Stuck in Creepy Dates? Here is what to check

Laughing Jack asks you to decorate for Slenderman's visiting brothers, and this stalls more Chapter 3 runs than anything else. You must decorate three places — the hallway, the living room and the basement — by clicking the box of decorations in each scene.

The basement is the one people forget, because Ben is down there and it reads as his space rather than part of the task. Full walkthrough on the decorating guide.

Progression in Creepy Dates frequently tracks whether you entered a location, not whether you exhausted its dialogue. So a room you glanced at from the hallway does not count.

The usual suspects are your own bedroom, Nina's room, the basement, and the rooms belonging to characters introduced in Chapter 2. The rooms guide lists every part of the CreepyHouse so you can tick them off.

During the Chapter 2 sequence where Slenderman tells you to tidy up and look around, players reported being unable to trigger his return — and the missing step was interacting with Ben's console in the basement. Another player in the same thread confirmed that interacting with everything in the newer characters' rooms was what unblocked them.

Treat clickable objects as story flags rather than flavour: the console, the knife in Jeff's room, the candles in your bin. The Ben Drowned route covers the basement in detail.

Two documented bugs both come down to running an outdated build, and both are fixed by reinstalling the current version from Hahadit's official itch.io page. Chapters are add-ons, so your saves carry over.

• Chapter 2, after the rubbish task: if Slenderman was your favourite creepypasta and you rejected the proxy mission, the story stopped. Hahadit fixed it in October 2025. She also suggested trying a different combination of answers to Slenderman's end-of-chapter questions if it persists. See Chapter 2.
• Chapter 3, after speaking with Laughing Jack: a release-day bug that broke everything downstream. She patched it within hours of the Chapter 3 devlog going up.

Some players have also reported simply not being able to leave their own room after clicking everything. Load your last save; if it recurs in the same place, it is worth reporting.

If you have hit a "Fin" card, the chapter is over and the next one starts from that same save on a current build — Chapter 2 to 3 is automatic. A chapter that looks locked means an old build, not missing progress. The chapters page covers what is actually released, and the locked slot at the end is the placeholder for Chapter 4.

• A character never showing up. Room order can lock an encounter out for the rest of that playthrough. Ticci Toby is the standard example, and the fix is a save from earlier, not a patch.
• Losing the cooking minigame. Players were convinced it was rigged. The combination that works is eyes, pasta, eyes — and no sauce.
• Spin the bottle not landing where you want. It is a scripted scene, not something you aim. See spin the bottle.
• The browser version failing to load. Usually Chapter 3's size on a low-memory device. Play options are here.

The game page has a Google form for bug reports, and that is where Hahadit actually looks — she asks for reports there, and asks pointedly that death threats go elsewhere. She is the only developer on the game.

A useful report names the chapter, the scene, what you clicked last, and whether you reinstalled first. The itch.io comment thread is the other good option, since players there have solved several of these blockers for each other before the developer saw them.