Welcome to Into Indie Games’ Part 6 walkthrough for Well Dweller.
The Queen has captured Looter, but Glimmer can’t do much about that right now. As he heads for The Docks in the eastern part of the kingdom, he learns of some missing sailors. So he gets to work rescuing them.
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
Talking to Barge
From the Tent, head right and jump across the gap to reach the exit in the next room.
There will be some enemies here with keys above them. Take them down to open the top-right exit. Don’t take the exit yet.
Instead, go down and enter the room below you. Drop down to the lower floor and go right to find the Barge. Speak with him. He’ll hire you as a worker and task you with finding his missing crew.
Finding Door Pearl #1
Return to the room above you and take the top right exit from there. Jump up on the wall and climb up the passage above you to reach the upper room.
Climb up the pillar up ahead and exit to the room to the top-left. This will bring you to an obstacle room. You’ll have to use the hanging nets to get across the spike balls.
Once you make it across, climb up the wall to the room above you.
Climb up the wall as the spiked section moves away to reach the exit at the top.
In the next room, go up, and you’ll find a Door Pearl. Grab it. You’ll need to find two more of these to unlock a door.
Finding Door Pearl #2
Backtrack your way through the rooms till you return to the room with the monster clinging to the pillar. Go all the way to the right and exit.
You’ll reach a blockade. From here, you have to go up, loop around, and drop from the other side.
Hit the switch to open the path for later.
You’ll find the second Door Pearl in the next room all the way to the right.
Finding Door Pearl #3
Drop down to the room below and activate the switch to open the blockade. Take down the enemies in the area, then go through the bottom exit here.
Jump across the beams on the left and then head down. There’s another exit below you.
Activate the switch once you drop down. This will open the left path as well. You can explore the area if you want.
Head right when you’re ready and continue past the obstacles till you reach the next Tent of the zone. Save your progress and go up using the platforms on the left, and take the exit above.
Go across the spiked floor using the beams. As you reach the upper floor, you’ll enter another gauntlet. Take down the enemies.
Go left and up again. Then make your way toward the exit to the right.
Parkour your way across the spiked section and then take the exit above you on the other side.
You can collect a Trinket here. Activate the switch to unlock the path to the rest of the zone. Then go up, and the exit should be above you to the right.
The next few rooms have environmental puzzles. Keep moving forward until you reach the start of a Time Trial challenge.
Continue forward and take the exit on the left. You’ll find the final Door Pearl in this room. You can take some time to explore the rest of the rooms. When you’re ready, fast travel back to the last Tent.
The door that unlocked is to your right. Go past the door to the next room to trigger a boss fight.
Creature from the Deep Boss Fight
The Creature from the Deep is a relatively easy boss fight because of its low health pool. It takes a lot of damage from Flaming Vessel, so make sure you spam it anytime you fill up the meter.
As for its attacks, the boss mostly uses a big fishbone sword for most of its moves. The attacks are telegraphed and you can avoid them by simply sliding to his back.
However, he has a shockwave attack where he leaps up and then slams down into the ground. The best way to dodge it is to jump.
The boss also has a projectile attack where it shoots out nails from its head. Run away to safety.
After defeating the boss, one of the missing crew members pops out.
This triggers a small cutscene where you, the missing crew member, and Barge sit around a campfire. Listen to the story. Barge promotes you, and you can now use the Water Vessels to head down to The Deep.
Exploring the Western Part of The Deep
After the conversation ends, you’ll be back at Barge’s office near the first Tent of the zone. Keep running left from here.
You’ll have to clear a gauntlet in the next room.
Just past this, you’ll spot the Water Vessel floating on the water. Interact with it to dive down.
The Water Vessel section is pretty short and straightforward. At this point, all you can do is move and look around. The exit is below you to your right.
Continue making your way forward while avoiding the enemies and environmental hazards. The path is linear. You will find some areas blocked off by a small wall, but you don’t have any way to break them just yet.
Eventually you’ll spot an object underwater. Pick it up to unlock the Torpedo. You can now fire the Torpedo to damage enemies and break the fragile walls you saw earlier.
Make your way back to the fragile wall you saw earlier blocking your path down. Fire the torpedo to break the wall and head through.
Carefully make your way past the giant spikes in the next room. Take the bottom right exit from here.
In the next room, take out the enemies clinging to the wall and on the floor.
Keep moving forward along the main path, past another set of moving spikes to the next room.
This will take you to a switch. Activate it to open the blockade up ahead.
There’s another switch on the right that you need to activate to open the gate below you. But we’ll have to come down from the other side to reach it.
Accessing the Eastern Part of the Deep
Fast travel back to the second Tent in The Docks. Then go left and drop down to spot a second Water Vessel. Interact with it to dive underwater.
This side of the Deep is a lot shorter. Simply continue along the main path until you reach the switch on the other side.
Activate the switch to open the gate and head down.
Turn right and enter through the jaws of the giant skull.
Save your progress at the Tent. Then continue forward to the next room on the right.
The Colony Boss Fight
The Colony is unlike any other boss you’ve faced so far in the game. You’re not fighting a single boss. Instead The Colony is made up of multiple enemies that spawn around the arena, which can make the fight extremely hectic.
- The boss can shoot three nail projectiles towards you.
- It can run across the arena, spawning a barrage of fireworks along its path.
- It can create a shockwave along the ground from both sides of the arena
- The boss can also attack at you with its shovel
What makes things difficult is that all these attacks can happen at the same time. So you’ll have to be very careful with how you position yourself to avoid taking unnecessary damage.
After dealing enough damage, the boss will turn into a giant monster with its own moveset. But it’s much easier to manage if you survive the first phase.
During this phase, the boss can still run around spawning fireworks. In addition, it gains two new moves. It will become stationary and fire homing fireworks at you. Or it can jump around the arena multiple times, creating nails as it lands.
After defeating the boss, Thistle and Thimble, your siblings, pop out of it along with the rest of the missing crew. This triggers a cutscene as you listen to their story.
Once the section ends, Barge will grant you a new ability, Endless Climb.
This concludes part 6 of our walkthrough for Well Dweller. For more interesting articles related to indie games, check out the links below:
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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.
