to create some black dye. Talk to Claire about everything, then talk to Data about everything. Use your pair of pliers on the cables over the coffee machine, then select the yellow cable. Take the soda from the counter and leave.

Just to the left, look at the intercom on the blue apartment building. Press each of the buttons and take note of the messages. Return to the bus stop and use it.

West Cemetery

Talk to the flower lady. The answers to her question is based on the mirrored messages from the intercom buttons on the yellow and blue apartment buildings:

  • All that glitters... There's fire!
  • A picture is worth... Don't make a right!
  • Beggars can't... Spoil the broth!
  • A bird in the hand... Begins with a single step!
  • An apple a day... Do as the Romans do!
  • Better safe... Before they hatch!
  • Don't count your chickens... Then sorry!
  • When in Rome... Keeps the doctor away!
  • A journey of a thousand miles... Is worth two in the bush!
  • Too many cooks... Be choosers!
  • Two wrongs... A thousand words!
  • When there's smoke... Is not gold!

Go right and use the bus stop, but choose to stay here. Go left and the flower lady will have gone. Pick up the red rose from the ground and use the black dye on it to create a black rose. Now use the bus stop again.

San Martin Avenue

Head right and use the fence door to get into the alley behind your store. Use the soda on the padlock. Open the electric board and pick up the motor oil. Leave the alley again.

Go to the far left and enter the police station. Ask the police officer about the lever. Try to push the lever, but it is jammed. Use the motor oil on the lever, then push the lever. Give the donut to the police officer. Enter the police station again and pick up the evidence bag (you will keep the red spray paint). Look at the lockers on the right Book worm. Go back outside and use the bus stop.

Polonia Avenue

Go right to Max Martinez and use your red spray paint on the wall just to the right. Return to the bus stop.

San Martin Avenue

Enter the police station and talk to the police officer, telling him about the graffiti. Go outside and use the bus stop.

Polonia Avenue

Head right until you see Lucy - she will give you a cassette and then leave. Look at the cassette in your inventory. Pick up the tools from the ground. Return left and give the tools back to the pirate (outside the Wings Arcade). Give the Video Show Club card to the pirate, and he will return an altered card.

Go to the far right and enter the Phone Booth Center. Give the altered card to Data. Return outside and go to the left, entering the Video Show Club. Talk to Carl Docto again, but you still can't get the video. Go back outside and use the bus stop.

San Martin Avenue

Go right and try to enter Televic, but the door is now locked. Enter the police station and talk to Rudy about the master key. Go back to the alley behind your store and pick up the poster from the wire fence, then look at it. Now head to the far left and talk to Officer Jeff. Answer his questions:

  • 1972 (from looking at the graffiti at the basketball court)
  • FleshDance! (from looking at the cassette)
  • Three times! (from looking at the newspaper sheet)
  • Two! (from looking at the poster)

He will let you pass if you get all 4 questions correct Punk Rock fan.

Path to the Hill

Use your repaired toy mouse with the Stellar Armada captain War elephant. Pick up the police master key. Return to the left.

San Martin Avenue

Use the master key with the Televic door to get inside. Open the lab door, then pick up the backup tape. Return outside and use the bus stop.

Polonia Avenue

Go left and enter the Video Show Club. Talk to Carl Docto and he will give you the Terminator 2 VHS. Give this to the kids in disguise on the left, and they will give you a milkshake coupon. Use the bus stop outside.

San Martin Avenue

Enter Plaza Bitto and give the coupon to the cashier in exchange for a milkshake. Return out to the bus stop again.

Polonia Avenue

Enter the Wings Arcade. Give both the black rose and the milkshake to the strange kid in exchange for an event brochure. Outside, go left and enter Pulgarcito's. Give the event brochure to Emma. Return to the Wings Arcade.