Simon the Sorcerer: Origins – Full Game Walkthrough

Smallthing Studio’s have resurrected the classic Point-and-Click Adventure series Simon the Sorcerer for a new audience! This title is a wonderful and colorful time filled with some great puzzles for all-ages. While said puzzles are certainly simpler than those of Adventure games from the Amiga era of gaming, there can still be quite a few segments that will require the player to put on their thinking cap and really consider how to use their current inventory. If you are confused by anything during your playthrough and just need advice on one puzzle, then feel free to consult this complete walkthrough for Simon the Sorcerer: Origins.

Miscellaneous Optional Achievements

While most achievements in Simon the Sorcerer: Origins will be obtained during a normal playthrough, there are quite a few which can be missed if you just speed through the game. We will be highlighting where these achievements are in the game during this walkthrough, but if you simply want to know how to get these achievements then be on the lookout for these.

Achievement	Unlock Method
Magical Accident	Use your wand on any object it cannot interact with or combine it with any object in your inventory
Read the Instructions	Use items in your inventory on incorrect objects a large number of time (Exact number unknown)
Temporal Paradox	Examine the “Interesting Things” object in the Headmaster’s Office twice in Chapter 5
Nosy	Examine a large number of objects during your playthrough (Exact number unknown)
Improvised Cosplay	Examine the plaque in the Wizard Circle Hall in Chapter 8
Grabber	Pick up every item in the game
Just Five Minutes	[Unlock Method Unknown]
Heir of the First Wizard	[Unlock Method Unknown]
Slackers	[Unlock Method Unknown]
Marathon Runner	[Unlock Method Unknown]

As you can see there are several achievements I did not get during my two playthroughs of the game. If you have an idea on how to earn these achievements please message us in the Raider King Discord

Chapter 1 – New Home, Old Adventures

The first chapter of the game is all about the tutorializing the player and teaching them how to play the game. You likely got through this part of the game without needing a guide at all, but just in case you need our assistance, follow these steps

1. Pick up Cool Stuff. Adds Toy with String and Pack of Bangers to your inventory
2. Walk upstairs
3. Examine Sewing Stuff. Adds a Pair of Scissors to your inventory
4. Combine Scissors with the Toy with String in your inventory. Gain a string, lose scissors
5. Walk to the kitchen
6. Open Fridge
7. Open Drawer
8. Examine Magnets. With the fridge and drawer open, Simon can reach them. Adds Magnet to your inventory
9. Combine Magnet and String. Gain Magnet Hook
10. Use Magnet Hook on Sink. Adds Bedroom Door Key to inventory.
11. Return to the upstairs
12. Use Bedroom Door Key on door

Chapter 2: The Prophecy

Chapter 2 is barely a chapter and more of an extended cutscene. Just follow the steps below and you’ll be done in a few minutes

-Proceed to the right and watch all the cutscenes that follow

-Go upstairs in Calypso’s home

-Open chest. Adds Map and Magic Diary to your inventory

-Examine Cushion. Adds Feather to your inventory

-Exit house through the right door

Chapter 3: Model Student

Chapter 3 is the first real chapter of the game. The goal of this one is to get both a Wand and a Student Pass in order to enter the Academy. Because several events won’t spawn until you talk to the troll guard though, let’s speed to him first.

1. Proceed to the right
2. Walk to the north

How to Get a Wand

We’ll start with the steps needed to get a wand. Follow the steps below and you’ll get it fast.

1. Walk south
2. Walk down the path to the right
3. Enter Abandoned house on the right 
4. Pick up Sealed Glue
5. Pick up Oil Lamp
6. Exit Abandoned House
7. Return to Town Square
8. Enter the Mundus’ Magical Marvels store
9. Examine potions on desk
10. Examine Disgusting Tentacle. Gain Slimy Tentacle
11. Combine Slimy Tentacle and Sealed Glue. Adds Glue to inventory, lose tentacle
12. Talk to Mundus, select “I may be interested in Procuring a Wand”
13. Leave store
14. Walk down alley on the left
15. Enter Bloated Goat Inn
16. Pick up Dubious Spring Onions on the table
17. Talk to Innkeeper. Select “Any idea how I can convince Mundus to part with his wares?”
18. Leave Inn
19. Return to Mundus’ Magical Marvels. Ask about the Wand again and then select “Would you be up for swapping it with something truly unique?”
20. Use Broken Toy on Mundus and select the following dialogue options “It depicts a mighty wizard from days of yore”, “It was crafted in a mystical far-off land”, and “Did I mention that it’s cursed” to make the trade. Lose broken toy, gain broken wand.
21. Combine Glue and Broken Wand. Adds Repaired Wand to inventory, lose Glue
22. Combine the Repaired Wand with any item to gain the “Magical Accident” Achievement

How to get a Student Pass

Now that you’ve got a fancy wand it’s time to go and get a student pass. Follow the steps below and you’ll be able to easily steal one.

