Dordogne 100% guide

The game alternates between adult Mimi in the present and young Mimi in her childhood memories. Tapes, stickers, words and recorded sounds are found almost entirely in the memory sections. Letters are different: every letter in Chapters 1 to 7 is found as adult Mimi in the present-day part of the chapter, before you trigger that chapter's memory, and the last letter comes in Chapter 8. Photos and binder pages are counters for their own achievements, and the binder is also where young Mimi's scrapbook pages get made.

There are 17 letters, 11 collectible tapes, 33 words and 15 recordable sounds, and the guide routes 29 sticker pickups and rewards (the story also grants some stickers automatically). Each collectible only exists during its own chapter's window, so collect it when the route says. The Collectibles section at the end lists every one with its location.

Pick up anything that sparkles or that you can interact with. Walk to the left and right edges of every screen before moving to the next one, because a lot of collectibles sit just off the obvious path. After each pickup, check that the on-screen pickup confirmation appears. Don't worry if you miss a few. After the story, Chapter Selection shows which collectibles each chapter is still missing, and you can replay chapters for them once Like a Swiss clock has unlocked.

Answer the phone messages in the car. Before you get out, pick up the letter addressed to Fabrice on the front seat, to the right of the bag at the lower right of the screen. You can't go back to the car once you leave it.

On the way to the house, Mimi reads a letter from Nora automatically. At the gate, interact with the letterbox on the fence until you've both read the mayor's condolence letter and taken the house key. The prompts guide you, but make sure the letter registers as well as the key. That's all 3 Chapter 1 letters.

Go into the house. Don't head for the candle yet.

This memory runs from the steps by the cave, along the path and pond, and into the house. It has 6 stickers:

1. On the first outdoor screen, at the lower left on the steps leading to the cave (some guides call this spot the garden beds).
2. On the same screen, left of the path on the way to the house.
3. Through the gate to the right, on the right side of the pond with the cat statues, at the lower right of the screen.
4. Inside, on the ground-floor hallway floor to the right of or under the staircase. Don't go up the stairs yet.
5. On the hallway table with the mirror, where the candle was.
6. Left into the living room, on the coffee table between the sofa and the TV.

Collect all six before you go upstairs, and before you trigger the kitchen and living room conversation that leads to the easel.

Daily toilet visit 1 of 7: Young Mimi goes upstairs to her room to unpack her suitcase. Use the toilet while she's upstairs, before you go back down to the kitchen, living room and easel.

Before you trigger the camera memory, search the house as adult Mimi. Adult Mimi doesn't get back into the house later in this chapter.

1. Go to the ground-floor bathroom by walking toward the camera on the staircase screen. The box of books is to the left of the toilet, under the washbasin. Go through every book in the box; a letter is behind the last one.
2. Go up to Mimi's bedroom. Open the window, then keep interacting with the dresser to the right of the window. It holds two letters, a tape and the compact camera. This tape isn't one of the 11 collectible tapes for The archivist, so taking it is optional.

Take the camera last. Picking it up starts the memory. You should now have 6 letters.

Young Mimi wakes in her bedroom. Do everything in this section before you sit on the stool at the dining table. Sitting down starts breakfast, and afterward you find yourself outside the house. No source confirms you can get back in, so treat breakfast as the end of the house search.

Daily toilet visit 2 of 7: Use the upstairs toilet straight away. The bathroom is the door to the right of the mirror, with the black bathtub.

Upstairs:

• Sunbeam (word): At the top of the staircase as you approach it.
• Sticker: Go right past the staircase and interact with the mirror on the dressing table.
• Sticker: On the side of the black bathtub in the upstairs bathroom.

Downstairs:

• Silence (word): In the ground-floor bathroom, examine the box of books under the washbasin and keep interacting with the books until the word appears.
• Tape: Beside the same box of books, on the same screen. Look to the left for a yellow tape.
• Sticker: On the living room coffee table.
• Warmth (word): At the back of the living room, on the table with the white tablecloth past the coffee table.
• Tape: On the right side of the kitchen dining table.

After breakfast you're outside. Pick up the word Lavender on the steps up to the garden, by the flowerbeds in front of the house on the left of the screen, before you go down to the river. That's all 4 Chapter 2 words.

