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The Bull Achievement: An Under-3-Hour Route

DIRECT ANSWER

The Bull unlocks for finishing the game in under three hours. Two Steam Community guides favor quick early completions and mobility or locating skills; that route is community guidance, not an official or hands-on-tested solution. Save/reload cooldown resets are treated as an unverified, patch-sensitive exploit and are not the primary route here.

Official goal: Finish under 3 hours
Route evidence: Steam Community E2
Exploit: Unverified / patch-sensitive

E1 + E2 COMMUNITYcommunity route checked against v1.3.2Checked 2026-08-09 CST

RUN VERIFICATION / EDITORIAL · NOT GAMEPLAY

Keep the official condition separate from the community plan.

The three-hour condition is official; route priorities are community guidance. This site has not recorded a successful current-build run.

OFFICIAL
Finish under three hours
Steam confirms the condition, but not a route, split, or pause rule.
COMMUNITY
Plan quick early progress
Player guides favor accessible puzzles and time-saving utility; no result is guaranteed.
RECORD
Track the current build
Log the version, start time, major splits, and finish time without relying on an exploit.
VERIFY
Confirm the unlock
Only a current-build finish and achievement result can close the remaining evidence gap.

E1 source: Official Steam achievement conditions

Why this page exists: A player wants a legitimate under-three-hour plan without mistaking an exploit for an official route.

The only official rule is the clock

Steam’s public condition says to beat the game in under three hours. It does not publish splits, a skill order, pause behavior, or an endorsed exploit.

What the community routes have in common

The two Steam guides favor fast early completions, then abilities that reduce travel or search time. This is a paraphrase of E2 material, not a copied walkthrough or a result reproduced by this site.

Prioritize easier early completions for points.
Favor utility that saves movement or search time.
Treat any exact order as build-sensitive.

Why the cooldown shortcut stays out

Save/reload cooldown reset behavior is described as an exploit and may be patched. It was not reproduced on v1.3.2, so the page does not make it a recommendation.

SOURCE LEDGER / TIMED RUN

Follow every claim to its evidence.

E1 is first-party. E2 is a community observation or route. Later official updates can supersede version-sensitive details.

Publication limit: The condition is E1; the planning route is E2, not guaranteed, and no speedrun or exploit was tested by this site.