Hello everyone ! And welcome to my first guide on steam... I thought I would do one, as the only one is in german and I loved the game :)
My mother tongue is french, so pardon my english ! :D

Here, I'll try to give tips on what I found out about the game to help you out.
If you have tips or anything to add on what I wrote here, feel free to leave a comment about it and I will edit my guide.

It's not meant to be a complete guide and I'll assume you already died a few times before reading this. So I won't explain any basics here.

Thanks for reading !

Yup, you can do it and you will always find useful stuff in it !

It won't regen your health... You have to eat something to get your HP back, it's the only way !
I try not to rest too much in easy mode, and mostly find my self resting just before engaging the final boss. On Hard, I try to rest every time I'm completly exhausted, not before.




You lose time, yes. And the more days pass, the more enemies you'll encounter during battles.
But you'll find more items if you chose 9h. With 3h you'll find mostly 1 item, with 9h you'll find 3 items. I always choose 9h when I can and I always arrive at the final castle before the 18th day... So "The end" achievement is pretty easy to get.

I always prefer being better prepared for big battles (and big XP !) than getting half prepared on small battles. Also, It's a good way to find special items, potions and stuff to upgrade your armors and weapons.

Some special merchants will sell you potions. Buy them all !
And use them all too. It's sad to die with a bag full of potions :(
All potions are powerfull (don't underestimate the blue ones). Of course you'll want potions for the final boss, but again, no need to have a lot of potions if you die before this final boss !

Did I say that already ? Hummmm...

Each character has 2 action points to spend on your turn. Note that you'll always be the first to play in combat.

Moving, attacking, special skills and overwatch/guard uses 1AP.
You gain 1AP per kill. So choose your target wisely to optimise your AP !
Yellow potion gives you 1AP. And using a potion does not consume AP.
So again : Use your potions ! :D

Positioning is the key to success !
You can backstab your enemies by standing behind them, you'll do the highest weapon damage this way.

Enemies won't be able to dodge your backstab attack no matter their dodge rate. It's also true for yourself. So watch your back ! You can use edges of the map to protect yourself or houses and trees of the map to take cover. Ultimately you can also use a party member to cover your back.

Just select a merc by clicking on him in the battle field, or on his portrait on the left side of your screen. You can use one AP, then select another one.
This is very useful if you have a weak mercenary that you can use to break armor, and a strong one to get the killing blow, for example. Use this at your advantage !

Opportunity will trigger for melee mercenaries only. When they are next to an enemy that is preparing an attack on a team member, the mercenary will attack the enemy. You can use it at your advantage by circling enemies with melee mercenaries.



Overwatch will be available only to range mercenaries. Use the eye icon on the right of their skill bar, this will consume 1AP. But when a enemy comes at range your mercenaries on overwatch will attack.

Guard will be available only to melee mercenaries. Use the shield icon on the right of their skill bar, this will consume 1AP. When an enemy attack you no matter if they miss or hit, your mercenary will counter attack. Also, they will be harder to hit.

First and third archetype of the hero are really great. With the first one you will be able to rescue a range teamate by swapping position with the hero. With the third, you will be able to put everyone in overwatch/guard.

Meledar is a very strong mercenary to have in your party since he has a long range. His first archetype will give you a very good bonus with an attack that can't be dodge or miss !

Halfarus is good too, shorter range, but good to have (I love his second archetype - multiple shots - that I combine with high crit). Also, his overwatch can trigger twice.

Zoe is one of my favorite mercenaries !
Her boomrang is so powerful : Once you get how her positioning works, you can make it bounce on an infinite amount of enemies as long as they are packed ! You can fill the holes with party members. The boomrang won't hurt them and will bounce to the nearest enemy. It's just awesome. I also like her eagle, you can use it to lift the fog of war and do some reckon. Yup, awesome.

I love Jeda and her first archetype with vanish. I combo her with the third archetype of the hero.
As long as Jeda retains 2 action points, using the hero's special skill will put her in stealth.
This way, you can get 2 turns with her in furtivity !

I often read these enemies are annoying as they seem to have infinite vanish.
First : they don't have infinite vanish.
Second : it's a matter of overwatch, guard and positionning. Master their use !




It's not always easy to get a good positioning, but here some general guide lines :

• Don't try to spread too much your team.
  
• Try to get your range mercenaries at the right distance from your melee mercenaries, so they can have their back when attacked.
  
• Sometimes just overwatch/guard and wait is the right tactic. Be patient.
  
• Try to get melee mercenaries near distance enemies so you can abuse the opportunity mechanic against them.
  
• You can try to set up an "opportunity trap" by having 2 melees next to each other and positioning them back to the edge of the map. This way, they will get anyone trying to hit one of them.

