Reach the two fly rooms
This puzzle is in Desiderium, after the ritual and inventory recovery. It is not the early TV-symbol floor or elevator-color sequence. If the camera and lost inventory are still blocking you, finish the altered-school recovery route first.
After purifying Apartment Key, retrieve the new Red Candle, light it and remove the apartment stairwell's red barrier. On Floor 1, go through Door A to the community hall. Two large fly structures block the theater entrance, and a smaller fly statue stands by the floor tiles. The door to the left leads to the first path room.
Record the first room's path
- Enter the left-hand room and examine its visible route to the fly statue.
- Record the tile-by-tile path from the starting tile to the statue, including the number of straight steps between turns. A quick sketch or your own screenshot is more useful than remembering only “left, then right.”
- Walk that visible route. Watch the statue become covered in gold-colored sulfur as you advance.
- At the end, break the fully transformed statue with a melee weapon.
- Return to the community hall. One part of the theater obstruction has broken, but the second floor sequence is still required.
Keep your record until the theater is open. A guide image can identify the room or a success state, but its route is not the answer for every save.
Repeat the route in the second room
Use the corresponding tile layout in the community hall to reproduce the same complete pattern. Start at the beginning of the path and step through the recorded tiles in order.
| What the statue does | What to do next |
|---|---|
| Becomes progressively more gold | Continue with the next tile in your recorded path |
| Progress is lost after a wrong tile | Return to the start and replay the correct sequence |
| Turns fully gold at the final tile | Break it with a melee weapon |
| Final obstruction breaks at the theater | Enter the theater and collect Lead Fly |
If you lose the route, revisit the first room's layout rather than borrowing another player's directions. Check straight-tile counts as well as turns; skipping a tile can look like the correct general shape while failing the sequence.
Collect Lead Fly and open its door
After breaking the second transformed statue, enter the theater through the now-open northern entrance. Take Lead Fly from Julia's seated statue near the middle of the room. Return to the Floor 1 apartment hallway and use it on the door bearing the fly insignia.
The opened theater alone is not the final reward: verify Lead Fly in the inventory before returning to the hall. The chest near the theater screen remains locked at this stage; it needs Tin Key from the next route.
If the puzzle does not finish
| Problem | Check |
|---|---|
| A screenshot's route fails | Use the first room's path from your own playthrough |
| First statue broke, theater still blocked | Complete and break the second statue in the community hall |
| Statue does not keep turning gold | Restart from the beginning after a wrong tile and check every step |
| You cannot break the statue | Finish the path so it is fully transformed before striking |
| The fly-symbol door remains locked | Take Lead Fly from Julia's theater statue and use the item at the marked door |
| The theater chest will not open | Return later with Tin Key; that chest is not opened by Lead Fly |
Continue toward Tin Key and Green Candle
The fly-symbol door leads into the film-set and statue-defense route. Finish those encounters to obtain Tin Key. Use it to leave through the upside-down door and return to the theater chest for Green Candle. Light that candle and use it at the upper stairwell barrier to regain access to the apartments.
Resume the Desiderium walkthrough for the surrounding route, then the photograph and knife checkpoint. The boss reference includes the statue-defense advice for the next encounters.
Sources
- Official Puzzle & Boss Guide, sections 20–22: recovery prerequisites, replaying the preceding tile pattern, gold feedback, Lead Fly and Tin Key.
- Into Indie Games, Part 4: the two rooms, theater reward and Green Candle route.
Source-checked October 23, 2026. The official guide retained during the first round explicitly says to repeat the previous room's pattern. No fixed coordinates, universal tile code or in-game test by this site is claimed.