This area will serve as an introduction to the rest of the guide. You’ll note you probably don’t need the myriad pictures and instructions for this easy of an area, but they’re here!

That is, for the early part of the game, not everything is at it seems here.

The Village includes all things attached to the starting area including all locations leading up to the big central hub. You’ll know it when you see it.

Key – The chest in the main village area, which the game all but directs you to, next to the fellow with the monocle.

Treasure Chest - Enter the locked door to find the boiler room.

Key – Just below Treasure is the second key! This time you won’t be needing to use it two seconds later. Also, your first puzzle! Yaaay! Simple stuff here, and be prepared for much of this throughout the game. When you enter the room, you’ll see an empty fireplace. Stand in front of it, then rotate the world 180*. Then, just walk out the other side! Genius, right? Pick up the chest for the key.

Cube - This cube is your first set of bits, all accumulated within the Village.

After collecting all the bits, you should be done with the Village. Head out the bottom of the map through the door and off to the next area!

Outer Village

Cube – This place is easy pants! Just climb the tower, get the bits, get a cube!

You’re done here, won’t be back for quite some time. Move on over to the Main Hub guide.

- To Main Hub

Back to Guide Hub

!! SPOILER ZONE !!

Welcome to your first SPOILER ZONE! Every area has a spoiler zone, beyond which you will very likely not be able to solve each puzzle without knowledge acquired later in the game. We welcome you to read on and solve every place as you enter it, but some of the magic of Fez is figuring it out yourself. If you cannot, however, we have solutions. With that, enjoy this SPOILER ZONE alert, prepared by Gomez himself.

3D Anti-Cube – In the boiler room you’ll note the Shift Cipher drawn on several sheets of paper along with number codes. The order seems to be up, shift right, left, jump, right, shift left, down, but you’ll note that does not work.

This area must be completed with the 3D Glasses, as there is one more note hiding behind the actual boiler itself. Hop into first person mode and you’ll see an 8th note (with the number 8 on it) and the code for shift right. Thus:

Code: Up – Shift Right – Left – Jump – Right – Shift Left – Down – Shift Right

Back to Guide Hub

Let’s be clear about something: the Central Hub and the Main Hub are two different places. The bulk of Fez occurs in on gigantic area which can be accessed for free through a door at the top of the Central Hub. The Central Hub has doors requiring 4, 8 and 16 cubes to enter. The Main Hub is the area that is accessed through the the open door at the top of this area.  When you arrive here at the Central Hub Dot will tell you a whole bunch of nifty things. Note that you can’t afford to enter any of the doors that are pointed out to you. They don’t matter right now. Make your way to the area above you and enter the door there, and… welcome to the Main Hub. The world is yours to solve! There are puzzles to solve here and we’ll get to that shortly, however as stated before, the whole game branches out from here (for the most part). There are four directions you can go in, and each have their own sub-area guide. These ares are…

- The Lighthouse

- The Bell Tower

- The Waterfall

- The Ruins

Beyond some of those areas are even BIGGER areas, which we’ll refer to as Major Areas. Those areas also get their own guide pages. We played the game one way, but you may play another, so know that most anything in any area which requires something to be done in another area will be under the SPOILER ZONE cutoff. There is no real, ideal way to go from the Main Hub, so explore as you please!

That said, there’s exploring to be done right here, in fact. There are plenty of bits around, so collect all those. Again, since everyone goes in different directions, we’re no longer going to include cubes acquired by bits.

Moving on, there’s only three areas we consider to be still inside the Main Hub area, and those are found through the door above the warp gate. If you’re sticking around on this page (or have come back to it) head on up. There’s a lot to find up there.

Here we have some very minuscule bits. Collect ‘em all, then head up again to the place that really matters: Tree 2.

There are three ways to go here. Two of them are very important, so remember this location. However, before we get into that, there are things to accomplish here! Chiefly, there’s an owl!!

Owl – There’s a tree right next to the cabin where the owl lands. Hop onto the bounce-shroom, then use it to land on top of the cabin and make your way to the owl.

