In this guide, we will show you how to fully complete Tenebris Somnia and achieve the game’s two main endings: Ending #1 – Solve et Coagula; and Ending #2 – Magnum Opus. Due to the nature of the full walkthrough guide, there will be some light spoilers, but we will not reveal anything about the game’s key plot points, nor information about the game’s excellent live-action cutscenes or mostly terrific boss battles.
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This will be a 26-step guide, broken into individual sections based on the puzzles Julia faces in the game’s natural order. The guide will tell you step-by-step how to complete every section of the game, then instruct you how to unlock each of the two aforementioned endings. They are both easily unlocked in one playthrough, with the required actions only needed at the very end of this great survival horror.
The order of the puzzles is:
1. Door Puzzle in Ivan’s Apartment
4. Poster Cutouts and Devora Picture Puzzle
5. Where to Use the Mop Handle
8. Dinner Plate Puzzle and Green Square Stone Sequence
9. Electrical Current Puzzle Room
10. Cinematography Class Puzzles
11. TV Room
12. Elevator Puzzle
13. Second Film Canister and Cow Skull
15. Silver Key Guide
16. Red Pentacle Stone and the Purified Water
17. Chisel Guide
22. Desiderium – Tin Key and Green Candle Puzzle
23. Desiderium – Apartment Rooms
25. Desiderium – Aurifer Knife
All Puzzle Solutions
Door Puzzle in Ivan’s Apartment
1. Proceed to the bathroom (blue door next to the Devora poster) and pick up the Wrench.
2. Proceed to the kitchen (grey door right of the bathroom) and pick up the Developing Chemical.
3. Head to Ivan’s bedroom; use the door to the right of the TV set to enter.
4. Once inside, equip your Wrench and attack the boarded-up window on the right side of the room.
5. After the bottom board has fallen and you can see exposed sunlight, walk to the opposite side of the room and pick up the Glass from the nightstand.
6. Return to the bathroom and stand in front of the broken mirror. Open your inventory and “use” the Glass. You will then receive the Glass with Blood.
7. In your inventory, select the Glass with Blood and “combine” with the Developing Chemical. You will then receive the Glass with Chemical and Blood.
8. Return to Ivan’s bedroom on the right side of the apartment. Stand in front of the window you opened in Step 4. Open your inventory and “use” the Glass with Chemical and Blood. You will receive Auritsatio.
9. Return to the locked Study Door, open your inventory, and “use” Auritsatio. The door will unlock.
TV Remote Puzzle
1. Inspect the clothes rack inside of Ivan’s office on Floor 2. It is on the right side of the room next to the laptop desk. Here you will find the Glove.
2. Return to the kitchen and stand in-front of the circut breaker on the left-hand side of the room. Open your inventory and “use” the Glove.
3. After the lights go out and the washing machine stops, you can grab the first Battery.
4. Exit the kitchen and return to the bathroom. Interact with the tub curtain, and the second Battery will be revealed.
5. Exit the apartment and take the elevator back up to Floor 3. Return to the first version of Ivan’s apartment from earlier.
6. Once back inside the Floor 3 apartment, proceed to Ivan’s office and stand in front of the TV remote on the desk. Open your inventory and “use” both Batteries.
7. Exit the Floor 3 apartment and return to the Floor 2 apartment. Once inside, you will notice the TV is no longer static and displays a series of symbols. Press the corresponding floor symbols quickly enough to unlock the door to the right of the TV. Please note: This puzzle is randomized. The order of the symbols displayed in your game may differ.
Key Stuck in Door Puzzle
1. After speaking with Sanguis, pick up the blue Triangular Stone from the candle arena. It sits to the right of the red candle.
2. Exit the bedroom and return to the main apartment area. If you have not already picked up the Scissor Blade or X-Ray, do so now.
3. The Scissor Blade can be located on the kitchen countertop. The X-Ray can be located directly below the front door of the apartment. It is sitting on a short bookshelf between a picture frame and a lamp.