1. Return to the Bloated Goat Inn
2. Use feather on Drunkard
3. Interact with Drunkard. Gain Offerings Key
4. Leave Inn
5. Return to village square
6. Walk right
7. Walk to the path on the right to reach the church
8. Speak to student
9. Enter Church
10. Use Offerings Key on Easy Money. Lose key
11. Pick up Small Change
12. Backtrack all the way to the Bloated Goat Inn
13. Speak to the innkeeper, choose the “What do you recommend” dialogue option and then the “Is that enough?” option. Lose Small Change
14. Pick up Well-Cooked Porked Knuckle
15. Use Well-Cooked Porked Knuckle on Chippy in the alley. Gain Gnawed Pass, lose Well-Cooked Pork Knuckle
16. Return to the Academy Entrance and speak to the troll

How to Perform Magic

Because the troll guarding the Academy entrance is a bit of a jerk, he demands that Simon perform some magic before letting him enter. You haven’t learned any spells yet which means you’ll need to get creative and follow the steps below to fake some magic.

1. Backtrack to the alley where the Bloated Goat Inn is
2. Pick up Chippy
3. Pick up Sharp Bone
4. Return to the Academy Entrance
5. Use Chippy on the Troll
6. Enter Academy

Chapter 4: Magic, Talking Pictures, and other Cliches

The main puzzle of Chapter 4 will be learning how to enter the Headmaster’s Office as the door is locked. Listen to the following instructions and you’ll get there fast.

1. Speak to Lady
2. Walk upstairs
3. Pick up Wind Picture
4. Proceed up the second set of stairs
5. Interact with the Headmaster’s door
6. Walk downstairs
7. Enter the door on the right
8. Pick up Earth Picture
9. Exit the hallway
10. Go downstairs again
11. Enter the potions room door on the right
12. Pick up water picture
13. Exit potions room
14. Enter the door on the left
15. Pick up Magic Dictionary
16. Enter door on the left
17. Pick up Glass Vial
18. Use Sharp Bone on Magic Mechanism. Lose Sharp Bone
19. Pick up Sharp Bone again

Painting Puzzle Solution

This is one of the trickiest puzzles in the game as not only do you need to put all the paintings on the correct walls, but you also have to place them in the correct order. The locations of each painting can be determined by reading the walls and the order can be learned by reading the paintings themselves. Follow the instructions below to solve the puzzle

1. Use Magic Dictionary on Simon
2. Read all of the walls
3. Place Water Painting on the Right Wall
4. Place Earth Painting on the Left Wall
5. Place Wind Painting on the Middle Wall
6. Interact with Magic Mechanism. Gain Flambergo
7. Return to the top floor of the Academy. Cast Flambergo on the Switch
8. Enter the Headmaster’s room

Chapter 5: Dungeon Break

Chapter 5 contains the most complex series of fetch quests in the game as the main goal is the get all the ingredients for a sleeping potion in order to bypass another Troll Guard. Before we get to go on that quest though let’s grab the recipe and an easy achievement

1. Interact with “Interesting Things” in the Headmaster’s Office. Gain Sleeping Potion recipe
2. Keep interacting with the Interesting Things to get the gain the Temporal Paradox Achievement
3. Use Sleeping Potion Recipe on Simon

How to Get Fairy Dust

Now that you have a set of ingredients to gather, let’s tackle them in order starting with Fairy Dust. This one is actually right by the troll who’s guarding the exit.

1. Combine Flambergo with Oil Lamp. Gain Lit Lamp
2. Return to the Academy Entrance hall and enter to room on the right.
3. Use Lit Lamp on Simon
4. Walk to the right
5. Walk to the right again
6. Walk left after speaking to the Troll Guard
7. Examine “Escape Route?”
8. Use Sharp Bone on “Escape Route?”
9. Enter the hole
10. Use Flambergo on the box of Bangers
11. Throw Lit Banger at the Guard Post
12. Exit the hole
13. Walk right to the Guard Post
14. Enter the door
15. Pick up Packed Lunch
16. Pick up Fairy Dandruff

How to Get Through the Library

Because we already picked up the two eyes we need for the recipe all the way back in chapter 2, we just need to get our hands on Eternis Felicis. Unfortunately that’s easier said than done as first we’ll need to go and learn a new spell.