Moving on, the last piece of Main Hub material is on that lonely door under the white pillar that Dot can’t seem to identify. We’ll come back to this pillar later, for now, check that door! You should have a key to spare to unlock the door.

Treasure Map - This place is a fun, traditional platforming style test. Jump on platforms and rotate as quick as you can before they crumble to pieces. Simple, yes? So get to it. The treasure map is at the top.

Once you’re done here, head on back to Tree 2.

From here you can either continue up to the Observatory, or you can head through the cabin to the Mausoleum. Exploration mode, activate!

- To Mausoleum
- To Observatory

Back to Guide Hub

!! – SPOILER WARNING – !!

The next bit requires New Game +, so if you don’t have it, go ahead and back up. If you do though, what must do here is probably obvious to you.

3D Anti-Cube – It’s a 3D stone puzzle! This one is just as easy as the others. Jump on the pillar then look towards the small platform closest to you. Here’s the code:

Right, Shift Right, Left, Shift Left, Left, Up, Down, Jump

Easy rewards for beating the game are always nice.

It’s finally time for the Black Monolith puzzle. While we’d love to say we’d figured this out, we didn’t. We’re not sure how the code is supposed to be solved, but the community at large of Fez enthusiasts managed to brute force the code. Several threads across the internet are rooted in this solution, so we give them all credit, we’re just posting the answer here for all to see.

Hop in the door that’s below the Main Hub platform after the water is lowered.

Red Cube - The first half of this puzzle we did indeed solve. You’ll need the treasure map fragment with the red markings on it. It’s two sided, one side indicated what to look for, and the other side indicating what to do and where.

First, make your way onto the platform. Enter first person mode to see the huge infinity symbol. On one end there’s an empty square, and on the other end there’s a different symbol. Stand on the empty square.

As indicated by the flip side of the map, there’s a Shift Cipher to enter here. Here’s the code:

Up, Shift Right, Up, Jump, Down, Shift Left, Up, Down

After entering that code a massive black rectangular prism will show up, hence the whole “black monolith” name. Go back into first person mode and make your way over to the opposite symbol.

This is the part found by the community. This code was brute forced by most, but it’s very, very likely that there’s a way to find the code within the game and we just have no idea. When we know, we’ll let you know, but for now, here’s the code to enter while standing on that symbol:

Down, Down, Shift Left, Shift Right, Shift Right, Jump, Up

Once you do, the red cube will show up and it’s yours to have forever and ever.

Back to Guide Hub

Welcome to the Waterfall area! This area of Fez is a big deal, not just because it’s pretty, but because there are tons of secrets locked away here. Well… most of the game is like that, but here it goes double! There are puzzles, there are bits, but most of all, there’s an owl!

Owl – On the tree right above the entrance to the Waterfall area next to the stone pillar with the markings on it will be an owl! Hit B next to an owl to talk to it. Yes, these are important. Remember, owls only come out at night.
Getting into Waterfall: Mine- Well, there’s a bomb, and there’s a rocky looking wall near the bomb, so what do you think we should do? Grab the bomb, drop down to the front of the mine and leave the bomb there. It goes off on a short fuse so be quick.

Let’s solve some puzzles!

Bit – There’s a bit hidden behind a bit of crumbly wall we’ll have to blow up, and it’s easy to miss if you’re not looking for the bit lines. It’s a simple puzzle, fortunately. Grab a bomb, drop down one level and rotate 90* right, then place the bomb next to the wall! Magic, huh?

Do this again (with a 180* turn this time) on the same level to find a large hidden door! Proceed through it.

The ante is now upped as go deeper into the mine. One huge facet of Fez dynamics is the attachment of things as they rotate 90*. For instance, surely by now you’ve had a chance to climb vines, then rotated 90* to find that they still continue along the side of the wall. Well, many things in Fez behave that way, and one such thing is bombs.

Bit - Bomb explosions cause chain reactions, destroying wall fragments piece by piece. These chain reactions can occur around corners, but if you turn too late the explosions fizzle out before destroying the whole area, the pieces come back. It’s important to turn the moment the side you’re on is cleared.

