Welcome to Into Indie Games’ walkthrough for the prologue and chapter 1 of Cosmic Fear.
As you get a lead on a cosmic presence, you decide to investigate. Your search leads you to the Thorne Residence deep in a forest. But are you prepared to handle what you’re about to get pulled into?
This article is part of our Cosmic Fear Walkthrough Hub.
For more information about the game, check out its Steam page here.
Table of contents
Prologue
The Forest
The game begins with you in a dark forest in the middle of the rain, looking for Jakob and Rosa. You’ll spot a bunch of items on the ground.
As you go past the items, a bright light flashes in the distance. You’ll start to hear strange growling around you.
Stay on the path and follow the lanterns. It will lead you to a dismembered body on the ground. Inspect it.
Look around for another hanging lantern and head toward it.
Jump over the fallen tree, and just as you spot some houses in the distance, another bright flash of light blinds you.
The Office
The game takes you back 24 hours as you wake up in front of your computer in the office.
The protagonist mentions receiving a letter. It’s on the chair to your right. Pick it up. You’ll learn that your name is Benedict West and you’ve been invited to the Thorne residence on 317 Deep Lake Street to witness an occult ritual called the Great Ceremony.
Put the letter away and look around the office. You can interact with the books and the objects nearby to learn more about them.
You can also check the adjacent room where you’ll find Jakob’s desk.
In the next room over, you’ll find a Page near the floor bedding that you can collect.
Leave the room through the door near your desk to arrive at the hallway. The door on the other side of the hall leads to Rosa’s office. You can find more objects to inspect inside.
Go down the stairs when you’re ready and go to the room marked Unclassified Objects. The power goes out as soon as you enter. There are more artifacts to check out here.
Go all the way to the ground floor. Try opening the main door.
It’s locked, but the key to the back door is in the porter’s office.
Step into the receptionist area. You can pick up two pages from the table.
The porter’s office is just up ahead. You’ll find a key hanging on a hook to your right as soon as you enter. Pick it up.
Go to the stairwell and interact with the door near the circuit breaker boxes. The door opens, and you can leave the office building. This is where the prologue ends.
Arriving at the Thorne Residence
After leaving the office, the game fast-forwards to the evening as you arrive at the woods near the Thorne Residence. Head toward the gate up ahead.
You can collect another Page from the mailbox. Head through the gate and continue following the path. The house is at the end of the road. However, along the way, you’ll spot a small house on your left. You can head in to collect another Page.
Keep moving along the main path until you arrive at a large property. This is your destination. Head up to the door of the main house.
The door is locked. But there’s a note pinned to the wall. It says they went to the cave on the lakeshore.
You can spot the path leading to the lake nearby. But before you head through, go into the small garage on the left.
Pick up the Old Key from the table at the back of the garage. There’s also another Page in the garage right behind you.
Follow the path to the lake nearby and turn left to spot a small boathouse.
You can open the door to the boathouse using the Old Key you just picked up. Inside, you’ll find a Page along with some photographs talking about the Creature of the Lake.
Leave the boathouse and continue along the shoreline, keeping the lake on your left. This will take you to the cave mentioned in the note you found.
As you get close, you’ll be met with a horrific sight. Inspect the Page left behind on the table. Then take the Small Key.
Return to the Thorne Residence and use the key to unlock the small door between the main house and the garage.
This will take you to the basement of the house. Head to the lit area on the other side of the grill at the far end.
Collect the Page and inspect the map. It mentions a House on Top of the Hill.
On a nearby wall with a light, you’ll spot a strange metal slab. Interact with it to move it out of the way.
This will reveal a door leading further down. But it’s locked. With that done, leave the basement. We need to find the House mentioned on the Page.
House on Top of the Hill
After leaving the basement, take the path on your left, leading past the pigpen and the main house.
Interact with the wooden pole once you reach the bridge to open the way forward. Walk over to the well on the other side.
Take the path past the well.
You will spot some hanging lanterns just up ahead. Follow the lanterns.
Eventually, you’ll go up a set of stairs to reach the House mentioned on top of the hill.
