Know the game.
Beat the house.

Your first descent

1. Choose a starter. Rustblade adds Attack, Brass Ward adds Guard, and Ember Lens improves critical chance.
2. Spin for a relic. Choose an unlocked wager and coins per line. Read the displayed price and odds before spinning.
3. Build your pack. Equip up to five relics. Their bonuses combine; sell an item when you need space.
4. Choose CALL or READ. Take a stronger opening with a cost, or learn the enemy’s coming moves.
5. Fight, claim your rewards, descend. Check STATS and the DEPTH MAP whenever you need to inspect your build or route.

Your first run starts with 30 coins. The first pull is a guaranteed triple unless the second House Marker is active. Keep some coins for healing and future spins.

Reels, paylines and stakes

A two-symbol match pays a common relic. A three-symbol match can pay uncommon or better, subject to your unlocked rarities. A triple bomb does not award a relic. More coins per line enrich potential rewards and strengthen bombs; they do not improve the chance of matching.

Choose 1–5 coins per line. The spin price is the base cost above multiplied by that selection, less any spin discount, with a minimum of one coin. Luck, rigging, free lines, nudges and guaranteed spins can alter the result: the game’s displayed odds and price reflect your build.

Bombs and Fortune

Loose bombs arm smaller fuses; a triple arms a larger one. Fuse damage is spread over the opening enemy turns. Guard can absorb it and fuse wards reduce each tick. Bombs are initially dormant for the first three chambers unless a House Marker changes that rule.

Two-matches grant 10% Fortune and triples grant 25%, before relic amplification. Fortune strengthens your battle damage. The winning item family also gives a temporary match gift for the next fight, even if you sell the item.

• Weapon: opening damage.
• Armor: opening Guard.
• Charm: critical chance.
• Supply: a Recover charge; triples also improve healing.
• Relic: a Relic Art charge; triples also improve Fortune.

Combat and timing

CALL boosts your opening action, but provokes foes with extra power for three rounds. READ reveals upcoming moves and reactive tells; certain relics also grant opening Guard.

Attack and Relic Art use the timing meter: green / Perfect delivers full power, yellow / Solid 70%, and red 40%. Guard and Recover do not require timing. Deeper chambers make timing harder; relics can widen or slow the meter.

Defense reduces ordinary hits before Guard absorbs the remainder. Status damage and Shatter have different rules. Do not stall indefinitely: the house normally grows impatient from round six, increasing enemy power each round.

Enemy intentions and status effects

Look at each foe’s intent before choosing an action. Some foes change plans in response to your Guard, healing, purse or their remaining vitality. Bosses and some elites change their hand at half vitality.

Attack / Charge

A direct hit, or preparation for a stronger move.

Guard / Heal

The enemy protects itself or restores vitality.

Burn

Damage to vitality over the remaining enemy turns.

Hex

Your damage is reduced by 25% for affected actions.

Drain

Steals coins; Guard can protect you.

Rig

Sabotages the odds on a coming spin.

Siphon

Removes action charges.

Summon

Adds an ally if the act’s enemy cap allows it; a full field can be rallied instead.

Shatter

Breaks Guard and threatens vitality. Ordinary Defense does not work the same way against it.

Relics, rarity and item level

Your five equipped relics define your build. Flat combat bonuses grow with the chamber where a relic drops. Existing relics keep their original item level: descending does not automatically upgrade old gear.

The multiplier for level-scaled bonuses is 1 + 0.055 × (item level − 1), rounded to whole points after multiplying the base bonus. Rarity has its own authored effects. Chance bonuses, charges, timing modifiers and economy bonuses do not all scale with item level.

House offers can change sale rewards. Player levels 20, 30, 40 and 50 each add ten more relics to the available pool. Compare the actual effect text on new loot with your current build before replacing an item.

150 chambers. Three different kinds of level.

Chambers 1–50 have one foe, 51–100 have two, and 101–150 have three. Identities are randomly selected; strength scales to depth. Every tenth chamber is a boss encounter. The DEPTH MAP shows your route and cleared chambers.

