Tormented Souls 2 Guide: Puzzle Solutions, School Walkthrough, and the Good Ending

A practical Tormented Souls 2 guide: school puzzle solutions, fuse swapping, animal figurines, the Miguel good ending, and survival horror tips.

Why Tormented Souls 2 Rewards Patience and Note-Taking

Few modern horror games punish a skipped note quite like Tormented Souls 2. Dual Effect's survival horror title drops Caroline Walker into the decaying Villa Hess in search of her sister Anna, then hides half the critical path behind riddles, fuses, and item combinations. That's exactly why a working Tormented Souls 2 guide matters: one overlooked clue can stall you for an hour, and a single optional detour decides which ending you receive.

This Tormented Souls 2 guide focuses on the puzzles that actually stop progress — the school's fuse economy, the mirror candle patterns, the animal figurine chain, and the Miguel sequence that unlocks the good ending. Puzzle solutions below are drawn from a full written puzzle compendium and community walkthrough footage, so treat the finer routing details as player experience rather than gospel.

If you want developer-side information on platforms and store details, the official Tormented Souls 2 Steam page is the place to check.

Before You Start: Habits That Save Hours

Tormented Souls 2 is a fixed-perspective survival horror game in the classic mold: tight resources, limited saves, deliberately awkward camera angles, and puzzles built around backtracking. Caroline explores a convent, a commercial district and mall, a processing plant, a cemetery, a school, a church, and an underground bunker, and each zone reuses items in ways you probably won't predict on a first run.

Four habits make the whole campaign smoother:

Grab the map first. In the school, player experience shows a map sitting in a printer inside the small office near the entrance. Getting it before you explore prevents a lot of blind wandering.
Photograph every note and diagram. The xylophone hint, Helena's riddle, the mirror candle patterns, and the classroom-202 symbols are all things you'll need to reference later. Most players simply snap a phone picture.
Watch for tripwires. After a certain school cutscene, traps appear in corridors. Running through them hurts; a couple of them can even be triggered near enemies.
Check pointing statues. Community walkthrough footage notes that statues with an extended arm usually signal a spot where the metal detector will dig up powder and shot for the hand cannon.

Tormented Souls 2 Guide to the School: Puzzles That Block Progress

The school is the longest single zone in the game, and it locks you in almost immediately. Everything below is verified across both the written puzzle list and the walkthrough footage.

Xylophone and the Beethoven Statue

Items: spoon, xylophone, music sheet hint
Where: spoon in the schoolyard, xylophone in the Kindergarten classroom, hint in the Art & Music Room
Solve: play the note sequence FACE DEAD at the Beethoven statue in East Corridor B
Reward: the 7A fuse

Helena's Cabinet and the Fuse Economy

Helena's note in Classroom 101 explains that failing memory forced her to write a riddle for her own code. The answer in Classroom 102 is the sequence Book, Ruler, Compass, Sharpener — each clue describes an object's purpose. That coughs up a second fuse.

This is where the school gets interesting: you only ever have a couple of fuses, and they must be physically moved between the generator room, the elevator, and electronically locked doors. If a door has power and the elevator doesn't, you didn't break anything — you just need to redistribute.

The Teacher's Apple and the Snake Figurine

Take the apple seeds from the teacher's desk in Classroom 204, then use the playground VHS tape on the player in the Art & Music Room to travel to the past. Plant the seeds in the pot, pull the table under the dripping shower so the plant gets water, return to the present, and collect the grown apple. Handing it to the teacher yields the snake figurine.

Mirror, Flies, and the Birdcage

The girl's restroom mirror needs specific candles lit so you can cross to the Other Side; the three facing mirrors hold the arithmetic clue. The supported pattern reads 0X0 / X0 / X00.
Combine the insecticide can from Storage Room 201 with the sprayer found in the Other Side Director's Office, then spray the flies around the women's toilet on the Other Side to claim the fly figurine in the real world.
In Classroom 202, the chalkboard hint teaches you that the Other Side inverts everything (a hare becomes a snail). The dial answer on the Other Side is Grenade, Fire, Male symbol, Sun, Happy mask.

Animal Figurines and the Master Key

Four figurines, one wooden stand in the Science Lab, and a blackboard reading that the strong devour the weak. Place them in food-chain order — Hawk, Snake, Toad, Fly — to earn the master key. Figurine locations: Fly in the girl's restroom, Toad in Classroom 203 (Other Side), Snake from the teacher's apple request, Hawk in Classroom 202.

