Personal Study is currently in early access mode (V0.09). Here’s a walkthrough of some of the harder puzzles, imho. A step by step guide on: Puzzles, Progression and collectibles.
I plan on keeping this guide up to date with any new content, secrets and achievements if / when they are added.
Start: Portal and Stone Guard
After walking into the first room and talking to sebastian, you are tasked with repairing a portal.
There are two pieces: A ring and a statue.
Use telekenesis to fit the two pieces into place then select and rotate the ring piece until it is lined up
After walking through the portal you are met with a door that tells you it can only let you through once you restore it’s eyesight.
Hint:
if you find one you can deduce where the other might be.
Solution:
one is on the ground in one room and the other is suspended on a pillar in the other room and should glow green
with an eye in your inventory walk up to the door and interact with the eye socket and you should slot it in.
walk to the room past the summoning circle and on the table to your left you will find a book.
interact with it, go back to the summoning circle and draw the sigil in the circle (you should see it when pressing Q). then interact with Orthon (That’s his name :).
Walk back to the room where you found the first book and on the far right table you should find a second book.
Our new objective is to locate three Red Glowing crystals and place them around the summoning circle.
Go back to the room with the summoning circle and the door on the left side should be open.
First Puzzle: Mirror Room
In this room you need to reflect light onto a frozen door
Hint:
Some of the pieces of the mechanism seem to be broken or missing.
Solution:
On the left side of the room there is a replacement prism for the center of the room
On the far right corner there are lenses for the missing spot on the left side of the room
Use telekenesis to move all pieces into place
The room you enter next has a red crystal on the right side table.
On the same table there is also a book.
go through the portal in front of you and put the first crystal in the summoning circle.
then go back through the same portal and enter the door to your left.
Second Puzzle: Fire and Ice
In this room there is a large fire and your the right there is a large freezer with one of the doors open.
Hint:
maybe there is something in the freezer you can melt?
Solution:
there is a key frozen in a block of ice
use telekinesis to put the block on the fire and retrieve the key from the fire,
then drop it and interact with it to pick it up.
With this you can unlock the rest of the freezer doors.
There is a outfit on the second level of the pillar with the open door.
Hint:
Maybe there is a way to put out this fire?
Solution:
Use the large block of ice to put out the fire
In place of the fire there is now a switch that activates the elevator.
In this room there is a red crystal on the left side of the door.
there is also a book on the round table next to the teleporter.
grab both and continue into the next room..
then you are faced with three gates you need to open at the same time.
Solution:
Flip the middle and right side levers
next search through the crates until you find what you are looking for.
there is nothing else for you here.
go through the teleporter and install the second crystal at the summoning circle.
You can now open the second door in this room.
Third puzzle: Archive Door
When you first enter this room there is a book on the table to your left.
There is a large stack of books on the left side of the large puzzle door, interact with them.
We now have access to several hints to place the tablets in the correct place.
(Be sure to read all of them)
Hint:
It appears we are missing a tablet maybe it is hidden somewhere around the room?
Solution:
The order (Clockwise starting from bottom left) is
Tree, Sun, Star, Moon, Skull
In the next room there is a book laying on the table.
Our last red crystal is also found in this room.
go back to the summoning circle and install the final crystal.
Now summon Orthon again and interact with him.
We can now open a new door in the starting room.
it can be a little hard to spot but it is next to the mirror.
Now go through the following portal.
Fourth Puzzle: Banners
This room has 5 banners and 5 statues.
we need to take a statue and then interact with the corresponding banner.
(To my knowledge failing does not change the solution)
Hint:
the banners appear to be missing something.
Solution:
Two elves Double snakes statue
swords Raven statue
hand above head Sword statue
Throne Moon statue
Lantern Star Statue
In the next puzzle you are supposed to turn off all the lights of the pentagram.
Solution:
step on any of the lights,
step on one of the spots that you just turned off
step on the middle light that is on
step on one of the spots connected to the one that is off
step on the spot that is connected to both other lights
Step onto the middle of the platform and take the elevator down.
