Here is my walkthrough of Submachine 2: The Lighthouse
I have presented it fairly sequentially so you should be able to find the bit you are stuck on without learning stuff you don't want to yet.
Also see my walkthroughs for:
Submachine Adventure
Submachine Adventure Extended Edition
Submachine Zero: Ancient Adventure
Submachine 3: The Loop
Submachine 4: The Lab
And a bunch of other games and walkthroughs are at: http://flanerie.org/games
Start - The Red Cellar
Go Left (gramaphone), Left, Left and there is a weird lamp stand thing that is wired up. Place the wisdom gem between the two terminals and an arm will rise up out of the box on the floor. On top of the arm is what looks like a pearl. Click it and it will rise and fall back and you will hear something moving.
Go Right and you will see a ladder has appeared.
You can go up the ladder and then left or right but that is all, so before you do that we need to get another ladder to appear.
From the bottom of the ladder go Left (wisdom gem), Left, Up to a room with an armchair. Pick up the cog wheel on the floor.
Go Down, Right (wisdom gem), Right (ladder), Right to the gramaphone. Click on it to zoom in. On the front left of the machine is a hole - please the cog wheel in that. You hear a click. Now press the button on the right and the arm comes off the gramaphone and the sound of critters stops.
Back to the ladder, Left. Then Up and you see a second ladder upwards. This will take you up into the lighthouse - the game has begun.
Secrets
Back on the first screen is a video game machine. Click on it to zoom in then look to the right of the machine and there is a small red pearl. Click to pick it up - this is the first of 20 secrets. I will list the locations of all of them at the end.
Get to the sewer
From the bottom of the ladder, go Up, Right and you will see an electrical junction box. Click on it to zoom in and you will see something like "C=2", although it could be a different number. Make a note.
Next go back Left, Up and there are two sewer entrances, one covered with bars. Enter the other one - you will see a key but can't get to it. Never mind. Go Left and Left again. It is very dark but you should be able to make out another key. Pick it up - it is a room key.
Head back, Right, Right, Right. Then go Up the main ladder. Here is another sewer entrance with a padlock. Your new key doesn't open it. Not obviously, there is a room to the right here, towards the top. Go there and enter the small opening. You will find a fork. Pick it up.
Back to the main ladder and Up into the tiled lower floor of the lighthouse.
There is a ladder up here which leads to a crawl space. You can take a look but you can't do anything with it yet. Instead, head Left. Another left reveals a camera. Again, nothing to do with this yet, so instead take the doorway in the centre.
After going through the door, go Up and Up to reach the first floor.
Go Right (doorway), Right (light), Right, where you can pick up a pamphlet. There is a picture on the wall - of some use later.
Go back Left, Left, Left (the stairs down), Left. Two doors. The right one is locked. Open the left. A small room where you can collect the cat note from the bookshelf.
Back out and now open the right door using the key you found in the sewer. A bathroom in which you find a sewer key. Bingo.
The Sewer
Head back down the stairs to the lower level, then down the ladder to the sewer entrance that is padlocked. Use the sewer key then dive on in.
The sewers are a little maze like, and I won't bother mapping them. Instead I will tell you what there is to find. All the way left (9 Lefts) is a secret.
From there you can mooch around and find:
- A room with a big horizontal metal cylinder with a glass panel on the front. This will be opened when you complete the puzzle in...
- A room with a big vertical metal cylinder with a 4x4 grid of lights on it. The puzzle is to get all 16 lights on at the same time. It doesn't take too long to figure out
- Inside the first cylinder is a switch handle
- The key you saw a lot earlier, called 2nd floor key
- A red alcove, accessed from beneath containing a letter to liz
- A positive coil
The 2nd floor
No point having a key without using it, so off to the second floor. Up to the first floor, then Right and there is a silver doorway. Go through and pick up a negative coil. Now go up twice to find a locked door. (Going up once more finds a dead end. For now.) Use the key on the locked door and go through. There are doors left and right.
Take the left and look closer at the typewriter to get Diary 2. At the bottom it says "M=[number]". Mine says 822 but it is different each time. Go left again to get a movie memory, whatever that might be.
Go back out and through the right door. There is a green glowing cupboard with some kind of combination lock. Leave that for the moment and go right again to find a 'Note to myself'.
Back to that green combination lock. The answer is back at the picture of the lighthouse on the first floor - you need to zoom in on the picture twice to see it. Inside you will find a lightbulb.
