A basic work in progress walkthrough is available here

The walkthrough only guides you through the basic game. The Forest Cell Key is for people wanting to find all the secrets. A 100% completion guide will be put up later.

This is a known bug unfortunately. Fortunately the game makes backups of all your saves, so you can recover an older save by going to ~/.parallelrealities/edgar and replacing your saveX with saveX.00X where X is the number of your save. The save IDs start at 0

For the 7 Health potions:

Forbidden swamp, Sewer, Laboratory, Library, Fortress Mine, Armoury, The Dungeon.

Hmm, that Armoury one is in with the Lightning Sword, right? I'm still confused how I managed to mislay a couple, but I'll sort it out eventually. Today, though, I'll be out in the Big Blue Room, hiking.

Back from the hike... incidentally, that's 8 potions with the one from the Village.

What with the Sewer bug, it looks like I'll *have* to wait for the next version to retry my "perfect run".

On the other hand, I had an interesting experience muffing the Cave ending... I killed the red slime, then went back down to kill the Queen Wasp. When I went back up, a horde of green slimes had accumulated. <i>Nowadays</i>, I'm good enough that I was eventually able to beat them, but it was pretty tough!

Argg you're right! Why do I have on ly 7 then?

The sewer map bug should be fixed now, download the latest release again, you'll see it's marked as 0.67-2.

By the way, I miscounted the secret tally. There are 18 secrets.

Yup, fixed. Thanks, Rik!

Heh, found the Sewer potion! That's definitely one of the ones I missed before. Not at all obvious....

Arrghh! Rik, did you change the Blob? The final stage seems MUCH tougher -- in particular, clearing the mini-reds barely makes a dent in the last heart!

Odd bug... took me a while to be sure of it. When loading a game, sometimes Edgar comes out "stuck", with his sword and shield pointing in different directions. (Even when the game was saved with the pickaxe selected!) He can't turn back and forth, and at first can't move either. Jumping around a bit seems to unstick him, but the sword is still selected.

Phap: Are you sure the Armory has a health potion? It wasn't where I thought, and I can't seem to find one there.

Well it's written in the source code, I'm almost sure that it was with the sword.

phap: That's what I thought too, but I just went back and looked, and no dice, at least there. The sword itself was a "secret", which may have confused us. I'll poke around the level a bit more.

Rik -- Bug roundup: Spike Ball drops (but not thrown spike balls, or repellent clouds) become permanent if you exit the level before they expire.

Save/restore erratically disrespects the weapons selected on save (or fails to record them properly). Similarly, switching away from bow erratically fails -- in both cases, sometimes goes back to bow, sometimes either sword or shield alone. (This is happening too often to be mere carelessness on my part!) And sometimes Edgar just switched to bow on his own -- this may be connected to picking up arrows.

Evil-Edgar fight: I reached 0 health while programming, but didn't get the game-over -- instead, Edgar just went back to his platform and stayed there, even when I went into the machine.
Catacombs: the last big lift appears to have a background pillar running its entire height. ( :-) ) In the runup to the Catacomb cutscene/entrance, it looks like Armadillos can go up that first lift, but not back down, so they accumulate atop the platform behind it.

I've got a pretty spectacular bug screenshot (I tried to send it to you) from when I accidentally hit continue well after defeating the Phoenix -- it looks like the sword and shield images have been displaced by the Phoenix and the Big Spider -- what didn't show is that when jumping around, Edgar himself was being replaced by a stretch of brown wall.

@Mental Mouse

When you encountered the sword and shield errors, were you playing on debug mode?

No. I don't play debug mode unless I'm specifically looking for a stacktrace, or at least bug info.

Trying to list the secrets:

Village: Jacob's health potion. Jacob's bigheart.
Mine: Golem.
Forest: King Grub.
Cave: Queen Wasp.
Swamp: health potion, Swamp Guardian.
Sewer: Swamp Dweller.
Fortress Basement: none
Fortress Ground Floor: none.
Laboratory: health potion.
Library: health potion. Book of Monsters.
Fortress Mine: health potion. Phoenix.
Armoury: lightning sword.
Catacombs: Amulet of Resurrection.
Dungeon: Health potion.

As you see, I've only got 16 there. The program says 17, Rik says 18.....

Last version 0.67.2 stats says there's only 17 secrets...

There's a potion in the sewer too, so that's make 17.

Oh, right. Well then, there's just the mystery 18th secret to worry about...

I tried to throw ice cubes on the new boss (v 0.67, Sewer dweller?) after "cleaning his water" with the pill. In some states the cubes fall through and expand in the water pushing the boss up or down. The boss seems to be stuck in that position then.

@ebik

Thanks for the bug report. I'll see if I can reproduce this.

@mental mouse:
Swamp guardian is not a secret. I think that killing Mataeus is as well as the book of monsters.
(I was not sure so I checked it in the 'data' directory :-) )

Odd... I added Swamp Guardian after getting the "secret" message in the game!

Hmm, I get no "secret" message there (now 0.67), you have to pass the Swamp Guardian anyway, thus it can be hardly any "secret".

looks like ebik is right, there's no secret for the boos swamp but one for mateus, so anyway the count is the same, we got our 17 secrets