Bastian’s Family Secret Full Walkthrough and Gameplay

You play as Bastian, a man oppressed by his wife’s family for three long years following a series of humiliations and betrayals. The narrative unfolds in a gloomy mansion almost frozen in time, with dank corridors, hidden rooms, and secrets lurking in every shadow. The game’s heavy atmosphere is matched by its reliance on puzzles—both logic-based and object-oriented—and by branching choices that determine how you face the family and how the story ends.

This walkthrough is structured chronologically, following your progression through each area, highlighting puzzle solutions, key items, interactions with characters, and moral consequences that unlock different endings.

1. The Mansion’s Entrance Hall

A. Initial Exploration

Upon starting, you wake in the grand but cold foyer. Investigate the coat rack on the left and the umbrella stand on the right.

A mat near the entrance hides a small screwdriver head in a corner—essential for opening some screw-secured panels later.

B. The Grand Portrait

A painting of the family founder hangs on the wall. Use the screwdriver to remove its frame; inside, you find a folded note reading:

“Family legacy lies beneath. Three keys guard the past.”

C. Dining Room Passage

The rug leads to a door with a brass handle that won’t turn. Examine the handle’s base—there is a hexagonal screw. Use the screwdriver to free it and enter the dining room.

2. The Dining Room and Hidden Cabinet

A. Table, Chairs, and Cabinet

The dining table is crowded with dusty plates, but it conceals nothing. Check under the chairs for a silver key taped underneath one.

The cabinet to the east is locked. On the upper shelf inside is a puzzle box secured by a 4-symbol lock.

B. Puzzle Box (Dining Room)

The box’s front panel shows four symbols: a rose, raven, hourglass, and bell.

Hints on the cabinet side read:

“The past fades like a flower.” – Rose

“Colors leave when the end nears.” – Hourglass

“The messenger never rests.” – Raven

“Sound heralds the past.” – Bell

Solution order: rose → hourglass → raven → bell

Input this sequence into the box lock; it opens, revealing a key-shaped medallion, covered in fine dust.

C. Family Bible Drawer

On the cabinet’s bottom shelf sits the family Bible. Open it to find a cryptic handwritten note referencing “Chamber of Trials.” Store it for later.

3. Foyer to the Main Staircase

A. Rear Passage

Return to the foyer and proceed through the rear hallway. On your left, partial stairs lead down. A small portrait on the wall swings open to reveal a hidden niche, which houses a small hammer—you’ll use this as a makeshift screwdriver or to break things open quietly.

B. Main Staircase

Ascend the central stairs. Halfway up, you encounter locked wooden doors at both ends.

C. East Wing Film Room

Choose the eastern door first. It’s locked. Try the silver key—it fits.

Inside is a film projector and several reels labeled “Family Gatherings.”

Load Reel #2 into the projector and switch it on. A static-laced audio plays:

“...two keys are needed to open the truth… legacy is darker than light.”

a. Popcorn Machine

The old popcorn machine creaks. Detecting a small jar of nuts inside containing a brass key taped to the base.

b. Examining Reels

Reel #4 is missing. Reel #1 has scratchy visuals hinting that the hidden final room lies underneath the central wing.

4. West Wing: Game Parlor

A. Locked Door Bypassed

The western door doesn’t open; it’s rusted. Try using the hammer to break rusted lock components. Do it carefully, or noise alerts servants.

B. Board Game Table

A chessboard is set up. After sitting and inspecting it, a display prompts you to solve:

Checkmate in 3 moves with White:

Pawn to e5

Queen to h5

Bishop to f6 mate

You must enact these moves by selecting the pieces; when successful, the board clicks open, revealing a third key secured in a velvet inlay.

C. Uncle’s Documents

On the side table is a set of legal documents pointing to underwater property. One page is dated exactly 09/13/1954—keep this date for later.

5. The Puzzle Halls and Floor Panels

A. Return to the Foyer

With all three keys (silver, brass, medallion-shaped), return to the foyer.

Four floor panels are marked with symbols matching the puzzle box plus a fourth unknown one.