1. Exit the academy and Backtrack to Calypso’s house
2. Grab the flask on the second floor
3. Travel to the church
4. Use the flask on clean water to fill it
5. Return to the third floor hallway of the Academy.
6. Use Flambergo on the magic switch
7. Enter the library
8. Use the Water Flask on the pile of books
9. Push the frozen pile of books
10. Use Flambergo on the Frozen Staircase
11. Climb the staircase
12. Interact with the magic book. Gain Freezesneezius

How to Get Eternis Felicis

Now that we have an ice spell, it’s time to make some Eternis Felicis. This is probably the hardest puzzle in the game as it’s hard to figure out what to do. So follow the steps below if you’ve also gotten stuck on this puzzle.

1. Return to the Potions Room
2. Pick up Eternis Infelicis
3. Pick up Ladel
4. Return to the third floor of the Academy
5. Use Freezesneezius on the blue switch

When the cabinet opens you will be greeted by a stone that has a blue symbol and a red symbol engraved on it. These symbols correspond to your Flambergo and Freezesneezius spells. There is a similar stone in the headmasters office, if you proceed to cast your spells on Simon in the order indicated by the stones you’ll gain a new item. The order to cast them is as follows:

1. Cast Freezesneezius on Simon
2. Cast Flambergo on Simon
3. Cast Freezeneezius on Simon
4. Cast Flambergo on Simon
5. Cast Flambergo on Simon. Gain Magic Hat

Making the Potion

Now that we have the Magic Hat, it’s time to actually make the Sleeping Potion.

1. Return to Potions room
2. Cast Flambergo on the cauldron
3. Use Fairy Dandruff on the cauldron
4. Use Dubious Spring Onions on the cauldron
5. Use Magic Hat. Turns Eternis Infelicius into Eternis Felicius
6. Use Eternis Felcius on the Cauldron
7. Use Ladel on Cauldron
8. Use Glass Vial on Cauldron. Gain Sleeping Potion
9. Combine Sleeping Potion with Pack Lunch
10. Return to underground. Once again use a lit banger to make the guard leave his post
11. Use Soporfic Lunch on the Guard’s Desk
12. Exit room
13. Walk to the right
14. Talk to the troll
15. Enter the Guard Room
16. Pick up Fork
17. Pull the lever
18. Exit Room
19. Walk to the right
20. Walk to the right again

Chapter 6: Grand Theft Boat

You’ll be able to walk less than an entire screen before another roadblock appears to prevent Simon from entering the swamp

1. Interact with boat

How to Learn the Wind Spell

In order to make this boat move we’ll need two things. A sail and a spell to make it move. Because manipulating the air itself sounds simpler than making a sail let’s go get a new spell first.

1. Backtrack to the church
2. Use Flambergo and Freezesneezius on the red and blue switches.
3. Examine Holy Stuff. Gain Windado

How to Get a Sail

Now that we have a wind spell, let’s use magic to make a sail. Follow the instructions below to get everything you need

1. Backtrack to the abandoned house you got the glue at earlier
2. Use Fork on Trapdoor
3. Travel down Trapdoor
4. Use Lit Lamp on Simon
5. Use Windado on Cobwebs
6. Use Flambergo on Light
7. Examine Drool-Covered Sheet
8. Examine the chest
9. Backtrack to Mundus’ Store
10. Talk to Mundus. Select “Sold any Chests lately?”
11. Travel to the alley where Bloated Goat Inn is
12. Use Freezesneezius on the Biohazard
13. Interact with the biohazard to climb it and gain pole
14. Return to the church
15. Enter the back room of the church
16. Use the pole on the Censer. Adds Censer to Inventory
17. Cast Flambergo on the Censer. Turns Censer into Lit Censer
18. Return to the basement with the Mimic
19. Use Magic Hat. Turns Lit Censer into Blessed Censer
20. Use Blessed Censer on Mimic
21. Examine Mimic. Adds Cloth to inventory
22. Combine Cloth and Pole. Transforms them into Improvised Sail
23. Return to the boat
24. Use Improvised Sail on the boat
25. Cast Windado on the boat

Chapter 7: A Delicate Aftertaste of Mud

After two hard chapters in a row, Chapter 7 is a breather with only a few simple puzzles

1. Walk right until you reach The Witch’s Hut
2. Enter the Witch’s Hut
3. When asked to pass an item, do not click anything for 30 seconds
4. Examine Witch
5. Examine Friendship Stew
6. Pick up Friendship Stew
7. Cast Freezesneezius on Friendship Stew. Gain Frozen Swamp Mud

How to Get the Cursed Hat

Although you won’t need this item until near the end of the game, you’ve surely noticed that scattered around the swamp there are several stones with spell markers like the one you used to magic you Magic Hat back in chapter 5. Written below is the sequence of spells used to make the Cursed Hat item.