The Lower Floor
Back to the turquoise tiled area above the red cellar. There is a camera to the left. Insert the movie memory, then insert the lightbulb. Now switch it on by flipping the switch down. You can now see something when you zoom in on the camera - a desk with a range of objects on it. If you move you cursor around the image it changes to a hand over one of the object - click on it to pick it up. An ID card will fall out of the camera.
Head Right, Right to the place you entered from the red cellar and take the ladder Up. Enter the crawl space Right, go Right again and you will see a pile of dirt and a switch on the wall. The switch is incomplete and can't be used. Use the Switch Handle to complete it and then flip the switch down - this will rotate the ladder that is above the second floor door.
The Tower
Head back upstairs and up to the second floor door and then up again to where the rotated ladder can now be climbed. There are entrances left and right. There is also a switch which doesn't work because there is a gap in the cable. Place the fork in that gap and flip the switch down. A ladder drops down.
Head Up, Up, Up, Up and Up to enter the portal room. Pick up the Portal Note that is on the wall, and notice the five red lights. As you should know by now, red lights need to be green so we need to complete five separate circuits.
Go Left in the portal room to find a unit with a slot in the top and a red light on it. Insert the ID Card. The light turns green and the fourth portal light is now green. Go Right in the portal room to find a unit with a hole in the top. The coils look like they would fit, but don't. There is a key here - pick it up. It is the digout key.
Head back down to the first floor and head way left to the wall panel that is padlocked. Use the key to open it and head inside and go Left Left Left to find a Fuse.
Now go back to the portal room, go right and insert the Fuse into the unit. The light turns green and the second portal light is now green.
Head back down from the portal room to the point on the ladders where you placed the fork. Take the Left entrance and go Up the ladder. There is a 4-digit combination switch here, with the letter E scratched onto it. Above the switch is a red light.
Early you saw "C=3" or something similar. On Diary Page 2 it says "M=773" or another number (the numbers are different each time you play.) In the notes you find there are references to Einstein the cat. Einstein's most famous equation was E=MxC[squared]
Multiply M by C by C (ie multiply by C twice) to get a 4-digit answer. With my numbers of 773 and 3 I get 6957 (773 x 3 x 3). Enter the answer in the combination switch and step back. The light above the switch has turned green. The first portal light is now green. Two to go.
Head Right and Right to find a mirror image of the left-hand room. Go Up the ladder to find a strange switch with a big red light above it. On the switch itself are 4 red lights and eight buttons. You need to use the buttons to move the arms around until they touch the centre and turn the lights green. When they are all green you have turned the big light green.
This is about trial and error. When you press a button two of the arms rotate, but one will rotate faster so it is possible to complete a few revolutions and have then arrive in the centre at the same time. My personal preference is to use the two buttons top left.
Once you have completed it, the third portal light will turn green.
Back to the central ladder and head up towards the portal room but stop where the room is a cone shape. If you look carefully there is something odd about two of the panels on the wall, one left and one right. They are crawl spaces. Head Left to find nothing at all. Head Right to find a room with a broken circuit and positive and negative terminals on the wall.
At last! A use for the coils. Insert the coils as appropriate to complete the circuit and that will light the fifth portal light.
You can now flip the switch on the portal to complete the game, although first you should try to complete your collection of secrets. Scroll down for a list of them.
Secrets
Red cellar
1. To right of video game machine
2. Far left and upstairs, on the armchair
3-5. Red alcove, accessed from sewer - 3
6. Where the fork is, top right
Sewer
7. Far left
8. About 4 right, 2 down, 1 right from the last one
Lower level (turquise)
9. The room with the staircase up. On the wall in front of you is a loose tile, that you can click to reveal a secret. Starting from the bottom right corner of the wall, count 4 left and 3 up to find the tile.
First floor of lighthouse (mustard color)
10. On the second stair room, on the broken left wall
11. First floor, right twice from top of stairs, on top of the suspended ceiling light
12. On the pile of dirt, Right twice from number 10
Second floor
13-16. Bedroom, 4 on the moving sculpture.
17. Digout tunnel
Tower
18. Above rotating ladder, to right, then up. On green cable.
19. Left tunnel
20. On floor amongst cables
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my other walkthroughs are:
Submachine Adventure
Submachine Adventure: Extended Edition
Submachine Zero: Ancient Adventure
Submachine 3: The Loop
Submachine 4: The Lab
Comments (61)
I clicked on your adds tons of times XD
Thanks!
