VHOLUME NPC Locations: Every Level With NPCs

Why NPCs Matter

VHOLUME’s city is mostly empty — which is the point — but scattered residents are hiding in its levels, and two Steam achievements track them:

• Familiar Face — talk to someone (your first conversation).
• Who’s left ? — talk to everyone in the game.

Three levels go further: their NPC conversations are required to finish the level, not optional flavor.

Levels With Required NPCs

These bureaucratic set-pieces are pure VHOLUME: the office levels literally make you queue up and talk to the staff before the exit opens.

NPC Presence by Level

Per the community wiki (checked Aug 27, 2026), with location videos where the community has recorded them:

So “does every map have an NPC?” — no: 11 of the 31 main levels have none, and the conapt/office blocks carry most of the population. There is also a community compilation covering all NPCs in one video.

Hunting Tips

• NPCs rarely stand on the racing line. Slow down, listen — several reveal themselves by sound — and check side rooms the B-Side hunt also leads you through.
• Do your NPC sweep together with collectable hunting: both reward off-route exploration, and both feed the completionist achievements alongside the medal chase.
• Talked to someone odd who said “you feel different”? That is part of the game’s stranger side — see secrets & easter eggs.