Some helpful hints and colorful pages await
Nintendo has put the fullEarthBoundplayer’s guide up on their site, freely available to peruse and download. Players havefound it QR code linked in the app, and it’s alsoavailable at this link here.
— Cheap Ass Gamer (@videogamedeals)July 25, 2025
The player’s guide is not just a manual forEarthBound, but a pretty comprehensive guide to the whole game. At 135 pages long, it tracks the whole adventure from Onett on through the final battle. There are also guides and charts for weapons, food, condiments, Psi, and more. It’s basically a handy guide to everythingEarthBound, available in PDF form.
Even if you’re not currently playing the classic RPG, the guide is interesting enough as a tome of game knowledge. It’s got a lot of style and charm to it, befitting the game it’s walking players through. There are fun little asides like the Onett Times sections, and little notes on different parts of the guide. There’s an appeal to it, a reminder of a time when large guides for deep RPGs were more common. I almost want to print this out, hole-punch it and stick it in a binder.
