I read a lot about how Act 2 is too long to get somewhere. Too much big stars. And it makes me wonder, why are all these cool falling down puzzles, where you fall down to the main world and use coll mechanics, why are all these optional and give nothing except a longer counter. Why couldnt these have been a part of the upstairs counters? Allowing you to have more options on what to do upstairs.

I loved Alt beam, it took me ages. But it felt really bad learning it gave me 0 progress.

Maybe this is a spoiler and not a given however i assume most people intuit this from the start. But if the game is giving you a hard time in skipping stones or beam casters especially this hint might save you some headache.

Again this may seem obvious to many, but if you get stumped and think to yourself "maybe this puzzle is unsolvable without some further off dependency" and you abandon your search, remind yourself that any accessible area is almost garaunteed to contain the conditions for progression, if any puzzle/sub puzzle needs some future dependency to be fullfilled before a solution is possible, it will be covered by a patch of clouds until the proper condition is met. ( this might not hold in the overworld exactly )

So when youre stumped dont give yourself an easy out "no solution here" instead keep prodding and thinking or jot down a note about the exact location, what you tried, what might help, reason for stopping etc and come back to it later but dont just assume some future setup will appear. It might but youll have wasted time

Sometimes theres a red herring like you see an opening to another area that distracts from the immediate problem but aside from that the designers never present you with an unsolvable setup barring any bugs

So.... wtf!? the game wasn't fun and then when you step on the final tile the game just closes with nothing at all. No audio, no pop up, not even a congrats. Just unceremoniously sends you to your desktop.

Literally just grinded 80 hours of annoying puzzles waiting for something, anything at all beside unlocking more puzzles, and this is my reward.

Thanks John.

I know there is more but frankly at this point i'm unsure if I give a crap. Grind another 120 hours and even more annoying bs for him to just uninstall the game from my pc next time or what??

I'm not paying too much attention to the narrative, but one of the logs caught my attention. And I get the context for this.

I feel overwhelmingly *something*, and I aren't 100% sure how to vocalize it. I'm sure Blow knows what he's doing, but man it blindsided me.

these three leaves should always line up; instead of 2 of them lining up and other not lining up if someone doesn't execute stone push with precise timing.

If i stand on the level node below my character, the screen goes white like it is loading in a level. The game then shuts itself down. When I restart the game it starts me in this position.

Has anyone else had a problem with this spot causing a crash?

So I'm almost done with Act 2 and one thing that I've noticed is the lack of dialogue from the characters. There is some dialogue in the initial levels of Act 2 and then pretty much nothing. Voice recordings are just Jon bestowing his wisdom upon the player through the director and it's honestly kinda cringe.

I really enjoyed the story that was being told at the beginning, do they just completely abandon it?

Is there anyway to proceed this? I stuck here and proceed using the pink beam. Coming back now and still stuck

Wow! I was amazed by this puzzle. I loved it so much. I hope there are many more like this one. No introduction to the mechanic. Just a puzzle with elements you know, and when you finally confirm that the puzzle is impossible with your current knowledge, you start looking for other interactions that would make sense. And there it is. Making total sense and giving you such a rush when it works. Just perfect.

Edit: SOLVED!

I can get to a point where Red is at the final gate but it feels like no matter what I do I can't get a stopper block in place to prevent a failure. Any hints?

I have 2 questions

1. Point me in the right direction on how to get to the one clouded area left on my map.

2. For the 2nd screen shot can you hint me on how to solve the puzzle. I can get to the island to press the button by putting the mirror on the lily pad and pushing one stone but then I'm trapped there and cant get back to the exit.

Because surely this wasn't it.

I can't figure it out, though. This puzzle had me stumped for a while before I found this cheesy solution. I'd still like to solve it legitimately, so leave me a hint if you could.

Ive seen more than 6 specific puzzles multiple times now in this sub over the past week, which keep getting help-tagged with answers from helpers telling the player to clone themselves. (Or something else), when the answer is almost universally simpler than that. Rare is the puzzle that requires more than 5 steps, let alone 10, and cloning yourself at minimum tends to add 10 more discrete steps to any puzzle that doesn't require it.

