Echo: Secrets of the Lost Cavern Hints

Solving inventory puzzles

  • The vast majority of the puzzles in "Echo" are inventory puzzles.  That is, you will need to find, and use, various items to perform some task, solve some puzzle, or simply to progress in the game.

    To use items in inventory, you must have the items there in the first place.  This typically means that one of your primary goals is to pick up everything that isn't nailed down.  You may have no idea how or where you will use it, but it is far easier to pick up items as you run across them, than to have to go back and find/retrieve them later.

    Many situations will require that you combine items before they will be useful.  This may require that you think "outside the box" -- i.e., use items for purposes other than what they were intended for.

    There is typically only one way to accomplish a goal.  Listen to clues provided by the characters, and try to think of how to accomplish what you are being asked to do.