Welcome to Into Indie Games’ Part 1 walkthrough for Well Dweller.
The game starts at the bottom of the well, inside a small nest Mother Bird made for her children. But since she’s bedridden with her sickness, she can’t go out hunting for food. That responsibility falls on her eldest, Glimmer.
This article is part of our Well Dweller Walkthrough Hub.
For more information about the game, check out its official website here.
Table of contents
The Quest Begins
After starting a new game, you’ll be in the Mother Bird’s nest inside the well. As her oldest son, Glimmer, you are tasked with bringing back food from the Hunter’s Cabin at the edge of the forest. The location is marked on your map after the conversation.
Exit the nest and jump up to the hanging bucket above you to exit the well. This will take you to Night Garden, the first zone of Well Dweller.
Jump out of the bucket and run right past the edge of the screen to get to the next part of the zone.
There are two enemies here. For now, we don’t have a weapon to fight them with. So keep going right.
As you enter the next area, you’ll find the Matchstick. Run into it to grab it. This is your primary weapon.
Head right and break the wooden beam by attacking it.
Go through the path that opens up. Then make your way forward. You’ll learn how to use Ground Slam to break through floors along the way.
When you exit the room to the right, you’ll reach the first Tent. The Tent serves as your save point and primary hub. You can enter the Tent to equip different Trinkets and interact with NPCs once you unlock them.
For now, save your game and continue to the next room on the right. Defeat the enemy up ahead to unlock the path and head through.
Unlocking the Tent Shortcut from Below
In the next room, you’ll have to slide past a section of spikes. Since you’re invincible while sliding, you won’t take damage.
Continue past the enemy and to the next room. Go right and then up. Slide under another clearance and activate the switch. This will open a path heading downward. Drop down to the lower room next.
You’ll reach a pit of spikes. Time your jump on the stone pillars to get across.
You can move on to the next room once you make it across. Before you do so, you can slide through the section marked in the image above to reach a Page collectible.
In the next room, you’ll see a bubble floating in the air above you. When you get close to it, you can press RB on the controller to go into the bubble.
Then choose the direction and press RB again to propel yourself in that direction. Press jump to pop out of the bubble.
Use this ability to move forward. You’ll soon spot a path heading down. Instead of going down, you’ll want to go up using the floating bubble on the left first.
This will take you to a switch. Activate it to unlock a shortcut to the Tent right above you. Return to the previous room and follow the path heading down this time.
Unlocking the Oil Vial
After dropping down to the next room, you’ll have to go all the way to the bottom. Drop down on the right and make your way past a breakable floor till you reach the lower section.
The left path leads to a dead end for now. So continue heading right instead. Go past the enemies and exit to the next room.
There will be a small obstacle section that you’ll have to clear with the two floating bubbles on both sides of the spike.
Head into the next room and move forward to trigger a gauntlet. Take down all the enemies.
The Oil Vial will be unlocked after the fight. This is your primary way to heal yourself in the game.
Go right, and you’ll spot a path leading down. If you go right, you can unlock a Trinket Slot. Go down when you’re ready to move on to the next room.
Slide through the laser and drop down to reach a second Tent. Save your progress here.
The path right from this spot will lead you to the first boss fight against The Groundseeker.
The Groundseeker Boss Fight
Continue forward from the Tent in the Night Gardens to trigger a cutscene, after which you’ll get into your first boss battle in the game. The Groundseeker is a pretty straightforward boss fight. He has two phases, but his moveset is pretty simple.
- He can summon flowers that will chase you for a short duration. Run away from the flowers to avoid taking damage.
- He can summon Rakes that swipe horizontally across the screen from both sides. Slide through them.
- He can create shockwaves on the ground. Jump up to avoid taking damage.
- He can summon leaves around him as he tramples towards you. Slide through the boss to avoid taking a hit.
All you have to do is slide through his attacks and continue hitting him in between. The boss gives you plenty of openings to strike. As long as you’re staying close and hitting him as much as possible, he will go down without any trouble.
Once the boss is defeated, head right and enter the Hunter’s Cabin.
Obtaining the Slingshot Ability
After entering the Hunter’s Cabin, continue forward till you meet an NPC. This is Looter. Talk to him to unlock the Flaming Vessel. Complete the Flaming Vessel tutorial.
Go right, jump across the platforms, and run past some falling traps to reach a moving cage. Jump on top of it to go up.
Use the floating bubble to make your way across the spike section up ahead.
In the next room, go up using the floating bubble. You’ll see a series of cages to your right. Remember this place. We’ll return here later.
For now, keep going left till you reach an elevator. As it takes you up, slide to the sides to avoid the spikes. Exit the room using the platforms on the left heading up.
Go right and jump across the cages. You can use the floating bubble to go up and loop around to the left-side exit in the room. This will lead you to a parkour section after which you can grab the Hunter’s Locket Trinket.
Return to the cages and keep moving till you reach the next room, dropping down through the floor.
The next room has a Trinket that you can’t reach. There’s a Tent up ahead that you can use to save your progress. Go right from here to the next room.
You can read the mail from the mailbox in the next room. Use the moving cage to go down. Then head right.
You’ll see a hanging cage above you. Run past the falling trap and go right, and drop down through the floor.
Jump across the cages and drop down once again.
Continue forward and grab the floating egg in the nest to unlock the Slingshot ability.
This will trigger a small tutorial section where you have to use the new ability to make your way across. Complete the tutorial to return to the Hunter’s Cabin.
Getting Food for Mother Bird
With the new ability unlocked, you can access a lot of the previously inaccessible locations. You can also break the pot to grab some currency using the Slingshot on the wall to your right.
Now you have to do some backtracking. Go all the way back to the room with the falling trap as shown in the image above. Trigger the trap to fall. Then use Slingshot and stand on it to go up.
Jump across to the cage above you and then head up again.
Jump to the platform above you and then exit to the next room on the right. Keep moving forward till you reach the Hunter’s table and grab the food.
With that done, it’s time to return to the Mother Bird. You can take the path that you used to get here, but there’s a shorter route along the bottom part of the Hunter’s Cabin. You’ll have to use Slingshot to reach the platform.
As you exit the map, you’ll see the Hunter‘s silhouette at the door of the cabin.
Go all the way back to The Well using your map and head inside. Enter the nest through the door.
Talk to the Mother Bird. She’ll ask you to inspect the sound outside.
Go out and climb up to the bucket to head up. As you do so, the hunter stares down at you through the top.
He’ll grab the nest and pull it off, opening a hole at the bottom. Jump through.
This triggers a chase sequence as you run away from the Hunter’s Hand, trying to catch you. Run all the way to the bottom to escape.
This concludes part 1 of our walkthrough for Well Dweller. For more interesting articles related to indie games, check out the links below:
- Into Indie Games Homepage
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- Cosmic Fear 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.
