Battle mechanics (Patreon)

Your turn is first. You have four choices:

· Use an attack skill to deal damage to the enemy;

· Use a defense skill to protect yourself from future attacks;

· Use a boost skill to increase your energy or damage for future turns;

· Use a tricky skill to make the enemy more vulnerable.

At the beginning of the game, you only have three skills:

- The Dark Ball skill that you can use to deal damage to the enemy

- The Energy Boost skill that you can use to restore your energy during battle

- The Mental Shield skill that you can use to protect yourself from enemy attacks

Gradually while playing the game you can unlock many other skills.

Your enemies also have special skills. Each enemy has a basic attack (or two basic attacks) and a powerful special attack. 

To use their powerful attack, they have to be focused, so if you notice that the enemy has taken a special stance to prepare to make a special attack, you can use your turn to break their concentration and make them just miss their turn with no effect on you. To break an enemy’s concentration, just deal them some damage.

Notice: if that if the enemy takes less damage then he blocks, you won’t break his concentration and he’ll be able to use his special attack on you anyway.

Example 1: you see that the enemy is preparing to make a special attack. He has 3 points of armor this turn. You attack him and deal 5 points of damage with your skill. Thanks to his armor, the enemy blocks 3 points of damage and takes only 2 points of damage from your attack. Since the damage taken is less than the damage blocked, his concentration is not broken and he deals you damage with his special attack on his turn.

Example 2: you see that the enemy is preparing to make a special attack. He has 1 point of armor this turn. You attack him and deal 5 points of damage with your skill. Thanks to his armor the enemy blocks 1 point of damage and takes 4 damage from your attack. Since he took more damage than he blocked, his concentration is broken and he has to miss his turn with no effect on you.

 Some enemies can also use boost skills:

They try to restore their health points (when the demon creates a blue pattern on the ground) or increase their extra damage (when the demon creates a red pattern on the ground). This action also demands concentration and can be canceled with you do damage as described above.

The battle lasts until one of the participants loses all their health (the red bar above the head of each fighter).