1. Cast Freezesneezius on Simon
2. Cast Flambergo on Simon
3. Cast Windado on Simon
4. Cast Windado on Simon
5. Cast Freezesneezius on Simon
6. Cast Flambergo on Simon. Adds Cursed Hat to inventory
7. Exit Witch’s Hut
8. Walk South of the Swamp
9. Interact with Gate to make a shortcut between the Swamp and Church
10. Return to the Academy and head to the Headmaster’s Office
11. Speak to the Headmaster

Chapter 8: A Better Wetter Wizard

Now that you’ve gotten a breather, it’s time for another series of fetch quests. Before we learn what we we need to make though you’ll need to progress the plot a bit.

1. Travel to the third floor hallway
2. Speak to the Poet
3. Select “My beard’s getting itchy”
4. Head to the right
5. Speak to Sordid
6. Speak to Wizard
7. Walk Upstairs
8. Examine Plaque on right side of the room. Adds Beard of the First Wizard to your inventory and grants the Improvised Cosplay achievement.

How to Get Essence of Wetness

There are two items you’ll need to create a Better Wetter Wizard, Essence of Wetness and a Wet Wizard. Because the game actively gives you a hint on how to get the Essence of Wetness we’ll cover that first.

1. Backtrack all the way to Calypso’s House
2. Travel left until you reach the cave from the start of the game
3. Talk to Calypso
4. Return to Calypso’s House
5. Examine Well-Cooked Book. Gain Essence of Wetness Recipe
6. Backtrack to Witch’s Hut
7. Pick up Dried Algae
8. Return to Potions Room
9. Use Essence of Wetness Recipe on Simon
10. Use Dried Algae on Cauldon
11. Use Fairy Dandruff on Cauldron
12. Use Ladel on Cauldron
13. Cast Freezesneezius on Cauldron
14. Use Flask on Cauldron

How to Get a Wet Wizard

1. Travel to the left part of the swamp
2. Pick up Marsh Cuttlefish by the skull
3. Combine Feather and Marsh Cuttlefish. Transforms them into Quill Pen
4. Travel to the Church
5. Enter the backroom of the church
6. Pick up Old Book. Adds Expired Voucher to your inventory
7. Combine Quill Pen and Expired Voucher. Transforms them into Counterfeit Voucher
8. Travel to Bloated Goat Inn
9. Use Counterfeit Voucher on Innkeeper
10. Pick up Wet Wizard
11. Combine Wet Wizard and Essence of Wetness. Gain Better Wetter Wizard
12. Return to Wizard Circle Hall
13. Travel Upstairs
14. Use Better Wetter Wizard on Sordid

Chapter 9: Stealing the Glory

Now that we’ve learned some valuable information from Sordid, it’s time to sneak into his laboratory and steal his stuff, but before you can do that you’ll need to examine his sleeping body and solve a puzzle.

1. Examine Sordid. Gain Sordid’s Notes and Strange Trinket
2. Travel to the left hallway on the second floor of the academy
3. Use Strange Trinket on Statue

How to Solve the Statue Puzzle

If you examine the note you stole from the sleeping Sordid you’ll see that you need to cast specific spells on the owl-shaped switches on the statue. The spells are all marked with symbols representing where you learned them. The stone shaped symbols represent Windado, the book shaped symbols represent Freezesneezius, and the magical mechanism shaped ones represent Flambergo.

However knowing which spells to cast isn’t enough to open this door, as you’ll also need to cast them in the correct order. This is simpler than it may seem as in the same hallway there’s a tapestry with moons in the same shape as the switches you need to cast magic on. Hit the switches in order from new moon to full moon and the door will open. The correct sequence is as follows.