Cube – Next up is getting to the top. There’s a door at mid-height you should open before moving on, so do that real quick. Now, this one’s a little tricky. Place the bomb at the foot of the tower, and let it explode like the last puzzle we did. Now, in 3/4 perspectives you’ll note there’s a floating tower with a cube on top of it. However, as the explosive chain reaction approaches the tower it lines up perfectly with the base. Let the explosion cross over to the tower before rotating, as seen below, then continue as per the usual. If you mess up here, there’s a bit of a checkpoint where a new bomb will spawn inside the base itself. Once you’ve successfully blown everything up, climb to the top for the cube sitting there waiting for you.

There’s a small one-way warp gate at the top which takes you back to the Main Hub. Before you do that, check out the door back at the base of the spire you just climbed.

Key – This is a fun puzzle! First off we’re going to pick up the bomb (because why wouldn’t we?) and throw it at the cracked bits. Make sure you’re throwing it along the plane where there’s complete platform coverage under the cracks. Then, when the bomb goes off, rotate 90* left.

The destroyed wall exposes a ladder which you can jump on to. Once on, rotate 90* right and climb to the very top of the ladder. When you’re there, switch back 90* left and jump off for a chest with a key in it.

Once you’re done here, assuming you snagged that bit at the bottom there, head on back to Mine 2.

Now that you’re done in the Mine, you can either take the warp back to the Main Hub and go places from there, or come back to the Waterfall Area. If you want to stay, stay on this page.

- Back to Main Hub

More doors here in Waterfall area for us to go through, so let’s get to it. You’ll note there’s a door nested just next to the waterfall, head on in there to grab some bits. There’s more to do there, but that won’t be until much later. Head to the SPOILER ZONE for some insight.

You’ll note this place is infinitely cycling. That’s a thing, no need to test it. Get your bits and move on.

There are several doors in the Waterfall area, and somehow many of them seem to hide away rather significant secrets. One such secret is hiding in the door on top of the waterfall itself. Make your way to the top and enter the door in the tree.

Now, again, we thoroughly encourage you to try and figure this out on your own. Unlike some other codes in this game, all you need is right here in the room with you. That said, again, we do have the answer, so you’re welcome to stick around and find it out.

There’s a bit in this room, so let’s go get it. A simple bounce-climb to the top reveals a stone slab with several markings on it. You may notice these from the very beginning of the game when the big cube said a bunch of random symbols at you. There’s also a fox jumping over a dog.

Writing Cube – Moving on, make your way to the chest and open it to find the Writing Cube. Fantastic right? It’ll show you sooo many things!

Nope. But it does give you a clue that something bigger is going on in this area, and indeed something is.

Alphabet Cipher – Time is up, put down your pens and turn in your vocabulary tests! Many languages have things known as “pangrams”, these sentences contain every letter in the language. In English, the shortest pangram is “the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog”. MY GOODNESS! Isn’t there a brown fox jumping over a presumably lazy dog right here? Yes. Yes there is.

Now, we know that pangram means something, but what? This slab doesn’t seem to fit those words if you read it like English, but they must fit! Well, it’s not read like English. The Fezzian language, as I’m hereforth referring to it as, is read from top to bottom, right to left; like Japanese. You’ll note, then, that “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” fits in perfectly. Enjoy your newly acquired language!

To accompany your understanding of Fezzian is a beautiful cheat sheet we’ve cooked up so you don’t have to! Note that Q and K are the same, as are U and V.

Well then. You’ve yourself many things to go read! Back to Waterfall you go.

- To Main Hub

Back to Guide Hub

!! – SPOILER ZONE – !!

Ahh, so you’ve cracked the Shift Cipher have you? Good stuff. You’re about to open several areas within areas you’ve already visited! Amazing, right? Assuming you properly understand the code, you’ll note that when seen standing vertically, all Shift Ciphers must be rotated counter-clockwise. Chiefly, those ciphers seen on the large stones all need to be rotated. That said, let’s get down to business.

Shift Cipher – Right when you enter the Waterfall, and likely since you’ve first laid eyes on it, you’ll see a Shift Cipher stone. For those of you who haven’t decoded it, the code is:

Left, Shift Left, Right, Shift Right, Up, Jump, Down, Shift Right, Shift Right

Enter here to find the water valve. This valve controls the height of the water throughout the entire Main Hub. There’s no reason not to lower the water all the way, so go ahead and do that.

