The player creates and manages a party of up to six adventurers, choosing professions, attributes, skills, spells, and equipment. Exploration uses a first-person perspective in towns, buildings, wilderness areas, and dungeons, while movement across the map is handled through travel and camp decisions.

Combat takes place on a tactical, turn-based grid. Characters can move, attack, defend, cast spells, use items, and exploit terrain. The main campaign follows an investigation involving the goblin threat, but travel, side quests, resource management, fatigue, food, wounds, and skill checks strongly affect progression.

Build a balanced party with reliable melee fighters, ranged or spell support, and characters capable of handling social, wilderness, and technical skills. Save frequently before travel, negotiations, and dungeon exploration.

Monitor food, fatigue, wounds, poison, equipment condition, and ammunition. Prepare spells and supplies before leaving a town, and avoid treating every encounter as a fight; many checks and conversations reward appropriate skills.