Posted by Blah | August 4, 2006 10:58 PM
Posted on August 4, 2006 22:58
Very nice! This was a spectacular walkthough...nice diction, concise, and easy to follow.
I salute you.
Posted by Mike | August 5, 2006 6:37 AM
Posted on August 5, 2006 06:37
I Cant Get The Combination To Work Wtf!!!
Posted by screwyou | August 15, 2006 6:26 AM
Posted on August 15, 2006 06:26
hey "screwyou" .. you are a retard!!!1
if u cant get it to work.. then u obviously dont know simple mathematics you fucking idiot
Posted by assman | August 15, 2006 9:43 PM
Posted on August 15, 2006 21:43
screwyou u have to to times the number thats c by itself, the way he worded it it sounds like u just do m times c but its actually m times (c times c) mine was c=3 and m=825 so it would be 825 times 9
Posted by asdf | August 15, 2006 11:46 PM
Posted on August 15, 2006 23:46
fair point. I have edited the walkthrough to make is clearer.
Posted by Gerald | August 16, 2006 7:52 AM
Posted on August 16, 2006 07:52
haha dude now u have said about the code.. its blatently obvious ... cats name is einstein .. his theory is c=mc squared .. code = m X c squared lol .. good man urself
Posted by woz | August 29, 2006 4:01 PM
Posted on August 29, 2006 16:01
I finished with 16 items, its cools, but...
what about the radio?
AND MACHINE GAME??
to be continued?????????? in SB3 PArt??? AND SB4???
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TERMINE CON 16 SECRETOS, COOLGAME, pero ..
que pasa con la radio, sirve para algo, y con la mamakinita de video juego?
continuará????? en SB3??? o la SB4?????
tucuman - argentina
Posted by Tincho-Poy-Arg-Tuc | September 18, 2006 12:44 AM
Posted on September 18, 2006 00:44
I have everything but i didn't unlock the green glowing machine code...it doesn't work...
Posted by fito | October 1, 2006 11:42 PM
Posted on October 1, 2006 23:42
Everyone, there's a new Submachine that came out named Submachine 3: The Loop. A fourth submachine will come out, but it's named Submachine 0: The Ancient Adventure. Sounds like a prequel! It's like...Star Wars.
Posted by A.J | October 13, 2006 11:54 AM
Posted on October 13, 2006 11:54
it is crap
Posted by Bobby goodwin | October 15, 2006 3:24 PM
Posted on October 15, 2006 15:24
Dude you rule, i couldnt of done thsi without u , got all 20 secrets :D im gonna click your links loads too. Josh
Posted by Josh | October 27, 2006 6:48 PM
Posted on October 27, 2006 18:48
umm you say use the fork to bridge the gap and make the switch work, but where do you get the fork from? you dont mention it
Posted by steff | November 15, 2006 5:56 PM
Posted on November 15, 2006 17:56
so you did mention it i just didnt read it properly, my bad
Posted by Steff | November 15, 2006 5:59 PM
Posted on November 15, 2006 17:59
thahanks!!
Posted by anon | November 20, 2006 5:10 PM
Posted on November 20, 2006 17:10
Gerald- love the quality of your graphics and the sound effects! Consider your links clicked.
Posted by bob-o | November 28, 2006 4:00 PM
Posted on November 28, 2006 16:00
It was great, but did not great 20 items. New continuation, help on the secrets?
Posted by Eugene | December 9, 2006 5:10 AM
Posted on December 9, 2006 05:10
how do you get the swith out of the case??
Posted by kelsey | January 6, 2007 5:17 AM
Posted on January 6, 2007 05:17
hello i thought id just post as ill be the first for the new year,
happy new year every one
Posted by me | January 6, 2007 7:42 PM
Posted on January 6, 2007 19:42
Dude, that was the easiest walkthrough ever.
Very to the point..
I admire your skill at this game..
E=mC2....
i NEVER would have got that
Posted by Alexander | January 6, 2007 9:54 PM
Posted on January 6, 2007 21:54
someone please tell me what the point of getting secrets is
Posted by Matt | January 7, 2007 11:56 PM
Posted on January 7, 2007 23:56
the point is to add an extra challenge to the game.
challenge 1 - solve the puzzles and complete the game
challenge 2 - collect all of the secrets
Posted by Gerald | January 8, 2007 8:33 AM
Posted on January 8, 2007 08:33
i cant get the green light thing to work. you said you zoom into the picture of the lighthouse twice but i can only zoom in once
Posted by dan | January 10, 2007 2:59 AM
Posted on January 10, 2007 02:59
Best site! Great! wow wow wow!