Lo and behold there’s now a door you can go through. Surprise! This is going to happen often. Head through this newly appeared and likely soggy door.

Treasure Map - Hop in the door, climb up the faces, open the chest and you get… most of a treasure map! What it means, we’ll never know. Well. We will, but not at the moment.

For now, let’s head back to Waterfall and check out what new doors we have available! Or, door, anyways.

Red-Cube – Ahh… Fun. It’s a riddle. If you can’t read any of this, go back to earlier parts in the Waterfall area as you should indeed be able to read all this by this point. The large block says:

“Please answer this security question: What ‘s my name?”

“Security question hint: My first half is what it is, my second half is half of what made it.”

If you can figure this riddle out on your own, more power to you. For the record, I could not, and had to have a fellow staff member help me out. If you’d like to try your own hand at this, go for it, we won’t stop you, but we do have the answer, and there’s more to it than just the answer.

You’ll note each of these blocks is neatly laid out in front of you, and you’ll be tempted to spell the answer out like you would in English. However, this is Fezzian, and since we can’t stack the blocks 8-high, we’re going to stack them 8… horizontal. The right-most block will be the top (while facing the entrance door) and the left most will be the bottom. The answer needs to be rotated 90* clockwise to reflect writing vertically.

Skipping ahead a bit, the answer is “METATRON”. Where “META” comes from I have no idea, I couldn’t figure it out, but that apparently “is what it is”. The second half is “TRON”, which is half of “POLYTRON”, which makes perfect sense. In fact I figured that part out on my own, and you may have as well.

As far as spelling that out is concerned, each block has its different rotations on its other sides. Rotate until you find the rightIt’s important to face the door when aligning the word blocks, but the key is to make sure you pick up the block in the correct dimension (it should be the correct letter rotated 90* clockwise) then put it down in the right spot in the dimension facing the entrance.

So, it’ll read, “HILNGNXS” if you lay it out as though it were left to right before rotating it. Hopefully that helps visualize it, but it’s really quite simple after that.

You get a red cube for finishing this. Yes, you have it, no it won’t show up in your inventory. You’ll know what this is later.

Once you’ve done that, revisit every Main Hub location.

Here’s some fast links:

- To Main Hub
- To Lighthouse
- To Bell Tower
- To Ruins

Remember, now that you’ve got the Shift Cipher you’re going to be looking for these in the SPOILER ZONE. The “Lower Water Level” puzzles will be noted as such.

But wait, there’s more! You may have noticed by now that things change here at the Waterfall during the night. For one, there’s an owl, which you should have gotten by now, but chiefly there’s another Shift Cipher to complete. If you check 90* right of the actual waterfall you’ll notice a large rectangle. This is a door. Surprise.

Waterfall Secret – At night, you’ll see a special glowing symbol show up. Do this cipher before night time passes, write it down, or just go ahead and look at the code, which we’ve written down below:

Left, Shift Left, Left, Right, Shift Right, Down, Up, Shift Left

That done, enter your new door.

Anti-Cube – TRIPPY! This place is amazingly silly. Now, the path to the top is the one you’re supposed to take. No matter what’s going on, always go up to get there. Eventually you’ll make it to the top door and enter it, it’s all skill and timing, nothing puzzling here. At least not yet.

Once you’re through the top door, time some more amazing jumps and grab the cube. Once you do, a warp gate will pop up. Go through it, but then come back here to the beginning of the area.

This time through the Night Door, we’re here on a mission. A mission to find the secret door in the trippy room. We’ll show you where it is this time, don’t worry. Luckily it’s not too complicated, and is really just something that’s easy to miss.

Proceed as usual (if anything here is usual) by climbing on top of the entrance platform. Then, make your way up to the second platform above you. You can tell you’re at the right area because of the square tile-esque textures on the wall. You’ll note that depending on how you got here, the door is tough to notice and easy to pass by on your way to the top of the room. Rotate around this platform until you see the door, then go in it.

