Beginner's guide

Eversoul as its core is an idle game - which means that your account will get stronger even if you don't play it all the time.. If you want to learn more about the genre or about the game itself, check our introduction to the game guide, available here:

Introduction to the game

Before we move to the guide itself, here are some basic common terms used in idle games like Eversoul.

• Soul - that's how characters you can use in this game are called.
• C - Common soul. Marked by a green background.
• R - Rare soul. Marked by a blue background.
• E - Epic soul. Marked by a purple background.
• + (for example R+) - this means a sub-tier between the big tiers.
• Food / Fooder - souls that are used to upgrade other Souls.
• Buff - a positive effect that makes your Souls stronger by increasing their stats or giving them new abilities.
• Debuff - a negative effect that makes your Souls weaker. Basically the opposite of a buff.
• CC (Crowd Control) - an effect that makes a Soul stop fighting. For example, Stun and Sleep can be classified as CC effects.
• DoT (Damage over Time) - a negative effect that makes a Soul receive damage over its duration.
• Cleanse - an ability that can remove debuffs from ally Souls.
• Dispell - an ability that can remove buffs from enemy Souls.

Characters (Souls) in Eversoul can be split based on various criteria: Classes, Factions and Rarity. Let's talk about Classes first.

• Caster - your typical mages. They hide in the backline while casting devastating spells toward the enemies and most of their damage usually comes from them,
• Defender - the frontline of your team. Their job is to stand there and take a beating, while keeping the backline of the team safe,
• Ranger - your pew pew characters. They sit in the backline alongside Casters, but while their skills are also deadly, their regular attacks actually can deal a lot of damage too,
• Striker - the agile frontliners. Compared to Defenders and Warriors, they have less bulk, but in exchange have higher damage output,
• Supporter - the heart of the team. Without healers or buffers your team won't be able to survive enemies' onslaught - their heals and buffs are really crucial. Just make sure to keep them safe!
• Warrior - a frontliner with teeth. While Defenders are all about bulk and Strikers about agility, Warriors sit in the middle trying to balance both sides.

Characters (Souls) in Eversoul belong to one of 6 factions, these are the characters that excel from each faction.

Humans

The Human faction consists of characters that are pretty universal and can work in any team.

Important characters from the faction:

• Aki - an Assassin that, when decently invested in, can one-shot most of the characters in the game. Her skill will constantly reset with each kill until everyone on the enemy team is dead.
• Catherine - the classical Supporter that you can find in most games. She can heal, shield, and buff her allies, and is the only Soul in the game who can make allies invincible without having to use an Ultimate.

Beasts

The Beast faction is very heavy on melee-based characters. It includes the first set of paired characters in the game (Mica & Seeha), who have to be used in the same team to bring out their full potential. Like the Human faction, Beasts can often be used in mixed teams.

Important characters from the faction:

• Haru - a Striker who deals more damage to enemies that are separated from their team and applies debuffs to bleeding enemies. Her biggest use however, is her teamwide Attack buff applied when she has 2+ teammates nearby.
• Honglan -a Caster who focuses on controlling the battlefield and doing hybrid (upfront and DoT) damage, Honglan is one of the best support-carries in the game. She slows the enemy team, allowing your team to skill faster and more often.

Fairy

The Fairy faction focuses on controlling the battlefield with CC abilities, and has a significant amount of strong casters and ranged attackers. They also boast some of the best supporters in the game that can be slotted into any team.

Important characters from the faction:

• Chloe - the classic Defender who can increase own DEF, CC enemies and taunt the whole enemy team. She also has a cheat death passive that allows her to heal as she reaches low HP (only once per battle). Basically the best pure tank in the game.
• Talia - a Supporter who can heal and buff her allies, restore their mana so they can use their skills faster, and cleanse debuffs. On top of that, she can remove buffs from enemies, and her damage isn't too shabby either (if you use her Ultimate).
• Vivienne - a Caster who on top of having respectable damage, can provide a speed buff to her teammates, acting as a decent support even if she's not being used as a main DPS.
• Daphne - fairy's second Defender, she reduces her team's damage by diverting it to herself, becomes invulnerable upon reaching 0 HP (once per battle) then takes all that damage and deletes the enemy team with her main skill. While she usually works better as a sub-tank, her utility cannot be denied.

Undead

The Undead faction mainly focuses on damage over time effects and other debuffs, and tends to work better together than in mixed faction teams. Undead is well situated as the best raid faction, as they can deal respectable damage even at low investment.

Important characters from the faction:

• Violette - a Caster who can increase own ATK and damage output based on the amount of DoT effects on enemies. She is the original raid standard, doing amazing damage even at low investment when teamed up with other Undead faction Souls.
• Garnet - a support-based Ranger whose debuffs on the enemy are second to none. She increases your team's damage significantly, especially in raids, while also having respectable damage potential herself.

Angel

The Angel faction is a special faction in Eversoul - not only can they only be countered by the Demon faction, but they can be placed in any team and act as one of the faction with the highest amount in that team for faction bonus. The downside to Angel faction is that they are hard to pull and ascend, making them a big investment to build.

