Röki

2020: Walkthrough by: Louis Koot

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Text and Screenshots by Louis Koot

You can buy Röki on Steam but also on  gog.com     I have version 1.07 and have had no problems with the game

From now on the game will become linear. You no longer have the freedom to do things in your own order. You also always have to switch between Tove and her father Hendrik. Tove and Hendrik are in the same places, but Tove is in a different dimension than Hendrik, so they don't see each other. Tove needs Hendrik and Hendrik needs Tove to solve puzzles and the like. Stuff that Tove picks up also ends up in Hendrik's inventory and it works the other way around

Chapter 9: Castle: Part 2: 

Sluice puzzle, Tunnel and Torch room, Dining room and the Sundial puzzle

A: Sluice puzzle:

After solving the Vulture puzzle you have brought Hendrik and Tove into the pantry room and here we continue with this chapter. Make sure you are Hendrik.

There is a chest here, there is a gate door and you can also go outside on the left. To the left of the gate door is a round wooden shield on the wall

Take the Spear from inventory and click with it on the chest and ..... With the spear Hendrik forces the chest open and then he takes the 3rd round Keystone from the chest

You need these round stones for the sundial puzzle, but you still have to find 1

As Hendrik, move that round shield, on the wall,  to the right and ....

....... then become Tove and as Tove take the special Tile that is behind the shield in the wall. This is the Autumn Tile. You already have the Winter Tile.

Switch to Hendrik again, then open the gate and then disappear through the gate door and Hendrik will end up back at the Vulture Courtyard, in the right corner of it.

Walk to the left side of the courtyard and go to the closed gate.

There is no lever to open the gate, but some floor tiles have disappeared in front of the gate and you have seen this earth spot before, both as Tove and with Hendrik.

Take the shovel from inventory and click it on the earth spot and ....... Hendrik digs a hole under the fence

Switch back to Tove and also go through the door opened by Hendrik, down to the Vulture Courtyard

Then take Tove to the Tower Gate. Red seeds are on the floor at the tower gate. Take a handful of red seeds, they are oil seeds

In inventory put the red seeds in the mortar and ..... Tove crushes the seeds and then she has a mortar with oil.

Now bring Tove to Hendrik. Make sure you get the left arrow on the hole that Hendrik has dug and then click and ......

Tove crawls through the hole under the fence and she ends up on the other side in the next courtyard.

Immediately to the left of the gate is the handle. Use the handle to lift the gate in the gate

Switch to Hendrik and take him through the now open gate to the courtyard. There is a torch on the stairs. Take the Torch

Climb up again, walk to and past the wooden cart and then first go down the next stone stairs. At the bottom of the stairs you pick up the stone block

Have a look at the lock / sluice down here. Back up and then to the left. Hendrik then comes to the lock / sluice mechanism.

Continue to the 2 boxes, in the corner by the blocked door

A 2nd stone block is next to the 2 chests. Take the stone block

Go back to the wooden cart

Place Hendrik, via the steps, on the right end of the cart and then place the two stone blocks on the cart,

Switch to Tove and also walk up the cart via the stone steps. Then walk up the cart and try to grab the item that is on the ledge above the cart.

Unfortunately .... Tove can't reach that item. So put Tove on the right end of the cart and switch to Hendrik.

Walk up like Hendrik and then take that item. Hendrik can do this because the weight of the 2 stone blocks and Tove is heavier than Hendrik

The Item that Hendrik has taken is a Gear. Stay Hendrik and jump off the cart and now walk back to the lock mechanism. The mechanism hangs over a shaft and Tove has to go down through the shaft but then the water has to be pumped out of the shaft first. The mechanism consists of 2 parts...... A large pulley with a chain and a gear mechanism with a lever. Check out the gear mechanism. The thing is rusty and it is missing a gear.

Walk to the left side of the shaft and then stand in front of the mechanism. This side is also rusty and is also missing a gear

The gear that Hendrik just took from the ledge is also rusty. In inventory, combine the gear with the oil mortar to lubricate the gear

Then place the oiled gear on the right part of the mechanism. Then make sure you get your hand on the rotary handle and then click and ....

....... Hendrik turns the lock down.

Take the gear back and walk back to the other side and place the gear back on the mechanism

... Also turn the rotary handle on this side and ...... the water is now pumped out of the shaft.

