After completing the boat sequence in Keeper, players will be stripped down to only their light. This transformation does not leave players inert, though, as the light becomes something akin to a flaming wheel. As with the game's preceding sequences, players will need to solve a variety of puzzles during Keeper's fire wheel section, and this guide is here to walk them through that process.

Keeper's flaming wheel section centers around three primary mechanics: gaining charges by coming into contact with flaming flowers, destroying red growths by getting near them, and fusing with open flowers in order to focus your light.

Keeper Flaming Wheel Walkthrough

After taking control of the wheel, roll forward, using ramps to boost over gaps as necessary. Notably, boosting into pink eyes will destroy them, and players will need to use this technique to clear some of the ramps in this intro sequence.

Players will soon run into an obstacle that teaches them a core mechanic of the fire wheel sequence: rolling into a flaming flower gives the wheel a temporary charge that can be used to clear blockades. To put this into action, players should simply roll into the flaming flower on the right and then boost into the barrier.

In the next room, enter the enclosed area in the center and boost into the pink eye on the right to destroy it. Now come into contact with the flaming flower that is past the eye, use the charge to ignite the flower that is inside the enclosed area, and boost into the pink eye that is ahead. Follow the path of flowers, igniting them along the way, and boost into the barrier at the end.

If you lose the charge and are unable to ignite the flowers along the path, simply return to the flaming flower in the enclosed area.

Players will now roll down a chute. At the bottom, go right to collect a charge from a flaming flower, and then backtrack to ignite three more flowers (and gain more charges). Now boost into the barrier.

Roll into the flaming flower that is forward and to the right. Hit the green bubbles just past the flower to get a boost over the water and ignite the flower. Continue to follow the path, igniting flowers and bouncing off green bubbles along the way, until you ultimately land in front of a barrier you can destroy.

The third image that is above indicates that players should head down to continue along the path. If the player goes up instead, they will enter an alcove with a shrine they can activate.

Head down yet another chute, and roll up the back wall to reach a pulsating door. In the next room, roll to the right and then roll up and to the left to access a flaming flower. The charge from this flower can be taken through the nearby corridor, where it will ignite a series of flowers and destroy a barrier.

After passing through the barrier, go down and to the left to enter a basin filled with purple flowers. Roll up its back wall to access a path that leads to a barrier. Get charges from the three flowers beyond that barrier, and then use them to break the obstacle on the back wall.

Roll through another chute and boost into the red growth at the end to open the door. Continue through the chute and approach the green opening to move through a tunnel. Use the next green opening to keep moving left and enter the room with a barrier.

Get close to the red growth on the left to open the red flower in the room. Roll into the open flower to fuse the wheel with it, and then focus your light on the barrier to gain access to the next room.

The Chute Room

This next room is the most complex section in the flaming wheel sequence, and here is how to get through it:

  1. Boost through the pink eye on the right, roll down the chute, and come into contact with the red growth.
  2. Continue down the chute and hold right at the fork.
  3. After landing on the platform, enter the pink flower to fuse with it.
  4. Focus your light on the unlit flower to ignite it and the barrier to destroy it.
  5. Roll through the ignited flower, down the chute, and into a second barrier.
  6. Contact the red growth beyond the barrier, and roll to the flower that ignites.
  7. Use the charge from the flower to break the adjacent barrier.
  8. Grab a charge from the flower, head up the ramp (igniting flowers along the way), and hit the barrier to the left.
  9. Use the ramp that was cleared to activate two red growths, then backtrack to the area where you just destroyed the barrier.
  10. Two flowers will now be open near the barrier-covered wall. Fuse with them and focus your light on the barriers to clear them.
  11. Enter the green opening at ground level, enter the green opening on the right, roll past the green opening on the right to hit a bounce platform, and enter yet another green opening.
  12. Destroy the red growth, bounce across the gap on the right, and enter the green opening at the top of the ramp.
  13. Follow the path to the left, destroy the red growth at the end, enter the flower that opens, and focus your light on the barrier.
  14. Head up the ramp that is revealed and follow the path to reach another red growth to be destroyed.
  15. Grab a charge from the flaming flower and destroy the nearby barrier.
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You are now back at the room's entrance, and the door at the far end will have opened. Simply roll down the chutes to reach the door and pass through it.

Follow the path, destroying red growths, fusing with open flowers, and focusing light on barriers along the way. There is a circular section at the end of the path, and players should ignite the flowers that are around it and then roll into the center.

Fire Wheel Boss

After falling through the multicolored sequence, roll into the three red growths that are embedded in the wall. Now fall through the hole that was created and follow the path to reach a boss fight. Follow these steps to beat the boss:

  1. Roll right to destroy a red growth and open a flower.
  2. Roll left to enter the flower, and focus your light on the root blocking the path to the left.
  3. Roll left and follow the path that travels upward.
  4. Roll right at the top to destroy another red growth and ignite a flower.
  5. Roll left, come into contact with the flaming flower, and roll right to break through several roots.
  6. After reaching the top level, roll into the three flowers that open and focus your light on the boss's arms.
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After the boss is defeated, players must simply roll along a short path until they come into contact with part of the lighthouse. This marks the beginning of the next part of Keeper's story, and players will get to experience an entirely new transformation.

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Keeper

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Released
October 17, 2025
ESRB
Everyone 10+ / Fantasy Violence, Animated Blood
Developer(s)
Double Fine
Publisher(s)
Xbox Game Studios
Number of Players
Single-player
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Genre(s)
Adventure, Puzzle, Fantasy