The Lost Lands series of fantasy-themed games mix a family-friendly story with hidden objects and puzzle-solving elements. In the series’ third installment, The Golden Curse, Susan returns to the Lost Lands after a number of terrible beasts are unleashed. She must first return the lands to their peaceful state, before returning home. This is no easy matter, so if you’re struggling with spotting any of the objects or working out any of the puzzle solutions, read on below for our Lost Lands 3 Golden Curse walkthrough.
If you're looking for full, in-depth walkthroughs of the entire game, please check out the remaining parts of our Lost Lands 3 Golden Curse Walkthrough & Puzzle Solutions guide below:
- Part 2 - The Floating Islands
- Part 3 - The Dungeon and Beyond
- Part 4 - The Castle of Madness
- Part 5 - The Minotaur’s Lair
- Bonus Chapter
How to complete Lost Lands 3 Golden Curse, Part 1
You’ll first need to choose your difficulty level. Both easy and normal modes have a tutorial, while on-screen sparkles on your map will show locations with possible actions, active areas and objectives, hidden object scenes, and collectibles. Hints and Puzzle Skip will recharge in 15 and 30 seconds respectively, with this happening twice as slowly in normal mode. Hard mode removes the tutorial and all in-game sparkles, while hints and fast-skip timers take twice as long again to recharge.
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Once you’ve watched the introductory scene, and if you skip the tutorial, click the branches covering the middle of the screen three times and collect the Notebook, then click them once more to reveal the first main screen. Pick up the Hammer Handle (1a), then get a close-up of the bridge (1b). Grab the Manuscript on the bottom left of the close-up, then the Hammer Head that was underneath it. Connect the two hammer pieces in your inventory to get the Hammer.
Back on the main screen, click the banner on the wall (1c) to get a close-up, then click it again to move it aside. Use your hammer on the planks that were behind the banner to get some Nails, then click on the Planks to collect them too. Take the Knife and Pickaxe Handle from the hole behind the planks. Go back to the bridge and use the planks on the gap to lay them down, add the nails, then use the hammer to fix the bridge. You can now head across the bridge, so do so.
Lost Lands 3 Golden Curse Part 1 walkthrough: The well in Druid Valley
After speaking to the girl (Fiora) stuck in the well, click the wooden trough (2a) to collect the Manuscript and the Xylophone Hammer underneath it. Next, get a close-up of the lone horse (2b) and use the knife to cut free the Rope with Hook. Attach it to the horse saddle by clicking the metal stud at the back, then look at the well (2c). Attach the rope hook to the winding device by clicking the hook, then go back to the horse and click it on the hand pattern on its side. The horse pulls the rope, freeing the girl from the well.
Clicking the well again will start a cut scene with the girl. Afterward, she’ll give you some Sheet Music. Click back on the well and click the child’s drawing. Underneath it, you’ll find a second Xylophone Hammer, while there is also Half a Pair of Clippers in the well's bucket to collect. Return to the first scene, click the portal (1d), and pick up a third Xylophone Hammer and the Map Fragment.
Back on the main first scene map, click the doors (1e) to view your first puzzle. Add the three Xylophone Hammers and the Sheet Music to begin. Simply follow the code on the sheet music (74251364), with the leftmost note being number 1, to open the door. Click the doors to enter the village.
Lost Lands 3 Golden Curse Part 1 walkthrough: The Druid Village
Click the girl’s grandfather, Maaron (in the center of the screen), for a short cutscene. Afterward, collect the following items:
- The barrel (3a): Bloody Spear
- The fountain (3b): Map Fragment
- Doorway (3c), after clicking the debris several times: Manuscript and Brackets.
- Barn door (3d): Half a Pair of Clippers
Use the two halves of clippers in your inventory to make Clippers. Click back on the fountain and then on the metal plaque at its base. Add the brackets to it to begin a puzzle. You need to place the brackets so that a ball drops from the top into each of the four holes at the bottom. Work from left to right, dropping a ball once you have its path lined up. There are unlimited balls, so don’t panic. Once completed, the fountain is fixed.
