Well Dweller Secrets: Hidden Areas and Easy-to-Miss Finds

Every metroidvania promises secrets; the honest question is what happens when you miss one. Here the answer is unusually kind - a second map names your misses, hints are for sale, and vendors sell stragglers late in the run - so the real skill is noticing the hides in the first place. This page sorts them into types, points at where players most often walk past something, and catalogs the tools that do the finding for you, with each claim tagged to the single complete commentary run it rests on (the 100% footage is here).

What Kinds of Secrets Does This Game Hide?

Recorded runs keep tripping over the same five shapes: breakable walls, tucked-away corners, high perches, unmarked trinket points, and rewards that only open up after a new ability. The table sorts them with the evidence each rests on - plus one honest negative row, because not every suspicious-looking wall actually breaks.

Where Do Players Most Often Miss Things?

In corners, up high, and behind walls - but the more useful answer is when: right after a new ability lands and old areas reopen. One completionist’s finds read like a tour of that habit - a secret behind a breakable wall, a hideyhole with a trinket point, a workshop token tucked out of sight - most of them pulled by deliberate re-checks rather than luck.

What the hides hold is worth knowing, because it changes what you sweep for. Currency stashes and the odd secret pile of coins reward any pass through a room. Workshop tokens and trinket points are the valuable strata - tokens feed the upgrade layer, and trinket points hold new gear - so those are the rooms worth re-walking. Spirits and lore pages round it out; our collectibles guide covers every track those feed. The painful miss is the invisible one: the same runner hits the late game convinced he has missed an ability somewhere, and no map pins that feeling for you.

Which Tools Find Secrets For You?

Three, and they stack: a trinket whose text makes hidden passages visible, a compass that signals when a collectible is in the room, and the map character’s second map of everything you have missed. Add purchasable hints at tents and late-game vendors who sell the pieces you never found, and the game keeps lowering the penalty for inattention.

The passage-revealer costs four trinket slots in the recorded shop list - real money by this game’s build economy, which our trinkets guide budgets in full. The compass goes by the wonderfully honest on-camera name of a secret finding compass. Both names are caption-garbled, so treat the exact wording as unverified and trust your own shop menu. For the high perches, the tool is the matchstick itself - planting it in a wall mid-climb buys a free rest stop and turns intimidating shafts into routine.

What Happens If You Miss Something Anyway?

Far less than in the genre’s classics. The second map lists missed collectibles and stays updated, so nothing quietly expires - our map guide explains both layers - and the purchase options above mean a forgotten corner costs money, not progress. The one caution from recorded play: sweep after every unlock rather than trusting memory, because the misses that sting are the ones you never noticed making.

The same runner’s cleanup speaks for the system: three lore pages he had somehow missed, sorted out at the end in minutes. If the achievement side of completion is what you are chasing, our achievements guide maps all 41 without inventing names - and the sweep-after-unlock habit the second map supports is the same habit most of those awards ride on. When an area stays stubbornly locked, that is not a secret you missed; it is a movement ability you have not met yet.