Anti-Cube - I love these puzzles, for whatever reason. You’ll note the massive tuning stone here. If you have rumble on your controller turned off, turn it on. A shift code is sent via rumble to the left and right sides of your controller. It can be difficult to tell when the code starts and stops, but here’s what we put in to get the trigger:

RT, LT, LT, LT, RT, LT, LT, RT

Now that we’re done with everyth- oh wait, no we’re not. We’re forgetting the infinite level! Well let’s get on that then!

Anti-Cube - First of all, isn’t it great to finally be almost done with Waterfall? This place is so huge. All kinds of Shift Ciphers up in this. Speaking of which, it’s time to do another one. Now, you may ask, “Where is it? I don’t see a stone anywhere?”. Well there isn’t one, but look around. You’re IN the cipher! Amazing, right? The whole area, when looking at the entrance, is a cipher. Here’s the code:

Right, Shift Left, Right, Jump, Shift Right, Down, Jump, Up

So that’s cool, right? Blows your mind a bit. Blew ours anyways. You’re done here now, so you’re welcome to leave. FOREVER!!

- To Main Hub

Back to Guide Hub

Ahh, the Bell Tower, what wondrous mysteries are stored here! Let’s find out. In the actual Bell Tower area, there really isn’t much to do. There’s some bits, grab those, but then there’s this huge bell! Don’t worry about that bell, though you’re welcome to ring it all you’d like. The solution to the bell comes with an understanding of the Numeric System, so once you know that, come back here. Or just head to the SPOILER ZONE.

Believe it or not, the only other door you can enter at the moment is also entirely useless to you. You’ll be back here later. Way later.

Once you’re at the top of the bell tower, head through the door there.

And… there’s nothing of value here! Well, that’s a lie, there’s some bits, but most importantly there’s a door! Through that door will be your first incredibly difficult puzzle. Give it a try, it’s a fun find to figure out, but below is the answer should you require it. This puzzle is all you, no ciphers required. If you want to pass on this puzzle for now, there’s an opportunity to get Anti-Cubes all over the place, including here in Bell Tower, so don’t worry if you skip this one for now.

Anti-Cube – Alright. Here we have a small platform and four blocks. On each side of the platform is a required formation from that perspective. You’ll note that if you just throw all four blocks on to meet one perspective, you’ll only be able to satisfy the opposite perspective. That is, by default, you cannot solve this puzzle if you only work in one perspective.

So we will work in three of them.

As a warning, sometimes block shift when shifting dimensions, so DO NOT SHIFT MORE THAN ONCE AT A TIME. If you do that, there’s a chance the blocks will jump to their default perspectives. Now let’s get down to business.

Since this is all rendered in 3D, we know that the platform in fact has a full square on top of it. By rotating, you’ll note that the glowing spots form a 3 x 3 grid on top of the surface. The blocks will magnetize to a grid spot, but it can be difficult to tell which grid spot the blocks are in.

Rule #1 – The key here is to throw the blocks in from specific perspectives. The perspective you throw the block from dictates where it is in the 3×3 space. A block will always land on the part of the platform closest to the perspective which you are in. So when you rotate 90* right, the block will be farthest to the right of the platform, and farthest left when you rotate 90* left.

Rule #2 – Blocks move in lines. You do not move in a 3D path while moving in Fez, so if you pick a block up in a certain area, that grounds you along the same plane as the block.

Such forms the trick. Throw a block in from one perspective to put it on the right axis, then pick it from another to ensure it moves along the correct axis. Here’s what we want everything to look like when we’re done, with each small square on the platform representing a cube.

Incoming solution…

While on C-side (the side you’re facing when you enter the room), push the right-most block into the center. This sets up a block at A-center and one at C-left/B-right. Do a full 360* turn to make sure everything is as it should be. We’ll do these after every major move because somehow Fez gets confused by itself at times, so you may have to walk in and out to reset everything.

Next, on A-side, pick up the left most block (actually doesn’t matter) and, while holding it, move to the center. This has you perfectly aligned below A-center. Rotate 90* right (facing B-side now) and throw the block up, jump up then put it on top without rotating at all. Everything should stay where it belongs. Do another rotate check, if the two-stack isn’t at A-center, reset.