4. Exit the apartment and proceed down the hallway towards the green Floor 2 elevator. You will see a blue door with a symbol on it. Stop in front of the door, open your inventory, and “use” the blue Triangular Stone.
5. Once inside, proceed to the leftmost door marked A.S. with the red carpet sticking out from under it. Standing in front of the door, open your inventory and “use” both the Scissor Blade and then the X-Ray. You will receive the A.S. Key.
Poster Cutouts and Devora Picture Puzzle
1. Enter the director’s office and interact with the desk, then pick up the second Scissor Blade. Open your inventory and “combine” the two Scissor Blades. You will receive Scissors.
2. Exit the director’s office and proceed to interact with poster cutouts that look out-of-place. Stand in front of them, open your inventory, and “use” the Scissors. If done correctly, you will receive a Cardboard Piece.
3. There are six Cardboard Pieces in the hallway that you need to collect. Once you have them, return to the director’s office.
4. In the director’s office, stand in front of the ripped poster in the back left of the room. Open your inventory and “use” one of the Cardboard Pieces. This will initiate the second part of the puzzle.
5. Reconstruct the Devora poster using the six Cardboard Pieces. This is done very easily.
6. After completing the poster, open your inventory and “use” the Lighter. If done correctly, you will burn the poster and receive the Bathroom Key.
7. Exit the director’s office and proceed to the bathroom directly to the left of the director’s office door.
8. Once inside the bathroom, make sure you collect the Mop Handle as you will need it later.
Where to Use the Mop Handle
1. Return to the Floor 2 apartment and proceed to where you previously met Sanguis and collected the Triangular Stone.
2. In the candle arena, stand next to the square on the wall next to the windows.
3. Open your inventory and “use” the Mop Handle. Then prepare for battle…
Glass Liquid Sound Puzzle
1. Proceed to the symbol door just to the left of the Floor 3 elevator. Stand in-front of the door, open your inventory, and “use” the blue Triangular Stone.
2. Once you are outside, head to the left and pick up the first Bottle. Then enter the bar.
3. Inside the bar, grab another Bottle from the table, from behind the bar, and from the bathroom.
4. Return to the counter and interact with the bell. Make note of the tone it makes.
5. Stand next to the giant glass pitcher, open your inventory, and “use” Bottles to fill with liquid. Every Bottle you add will change the tone. You need to match the pitch with the bell you rang in Step 4. Attack the glass pitcher with your Wrench to hear the current tone. You can “use” empty Bottles to remove liquid from the pitcher. Please note: This puzzle is randomized. The Bottle order in your game may differ.
6. Once you have matched the tone of the bell with the pitcher, walk back towards the bell and ring it again. If done correctly, the glass will shatter, and you will be able to pick up the USB Cable.
Projector Room Puzzle
1. Take the elevator to the 1st Floor and proceed right to Door 6.
2. Walk to the rightmost section of the room. Enter the next area by interacting with the doorway where light is visibly shining through.
3. Once in the dining room, interact with the 3rd door on the right to proceed.
4. Ascend the staircase until you reach the top. Grab the USB Adapter from the floor near the boarded-up door.
5. Open your inventory and “combine” the USB Cable with the USB Adapter. You will receive the USB Charger.
6. Backtrack to the elevator and return to Ivan’s apartment on Floor 3. Enter the purple door to the left of the broken TV.
7. Once inside, proceed to the right side of the room and open your inventory next to the wall outlet and Ivan’s phone. “Use” the USB Charger. If done correctly you will receive the projector room code.
8. Exit the apartment and take the elevator back to the 1st Floor. Proceed left to Door A and enter. Once inside, you can input the code and unlock the door. If you forgot the code, you can find it again by checking the Old Book in your inventory!
Dinner Plate Puzzle and Green Square Stone Sequence
1. Head to the projector room and stand next to the projector, open your inventory, and “use” the Devora 1 Film Canister. If you are missing the Devora 1 Film Canister, you can find it in Ivan’s office on the 2nd Floor. It will be inside the chest on the left-hand side of the room.
