Creaks

There are 35 paintings to find in Creaks. Most are out in the open, with 12 hidden in secret rooms. There are also 12 achievements available for finding each of these.

11 of the paintings are interactive minigames, and you can net another 11 achievements for completing these.

The ‘load scene’ screen
If you’re loading a scene from the ‘load scene’ screen on the main menu, note that I’ve counted scenes from the first that’s highlighted by default (the long descent by ladder into the underground world). There is also the prologue, but ignore that when you count the scenes. For reference:
- Scene 10 is the bright room with a big tree in the middle
- Scene 17 is the room shaped like a birds head with a stained glass window for an eye
- Scene 24 is behind a huge clock-face
- Scene 39 is the cable car
- Scene 46 is the giant broken hamster wheel

Paintings screen
You can view which paintings you have collected in the ‘Paintings’ screen. They are not in the same order as you encounter them in a playthrough of the game (they’re grouped by theme).

You can use this list to match any paintings you’re missing to the list in the guide proper. Those in bold are interactive:

First row (being stalked by spooky death thing) (L-R): 1, 3, 6, 12
Second row (music): 4, 7, 10, 5, 28
Third row (a busy day of book picking): 9, 13, 11, 15
Fourth row (a busy day of book picking): 21, 2, 23
Fifth row (fun with pets): 20, 24
Sixth row (beats me): 14, 16, 35, 17
Seventh row (no, me neither): 8, 22, 18, 19
Eighth row (biology): 25, 33, 26, 32
Ninth row (scientific enquiry): 27, 29, 30, 34, 31

The list
I think you only need to approach a painting for it to be recorded, but to play it safe you can view them by pressing . You might as well pull the cord with to watch them play out while you’re there.

Here we go then:
Painting 1 - Flying a kite
5th scene. Climb down the ladder and head left. Hard to miss.

Painting 2 (interactive) - Home Sweet Home
After standing on a chair to reach a ladder, climb it and you'll see the painting. 8th scene. Very hard to miss.

Painting 3 - Blind man's bluff
After the bit where you turn two metal dogs into chests. Hard to miss. 10th scene (then climb up).

Painting 4 - Playing a tree like a musical instrument
room after library (with jellyfish and two gates to bring up), in the top right hand corner at the top of a small tower. 12th scene.

Painting 5 (interactive) - Meadow Song
After you see the birdman looking for a book, take a rickety lift up a narrow shaft. It’s in the next area, down a ladder. 15th scene.

Painting 6 - Campfire chat
In the first secret room. When you fall into the small room with sinister laughing busts, head up the ladder to the right. Pretty much unmissable.

Painting 7 - A harpist serenades a fish
In the blue library secret room. 19th scene. The exit to the area is top left, and the secret room to the bottom right. You’ll need to get the right hand metal dog to chase you over to the left, then drop down, climb up the ladder and run right to where he starts. Take the ladder down. Picture here:


Painting 8 (interactive) - The Knight
just after the blue library you’ll go down a ladder. It’s right there.

Painting 9 - Setting off to work
In the room with the huge organ and pipes everywhere. 21st scene. You need to trap the upper robot dog behind the bookcase door, then you can reach the painting up in the top right hand corner.

Painting 10 - Playing a tune on stalactites
In secret room 'stalactites'. After the room with three big clocks (23rd scene on the 'load scene' screen), you’ll pass below it, and see a cutscene. Climb the ladder to the left of the clock room. Instead of taking the lift up, jump across the gap to the left.

Painting 11 - Man climbing tree
After the room where you’re behind the big clock face (24th scene), climb up the ladder and it's on the left.

Painting 12 (interactive) - Time for tea
After you’ve passed through the organ pipe room a second time, you’ll go down a long lift, have a near miss with a crumbling ledge and spy on the angry bird people. Head left, it’s impossible to miss. 26th scene.

Painting 13 - Birdman rafting
In secret room 'scrolls'. Once you’ve lowered one half of a bridge going into an opening shaped like a bird’s head you’ll come to a three level room with four metal dogs and a bookcase you can raise up and down with your twirly thing. The secret room is on the right hand side of the middle level. 27th scene.

Painting 14 - Chap with rifle leaning on tree
In secret room 'behind the curtain'. When you first meet the black spiky haired shadow people, you’ll need to get one to stand on a pad to open a door for you. There’s a ladder up, but instead head left through the curtain. 28th scene.

