Tormented Souls 2 Elevator Puzzle Guide: Power Every Lift in the Game

Few things stall a survival horror run faster than a dead lift, and the Tormented Souls 2 elevator puzzle is one of the game's most repeated roadblocks. The same idea — restore power, then ride — shows up in the Convent, the School, the Processing Plant, the Church, and the Bunker, but the fix changes every single time. That means the Tormented Souls 2 elevator puzzle you solved an hour ago tells you almost nothing about the next one, and players who assume otherwise end up circling the same hallway with a pocket full of useless items.

This guide breaks down every lift-related puzzle the published walkthroughs confirm, in the rough order most players hit them, with item locations and the exact steps. All of it is drawn from two community guides — NoobFeed's school-area puzzle walkthrough and SurvivalHorrors' full puzzle solutions list — cross-checked wherever the two overlap. For the game itself, see Tormented Souls 2 on Steam.

Every Elevator Puzzle Location at a Glance

There isn't one elevator puzzle in Tormented Souls 2 — there are at least half a dozen power-restoration tasks tied to lifts, and the guides label several of them with the exact same heading. Use this table to work out which one you're standing in front of.

Two caveats worth knowing before you start hunting. First, neither guide documents the Convent's North Corridor power box in any detail — the item field for that entry is essentially blank, so treat the location as the only reliable part. Second, SurvivalHorrors lists a "Bear Gift – Salvation ring" line on a large number of entries, including the Underground Docks dial puzzle, which looks like a template leftover rather than a real requirement. Player experience suggests you should trust the dial instruction and not go searching for a teddy bear in the docks.

The School Elevator Puzzle: Two Fuses, One Board

The school's lift is gated behind the Generator Room fuse board, and it's the cleanest example of how this game likes to work: two separate puzzles feeding one machine.

Fuse 1 — the Beethoven xylophone

• Collect the xylophone from the kindergarten classroom.
• Collect the metal spoon from the schoolyard.
• Read the hint in the Art & Music Room sheet music poster.
• At the Beethoven statue in East Corridor B, use the spoon on the xylophone and play F-A-C-E-D-E-A-D into the ear horn. This yields fuse 7A.

Fuse 2 — Helena's cabinet

In Classroom 102, a cabinet with four rotatable dials opens when you set them to Book, Ruler, Compass, Sharpener. The clue sits in Helena's note back in Classroom 101. Solving it hands over the second fuse.

Take both fuses to the Generator Room. Here's the part that trips people up: the board doesn't want both fuses installed and forgotten. You have to move them between slots, because one arrangement powers the door and the other powers the elevator. If the lift button does nothing, you're in the wrong configuration — pull a fuse and swap it.

Processing Plant: Two Separate Tormented Souls 2 Elevator Puzzle Steps

The Processing Plant splits its lift into an access problem and a power problem, and they happen in different rooms.

Accessing the elevator (Reception)

You need a lightbulb, found in Anna's room after the cutscene where Caroline is locked in. Slot the bulb into the wall fitting, use the switch to turn the light on, and then break the boxes with the crowbar so you can actually reach the lift.

Powering the lift (Underground Docks)

Once you're down in the docks, the lift power comes from a dial mechanism. The confirmed solution from SurvivalHorrors is short but easy to fumble: dial 2 gets one spin, dial 3 gets three spins. Turn them precisely — over-rotating is the usual reason this Tormented Souls 2 elevator puzzle appears broken when it isn't.

A practical note: this section of the game chains items aggressively. The batteries you pull out of the cassette player for the Corridor 2F keypad (code 1765) are needed again later, and the guide explicitly warns you to retrieve them after use. If you're short on an item near the dock lift, check whether you left it in a keypad slot upstairs.

Church and Bunker Lifts: Wiring and the Spark Plug

The last two lift puzzles move away from fuses entirely.

Church: The elevator power here is a plumbing-and-electronics job. Use the rubber hose to bridge the pipes, run the wire across, then apply the pliers to tighten the wire and close the circuit. Miss the pliers step and nothing happens — the game doesn't accept a loose connection.

Bunker: The generator room wants a spark plug, which is found in the Bunker Elevator room itself. Insert the plug into the slot on the generator at the top of the ladder, climb back down, flip the nearby switch, and then use the lever. Order matters here: the lever is the last input, and pulling it before the switch does nothing.

Bonus shortcut: the Eye door in the Church Undercroft, on the Other Side, opens onto the bunker elevator. To get through, extinguish the candles, turn off your lighter or torch, and simply stand in the dark in front of the eye until it lights up and the door opens. It's the least intuitive step in the whole sequence, and it's the one the guides describe most briefly.

Practical Tips Before You Start Swapping Fuses

• Read the fuse board as a switch, not a container. In the school, the board's job is routing power, so expect to revisit it more than once.
• Combine before you travel. The church hose-and-wire fix and the classroom insecticide sprayer both require combining parts in your inventory first.
• Check the Other Side. Figurine puzzles, the fly sprayer, and the Hawk figurine all depend on items that only exist in the alternate reality version of a room.
• Don't over-rotate dials. Both the docks lift and the animal figurine stand punish extra spins.
• Note the guide gap. If a step isn't documented here, it's because neither source covers it — the Convent's North Corridor power box being the clearest example.

FAQ

Where is the elevator puzzle in the school in Tormented Souls 2? It's the fuse board in the Generator Room. You need fuse 7A from the Beethoven xylophone puzzle in East Corridor B and the second fuse from Helena's cabinet in Classroom 102, then swap them between slots to power the door and the lift.

How do you power the elevator in the Processing Plant? Two parts: in Reception, insert the lightbulb, switch the light on, and smash the boxes with the crowbar. In the Underground Docks, turn dial 2 once and dial 3 three times.

Do I need the Bear Gift to solve the Tormented Souls 2 elevator puzzle in the docks? The source list shows that item on the dock entry, but it appears to be a template artifact repeated across dozens of unrelated puzzles. The dial sequence is the verifiable part; don't detour hunting for a bear.

Why won't the Bunker generator start? Check your order. The spark plug goes into the generator slot at the top of the ladder, the switch below gets flipped next, and the lever is always last.