B. Inspecting Panels

Each panel has a keyhole. You must insert in the correct panel:

Rose medallion into rose panel (northwest)

Silver key into raven panel (northeast)

Brass key into bell panel (southeast)

Leaving the fourth panel empty temporarily causes the floor to shift; you’d fall into the basement and die. Instead, do not insert anything into the remaining panel.

C. Opening the Hidden Stair

After the keys are in place, pull the large chandelier chain above the center. The central panel slides aside, exposing a staircase descending into darkness.

6. The Basement Chambers

A. Initial Landing

The basement is dank and musty. Your flashlight beam reveals dark stains and narrow corridors branching left and right. There are locked steel gates on each branch.

B. Flashback Trigger – Journal Room

Right corridor: you enter a small room full of journal clippings. Pick up the battered journal of Bastian’s wife, open page dated 09/13/1954. This matches the document earlier—today marks the property’s curse anniversary.

A tremor shakes the walls and the front door seals off. You’re now trapped and must finish the journey.

C. True Hidden Cell

Continue deeper left. You find a grim cell containing your predecessor, Bastian’s real father-in-law. He babbles: “They took her… beneath… sea…” He hands you a cryptic keycard, covered with salt–age rust residue.

D. Breaking the Gate

Use the keycard on the locked gate’s reader beside the corridor end. One reader refuses the card; the second accepts with a hiss, letting you through.

7. Underground Sea Chamber

A. Flooded Passage

The corridor descends with wet footsteps sounding in the darkness. Watch your step: further down, cold water covers the floor. Your flashlight reveals a sealed door at the end, with a keycard reader and a passphrase hint etched overhead: “Words of blood and bond.”

Retrieve a red-stained band–soaked slip from your inner coat. On it is “In blood we seal our pact.” Speak it aloud; the door bleeps and opens.

B. The Final Trial Room

Inside is a raised dais holding a chest, with a cursebreaker panel requiring alignment of runes:

Fire, Water, Wind, Earth, Blood, Bond

The slot sequence spells “F–W–WD–B–B,” or Fire → Water → Wind → Blood → Bond.

Correctly aligning the runes (press tiles in that sequence) triggers lights in the room and opens the chest. Inside is the last truth: recorded footage of your wife’s family sacrificing innocent lineages to preserve wealth.

8. Final Confrontation and Multiple Endings

A. Moral Decision Prompt

You must choose your path:

Expose the Family – Return upstairs, broadcast the footage to local media—family arrested, you walk free but carry trauma.

Private Revenge – Confront the family patriarch directly downstairs, kill him in the chamber, become heir to the property.

Walk Away – Leave the footage sealed, walk out through a secret passage found beside the flood door.

Each choice triggers a distinct ending sequence:

Justice Ending: Strangers enter the mansion; sirens in the night. You stand alone by the dais, haunted but free.

Bloodline Ending: You clash blades with the patriarch; final image is you alone, swearing over the blood-soaked dais.

Escape Ending: Secret path leads to shoreline at dawn. You carry the truth inside yourself, but outwardly appear composed and silent.

9. Collectibles & Hidden Secrets

If you missed items:

- Missing Reel #4: Located under a loose floorboard in the Game Parlor.

- The cursed ring: Hidden under the staircase support beam, gained by inspecting the joist from the basement.

- Ghost audio: In the basement, in a smaller side room, play the rusted tape recorder to hear Bastian’s wife whispering “I locked her beneath…” hinting tie to underwater structure.

Collect all items to unlock a secret gallery titled "Legacy of Bastian", showing your collected items with their stories.

10. Tips & Reflections

Save often, particularly before entering sealed or locked corridors.

Listen to odd lines—many hints appear casually in overheard conversations or journal pages.

Keep track of dates: The date 09/13/1954 recurs frequently; it’s tied to flashbacks and property secrets.

Act on puzzles cautiously: The wrong order (e.g., placing medallion in wrong floor panel) triggers lethal traps.

Conclusion

This walkthrough covers the full arc of Bastian’s Family Secret from entrance to all endings. With these directions, you can explore every corridor, solve each puzzle, collect all secrets, and choose the final path that resonates most: justice, revenge, or escape.

May your exploration reveal the truth, and may Bastian finally lay his burden to rest.

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