Facebook
Reddit
Email
Follow the steps in our guide to successfully climb the clock tower in South of Midnight, and reach Kooshma’s Cabaret.
The clock tower dominates the landscape in Chapter 12 of South of Midnight, pulling you forward towards Kooshma’s Cabaret. In the desperate search to find her mother, Hazel is nearing the climax of her journey. Is her mother alive, and can she rescue her from this strange, nightmarish place? To find out, Hazel will have to reach Kooshma’s Cabaret and confront the enigmatic Roux. In this guide, we’ll take you step-by-step through the process of climbing the clock tower in South of Midnight.
Chapter 12 Clock Tower in South of Midnight
In South of Midnight, the clock tower will be the last challenge you’ll need to overcome before you finally reach Kooshma’s Cabaret in Chapter 12. This chapter starts out very mysteriously before pulling you into the King of Dreams and Nightmare’s fractured, floating version of New Orleans. Furthermore, as you travel through the city you’ll discover people trapped within their own misery. They seem to live their own negative experiences over and over, and Kooshma feeds on this.
You’ll have to fight your way through, also using your parkour skills to traverse from island to island of the broken city. Finally, you’ll discover the clock tower. This has a wind tunnel blowing out from the top and is the only way over to Kooshma’s Cabaret. To reach it, you’ll have to go inside and make your way up by jumping, gliding, and manipulating some of the gears.
How to Climb the Clock Tower in South of Midnight Guide
The best way to climb the clock tower in South of Midnight is by always using the camera to look around to find where you go next. Always look before you leap! Sometimes the way forward seems obvious on this climb. However, some tricky areas will make you stop and think. This clock tower guide for South of Midnight will focus on these more difficult spots.
Step 1 – Getting Started
When you first reach the base of the clock tower you’ll have to clear out some haints and unravel a stigma knot. This is a fairly straightforward fight, nothing new here. Afterward, make sure to head over to the back right corner of the clock tower entrance to find a tin flip. Then, continue around the back for a floof. Finally, around the left side, all the way out on the corner edge is another tin flip.
After you get inside the clock tower, head to the wooden platform in the back. Interact with the lever and the gear on the left side will start to move. Move Hazel over there to jump and grab one of the metal bars sticking out. You can ride this up to the next level.
Follow the wooden platforms up, and then pick up a small gear and throw it across to smash the plate of another gear. This will reveal a grapple point. Next, keep following the wooden platforms up, across a wall run, and up again.
Step 2 – Jump Through Gears
Now you’ll need to be patient and wait for the gears as they move around. Each gear here will have an open gap, which you can jump through to move forward. Continue up and use the grapple point to cross the next wide chasm. Jump through a large open gear and keep moving up. Readable 18 is on a crate here, before you turn left and jump through a gear and onto a wall run.
Up ahead you will come to a very large transparent gear. Weave it solid and you can reach the other side and collect the floof. Return to the platform you started on.
What you may not have noticed is that this newly solid gear is making other gears turn. At the original platform, you can find a gear on the wall, with metal bars to grab to take you up.
Step 3 – How to Turn the Gear
Next, after the gear carries you up, drop off on the wooden platform. Take the right fork and double jump/glide over the gap. Up here will be another gear with metal bars, but no obvious way to turn it. Nothing nearby will make it turn on. Instead, you need to look down at the large transparent gear from before. Weave it solid again, and the gear behind you will turn in response.
Then, you can finally grab one of the metal bars behind you and ride it up to the next platform.
Step 4 – Climb the Center of the Clock Tower
After you drop off, follow the catwalk around and use another grapple point. Keep following the wooden walkways around and up. Eventually, you’ll reach a point where you jump on top of a gear. Past that towards the center are ledges you can grab to climb.
Wind and around and jump up to reach the top. Here, you will have to time a jump through a gap in the gear to reach another climbing ledge on the other side. This can be difficult to see, so take your time and move the camera down to look straight across.
Climb around the side of the brick and then up. You’ll reach a point where you think you are stuck, but look off to the right side to see a weight. It has a climbing ledge. Jump right to catch it, and then right again to reach more brick on the other side.
At the top of this second brick column, will be another gear to jump through and climbing ledges to catch. Finally, you can reach more wooden platforms that will lead you to the very top. You’ll have to clear out some Haints and stigma now. But you’ve made it to the top of the clock tower with our South of Midnight guide!
Looking For More?
Thank you for reading the Climb the Clock Tower in South of Midnight Guide. We provide the latest news and create guides for Baldur’s Gate 3, Starfield, ARK Survival Ascended, and more. Also, watch Deltia play games on Twitch or visit his YouTube channel!