Lost Lands 3 Golden Curse Part 1 walkthrough: Plains of the Dead
Go back to the well and use your fixed Clippers on the chain and then pick up the Bucket. Go back to the fountain, fill the bucket with water, then take it back and use the Bucket with Water on the wooden trough. The horses move from the path, allowing you to move to the Plains of the Dead (2d). Once there, collect a Manuscript and Cannonball (4a), then click the pickaxe lodged in the stone (4b) twice to get a Broken Pickaxe. Use the Hammer on the broken pickaxe to remove the wood in it, then use your pickaxe handle on the broken pickaxe. Finally, use the hammer on it again to get the Pickaxe.
Select the tent (4c) and complete the simple hidden objects puzzle to receive the Ointment. Click the broken chariot (4d) to get a Stone Feather. Now click the glowing gateway in the background to move forward to the graveyard at the base of the mountain in the Dark Lands. Click the stone in the foreground (5a) three times to clean it, then examine it to read the inscription. Click the flowers (5b) and pick up the Garden Sheers, then click the dead flowers to remove them, leaving a hole. Move forward by clicking on the mountain.
Lost Lands 3 Golden Curse Part 1 walkthrough: The Volcanic Cavern
Click the columns (6a) and take the Spearhead, then use your pickaxe on the green crystals (6b) to get Volcanic Crystal. This also causes a chest and a crowbar to drop from the ceiling. Pick up the Crowbar (now below the crystals) and click the glow in the background to move to the next area, the Volcanic Crater. Click on the path (7a) for a close-up and pick up the Lever. Click the trebuchet’s wheel (7b) to lower it for loading, then press the lowered section to get the Belt from its ammo pouch. Also, attach the lever to the trebuchet’s firing mechanism on the same screen.
Put the cannonball in the ammo pouch and pull the lever, firing the trebuchet. It hits the rock above, which falls down and gives you a way across to the Arena Entrance. Before you do, click the base of the water tower (7c) for a close-up. Then click the broken plaster at its base that shows the brickwork underneath and complete the simple jigsaw puzzle to reveal three symbols (looking like BXA). Now head up the path to the arena entrance.
Grab the Cage Trap (8a) and get a close-up of the ladder (8b) to find another Stone Feather. Select the top-left entrance (8c) and pick up the Clamp and Bandage. Click the weapon rack and get the Two-pronged Spear, then use your old spearhead on the tall spear still on the rack to make and then collect a second one.
Lost Lands 3 Golden Curse Part 1 walkthrough: The Relic Repository
Go right back to the Hills in Druid Valley (remember you can fast-travel using the map, via the compass in the bottom right of the screen). Click the hedge (2e) and use the Garden Shears to collect a Blackthorn Twig and some Blackthorn Berries. Move to the Plains of the Dead and select the dead soldier (3e), using the twig to scare away the bird. With it gone, you can collect the Mechanical Eye from the helmet. Head to Druid Village.
Click the door of the Relic Repository (3f) and use the crowbar to remove the bolt. Place the volcanic crystal in the center of the door, which opens it. Enter the repository and select the bottom of the stairs (9a) to get a Manuscript and a Mouse. Now click the table (9b), then click the piece of parchment to find the Bloody Antidote recipe. Pick up the Flask and go back to the volcanic cavern. Click the snake (6c), place the Cage Trap on the ground in the close-up, and put the mouse inside. The snake will go for the mouse, capturing it inside. Place the flask on the rock by the cage in the close-up, then use the clamp on the snake in the cage. Grab the flask again, which now contains Viper Venom.
Return to the Repository, focus on the table, and put the antidote on the table. Add the berries, then the venom, and finally the bloodied spearhead. Take the completed Potion. Go outside and click on the injured druid. Add the potion to the image, then click it again to apply it to his arm. Add the bandage, then remove the Belt from his arm. Finally, take the Key from his hand.
Lost Lands 3 Golden Curse Part 1 walkthrough: The Arena
Head back into the Repository and use the key on the book at the bottom of the stairs (9b), taking your third Stone Feather from inside. Fast travel to the arena entrance and use the two belts to fix the ladder (8b). Click the Ladder to collect it, then use it on the right tower. Click the central upper area (8d) and take the Manuscript, which causes the gate to lower. Select the area again, click the rising system, and Fiora will hold it in place. Click the portcullis (8e) for a close-up, then use the two spears to hold it in place. Move through the portcullis and into the arena.