At the riverbanks, collect the sticker a little to the right of where you enter, then talk to Nora.

The memory starts upstairs near Mimi's room. Go into the bedroom as soon as you have control and pick up the word Exciting at the foot of the bed.

Daily toilet visit 3 of 7: The story sends Mimi into the bathroom at the far right of the upper floor to brush her teeth and change. Use the toilet while you're there, before you go downstairs and out of the house.

Outside, in this order:

• Sticker: Go down the steps from the house to the pink pot with a plant, on the right of the path.
• Sticker: On the ground inside the shed at the top left of the garden screen.
• Beautiful (word): On the left, by the steps up to the garden and the flowerbeds in front of the house.
• Tape: In the cave, at the workbench, on the barrel next to it.
• Mysterious (word): In the cave, next to the barrel on the right, just right of the tape.
• Sticker: Picking up the trowel from the workbench awards a sticker automatically.
• Sticker: Planting with Nora in the garden awards a flower sticker automatically. You choose thyme, sage or rose and get the sticker for that plant. Any choice is fine for Pimp your laptop; you can't get the other two in the same run, and you don't need them.
• Fresh (word): When you set off toward town, don't follow Nora down to the river. Go right along the road. The word is at the side of the road near the cliff edge and the dark green bushes.

Players report you can make as many pages as you like in this session. Build them from the photos, stickers and words you've collected so far. Simple layouts count, so don't worry about design.

Pick up the letter on the kitchen tabletop, just below where the tea tins are kept, before you start making tea. Nobody has confirmed whether the kitchen is still reachable after the tea scene, so take it first.

The memory starts in the attic at the toy train. Collect everything here before you leave the attic screen. Leaving it triggers a cutscene that puts Mimi in the garden, and the memory doesn't come back to the attic.

• Secrets (word): On the floor at the lower left, inside the bend of the track.
• Tape: On a box to the left of the track bend, just left of Secrets.
• Sticker: On the record player, under the speaker, to the left of the train tracks.
• Sticker: In or on the cardboard box to the right of the record player and tracks.

Daily toilet visit 4 of 7: When you get control in the garden after the attic cutscene, walk back into the house and up to the upstairs bathroom, and use the toilet before you enter the cave to help Nora with the kayak. The memory doesn't come back to the house afterward. If you skip this, Like a Swiss clock won't unlock in this run.

Then go into the cave (the workshop) before you fix the kayak with Nora:

• Sticker: On the ground a little behind the barrel on the right of the screen.
• Tape: On top of that same right-hand barrel.
• Shiny (word): Approach the workbench.

At the river viewpoint, the spot where you photographed Nora in Chapter 2, aim up at the sky and record the hot air balloons, then aim at the river and record the water. Do both before you get in the kayak. Just listen unlocks at the balloons. If you miss either, you get a second chance at the Chapter 5 river observation point.

In the attic, pick up the letter on the record player to the left of the toy-train tracks, the same spot where a sticker was in the previous chapter. Then go outside to the tree with the swing, to the right of the house. Take the jar from the hollow trunk and look inside. The jar holds a letter and starts the memory, so get the attic letter first. You should now have 12 letters.

Daily toilet visit 5 of 7: The memory starts inside the upstairs bathroom. Use the toilet before you leave the bathroom.

Then, before you leave through the gate toward the lookout:

• Tape: In Mimi's bedroom, on the dressing table in front of the mirror.
• Tape: In the living room, on the coffee table in front of the TV.
• Sneaky (word): Go left to the sofa, at sleeping Nora's feet.
• Sticker: Outside, go to the potted plant straight down from the front door, not the one near the garden. The sticker is to its left, in the middle of the path up to the house.

Follow the road to the right after leaving the garden to the lookout at the end. Record four sounds there: the church bells in the bell tower to the right, the river below, the rooster at a farm, and the leaves rustling in the wind in the bush near the house to the left.

On the way down to the river, keep to the left of the screen to find the word Peace by dark bushes at a screen transition. On the riverbank, go all the way left from where you enter for the word Summer, on the shore to the left of the stone path across the river, under a fallen tree.