Switch to Tove and take her to the lock shaft. Stand in front of the shaft and then climb down the climbing stones and then disappear into the tunnel on the left

B: Tunnel and Torch Room

Tove is in a tunnel and your screen is now a split screen. Tove is in the bottom part of the screen in the tunnel. The top part of the screen is a room that Hendrik has to go to. There is a deep shaft in the tunnel, but it is dark in the tunnel so Tove sees almost nothing. Just in front of the shaft there is something on the ground and Tove can just see see that thing

Continue to the left, to the thing that is on the ground just in front of the shaft. Pick that thing up ... it turns out to be an axe.

Switch to Hendrik and move Hendrik again to the other side of the lock mechanism, to the 2 boxes and the blocked door.

Use the axe to remove the stems blocking the door

Then open the door and go in and .....

Hendrik is then in the room above the tunnel where Tove is. You can pick up a Loot Item here first, so do that

Further on there is a key on the wooden floor. Go pick up that key and ......

..... unfortunately .... the key falls through a crack in the floor and the thing ends up at the bottom of the deep shaft at Tove in the tunnel.

Stay as Hendrik. There is a fishing hook on the pile of stones. Take the fishing hook

To the left of the right window is a special tile in the wall. This tile can be reached via climbing stones. It's the Spring tile.

Hendrik cannot climb so you will have to take that tile as Tove.

When you walk through the room you will notice that Hendrik can lift a floorboard in the floor in various places. When Hendrik lifts such a floorboard, there will be some daylight in the tunnel, below Hendrik, and Tove can see a little more in the tunnel. Start by lifting the rear floorboard by the window. Hendrik then holds the floorboard and Tove has some light in the tunnel

Switch to Tove. Tove now sees a trunk in the tunnel. Open the trunk and ...... Tove takes a ball of yarn from the trunk.

Move Tove to the edge of the deep shaft and then switch back to Hendrik. Put the floorboard back down

Move Hendrik to the floorboard that is in front of the pile of stones and then lift this plank. In the tunnel light then shines in the shaft.

Switch to Tove again and look at the shaft with your eye and Tove will see the key that is at the bottom of the shaft

In inventory combine the yarn with the fishing hook and then combine the whole with the spear and Tove then has a fishing rod

Use the fishing rod spear in the shaft and Tove fishes the key out of the shaft

Continue around the shaft to the door on the left and park Tove there. Then switch to Hendrik again. With the key retrieved by Tove, Hendrik can open the gate door, but don't do this yet, because in the tunnel Tove can pick up 2 more items, but Hendrik has to lift 2 floorboards for that. Lift up the floorboard that is right in front of the gate door

Switch to Tove again. At the back of the tunnel is a lot of junk and at that heap of junk Tove finds a Loot Item, so pick it up

Switch to Hendrik again, put the plank down and walk forward and then lift the plank in the foreground.

Switch to Tove and ..... Tove now sees the 2nd trunk. Open the trunk and Tove takes out the 2nd Torch from it.

Back to Hendrik and now open the gate with the key and then disappear through the doorway and .......

...... Hendrik ends up in:

Torch Room:

There are 3 doors and 3 torch holder. Hendrik came in through the open middle door. The left and right doors are closed. There are 3 torch holders on the walls. Holder 1 hangs on the left, holder 2 hangs in the middle and holder 3 is on the right. In holder 3 is Torch 3. Walk to holder 3.

Make sure that Hendrik is close to holder 3. Holder 3 has a torch but it is the wrong torch. In inventory you also have 2 torches. Click with your hand on the torch in holder 3. Hendrik then turns the torch horizontally but the torch does not click into place and the torch goes vertically again. Now you can take the torch. So take the torch from holder 3

You now have 3 torches and the torches have stripes. You have a torch with 1 stripe, a torch with 2 stripes and a torch with 3 stripes.

You now have to put the torches in the correct holders.

Place the 1 stripe torch in holder 1, the 2 stripe torch should be in holder 2 and the torch with 3 stripes should be placed in holder 3.

If you have placed the 3 torches in the correct holder, you click them 1 by 1 horizontally, and you do not have to do this in a specific order.

When all 3 torches are clicked horizontally, the left and right doors will open

 In the foreground there is a floor tile that Hendrik can lift. Lift that floor tile and ..... Hendrik will find another round Keystone.

Switch to Tove again and now move Tove out of the tunnel and then climb up the ladder.

Tove ends up in a hall, to the left behind the torch room. There is a book on the floor. Take the book.

Also take a look at the flag banner that hangs on the wall here and then go through the doorway and Tove is also in the torch room.