Keep cool and don't forget these rules :

• Don't try to spread too much your team.
  
• Sometimes just overwatch and wait is the right tactic. Be patient.

Jeda can be used to scout, and as I said ealier, I use eagle's Zoe too. But, since you can't choose which mercenaries to hire in normal mode, you may not be able to get her right away. So stay put and overwatch/guard.

• Darion is good at wrestling ! (must be the mustache...OP)
  
• Halfarus is good at insult matches
  
• Theogal is good at drinking games
  
• Meledar has a spirit for poetry
  
• Melic is good at card games
  
• Zoe is a fine singer
  
• Jeda seems good enough at darts
  
• Velanna is a good juggler
  
• Erus is a chess master

Mushrooms will heal you, or hurt you. In easy mode they'll always give or take the same amount of HP. Not in normal mode, it seems random. But an edible mushroom will always be a good one :)

Good mushrooms :

• Amanita Vagrinata (+1HP)
  
• Boletus impolitus (+3HP)
  
• Agaricus bisporus (+7HP)
  
• Cantharellus cibarius (+2HP)
  
• Craterellus cornucopioides (+1HP)

Bad mushrooms (sell them...!) :

• Cortinarius orellanus
  
• Chitocybe candicans
  
• Amanita phalloides
  
• Sarcosphaera coronaria
  
• Coprinus atramentarius

Well, it seems some mushrooms have offensive names so I changed them a bit so you can read them :D

Sometimes you visit a house or a cave or something and you can search or search with a potion. I call that the potion choice.

It can happen on many events and if you don't have the good potion in your inventory you won't have this choice. Mostly, without potion you will have less reward or worse, none at all.


Here, potion choice is the best option :)

Read the event carefully, you'll get clues if what is happening is good for you or not.
If you have to search a house with sleeping people in it, the potion choice will use an invisibility potion. Useful to not wake up the owners of the house. Choose the potion choice if it's coherent with the task !

The only potion choice that seemed not to work out for me were the one when you can run away or stay. Depending on the event description, staying is often better.

Same as the potion choice, sometimes you will have the choice to use a merc for an event. And same as the potion choice it's mostly the right choice.

Here a bad mercenary choice :


Velana is good at throwing balls, not digging (but the potion choice is good !).
Your mercenaries won't multitask, so if the mercenary choice is not coherent with the inn's games, don't choose it !

Sometimes you'll find location with an exclamation mark :
Those will give you a quest to do on the next map. Most of the time it's a fight, rewarding you with a choice between items, gold or experience.
I prefer to choose items, since you'll mostly get potions or runes for your gear, both very precious.

Here are some items you'll find along the way, with more or less use.
Your inventory can be full and you may miss some very useful items with a full bag of crap...


It's always a good item to keep.


It's a very good item to keep.


It's also a very good item to keep.


You always need money ! Keep this one until the end, then sell it just before the final boss if you need gold.


The most useful item I found.
With this one, you'll be able to bluff to avoid some hard encounters instead of dropping gold for the same result. Very useful in normal mode...
Also you'll get free items from some merchants with this !


Nice to have, you'll find more items when searching houses. A new option will offer you a new choice to use your lantern.


You'll need this to open locked chest. This one seems to break sometimes (not sure, as it never broke in normal mode for me...).


This one will open locked chest too. I never broke this one... But I'm not sure it doesn't break or if it's different from the lock pick.


Very useful, but also very rare (saw this stuff only once !). You can sell it before the last boss as you won't get any more XP...


This one is "meeeh" as you'll get some fish instead of potions or runes on some special locations where you can fish. Fishes aren't useless as they will give you back 3HP but well... I prefer to sell this one if my bag is nearly full. I keep it if I have enough space.


I don't know its use yet... If someone knows I'll be happy to read your comment about it :)

The Shovel (I forgot to screenshot this one !)
Very useful item to uncover more special items or potions !

The Pillow
Very usefull, your party heals 2HP when you sleep !

Boots of Speed
Time passes slower, usefull

Corruption Guide
You can bribe for 1 gold. Still good if you don't have the bluff guide already :)


I'll update this as soon as I find more or them...!

You'll find other items with the same flavor text : "Can be sold for a good price". Those items have no other purpose than being sold, if you have the reseller guide, you'll get more gold from them !

Here is the list of monoliths I encountered and dared to touch ! I always got these events when touching them so I guess it's not random, but depending on the colour of their aura.

• Monolith with a gold aura will give your party some XP.
  
• Monolith with a blue aura will make you pop at a random location on your current map.
  
• Monolith with red aura will hurt your party (I stopped touching those at some point, those red monoliths are evil...).
  
• Monolith with grey aura will give you a good blessing (sometimes I get XP for the party or one member, sometimes I get bonus stats !).