Recursive Ruin (Hints
Sarcophagus 3
Puzzle: You need to make your way into the room with the sarcophagus, however the entrance is raised off the ground, and two shadow stones block the way.
Hint: The trick here is that you need to have only the bottom shadow stone in corporeal form, and then you can use it as a step ladder to get into the entrance tunnel. But how to shadow only the bottom shadow stone? You need to use the fractal cube in the room. Go to the spawner in the room and get a cube. Carry the cube outside. Notice that there is a pedestal of sorts right outside the window. Place the cube on the pedestal. When you go back in the tomb and you’ve SHIFTed the world correctly, the bottom shadow stone should be in shadows and corporeal, while the top one is in the light and incorporeal.
Lower Chambers 3
Puzzle: You need to activate the head thing in the glass room. There’s a “light cube” that you can use to get into the room, but it keeps the head in its incorporeal state.
Hint: You need to use the carryable shadow stone as a step ladder to get inside. However the light from the light block will keep it in incorporeal form, preventing you from carrying it. You’ll need to move the light block behind various objects to allow you to carry the shadow stone over a small distance. You’ll need to reposition the light block several times to get the shadow stone fully over to the area it needs to be. Once the shadow stone is in front of the hole in the glass room, make sure to place the light cube somewhere that keeps both the shadow stone and the head thing in their shadowed corporeal form. You can now activate the head thing and progress further.
X. Cathedral
Bridge 1
Puzzle: You need to put the cube inside the powering eye, but the cube spawner is on the ceiling.
Hint: To reach the cube you need to turn around and re-enter the space you came from. If you go far enough back and follow the red beam you’ll see a cube spawner. Spawn the cube from there. Now carry the cube back to the eye and put it in the eye. This will power the purple switch. Activate the switch and the bridge will fall down. You can progress further.
Bridge 2
Puzzle: You need to put the cube inside the powering eye, but the eye is floating over some deadly liquid. You can’t walk there, and you can’t throw the cube far enough to reach it.
Hint: You need to use the gravity switching nature of the space to get the cube in the eye. Spawn a cube, then run back to the previous space. When you SHRINK down into it, note how the gravity “switches directions” and the lamps fall down. Look for the blue eye on the ceiling. The red beam should be pointing towards it when you run far enough. Line up the cube to be directly under the powering eye. The red beam should help you line it up. Once it’s been lined up, drop the cube on the ground. Now go back to the platform you started at. When you transition back into the larger space the gravity should switch directions again, and the cube should fall into the powering eye, powering the switch. Go to the switch and activate it. The bridge should fall down and you can progress further.
Bridge 3
Puzzle: You need to put the cube inside the powering eye, but the eye is inside a tunnel area blocked off by a “cube eating wall.
Hint: You need to use the gravity switching nature of the space to get the cube in the eye. Spawn a cube, then run back to the previous space. Look for the tunnel room thing on the ceiling. Note that the ceiling is open in one spot. Place the cube directly under that spot. Not return back to the bridge area. The gravity should switch directions and the cube should fall into the open ceiling space, past the “cube eating wall”. You can now pick the cube up and put it into the powering eye. Once powered, activate the purple switch and the bridge should fall down. You can now progress further.
Bridge 4
Puzzle: You need to put the cube inside the powering eye, but the eye is on some strange platform. There seems to be a cube spawner under one of the bridges, but it’s easily accessible.
Hint: The trick is to realize that the weird platform area is actually upside down! You need a way to access it in its right-side up state. To do that go back to the previous repetition of the space. Once you SHRINK down into it, turn around and SHIFT the world. Notice how the platform area’s “ceiling” is now below your feet. Drop down onto the platform. Go past the first SHRINK gate. Look for the cube spawner on the ceiling to your right. Spawn a cube and it will fall to the floor. Drop down off the platform onto the floor and pick up the cube. Carry it back to the bridge area with the dark liquid. Keep going over the bridges until you reach the second pedestal protrusion in the platform on your right. It should be black and gold and you should be able to easily place the cube on top. Once it’s in place, go back to the small space you came from. Once you SHRINK down into it, turn around and SHIFT the world again. Drop back down onto the ceiling of the platform. This time go through both SHRINK gates. After the second SHRINK gate you should see the cube on the floor. Pick up the cube and put it in the powering eye. Now you can return to the original platform you started at and activate the purple switch. The bridge should drop down and you can progress further.
Bridge 5
Puzzle: You need to put the cube in the powering eye. You have a weird floating cube but a “cube eating wall” prevents you from putting it into the eye. You have a heavy white cube, but you can’t throw it nearly far enough to get it into the eye.
Hint: If this puzzle is giving you issues, worry not! This is perhaps one of the hardest puzzles in the game. Good job making it this far! Buckle up, ‘cause this is a weird one. You’ll need to use both cubes to solve the puzzle. The real trick is that they both do different things. The white cube is heavy and can fall with gravity. The floating cube can travel far distance, but isn’t affected by gravity. Combined you can get the floating cube into the eye. First, spawn the white cube and drop it down on the lowered platform on the ground with the golden rectangle in the center. Now, turn around and spawn the floating cube. To get it out of this room you need to throw it over the liquid pit, then walk through the second hallway past the “cube eating wall”, then catch the floating cube on the other side. Carry the floating cube all the way past the bridge back to the smaller repetition of the space. The gravity should switch directions and the white cube should fall out of the room that it was in onto the ground. Go over to where the white cube fell on the ground and let go of the floating cube DIRECTLY OVER THE WHITE CUBE. That last part is important! Now go back to the area with the bridges and the dark liquid. Gravity should switch again. Notice that the white cube has fallen down due to gravity and is now weighing down the floating cube, pushing it down into the room below. Go all the way to that room. The floating cube should be there under the white cube. Move the white cube out of the way. Pick up the floating cube and throw it over the liquid into the powering eye. Make sure to aim correctly! Otherwise you’ll have to do the whole process again. Now the eye should be powered. Activate the purple switch, the bridge should fall down, and you can progress further.
Secret Hallway
Puzzle: You need to put the cube in the powering eye. However two “cube eating walls” prevent you from carrying the cube into the eye or outside the hallway.
Hint: You need to use gravity to your advantage here. Spawn the cube then carry so that it is under one of the slots in the ceiling. Place the cube under the slot. Now go back outside the hallway, then back out to the outer repetition of the space. Gravity should switch direction, the bridges should fall down, and the cube along with them! This is only half the battle, however. Go pick up the cube. Now walk back with it such that it’s over the last bridge before the smaller version of the space. The red beam should be pointing mostly upward. Drop the cube here. Now go forward into the smaller space. The gravity should switch and the bridges, along with the cube, should fall down. Go down into the secret hallway. The cube should be at the end of the hallway in the same room with the powering eye. Place the cube in the powering eye. The powered wall should disappear, and you can now progress further.
XII. Mountains
Focus 0
Puzzle: You need to put the sphere in the powering eye, however it blows up after several seconds outside of the blue dome.
Hint: You need to make a pit stop in the second blue dome. The blue domes“regenerate” the “health” of the spheres. First spawn the sphere and pick it up. Walk outside the first blue dome towards the second blue dome. Don’t stop until you’re inside. Once inside, wait a second or two for the “health” of the sphere to regenerate. Now carry the sphere to the powering eye. You should be able to place the sphere in the eye with time to spare. Now you can go back to the “focus” machine thing. Click on it and aim it toward the glowing purple sphere. The doorway should open and you can now progress.
Door 1 / Focus 1
Puzzle: You need to put the sphere in the powering eye, however if you naively run towards the eye the distance is too great, and the sphere blows up.
Hint: The correct path is not always the most obvious one. First get the sphere from the first blue dome area. Take it into the second blue dome, and then into the third blue dome at the top of the ramp. You should see the eye in the distance. Resist its siren song! Turn around. When the world is SHIFTed in the correct way, you should see a small version of the powering eye with two platforms leading directly to it. This way is shorter! While holding the sphere walk over one of the platforms, and then make a turn to the powering eye. You should SHRINK down to its size. Place the sphere in the powering eye. Now go to the “focus” machine thing. Aim it directly UP at the purple sphere thing in the sky. Now you can progress further.
