Quintoccular
Power the artifact in the heart of the cave and uncover the purpose of the mysterious symbols and statues.
A short puzzle game.
There are 5x5 5x5 rooms to explore.
Feel free to ask for hints.
v1.1 - added autosaving
v1.2 - see changelog
Please report any bugs or issues in the comments.
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Development log
- Postmortem27 days ago
- Update 1.227 days ago
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Please help me, how do I open the blue doors in d4?
Do I understand correctly that in order to open the blue door, "vg vf arprffnel gung gurer or na bowrpg be n jnyy ba nyy 4 fvqrf bs gur binyf"(rot13)?
Yes - Nygubhtu gurer vf nabgure jnl gb npgvingr gur rlr flzobyf gung zvtug uryc.
Nabgure jnl gb npgvingr gur rlr flzobyf (rot 13)? But how exactly?
I've opened all the places except C4, but I don't understand how to get there.
Second way hints:
Qb lbh xabj ubj gb npgvingr gur fgnghrf?
Jurer pbhyq lbh cynpr vg bapr vg'f orra npgvingrq
Thanks for the help, V whfg qvqa'g xabj ubj gb npgvingr gur fgnghrf.
Welp, I'm stuck. I've visited all but three rooms (a1, a2, c3) on the top three ranks (and none on the bottom two), but to be honest, I'm not even sure I understand what opens the doors--I would have thought "red boxes on the ovals with dots" would be it, but in the entrance, one is enough, unless the statue is in the wrong place, in which case...
I'm liking it, but I feel like I don't have enough information to move forward.
The next main progression point is e4.
Hints for exiting d3 (downwards) in increasing order (rot13):
- Ubj pbhyq lbh trg cnfg gur jnyyf ba gur rqtr bs n gvyr?
- Vg'f abg whfg obkrf naq fgnghrf gung pna or fjnccrq nebhaq...
- Lbh pna fjnc gur cynlre jvgu n oynax gvyr.
- Ubj jbhyq lbh fryrpg gur gvyr gb gur yrsg bs gur fgnghr?
- Jung zbirzrag pnhfrf gur fjnc gb bpphe? Vf gurer n jnl gb snpr qbja juvyr va n gvyr gung vf fryrpgrq?
And then just sit in the corner by the statue unable to do anything, yes
Sorry, good design but is clearly too complicated for me (D3 owl seems genuenly impossible without some *hiddent twist* on the obvious game mechanics...)
Orient_Tiger: yeah, I did that, but that's the right of the statue. :-)
LaptopCoder11: in fact, there wasn't anything in those hints I didn't know; the thing I needed was that I could in fact exit d3 downward (which I'd tried and failed). OK, back at it.
...so I got to e4, and there are arrows there, but they don't tell me anything I didn't already know. So now I can make it to c5, but that's definitely a dead end.
You can get to a2 (from a3) using the knowledge you currently have.
This is where it comes back around to not understanding the doors. I tried something that worked (and that I hadn't particularly thought to try before), but...if it has to do with the non-circled dots being "covered" by the red boxes, why does the door open in a2 even when nothing is near the dot in the south?
Meanwhile, I've just yanked the owl statue from b2 into a2, which has also turned it invisible, which feels like it's going to make this game so much harder now.
Don't worry about the door condition for now - in most rooms placing the boxes on the unlit eye symbols will work. (The non-circled dot is a marker for where you reset to, maybe I should change that to something else to avoid confusion?)
a2 is supposed to hint at how to activate eye symbols, which then allows progress.
(what makes the top 2 different from the other 2, could you get the other ones into the same state?)
Solution: Gurer arrqf gb or na bowrpg be jnyy ba nyy 4 fvqrf bs gur rlr flzoby gb npgvingr vg.
The statue turning invisible seems to be bug sorry- all of the rooms are self-contained - you don't need to move a Statue out of the room it starts in.Edit: This has now been fixed.