Idle Slayer - Idle monster slaying

Embark on an epic journey alongside the idle hero within this fantastical idle RPG realm.

Even while you're away, the hero can accumulate coins for you.

Traverse a vast and magnificent RPG universe waiting to be explored.

Engage in quests, gather coins, enhance your swords and weapons to rise as the ultimate knight or archer in the land.

Uncover numerous achievements and uncharted territories, as the game holds limitless secrets just waiting for you to unveil them.

Idle Slayer Guide: Tips, Tricks & Strategies to Become a Legend

The Basics of the Slaying Business

Slaying is no easy business to maintain! You’ve got to have the best gear, the shiniest artifacts, and the thirst to keep yourself going. It’s going to be a long, arduous journey because the only directions from here are onward and up. Let’s get slaying!

1. Actively Play the Game

Gotta respect the grind.

It’s an idle game, so what’s the point of playing it?

Well, there are plenty of reasons why you should be playing Idle Slayer actively. One particular reason why is that almost anything you do, any new milestone you reach earns you an achievement. For each achievement you earn, you can use this to your advantage by getting the belt upgrade.

The Belt of the Sage is an upgraded version of the Belt of Knowledge.

To access the upgrades, tap the green arrow icon in your inventory menu, and you should find an upgrade called the Belt of Knowledge which starts at the low, low price of 2.5k Gold. This special belt will grant you a bonus to your Coins per Second (CpS) for every achievement you’ve earned.

Think of the many things you explore along the way—a new record for the highest sword level, how many times you pressed the boost button, how many times you’ve jumped, etc. All of these little achievements help in making your character earn more.

Other than that, hitting boxes and opening them will get you some bonus cash along the way. But are you having trouble hitting the boxes at all? Let’s talk about that in the next item!

2. Timing Your Jumps Helps

Jump! Jump now!

A box has made its way into the screen—jump too soon and you’ll jump over it, jump too late and you’ll miss.

You see, a long, long time ago, in a famous gaming console, there once was a very famous game that involved an Italian plumber who was trying to save a princess from a fire-breathing dragon turtle.

Apart from running, jumping, throwing fireballs, and eating mushrooms that make him grow bigger, he had the ability to break blocks with his head. Some of these blocks had question marks on them and he could only open them by hitting them from underneath using his head. Crazy, huh? Same principle applies here in Idle Slayer.

When a box comes into view, all you need to do is simply wait for your character to get directly under it. Once they are, jump immediately and you’ll get the prize inside. This technique should also be observed once you unlock the Silver Boxes which are limited per day but give you even larger bonuses than ordinary boxes. But timing your jumps doesn’t just work well for boxes.

If you happen to see coin patterns or swarms of flying enemies, you can maximize what you earn from them by following the pattern with your jumps. For example, if you encounter a coin pattern that has 3 columns, you can gather the first column by jumping up, then the second column by falling. The third one can be collected with a second jump. You read that right: a 3-column coin pattern neatly cleared with only 2 jumps.

You will miss coins and monsters every now and then, but don’t feel too bad. Though, you should really try your best not to miss the monsters since they’re more valuable.

3. Try Not to Miss the Monsters

The only good bug…

Every monster’s got a bounty on its head; each and every one of them.

The monsters of Idle Slayer, for the most part, are divided into two types: air and land. Air monsters fly and require you to jump at them to successfully kill them, whereas land monsters can simply be killed by walking towards them. Killing any monster will not just grant you Souls, but an extra boost in your Gold.

Think of monsters as but another way to earn money. Killing more of these will get you more equipment levels under your belt (yes, we’re also talking about achievements here since there are achievements for killing monsters), and killing a number of them can help you earn from quests which you unlock from the upgrades section. Souls and Slayer Points are very important as we will discuss soon.

Just remember: when you activate the Horde bonus from the boxes, try to kill as many of the monsters as much as you can so as to maximize your earnings. The Horde bonus mostly involves a large group of aerial enemies, so be prepared to jump a lot.

Of course, any good adventurer should be out there with the best gear. Let’s talk about that next!

4. Level Up Your Equipment Well

Well-rounded numbers.

In most idle games, earning currency is the main feature of the game. Idle Slayer is no exception!

In your inventory, the sword icon will bring you to your equipment tab. The equipment that your character wields passively earns them Gold when leveled up. There is no means for you to use the equipment per se, but with each item you have in that tab, it increases your CpS by a little bit each time you level them. At level 0, these equipment pieces will not generate CpS; you’ll need to level them up at least one time in order to get the bonuses they offer.

You may even choose to level up your equipment in batches. At the bottom of the equipment screen, you should see numbers in this succession: 1 10 50. Tapping any of these will allow you to level up your desired equipment piece by the levels specified. We recommend going by 10s since it’s ostensibly quicker to level your equipment this way than bumping each of them up one level at a time. 50 levels is bigger for sure, but it’s not as economic as it would seem; especially if you’re trying to level each piece separately.

Each time you reach a certain amount of CpS, you will unlock new equipment. What we mean to say is that you’ll start with just the sword, then you’ll unlock the shield, then the helmet, then armor, then boots, so on and so forth. The new equipment will be more powerful in generating overall CpS, but such power comes with the price of being more expensive than the new equipment’s predecessors.

For instance, your sword might be generating 22 CpS at level 50, but your helmet is generating 3,450 CpS at level 1. You shouldn’t worry too much about leveling these up when you can’t afford to, but every level helps.

Speaking of which, getting new equipment is similar to getting new upgrades. Let’s tackle this one next!

5. Get the Next Upgrade

There’s always something better!

Your equipment alone just won’t cut it—you’re gonna need upgrades, too!

As we’ve mentioned earlier, upgrades can be found in the upgrades tab by pressing the green arrow icon in the inventory. upgrades are powerful perks that change the way the game feels. For instance, many of the upgrades often focus on CpS gain, while others give you the opportunity to fight more monsters and the like.

As far as upgrades go, we highly recommend getting any of these that add to your CpS. To illustrate, hitting certain levels with your equipment will unlock upgrades for them. When your sword hits level 100, an upgrade appears called Light Sword which causes your sword to generate 100% more CpS.

This happens to all the equipment in your inventory. Naturally, the equipment you get later on tends to have even more powerful upgrades. More upgrades that improve CpS would be those that look like food (e.g. Candy, Cheese, Strawberry, Meat, etc.).

The last one of the bunch.

Some upgrades grant you quests to accomplish. Should you pursue these quests, do know that the gap between getting more of them is quite great. You’ll have to earn over billions of Gold alone to get the next set of quests after the “Beginner” difficulty. In the meantime, there’s still plenty to do.

One of the many things you can do before getting the next quest set is to Ascend and to do it often.

6. Ascend Often

Things are about to become powerful.

Ascension—we’ve mentioned it here earlier, but what exactly does it do?

What Ascension does is bring your character back to the beginning. All of their equipment and upgrades will start at 0. Your CpS will be 0 as well. You’ll be back to collecting coins manually as opposed to waiting for the game to gain coins for you. “This sounds like a terrible idea,” you might say, but hear us out when we say that Ascension actually opens up a lot of cool stuff for your character.

Ascension allows you to start with a clean slate. Perhaps you feel like you leveled up the wrong equipment pieces, or maybe you feel like you got the wrong upgrades at the wrong time, this is your chance to scratch that itch.

More power!

That’s not all. Ascension gives you the choice among a plethora of power ups, provided you have the Slayer Points for it. These power ups are permanent—even if you Ascend another time, they won’t leave you.

As simple and easy as the game looks, it will only get more difficult from here. May you earn plenty of Gold and slay a ton of monsters. Schwing!