Minotaur – Beginner’s Guide

Just a brief explanation of the game, your different attack options, and enemy types.

HP and Stamina

HP and Stamina bars are at the top left of the screen. HP is red, Stamina is yellow.

You get 100 hp, and 100 stamina. (On easy you get 200 hp).

HP recharges by eating your defeated enemies. (30 stamina cost, for 1/4 health regain).
Stamina recharges automatically. It takes 10 seconds to go from no stamina to full stamina.

Attacks

• Swing attack is weak, but AoE. (10 stamina, 5 damage with default axe) 
• Chop attack hits hard,but only one enemy. (20 stamina, 20 damage with default axe) 
• Aerial Chop does a lot of damage, is unblockable, hits things in the air. But it costs a lot of stamina. (75 stamina, 50 damage with default axe) 
• Poke attack does no damage with an axe, but pretty effective with a sword or spear. (20 stamina, 0 damage with default axe) 
• Run / Charge, low damage but stuns weaker enemies for 2 seconds. (0 stamina,1 damage) 
• Kick, 6 second stun, and pushes enemies. (35 stamina, 0 damage) 
• Headbutt, no damage, but stuns weaker enemies for 2 seconds. (10 stamina, 0 damage) 

Stuns

• Run / Charge, low damage but stuns weaker enemies for 2 seconds. (0 stamina,1 damage) 
• Kick, 6 second stun, and pushes enemies. (35 stamina, 0 damage) 
• Headbutt, no damage, but stuns weaker enemies for 2 seconds. (10 stamina, 0 damage)

Avoiding Damage

• Blocking, effective against all enemies without a block breaker attack. (0 stamina) 
• Dodging, great for avoiding block breaker attacks, and most boss attacks. (15 stamina) 
• Walking away, if you can learn each enemy’s attack range, then you can trigger it and just move out of range, then move back in range and do your own attack. 
• Run to win, a lot of the weaker enemies are too slow to hit you if you’re running. You can even kill them by running over them repeatedly. But this is a slow and boring way to fight. And stronger enemies have counter moves to your charge attack.

Enemies

Weak tier, most normal sized humans are in this group. Anything works against them, they do little damage, and have low hp.

Strong tier, usually have one or all of: block breaker moves, gap closer moves, stun moves, fear moves. They also do more damage and have higher hp.

Boss tier, usually have unique moves, have counters for everything you can do, has higher damage and hp. They’re setup so it’s not possible to just keep trading damage until you win, you need to avoid their attacks.

Specialty tier, they have their own trick or two but that’s it. Once you know the secret to defeating them they become very easy. The bugs from the sky level are in this group, they don’t do much damage, but they stun you briefly, and swing attacks don’t hit them only chop attacks do.