CONTROLS

W A S D

Move

Mouse

Look

Shift

Sprint — burns stamina

LMB

Attack

1

Melee (press again to cycle)

2 – 5

Guns

6

The Spellbook

Q

Quick-swap

R

Reload

G / RMB

Throw utility

T

Cycle utility

F

Special (when the meter is full)

V

Cycle special

E

Trade with the Merchant

Esc

Pause

Click the game to capture your mouse. Esc releases it.

CONTROLLER

Left stick

Move

Right stick

Look

RT

Attack

LT

Throw utility

LB

Cycle utility

RB

Next weapon

X / Y

Reload / quick-swap

B

Melee

D-pad

Weapon slots

L3

Sprint

Start

Pause

Plug in a pad and press a button — it's picked up automatically. On phones and tablets the touch controls appear on first touch.

THE DEAD

• BONEWALKER Bare hands. Comes in numbers.
• MARKSMAN Holds a lane and bursts at range.
• SAPPER Seeds the floor with proximity mines.
• SHADE Cloaked. Dashes in for a backstab.
• NECROMANCER Raises the fallen, or throws a bone volley and a delayed curse. Kill it first.
• THE DUPLICATOR Barely fights back. Every two seconds it beams a copy of the nearest skeleton into being instead — kill it first, or the wave keeps growing.
• THE COMBAT MASTER A flurry of very fast strikes up close, and a telegraphed lunge that flat-out kills if you're still standing where it lands. Grave Dust stuns it for 20 seconds.
• FAKE SURVIVOR Wears a survivor's own colours and fights with their own gun, at their own numbers, and throws their own utilities back at them. Switch weapons mid-fight and so does it.
• THE DARKENER Harmless until it gets next to you — then your whole screen goes black for two seconds, and a sword lands the instant your sight returns. Kill it while you can't see it.
• CRYPT BOSS DARKENER The Darkener's own trick at a boss's reach and toughness — the blackout holds for ten seconds, not two, and the sword at the end of it is a guaranteed kill. Kill it well before it gets close.
• CRYPT BOSS SPY Still never throws the first punch — but every scream it finishes calls in a fresh grunt beside it. Silence it mid-scream, same as always, or pay for every scream it gets to finish.
• CRYPT BOSS ANGLER Four hooks on the floor at once, refreshed fast, and roughly one in forty is a mine instead of a lie.
• CRYPT BOSS SHADE The same cloak and the same backstab, just able to dash again almost immediately — a strike you survived is rarely the last one for a while.
• CRYPT BOSS NECROMANCER Raises the fallen into Sappers, not Bonewalkers. Leaving corpses lying around near this one gets expensive.
• CRYPT BOSS DUPLICATOR Every clone that comes out of the beam is stronger than what it copied. Kill it first, faster than ever.
• CRYPT BOSS FREEZER The spray no longer picks one target — it catches everyone standing in it at once.
• CRYPT BOSS BARROW The Barrow's own obstacle at a bigger scale — a wider crush ring, a longer reach, and less time between attempts.
• CRYPT BOSS PHASER Still cannot be avoided by any wall in the crypt. Faster, hits harder, throws you further.
• CRYPT BOSS COMBAT MASTER A five-hit combo, and a killing lunge that is not a one-off — a second attempt can land half a second behind the first. Grave Dust still stuns it for 20 seconds.
• THE FREEZER Sprays dry ice at close range — a slow if you're healthy, a full freeze if you're not.
• SPY Never attacks at range. Spots you, screams, and wakes the whole crypt. Silence it — but it carries a sword now, so closing in is not free.
• ANGLER Lays a Skeledollar that is not one. Walking to the bait costs health and the floor's attention.
• BOUNCER Never walks. Leaps, and lands on you — the landing ring is drawn on the floor for the whole flight. Jump, and it passes under your feet.
• THE BARROW A titan's health at a third of a grunt's pace. Not a threat — a wall. It eats every bullet meant for whatever is behind it. Go round.
• PHASER A Bonewalker that walks through stone. No corner breaks it, no doorway holds it, and its swing throws you.
• THE MIMIC Arrives as nothing in particular. The first time it sees you it freezes for five seconds deciding what to become — kill it there, or find out the hard way what it picked.
• BONE TITAN Boss. Ground slam and shrapnel.
• CRYPT BOSS BOUNCER Boss. The Bouncer, faster, in a crush ring three times the size — and lethal to the very rim.
• CRYPT BOSS SAPPER Boss. The Sapper, mining the floor far faster in a ring you can't shrug off — and it can dash the length of a room, laying a line of them as it goes.
• CRYPT BOSS MARKSMAN Boss. The Marksman, carrying a shotgun, a rifle and a sniper rifle — whichever range you're at is the one it's ready for. A 1% chance on every shot to hit for double.
• THE BONE MONARCH The bottom of a descent. Summons its own escort and does not stop until one of you does.
• THE MERCHANT Deserted. Sells, never fights.

SPECIALS

One meter, filled by killing and by being hurt — so it charges fastest exactly when a wave is going badly. Full, press F. V picks which of the three you are carrying.

• BONE STORM Shockwave. Too many bodies, too close.
• LAST RITES Four seconds untouchable, plating restored.
• KILLER WAIL Your gun becomes a scream for 20 seconds. Hold the trigger; nothing in front of you survives it.
• HOLLOW HOUR The crypt crawls. You do not.

THE MERCHANT

Every tenth wave the crypt sends nobody but a deserter with a pack. Stand close and press E to spend Skelebucks — dropped by the dead, more often the deeper you go, and gone the moment the run is. Buy supplies, guns, and upgrades to what you already carry.

One wave in a hundred they wander into a fight instead. Your bullets cannot touch them; their old comrades can, and every skeleton on the floor will walk straight past you to get to them.

THE SPELLBOOK

A sixth weapon, cast from mana rather than ammo — run dry and a spell still fires, just for much less. Cast with nothing entered and it is the plain Regular bolt; a command input on the arrow keys arms something stronger for exactly one cast. The full list of commands lives in the Bonebook, under WORKSHOP > BONEBOOK.

NOISE

• MELEE Nearly silent — 5 tiles.
• GUNFIRE Gives away you — 18–24 tiles.
• EXPLOSIONS Give away a place — 26 tiles. Use as bait.