Pressure Items & Puzzles Guide — What to Buy, What to Skip & Every Puzzle Solved (2026)
Pressure’s pre-run shop offers twenty items. Flashlights, Medkits, Code Breachers, Lockpicks, Lanterns, Sprint Potions, Noise Makers, Smoke Bombs, and a dozen others. The game presents them all equally — a shop is a shop. It never tells you that five of these items will save your run and the other fifteen range from situational to actively harmful for new players. The Gummy Flashlight costs 150 Credits. It’s the single best purchase in the entire shop. It provides infinite light without ever needing batteries. Battery management is a skill that takes 20+ hours to develop — tracking battery life while also tracking entity sounds, closet positions, and puzzle solutions is cognitive overload for a new player. The Gummy Flashlight removes one entire system from the game. You never think about batteries again. The crank animation takes 1.5 seconds and should only be used in safe rooms, but that tradeoff is worth it for the mental bandwidth it frees up. ...