Lastly, take the final block and walk to the center of D-side. Stay aligned with the center, rotate 90* to the right (facing A-side now) then throw it up. It will magnetize to its blocky brethren and you’ll get an Anti-Cube!

Moving on! Let’s go back to Tower 2 and proceed to the next area. That means climb to the top, enter the door and off we go.

Here we are in Tower 3! This area features a fun vine climbing puzzle to get around, and is like that of many vine puzzles you’ll see throughout.

Bit – You’ll want to jump on the vine hanging over the door. Then, rotate 90* to the right and climb over to the right side. Climb up to the top of the vine on the side, then rotate 90* right again to find yourself way on the other side! Pretty cool huh? Grab the bit and carry on.

Key – Continuing from where we left off, stay in the small opening in the center of the tower and rotate it 180*, then begin climbing the vine on the other side. After some maneuvering similar to what we just did, you’ll find yourself at the top of Tower 3, one key richer!

We’re done here, so let’s move on to Tower 4 via the door in the middle of the map.

As you can see here, there’s a cube to get in this location. Woot. This area is pretty basic, but it’s a lot of fun.

Cube – Make your way through the various platforms. This place is all jumping and rotating, nothing tricky, secret or unseen before here. Just remember that going through this 180* shift doors puts you on the other side of them, allowing you to cross what would normally be empty space. Once you reach the top, get the cube! Don’t go through the warp portal just yet though, there’s more fun to be had here in the Bell Tower Area.

Ooh, this place is cool! There are several areas within Fez with very blatant gimmicks. Sometimes Dot tells you, sometimes it’s pretty difficult to miss otherwise (you’ll see what we mean later). Here, we have a case of the “no shift” blues.

Bit – You’ll want to orient the area by moving the massive center totem. Since there’s no compass in Fez, refer to the picture below to see which way you’ll want everything to be shifted in the interest of picking up the bits here.

Tilt the totem just 90* right to find a door which leads to a straight-up puzzle. No platforming involved. This one shouldn’t be too tough, but as with every puzzle, this is where you decide if you’d like it solved for you or not.  Try it out, it’s not too tough. For everyone else, here’s the solution:

Anti-Cube - This is a great introduction to puzzles in Fez. Squares and cubes, if you haven’t figured it out already, are kind of a big deal around here. In this puzzle, we have one large cube with lines on it, and four smaller cubes around it, also with lines on them. Each hole in the large cube needs to be filled with the proper small cube.

All you have to do to solve this is match the small cube’s lines with that of the large cube’s. There’s really not much to it once you figure out the gimmick. Fill the three slots with the cubes next to the large block. The last block is way on the ground floor and will require some finessing. Grab the cube then jump on the smallest pedestal around the periphery of the area. Then, rotate and jump one by one until you’re as high as you can get. Then, jump and throw the block to the main platform. Without throwing the block, it won’t make it.

Put the block in then proceed through the newly created entrance. Once inside, make your way to the top of the trees for an Anti-Cube.

Well look at you, making such progress! You’re already done with the Bell Tower area! Well, at least for now, you’ll be back soon enough. Go through the warp gate to teleport back to the Main Hub.

- To Main Hub

Back to Guide Hub

!! – SPOILER ZONE – !!

There’s something to accomplish in every area after lowering the water level in Waterfall. Since that requires the Shift Cipher, we’ll go ahead and assume you’ve completed that by now. There is even more to find once you’ve  progressed even further in the game, and that content will be even further down the SPOILER ZONE. If it’s not up here, you can’t do anything with it until later.

Specifically, we mean the island with the tree.

You will come back here later, but for now just note that there’s a door here requiring 64 cubes. Yes, that’s all of them. Yes, it will be a while before you get back here.

Once you’ve lowered the water, there’s a new door here for you to check out.

Now now, I wonder what is in here…

Well. This place is crazy. This is going to be a very difficult bit of platforming, so we’ll do our best to guide your way through here. Really it only gets tough near the end, but man does it get difficult to see where to go. Let’s hop to it.

