Apeiron S2 Demo: 5 Excellent Tips for Beginners

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6 min readJun 8, 2023

Hey doods! We just released our S2 demo yesterday (Play now for free! HERE) and we’re VERY EXCITED ABOUT IT. There’s a ton of new content to play through buuuuttttt some of you might be a tad overwhelmed by it all.

Maybe you’re coming to Apeiron for the first time ever (welcome!). Maybe you’re coming back after a break (welcome back!). Or maybe you’re just not sure how to handle things. Don’t worry! We got you covered.

Today’s guide will focus on beginner’s tips and tricks just for getting everyone off the ground and up and running. And, for absolutely no reason at all, the five HOT tips contained herein will all begin with E. Alliteration is both evocative and excellent.

Before we jump to it, a bit of housekeeping: first, a reminder that we have our ongoing Angelic Ascension campaign going on this week with our partners Avocado (more alliteration!). Complete their quests and jump in for a prize pool of $1000 USDC just for playing! Easy-peasy.

Second, we wanted to briefly highlight a couple of points regarding Booty Hours and Animus. During Booty Hours, you have 1 free revive in case you die. Second, you can gain a total of 500 Animus from completing depths in Season 2. You must have burned a Battlepass to claim Animus rewards. Animus may be spent as follows:

With that said and done, let’s get to the guide!

Explore all the Different Dungeon Rooms

Apeiron dungeons come with 6 different types of rooms: battles, elite battles, boss, shops, campfires, and events. You’ll be running into battle rooms all the time, and you’ll eventually have to face the boss, but as you go through the dungeon you’ll be presented with choices about different room types to explore.

Try them all out! Each of them come with their own benefits to your team. Elite battles, for instance, come with tougher challenges but also higher possibilities for rare rewards. At the shops you can spend your hard-earned gems on a variety of potions, Artifacts, and even Apostles! Campfires are great for healing, but also can be used for a free level up for your whole team, great for pushing your advantage.

And then there are Event rooms, in which pretty much anything can — and does — happen. There are tons of stories to discover, each with their own unique rewards, so they’re worth taking the time to see what you can get. Be prepared though — while some Events are almost all upside, others come with pretty significant costs.

Experiment with your Apostle Teams

As you progress through the first and second cycles, you’ll collect a small army of Apostles from each of the 6 different classes, all with their own skills and IVs. After a few battles, you’ll probably settle on your first team and feel comfortable using them. Which is great!

However, it’s a good idea to experiment with all the different Apostles you get, especially at the lower cycles when the game is still relatively forgiving. Not only will this give you a better understanding of the different classes’ strengths and weaknesses, but also you may find it easier to defeat certain encounters using different comps, which will ultimately save you valuable health in the long run.

Empower your Avatar

Battling tons of enemies means your Avatar will be getting experience and leveling up! But leveling up your Avatar doesn’t happen automatically. You need to go into the menu and spend time investing your skill points into improving your skills, passives, and eventually getting new skills.

Your Avatar is the keystone of your team, so you want them to be as powerful as they can be at any given point, so make sure you’re spending those points when you get them. Try to have a plan for your leveling up — you start with 2 skills, so you could split your points equally between the two of them to make them both stronger and balanced, but you could also choose to focus all your points to hyper-charge one ability.

Equip your best Artifacts

The further you go, the more likely you are to start picking up Artifacts. Artifacts offer powerful build-arounds that change the way you play. You can have 5 Artifacts activated at any one time, and you’ll want to try and find synergies among them. So for example if you have a bunch of Artifacts related to discarding, using them all together could be beneficial.

But as you go deeper you’ll want to keep an eye on your Artifacts and make sure you’re upgrading them as you go along. Specifically, you’ll want to switch out weaker Artifacts with more powerful ones, as well as keep an eye on the Good and Evil effects your Artifacts will gain as you go through various Event rooms. Good Artifacts have blue-golden backgrounds, while Evil Artifacts have black-red.

Escape when you need to

Some battles don’t go the way you planned. Your doods run all over the place like headless chickens, you don’t draw your key skills, your keyboard catches fire, etc. etc. But you can just restart it! Specifically, you have 3 free restarts during each run.

So if it looks like the battle is going terribly, just…go back in time and try it again. You can find the restart option in the pause menu during battle. The first 3 times, there’s no cost in escaping and giving it another go. AFTER that, your restart will activate the Blood Moon effect, making all enemies PERMANENTLY stronger. So you’ll want to be a bit more careful then.

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And that’s it! OR IS IT?? NO! It’s time for a BONUS TIP.

This one’s coming from Foonie Magus CEO and Apeiron creator LoreKeeper: “You can literally get so much in our [Discord] community. Booty Hours, Battlepasses, extra Animus, Plushies… everything. Just for chatting! For free! If you’re having fun with Apeiron, come to our Discord.”

Ok, now we’re done for real.

Hope these 5(+1) Beginner’s tips get you rolling in your first few dungeon runs. Still need a bit more help? As LoreKeeper mentioned, you can head over to our Discord and enter our Game Discussion channel, where you’ll find tons of passionate players ready to help you out. And don’t forget to follow us on Twitter to keep up with all the latest Apeiron news~

And as always, thanks for reading, godlings. We’ll see you next time.

About Apeiron

Apeiron is the world’s first NFT-based play-and-earn godgame. Apeiron will feature a unique card-based action-adventure combat system combined with god game simulation gameplay inspired by classic god games like Populous and Black & White. Players will be able to build up planets from above before descending to the ground as a powerful Avatar to solve the mysteries of the universe. Players will grow their planet to the point of developmental stagnation, then reset the planetary cycle via an Armageddon event to allow for even more advancement and thrilling late-game alliance level GvE and GvG activities. Apeiron will use a tri-token architecture, which means that there will be three separate tokens to navigate their ecosystem: a governance token, a play-to-earn token, and a premium alliance token.

This article was amended on June 8th, 2023 with an updated banner image.

This article was amended on June 11th, 2023. “Booty Time” was replaced with “Booty Hours.”

This article was amended on June 12th, 2023, adding some small details in the introduction of the article clarifying how players gain and spend Animus and how all players get 1 free revive during Booty Hours.