You know the big crystal-room a few rooms from the start? You have to press the buttons so that the top of the bars hits the white line. Here are the values for the 5 buttons if you need them:

when you get to the crystal at the end of the hallway make the bars equal with the line at the bottom of the triangle.

Go into room with 5 buttons with signs and 1 button to glow the pyramid. Count the number of stripes each sign activates. Now make exact number of stripes to glow so they fill the pyramid without triangular top. Click the switch and lights go on.

The answer is the power room

Try clicking on the compass point and looking at what it does

Imagine the 9 symbol keypad around the outside of the pointer. It will give you the sequence to turn on the green light.

In the room you started in, you will now be able to activate a map by clicking on the circular disc on the floor. NB the extra room

In the room with the big wall tapestry thing, click on the empty globe holder. Click on the wall behind it to open a secret door

8,7,2,3,1,7,8 - I've also tried not using the 8's.

(Throughout this, there are orbs, and when you click them, they show you symbols. I am certain these symbols are important, so click the orbs and note the symbols.)
Go down the corridor in the direction you start out facing, until you get to the pyramid thing. To turn on the lights, you have to figure out how to add bars up to the line but no further. Each button adds a different number of bars - you might want to take note of how many.
After turning on the lights, turn around. Ahead of you and to the left is a floating pointer-type dealy. Each time you click it, it points in a different direction. Make note of these directions.
Go back into the windowed hallway. At some point, it will give you arrows to turn right and left. Turn right. Above the bubble, you see some marks, click on them. Make note of the markings.
Turn left again, and head further down the hall. Ahead and to your right you see an empty pedestal. Click it, and click it again. You should see some markings on the pedestal that bear some resemblance to the last set of markings. Make note of them.
Head further down the hall till you come to a room. Turn left, open the door, and head down this hall.
In the second room you come to, there is a red orb to your right. To your left is some kind of panel. Make note of the symbols on the right side of the panel.
Turn right. You will come to a keypad. I don't want to give it all away, but I'll say this: each key on the keypad represents a digit from 1 to 9. Based on the notes you've made, you probably can figure out which symbol corresponds with which digit. Also, based on the markings you've observed, you can probably figure out what the code is. Enter it, and press the large button on the bottom. If you've done it right, there should be some colors flashing, and when you look up, there will be a pulsating green thing above it.
Turn around, and head back to the central room. There is a panel in the middle of the three chairs. Press it to bring up a map. The map is an overhead view of the game. Notice the corridor on the map that you haven't visited.
Turn right. Go through the corridor into the room with the model city. Look at the empty pedestal, then click the area behind it, above and to the right. Keep clicking until a secret door opens.
Go through the door, turn left and go down. You will find a control panel with six hexagons, and another to the right. Again, I won't give it all away, but I'll say this: First, click the large one. Then click the one with the dot. Then, click the other small ones in the order indicated by the spinning pointer dealy from near the beginning of the game. Then, click the big one again. You'll know if you've got it.
Turn around. In the antechamber before this room, you can turn right or left. Turn right. If you don't see a white orb, turn around, click the panel in front of you, then turn around again.
Turn left and go back up the hallway. When you get out to the room, turn right, and go back through the central room, into another room. Turn right and you'll see a panel with a bunch of symbols on them. That's all I know.

within the arms of the empty sculpture in the tapestry room are some symbols etched into the stone. It's slightly to the left side of the sculpture.

6

press the large button at the bottom of the keypad.

The green orb is under the glass floor in the same room as the blue orb. Facing toward the entry area, walk forward until the doorway's right in front of you, and click the floor.

Position is unimportant. It's just an ordered list of colours. Where have you seen one of those?

The secret room's door is behind the empty pedestal (right)

click the big one, the one with the dot, then click north, northwest, s, se, sw, nw, n, then the big one again

The green orb fell to the floor. It is incrusted on the floor next to a blue orb. Apparently, it let the image scape so you don't have to click on it. :-)

When you are looking at the blue orb. If you click the red button, it will turn on the blue orb lights... but when you click on the button below the red button, it will turn on the FLOOR's lights. That way you can see the symbol that belongs to the green orb.