Available characters:

• Claudia - a Caster whose AoE damage is second to none. When well invested, she can usually delete the entire enemy team, as long as your frontliners can keep her alive until she can use her main and Ultimate skills.
• Adrianne - a Defender who can heal allies, CC enemies and disrupt enemy formation by pulling important targets. She also gets stronger the more enemies surround her.

Demon

The Demon faction is another special faction in Eversoul - similar to Angel, they are only countered by Angel and can be placed into any team. However, their faction bonus differs in that it does not add to other faction bonuses, but brings its own more offensive-oriented bonus. They also have the same downside, as they are hard to pull and ascend.

Available characters:

• Ayame - a Caster who focuses on damage over time. She can also Charm enemies and deals decent damage.
• Lizellote - a Ranger who can double the effect of most buffs affecting her, and has guaranteed crits against enemies that are isolated from their team (or have no team). Her kit makes her a top tier raid unit.

On the image below you can see how the factions counter each other:

Each character that you can obtain in the game belongs to one of three rarity tiers: common, rare and epic.

• Common characters (green - max level is 40) will be rarely used even at the start of the game and will be discarded for a currency that you can use in a one of the shops,
• Rare characters (blue - max level is 60) will be used in the early game, but Epic characters will soon start replacing them. Still, Rare characters have an important function - they can be upgraded to Epic rarity (and higher) and then be used as fodder to upgrade the rarity of your Epic characters,
• Epic characters (purple - max level is 100) will form the core of your team once you obtain them, but getting a single copy of them isn't enough.

In idle games, the starter rarities are only the beginning. While their names were not revealed yet, we know what colors they will have: orange, pink, and blue/purple gradient.

To reach the higher rarities, you will need to raise Rare characters to Epic and use them as fodder, but also get dupes for the Epic characters you actually plan to use. We prepared a guide that explains how to use this system:

Ascension guide

The team in Eversoul consist of 5 characters and similar to other games, you will obtain additional stats when you use more characters from the same faction.

• Have 3 characters from the same faction in the team - +10% ATK and +10% HP,
• Have 5 characters each from different faction in the team - +10% ATK and +10% HP,
• Have 3 characters from the same faction in the team and 2 from a different faction - +15% ATK and +15% HP,
• Have 4 characters from the same faction in the team - +20% ATK and +20% HP,
• Have 5 characters from the same faction in the team - +25% ATK and +25% HP.

Angel and Demon factions break the above rules though. If you add an Angel faction character to your team, it will act as if it belongs to the faction you have most characters of in the team. For example, if you have 3x Undead, 1x Fairy and 1x Angel, you will get the 4 faction bonus as the Angel character will be treated as Undead.

As for the Demon faction - they don't interact with other factions, but provide bonuses based on the number of Demon characters in the team:

• 1x Demon - +15% ATK
• 2x Demon - +15% ATK, +10% Crit chance
• 3x Demon - +15% ATK, +10% Crit chance, +20% Crit dmg
• 4x Demon - +20% ATK, +15% Crit chance, +25% Crit dmg
• 5x Demon - +25% ATK, +20% Crit chance, +30% Crit dmg

But what's different from other idle games is that in Eversoul you can also set a Formation and depending on your choice, you will get different bonus stats.

There are 4 formations you can choose:

• 3 back + 2 front - front characters get +9% DEF and HP, and back characters get +6% ATK
• 2 back + 3 front - front characters get +6% DEF and HP, and back characters get +9% ATK
• 4 back + 1 front - front character gets +16% DEF and HP, and back characters get +4% ATK
• 1 back + 4 front - front characters get +4% DEF and HP, and back character gets +16% ATK

So what should you do to progress faster?

• Pick 1 character each from the 4 main factions (Humans, Beasts, Fairy and Undead) that you have most dupes of,
• For the 5th spot, pick a second character from the faction you have most dupes and fodder,
• Throw the characters you actually want to use in your team in the Synchro Device - this will allow you to level them past their level cap and still make them usable,
• Just do note that this will work when the difference in tier is is 1-2 tiers. When it's bigger, the stat bonus you get from Ascending up a tier will be too big and you will have to adjust your plan.

This will allow you to spread your Fodder nicely and by doing so progress at a much faster pace. And at the same time, you will be able to build your team to make use of the Faction bonuses.

For a dedicated early-game team building guide go here:

Team building

Check our tier list for the early game!

Tier list

Tutorial is the first thing that awaits you in Eversoul. The game will teach you how to setup formation, use Active and Ultimate skills, how to level a character and other things. You will obtain Linzy midway though the tutorial. If you decide to skip all cutscenes, the tutorial should take you around 15-20 minutes or so.

At the end of the tutorial, you will unlock the Summoning feature and obtain the Infinite Newbie Ticket. As the name suggest, you will be able to reroll the ticket as many times as you want. After doing a pull using the ticket, you will obtain 10 characters and only one of them will be Epic. Still, this is enough to get the character you want, so don't be afraid to roll as long as you need. After accepting the pull you made, the game will progress.

Continue progressing through the story and by doing so, you will unlock additional features.

For more tricks and tips, check this guide:

Tips and tricks