Tlessa might seem simple at first, but once you start exploring, a whole world of opportunities unfolds before your eyes.

This guide is designed for those who are new to Tlessa and need some direction on where to start or how to get into the game.

Core Game Loop

There is one core game loop: Fight → Craft → Enchant → Repeat.

As you progress, you'll eventually unlock all the items available for crafting, extending beyond what's offered in the shop. Once you start crafting items beyond the shop’s inventory, you’ve entered the mid-game phase.

As you level up both your enchanting and crafting skills, the world of Tlessa becomes your oyster.

Guide Quests: Your Key to Understanding the Game

Every new player who joins Tlessa has Guide Quests enabled by default. These quests provide you with the story, information, instructions, and requirements to play the game.

The information explains what you’re doing, often linking to help documents for further details. Instructions are provided for both mobile and desktop users, giving you explicit steps on what to click.

For example, the first Guide Quest is to level up your character to level 2. For desktop users, you select a monster from the dropdown menu. For mobile users, you navigate to Fight → Select Monster. The fight option can be found in the dropdown on the game tab for mobile players.

Repeat this about ten times to reach level 2!

Crafting and Enchanting

This is a vital aspect of the game. Without it, you’ll find yourself dying frequently, missing attacks, and experiencing longer crafting times costing you precious gold and time. .

When you start, you have shop gear to craft and whatever enchantments are unlocked by your enchanting level and character intelligence. The enchanting table in the help docs can be filtered to show the enchantments you need, whether it’s for looting, crafting, or stat growth.

Everything stacks. For example, three looting enchantments on three items at 10% each will give you a total of 30% looting.

The Guide Quests will walk you through this process.

Quests

Tlessa doesn’t lock features or game aspects like plane access or skills behind a paywall. Instead, they are gated by time and, more importantly, quests.

As of this writing, Tlessa has over 206 quests. Some are only available during specific events, such as those that unlock temporary planes for all players, like the Winter Event, where the Ice Plane opens up and introduces new quests.

Some quests are only available during Raids, which are geared toward mid-to-late game players. These quests often unlock cosmetic features like new sets or cosmetic text and labels that players can apply to their character name in chat.

Beyond these, quests also allow you to level beyond 1,000, reincarnate your character, and unlock various kingdom features.

All quests contribute to the central story of Tlessa. Some unlock new planes, while others unlock new features. Each quest tells you exactly how to access the NPC so that when you click "Hand In" on a quest, you’re automatically taken to that NPC, wherever they may be.

Kingdoms

Once you’re more established—having crafted good gear beyond what the shop sells, equipped solid enchantments, completed quests, and gained a good understanding of the core mechanics—it’s time to invest in the Kingdoms aspect of the game.

Kingdoms allow you to turn your wealth into Gold Bars, which you can then use at the Goblin Shop to progress toward the endgame. The endgame involves reincarnating your character and leveling up from level 1 again to 5,000 to increase your power and strength. You don’t lose anything with reincarnating, except your level, and some of your raw stats are carried over.

Kingdoms are a form of passive PvP. Other players can wage war and take over kingdoms. However, the maps are large enough that new players can find safer areas. The Surface is usually a good place to set up your kingdom, as it’s known as a safe haven for new players.

The Guide Quest will walk you through Kingdoms and their management.

Changing Your Class

At this stage, you should have maxed out crafting and enchanting, explored Alchemy and Trinketry, and maybe even collected some gems. You might be working on holy oils, which should be applied to all your items, or you may be progressing toward that goal.

Either way, you’ve likely visited Purgatory. But if it’s too difficult, or if you hate your current class, you might feel stuck. Don’t worry—there’s no need to restart your character. If you want to change your class, go to your character sheet. On mobile, expand the top section where you’ll see a blue circle with a plus icon. Click it.

Next, find the "Show Additional Information" button (orange) and click it. Scroll down (on mobile) or look to your right on desktop, and find "Class Ranks."

Have you ever played a game like Final Fantasy, where you can switch your class? That’s what you’re doing here. You can switch your class, and each one has its own mysteries—abilities you can equip and level up by fighting monsters. You can mix and match these abilities. The possibilities are endless!

The Guide Quest will also take you through this.

Getting Better Gear

Your next step—especially if you have access to Hell—is to use the specialty shop to buy new gear. You can get Hell-Forged gear by trading in a level 400 crafted item for the same type. You can then trade this gear in Purgatory and Twisted Memories. Raids and special events also drop gear sets. There’s gear for everyone!

The Guide Quests will also navigate you through this aspect as well.

Final Thoughts

This guide doesn’t cover everything there is to do in Tlessa, but it gives you a solid foundation. The number one rule is to always follow the Guide Quests.

Use exploration to make fighting less tedious where appropriate. Make use of enchanting and crafting to create multiple sets tailored to your needs. Experiment.

And above all else: Have fun. Ask questions. Submit suggestions. And most importantly—have fun!