2. Head downstairs until you reach the room where you unlocked the projector room door. Proceed to the theater by heading through the double doors at the top of the screen.
3. Inside the theater, you will see the leftmost box is now open. Grab the Plate with X.
4. Head back towards the 1st Floor elevator and proceed right to Door 6. Inside, walk to the rightmost section of the room. Enter the next area by interacting with the doorway where light is visibly shining through.
5. Once in the dining room, interact with the 3rd door on the right to proceed.
6. Ascend the staircase until you reach the first door. Enter and proceed to the left. Grab the Black Tape sitting on a counter.
7. Return to the dining room and “use” the Black Tape on the leftmost, upper plate (as pictured above). Then “use” the Plate with X on the open spot beneath it. When done, the center double door will unlock.
8. Enter the double doors and grab the green Square Stone from inside.
9. Return to Ivan’s apartment on the 3rd Floor. Once inside, proceed all the way to the right until you see the green symbol door. Stand in front of it, open your inventory, and “use” the Square Stone. Once inside, you can grab the White Candle from the left dresser.
Electrical Current Puzzle Room
1. In the film school, enter the green door to enter the electrical puzzle room.
2. Once inside, proceed to the bottom left electrical switch and interact with it. Wait for the gate to raise all the way.
3. Once the gate has reached the top, interact with the bottom left switch again and quickly run across the room to interact with the bottom right switch before the gate lowers. Cables glow when electrified. Make sure you time your movement to avoid getting electrocuted.
4. After interacting with the bottom right switch, the box at the top of the room will open and reveal the Piece of Cable. Grab it and move over to the next switch in the upper left of the room.
5. While standing in front of the upper left switch, open your inventory and “use” the Piece of Cable. Then interact with the switch and make sure it is in the upward position.
6. Return to the bottom left switch and interact with it once again. If done correctly, the statue in the middle of the room should collapse. You can then grab the RCA Cable from where it stood.
7. Return to the cinematography room downstairs and “use” the RCA Cable on the camera.
Cinematography Class Puzzles
1. Make sure you have “used” the RCA Cable on the camera pictured above.
2. Repeatedly interact with the camera to change the camera views until an outline of a female figure is shown on the wall.
3. Stand in the outline and match its pose to fill in the empty space of the outline.
4. Go back over to the camera and interact with it to get the scene to change until the green door is visible on the camera feed screen.
5. Strike the glass window with a melee weapon that the female figure is pushing against until the glass window is shattered.
6. Go back to the camera and interact with it repeatedly until a bird shows up. Keep interacting with the camera until the bird lands on a tree branch and has a green Copper Seed in its beak.
7. Walk up to the bird and grab the Copper Seed.
8. Head up to the first floor and go all the way left down the hallway until you see a green vase.
9. Stand in front of the green vase and “use” the Copper Seed on it to grow some Flowers.
10. Pick the Flowers up and then head back to the cinematography class.
11. Stand in front of the female figure and “use” the Flowers on her.
12. Go back over to the camera and interact with it repeatedly until the female figure crumbles away and the male statue in the chair commits suicide.
13. Once the male statue falls out of his seat, there should be a green Copper Key on the seat that you’re able to grab.
14. “Use” the Copper Key on the green door to unlock it, then enter through the door.
TV Room
1. After completing the Cinematography Class Puzzles, you’ll enter the TV Room after using the Copper Key on the green door.
2. Immediately go north and keep pressing your interact key while you’re in the darkness.
3. You should eventually begin to activate TVs in the room, which will slowly illuminate the room as you activate more.
4. Be careful as you activate the TVs because a Vorax enemy will spawn in and ambush you.
5. Once the room is fully illuminated, you’ll make a note in the Old Book about the color pattern shown on the TVs.
6. Grab the Black Candle off of the desk and exit the room.
7. Remember to “combine” your Lighter with the Black Candle in your inventory to light the candle!
Elevator Puzzle
1. After acquiring the Black Candle from the previous TV Room puzzle, make sure you light the candle with the Lighter in your inventory by “combining” the two items together.