Green, hex with dot, then: N,Center, SE, S, SW, NW Green

You don't click the hexagon shown by the poointer sequence in the power room; you START at the dot, and the use the sequence as which direction to move.
I.E.
start at dot, and move NW - S - SE - SW - NW; Then, green again to close it.
...Makes sense in retrospect =/

The answer to the final puzzle relates to getting the symbol for the red orb

As was said a little bit earlier, the red sphere is the key. Look closely at that area!

You start with the hexagon with the dot. The arrow shows north east first. so you go to the hexagon on the ne of the hexagon with the dot. The arrow then shows south. so you go one hexagon south from the hexagon you are at NOW. then etc etc

427598

1=blank circle
2=circle with horizontal line
3=circle with diagonal line upper parts to the right
4=circle with diamond
5=circle with vertical line
6=circle with circle inside with a vertical line through it
7=circle with cross in it
8=circle with x in it
9=circle with diamond in it with a vertical line through it

the panel behind the red orb has colors on the left when you hit the up arrow notice that the #'s are also to the right put the colors in order going up starting with red

The color code for the red crystal!! In color order.

What color are the orbs? (spoilers in location, maybe more?)

1. Yellow: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v126/shusu/play/aq-soroom-color01-yellow.jpg

2. Purple (or pink): http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v126/shusu/play/aq-soroom-color02-purple.jpg

3. Blue: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v126/shusu/play/aq-soroom-color03-blue.jpg

4. Green (tricky): http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v126/shusu/play/aq-soroom-color04-green.jpg

5. Red: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v126/shusu/play/aq-soroom-color05-red.jpg

6. White: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v126/shusu/play/aq-soroom-color06-white.jpg

What's the order of the colors? (spoilers in keys; hints at translation)

See below for pic with no text.

TRANSLATING: NO LABELS (for note-taking)

FLOWER KEY (Cheatin')

FINAL PUZZLE

Comment above in the first spoiler tag is a picture of where the white orb is. (#6)

You start in the main circular room: there is a green door on your right, three floating chair-like things on your left, and a hallway strait in front. There's nothing you can do in this room right now, so go down the hallway. You'll
come out in a room with two pedastals on either side of the entrance, some diagrams on the wall, etc. You can look around if you want, but you also can't do anything here right now. Keep going down another hallway, and through the door with the blue, triangular shape on it. You'll find the first generator in this room: go up to the big blue crystal, and you'll see a panel with five buttons on it, each with a strange symbol on it. Press the buttons, and you'll see that each puts a certain number of blue bars on the screem in front of you. The goal here is to fill up the screen exactly to the thin white line, near the top. Hint: if you write down how many bars each symbol corresponds to, this will help you in the future. (Also, you may be able to figure out what other numbers will be, based on how different symbols are overlaid on each other. For example, the verticle line + the diagonal line = the symbol with the verticle and diagonal line together.) When you've gotten the bars exactly to the line, press the horizontal button at the bottom, and you should see some lights come on and hear some nice chugging generator noises.

Now that you solved the first puzzle, you really don't know what you're looking for. Turn back around and start exploring the things you walked by on the way here. Take note of the two spheres you passed: one yellow, one purple (Hint: click on them, and note what happens). Look at the other floating object in the generator room also. Click on it and watch it spin around. You will need all these things later, but not yet. Look at everything as you're going back: there are two hidden pieces of information in these rooms that you will need soon - but I won't tell you where they are just yet.
When you get back to the main circular room, look at the chairs and the cylindrical thing you started in, and see that they still do nothing. On the other hand, now the green door you saw before is open! Go in.

