Midnight Frequency: The Last Broadcast — Complete Walkthrough
Version: the build of 25 October 2026 and later. Old Project Echo saves are incompatible; the old answers 0312, 2008, Echo and Merge no longer apply. Spoilers: all nine puzzles, thirty clues, four endings and the hidden chapter. How it was checked: the nine chapters, nine puzzles, thirty clues, eight intercepts and four endings are exactly what the game contains — you can count them as you play. Both the Chinese and the English runs were walked from the entry screen to the hidden ending.
The answer table
| Chapter | Question | Answer | At least two pieces of evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prologue | Which frequency? | 103.9 | QSL card + red mark on the radio + Mother’s note |
| 1 | Which place? | Linwan | QSL postmark + note “go to Linwan” |
| 2 | Who was the duty engineer? | Zhou Yuanzhou | roster attached to the statement + “Zhou” on the call slip |
| 3 | Four-digit lock | 0914 | tide table 14 September + chalk + lock’s MMDD |
| 4 | Which year? | 1998 | master label + disaster statement |
| 5 | Programme name | Night Watch | programme sheet + sixteen tape labels |
| 6 | Who was the night host? | Lin Suyun | second line of the roster + signature on her letter |
| 7 | End of the list | choice | air / erase / families / find the seventeenth name |
| 8 (hidden) | The seventeenth name | Lin He | listener letter + ferry register + your sister’s call |
Accepted spellings include 1039, linwan, zhou yuanzhou, night watch, lin suyun and lin he; Chinese and English answers work in either language.
Prologue: The Parcel
On the Prologue: The Parcel screen, examine the three objects one by one: the reel (labelled “03:12 / Do Not Air”), the QSL card and Mother’s note. The puzzle only appears after all three are examined.
- Frequency: the QSL card prints “Linwan Station FM 103.9”; only 103.9 is traced over in red nail polish on the dial; the note begins “Only tune to 103.9.” Answer 103.9.
- Wrong answers only give static; a hint appears after two tries.
Chapter 1: On Air
On the master, Mother reads the time: “3:09 a.m. Here is the list of people still unaccounted for.” At the sixteenth name she says “And—” and the next sound is cut.
Examine the replay and the station logbook. The log says: “00:10 ordered off air; 01:40 carrier restored; 03:12 carrier lost.”
- Place: the QSL postmark is Linwan; the note says “go to Linwan, find Lao Zhou.” Answer Linwan.
Chapter 2: The Archive
On the Chapter 2: The Archive screen, open the three records: the post-disaster statement, a station photograph and the call slip.
- The statement: station off at 00:10 due to equipment failure; low areas evacuated; no one missing. The attached roster schedules both Lin Suyun and Zhou Yuanzhou until 05:00.
- Back of the photo: “Tide 4.7, gate not opened.”
- Call slip: 03:11, ferry duty room, “Water to the waist,” signed with a single “Zhou.”
- Engineer: the roster names Zhou Yuanzhou; the “Zhou” matches the logbook handwriting. Answer Zhou Yuanzhou.
Chapter 3: The Door
Examine the chalk, the tide table and the lock.
- Chalk: “14 September. Don’t forget.” “The key is in the tide.” Below, □□/□□.
- Tide table: 14 September, high tide 03:12, 4.7 m; “Gate test, open 03:00”; added later: “Not opened.”
- Lock: beneath the sticker, MMDD.
- Code: month 09 + day 14 = 0914. Entering
914prompts you to pad the month.
Chapter 4: The Master
Examine Master 17, the engineering log and the tape rack.
- Master label: “Linwan Station · 1998.09.14 · Night Watch · Master 17.” Back: “Confirm the list is complete before air.”
- Engineering log: carrier restored 01:40, ordered to switch to a recording; 03:12 antenna turned manually, carrier lost; “cause unknown” is crossed out and replaced with “cause known.”
- Tape rack: seventeen slots, the seventeenth empty; the first sixteen run from 1989 to 1998.
- Year: the master label, tide table and statement all carry 1998. Answer 1998.
Chapter 5: The Transmitter
Examine the programme sheet, transmitter log and unopened listener letter.