2. Bring the lit Black Candle to the elevator and “use” it while standing inside the elevator.
3. You’ll place the Black Candle down and now trigger the Elevator Puzzle sequence.
4. Look at your Old Book for the color pattern that must be followed. Please note: This pattern is randomized every playthrough! Yours may be different.
5. The color pattern order goes from top to bottom. You must go to the corresponding floors that match the order of colors in the Old Book.
6. 3rd Floor is blue, 2nd Floor is green, 1st Floor is red, and the Ground Floor is white.
7. Go to the floors in whatever order is in your Old Book, and if done correctly, the elevator will become more and more corrupted. You should eventually see a floor negative one (-1) in your elevator panel. Select this floor and go to it.
Second Film Canister and Cow Skull
1. When you reach Floor -1 after doing the previous elevator puzzle, you’ll be in the lowest part of Ivan’s memories.
2. Run through the corridors and proceed rightward whenever possible. After breaking both of the glass windows and moving the obelisks around, you should eventually come across a door that leads into Ivan’s old room when he was a child.
4. Interact with the Film Canister next to the Ivan statue to add it to your inventory.
5. Head back out and follow the path you took to get back to the elevator.
6. Once in the elevator, it should automatically ascend and stop at the ground floor of the apartment building.
7. Interact with the elevator again and head to the first floor, then proceed to the projector room.
8. “Use” the second Film Canister on the projector. A second metal box will open in the theater room. Proceed downstairs to the theater.
9. Pick up the Cow Skull from the box and then head back to the elevator hallway.
10. Go into the dining room and enter the rightmost door that leads to the staircase.
11. Interact with the first door you see while ascending the staircase.
12. Head all the way to the left of the hallway and use the Cow Skull on the white door.
Cursed Film Canister
1. Go inside the film school and head to the first floor.
2. Head all the way to the left down the hallway until you reach a blue door.
3. Enter the room and interact with the film canister on the table.
4. You will be teleported to the film studio lobby, return back to the film school and interact with the film canister on the table again.
5. Upon getting teleported twice, you will now be back in the film studio lobby, but Sanguis will now be sitting in a chair next to one of the statues.
6. Speak with Sanguis and exhaust all of his dialog options to receive key items & advance the story.
Silver Key Guide
1. After interacting with the cursed film canister twice, you’ll be teleported to the film studio lobby where Sanguis will be sitting in one of the chairs waiting to speak with you.
2. Speak to Sanguis and exhaust his initial dialog, then pick the SPELL dialog option and exhaust it until Sanguis writes down information in the Old Book for you and then gives you the Silver Key.
3. Head to the apartment bathroom on the 2nd Floor and use the key on the locked cabinet next to the sink. You’ll receive the Silver Bottle.
4. Upon getting the Silver Bottle, you’ll need to “use” it on three save points.
5. This is the most optimal route to take for the save points: second floor apartment bedroom save point, third floor apartment office save point, second floor director’s office save point.
6. After all three save points have been interacted with you should now have 3 doses of water in the Silver Bottle.
Red Pentacle Stone and the Purified Water
1. After defeating the Fumus boss, it should drop a red Pentacle Stone on the ground. Pick it up.
2. Run all the way back to the third floor of the apartment building and head to Ivan’s apartment.
3. “Use” the red Pentacle Stone on the bathroom door to unlock it. You’ll need to backtrack to this location for a future puzzle, so grab the Chemicals off the table to the south if you want to prepare early.
4. Head back to the second floor of the apartment building and go to the door on the far left to enter the film studio lobby.
5. “Use” the Pentacle Stone on the white door with the red symbol on it to unlock the door. The stone should now crumble to dust if you used it previously on Ivan’s bathroom door.
6. You should now be in the hotel room. Exhaust the dialog and then walk up to the window where the Julia statue is.
7. “Use” the Bottle With Three Doses of Water on the window to purify its contents with moonlight.