In the first room, you will see a glass pathway over some water, and a stand with a blue sphere on it. Go up to the blue sphere and play with the three buttons. See if you can get it to show the symbol. There is something else important in this room, but I won't tell you yet. Look around for it if you want.
Continue to the next room, where you'll see a red sphere on the right, and a panel on the left. Again, play with the panel and see if you can get the red sphere to show its symbol. Take note of the circular symbols on the right of the panel. Do they look familiar?
Continue on into the third room, where you'll find the next puzzle. If you've figured out all the symbols on the first generator and the panel across from the red sphere, you should know (or be able to guess) which symbols stand for which number on this panel (They aren't in order!). If not, go back and look at the panel across from the red sphere: it shows the numbers 1-5 in order. From these five, you should be able to figure out the rest of the numbers, since the rest are all combinations of the first five.
But knowing which number is which doesn't do you any good unless you know which numbers to punch in! You'll have to find the code for the generator, which is hidden in two separate parts somewhere else in the building. In fact, they're both in one of the rooms leading to the first generator: remember I told you there were two hidden pieces of information in those rooms? Perhaps you found one or both of these. If not, it's time to go back down the first hallway.
Go back out into the main circular room (with the chairs) and turn right onto the other hallway. Look for anything unusual in the rooms: is there anything missing, for example? Are there places you can turn, that seem to have no purpose?
If you can't find them, here's where the two pieces are: One is written on the empty pedastal across from the purple sphere - click on the upper half, and zoom in several times until you can read the markings. The other is in the blue hallway just before the generator room - click until you're in the middle of the hallway, where two arrows should appear on either side of you.
Turn around and look at both sides. On one of them, there are some markings on the horizontal bar across the middle of the screen. Click on them.
You may have noticed that each of the sets of markings has a curvy symbol at the top. Note that if you put these two symbols together, they look like the one on the green door. Put the two sets of symbols together in this order, and you should have a string of six numbers: 427598. Head back to the green generator to punch this in. Again, you should see some flashing colors, and hear some generator chugging.

As far as we know, the only things not "working" before we turned the second generator on were the chairs and the dark cyllindrical thing in the main circular room. Go back out to the main room, and see what is different. The cyllindrical thing hasn't changed. At first glance, the chairs don't seem to have either - but take a closer look at them.
When you click the round panel on the floor, a diagram should pop up on the screen. Examine it: does it look familiar? Two long hallways at a right angle with a circular room in the middle? Looks like we've found a map of the building. Now take a closer look: is there anything new on this map?
It looks like there's a hallway coming off one of the rooms leading to the blue (first) generator. Go to the corresponding room and see if you can find where the map shows entrance to the hallway: if you click on the wall where the doorway should be, it will open for you.
(If you can't find it, its behind the empty pedastal where you found half of the green generator code).

Go through the doorway (In front of you, you'll see a red symbol) and down the passage. (Hint: right at the bottom of the hall and just before you enter the room with the panel, there are two square shapes in the wall on either side of you. Examine them and see if you can find what they do.) Click to enter the third generator room, with the hexagonal panels. You'll find yourself looking at the spherical object with the red lights. Click at the bottom of the screen to see the hexagonal panel. Click a few of the buttons if you want. Note the button with the black dot.
You will, again, need some kind of code to solve this puzzle. Hopefully, the hexagons will call to mind another object that you saw earlier in the game: the spinning thing in the room of the blue (first) generator. More likely than not, you'll want to go back and look at it again. Watch the thing spin around, and you'll see that it shows you the code for the hexagonal puzzle. However, when you go back and enter this into the hexagonal panel and press the green button, most likely it doesn't do anything. There has been a lot of trouble with this puzzle in the past, and I'm not sure exactly what the deal is. Supposedly, you should press the big green hexagon, then the one with the black dot, then the sequence from the spinny thing (including both ups at the beginning and end), then the green one again. This seeems to work for many people, but it has never worked for me. I only got the puzzle to work after reading Tim's comment on jayisgames.com, who used this sequence: green, dot, North, center, SW, S, SE, NW, green. Try both sequences, and hopefully one of them works.
When (if!) you finally solve the puzzle, you should again see lights and hear generator noises. Something has turned on, but you can't see any changes here. As far as we know, there is only one more thing that needs to be turned on: the cyllinder thing in the main circular room. Better go there now!

