The game uses an isometric viewpoint. Karadoc explores the castle one screen or room at a time, searching containers, collecting objects, reading clues, operating mechanisms, and finding routes through locked or hazardous areas.

Progress depends on solving puzzles and managing a limited inventory. Enemies, traps, falling hazards, and environmental dangers can reduce Karadoc's health, while weapons and consumable items provide situational help. The castle is divided into areas with increasingly involved challenges.

Examine rooms carefully before moving through them. Search containers and test apparently ordinary objects, since small items can be required much later.

Conserve health, weapons, and consumables. Record clues and locked locations, and revisit earlier rooms when a newly acquired object or mechanism suggests another route.