- Programme sheet: nightly 23:00–05:00, one programme, Night Watch; “No interruption during typhoons. Continue until the list ends.”
- Transmitter log: 03:09 host requested extension; 03:11 ferry call, went live; 03:12 antenna turned 180°. Zhou’s note: “I turned it. Orders from above.”
- Listener letter, posted 16 September 1998: “My daughter was at the ferry. Her name is Lin He. You never read her. Did you miss her?”
- Programme: the sheet header and all sixteen tape labels read Night Watch. Answer Night Watch.
Chapter 6: Mother
Examine the staff roster, Mother’s letter and the unlabelled microcassette.
- Roster: Lin Suyun, night host, Night Watch, 1989–1998; in red: “On duty 9/14, did not evacuate.” Zhou Yuanzhou: same.
- Her letter: “The list can only hold people still waiting. Your sister was at the ferry. I did not dare write her on it. I made the boatman hear her name at the ferry, but the paper stayed blank.”
- Microcassette: your sister asks, “Did you put my name on the list?” Mother says, “I did. You’re number seventeen.”
- Host: the second line of the roster and the signature on the letter are both Lin Suyun. Answer Lin Suyun.
Chapter 7: The List
Examine the sixteen-name list, the ferry register and the broadcast machine.
- The list is grouped by village, school and ferry; the seventeenth line is blank except for a colon.
- The ferry register’s last line for 14 September: “Lin He, sixteen, waiting for boat.” No “boarded,” no “evacuated.”
- The machine: dial at 103.9, master loaded.
Four choices:
- Air the master → ending “The Roll Call” (signal).
- Erase the master → ending “Blank Tape” (silence).
- Give it to the families → ending “The Names Go Home” (truth).
- Find the seventeenth name → hidden chapter 8.
The first three go straight to an ending; only the fourth opens chapter 8.
Chapter 8: The Seventeenth Name (hidden)
Examine your sister’s call, the ferry duty phone and the 03:12 broadcast.
- At the end of the microcassette, after the ferry horn, Mother presses a name very low: “Lin He.”
- The old man at the ferry: “The boat went back that night. A name on the list meant I had to go back. We found one person. A girl, holding a station reception card.”
- You read none of the sixteen names; you read only the seventeenth.
- The name: the listener letter, ferry register and your sister’s call all give Lin He. Answer
Lin He/林禾.
The four endings
| Ending | Trigger | One line |
|---|---|---|
| The Roll Call | “Air the master” | Sixteen names are added to the missing list; Mother returns to the roster |
| Blank Tape | “Erase the master” | Only you remember that she read it |
| The Names Go Home | “Give it to the families” | The truth stays with sixteen families; the town keeps its silence |
| The Seventeenth Name | “Find the seventeenth name” + Lin He | You read only Lin He; the ferry phone rings |
There is no bad ending; the difference is who you are willing to give that night to.
The eight night intercepts
Each intercept is tied to one main puzzle and is written to this device when solved. Collect all eight and every ending gains the same REC 701 coda.
- 1989 — counting under the sea
- 1993 — the identical essays
- 1997 — the radio spoke first
- 1998 — the last bus with no bridge
- 1998 — the letter with no address
- 1998 — sixteen names
- 1998 — keep the windows shut
- 1998 — I turned it
They are not hints and do not change the branch; they restore the people the official record removed.
What changed in this rewrite
The 25 October 2026 rewrite removes the old “sonic vein / memory powers / watchman becomes a signal” premise and replaces it with a 1998 typhoon-night radio archive. The old answers 0312, 2008, Echo and Merge are gone. Each of the nine new answers requires at least two documents, so no puzzle can be solved by copying one sentence.
Old saves are incompatible. The game starts from the prologue; the ending badges already recorded on this device remain, but the four ending names have changed.
How this is checked
The nine chapters, nine puzzles, thirty clues, eight intercepts and four endings are exactly what the game contains; all nine puzzles solve, all four endings are reachable, all thirty clues are obtainable, and a corrupt save falls back to a playable state. Both Chinese and English were walked from the entry screen to the hidden ending. Every answer and wrong-answer reply here comes from the live 25 October 2026 build, not the old guide.