Posted by Anne | January 10, 2007 3:23 AM
Posted on January 10, 2007 03:23
weres the 2 floor key i cant find it in the mase
Posted by justin | January 12, 2007 4:38 AM
Posted on January 12, 2007 04:38
i couldn't find the negative coil.. so basicly, i can't solve the puzzle! help S.O.S!! i need a solution realy fast..
Posted by sarah | February 24, 2007 1:47 PM
Posted on February 24, 2007 13:47
I was so confused and this walkthrough just explained everything! Thanks so much, it was really bugging me that I couldn't complete it. I have clicked on the ads a few times for you lol!
Posted by Lauren | March 18, 2007 6:52 PM
Posted on March 18, 2007 18:52
I CANT FIND THE FUCKIN 2ND FLOOR KEY NEED SOLUTION FAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by noob | April 10, 2007 4:33 PM
Posted on April 10, 2007 16:33
KICKA ASSA WALKTHROUGH U ROCK DUDE BUT WHAT DO THE SECRETS DO??
Posted by unknown kid | April 27, 2007 4:40 AM
Posted on April 27, 2007 04:40
The secrets are just an extra challenge to the game. So challenge one is to escape the lighthouse and challenge two is to do it again but find all the secrets.
Posted by Gerald | April 27, 2007 7:04 AM
Posted on April 27, 2007 07:04
you 'FUCKIN' rock this walk through help so much i was getting pissed cause i coudn't figer out how to solve the game
YOU ROCK HARD PERSON!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by naomi | May 1, 2007 11:29 PM
Posted on May 1, 2007 23:29
i've been working on this for 3 day & it was annoying,i couldn't figer out the last red dot or the 4 numbers you have to type in the litte code thing any way YOU ROCK HARD &ARE THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:)
Posted by roni | May 1, 2007 11:36 PM
Posted on May 1, 2007 23:36
YOU ROCK HARD!!!!!!!!!!! i couldn't find the last light the one in the cilenderspot with the wierd tiles in it or the code on the panel with 4 numbersKEEP ROCKIN' IM CERIAL
Posted by roni | May 1, 2007 11:44 PM
Posted on May 1, 2007 23:44
I Cant Get To The Negative Coil... Where's The Silver Door? Where Is It ?! :S
Posted by Rachel | May 8, 2007 6:27 PM
Posted on May 8, 2007 18:27
In Reply to anyone looking for the Negative Coil on the way to the 2nd floor right when you enter the doorway with no door LOOK AROUND
Posted by Double | May 11, 2007 6:07 PM
Posted on May 11, 2007 18:07
Thanx dude
Posted by Nora | June 1, 2007 6:52 PM
Posted on June 1, 2007 18:52
well done walkthrough!!
I ha ve a question: what should I do with the secret items?
thx for the answer
Posted by Mgts | June 8, 2007 8:58 PM
Posted on June 8, 2007 20:58
WHERE THE HELL IS THE 2nd FLOOR KEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS TIME WRITE BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Jesse | June 19, 2007 11:08 AM
Posted on June 19, 2007 11:08
The second floor key is in the sewer you unlocked!
Posted by Jesse | June 19, 2007 11:12 AM
Posted on June 19, 2007 11:12
great walktrough man, kudos for that^^
but eeehh...why the plain shites did I go and collect all those damn secrets for if I don't get anything special for them?
That's bollocks, but oh well, not your game right? You're just the guy who put this nice walkthru together, right?...otherwise, kudos for the cool game you made too.. the whole submachine collection^^
Greetz from Holland
Cheers
Posted by Martin | June 19, 2007 8:50 PM
Posted on June 19, 2007 20:50
THANKS A LOT. DO YOU HAVE WALKTHROUGHS FOR ALL THE SUBMACHINES?
