Samsara Room Walkthrough: Tips and Tricks for Every Level

If you’re a fan of Rusty Lake’s captivating universe, diving into Samsara Room is a must. This game, while familiar to series enthusiasts, offers plenty of fresh challenges, especially if it’s your first experience with this genre. With its rich storytelling and intricate puzzles, it keeps you engaged every step of the way.

To help you navigate through this mystical game, we’ve crafted a detailed walkthrough. Here you’ll find every essential item you need to discover to progress in the main storyline and uncover hidden secrets.

Samsara Room Walkthrough

This step-by-step guide begins right where you start—in front of a mirror:

A Fish

1. Tap the mirror; then look to the right of your character for an “S” symbol. Remember this for later.
2. Collect the candle from the plant pot on top of the cabinet.
3. Move left. Solve the circular puzzle by rotating them and dragging grey squares into the gaps to retrieve the candle inside the box.
4. Open each drawer in the dresser to find a fish, a knife, and another candle.

5. Return to the mirror room. Open the envelope next to the phone using your knife; it will read “Enlighten Me.”
6. Tap the phone to reveal letters; click until they spell “Enlighten Me” to obtain a box of matches.
7. Head right. Open the window and use the knife to tear at its background.
8. Place your three candles and the fish in each empty spot, lighting the candles with your matches.

9. Click the black hole that appears, followed by the white cube, to earn the A Fish achievement.

A Corrupted Soul

1. You now possess a fish head. Tap on the mirror and look left to uncover another symbol. Collect the shell above the mirror.
2. Select the phone again and pick up the receiver. Tap each bubble from left to right to spell “Let it sink in.”

3. Repeatedly click on the paper hat until you uncover a key. Use it on the cabinet to gain a jar.
4. Go right two times. Tap the bottle and click on the X’s, including in cracks until you collect a second shell.
5. Click on the grandfather clock. Remove the nails until a hand appears, then give it your knife for a heart.
6. Go right again. Interact with the floating pickle and click every bump that’s not on a dark circle to claim a third shell.

7. Tap the box you unlocked to collect another shell.
8. Return to the window and swap the fish for the heart. Place the four shells into the empty slots, then click the hole and cube again for the A Corrupted Soul achievement.

A Gecko

1. Head to the window room. Use the jar on the gecko.
2. Replace the heart with the gecko then re-enter through the window.

A Worm

1. Tap on the mirror and look to the right for a new symbol. Keep track of them for a future puzzle.
2. Tap the flower pot to collect a marble.
3. Move right and interact with the candlestick. Use your matches from shortest to tallest to obtain another marble.

4. Continue right and fling the leftmost painting aside, allowing it to peel from its frame to find a third marble.
5. Interact with the clock. Set the time to 3:55 based on the middle painting’s hint for a triangle key.
6. Head right. Tap the bookcase to collect a marble from its bottom-left corner.
7. Align the books with the red outline. Below is one of several possible solutions.

8. Return to the window. Place the four marbles inside and swap the gecko with the heart before jumping back in.
9. Go right and read through the book.
10. Move right again to set the clock to 8:25 and collect the triangle key.
11. Return to the window, replace the heart with the fish, and step back through.
12. Interact with the Samsara book in the mirror room before returning to the clock room. Set the clock to 2:15 for another triangle key.
13. While in this form, use your jar to fill it with water.
14. Swap the fish for the heart once more at the window.
15. Back at the clock room, insert all triangle keys before opening it. When a man appears, click on him to grab a seed.
16. Plant the seed inside the flower pot in the mirror room and use your jar of water on it.
17. Replace the heart with the gecko before entering the window again to find the flower has grown. Remove its petals for a worm.
18. Switch the gecko with the worm for the A Worm achievement.

A Shrimp

Now we are edging towards a secret ending. If you’re not interested in this aspect, feel free to skip step 15 onward. Those aiming for completion should follow the steps below:

1. As a worm, check your reflection in the mirror and note the new symbol.
2. Wait to catch a flower petal. Follow it until it drops in front of the white dresser.

3. Head left to tap the sticks inside the clock and collect the knife.
4. On the same screen, move the sticks until you uncover a second petal.
5. Head left again and use the knife on the book for another petal.
6. Keep left until you reach the mirror room. Tap the phone thrice to drop its handset.
7. Check the handset and use your knife to unscrew it, revealing a puzzle.
8. Solve the puzzle by rotating circular paths with sliding markers; solution image below.

9. Tap the phone speaker until a fourth petal drops. Collect it.
10. Return to the room with the man on the floor. Open his mouth before entering.
11. The first room will feature dark trees. Hold the left mouse button to discover a bright orange orb. Click to release it.
12. Repeat this in every room you enter for a total of four times until reaching a pedestal.
13. The solution relates directly to the symbols you observed earlier in the mirror.