Door 2 / Focus 2
Puzzle: You need to put the sphere in the powering eye, however if you naively run towards the eye the distance is too great, and the sphere blows up. There’s a ramp up the side and a blue dome on top, but you can’t get up there with the sphere either.
Hint: The correct path is not always the most obvious one. First get the sphere from the first blue dome. Look at the powering eye, now turn around. There should be a gap in the floor leading down. If the world is SHIFTed correctly, when you drop that hole you should fall through a blue dome on the wall. This will recharge your sphere just enough that you can walk into the blue dome just before the ramp. Once there go to the blue dome at the top of the ramp. Look to your left. In the side of the “mountain” thing is a blue dome. Go into that. Once inside you can see that there’s a passageway that leads from this blue dome to the next one. Go through that passageway to the next blue dome. If you look at the ground in front of the blue dome there’s a slot in the floor. That’s the original area you started in. The powering eye is at the end of that slot in the ground. Step forward and you’ll SHRINK down, then step into the slot in the ground. Below you should be the powering eye. Put the sphere in the powering eye. Now aim the “focus” at the black purple sphere in the middle of the level. Now you can progress further.
Door 3 / Focus 3
Puzzle: You need to get to the sphere spawner, but it’s trapped behind glass, seemingly with no way in.
Hint: You need to find the entrance on the outside. Starting from the area with the glass and the sphere spawner, go back down the hallway to the center of the level. Now go up the ramp at the back of that area. Once at the top turn right and go around the outside of the “mountain” thing. You should see a yellow red power cable. Follow the red power cable to the right, around the wall, into the blue dome. If you look down at the ground you should see a small slot in the ground. Walk forward over the slot. You should SHRINK down and fall into the slot (otherwise walk into it). Go down the ramp in the slot. The sphere spawner is inside the blue dome. Now take the sphere and head back up the ramp to the blue dome at the top of the ramp. You may be tempted to go around the wall and follow the power cable to the powering eye, but that path is just a bit too long to work. You’ll have to take the long way. Look to the right of the slot on the ground. You should see a smaller blue dome in the repetition of the space. Walk into that area, you should SHRINK down and be able to go into the blue dome. Once there, SHIFT the world, then look to your right. You should see another blue dome in the middle of the gap in the “mountain thing”. Run into that blue dome. Once inside, keep going in the direction and peek over the edge. You should see the hallway that leads to the powering eye. The distance from this blue dome is shorter, so you should be able to make it. Drop down to the ground then run forward and put the sphere inside the eye. Now follow the power cable to the “focus” machine. Aim it toward the purple sphere in the middle of the level. You can now progress further.
Door 4 / Focus 4
Puzzle: You need to get to the sphere spawner, but the obvious path which follows the power cable goes all the way around the edge of the map, and is much too long to be able to make it with the sphere intact.
Hint: The path to get to the powering eye is a bit tricky. First grab the sphere from the sphere spawner, go to the blue dome at the bottom of the ramp, then go to the blue dome at the top of the ramp. Now look left. Go into the blue dome in the side of the “mountain” thing. Follow the passageway there into the second blue dome in the side of the “mountain” thing. Look 45 degrees to your left and there should be a smaller blue dome before you. Walk forward, you’ll SHRINK down, and then walk into the blue dome. There’s a blue dome in the distance that seems like you might be able to get to, but it is in fact too far away. You’ll need to go the long way round. Look to the right a bit and then SHIFT the world. At the top of the “mountain thing” in the gap in the middle is another blue dome which is much closer. Run into that blue dome. Once inside you might be tempted to turn around and head to that other blue dome again, but don’t! It’s still too far away. Instead keep going forward and peek over the edge of the “mountain thing” to the left. On the ground should be a blue dome you can actually get to. Run over the edge and to the left into that blue dome. Look to your left again and run into the blue dome directly ahead. Almost there! The red power cable is in front of you, but don’t follow that, as the path is too long. Instead look to your left. There should be a gap in the wall on the floor in front of you, and just peeking up over the edge should be a bit of glass from the area with the powering eye. Run directly through the gap in the wall towards the bit of glass. Fall off the edge onto the ground below and place the sphere in the powering eye. Now turn around and aim the “focus” machine at the purple/black sphere in the middle of the map. You can now progress further.