Sextant Artifact — Where It Hides in Point Nemo
A brass-and-mirror navigation relic the game tucks into the satellite-debris corridor — second of three Point Nemo artifacts.
▶ TL;DR
The Sextant is the middle of three artifacts hidden in Point Nemo, the final world of Scale the Depths. Look for it inside the dim, magenta-lit alcove just past the descending shortcut, sitting between the Loaded Support Sphere and the Toy Submarine. MrLeLedg's 100% Walkthrough catches the pickup at the 3:27 mark and finishes the whole exchange before the 3:49 cut. Hook, retract, bank — no scaling, no fight.
◇ Step-by-step pickup
Open Point Nemo from the destination wheel.
You need Loch Ness, Huatulco and Outer Banks cleared before this dock unlocks. If Point Nemo is greyed out on the wheel, the game is telling you a Stage 3 prerequisite is still open — usually a leftover Outer Banks artifact or boat blueprint.
Cast and descend straight along the centre corridor.
Point Nemo's geometry funnels you down a single dominant column with smaller branches. Stay centred. Drifting sideways into the side caves early eats line that you will need for the Sextant pull below.
Grab the Loaded Support Sphere first (1:15 mark in the video).
It sits above and to the right and the return arc passes back through it anyway. Picking it up on the descent saves you a second trip and locks in the run's first artifact.
Cross the Submersible Controller chamber (1:36 mark).
There is a chest of money and the Submersible Controller in this room. Neither is the Sextant. Keep moving down — the right hardware looks the part, but you need the brass arc shape, not the rectangular console.
When the corridor opens into the satellite-debris field, drift LEFT.
This is the moment frame 3 above is showing. The Sextant alcove sits to the left of your descending line, framed by two broken hardware fragments. No scaling, no struggle bar — it is a static object. Touch it with the hook, the 'Artifact Discovered' banner fires, you can retract.
Hit R to retract.
Banking only happens at the surface. If your line is short, refuses to retract because of a snagged debris piece, reposition the hook one tile away from the artifact before retracting. A snapped line resets the Sextant to its spawn position — you keep the run but lose your time.
◐ Walkthrough Keyframes
✦ Tips
- If you cannot see the alcove on screen, your depth gauge — the small fish-counter HUD on the left — has not crossed Layer-IV territory yet. Keep descending; the alcove is well below the Submersible Controller room.
- All three Point Nemo artifacts (Loaded Support Sphere → Sextant → Toy Submarine) sit on the same vertical column. With one fully upgraded fishing line you can stitch the whole run into a single descent.
- Hold L (or your platform's equivalent) before each hook movement near the alcove. The mouse-precision pickup is much easier when the line is anchored than when it is freely drifting in the current.
⚠ Warnings
- Do not confuse the Sextant with the Submersible Controller in the chamber above it. Both have hardware-style sprites. The Sextant is a brass sector — a fan of curved metal. The Controller is a square console with screens.
- If a satellite-panel debris piece overlaps your line between the hook and the artifact, the pickup will not register. Move the line one tile aside and try again.
- Retracting too early — before the 'Artifact Discovered' banner shows — counts as a miss. Wait for the banner.
⌕ Common Questions
I haven't upgraded my fishing line yet — can I still get it?
My run is going for the Apophis legendary fish — should I get the Sextant on the same trip?
I see the brass object but my hook won't pick it up.
★ What you get
- Completion
- Counts toward the Point Nemo 100% Secrets achievement.
- Endgame impact
- Combined with the other two Point Nemo artifacts, the game unlocks the full Stage 4 ending sequence.
- Sells for
- Sextant cannot be sold. Artifacts exist for lore and 100% completion only.
✎ What Players Are Asking
Real questions from Steam Community discussions, archived as they appeared.
“Final artifact in Point Nemo”
Why this matters: Posted within five hours of release. One of two near-identical threads on the same morning — Point Nemo's artifacts are the most-asked post-launch question on the official forum.
“Last Artifact (Point Nemo)”
Why this matters: The duplicate. Both posters are asking about the third artifact (Toy Submarine), but neither names the Sextant — suggesting most players find this middle one by accident, then get stuck on the next.
⌬ Related Secrets
Why the game called this artifact a Sextant
In the real world, a sextant is a brass sector — roughly one-sixth of a full circle, which is where the Latin name *sextāns* comes from — that mariners pointed at the sun or a star to figure out where on Earth they were. John Hadley sketched the first one in 1731; Isaac Newton scribbled a version of the same idea in unpublished notes years earlier. Before satellites, this was the only way to fix a position on open water. Point Nemo — the oceanic pole of inaccessibility, 1,670 nautical miles from the nearest land — is exactly the kind of place a real sextant would have earned its keep. Glass Gecko Games leaning on that history makes the artifact more than a collectible: it's a tiny piece of the world's pre-GPS memory parked at the most remote point on the planet.