8. Head all the way back to the first floor of the film school and go to the room that has the cursed film canister on the table.
9. “Use” the Purified Water on the cursed film canister to cleanse it.
10. You will acquire the third and final Film Canister after this action is completed.
Chisel Guide
1. Head to the projector room and either watch the complete movie or only watch Canister 3. Either action will unlock the final box in the theater room.
2. Once the cutscene is over, you’ll unlock the last box in the theater room. Head down there and interact with it to get the Cold Chisel item.
3. Go back out to the apartment hallway and head to the dining room.
4. Use the door on the far right of the dining room to enter the staircase area.
5. Head to the top of the staircase and “use” the Cold Chisel on the boarded-up door.
6. Strike at the door with a melee weapon until the boards come off.
7. You can now proceed to the next area once the door is no longer boarded up.
Light Bulb Puzzle
1. Go to the first floor of the Film School and enter the photo developing room.
2. Head over to the lamp in the corner to the left and interact with it to get the Lightbulb.
3. Run all the way back to the dining room on the first floor of the apartment building.
4. Interact with the rightmost door in the dining room to enter the staircase.
5. Go all the way up to the top of the staircase to the top floor and enter through the door. If there are boards still on the door, be sure to “use” the Cold Chisel item on the door and then strike the boards with a melee weapon!
6. Head all the way to the right of the hallway and push the bookcase out of the way.
7. Enter through the door and use the Lightbulb on the bloody table to get the Red Lightbulb.
8. Exit the room, and you’ll trigger a cutscene and then an ambush sequence directly after the cutscene is over.
9. After you survive the ambush, head back to the film school photo developing room to “Use” the Red Lightbulb on the lamp if you want to complete this step early.
Photo Development Puzzle
1. Make sure you pick up the Photo Roll off the floor in the theater lobby on the 1st Floor of the apartment building! You’ll need it for this section of the game.
2. Head to Ivan’s apartment on the 3rd Floor of the apartment building and go to the bathroom.
3. If you haven’t already, use the red Pentacle Stone on the door to unlock it. Once inside, pick up the Chemicals sitting on the table to the south.
4. Go back to the Film School and head to the photo developing room on the first floor.
5. “Use” the Red Lightbulb on the lamp.
6. “Use” the Chemicals on the trays sitting on the table directly above the lamp.
7. Head over to the northernmost center table in the room and “use” the Photo Roll on it.
8. Go left after using the Photo Roll and “use” the Negative item on the table.
9. “Use” the Photo Paper directly after using the Negative to then get the Printed Photo.
10. Head back down to the table with the chemical trays and “use” the Printed Photo on them. You’ll trigger a cutscene once this action is completed.
11. After the cutscene, you’ll receive the Photo item.
12. Get out of the film school and head back to Ivan’s bedroom on the 3rd Floor of the apartment building.
13. “Use” the Photo on the table with the picture frame on it to unlock the drawer.
14. Interact with the table again to get the Hexagonal Stone out of the drawer.
15. Go back to the film school and head up to the second floor where you’ll see Sanguis lying against the wall. Exhaust his dialog and then use the Hexagonal Stone on the locked door with the symbol on it to advance to the next area.
Desiderium – Film School
1. Go to the TV room on the first floor and activate the TVs in the dark room.
2. Grab the Blue RCA Cable off the table once the TVs have been turned on.
3. Exit the room and run down the hallway; proceed to the blue door.
4. Grab the Black Lightbulb on the desk and then head back to the first floor.
5. Go into the photo developing room and “use” the Black Lightbulb with the lamp in the left corner of the room. The game colors will now become inverted, allowing the Blue RCA Cable to become yellow.
6. Head back down to the ground floor and enter the film production room.
7. Use the Yellow RCA Cable on the camera and then walk over to the rope and interact with it to head to the next area.
8. Use the lever in the bottom left corner and wait for the gate to fully ascend, then interact with the lever again to turn the electrical current off. It is now safe to run over to the box and interact with it.
