Thymesia: Complete Beginners Guide

With the recent success of Elden Ring there has been a lot of players that recently started to play Souls-like games. There has been a long list of souls-like games in the market since the original Dark Souls game became popular. Some of them can be cheap copies while others can be really good games that take inspiration from the genre. There have been some games that took it even further, giving new genres like platformers the souls-like gameplay. While others stick close to home, and Thymesia is one of those games. In this guide, we’ll show you the basics of the game.

Complete Beginners Guide In Thymesia

In Thymesia you play as “Corvus” a mysterious character that goes through a plague-ridden world as they try to find what has happened through his own memories. It is a dark and gritty game that shows all sorts of disgusting plague creatures and enemies while sticking to the old Dark Souls type of gameplay.

Source: Thymesia on Steam (steampowered.com)

The unique thing about this game is that it uses the enemies’ plagues to your advantage by making different plague weapons. These plague weapons and taken from the enemies you slay and with the right set of talents you can carry up to three. It also has basic weapons like swords and daggers. You can pair up with the unique plague weapons. This gives way to combinations for the players to find out and play with.

Just like the game they’re taking inspiration from, Thymesia has certain mechanics that you’ll find familiar if you play these kinds of games. Dodge mechanics as well as difficult bosses is something that you can look forward to.

There are also a variety of different attacks from different plague weapons which you can get from enemies. They’re temporary when you take them from enemies. However, you can make them permanent weapons in your arsenal that uses energy. There’s also the feather attack which you can use for un-blockable attacks to stun the enemy with the right timing.

Speaking of right timing you can also deflect attacks, when timed right you negate all damage and also damage enemies. You’ll need to keep an eye on the enemy’s attacks. Often times it’s not just one attack but luckily you can deflect multiple attacks with the right timing.

So Thymesia is a more fast-paced and action-oriented souls-like game where you use a huge arsenal of attacks while weaving in feather attacks and deflects as you dodge around the enemies. It will take some getting used to but once you’ve mastered the mechanics you can easily defeat anything.

Congratulations you now know the basics of Thymesia, now go out there and try the game yourself!