Click the marked stone (10a) for a close-up, then again to move it and collect a Map Fragment and read a section of a book explaining the columns in the volcanic cavern. Click the patch of damaged ground (10b) to get the Chewing Gum, then the top of the gold pedestal (10c) for a Manuscript and (beneath it) a Battery. Use the chewing gum several times in your inventory to open it, then chew it. Arrange the three map pieces in your inventory, then add the chewed chewing gum to get the completed Map. Go to the volcanic cavern, select the columns (6a), and use the map on them to get a cutscene.
Lost Lands 3 Golden Curse Part 1 walkthrough: Leproch’s House
Take the Jerrycan (11a), take the red lid off the generator (11b), and use the jerrycan to fill it up. Replace the lid, pull the red lever a few times (bottom left of the close-up), and the room will light up. Examine the bed (11c), on the corner of the mattress, to get a Stone Figure. Click the chair (11g) and use your knife to cut the string on the newspapers. Examine the top paper, and once you’ve looked at it, you’ll find a Key underneath. Click the shelves at the back of the room (11d) to begin a simple item-matching puzzle, after which you’ll receive your fourth Stone Feather.
Get a close-up of the row of vials (11e), then use the key to open the wooden panel and get the Puzzle Pieces. Click the panel on the stone wall at the back of the room (11f) for a close-up of a simple puzzle, using the symbols you found earlier in the volcanic crater. Click the symbols that look like B, X, and A to open it, then add the puzzle pieces to start the puzzle. Use the pieces to make a complete woven pattern, as pictured below. Move through the new doorway into Leproch’s Tomb. Click the torch for a close-up, click the back of it to remove the old battery, and place your battery in. Put it back together, turn the torch on, and you’ll have a fully lit tomb.
Lost Lands 3 Golden Curse Part 1 walkthrough: Leproch’s Tomb
Get a close-up of the tomb itself (12a) and take the Manuscript, plus the Medalion Piece underneath. Take the other Medalion Piece from the petrified explorer (12b), then complete the Medalion in your inventory. Head back to the druid village and talk to Maaron, who will give you your fifth Stone Feather and ask you to bring him the stolen gold coin.
Enter the Repository and click the hourglass (9c) a couple of times, until it gets stuck. Select it again for a close-up and click the base to find a puzzle. Add your medallion to it to begin. You need to click the outside medallions in a particular order to make them all shine inwards. The easiest way is: bottom right, top left, bottom left, middle right, middle left, bottom right. Once complete, you’ll get the final Stone Feather.
Go to the ancient graveyard and select the winged statue (5c). Add the stone feathers to open the tomb, then click on it for a close-up and add your Stone Figurine, plus the one already there, to find a Mask. Take it to the Repository and use it on the doors at the top of the stairs (9d). Get a close-up of the now-open cupboard and complete the simple hidden objects puzzle (if you’re stuck near the end, look at the blue end of the gold item holding the blue gem) to get the Gloves. You can now head to the arena and safely collect the Coin (10b), after which you’ll get a cut scene.
Lost Lands 3 Golden Curse Part 1 walkthrough: The Elder’s House
Return to the druid village and click the doors at the back (3c, which has now been cleared) for another cut scene. Try again afterward to enter the Elder’s House and talk to Maaron. Click the carpet (13a) to reveal a trapdoor that’s missing a lever key. Select the throne (13b) to get an Oilcan and see a golden scepter is missing. Now get a close-up of the pedestal (13c) to get a Manuscript and a Candle. There is also Nail Polish Remover to take on the alchemy table (13d).
Return to the Repository and use the candle on the embers on the table (9b) to get a Burning Candle. Click the tapestry (9e) to remove it and use the burning candle to reveal a Powder Flask (take it). Push the candle further to reveal and then take a Human Figurine. Go to the forest and look at the portal (1d). Use the human figurine on the central floating stone to start a puzzle. Move the blocks to be able to move the figurine to the top, then watch the cut scene. You now have access to the Floating Islands!
This guide continues in Part 2.
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