Garden of Witches
BLOOM 05THORNED

Bosses

Every tell, the cheese that works, difficulty rated without mercy.

Bramble Hound

Rose Forecourt (room 4)Tutorial wall · 2/5

Tells

  • ▸ Paws the ground twice → charge (side-step, never back-pedal)
  • ▸ Buries itself → thorn geysers track you; keep moving laterally

Cheese: Fern's Tangle Patch pre-planted on its charge lane turns the fight into target practice.

Reward: Unlocks Poppy

Glass Warden Glase

Firefly Greenhouse (room 9)First real check · 3/5

Tells

  • ▸ Shatters its own armor → damage window, but shards ricochet
  • ▸ Lantern sweep: hide behind the glass pillars with cracks

Cheese: Poppy ult during the armor-shatter window skips phase two entirely.

Reward: Greenhouse master key (shortcut gates)

Toad King of the Well

Hollow Well bottom (room 14)Attrition fight · 4/5

Tells

  • ▸ Inflates → poison nova; Marigold cleanse or Wellstone or death
  • ▸ Tongue flick targets the farthest player — co-op can juggle aggro

Cheese: Shoot its crown before entering (visible from the ledge) for a free opening stagger.

Reward: Wellstone (dark immunity relic)

Lunar Eclipse Stag

Moongrass Slope (room 19)Mechanics exam · 4/5

Tells

  • ▸ Antlers glow with the current moon phase → its moveset literally changes with the sky
  • ▸ Eclipse phase: the arena lights die; fight by the stag's glow

Cheese: Waiting for a new-moon night (real time ≈ 4 min) shrinks its moveset to three attacks.

Reward: Moon Antler (phase-control relic)

The Bramble Queen

Thorn Throne (final)Final exam · 5/5

Tells

  • ▸ Phase 1: every prior boss tell, one at a time — she is the final exam
  • ▸ Phase 2 (below 40%): the throne joins the fight; destroy the arm-rests first
  • ▸ Enrage at 10%: the arena floor thorns over; stand on the petals you saved

Cheese: None found yet as of patch 1.0.1. The speedrun record (41:22) beats her straight up.

Reward: Ending + New Game+ seed

Hidden boss · Mirror Sil

Full moon, reflecting pool, zero relics. She runs your exact build, inverted — your lash heals her, your bloom burns you. Beat her and she joins the roster. Day-one discovery credit goes to Steam user "mothkeeper" (thread: 9 hours 12 minutes after launch).

Day-one clears (community sheet snapshot)

  • First clear: 7h03m after launch (Sil, standard)
  • First no-hit Queen: none yet — the phase-two armrests are the wall
  • Fastest clear: 41:22 (Poppy wildfire, any%)

"The Queen's phase two isn't harder — she just starts using what you taught her."

— first-clear writeup