Aug 31, 2024

Selfloss Walkthrough – Chapter 1 – The Turtle

Mahmud Munazil Rahman

Chapters

Videogames.
Gym.
Sneakers.
Manga.
My dog.

In that order.

Welcome to the Into Indie Games walkthrough for Selfloss. For more information on Selfloss beyond this walkthrough, check out the official website.

After the game starts, walk to the right to talk to the tall white character.

Head down and to the left, slide down the slab and cross the small bridge. Check the coral structure near the bridge and keep going left. Next rotate you staff to activate the three seals.

Head up the stairs and the door that just opened. Focus the light from your staff on the miasma creatures.

Keep going and you will see a giantess –Marena – show you the direction you need to travel. There is a locked church on the right. Climb down the vines near the edge of the cliff.

Light up the totem at the bottom. Get on the boat and ride towards the island on the far end. Focus your light on the three tendrils powering the miasma blocking your path.

After you reach the dock, disembark and head up the stairs. Shimmy across and destroy the miasma blocking your path. This will cause the whale tail to move, sprint immediately to get clear of the tail. Head up and focus your light on the miasma creature to kill it and go up the stairs.

Once on top you will ambushed by multiple miasma creatures, just run around and take them out. Now, focus your light on the two tendrils to clear the path. Head up the slope and talk to the tall white character and learn about the whale. Go into the miasma pool and clear yourself off the infection on the other side.

Clear the miasma plants with your light and shine your light on the totem. Make your way back up to the platform where the light bridge just formed and clear yourself off the infection again. Next, clear the infection on the back of the whale.

You will be back at the church now. Go in. Once inside speak to Mirro and break the seal on the scroll next to him. After you learn about Marena head through the door on the right. You will fall to a hut. Read the note on the tree and head inside the hut. Go down to the basement and pick up the gear from the chest.

Climb back up and exit the hut. Clear the growth in front of the boat with the sickle and get on the boat. Ride the boat past the giant fish and on to the left. There, catch the goldfish and dock at the nearby island. Inspect the totem with the four faces and enter the house on the left.

Go to the lower part of the island and use your light to push the blue fish here to the chest next to the house. Open the chest for a scroll.

Once you have checked everything here, head back to the giant fish and he should allow you access to the blue school of fish, a locked gate and a yellow school of fish. Shine your light on the blue school of fish and guide them to the blue fish brazier on the left – the braziers are located on the island south of where the first school of fish are.

Now, go south and get the yellow school of fish and bring it back to the brazier.

Go through the gate that just opened and inside you will find another scroll. Head back out after you pick up the scroll.

At the bottom of the map is a dock. Get on that island. Clear the miasma off the turtle that has beached here.

Climb up the vines and shimmy across the gap on the right. Climb up the next set of vines and go to the right to pick up the Blue Turtle Feather from the nest. Leave your staff near the totem, shine your light on it and cross the light bridge. Pull the lever to retract the gate below and make your way back.

Climb down the ladder and get back on the boat to pass through the gate you just opened. Fight the wind and dock at the island. Clear the miasma and climb up the vines. Activate the three seals – one right infront of you, one you can access after you shimmy across the ledge on the right and one at the bottom – where you cleared the miasma.

Go back and climb up the stairs and head into the door on the right. On the other side, talk to Oria. Now, head up and through the door on top. Cut down the white flower on the left, this will give you “ammo” for your staff. This will allow you to clear the miasma on the right. You will fall down while crossing the plank. Kill the enemy that shows up at the bottom by freezing him with the light and hammering him with the sickle. Head through the opening and up the vines and exit through the portal on the right.

In the next room, head down the stairs and go through the door on the right. You will come across a school of yellow fish. Bring them along with you and kill the miasma creatures as they spawn. Stop and light the totem to create a light bridge on the right of the area. Pick up the yellow school of fish again and head across the bridge. Bring the fish to the brazier. This will unlock the first lock.

Head back across the bridge and through the door on the left. Kill the miasma creature here and go down the steps. Follow the path to the next miasma creature and kill it. Activate the three nodes ahead to unlock the gate and head through. You will have to take care of a bunch of enemies while doing this. After the gate opens, activate the totem.

Go across the light bridge and activate the seal on the statue. Now go to the yellow school of fish at the bottom, bring them along to the statue there and activate that seal.

Now take the fish all the way up to the brazier on top.

Now go back to the area with the marking on the ground and the statue on top. Activate that.

Next activate the other two statues to open the door up north to exit the room.

Clear the miasma on the switch and stand on it to bring up the symbol on the wheel. Once you see the corresponding symbol as on the wall, step off and shine your light on the symbol.

Cross the bridge that just got extended and pick up the yellow canister. Get on the portal and you will be teleported back to the start. Place the yellow canister in the flame on the right side.

Next, lead the school of fish near the closed gate to the brazier in the small balcony to unlock the third lock.

Exit through the door on the left, next to the blue swirl. Walk through the miasma infested bridge and across the planks till the second one breaks and you fall down. Kill the enemy down here and the gate should unlock. Activate the node here and now head around to the other side to activate the other node.

Get on the boat and pick up the yellow school of fish and dock on the other side. Head up the stairs and activate the seal on top.

Now go through the door we opened earlier by activating the two nodes and pick up the scroll. From there head left to lead the yellow school of fish to the brazier.

This will unlock the final lock. And you can pick up the blue canister here as well. Go back to the start and place the blue canister in the blue flame. Head up the stairs and pick up the horn.

Go through the door we unlocked earlier and you can pick up a scroll inside.

Head back out and use the portal to go back to the very first portal we used. Activate the totem to activate the light bridge and head back to the giant horn. Use it and then ride back to the giant turtle in the middle. Clear the miasma surrounding it and it should sink – opening up the path out.