Scholar

Scholar is a spelling game with RPG elements. You spell words to fight through levels, level up your hero, unlock skills and defeat a powerful boss at the end of each level for loot.

Flow and skills

Flow serves as both your energy and health. Casting a word and taking damage each reduce it. Skills, equipment and upgrades can lower Flow costs or remove them; some skills let you regenerate Flow or refill it with a special word.

You can develop your hero through three skill trees: Flow, Experience and Guardian. Focus on experience gains or damage, or combine the trees to suit your approach. You can reset your skills at any time and try different strategies.

Loot and augments

Runs reward loot, with harder difficulties offering better-quality items. Equipment comes in common, rare, legendary and set rarities. Equipping multiple items from a set unlocks special abilities, while higher-difficulty runs also produce items with better rolls. Glitched items have extra stats, and can make even a common item a useful addition to your collection.

As you spell, you encounter augmented letters that can grant bonuses such as XP, Flow, damage or free shuffling. Some have harmful effects, which can still be useful with the right skills.

Runes and upgrades

Spelling words, using augmented letters and defeating guardians earn different kinds of runes. You spend runes to increase your board size and XP, and gain advantages against guardians. These upgrades work alongside your skills and equipment.

Difficulty and runs

You choose the general difficulty, from a more relaxed experience to a harder spelling challenge. Higher difficulty grants extra XP and loot. Runs also scale from level 1 to level 200, letting you farm lower levels quickly or tackle higher ones for better rewards.

Track your build

The info box shows items with unique abilities and skills that boost XP, damage or Flow in their corresponding sections. You can mouse over them to see their names. When a legendary or set item triggers its effect, a short animation indicates when it happens.