As Tove, immediately disappear through the middle doorway. Tove therefore ends up in the room above the tunnel.

Walk to the special tile. Climb up the climbing stones and then take that special tile from the wall

This is the Spring Tile and we need it in the dining room. Climb down and return to the torch room and then go through the funnel doorway to the dining room

C: Dining Room Puzzle

Switch back to Hendrik again and also take him to the dining room and then stay Hendrik.

Hendrik and Tove are now both in the Dining Room and here they have to solve the tile puzzle. You are Hendrik, but if you are Tove now, then become Hendrik. On the long wall of the dining room you see 4 columns with a square opening in each column. Number those columns from left to right as 1, 2, 3, 4. In the middle of the 4 columns is the fireplace, but it is closed. Each of the 4 columns has a "Cone" and those cones must be turned up.

First, check out the fireplace. Hendrik reads a rhyme on the wall of the fireplace and this rhyme tells the solution of the 1st part of the Tile Puzzle that you have to solve here. The rhyme tells you the order of the seasons, Spring, Winter, Fall and Summer

In front of the long dining table, a number of recessed floor tiles protrude into the floor and each of those floor tiles has an image of an animal. Remember this.

On the right side of the dining table you can now first pick up a Loot Item. Take that Loot Item

So you need to place a season tile in the 4 openings of the 4 columns.

In inventory you now have 3 season tiles, which are the Spring tile (3), the Winter tile (1) and the Autumn tile (2).

We still have to score the Summer tile and we go do that now as Hendrik

As Hendrik, leave the dining room through the right door. Hendrik then comes out on the castle wall. Go up the stone stairs and ....

.... then enter the tower room on the right. In this bookcase tower room take the Summer Tile from the wall. You can only do this as Hendrik

Return to the Dining Room. First go and look at all those special animal floor tiles as Hendrik.

Then remember where the Wolf tile, the Stag tile, the Bear tile and the Raven tile are in the floor.

The Wolf tile and the Stag tile are on the right in front of the dining table in the floor

The Bear tile is in the middle of the floor

The Raven tile is in the front left of the floor.

We are now going to solve the Tile puzzle and we do this in 2 parts. You now have 4 season tiles, the winter tile, the fall tile, the spring tile and the summer tile. The riddle on the fireplace wall has told you which tile to place in which column, and you don't have to do this in sequence as long as you place the correct tile in the correct column. It is logical that we do this from left to right and you can do this as Hendrik or as Tove

Place the Spring Tile in column 1

Place the Winter tile in column 2

Place the Autumn tile in column 3

Place the Summer tile in column 4 and ......

... a new riddle now appears on the wall of the fireplace. Go read that riddle because it will give you the solution for the 2nd part of the puzzle

You now have to match the 4 season tiles with the correct animal tile in the floor. To do this, you place Hendrik on an animal tile and then click as Tove on the season tile belonging to that animal. So you have to switch between Hendrik and Tove. The solution for this second part of the puzzle can be found on the flag banners that hang here and there in the castle and in the courtyards. 

On those banners you can see the Stag, the wolf, the raven and the bear along with the season. So you have to match the Wolf with the Spring tile, the Raven with the Winter tile, the Bear with the Autumn tile and the Stag with the Summer tile. As Hendrik you  stand on the animal tile and as Tove you click on the season tile that matches that animal. You can do this in any order but Hendrik must stand on the floor tiles while Tove must push in the seison tiles

Stand on the Wolf tile as Hendrik. Switch to Tove and then press the Spring Tile.

The cone on the spring column then turns slightly upwards

As Hendrik  stand on the Raven tile. Become Tove and press the Winter tile

Put Hendrik on the Bear tile and press the Autumn tile as Tove

Put Hendrik on the Stag tile and press the Summer tile as Tove and .....

... if you have done everything correctly, the wall in the fireplace slides up and you have also earned another Badge.

Hendrik cannot go through the fireplace because he is too big. So go in as Tove  and ...

D: Book Puzzle

Follow the tunnel to the right. At the end of the tunnel is a dead vulture and with the vulture is the 3rd book. Pick up the book

.... Climb up the ladder and then go out the tunnel and ......