Anti-Cube - We’re going to keep this simple. Instead telling you every single jump, we’re going to start from the point where things get difficult to spot. If you have more trouble earlier on, let us know.

Once you come to the large square with the red block on top of it and hop on, things get tough. Rotate right to see a whole bridge of different platforms with grass platforms on the end. Rotate 180*, then jump on those. Rotate another right to see some very thin ledges to jump on. Hop on all of those until you get to the sandstone colored pillar with the purple ledge above it, just out of reach. Rotate 90* right, then jump onto the grass covered stone platform on the right. Hop to the right to see a grass covered clay (?) platform, and jump on that. With a leap of faith, jump even further to the right to find a minecart rail platform. Further still to the right is a small ledge platform with a purple block on top of it. Hop on that, then rotate right. Above is a basic grass platform, get on that then rotate left. On top of that is a crumbling platform. Jump on that, quickly rotate right and jump up slightly to the right. Rotate another right, hop up to the clay grass platform and rotate left. Get on the next platform above you and rotate left, jump twice left, rotate right, jump twice right, then yay you’re done!

Phew! What a trip. Save yourself a major headache and take the warp gate back home.

Anti-Cube – The bell tower bell is super duper simple once you’ve mastered the Number System. All you have to do is ring the bell the shown amount of times. The order doesn’t matter, but you might as well go from highest to lowest. Just check the picture below for the answers!

Oh, and this place?

This is where you view your red cubes. What else it does, if anything, we’re not sure.

Back to Guide Hub

Something about the Lighthouse is tricky, though really it shouldn’t be. Let’s grab all the bits we can before going inside, then let’s find the rest!

Treasure Map - At the base of the lighthouse is a locked door. Bust out a key and enter to find the chest sitting there waiting for you! There’s more to do in this room, though, so let’s continue.

To get to the top of the lighthouse, you’ll need to proceed through the door in the Treasure Map room. Rotate 180* to find the door, head up through the rotating ladders and enter the door at the top there.

The ladders are a pretty simple trick, but if they’re giving you trouble, the idea is to get on one, then climb up when they align. Get off at the top. Simple as that.

Collect that last bit up there above the Lighthouse then jump off to the right to find the door leading to the Industrial Zone. Sounds intense, right? Well it is.

Neat, the journey to a new area is always fun.

The first puzzle here involves these nifty rotating dimensional boxes. The box faces one way and acts as a 180* flip portal. We’ve seen them before in walls, but now it’s on a swivel! Intense.

Rotate the room 90* to the right, then climb over the top via the vines and hang over the side of the porta-door room. Then, switch 90* back to the left and walk through the door! Magic sure is magical.

Once we’re done there, climb up through the next porta-door room and go through the door in the water tower.

Once inside, to make your way up to the top and get that bit you’ll have to do some rotations. Line up the tower’s ladder so you can make it to the top and you’ll be done here.

Sort of. There’s a reason to come back, but it’ll be in the SPOILER ZONE once you’ve found the map you need. If you have the treasure map that looks like this place, well… that’s because it is for this place!

When you’re done here, go through the door and click on over to the Industrial Area.

- To Industrial Area

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!! – SPOILER ZONE – !!

Anti-Cube - Match up the major platform with the treasure map. To do this, simply face the Teleporter Door (the one with the two squares on it) and have the lower, extended platform jutting out to the left. Then, jump to the invisible platforms as indicated on the treasure map to claim your chest at the top of it all.

Like every other area attached to the Main Hub, once you lower the water level you’ve got a new door to open and solve puzzles within. Head below the main platform for a new puzzle to solve!

Rumble Anti-Cube – Make sure the rumble on your controller is on. Whenever you see that huge tuning fork, it means they’re sending code through your controller. Match left and right vibrations to find the code. Here’s what we put in:

LT, RT, RT, LT, LT, LT, RT, RT, RT, RT

Once you’re done here, head on back to the Lighthouse.

There’s another anti-cube to be found in a door revealed by the water level dropping. Back in Climb 1, we can investigate a door there, but we’re not sure what the purpose of that would be. Doesn’t seem to have any relevance, so don’t worry about it.