1. Cast Flambergo on the bottom left Switch
2. Cast Windado on the middle-right Switch
3. Cast Freezesneezius on the middle-left Switch
4. Cast Flambergo on the bottom right Switch
5. Cast Windado on the top Switch
6. Enter Sordid’s Laboratory
7. Pick up Magic Whistle
8. Pick Up Sordid’s Journal
9. Pick up Ice Axe

Where to Find the Owls

To solve the next puzzle you’ll need to have Sordid’s owls stand on levers. Unfortunately they fled when you picked up the Magic Whistle. This means we will have to walk around the entire map to find the owls and make them return to the laboratory. While you’re out we’ll also pick up a crystal you need to solve the puzzle.

1. Travel to Village Square
2. Use Magic Hat. Turns Magic Whistle into White Whistle
3. Use White Whistle on the White Owl
4. Travel to the gate that leads to the boat
5. Use Cursed Hat. Turns Magic Whistle into Black Whistle
6. Use Black Whistle on the Black Owl
7. Travel to Outside the Witch’s Hut
8. Use Magic Whistle on the Purple Owl
9. Travel back to the Swamp
10. Examine “Another Swamp?”
11. Examine “Another Swamp?” a second time
12. Examine Raised Flap
13. Use Ice Axe on Crystals
14. Pick up Crystal Fragment

Sordid’s Laboratory Puzzle

Now that we’ve gotten all the owls back, it’s time to actually solve the puzzle involving them. Whenever an owl sits on a lever one of the lens will move. To progress you’ll need to make every lens shine from the very top of the mechanism.

1. Return to Sordid’s Study where you got the whistle
2. Use Crystal Fragment on Pedestal
3. Travel upstairs
4. Use White Whistle on Left Lever
5. Use Magic Whistle on Middle Lever
6. Use Black Whistle on Right Lever
7. Pick up Charged Crystal
8. Return to the cave in the swamp
9. Use Cursed Hat. Turns Charged Crystal into Dark Charged Crystal
10. Use Dark Charged Crystal on the Mysterious Door
11. Walk into the Crypt

Chapter 10: Friendship Stew

1. Cast Freezesneezius on the bucket
2. Use Ice Sphere on Troll guard

How to Make Friendship Stew

With Simon stuck in jail we’ll be playing the rest of this chapter as our bestest friend the Swampling. Before we can save Simon though we’ll need to make some Friendship Stew.

1. Pick up Bottle
2. Pick up Special Mud
3. Travel to the basement where you put the Mimic to sleep
4. Use Bottle on the “Delicacies”. Gain Monster Slime
5. Travel to the alley where Bloated Goat Inn is
6. Pick up Rubbish
7. Travel to Academy Entrance. Talk to Troll
8. Travel back to the Witch’s Hut
9. Use Stew Recipe on Swampling
10. Use Monster Slime on Treats
11. Use Special Mud on Treats
12. Use Left-Overs on Treats
13. Return to Academy Entrance
14. Use Special Stew on Troll Guard

How to Save Simon

Now that we’ve successfully entered the Academy, it’s time to see the true power of Friendship Stew and use it to save Simon.

1. Enter Academy
2. Walk right until you reach gate
3. Pick up “Delicacies” 7 times
4. Use Special Stew on Biohazzard
5. Enter Prison

Chapter 11: Impudent Child From Another World

It’s time for the final chapter of the game. This is the point of no return so if you still haven’t gotten the Nosy and Read the Instructions achievements walk around and examine everything you can and use random items on random objects until you get these achievements. Once you have them proceed as normal.

1. Travel to the cave where Sordid captured you
2. Pull Yellow Lever
3. Pull Red Lever
4. Pull Blue Lever
5. Pull Green Lever
6. Cast Flambergo on Active Crystal
7. Cast Freezesneezius on Annoying Rubble
8. Cast Windado on Cart
9. Cast Windado on the Cart a second time
10. Proceed right to the final battle

The Final Battle

It’s time for the final battle of the game. This is one large puzzle where you must cast the spells you have learned on Sordid’s attacks before they hit you. Failing will start the battle over from scratch

1. Pick up the Tome of the First Wizard
2. Use Tome of the First Wizard on Simon
3. Fail 3 times for the Game Over Achievement
4. Cast Freezesneezius on Flaming Meteor
5. Cast Windado on Wind Sphere
6. Cast Flambergo on Stalactite
7. Cast Flambergo on Ice Statue
8. Use Freezesneezius on Turned On Stove
9. Use Flambergo on Raw Meat
10. Cast Freezesneezius on Burning Log
11. Cast Windado on Beehive
12. Cast Windado on Anvil
13. Cast Turnonrio on Dark Crystal
14. Use Repaired Wand on Sordid

Once you have used your wand on Sordid just sit back and enjoy the ending of Simon the Sorcerer: Origins