The first thing you’ll want to do is head to the small house on the right and go behind it to spot a telescope set up in a viewing area. Inspect the telescope and then pick up the Small Key from the table nearby.
The Small Key unlocks the small house. Head inside.
You’ll find a Flashlight and a Page here. Pick them up. You’ll hear a sound outside.
Leave the small house. By now, night has fallen, and you’ll want to turn on your Flashlight. Head toward the main house. You will see a body on the ground. The door to the house is open. So head inside.
You’ll reach a room with computer monitors on the table. There’s a Page here you can pick up.
Inspect the table by the bunk bed at the far end of the room. You’ll find another Page and a Car Battery. Pick up both.
Leave and loop around to the back of the house. Pick up the Jumper Cables and then interact with the generator to turn the power on.
Go back into the main house and check the monitors.
Leave the house to spot a glowing blue circle in the sky.
Run to the viewing area with the telescope. The circle grows larger, rushes towards you, and a bright flash blinds you.
When the light disappears, Benedict decides to call Jakob. Hopefully, there’s a phone in the Thorne residence.
Start going back to the Thorne house the way you came. Use the lanterns as your guide.
As you move forward, you’ll feel the ground shake. The path up ahead is blocked off by a landslide. Drop off the path to the left as shown in the image above.
You can spot a faint light in the distance. Head toward it.
It takes you to a cave entrance. Go into the cave, and you’ll find a ladder at the end of it. Interact with the ladder.
You’ll come out of the well near the bridge. Thorne’s residence is just past the bridge. Continue walking straight till you reach the house.
Finding the Phone To Call Jakob
As you arrive at the property, you can notice lights inside the main house. It seems that someone is inside the house.
Walk up to the door. It’s open. Head inside.
As you enter, the TV on the left explodes. You can pick up a Page from the table in the kitchen area.
There’s a phone on the cabinet by the stairs in the living room, but it doesn’t work. Go up the stairs.
You’ll arrive at the bedroom. There’s a Page on the table that you can pick up.
Check the cabinet near the master bed. You’ll find an Old and Rusty Key here. Pick it up.
Exit the house and go back down to the basement. Use the key to open the wooden door you found earlier.
Go down the stairs and inspect the note on the worktable.
You’ll also find the “thing” mentioned in the note behind the cage. Go back up the stairs and leave the basement.
As you leave the basement, you’ll see a giant spaceship in the sky above you. It will fly off before you can do anything.
Return to the bridge that you took to reach the House on Top of the Hill and turn left instead of crossing over. You will spot a light in the distance.
Head toward the light, then continue following the path until you arrive at a camp. Inspect the area.
Continue past the camp till you spot another light. As you approach it, a wolf will appear and run off to your left. From the light, go right.
Keep moving forward. You’ll spot a flash of light on the horizon.
When you reach it, you’ll see a pit of fire on the right. Follow the lanterns forward.
Eventually, you’ll reach a street. You can make out the silhouette of a church up ahead. There’s also a phone booth on the street. Head into the phone booth to call Jakob.
After the conversation, you’ll see another bright blue flash come from inside the church. Walk up the steps and enter the church.
Walk up to the altar. Check the remains at the foot of the altar.
You’ll also see a seemingly bottomless hole near the statue.
There’s a Page on a bench on the left side of the church. Pick it up.
Leave the church to trigger a cutscene as you get pulled into the spaceship.
This concludes chapter 1 of our walkthrough for Cosmic Fear. For more interesting articles related to indie games, check out the links below:
- Into Indie Games Homepage
- Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy Walkthrough Hub
- The Sinking City 2 Walkthrough Hub
- Mortal Shell 2 – Guides And Walkthrough Hub
- Divinum – Walkthrough Hub
Muhit Rahman lives off two things: gaming marathons and endless cups of tea. He writes guides, reviews, and occasionally forgets that real life doesn’t come with checkpoints. His favorite genres are Soulslike and Metroidvania, with Dark Souls III, Hollow Knight, and Dota 2 forever holding top spots on his all-time list.