Use the master key in the Director's Office to match the chalkboard symbols (circles, crown of thorns, and wolf map to female, cross, and moon). Then deal with the pig-masked boss in the hidden room off the Janitor's Room and feed his mask to the hand protruding from the TV.

Tormented Souls 2 Guide: How to Get the Good Ending

The ending is decided by one small, easy-to-miss act of kindness near the end of the game, and it involves the sledgehammer found in Joseph's cave hideout off the rear commercial district.

Return to the Convent Refectory and smash the cracked wall with the sledgehammer.
Push into the dormitories. Expect ghost-type and spider-like enemies — this stretch is not friendly.
Take the duct tape from the shelf in one of the bedrooms.
Head back to the school and use the girl's restroom mirror to enter the Other Side.
Go down to the Director's Office on the Other Side. The robot slumped in the chair is Miguel in the real world.
Use the duct tape on the robot's neck. Without it, the injury plays out and you're routed toward the bad ending; with it, Miguel survives and you're on track for the good ending.

One note on timing: the walkthrough video places the earliest possible window right after finishing the school, while the written puzzle compendium frames the refectory detour as happening later, after Lucia directs you toward the bunker. Either way, the duct tape and the robot's neck are the two moving parts — if you reach the Director's Office on the Other Side without tape, come back later.

Puzzle Solutions Across the Rest of the Game

Zone	Puzzle	Solution
Convent – Bell Tower	Smash the glass casing for the shotgun	Strike bells in the order 3, 1, 4, 2 (third largest, largest, smallest, second largest)
Convent – Library	Rotary telephone / jade disc	Dial 3890* using the numbers folded out of the yellow page
Convent – Kitchen	Cryptex	Read the chess paper's reverse-side lines and set each ring to the matching chess piece
Processing Plant – Corridor 2F	Keypad	Power it with batteries pulled from the cassette player, then enter 1765
Processing Plant – Underground Docks	Elevator power dials	Dial 2: one spin. Dial 3: three spins
Cemetery – Burial Chamber	Four Horsemen	Victory 12 o'clock, War 6, Death 11, Famine 3
Cemetery – Cemetery Grounds	PEDRO grave	Metal-detector octagons placed Gold, Silver, Bronze
Bunker – Bunker Entrance	Puppet virus	Red 6, Yellow 1, Green 2 — a wrong dose is an instant game over

The puppet virus puzzle deserves its own warning. The hint lives in Angelica's notepad in the Bunker Office, and there is no partial credit: miscount the tubes and the run ends on the spot.

Combat and Resource Tips From Player Experience

Community playthroughs are consistent on a few practical points:

The sledgehammer is a free-ammo workhorse. It one-shots the doll-like child enemies, but the swing animation leaves you briefly vulnerable, so don't trade hits with anything bigger while holding it.
The crowbar stun-locks. It's slower to kill than the sledgehammer but interrupts attacks, which matters in the dark corridors where you can't see what's coming.
Save the good ammo. Acid rounds and hand cannon powder and shot are boss currency. Burn handgun rounds and melee weapons on trash enemies whenever you can afford the damage.
Learn the shortcuts. Once you pick up a key item, a one-way door or lift usually opens nearby. That design keeps backtracking short — a marked improvement over mansion-style re-traversal.
Manage fuses deliberately. Before you commit a fuse to a door, ask whether the elevator is where you actually need to be.

FAQ: Tormented Souls 2 Guide

Where do I find the duct tape for the good ending? Smash the cracked wall in the Convent Refectory with the sledgehammer from Joseph's cave hideout, then search the bedrooms in the dormitories beyond it. The tape sits on a shelf.

Can I get the good ending after the school? Timing is the messiest part of this Tormented Souls 2 guide, because community sources describe the window differently — one places it right after the school, another places it after Lucia sends you toward the bunker. What doesn't change: you need the sledgehammer, the duct tape, and the robot in the Other Side Director's Office.

What happens if I get the puppet virus dose wrong? The Bunker's puppet virus puzzle gives you Red 6, Yellow 1, Green 2. Enter the wrong amounts and the game ends immediately rather than letting you retry the puzzle.

Is Tormented Souls 2 a fixed-camera game? Yes. Like the original, it uses fixed camera angles with heavy resource management and puzzle-driven progression, which is why a reference guide stays useful even on repeat playthroughs.