You will find a room with another summoning circle and a book with the next summon on the round table next to it.
you can now open one of the doors.
Fifth Puzzle: Dragon Room and Pipe room
In this room you will find a dragon statue and three pedestals behind a force field,
as well as two doors with glowing blue sigils on them.
Hint:
Is there a way to get to get to the source of the forcefield?
Solution:
at the end of one of the corridors there is a light that is green instead of blue, interact with it
go down the newly revealed stairs and you will be met with another puzzle.
Hint:
There don’t seem to be enough valves to turn the force field off completely.
Hint 2:
Maybe there is something i can use to block the gears?
Solution:
in the other corridor there is a vase with a bunch of staves inside,
grab one and use it to block the gears
now you need to reassemble the statue on the other pedestals to open the doors
you need to assemble the statue on the pedestal on the side of the door you want to open, it opens only one door at a time.
Hint:
build bottom up.
start with getting the base where it needs to go, then the next part and then the next.
(Remember you can use all three pedestals to move stuff around)
In the left side room you can find a book on the table and the last outfit tucked away on a small table behind some boxes
in the right side room you can find a book on the table and one on the lectern.
We need to talk to sebastian.
use the teleporter to go back to the new summoning room and take the elevator back up.
then talk to sebastian.
(Note that sebastian asks us for 3 herbs, these are currently not in the game)
go back to the dragon room using the elevator and teleporter
you can now open the door in this room.
Sixth Puzzle: Planetarium
In this puzzle you will need to activate several teleporters.
you can use telekenesis to move the planets.
(keep the position of the red orb in mind when making the image)
(The selected planet will shine onto the floor so you can see where it is)
Hint:
several planets seem to be missing, what patterns can i make?
Solution:
Make the wolf
Enter the teleporter that opens.
The next room is a simple flow puzzle.
get the glowy stuff to all the blue crystals and grab the planet.
insert the planet into the center of the planetarium.
Hint:
Planets on some of the patterns seem to not be in the right spot
Solution:
Make the boat
this puzzle is the same concept as before, just work backwards so you don’t accidentally connect to the red tiles.
grab the planet and insert it into the planetarium
Solution:
Make the snake
Enter the teleporter and grab the key on the table to your right.
There is also a book on one of the tables
Continue and enter the teleporter to return to the third summoning circle.
you can now enter the door to your right, past the book shelves.
Seventh Puzzle: Fog Doors
Head down the stairs.
There is a book on the table to your left here
Go through the large door at the end of the room and approach the very large lady.
This will trigger a dialogue scene.
The large lady requires us to find a way to remove the fog barriers from the doors.
You can now open the door at the left side of the room.
Hint:
Something seems to have broken here, can i find a replacement anywhere?
Hint 2:
there are crates in the right side of the room, open them to find a blue crystal.
then place it in the brazier in the middle of the levers
After the wall opens there are still parts missing from the mechanism.
Note: there is a book on the left side table.
There is a half sphere behind the table on the left side of the room
and there is one in the previous room right in front of you when you go back
place them on both sides of the mechanism.
Solution:
We need to combine the two halves of the sphere.
Use telekenesis to rotate the mechanism so the opening lines up with one of the halves.
Use the levers to push or pull that sides to or from the center.
Use telekenesis and the levers to navigate the half spheres through the maze.
Note: you do not need to navigate both at the same time. You can do one and then the other[/spoiler]
grab the completed ball with telekenesis and hover it over the blue crystal and pick it up.
Please note the second half of the book on the table.
We need to hold the ball in the spots the book says we should.
There are two on the door and two on on either side of the door.
roll the ball up and down until you find the right spot.
You will know it is in the right spot when the glow turns from blue to green.
go back to the crystal to recharge the ball and repeat with second door.
Now go back to the large lady.
This will trigger a Series of dialogue and H scenes.
You have reached the end of the current version. Congratulations!!!!
