Chezni's Walk-thru

Spoiler Warning: This page contains spoilers which may affect your IVAN experience negatively

Hey friends! This is Chezni here. You may know me from my Youtube Let's Play channel, although probably you're here because Slob's walkthrough was never completed.

In this walkthrough, I will attempt to cover every aspect of Ivan that I encounter myself. Since my play-style will be different than others, there may be methods of play or even parts of the game that I don't include here. Please feel free to contact me if you would like additional information on any aspect of playing the game.

For starters, I'm going to assume that you've played IVAN and that you have a general understanding of the game's stats, as well as being somewhat mediocre at the game.

YOUR MISSION For starters, you have to understand that 99.9% of all IVAN games end in death. If you are not playing the game with this in mind, you'll quickly become frustrated and quit. You're not here to play a game in which you are going to win. You're not here to play a game in which you're going to save the world and get the girl. You're here to play a game in which you respond to your surroundings with whatever tools and skills you've been randomly given--and use your wit and what you know about your abilities and skill to do the best you can in any situation. Not every situation is winnable. Luck plays a very large part of any game. You're not here to win--you're here to see just what adventure awaits you, and how you will adapt to that adventure. The journey is the reward, not the destination.

YOUR CHARACTER No two characters are created equal. When you start the game, you are given a character with random stats. Sometimes your stats are high, sometimes they are low--sometimes they are average. This is not the end of your character however, as there are "hidden stats" for your character's growth potential. Some characters

STARTING OUT It may not seem like it, right at the very beginning of the game, you have a few options to choose from that prepare you for the Underwater Tunnel dungeon. Some are more time consuming than the others and none of them are mandatory. They are just merely ways to raise stats that you may want depending on your playstyle

  --Agility--
  This is the stat I always raise in the beginning. It's very quick to do and requires little effort. Simply run around on the    
  overworld map until you raise your agility to 12-14. If you're character