9. Go back to the first floor and head to the room that originally had the cursed film canister. Break the glass and then “use” the Apartment Key on the purified water.
10. Go back to the ground floor and enter the room where you initially picked up the Black Lightbulb. There are now statues surrounding a table. Interact with the Julia statue to get the red candle. “Combine” the lighter with the candle to light it.
11. Head back out to the ground floor of the apartment building lobby and take the door to the right of the elevator to enter the stairwell.
12. Use the lit Red Candle on the wall with the red symbol on it.
Desiderium – Fly Puzzle
1. After breaking the initial fly statue, you’ll have to follow the same exact tile pattern that you walked in the previous room. Remember this floor pattern and try to follow it in the next room.
2. The patterns are randomized for each playthrough, so do your best to remember the floor tile pattern in the previous room and follow the pattern to the end.
3. The statue will get progressively more and more gold as you step on the correct tiles. If you walk on an incorrect tile, you’ll have to go back to the start and try again to get the pattern correct.
4. Once you reach the final tile, the fly statue will turn golden, meaning that it can be broken. Upon breaking it you’ll cause the final fly wing to break, causing the door leading to the theater room to be unlocked now.
5. Enter into the theater room and grab the Lead Fly item off of the Julia statue sitting on the chair near the middle of the room.
6. Head back out to the apartment hallway and “use” the Lead Fly item on the locked door with the fly insignia on it to unlock it to progress.
Desiderium – Tin Key and Green Candle Puzzle
1. After the final Carnito fight is over, exit the room and grab the Tin Key on the wire.
2. “Use” the Tin Key on the locked door and enter back into the hallway.
3. Go to the theater room above where the giant fly statue was broken.
4. “Use” the Tin Key on the box in the middle of the room and get the Green Candle.
5. “Combine” the Lighter with the Green Candle in your inventory to light it.
6. Head back to the stairwell and go up the stairs to the green icon on the wall.
7. “Use” the Green Candle on the wall to get access to the second and third floors of the apartment building.
Desiderium – Apartment Rooms
1. Go to the second floor of the apartment building and enter Ivan’s apartment.
2. Go to the bathroom and interact with the faucet, then exit the bathroom and interact with the Ivan statue holding the knife in the living room. This is critical for later steps.
3. Enter the bedroom and grab the Glass Box off the table next to the bed.
4. Exit the bedroom and go into the office room. Interact with the clothes rack to get the Photographs item.
5. Exit the apartment and break through the flooded wall in the stairwell with a melee strike, then enter into the bathroom through the hole in the wall and interact with the shower curtain to reveal a path that leads to the kitchen.
6. Head back out to the stairwell and go to the third-floor apartment room.
7. Enter the office and interact with the plant vase on the table to get the Glass Vase.
8. Go into your inventory and combine the Glass Vase with the Film Canisters.
9. Head over to the wall with Roman numerals on it and inspect the poems. After reading each poem, “use” the Photographs item on the wall with the Roman numerals and select the correct photograph for each poem. A cheat sheet will be posted to this guide to show you the correct choice for each randomized poem.
10. After solving the poem puzzle, head back to the kitchen on the second floor.
11. “Use” the VASE FILLED WITH CHEMICALS AND BLOOD on the oven and then “use” your lighter on the oven to burn the contents of the vase. Pick up the Circular Plate from the table once these actions are completed.
12. Exit the kitchen and go into the office on that floor and pick up the Julia Figure, then “use” the Circular Plate on the chest in the corner to get the VHS Tape. “Combine” the Glass Box with the Julia Figure in your inventory.
13. Head back to the third-floor living room and “use” the VHS Tape on the TV. You’ll have to fight through several waves of enemies that are only visible on the TV screen. Once all of the enemies are defeated, pick up the Ivan Figure on the TV screen and “combine” it in your inventory with the Glass Box.
