Tales From The Labyrinth has now launched on itch.io and I hope that everyone is enjoying it. It’s a challenging game with a lot of hidden tricks and strategies to discover so I’ve compiled a list of useful hints to help you all on your way. Have fun trying to conquer the Labyrinth!

-Your Fullness will gradually decrease as you explore the stages and will need to be restored by eating bread. If your Fullness falls to zero you will begin to starve and will lose 1 HP every turn. Eating bread when starving will enable you to regain some Fullness and no longer be in starvation status.

-You can regain some HP at the cost of a few Fullness points by pressing the D key. This will enable you to quickly regain health. Pressing the X key allows you to stand still and skip a turn, without affecting your HP. 

-All attacks in this game hit, there are no missed hits and no dodging. This applies to both the player and the monsters.

-Attack damage is calculated as the sum of your Strength plus the Weapon Strength of your equipped weapon. Most monsters do not have any defence, so your attacks will do the maximum damage. You can equip shields to reduce the damage you take from enemy attacks, with the Shield Defence value being the amount that the damage will be reduced by.

-Stronger weapons and shields appear the further you advance through the game.

-Try to learn what abilities each type of monster has and adapt your strategy accordingly. You should try and keep your distance from monsters such as the Lich (who can freeze you) or the Hydra (causes confusion). Some monsters can only use their special ability once while others can use their ability without limit.

-Undead monsters such as the Ghost, Lich, Zombie and Reaper can be damaged by casting the Healing Staff at them or throwing healing items such as health potions. 

-Watch the monsters carefully and observe how they move, there are a number of different AI patterns in the game and not all monsters will behave in the same way. Learn which monsters will chase you and which ones can be easily avoided.

-If a Creeper steals one of your items you can recover it by defeating the Creeper.

-Most status effects wear off after a certain amount of turns however poison status (which stops HP regeneration) lasts for as long as you are on the current stage. As soon as you go to the next stage the poison will be cured. You can also cure poison by drinking an Antidote Potion.

-Traps only appear in rooms, they never appear in corridors.

-Monsters are not affected by the traps.

-If you equip Arrows, you can press the A key to shoot them without having to go through the inventory menu.

-If you drink a Health Potion or a Restore Potion when your HP is at maximum your maximum HP will increase by a few points. Also, if you eat bread when your Fullness is at maximum this will also increase your maximum Fullness by a few percent.

-The number that appears in brackets in the name of Staff items is the number of uses that staff has. When that number is zero you can not cast that staff’s spell any more but you can get one final use of the spell by throwing the staff at an enemy.

-Using the Preserve Scroll will cause all bread currently in your inventory to be preserved so that it can not go rotten. Preserved bread items have [P] after their name in your inventory. Stepping on a Rotten Trap will have no effect if your bread is preserved.

-Rotten Bread can be eaten and will restore a little fullness but you will also lose some HP and suffer a randomly chosen negative side effect such as poison status or loss of strength. Try throwing Rotten Bread at enemies as they will also receive a negative effect.

-The Sealing Scroll and Sealing Staff are very useful items for dealing with monsters with powerful abilities. The monster will be unable to use its special ability (for example the Hydra's confusion attack or the Mage's magic spells) and will only be able to attack normally. This can render some of the most powerful enemies in the game much easier to overcome.

-Beware cursed items! If you equip a cursed item you will not be able to remove it, unless you find and use an Uncurse Scroll. You can also remove equipped cursed items by finding and stepping on an Unequip Trap.

-If you are in a sticky situation, use your items! While it may be tempting to try to save items for later, it's often better to just use them and ensure your survival for a little longer. When you die you lose everything in this game and items are of no use to you if you're dead!