- Levels 1-10
- Levels 11-20
- (More parts coming soon!)
Welcome to the Into Indie Games walkthrough for Schim.
For more information on Schim beyond this walkthrough, check out the official website.
Level 1
Before starting this level of Schim proper, consider grabbing the object in the vicinity.
The Object here is a water bottle, and it is located right near where you start the level. Jump to the SUV’s shadow, then to the lamppost. From here, jump to the bollard that’s rocking back and forth. From there, make for the garbage can.
You’ll find the water bottle in its shadow.
After that, return to the SUV and proceed along the street, until the boy runs far ahead. Jump across shadows and use the ‘springboard’ to get to the boy’s shadow.
Follow the on-screen instructions until the boy and the woman invite you to a backyard barbecue party through an alley.
Level 2
As the objective shows, go to the trampoline in a corner of the backyard. Interact with the trampoline a few times and the barbeque will end up on fire.
Run to the firehose near the alley you entered from, and interact with the hose. Then, run toward the fire and use your hose to extinguish the fire.
After running a bit more, a woman (presumably the boy’s mother) will arrive with a tricycle. Head to her, i.e. to where you started this level.
Level 3
The boy’s got a tricycle! Drive toward the street and then continue along the sidewalk to get to the boy’s mother.
Level 4
You’re disconnected from the boy’s shadow space again, so make your way along the sidewalk jumping from shadow to shadow.
Along the way, you’ll find an Object with a missing schim. This object is an orange beach ball. From the barbecue grill, proceed to the orange beach ball and run into it to restore it.
Proceed to the clothesline and then simply continue along the sidewalk until you get to the boy’s shadow.
Level 5
You can’t rotate the camera in this level of Schim, and you’ll see why as you go. Continue along the sidewalk until you get to a traffic crossing.
Jump to the lamppost’s shadow, then the traffic signal. Interact with the traffic signal to switch the light to green.
From here, you can access the first Object of the level: the Schoolbag.
Return to the boy’s shadow space and proceed along the sidewalk.
The boy gets a bit older, but continue running along until you encounter a train. Once the train passes, hop onto the shadow of the gate arm and interact with it to lift it, clearing the way for the boy.
Before moving on, we can collect another Object here, which is a Trough. From the railway crossing, jump onto the electrical panel shadows and then the tree to the southeast. Continue to a fence, and follow the fence until you get to a trough next to a dozing sheep.
Return to the boy’s shadow and proceed along the sidewalk. You can’t jump off the shadow during the next section on the bike, so continue until our boy gets to university.
Proceed either into the university or past it – it doesn’t seem to matter. Proceed along the sidewalk until our boy is dejected in purple hues.
You can get another Object here, which is a Box of Chocolates.
Go towards the benches now and stand at the very rightmost edge of the fence. As the shadow, jump onto the tree’s shadow and proceed to the northeast to get the box of chocolates.
Return to the boy, who’s now a graduate. You can now proceed along the sidewalk to complete this level, or take your time and explore each of the sections to glean more about the boy’s life.
By the end of this level, our boy’s a proper man.
Level 6
Park your bike at the bike stand.
You can pick up an Object here, which is an Office Chair. On the sidewalk, go past the building entrance until you can’t walk anymore. Use your ‘look’ controls to look farther along the sidewalk to find a red office chair.
Jump onto the tree’s shadow, then the dumpster’s shadow, and then the next tree’s shadow, where you’ll find the red office chair.
Enter the office building once you’ve got the chair, and a cutscene follows. Interact when the phone rings to proceed with another cutscene.
Next, make your way towards the bike stand to end this level.
Level 7
You can only move in one direction here at first. After the schim is disconnected, you can pick up the one Object in this level: a Helmet.
Simply make your way to the alley between the buildings and rummage around in the shadow there until you find the helmet. You can use the camera controls to get a better sense of where it is.
Now, make your way toward the man, and jump into the shadows of the construction workers.
Proceed into the shadows of the two women with the shopping bags to end this level.
Level 8
There’s two objects in this level of Schim, and our target is a person on a scooter.
The first object is a beach chair, and it lies in the opposite direction of the scooter.
From where you start, hop onto the springboard near the two female shoppers. Change your camera so that you will be launched in the direction opposite to where your objective is.
After finding refuge in the banner’s shadow, go toward the tree and then hitch a ride on a pedestrian to get onto the shadows of the round bollards.
Jump onto the shadow of the dumpster to find the beach chair.
Then, make your way to the springboard near the bollards and launch yourself back toward the female shoppers.
From here, you have a fairly straightforward path toward the fountain at the end of this street.
Before moving on toward the scooter, be sure to grab the second object, which is a postcard.
From the garbage containers near the fountain, make your way to the postcard rack. From there, continue to a stepladder, and you’ll find a postcard in the shadow.
Now simply return to the fountain and jump your way to the scooter at the end of the level.
Level 9
Our goal this time is to get to a couple with a baby stroller. However, we’ll have to take a detour to grab the sole Object in this level, which is a Teddybear.
Proceed along the river, jumping across the shadows of the trees, lampposts and benches. Stop when the baby stroller is in view.
Now instead of going toward the baby stroller, continue along the river, jumping on tree and lamppost shadows.
You’ll eventually come across a park. Head into the park and rotate the camera so that the shadows are toward the camera.
Continue past the fountain and you’ll find the brown teddybear to the relative south.
After this, backtrack all the way to the baby stroller to end this level.
Level 10
In this level, your objective is a cat. Proceed along the street northwest (provided you did not change the camera direction) and keep going until you find some bollards at the corner of the street.
From here you can find the sole object in this level, which is a bike wheel. Take the bend in the street, i.e. to where the cars are turning, and hitch a ride on a car briefly to end up at a bike without a wheel.
Continue along the street from here and you’ll find the bike wheel next to an alley.
Now make your way back to the bollards by, say, hitching a ride on a pedestrian.
Then, go toward the girl dancing in the puddles and use the pedestrians in this area to get closer to the stacked chairs near the cat.
Finally, jump onto the cat to end this level.
Level 10.5
This level cannot be accessed from the level select, so we’re going to treat as a continuation of the previous level.
There are no objects in this demi-level, but you will be introduced to flickering lights here, which cause temporary shadows.
Proceed along the street until you get to the scooter and then turn the camera to head toward the dumpster.
Continue to a springboard and turn the camera so that you will be launched to the shadow of the fountain.
Continue to the bollards past the cardboard boxes, and then continue along the street until you get to a woman holding an umbrella.
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