At the river observation point on the rock, record two new sounds:

• Insect: Aim at the bright white gap between the trees.
• Bird: Turn around and aim behind you, toward the buildings. This one is easy to miss, and without it you'll be one short at the hideout.

If you missed the Chapter 4 hot air balloons or river water, record them here too.

At the cave entrance after mooring, head toward the camera to the lower middle of the screen, by the fireflies, for the word Dark. Before you enter the cave, grab the jar hanging from the tree branch and go toward the cave mouth, where you catch fireflies in it. Filling the jar earns a sticker automatically. Then use the fireflies to light your way through the cave.

The cave has six more words. Check the far edges of every chamber:

1. Alone: As you go right from the entrance.
2. Impressed: At the far right end from the entrance.
3. Lost: Just before you enter the smaller cave full of bats.
4. Doubt: On the incline after you leave the bat cave.
5. Anger?: Continue right from Doubt. It's just before the brown wall you have to climb.
6. Coulobre: After climbing the brown wall, go left.

That's all 10 Chapter 5 words, 30 in total.

Record all five sounds from the hideout before you start the Coulobre call: a howling dog, the farm (a braying donkey), rustling leaves, the rushing river and a bird. The bird is the one most often missed. Sweep the view toward the right-hand corner of the left river and listen for it. Some guides call this sound the Coulobre. Nobody has confirmed whether the hideout view stays available after the call, so do these first.

When young Mimi hurries home at the end of the chapter, you regain control in Mimi's room. Safest route: Use the upstairs toilet again before you head out of the house to talk to Nora in the garden. Only the visit at the start of the memory is known to be required, but this one costs seconds. By the end of Chapter 5 you should have 8 tapes, 25 stickers and 14 sounds.

Pick up the letter on the kitchen pantry shelves, next to the bottles on the second shelf from the top. Then go to Nora's room and pick up the letter at the far left of the screen, to the left of the entrance, on a chair (also described as a stool) partly hidden behind a flower. Then open the wardrobe, get Nora's scarf and click the wristwatch in the picture to start the memory. You should now have 14 letters.

The memory starts in the kitchen, not upstairs. Talking to Nora starts the cooking, and when the cooking ends you're outside with no way back into the house. Before you talk to her:

Daily toilet visit 6 of 7: Go upstairs straight away. Grab the tape on the bench in the middle of the upstairs landing, between the stairs and Nora's room, under the window. Use the toilet, then come back down and talk to Nora.

During the cooking, you can record the potatoes frying, which gives Mimi a tape. It's a story tape, not one of the 11 collectible tapes for The archivist, and the recording isn't one of the 15 sounds, so it's optional.

When you're put outside and set off on the picnic with Nora, take the tape on the garden table to the left of Nora's house. Record the barking dog from the house lookout too, even if Jean-Claude Roché has already unlocked.

This is the last chapter with words and stickers, and all of them are outdoors along the picnic route. On each stretch, wait for Mimi's narration to finish, because you can't pick things up while it plays.

• Sticker: On the path toward the river (the green tunnel), on the left side of the screen in front of a bright green moss-covered tree.
• Dandelion (word): On the right of the same screen, a little past that sticker.
• Sticker: At the river, on the left side of the screen from the path you came down, left of the kayak.
• Snack (word): Just right of the path and its sticker, up and to the left of the kayak, at the water's edge.
• Sticker: On the beach, just above the kayak, roughly between the kayak and Nora.
• Together (word): On the beach, just right of the entrance to the woods.
• Sticker: In the woods, after a short cutscene, follow the prompts to make and decorate the pine cone toy. The sticker is awarded automatically, and it's the last sticker in the game.

The woods have no word.

Pick up the letter on the bed in Nora's room, where Mimi starts the chapter, and the letter on the dresser near the mirror in Mimi's room. Then examine the newspapers in the living room and find the beeping watch underneath to start the memory. You should now have 16 letters.

The memory starts in the attic, and the upper floor can be explored. Nora's room is to the right of the stairs and to the left of the bathroom. Do both upstairs steps below before you go downstairs and out to the river.

This short final chapter is in first person. Follow the sounds with the camera.

Chapter Selection is in the main menu. For each chapter, it shows which collectibles you've found and which are still missing. Which categories it lists, and whether it shows counts, isn't confirmed, so use the per-chapter totals in this guide and the Collectibles section to work out exactly what's missing.

