Welcome to Into Indie Games’ Part 2 walkthrough for Well Dweller.
After bringing back the food, everything seemed perfect for a moment. But the Hunter followed you back to the Well and captured the Mother Bird and the siblings. Glimmer is the only one who manages to escape. Now he must figure out a way to save his family from the clutches of the evil Queen.
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
Meeting Ilda (Map NPC)
After escaping the Hunter and dropping down the drain, you wake up at the bottom. Head left to enter a new area called The Bog. There’s a mailbox up ahead and a Tent, just past that.
Continue forward to the next room and use the Slingshot to go up. Jump on top of the wheel platform and jump across as it spins you to the left.
Drop down from the platform and enter the next room. Drop down again and keep heading left until you enter the next room.
Take out the enemies and keep heading left while sticking to the lower path.
You’ll spot a breakable wall in the left corner. Break the wall and slide under the clearing to enter the next room.
Keep heading left until you find an NPC getting attacked by some flies. Swat the flies away and talk to him.
Ilda will ask you to meet him at his Campsite at the end of the conversation.
Reaching Ilda’s Campsite
After speaking with Ilda, go left and use the floating bubble to reach the room above.
This leads you to a Tent. You can save your progress and buy upgrades from Looter inside the Tent if you want. When you’re ready to move on, exit the room through the top.
Use the bubbles to ascend and take out the monsters on the upper floor. Go right and use Slingshot to reach the exit to the next room.
As you continue forward, you’ll be ambushed by a giant fly. This is a mini-boss, but the fight isn’t too difficult.
Exit to the next room on the right and jump to the ledge across. From here, use Slingshot and the bubbles coming from the mud to reach the platform above. Climb up to the next room.
Talk to Ilda up ahead and listen to his story by the campfire.
Go right and then up to reach the next Tent.
Ilda has already set up shop inside. You can purchase Map Markers for any missed items or for the next objectives from him.
The path to the right from the tent is blocked for now. But we’ll unlock this shortcut soon.
Unlocking the Tent Shortcut
Head left from the Tent. You’ll have to parkour across the section to the left.
Keep going left until you spot a breakable wall. There’s another breakable surface right above you. Break both surfaces, then go left.
Use the bubbles to go up and take the exit at the top.
Go left in the next room and all the way to the top using the bubbles. Then go right and take down a fly enemy. The exit is just past the enemy.
Keep moving forward to reach the gate to Queen’s Castle. You’ll need to find 7 Golden Feathers to gain entry.
Take the exit on the right and drop down. This will take you to the other side of the blockade. Hit the switch to open the shortcut to the Tent. Save your progress and get ready for the next boss fight.
Go along the path to the right from the Tent to trigger the battle.
Unlocking the Climb Ability (The Swarm Boss Fight)
The Swarm is the main boss of The Bog. The boss has two phases. During phase one, you’ll be fighting a swarm of flies.
You can keep hitting at it to deal damage. During this phase, the boss can shoot projectiles at you, create a mini-obstacle that you’ll have to jump over to avoid damage, and can do a cartwheel roll towards you.
Once you deal enough damage, the boss will grab the giant skull from the background. Now you have to deal with both of these enemies for the battle. Luckily, the Skull mostly moves around, and you can slide past it to negate any damage.
On top of that, you can hit both the skull and the swarm to deal massive damage to the boss. Keep attacking the boss until it goes down.
After defeating the boss, head right and drop down to unlock the next ability, Climb. Complete the tutorial to move on.
Reaching The Drain’s Entrance
After unlocking the new ability, you can access more parts of the map. But our next goal is to head to the Night Garden. Continue right and climb up the wall using your new ability to head to the next room.
Take out the enemies, then go up and right for another exit to the top,
This will take you to the eastern section of the Night Garden. Climb up the wall to your right and grab the Tent Travel ability. This lets you fast travel to your unlocked Tents from any part of the map.
From here, check your Map and make your way to the Tent that you unlocked just before the Hunter’s Cabin. We’ve marked it in the image above.
Keep heading left from the Tent until you spot a big hole in the ground. This will take you to The Drain, which is the next zone we’ll cover.
This concludes part 2 of our walkthrough for Well Dweller. For more interesting articles related to indie games, check out the links below:
- Into Indie Games Homepage
- Rivage Walkthrough Hub – All Puzzle Solutions Under 25 Loops
- Lily’s World XD Complete Walkthrough
- Rooster Walkthrough – All 12 Zodiac Animal Puzzles
- 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.