Next up is something that’s probably been bugging you for a while, and that’s that strange colored pillar out there on that island by itself. Well, time to find a solution for it.

3D Anti-Cube – That pillar is a 3D stone! That means it’s time to use your New Game + given powers to view the world in first-person. Stand on the pillar then look down at the dock for a Shift Cipher. You’ll probably have to get up close to it to see it better. If you haven’t figured that code out yet, there’s nothing you can do here, but if you have, the solution is just below this so you’d best get out of the SPOILER ZONE if you haven’t already. As we said before, the NG+ powers are useless without the Shift Cipher.

You’ll not the code is viewed from the perspective of the 3D stone, if you ever move around, as being vertical. As such, here’s the code:

Up, Shift Left, Shift Right, Up, Shift Left, Up, Shift Right, Up

Sweet, sweet end-game anti-cube candy. Note that you can’t do these while in first person view.

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Welcome to the Ruins, called as such because there’s really no other distinguishing feature about them. Oh well. Let’s have at them, shall we?

First off, let’s go climb some things and get some stuff! The Ruins area is very, very basic. Somehow you were supposed to realize this when you chose to come here, hopefully first, but it’s a pretty walk-in-the-(ruins)park area.

Make your way up to the first door with the box on top and the strange switch next to it. This here’s a pretty simply weight-switch puzzle, which we’re going to come back to after we collect all the bits. Caper your way across the vines and over the middle to drop down to the middle-bit which initially looks out of reach.

After you’ve grabbed everything off the top, climb back down the vines and onto the roof with the crate on it. Pick up the crate and toss it onto the purple switch. Doing this will open a door off to the side, which we’ll go through now.

Once inside, make your way to the main platform where you’ll notice another weight-switch. That must mean there’s a crate nearby! Well there is. Hop over to the crate and pick it up. Unlike the last puzzle we can’t just throw it all the way to the switch. On top of that, this crate is heavy, so Gomez can’t jump as high with as he normally could. As such, jump onto the first platform when it’s level with the other one. Then, wait for it to go up above the second platform, then jump onto the second platform. Once level, you should be able to toss the crate onto the main platform, pick up the crate and jump on the switch.

Cube – Doing this opens a door, going through which nets you a cube, but not before yet another weight switch puzzle. This one’s super easy though. Just grab the crate from behind the entrance then hop on one small pillar to the next and finally onto the switch. Head through the new door for a cube and a warp gate back to the Main Hub.

However, we’re not done in the Ruins, so we’re going to head back there. This time, we’ll go through the wooden door that was under the crate.

Through here we’ve got another place to climb all over and another door to go through.

Treasure Map - Before finishing up the area, just head through that door for an easy chest with a Treasure Map in it.

Back to the main area we’ve got a cube to get. Much like most of the Ruins, this place is all vines. Use your cunning and platforming skills to make it up here, you shouldn’t have much trouble. The trick to this place is all the 180* doors, but, as with any door, you just go through them and problem solved. Grab the cube at the top and call it a day. Take the warp gate back to the Main Hub, you’re done here for now.

- To the Main Hub

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Now that you’re at the top, perhaps you might notice the shape of this place looks a bit familiar, yes? Well if you haven’t looked at your treasure maps then no, it won’t look familiar. But if you have, you’ll note that the second treasure map corresponds to this place!

Anti-Cube Treasure - Not every treasure map is super cryptic, this one doesn’t have any symbols we have to decipher, so we can get straight into this. Get to the top of Ruins, and rotate the world to match the second treasure map. You can tell where it should be oriented by where the treasure chest’s island is. Note that the map is two sided, both of which have red marks in different spaces.

Each of these red marks is an invisible platform. Bum bum bummm! One is closer to the main island and one is closer to the treasure island. Let’s get started.

To make it to the treasure island, rotate the world such that the island is on the right. Get on top of the tree, then jump to the right as far as possible. You should land on the invisible platform. From this platform, you have to jump right again, but the immediately rotate 180*. Continue your jump in your new direction and you should land on the second invisible platform. Lastly, make it to the treasure chest for an anti-cube.

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