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Jae Jimenez Jung is the camerawoman forThe Crush House(and arguably most of its other roles, too), and stepping into her cool 90’s shoes, it’s up to you to produce a few seasons of good reality TV. You’ll have dozens of audiences to consider when you cast and record your reality show.
But things aren’t all what they seem to be in The Crush House - why does nobody remember their previous seasons, and why do there seem to be so many conspiracy theorists in the audience? It’s up to you to solve the mysteries in The Crush House!
This FAQ contains end-game spoilers for The Crush House.
You’re told early onthat you’ll need torun as many ads as you canin order to make the advertising revenue cash necessary toplace propsaround The Crush House.Paintings, karaoke machines, and statues of flame-throwing gnomesaren’t free, after all!
To run ads in The Crush House during a day of shooting, all you need to do isstop filming for a bit, and you’ll see on the camcorder screen in the bottom right corner of the screen as your network plays short ad reads for various products while you’re off the air for a moment.
I’ve found that the most reliable way to earn the most money from ads in The Crush House is tosatisfy the audience and then run ads until the end of the day. Satisfied audiences spill their enthusiasm over into other groups watching, but once everyone is fully satisfied for the day or you’ve at least reached the requisite number of satisfied audiences for the network, put the camera down until your PA walkies you to tell you it’s a wrap on the day.
You unlock new ads for each day you keep The Crush House on the air, and it pays to be mindful of your audiences that day! You’llearn extra ad revenue by playing ads to the right audience, making them that much more effective. It works in the opposite direction, too, though, in thatreplaying the same ad makes it pay out less the second time.
It’s easier to avoid the repetition once you’ve gotten through a couple of seasons and have more ads to cycle through on commercial breaks. If you’re not playing the right ad, you canchange to the next adin the cycle manually to ensure you’re playing the best ads at all time.
How Do You Get Onto The Roof Before The Season Finale?
If youflipped through the achievementsfor The Crush House, you may have noticed that one of them is for getting onto the roof before you’re brought there automaticallyto film the castgoing down the Success Slide on the final day of their season. Theawnings by the poolare just the right height to reach the roof of The Crush House before the finale, but you’ll need to be careful about your hops.Charge a jump with the space barto move more effectively.
There are a couple ways to close the ground you need, but the goal isgetting onto the hearts on the awningand jumping to the roof from there. This isbest done after filming is donefor the day, since you’ll miss out on valuable content trying to hop around the house during the day.
How To Get Onto The Roof Of The Crush House Outside The Season Finale
If you haven’t gotten the Free Fallin’ achievement for getting Jae killed yet, the roof is the best place to do it – all you have to do is jump toward the lighthouse out back and into the pink security spikes below.
How Many Endings Does The Crush House Have?
Once you’ve learned that The Crush House is perhaps not all it appears to be on the surface, you’ll meet the “Mysterious Woman” and her cohort downstairs after youcomplete one request for a cast memberafterspeaking to them once the cameras are turned offfor the day. The night you turn it in, you’ll be summoned to the basement of The Crush House.
In the name of not giving everything away in this FAQ, you’ll eventually need toside with one of these characters over the otherafter you’ve worked more with them and gained their trust. While they have the same background, the two characters are hoping for two very different outcomes in The Crush House.
As such, there seems to betwo endingsto the game, decided entirely by who you’ve chosen to side with. Thereisn’t free play or New Game Plusin The Crush House, so if you’ve still got stuff you want to see when the ending plays out, you’ll need to replay the entire game to make different choices that time around.
Can You Make Your Footage Less Blurry?
There was aknown bugat launch that made it tougher to un-blur the camera while you were using it, and some players report this being fixed while others seem to still be experiencing it. Some camcorders just never seem to want to focus on the action, so keep an eye on the game’s Steam page for more.
Sometimes when you’re filming things around The Crush House, you can find the footage on the camcorder to be blurry from time to time. This usually means thatyou’re too close to the subjectto film it clearly, which is remedied by eithermessing with the zoomon the camera to get the shot back into focus, orphysically stepping back.
