About Gothic Remake Lockpicker
What this is
Gothic Remake Lockpicker is a free, fan-made solver for the lockpicking minigame in Gothic 1 Remake (Alkimia Interactive / THQ Nordic, 2026). You describe the lock on your screen — plate count, pin positions, and which plates are linked — and the site returns the shortest move order that opens it without ever straining your pick, with a step-by-step playback you can follow in-game.
Why it exists
The remake's lockpicking is a genuinely good puzzle — sliding plates, bronze pins, and couplings that drag plates across each other. It stops being fun around the tenth snapped pick in front of a chest you know has good loot. There are PC mods that skip the minigame entirely, but most players searching for help want the opposite: a legit way through the puzzle as designed, without burning a stack of lockpicks on trial and error. This tool is that middle path — you still play the minigame, you just stop guessing.
How the solver works, mathematically
Each lock is modeled as a small linear system. The state is a vector of pin positions — one number per plate, each between 1 and 7 — and every legal plate move adds or subtracts 1 from that plate's entry and from every plate linked to it, with the sign set by the coupling: plus for same-direction links, minus for opposite ones. The target holes form a second vector, and the solver searches for the shortest move order that turns the start vector into the target vector while keeping every pin inside the 1–7 track at every step. That bound is the "pick-safe" constraint: a move that would push a pin past hole 1 or 7 is exactly the move that strains your pick in-game, so any sequence that respects the bounds costs you zero mistakes. Because locks top out at 8 plates, the search is instant.
Who made it
A fan project, built and maintained by players. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to THQ Nordic or Alkimia Interactive in any way — Gothic and all game content and names belong to their respective owners. Found a wrong solution or stale lock data? Tell us — corrections are how this tool stays accurate.