14. Head back to the second floor hallway and go to the blue door on the far left. Enter the room and proceed left through the A.S. door. Go left until you see a statue with a hole in its chest.
15. “Use” the Glass Box on the statue. The statue will turn gold. Break it.
16. After breaking the statue, head left down the hallway until you reach the studio light. “Use” the VASE FILLED WITH CHEMICALS AND BLOOD on the light to get the Auritsatio mixture.
17. Head back to the Ivan statue in the second floor apartment living room and “use” the Auritsatio on the statue to get the Lapis Fictus Knife.
Poem Puzzle Outcomes:
(The first poem is what determines what four photographs to put up for the puzzle.) Example: If it starts with “You’re dead,” he tells her, taking her cold hands in his – then the answer for this will be CROSS NECKLACE, FEET, SUNGLASSES, BLACK VEIL for the photographs.
He nestles in her hand…
- Hand with ring
- Ear with earring
- Shiny dress
- Pearl necklace
You’re dead…
- Cross necklace
- Feet
- Sunglasses
- Black veil
I’m dreaming…
- Mouth with lipstick
- Sunglasses
- Ear with earring
- Black dress
Adorned with the blue of silver…
- Feet
- Shiny dress
- Closed eyes with big eyelashes
- Black glove
Desiderium – Aurifer Knife
1. After acquiring the Lapis Fictus Knife from the Ivan statue, exit the apartment, then enter the door that leads back to the stairs.
2. Go back to the kitchen through the bathroom.
3. “Use” the Lapis Fictus Knife on the fuse box in the kitchen. You’ll acquire the Melanosis Knife.
4. Go back out into the apartment hallway and interact with the elevator door; use the ladder to descend.
5. After reaching the bottom of the elevator shaft, you’ll trigger a cutscene. After the cutscene is over, you’ll have to run for your life to avoid a group of Relicta ghosts.
6. Sprint left and then continue down the hallway until you reach a door to the right.
7. Enter the door to avoid the Relicta ghosts and then head all the way to the right to enter another door.
8. “Use” the Melanosis Knife on the puddle of mercury on the ground to get the Virdis Knife. Then interact with the statues sitting on the bed. Afterwards, interact with the hole in the wall in the corner of the room below the health potion.
9. Upon interacting with the hole, the TV will drop the Lead Key. Pick it up and then interact with the hole again to exit the area. Then head all the way up the stairs where you’ll exit out into the ground floor of the apartment building.
10. Enter the stairway and go to the second-floor door of the apartment. Head all the way to the left to go into the Studio Lobby. After entering the room, “use” the Lead Key on the door with the symbol on it.
11. After going through the Lead Key door, proceed north through every single door until you finally reach the locked Hotel door. Upon reaching this door, “use” the Virdis Knife on it to trigger a cutscene. You’ll receive the Aurifer Knife when the cutscene is over.
Desiderium – Finale Route
This is where you will have to make a choice on whether to receive the Magnum Opus (bad ending), or the Solve et Coagula (good ending). You should make a save here and perform the requirements for one ending. After completing the game and watching the ending cutscene, reload your save and perform the second ending.
1. You have two choices to make on the path to the end. You can kill any of the Relicta ghosts with the Aurifer knife to get the bad ending (only requires killing one of them), or you can run to the very end without killing anyone to get the good ending.
2. After you’ve made your choice, keep walking down and going through the Hotel doors until you’re back in the Studio Lobby.
3. Exit the Studio Lobby and head out to the apartment building hallway where you’ll take the furthest door to the right leading to the staircase of the apartment building.
4. Run all the way up the stairs to the third floor and use the door to enter the apartment hallway.
5. Head all the way to the left and use the door with the puddle of water leaking out of it.
6. Head left in the street until you come across the SEPTIMO ARTE building guarded by many Relicta ghosts.
7. After entering the Septimo Arte building, you’re now in the final area of the game and will soon be fighting one of the final bosses. Good luck!
And with the defeat of a boss, you’ll have completed Tenebris Somnia. Congratulations!
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