It’s important towatch where the reticle in the center of the camcorder screen is, since this is what the camera will be focusing on the most clearly. Everything else that isn’t in the reticle will end up blurry as a side effect, soaim the reticle at what you’re trying to focus onin the shot to ensure it’s clear enough for the audience.
How Do You Appeal To (Specific Audience)?
Your production assistant tells you outright before you begin filming your very first episode of The Crush House: the audience is always right. This is your clue that you’ll need to focus onsatisfying the given audienceseach day while you’re filming the show.
Each of the35 audience typesare identified by an icon correlating to their interests (Voyeurs are the eyeballs, Pyromaniacs are the flame, etc.), both on the camcorder screen for Jae to see while you’re actively filming and on screen as you record.
I’ve seenunsatisfied audiences tune outof the show before the end of the day, and they were replaced by standard Crush Fans, a audience that’s generally easier to satisfy. Don’t rely on this happening, but it’s a decent fallback if all else fails!
Seeing an icon in your camcorder means that audience likes what you’re shooting, and you can gauge by the points you’re receiving howmuchthey like it. The general rule is, the more of that thing is in the shot, the better. For instance, if you can film someone standing in the conversation pit with the Peach Pillow in the background, the Butt Guys will beverykeen on it.
Each type of audience hascontent, cast members, and props they like best, so you’ll need to sus out what these are in order to satisfy the audience. Some of them are pretty straightforward, like how the Boys for Boys group likes any male cast member, but Fish Freaks like Coco because of the fishnet top. Think carefully about which props and situations offer points for these categories when they’re watching.
You’ll need topay attention to the commentsto see what each audience is asking for, as they’re asking for it.Delivering the content that they want at the moment gives more points, since audience satisfaction is key to successful days of shooting. The network wants to keep their viewers, after all. Because of this,satisfy three or more audiences at oncefor anOn Fireboost, which rewards extra points while in effect.
It’s worth noting, though, that youonly get so many points for a shot, as the audience will grow bored quickly and want to see something new that satisfies them. It’s best to milk a shot for what it’s worth before moving onto something else, especially if the audience is satisfied by the time you change the camera.
How Can You Film The Success Slide For Two Minutes?
When you firstcast Bea in a seasonof The Crush House, she, just like the rest of her fellow cast mates, will eventuallyrequest something of Jaeonce the cameras have turned off at the end of a day of shooting. You’ll typically find heroutside by the fire pitlooking at the Success Slide.
She knows it won’t make for great TV, but Bea would like you to film the Success Slide fortwo minutes totalin one day of filming. She never stresses that it needs to be consecutive minutes, but you’ll see agauge on the left side of the screenwith Bea’s face near the progress bar, indicating thatthe shot you have is sufficientfor filming the Success Slide.
It can be fairly challenging to do this if you have too many audiences to satisfy, but at leastConspiracy Theorists and Spiral Seekers like the Success Slide, so it’s helpful to try to do this on a day they’re watching. The fire pit is also great for Pyromaniacs, and plenty of conversations happen on the bench near it for the Wholesome, Nursing Home Residents, and Drama Queens.
If you stop filming the Success Slide for any reason,the meter begins to drain, but it’s notthatfast. Sure, you’ll lose progress, but if you need to re-frame your shot to satisfy some audiences along the way, not having the timer reset immediately is a helpful feature!
If all else fails, though, it’s surprisingly easy tofilm the Success Slide on the day of the finale, since it’ll be prominently in your shot that day, anyway. It takes the four cast members about two minutes to all say their piece and actually go down the slide, and you can even linger the camera there before you go down yourself if need be.
Relying on the finale for the shot does mean you’ll need to have Bea back for a second season of The Crush House to complete the quest by speaking to her outside after the cameras are off again, but you’ve got 12 cast members and 20 total slots on the show between the five seasons, so there was bound to be some overlap, anyway.