• Like a Swiss clock first: Starting any chapter from Chapter Selection resets Like a Swiss clock's progress. This is developer-confirmed and will never be patched. Before you start a chapter from Chapter Selection for the first time, confirm that Like a Swiss clock has unlocked. If it hasn't, you can still do all your cleanup now, because nothing else is affected, but finish it before the recovery run.
• Other achievements: Every other achievement unlocks normally during replays, and achievements you've already earned stay unlocked.
• Replays: Cinematics you've already seen can be skipped. A replayed chapter carries on into the next chapter, so you can quit once you've got what you need. Let the pickup's on-screen confirmation finish before you quit.
• Later saves: One source reports that replaying a chapter wipes your progress in every later chapter. A replayed chapter carries on into the next chapter, so treat that report as likely.
• Running counter: As of 2026-10-01, a single 2024 report of the bottom-left pickup counter showing inflated totals after a replay is a HISTORICALLY REPORTED BUG. It's display only. After any replay, trust the Chapter Selection screen and your achievement list, not that counter.
• Photo, sound and page counts: No one has tested whether these carry across replays, which is why the route finishes them in the first run.
• New Game: Starting a New Game erases your save, including all collectible progress. Finish every Chapter Selection cleanup before you start one.

Safest route: Check every chapter first and write down what's missing. Then replay chapters starting with the latest one that has a gap and work back toward Chapter 1. This order is safe whether or not later saves get wiped.

Use Chapter Selection and the Collectibles section to finish anything still locked:

• Postman: Missing letters are always in a chapter's opening adult-Mimi section (Chapters 1 to 7), before the memory starts. Expect 3, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2 and 2 letters in Chapters 1 to 7. Find which chapter has a gap, then replay only that opening stretch.
• The archivist: There are 11 collectible tapes in Chapters 2 to 7: 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 and 1, all in the childhood memories. The Chapter 2 present-day dresser tape, the Chapter 5 Coulobre imitation tape and the Chapter 6 frying potatoes tape are story tapes and don't count, so ignore them when looking for a gap.
• Dictionary is not an option: There are 33 words in Chapters 2 to 6: 4, 7, 9, 10 and 3.
• Pimp your laptop: The guide routes 29 stickers in Chapters 1 to 6: 6, 4, 8, 5, 2 and 4. It isn't confirmed whether Chapter Selection shows the two flower stickers you didn't choose as missing in Chapter 3. If Pimp your laptop has unlocked, ignore any Chapter 3 sticker gap. If it hasn't, check Chapter 3's stickers against this guide rather than trusting the screen alone.
• Jean-Claude Roché: There are 15 sounds: 3 in Chapter 4, 11 in Chapter 5 and 1 in Chapter 6. Replaying Chapter 6 and then Chapter 5 is usually enough, since Chapter 5 also gives a second chance at the Chapter 4 river sounds. Judge by the total, not the album's chapter pages.
• Sarah Moon and Marcel Proust: These count totals. Take photos in any chapter with the camera, or make pages in any binder session, until they unlock.
• Precision achievements: Replay Chapter 2 for Rule #1 Milk first, Chapter 4 for Sniper, Chapter 5 for Outstanding imitator and Chapter 7 for First aid.

When you're done, recheck every chapter in Chapter Selection and your achievement list.

As of 2026-10-01 this is CURRENTLY COMMUNITY-FLAGGED / BUGGY: the developer confirmed that Chapter Selection resets this achievement's tracker and that no fix will be released.

Verified recovery: Finish all Chapter Selection cleanup first, because starting a New Game erases your save. Then start a New Game and play straight through to Chapter 7 without using Chapter Selection, making every young Mimi toilet visit, including the Chapter 2 visit before breakfast, the Chapter 4 detour from the garden and the Chapter 6 visit before cooking. Players report it unlocking during Chapter 7 of the new run, about two hours in. Achievements you've already earned stay unlocked.

Conflicting community evidence: Several Xbox players report success after selecting Chapter 1 once from Chapter Selection and then playing continuously through Chapter 7 without picking another chapter, while other reports say only a true New Game worked. It also triggers the reported wipe of later saves. New Game remains the safest recovery.