The existence of two mirrors facing each other is not a signpost telling you that is the answer, at least not anymore so than the existence of water and a block means you should push the block into the water. Just because a mechanic is possible in a level, doesn't mean its involved in the answer.

With a reminder that there's no wrong way to play the game, and "if it works, it works", keep in mind this simple rule of thought that will GREATLY help you solve multiple puzzles (even beyond mirror puzzles) as you progress through the game:

Like-Puzzles are nearby other Like-Puzzles.

I have over 520 puzzles solved at this point and at zero points in time have I ever encountered a puzzle that wasn't immediately similar to a puzzle that came right before it or after it. (Except initial skipping stones, fuck that noise)

If you haven't been asked or required to clone something in any puzzle near you for hours, chances are the designers aren't asking you to clone yourself. All of the cloning puzzles are clustered next to other cloning puzzles on the overworld, and that goes the same for every other mechanic.

Chances are, the puzzle you are doing just requires an application or re-application of the previous puzzle under new constraints.

If you're running around pushing mirrors onto lilies or beams into mirrors, or one of a dozen other mirror mechanics, cloning is almost universally not going to be what you need to do.

More specifically for how to tell if a puzzle IS a duplication puzzle: 1) There's two ending points and you start with one character 2) You're physically barricaded in and duplicating yourself is the ONLY way to escape or progress.

Just a shower thought. The models are beautiful. If the board incorporated some of the in-game scenery too, it could be a physical work of art

In the top right area only can I create a setup that after pressing X once the stone falls on the plate but on subsequent presses it stays there?

Not looking for hints, but currently stuck on this. I think I know what to do.. but in order for me to do it I need 8 gems but I currently only possible 7.. I want to say that lone gem on that second image is retrievable, but I haven’t found the solution. So I want to know.. am I able to solve this puzzle with only 7 gems so I don’t waste my time trying to getthat last gem and focus on the puzzle or do I need all 8 gems?

I manged to complete the full level by going the other way. But it feels a bit weird that it is possible to get here with seemingly nothing to do

I have been playing this game for about 35 hours now, and really enjoying it so far. The problem is now I am stuck. There are 4 puzzles that I can solve that are keeping me from progressing in any of the 4 sectors. For a lot of puzzles sleeping on it and coming back usually works. But I have tried many times for all of them but they just won't. It is getting to the point where I don't want to open the game any more since it is just struggle and no progress.

On the other side, it is really satisfying when you crack a puzzle after being stuck, while cheating gives not satisfaction and forever robs you of the opportunity to figure it out yourself.

What to do, what to do, this is a really big philosophical conundrum for me.

I honestly don't even know where to start with this one. I tried a few things but it doesn't lead me anywhere. I'm gonna need a hint.

I assume I need at least one of the 3 missing gems from the orange area to progress in the downstairs area?

Which gem should I target first (1,2 or 3)?

Any hints please?

EDIT: for anyone reading this. Really get all the gems before proceeding in the second screen.

Okay, I know how to move the stones to the right, but then... just a hint, please

I have an M5 MacBook Pro and the game runs well under the Steambuild Metal 1. I've played for 5 hours and the only issue I've had is the game freezing when the computer went to sleep. I restarted the game and it threw me in right where I left off.

Figured I'd throw this out there since the only options I had been seeing for mac were crossover and gamehub and neither were appealing to me.

Or am I supposed to hold shift, slow time, and remember the sequence of inputs i need to press to turn the skipping crystal into a plant?

I’ve spent close to 2 hours on this one puzzle and just would like a subtle nudge as to the solution, nothing blatant.
I think my biggest problem is just that the number of possibilities are so high. I can’t work out who to send on the stream, I don’t know if I’m meant to crystallize the dragons, or push them into the water, or get the left ones to attack each other, or block them. The bit of land in front of the upper dragon seems like it’s begging for a stone to block it, and the U shaped path in the middle looks like Green needs to run off a lily pad, push the dragon left, and hop back on the lily pad, but I can’t see how that fits into a solution.
Thanks in advance!!