Settings & Unlocks

The menu

Sound, Display, Tutorial, Battle, and Campaign tabs. The same menu before and during play; the Campaign section only appears while a game is running.

Settings on the main menu opens the sound and play options before a campaign starts. Once you are playing, the same menu lives behind the gear button on the world map's top bar, with saving and leaving added to it. On a phone the system back button opens it too.

Sound

• Music on / off silences the score without forgetting what was playing. Turn it back on and the track picks up again.
• Volume applies immediately to whatever is playing.

Browsers refuse to play sound until you have touched the page, so the music starts on your first tap or click. If a browser tab is silent, check the ♪ button: a mute you set in an earlier session is remembered.

Display

Fullscreen appears in the browser version only, and hands the whole screen to the game. Press Esc to come back out. The phone app is already edge to edge and has no such setting.

Ads & privacy

Privacy policy ↗ opens the privacy policy: what the game stores, what the ads use, and how to say no to any of it.

Privacy options appears only where a consent form was shown in the first place, which means the EEA, the UK and Switzerland. It reopens your answer about personalised ads. You may change it whenever you like, and refusing simply means no ads.

Remove ads is the one thing the game sells: a single small purchase that takes the banner out of the Android version for good, on that device. Nothing else changes. Every rule, every art and every campaign is identical either way, and there is nothing behind it that a paying player gets and you do not. Restore brings it back on a new device or after a reinstall. The browser version is free and carries its own ads on the page around the game.

Tutorial

Reset tutorial offers the whole tour again from the beginning: the opening sequence and every one-off hint. The line beside it says where guidance currently stands. To put it away instead, use Skip tutorial on the walkthrough itself; it is offered at every step.

Guide

Player guide ↗ opens this manual in a browser.

Battle

Auto-resolve decides whether the encounter dialog offers to settle a fight with the dice. Switch it off and every battle is fought on the tactical field; the shortcut simply stops being offered.

Until you have finished the Great Work once, it is shut and every battle is yours to fight. The battlefield is where the ground, the flanking and the arts all live, and a shortcut past it offered on your very first encounter is a shortcut past the game.

Campaign

Only while a campaign is running: Save, Save & quit, and Quit without saving. The day's autosave stands either way; see Saving Your Campaign.

What you unlock

Your first campaign is offered plainly: no difficulty to weigh before you know what any of it means, and no seat at the heart of the chamber to take. Finishing the Great Work opens the rest, and what you have earned is kept on your device across campaigns.

Do this	And this opens
Win a campaign, at any difficulty	The difficulty choice appears on the guild confirmation screen
Win a campaign, at any difficulty	Auto-resolve can be switched on in Settings
Win a campaign on Hard	The seat at the heart opens: Entropy becomes playable

Difficulty

Until you have won once, every campaign runs at the gentlest setting: your opening treasury is doubled. After that first victory you may pick for yourself:

• Easy doubles your opening treasury.
• Medium starts everyone even.
• Hard makes every other guild's opening treasury half again as large as it should be.

Playing Entropy

Until then, Entropy simply stands at the middle of the chamber floor. It is present, the way it is present at the middle of the world, but not on offer. Win on Hard and that presence becomes a seat you can take. It is a different game from the other side: you begin at the world's blighted heart holding the Grand Athanor everyone else is coming to take, your swallowed garrisons draw no wages, and there is no temple to storm for victory. You win by ending every other guild, and you lose the moment your own Lord falls, exactly like anyone else.