Posted by CHASE | June 24, 2007 5:51 PM
Posted on June 24, 2007 17:51
I certainly do. Try http://flanerie.org/games
Posted by Gerald | June 25, 2007 7:43 AM
Posted on June 25, 2007 07:43
maybe i'm overreaching, but i noticed a pattern with the cylinder with 16 lights, however, i can seem to figure outthe right combination to get tehm all lit; i've bben working at it for what seems like hours... i tried to enlist the help of my fiance, hoping that he could offer some advice, but, he didn't get it either. is there a set combination or does the grid change every time you play??
Posted by Joe's Wife | August 24, 2007 9:20 PM
Posted on August 24, 2007 21:20
I REALLY DIDNT GET THIS GAME YOU ALL MUST BE EINSTEEN'S TO GET IT. AM STILL REALLY CONFUSED.
I GOT REALY BORED OF IT.
I LIKE SHEEP.
THIS GAME MADE MY HEAD HURT!!!!!!
AS I SED I LIKE SHEEP.
Posted by tom | September 24, 2007 7:35 PM
Posted on September 24, 2007 19:35
Poor tom is obviously a retard.
Posted by slartibartfast | October 16, 2007 5:36 AM
Posted on October 16, 2007 05:36
Where is the key in the sewer because I can't see it???
Posted by Janaya | October 21, 2007 1:43 AM
Posted on October 21, 2007 01:43
Brill walkthrough! And enjoyed reading comments. Retards are funny!
If only they could read!
Thanx Tx
Posted by Tara | November 16, 2007 3:09 PM
Posted on November 16, 2007 15:09
hey thats cool....but E=mc^2 is too much...but u na what ...my younger brat, who is in 11th grade found that out.. gr8 game man..i'm loving it :)
Posted by John Ebinezer | December 29, 2007 7:45 PM
Posted on December 29, 2007 19:45
thank you so much. i can go to sleep now.
one thing- i only got 19 out of 20 secrets before entering portal. what would've happened differently?
Posted by sarah | January 29, 2008 4:24 AM
Posted on January 29, 2008 04:24
I cant find the switch handle please help me
Posted by joe | February 3, 2008 6:25 PM
Posted on February 3, 2008 18:25
great walkthrough man, you explained absolutely everything, thanx to you, i could finish the game, you can make sure your ads will be clicked lots of times. KEEP IT UP!
Posted by Carlos | February 7, 2008 7:29 AM
Posted on February 7, 2008 07:29
the e=mc² code doesnt work with me... My m was 622 and e is 3, so i get 5958. I inserted it and it still doesnt work...
Posted by Shadowleaper | February 8, 2008 10:22 PM
Posted on February 8, 2008 22:22
Not sure if you had a typo, but 622*9 = 5598.
Posted by CanadianWeasel | February 10, 2008 3:33 AM
Posted on February 10, 2008 03:33
try doing maths: 622 * 3 * 3 = 5598
Posted by bupdof | February 11, 2008 1:06 PM
Posted on February 11, 2008 13:06
Where is the secret that says "digout tunnel"?
Posted by Felix | February 14, 2008 1:14 AM
Posted on February 14, 2008 01:14
Great walkthru, but small correction. You said, "Back to the central ladder and head up towards the portal room but stop where the room is a cone shape. If you look carefully there is something odd about two of the panels on the wall, one left and one right. They are crawl spaces. Head Left to find nothing at all. Head Right to find a room with a broken circuit and positive and negative terminals on the wall."
Actually, to the left is another secret. It's shaded very close in colour to the surrounding floor, but you can just barely make out the reddish tint.
Thanks
Posted by Me | February 22, 2008 7:19 AM
Posted on February 22, 2008 07:19
cant find the fork....even i entered the squrehole....
..or ill use spoon!?har3
Posted by gothic | March 2, 2008 8:16 AM
Posted on March 2, 2008 08:16
i cant find the key
i just get fuking bloody fustrated quickly so i bloody fuking gave up!
who ever wrot that walkthrough it is shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by lauren horwood | March 18, 2008 7:38 PM
Posted on March 18, 2008 19:38
Lauren - You can't find the key, so it's SOMEBODY ELSE'S FAULT? Haha, idiot.
Posted by TLOS | April 18, 2008 11:27 AM
Posted on April 18, 2008 11:27
Great commentary...but the fork's location was never mentioned. Where is it? Can anyone help?
Posted by Christelle | May 31, 2008 11:36 PM
Posted on May 31, 2008 23:36
how do you get the secrets from the moving sculpture? im stuck!!
Posted by ronnie | August 16, 2008 2:44 AM
Posted on August 16, 2008 02:44