Enter the main room, and you'll be excited to see that the light in the cyllindrical thing has turned on! And, the thing turns out to be a hallway! Go down it. In the next room, you'll see three capsules with the symbols of the three generators you've just turned on: the blue one, the green one, and the red one (the one you just solved). Turn right, and you will see yet another panel. Zoom in and click on it, and nine symbols should pop up. Do these look familiar? They are the same symbols that pop mysteriously out of the spheres that you've found throughout the building. Click a few, and you'll see them appear in a circle around the center symbol. Click the center symbol, and they disappear.
By now, you will hopefully have found most of the spheres, and seen most of the symbols on them. If not, here's a complete list of where they are:

Purple: First room in the blue generator hallway, in the pedastal on the right.
Yellow: In the blue generator room, on the left.
Blue: First room in the green generator hallway. You need to press the top button on the right of the sphere to make it light up before you can click on it to see the symbol.
Red: Second room in the green generator hallway. You need to turn the panel across from it all the way up to make it light up.
White: Just before the red generator room (in the secret hallway), on the left. It's hidden behind a square panel. Turn around to the right see another square panel. Click it and turn back to the left. The panel should have slid back to reveal the white sphere.
Green: The green sphere is the hardest to find. It is also in the first room of the green generator hallway. Look around, and you'll see many green spheres on pedastals around the room. One of them appears to be missing. Standing at the opposite end of the room, you may be able to see that the missing green sphere has fallen into the water below. Go closer and look at it. You can't get at it - but remember the other button on the blue sphere's panel? Go over and click on the lower right-hand button by the blue sphere to light up the room. Then go back and look at the green sphere. The symbol should have appeared in the water.

Now that you have all the symbols and colors, however, you need another sequence. Think about all the things you've seen. Do any of them have a sequence of colors?
One does: the panel across from the red sphere (in the green generator hallway). Go look at it. From top to bottom, the sequence of colors is: red, white, blue, yellow, green, purple. Match up the symbols from the spheres you've seen with each color. Now go back to the panel in the cyllindrical hallway/thing, and type in the six symbols in the correct order. Press the middle symbol. You should get a bubbly looking scren and hear lots of whooshing sounds... congradulations! You've finished, and gotten a stuningly satisfying ending (haha)!

The code the spinning thing gives you works, just in a less-than-obvious way. That code again is NW, S, SE, SW, NW, N. Begin with the big green hexagon. Imagine a compass around every hexagon. Starting from the dot, go NW. Now at your new hex go S. Repeat for the rest and you've got it.

At the end it comes out as tim's code - green, dot, N, Center, SE, S, SW, NW, green.

Green, spot, N, Center, SE, S, SW, NW Green

This does make sense when your point of reference is the small arrow UNDERNEATH the compass in the crystal room.

Seeing a "pattern" in symbols, objects, etc. is the key to understanding the codes of Aquaria.

I have several screenshots to assist the colorblind, and to reduce the amount of backtracking. However, the most complex symbol clues will NOT be pictured in this walkthrough. You will have to memorize, draw, or make up a mnemonic for them yourself. It's my belief that the art in this game represents familiar concepts, and this encourages you to come up with your own meaning. In short, to play an archaeologist and make guesses from the context. Challenge yourself! Explore!

And do try to resist the urge to open every single nested spoiler tag before trying it in the game.

The legendary lost civilization of Aquaria!
(Keep clicking to read the intro.)
Two archaeologists walk into a room, and their mysterious artifacts combine... You just got transported to Aquaria! The punchline is that now you have to figure out how to leave so you can publish.

"I recognize this symbol on the floor!! This is the symbol of AQUARIA!!!" (Use the buttons at the bottom to toggle the soothing music.)
THE EXPLORING SECTIONS MAY BE SKIPPED; they'll give a better narrative and contain notes to help the colorblind. The other sections fast-forward to the hints and answers.

Exploring in the Dark

Turning On the Lights

Exploring in the Light

Through the New Door

Combining Clues at Flower's End

Mapping New Depths

The Mysterious Final Area