14. Collect the egg that appears. If you’re not seeking the secret ending, click on “A Bird” to skip ahead.
15. This puzzle will require you to explore Rusty Lake’s social media accounts. Using previous materials from 2020, you’ll uncover all four necessary symbols.

16. Return to the previous room with the book. Place both the shrimp and the four petals in the window to undergo a transformation and receive the “A Shrimp” achievement.

A Window

Earning the “A Window” achievement involves completing the second half of Samsara Room’s secret ending. If you missed any steps before, you’ll need to finish them before this part.

Here’s your continued journey in the secret ending:

1. Tap the mirror, revealing your shrimp form. Collect the water droplet.
2. Head right and tap the box for sticks. Light them using your matches.
3. Select the phone; pick up the handset and organize numbers to resemble a clock.

4. The solution for the clock will reveal a time of 2:45; remember this.
5. Tap the plant pot to gather “earth.”
6. Head right to grab a pencil hiding behind the white dresser.
7. Interact with the clock again, setting it to 2:45 to acquire the bottle.
8. Go right; tap the shrimp and peel it apart to find the old man.
9. Open his mouth and use the bottle to gather an elixir.
10. Return to the mirror room. Draw a key on the paper using your pencil, clicking until it appears.
11. Use the key on the floor cabinet to find an air bubble.
12. At the mirror, replace the shrimp with the elixir, using fire, water, air, and earth in the corners.

13. Click the white box to witness Samsara Room’s secret ending.

A Bird

Completing “A Bird” requires that you’ve made it through the initial steps of “A Shrimp.” If you’ve already finished its puzzles and collected the egg, simply go back to the mirror and replace the worm or elixir with it.

A New Life

Lastly, here’s how to finalize Samsara Room’s storyline:

1. Head right to the window and grab the egg.
2. Continue right. Interact with the nest and place the egg inside.
3. Tap all three eggs until they hatch.
4. Interact with each bird in this sequence:
   • The grey bird with its mouth open.
   • The orange-bellied bird.
   • The orange-bellied bird with its mouth open.
   • The gray-bellied bird.
   • The finger.
   • The white bird with an open mouth.
   • The white bird with a closed mouth.
   • The white bird with its head down.
   • The feather.
5. Return to the mirror room. Drag the clouds until they represent various creatures, and shape the singular cloud into a clock.

6. Return to the nest room. Set the clock’s time to 7:25.
7. Select the nest to receive a sunflower.
8. Continue right. Tap the paper airplane until it drops, revealing another feather and a “Rise up” phone clue.
9. Head to the mirror room; interact with the phone, spelling out “Rise up” to conjure a hot air balloon. Click to send it off the screen.
10. Back in the nest room, activate the hot air balloon and heat it with matches before cutting the sack attached to it.
11. Outside the balloon’s display, find the sack on the ground to uncover sand, a box, and two scales. Keep the box in mind for later.
12. Right-click on the flower pot and use your sand and sunflower with it.
13. In the same area, elevate the Sun to the top and slide it right to cause the sunflower to tip, dropping a seed. Collect it.
14. Before leaving, search the dresser drawers and read the top two for clues to future puzzles, also gathering a weight from the bottom drawer.
15. Return to the mirror room and weigh other objects based on previous knowledge. Deduce the weights for the worm, heart, gecko, and fish:
    • Weight = 1
    • Gecko = 1
    • Worm = 0
    • Matches = 2
    • Heart = 4
    • Fish = 5
    • Nighttime solution = 04:15
16. Head back to the clock room. Input the nighttime answer; however, first, switch to 2:00 as indicated in the drawer papers.
17. Aid the squirrel with your sunflower seed for another feather.
18. Return to the clock. Set it to 04:15.
19. Go right to the moon. Use your knife to reveal a giant eyeball. Open it for movement.
20. Guide the eye to the corners to find constellations, remembering the positions.
21. Interact with the owl; it’ll perch on the clock, prompting another puzzle from the previous book read.
22. Find the owl on the clock. Adjust its head to the following directions:
    • To the right
    • Toward you
    • To the left
    • Toward you
    • Away from you
23. Collect the feather left behind by the owl.
24. Tap the box in this room. Utilize the eye’s constellations to open, revealing a pocket watch.

27. For the next challenge, align each gear for activation. Start with the moving gear, adjusting their positions until all wheels turn.

27. Set the clock’s time to 7:45.
28. Feed the bird the fish, gecko, worm, and heart until a baby appears.
29. In the window, place the baby on the center platform with feathers at the corners.
30. Enter the portal, tap the cube, and break apart the scene for the ending credits.

Completing these steps will conclude Samsara Room’s intricate storyline. If you’re eager for more guidance, check out Moyens I/O for additional walkthroughs and tips.