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Skautfold: Moonless Knight is a Metroidvania set in the Oda Imperial Palace, where you explore interconnected routes, fight enemies and uncover the palace’s history and the secrets beneath it. You play as Gray, the 2nd Knight of the Angelic Empire of Britannia, sent on a diplomatic mission to Japan’s Dawn Empire. The mission goes wrong when the Lunatics, a faction that worships the Eldritch Moon god, instigate a religious coup. Gray must recover a special item on which the survival of the entire Empire depends.

The Imperial Palace

The palace has a semi-open design with multiple paths to your objective, shortcuts, loops and secrets. You can tackle bosses in any order, establish safe havens in the besieged castle and return to earlier areas with new Relics to reach treasure and grow stronger. Environmental storytelling reveals the palace’s history and the dark secret below, as the story builds toward the moon opening to reveal humanity’s fate and insignificance.

Your discoveries include familiars that aid you in combat, dying soldiers in need of healing injections, Yth stones, hidden money stashes, ninja-like pugs and Eldritch horrors disguised as things you might want to obtain.

Combat and progression

The Guard System lets you reflect enemy attacks with a precisely timed block or use a well-timed dodge to bypass an enemy’s guard and strike their health directly. Taking health damage reduces maximum guard, for both you and your enemies, so careless fighting can compound into further danger. Heavy weapons reward strong defence and forceful guard breaks, while faster weapons rely on evasive moves to exploit openings.

Waltham Industry’s Vitae Injections restore health. Used at full health, they temporarily overcharge it, letting you increase your damage or withstand attacks that are difficult to avoid. You can also feint out of almost any action to switch to a defensive move, avoid an incoming attack or potentially double your damage by feinting out of an attack’s wind-down.

Each of your nine stats improves through use rather than general experience. Taking hits builds toughness, avoiding attacks develops evasion, and using a weapon type makes you more efficient with it, increasing its damage while reducing its guard cost. You can also turn the surroundings against enemies by kicking them into traps, pits and spikes.

Relics

You can use any of nine combat and exploration Relics to improve your fighting options and bypass barriers. They include grappling hooks, a bow with infinite arrows, the ability to summon a fire vampire and the ability to teleport instantly.