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1 Pick a verb, not a class

With six attributes and thirteen skills and no class system, the question is not what you want to be called but what you want to do to a room when you enter it.

The developer offers assassin and battlemage as two examples out of dozens of possible playstyles, so these are starting directions rather than tracks. The value of choosing one early is that your equipment choices start agreeing with your point spending.

2 Utility skills buy content

Combat skills decide whether you win a fight. Utility skills decide whether a room exists for you at all. In a game whose selling point is a vast interconnected world full of secret chambers, that is not an even trade.

Lock picking is the clearest example, since the store lists picking locks alongside breaking doors and trading as parallel solutions. Every locked thing you cannot open is content you paid for and did not see.

A reasonable ratio for a first character is to keep the large majority of investment on your chosen combat direction and a deliberate minority on the skills that open doors, rather than treating utility as leftovers.

3 Keeping a keyword notebook

Keyword based dialogue is the system most likely to be under used, because nothing prompts you. If you do not raise a subject, the character simply never mentions it, and there is no list to remind you.

Ask the same keyword of different characters. In systems built this way, the interesting answers usually come from asking the wrong person about something, not from asking the obvious one.

4 How to search a themed area

The fortress runs from the highest towers to the lowest caverns through a multitude of differently themed areas, and it hides secret chambers and passageways rather than marking them.

A practical method is to treat each themed area as a unit. Walk its perimeter before going deeper, note the places where the geometry implies a room you have not entered, and only then follow the obvious route onward.

Because the world is interconnected rather than linear, a passage you cannot open now is worth remembering rather than forcing. Many will turn out to be reachable from the other side later, which is the whole appeal of this structure.

5 Magic and technology together

The setting is described as an apocalyptic fantasy world that combines magic and technology into a new, unique arrangement. That is a hint about puzzle design as much as about atmosphere.

Where a purely magical setting solves problems with spells and a purely technological one with devices, a combined one lets either work. If a spell will not open something, look for a mechanism, and if a mechanism is broken, consider whether magic reaches past it.

This is also why the item combination system matters. Combining items to interact with your surroundings is listed alongside dialogue as a core verb, which puts inventory experimentation on the same level as conversation.

6 Playing an Early Access RPG well

Monomyth arrived in October 2024 and is still listed as Early Access. For a long, systems heavy RPG that has a specific consequence worth planning around: content and balance may change under a save file you are attached to.

The comfortable way to play is therefore to treat a playthrough as complete in itself rather than as a save to preserve indefinitely. Finish the areas that exist, enjoy them, and let a future update be a reason for a new character rather than a disruption to an old one.

With 24 achievements and dozens of viable builds, a second character costs you nothing conceptually. It is also the most reliable way to see the parts of Lysandria that your first, committed build could not open.