Painting 15 - Birdman climbing a tree with books in it
Top left of room which has a shadow man who’s in coat rack form when you go in. 30th scene.

Painting 16 (interactive) - Dancer
Hard to miss, it’s just after the 30th scene.

Painting 17 (interactive) - Sunrise
After the room full of hieroglyphics, you pass underneath it. The painting is here, pretty hard to miss. 32nd scene.

Painting 18 - Hunter playing bugle with dogs
In secret room 'Egyptian'. After 'The Dancer' interactive painting, head down the ladder and go right through a wall to find this secret room. It's the 31st scene from the 'load scene' screen.

Painting 19 - Cooking a seafood platter
Just after the cutscene involving a giant bear trap. Impossible to miss. 43rd scene.

Painting 20 (interactive) - Good boy
Just after the cutscene involving a giant bear trap, go up a lift. It’s impossible to miss. 43rd scene.

Painting 21 - Sitting by a pond with feet in water
In secret room 'Backstage'. After the puzzle with two shadow dudes and two metal dog things, don't take the ladder down. Instead walk left through the wall. 35th scene.

Painting 22 - Child failing at hunting
After scene 35, go down the ladder and you’ll see it across the gap.

Painting 23 - Kissing in the library
In secret room 'Behind the tropies'. After the puzzle with the first red shadow person (that moves towards you rather than follows you) and the metal dog, head up the ladder and go left through the wall. 36th scene.

Painting 24 (interactive) - Cat's back
You’ll find this painting just after two red shadow people kick the book down two holes. Guide and image here:


Painting 25 - Mice in the maze
In secret room 'Gazebo'. When you take a cable car and see the goat for the first time, head down the ladder and go left. Jump the gap and you’ll see the (not so) secret room. 39th scene. Image here:


Painting 26 (interactive) - The amazing magician
After the room where you need to turn a goat into a chair to get up to a ladder, climb it and head right. Hard to miss. 39th scene. Image here:


Painting 27 - Birdman writing at his outdoor desk
In secret room 'Old bones'. After the big room with the giant seahorse skeleton in the background, climb up and head right to find a switch obscured by more skeletons. Pull it and it’ll reveal the hidden room. It's the 41st scene from the 'load scene' screen.

Painting 28 (interactive) - The exceptional singer
Just after watching the two chumps try to patch up a crack in the wall, you’ll take a lift down. Walk right, you can’t miss it. 42nd scene.

Painting 29 - Man listening to shellfish
In secret room 'Shed'. Go down the long lift shaft, and head right past ‘The Exceptional Singer’ interactive painting. Drop down, walk right past a plant and take the ladder down. Head right and go up the ladder to find the secret room. It’s the 42nd scene on the ‘load scene’ screen.

Painting 30 - Listening to water pouring into the pond
Hard to miss - just after the puzzle with the dog in a wheel and two goats.

Painting 31 - Fishing with a divining rod
In secret room 'Hurry up!'. After the cutscene where the book sticks to the metal dog’s wheel and is thrown to the birdman, walk left and down the ladder. Head left again to find a hidden switch. Push it, and return up the ladder. You’ll see a new ladder has appeared. Head up it to find the secret room and a painting. This is the 43rd scene on the 'load scene' screen. Image here:


Painting 32 (interactive) - Swimmers
Just after the large room with two goats, a metal dog and a big lump of sparkly mineral in the centre. Climb the ladder out and you’ll see the painting. It’s the 44th scene on the ‘load scene’ screen. Image here:


Painting 33 - Scientists watching fish jump through hoop
In secret room 'Dark corner'. After the long cutscene section which ends with the birdman stranded by the pipe breaking, head right and go down the ladder. Don't go down the ladder here, but head right to find the secret room. It's the 48th scene from the 'load scene' screen. Image here:


Painting 34 - Guy hanging from tree over pond
just after the room where you control the weird trunk thing to control the water flow, you’ll see this painting. Pretty much impossible to miss.

Painting 35 - Lady and girl on a beach
In secret room 'In the deep'. After the room where you use the weird trunk thing to control water flow, and move the red shadow person, you’ll come to a ladder between two bits of water. Instead of going down the ladder, jump over the right bit of water to find the secret room. It’s the 50th scene from the ‘load scene’ screen.