How to Play - Gnostic King

Welcome to Gnostic King. This page provides an overview of the basic controls, navigation, and gameplay features to help you get started.

1. Basic Controls

• Mouse Move - Hover over menu options or interface elements to highlight them.
• Left Click - Move player, select buttons, confirm actions, choose options, advance text, or interact with UI elements or game objects, entities, or items.
• Right Click - Used for opening menus.
• Scroll Wheel - Scroll long text or lists when available.

2. Keyboard Shortcuts

• ESC - Pause the game. (Press P to resume)
• Shift + Left Click Quickly move items between inventory, storage, and various other simular slots.
• ARROW KEYS - Moves the player.
• W - Moves the player forwards.
• A - Turns the player left.
• D - Turns the player right.
• S - Moves the player backwards.
• Numbers 1-8 - Activate actions on the action bar.

2.1. Gameplay Keyboard Shortcut Tips

• Shift + Left Click

Doors are placed right-handed by default. Hold Shift while placing the door to place the door left-handed.

Turn clay into soft clay by using it on water. If the water source is a hole in the ground, filled with water, and you would rather fill the hole with clay, hold Shift while placing the clay.

3. Menus & Interface

• Inventory Menu - Displays inventory slots, equipped items, as well as the player's tool and action bars. Shows health, energy, gnosis, and adrenaline bars.
• Levels Menu - Features information pertaining to levels in various skills. Clicking the combat skills opens menus for selecting combat abilities if they have been unlocked through normal game play.
• Direction Menu - Shows information related to the player's current position in the game world.
• Sounds Menu - Offers functions for toggling game music off and on. Shows data related to the music track currently playing.
• Settings Menu - Gives options for saving and loading the game.
• Information Menu - Returns information about the game world's current time, day and night cycles, and lunar cycles. Shows the game's current game frame and frames per second. Displays mouse movement, click coordinates and other information.

4. Game Saves

The game may use local storage to maintain save data directly in your browser. This means:

• Your save is stored on your device only.
• Clearing your browser data may delete your save.
• Updates may invalidate older save files depending on version changes.

5. Movement & Interaction

Depending on the current build and design:

• Character or world navigation may be mouse-based, button-based, or both as is the current design.
• Some interactions may require selecting icons, item slots, or dialogue choices.

6. Icons & Inventory

The game uses a large collection of item icons. Tooltips or hover descriptions may appear when interacting with them. Items typically do one or more of the following:

• Modify stats
• Use combat abilities
• Equip weapons and armor
• Combine into new items using game skills

7. Tips for New Players

• You have to allow the website (gnosticking.com) to use cookies, and allow the website to use local storage (indexedDB) for the game saves and loads to function properly. You can, however, jump straight into the game directly and the game will assign values to everything undefined, such as your player's name, world seed, and your player's skin and hair color.
• Create and save your player character and world seed on the settings ↗ page.
• After the game has been saved in-game, your saved games can later be found on the settings page under the "Saves" menu. You should load your saved game from there as soon as possible because it automatically opens auto-load features.
• Hover over items or icons and right click them to examine them and to learn about them.
• Click the vehicle's seat to get in and out of vehicles.
• Save your game frequently and don't be afraid to start over.
• The more chunks that you modify, the larger your world save becomes, and the longer it takes to save and load the game saves.

8. Troubleshooting

• No sound? Make sure your browser allows audio autoplay or click the screen to enable sound.
• Graphics issues? Try switching browsers or disabling hardware acceleration.
• Game running slowly? Close background tabs.
• Not saving? You have to allow this site to use cookies and local storage.
• Not loading? The game may have been updated. If so, you may need to delete your saves on the settings page and start over to play in the updated worlds.

9. Safety Notice

The game may contain flashing lights or high-contrast imagery. If you experience discomfort, stop playing immediately.

10. Need More Help?

If you encounter bugs, glitches, or have feedback, please contact the developer through the "About" page which has a link on the footer below.