..... Tove is outside on the wall again. Continue to the right and then dive into the tower room where the bookcase is and where Hendrik has found the ummer tile

Switch to Hendrik and bring Hendrik back to the tower room with the bookcase and where Tove is now also

Stay Hendrik and look at the bookcase. There is a book missing in each of the 3 shelves. If you look at the 3 shelves 1 by 1, Hendrik tells you what kind of books there are on each shelf. During your wanderings through the castle you have picked up 3 books. There is an image on the covers of each book. So you now have a Bird book, a Tree book and a Fish book

Place the Fish book on the top shelf. Place the Tree book on the middle shelf. Place the Bird book on the bottom shelf and ......

.... the top half of the bookcase slides up. Take the Signet Ring

As Hendrik, go out via the right exit and ..... 

Hendrik is then on the left side of the mechanism with which, in the vulture courtyard, the gate to the tower must be opened.

 However, you cannot do this right now because you need two Signet Rings, one for Hendrik and one for Tove

Back inside and now open the middle gate door and then disappear as Hendrik through the middle doorway and ........ Hendrik then ends up in the left corner of the Vulture courtyard. Move Hendrik across the courtyard to the right and then go through the gate to the Sundial courtyard

Switch back to Tove and also take her back to the Sundial courtyard using the same route

E: Sundial Puzzle

This puzzle is timed and you will have to act very quickly.

This is the worst puzzle in the game, especially if you're not using a game controller but your keyboard to move Tove and Hendrik

Bring Tove and Hendrik down to the Sundial. Tove and Hendrik now have to work together to solve the Sundial puzzle. Take a good look at the sundial first. The thing is a circle and in the middle is a thick dial with a wolf on it. You see 4 round holes in the circle around the wolf dial. In those 4 holes you have to place the 4 round key stones. in the other edge of the circle is a slot and through that slot the lever, which is now on the right and has not yet been activated, must go from right to the bottem middle.

There are 6 sliders on the outside edge of the circle and those sliders are blocking the slot. There are 3 thin sliders and 3 thick sliders., A, B, C, D, E, F. The thin sliders A, C, E has a thin triangle and the thick sliders B, D, F has a thick triangle. The intention is that Tove will move the 3 thin sliders A, C, E and Hendrik has to move the 3 thick sliders B, D, F.

In inventory you now have the 4 round key stones. There is a drawing on each of those 4 stones.

 3 of the stones has a sun drawing and 1 has a star drawing. So you have a Dusk stone, a Dawn stone, a Noon stone and a Star stone

To activate the Start Lever you must first put your 4 round key stones in the correct holes. It doesn't matter whether you do this as Tove or as Hendrik

I have numbered the 4 holes as 2, 2, 3, 4 in the screenshot above

Place the Noon Stone in hole 1, place the Dawn Stone in hole 2. Place the Star Stone in hole 3 and place the Dusk Stone in hole 4

When you have put the 4 stones each in their correct hole, the Start Lever will come up. The puzzle is now activated and now it gets difficult.

Now you need Hendrik and Tove. You will  have to switch quickly between Tove and Hendrik and then always move Tove and Hendrik to exactly the right place at the sliders A, B, C, D, E, F. You must ensure that Tove and Hendrik always reach a slider before the lever reaches the slider because Tove and Hendrik have to slide the sliders upwards so that the lever can continue through the slot to the Finish at F. If you are to slow, the lever will return to the start position and you have to start all over again .

Because the 1st slider that the Lever will encounter is slider A and because A is a thin slider, Tove has to do slider A. When the lever has come up, first put Tove at slider A. Make sure that Tove is exactly in the right place at slider A, so that you have the hand on slider A. Do not click but switch to Hendrik

So you have to start as Hendrik with the lever.  Make sure Hendrik is standing at the lever and ...... take a deep breath because your ordeal will now begin. 

As Hendrik you click the lever and ..... As soon as you see that Hendrik pulls the lever, you switch super fast to Tove and you click slider A

... As soon as you see that Tove moves slider A, you switch super fast back to Hendrik and you bring Hendrik super fast to slider B and click on B with your hand......

..... and so you continue to do the other sliders.

... if you do all this super fast in succession, the lever slides smoothly through the slot to F and then a spiral staircase opens in the sundial and you have earned another Badge. However, if you are too slow on the way and you did not move a slider in time, then the lever returns to the starting position and you have to start all over again. It took me about 2 days to solve this puzzle because I was always too slow to put Hendrik or Tove on the right slider before the lever was there. After a lot of curses, drops of sweat and almost heart attacks I finally succeeded, as you can see in this screenshot

Here is another solution for this Sundial puzzle that was sent to me by Olly Polasky. I think this solution will make the puzzle easier to solve in the given time