I belive the runes not activating is a bug. If you have been to Bright Crucible and you can access the exit portal on Seven Portals then you're done and off to better designed acts!

And the leftover keys? :)

I went to the second chapter anyways... now I fought some minotaur, got the horn key from him, but his portal led to some hidden room or in the middle of some map, where I was under a black ceiling and couldn't see anything. I went around it trying to find some exit and after a while got teleported back to Wastelands. Thought I will mention here instead of creating a new topic, that's how bad I am :/

I have the same problem, 1 bronze, 3 gold and no silver whereas there is a lot of silver door >< I have also seen a fire door on act I, I don't have that key >< I will try to find a guide or a let's play to see what I miss

I don't remember what was the error margin, but for sure you had to ignore many silver doors to get a spare key to open and press a button. If you took the bait, perhaps now it's impossible to get to the secret level? Otherwise, there was no trickery - you just make another tour of the levels and press all newly unlocked buttons. Then a secret portal opens in the hub, you get a secret level with the key inside, easy as pie.

The only key I had slight problem with was the skull key in the last playable act (3). That needed finding a secret passage in... maybe kind of predictable, but not so obvious place.

(Also, the secret keys from acts 1 and 2 open additional goodies in following acts (2 and 3), so you get a nice confirmation of "yeah, it was worth running around for additional hour to find all that" ;))


And of course now I realized author's response contained this:

Originally posted by Tussell:

off to better designed acts!

Oh please. Act 2 was incredibly idiotic (100% invisible [indistinguishable from ground] obstacles while walking through darkness, also actually invisible spike traps), act 3 even worse (spent like an hour total just pushing statues around, how fun is that?! Also, at least 3 times you actually _have_to_ die in order to press a button and progress further [unless you're a warrior and can dash, I was a warlock upgraded to speed 1,0 - too slow!]) and I made a separate thread about act 4.

Really, act 1 is the only one that's actually fun. Leave while you can, Don ;)