Win battles to earn coins and persistent XP. Descending restores some vitality. Clear chamber 150 to receive a permanent Gold Coin: every later run begins with 1,000 coins. It is never spent or consumed.

House offers and between-fight choices

Between fights, you can spend coins to mend vitality or buy action charges. Prices increase with depth and purchases, so read the displayed cost. Mending heals only up to maximum vitality.

Special offers appear every ten chambers, starting at chamber 4. Fourteen encounter types can trade relics, offer healing, wager your purse, suppress bombs or change your next battle. Read every price before accepting: some ask for vitality, future danger or a temporary restriction instead of coins.

A stronger rarity is not always a better fit. A relic that protects against fuses or supports your other four items may be worth more to your run than an isolated damage upgrade.

Lucky allies and unlucky enemies

Not every meeting on the stairs is a battle. The traveller cast includes 189 lucky allies and 78 unlucky enemies, separate from the combat roster. Each has a story and brings either a temporary blessing or a setback.

When do travellers appear?

Meetings can begin at chamber 2. Boss chambers and pending House offers block them, and meetings are spaced at least three chambers apart. Before relic modifiers, each eligible chamber has a 32% meeting chance; a meeting has a 70% chance to be an ally. A character does not repeat within the same descent.

Relics can change meeting chance (capped from 10% to 65%) and the ally share of meetings (20% to 95%). These are separate from the reel’s match odds. Inspect their effects in STATS.

Blessings and setbacks

Effects last for two battle victories. You can have one blessing and one setback at a time; another meeting of the same kind replaces that effect and refreshes its duration. Temporary effects do not stack without limit.

Bring a friend

Up to two recruitable allies can accompany you for the run. When the party is full, choose whom to replace. You may accept an ally’s help without recruiting them; unlucky enemies cannot join.

Companions act automatically once per fight: the first slot helps after your second action, and the second after your fourth, if a foe is still standing. Depending on the ally, support strikes one foe, hits the group, breaks Guard, adds your own Guard or restores vitality. Support strength grows with chamber depth. Hover over the party entry to inspect the skill.

Achievements and lifetime progress

The House Ledger contains 100 achievements. Open ACHIEVEMENTS from the title screen or pause menu, then search by name or filter by category and earned status. Locked icons are sealed and dimmed; earned icons show their full color.

A character counts once across your descents, after its encounter choice completes successfully. Merely seeing a preview does not count, and meeting the same character again does not increase the total. Recruitment is optional. Both counters save with the completed encounter.

Other goals reward bosses, Perfect timing, relic combinations, coin totals, House offers and full descents. Combat counters bank when you win; replaying part of an interrupted fight does not repeatedly bank its actions. Earned achievements remain earned across runs.

Older saves retain earned achievements and can recover progress from facts already recorded, but cannot reconstruct earlier meetings or unrecorded combat counters. The website catalog is a reference, not a connection to your personal save. Steam achievement support is being prepared for release.

House Markers

Clears unlock additional House Markers. Their challenges stack as you increase the selected marker level.

1. Bombs are armed from the first chamber.
2. The first pull is no longer a guaranteed win.
3. The house grows impatient from round four.
4. Companion enemies arrive at full strength.
5. All foes begin with extra power; mending and purchased charges cost 50% more.

Controls, stats and saving

Use the on-screen buttons to spin, inspect relics, select a target and choose actions. In battle, 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 select Attack / Relic Art / Guard / Recover. Esc closes an inspection or opens the pause menu; required choices still need an answer.

STATS opens your complete build breakdown. Hover or focus entries for explanations. DEPTH MAP shows campaign progress. Inspecting either pauses play.

Choose CONTINUE on the title screen to resume a saved run. Quitting during battle resumes from the chamber checkpoint, not midway through an action. If RETRY SAVE appears, use it before closing the game.

Your XP, records, unlocked progression and earned Gold Coin persist across descents. Starting a new run resets that run’s chamber, coins and inventory. Need help? Contact support.

Stat and relic-effect glossary

These descriptions come from the game’s STATS help. Power totals already include equipped bonuses; do not add them a second time.