Mistvale

Controls

Desktop: WASD/arrows move · Shift run · click the game to capture the mouse (move to look) · left click sword · Space/J also sword · hold B/L/right click to raise the shield · Esc releases the mouse · hold Z/K to target (T toggles) · E talk / open · 1-8 pick a dialog answer · I bag and equipment · H this panel · M world map (Double click or double tap on the map to set a waypoint.) · P party · mute with the speaker button

Mobile: left stick moves · drag elsewhere to look · green A swings the sword · hold the blue Shield button to block · yellow Z locks on · blue Talk appears near villagers (and Open next to a chest)

How to play

• Red Gloops chase you and cost one heart per touch (then ~1s of invulnerability).
• Gloops take 3 sword hits. Their health bar appears when hurt or targeted.
• Spitters (squat pods with a long snout) swell and glow, then spit a green glob at where you stand. Step sideways, or hold the shield in front of you. Rush them and they stop firing. Rammerhogs (armoured boars) paw the ground and paint a red lane; step out of it. Their armour turns frontal sword hits away: hit them from the side or behind, or right after a charge when they are dazed (double damage). A shield stops a charge dead.
• Coins: monsters drop them (more for tougher ones, and for the Gravel King). Walk close and they fly to you.
• Villages: a new one every few hundred steps, styled by biome; gold dots on the minimap; open the map (M or the map button) to see the villages you have found, by name. Monsters stay out. Sleep in the Inn bed (E) to heal and set your respawn point. Shopkeepers sell meals, Heart Fruit and gear, healers mend you for coins, elders give one quest at a time (hunt monsters or carry a letter to another village).
• Danger grows with distance: past about 260 units from the start, monsters have more health and hit harder; from about 1,000 units out they have about 1.6x the health and hit one half-heart harder.
• Pink gems dropped by Gloops restore a heart. Reach 0 hearts and you get back up at your respawn point.
• Gate to the Hollow Keep dungeon: southeast of the start. Inside it is dark: clear the west room to reveal a Small Key, unlock the north door, open the chest in the east room for a Heart Container. Beyond the north door, push the heavy block onto the pressure plate to reveal the Boss Key and open the final door. Walk back to the glowing exit to leave. Everyone who enters meets in the same keep.
• More dungeons: Ember Hollow (about 550 steps south-west of the start) and the Sunken Archive (about 1,100 steps north) are bigger keeps for one player: two keys, one or two block puzzles. Twin Gate Vault (about 900 steps east) is a party dungeon for 2-3 players: its gate sign says so and it shows as an orange arch on the maps. Its last door opens only while two players stand on two pressure plates at the far ends of the vault at the same moment. Behind it waits the Twin Warden, built for a team: his front is armoured (swords do half damage), so one player keeps his attention while a friend walks round behind him and hits his back; later he aims some slams at whoever stands farthest away and calls in more gloops. Everyone who is there when he falls gets 800 coins and a Heart Container, once per account. Ember Hollow and the Sunken Archive each hide a Heart Container chest in a side room.
• Boss: beyond the boss door waits the Gravel King. Watch the red circles on the floor: they mark where he slams or where rocks fall, so step out of them. Hit him while he recovers from a slam for double damage. At half health he gets angrier and calls Gloops. If everyone falls, he resets.
• A full day lasts 5 minutes. Lamps and windows glow at night.
• Shield: hold it up to block hits from the front completely (the attacker gets shoved back). You walk slower and can't swing while it's raised. Shockwaves and falling rocks still hurt, but only half as much.
• Targeting makes you strafe around the enemy and keeps the camera locked on it. A gold marker floats over the target and its health bar stays up. The screen shakes when the Gravel King slams, rocks land, your shield takes a hit or the carved wall opens, and fades to black when you sleep or travel through a gate.
• Other players: you see everyone nearby; party members wear blue and show as cyan dots on the minimap. Press P to invite nearby players to a party. This panel does not pause the world.

Coming next

• The ocarina and its songs (the Singing Wall, the Sun Song)

Changelog

• next reset character (below); lock-on marker, camera shake, fades, dungeon camera stays out of walls
• next three more dungeons: Ember Hollow, Sunken Archive and the Twin Gate Vault (a party dungeon for 2-3 players)
• next the Twin Gate Vault boss (the Twin Warden) is a real team fight: armoured front, split slams, reinforcements; 800 coins per player and a Heart Container the first time. Heart Container chests in Ember Hollow and the Sunken Archive
• v38 small fps counter next to the version; the world map is on M (the mute key is gone, use the speaker button)
• v37 Tulla's shop is open from the start and sells the ocarina; sound effects and music, mute button
• v36 shared dungeons: everyone entering a dungeon meets in one keep; minimap
• v35 mouse controls: capture the mouse to look, click to swing, right click shield
• v32-v34 start-up diagnostics on the loading screen
• v31 https for Google sign-in; name tags over other players
• v30 Mistvale goes online: one shared world, sign in with Google, parties, your classic save can be imported
• v1-v29 the single-player game, still playable: Mistvale classic

Sound & saving

Sound effects and music are generated live. Use the speaker button (top right) to mute. Your progress (coins, gear, quests, dungeons) is kept on the server for your account; "Reset character" below wipes it and starts you fresh (you type RESET to confirm). World seed:

Reset your character?

This erases your coins, gear, hearts, quest, ocarina, songs and dungeon rewards, and puts you back in Mistvale. It cannot be undone. Your account and name stay.

Type RESET to confirm: