

The location of your corpse is to the left of the floor number, with an arrow indicating its relative location - so a down arrow means that it’s below you.You can find the location of your corpse and your Lantern at the top the map: The location of your corpse and Lantern change, depending on your survival. Recovering the Lantern away from your corpse Recovering it from your corpse should be one of the top priorities of your next adventurer. When your current adventurer dies - and they will die - the Lantern will stay with their corpse.

This beam unlocks certain doors (ones with a blue pattern inlaid in them) and can even burn away some enemies. Holding down the Lantern button (LB on a controller) will turn it into a directional, high-powered beam. (The Depths are, unsurprisingly, dark.) Certain doors are unlocked by the Lantern’s beam. When you activate the Lantern and let it run passively, it produces light around you and helps you see. The Lantern runs on Gems - those glowing white things that drop when you kill red monsters. There is only one Lantern on The Isle, and you’ll always want it with you. We’re putting this item up at the top because it’s arguably your most important tool. You’ve got two goals as you control this new adventurer: recover what you can from the corpse of your previous incarnation and then use what your predecessor(s) did to make it a little farther. When you die, a new adventurer will arrive on the starting beach. Recovering the inventory of a fallen adventurer Capybara Games via Polygon Somewhere between that beach and the bottom of The Isle, your adventurer will die. The life and death cycleĮvery journey in Below starts at the beach. In short, your goal is to equip yourself for a journey, try not to die (much) and make the journey a little easier for the next adventurer who follows you along the way. You’ll have to craft supplies while managing your limited inventory and collecting Gems from the monsters you meet along the way. As you go, you’ll collect items like food, materials, weapons, Floor Keys and armor. Your exploration will take you through rooms, shortcuts and locked doors as you delve into an island called The Isle and The Depths underneath it. (Treasure that, because it’s pretty much the last hint the game will give you.) The object of the game is right there in the title: to go below. In this section, we’ll explain Below’s core concepts and how to exploit them. Surviving is as much about figuring out the rules as it is about exploring and surviving.

