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Dead Take codes list: All safe codes and key puzzle solutions

Don't get lost for too long!

Actor Neil Newbon in red lighting with a VHS overlay in Dead Take (2025)

Surgent Studios, Pocketpair Publishing

Published: Thursday, 31 July 2025 at 11:03 am

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Dead Take, featuring gaming sweethearts Neil Newbon and Ben Starr, is out now, and if you’re playing this starry new horror game, you’ve probably already noticed that it has a fair few codes and puzzles that you’ll need to work your way through.

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As ever, part of the fun is in finding the keycodes and puzzle solutions for yourself. But if you’re at a real loose end and you can’t make sense of the clues, don’t worry, we’ve got you covered with a handy list.

From safe codes to painting-based puzzles, here’s our guide on Dead Take that should help you progress through the story. But do try to work these things out for yourself before using our guidance.

Full list of Dead Take codes

A screenshot of Dead Take showing the seating area of a screening room

The screening room in Dead Take. Surgent Studios, Pocketpair Publishing

To the best of our knowledge on launch day, the full list of Dead Take codes looks like this:

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We'd wager that some of these codes might not work until you're at the right part in the game to access those areas, but we haven't been able to confirm that for ourselves yet.

Dead Take puzzle solutions

A screenshot of Dead Take showing the television static with an obscured face and text

Not creepy in the slightest... Surgent Studios, Pocketpair Publishing

There are heaps of puzzles in Dead Take, many of which will require you to play the game yourself and find the missing clues.

In other cases, the puzzles are as simple as arranging things in the right order. For those ones, we’ve got you covered with the correct order in which to do things. See below!

Paintings puzzle

These painting puzzles require you to change the time of day in each painting, with the following times needed:

Dark room puzzle

In order to solve the dark room puzzle, you have to develop the reel using these chemicals in order:

  1. H2O
  2. C9H10N20
  3. [NH4]2S2O3
  4. CH3CO2H
  5. H2O

VHS display puzzle

To solve the VHS display puzzle, put the tapes in these positions:

  1. Eleven Lock
  2. Red Valley
  3. Mbombo's Reign
  4. Machine Play
  5. Akazard

We’ll be sure to update this list with more guidance as and when we need to. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy the game! You can check out our review now.

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