In Roadside Research, your suspicion levels can cause a ton of issues for your establishment. Agents will arrive at your Gas Station in Roadside Research whenever the suspicion meter is in red. While there are ways to lower suspicion levels, every now and then you will end up facing agents.
They will arrive at your gas station start poking around, and worse case, and will interrogate and if you fail you will be hunted down and ‘conked.’ Agents pull you aside for one random mini-game: Breathe Like a Human, Blink Like a Human, or Fart Like a Human.
If you succeed the interrogations, you’ll earn Alien Points but failing means your entire team dies, the Aliens respawn in the porta potty, and there is Goop mess all over that must be cleaned before you can run the Gas Station again.
The Goop Spills will be where the Aliens were killed and when you return, the Alien technology will be broken. Customers will start to trickle back in but suspicion will remain high, but not high enough for agents to arrive. All broken Alien tech sabotaged by the Agents can be fixed by going around the store and left-click on those items.
How to Win All Three Interrogation Mini-Games in Roadside Research
| Mini-Game | Difficulty | Successes Needed | Step-by-Step | Tips |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breathe Like a Human | Medium | 15 hits | 1. Erratic cursor circles unpredictably. 2. Click rapidly when it hits a checkpoint (white circle/green zone). 3. Checks speed up, increasing frequency. | No rhythm, react fast, stay calm. Spam only on target to avoid misses. Breathing audio random (fast/slow). |
| Blink Like a Human (Hardest) | Hard | 3 blinks | 1. Two eyes: moving circles grow/shrink. 2. Click eye’s button (separate controls) on perfect static + moving circle overlap. 3. Do one eye at a time; total 3 overlaps. | Wait precisely, early/late = miss. Controller: triggers/bumpers per eye. No penalty for waiting. |
| Fart Like a Human (Easiest) | Easy | 15 farts | 1. Clouds drift to buttocks. 2. Click exactly on contact (multiple clouds). | Timing king, slight delay fails it. Rhythm builds naturally. |
If any of your teammates lose a mini game, the loser will be killed by the agent while other teammates will have a chance to fight off the agents using laser guns.
Lower and balancing suspicion is really important and if you’re already conked, fix your broken tech to decrease suspicion back to normal.
How To Avoid Being Conked
If you fail the interrogations, you will be hunted down but the game isn’t over. The Aliens can still use some options to stop being conked in Roadside Research. Agents escalate with suspicion so acting early is the way to success.
| Phase | Threat | Counter |
|---|---|---|
| Investigation | Wander, snoop | Ignore or preempt. |
| Sabotage | Break upgrades | Left-click to fix (lowers suspicion). Clean goop post-death. |
| Interrogation | Mini-game | As above, teammate defend. |
| Hunt | Chase/shoot | Laser Gun (stun ā remove sunglasses) + Brain Washer (erase memory). Combo: stun ā wash. Repeat if wakes. |
When an Agent is hunting you, use the Laser Gun and Brain Washer from the Alien upgrades screen to deal with them.
- Brain Washer Barrier: -30% base suspicion (confuses nearby humans).
- Auto-Brain Washer: -50% base suspicion.
Shoot an Agent with the Laser Gun to knock them out and when they are out, their glasses will fall off too. This is when Brain Washer comes in handy. Use it to wipe their memories.
