Life Is Strange: Double Exposure is the latest installment in the Life is Strange series developed by Don’t Nod Entertainment and has all the features typical of a narrative-driven game where each choice that you make in the game can have a major influence on the outcomes of the story.
In Double Exposure, we resume Max’s journey as she navigates through a world filled with impactful choices, supernatural puzzles, intense relationships, and a murder mystery. The game also has side quests that these characters hand over to you to solve, and one of these from Reggie will have you solving the Abraxas Box puzzle in the game.
How To Find The Abraxas Box Puzzle In Life Is Strange: Double Exposure
The Abraxas Puzzle Box is an in-game item/puzzle that you can find from an optional side quest after you speak to Reggie in the North Quad during Episode 1. In case you miss it and move ahead with the main story, you can return to this point by selecting ‘Back to School Blues’ from Chapter 1 from the Chapters Menu.
How To Solve The Abraxas Bos Puzzle In Life Is Strange: Double Exposure
There are two layers to this puzzle box which have different solutions and have to be solved on different days.
When you encounter Reggie during Episode 1 in the North Quad, you will find Reggie is having a heated altercation with the Box. Once you start speaking to him, you will have a dialogue option that will say, ‘What’s that Puzzle Box?’, select that option and it will let you start helping Reggie solve the puzzle box.
Abraxas Box Puzzle Solution: Layer 1
- Rotate the box towards the face of the Founder’s Statue so that the two of them are facing each other
- Rotate the Box to the Bird Face and select it. You will observe that there’s wax on this face and Reggie will melt it for you using his lighter, after which you will receive the bird piece
- Once the cutscene where Reggie melts the wax ends, you must rotate the box towards the face of the Founder Statue again and then select the ‘Place Bird’ option.
This will solve the first layer of the puzzle because if you have carefully noticed then you would have observed that the Founder’s Statue had two birds on it, on each shoulder which had broken off.
Once you solve this first layer of the box, the second layer will present itself to you in the form of a secondary, smaller box. Reggie is absolutely irritated with the Box by now and you will see him hand it over to you now once you’ve solved the first layer.
It is important to note that because you decided to help Reggie, it has deepened your relationship with him which will have an impact on how the story turns out in the game.
This goes for all the optional side quests and the characters that give them to you. You should pursue these side quests to unlock more story based content in the game and also affect your ending based on your choices.
Abraxas Box Puzzle Solution: Layer 2
The second layer of the puzzle box can be solved by the end of Chapter 2 once you have recovered Safi’s camera and have returned to Max’s house.
You will find the Abraxas Puzzle Box on top of the Kitchen Counter at Max’s place. Here you can start interacting with it in order to solve the second layer of the puzzle.
Once you start interacting with it you will have to open the flap that you see on the Sense of Justice face. To do this, you have to line up the stars in a specific order that you find on the constellation face.
The constellation for this puzzle is Libra as it is associated with justice. Take the stairs to Max’s house to access her room and find the poster with the constellations on her wall. Inspect it and take a picture of the poster using Max’s phone and then return to the Abraxas Box.
This is where it gets a little tricky because you have to keep envisioning the constellation of Libra( or take reference from the photo you clicked if you’re not that familiar with start constellations) and move the stars up and down along the four star slots to make it match the shape of the constellation of Libra.
Here is the exact step-by-step solution for the star slots on the constellation face:
- Move all the stars to the top of their slots
- First Slot – go down twice
- Second Slot – go down twice
- Third Slot – down once
- Fourth Slot – down twice
- Turn towards the sense of justice face and collect the dial that’s popping out of it
- Turn towards the Abraxas Logo Face and Select the option which says, ‘Place Dial’.
- Rotate the inner and outer dials to put the correct symbols in the character’s hands which you can see on the face of the box. Rotate the outer dial till the scepter is located on the character’s left hand(your right-hand side) and rotate the inner dial till you can see the shield located on the character’s right hand(your left-hand side)
This opens up the puzzle box and if you keep rotating up and select the option ‘Remove Lid’ you will receive an Abraxas Badge and an in-game achievement ‘Thinking Outside The Box’
And with this, you have solved the Abraxas Box puzzle in Life Is Strange: Double Exposure! You may want to check out our guide on how to find clues on Maya’s death to get moving on the main story-line.