How to play guide for Soul at Stake

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This page will serve as a basic **how to play guide for *Soul at Stake***. While there is very little information available at this time, we urge you to check back often, as new information is being added all the time! Feel free to edit this guide with any tips, tricks, and suggestions.

## Basic gameplay

Soul at Stake is an asymmetrical horror game where 4 Gamblers quite literally put their souls at stake playing a deadly game involving playing cards and Devils in attempt to change their fates overnight.

## Gamblers

Gamblers start off in a random position on the map and are given 3 playing cards. Playing cards are meant to be inserted into Cardholders which are blue and silver colored shrines with 21 green lights on them, of which there are several located on the map. Cardholders spawn in random positions on the map, 5 of which need to be sealed in other for Gamblers to win the game and at the same time banishing the Devil they were facing.

To seal a Cardholder, a Gambler must insert playing cards into it until the total card value adds up to exactly 21, at which point the Cardholder will be completed. A Gambler simply needs to walk up to a Cardholder and Interact with it to start inserting their selected card. Inserting cards takes time and the higher the value of the card (Ace: 1, Jack: 11, Queen: 12, King: 13) the longer it takes to insert the card. Logically this means that the Ace is the fastest card to insert having only a value of 1 while King takes the longest with a value of 13.

Be warned, a Gambler inserting cards into a Cardholder are unable to turn their camera and therefore leave themselves open to two forms of ambush. A Devil may decide to teleport themselves to a Cardholder that a Gambler is inserting cards into, when they do, the Gambler will notice a gust of wind and tree leaves floating around indicating a Devil is about to teleport there, if you are playing as a Gambler and see this, run for it! Another way a Devil might attack is to simply walk over to you in silence. Although a Gambler is able to detect a Devil's presence within a certain range indicated by a heartbeat, the range of this heartbeat is actually quite small which means that by the time you hear the heartbeat the Devil is most likely within striking distance already.

After a card has been successfully inserted into a Cardholder it removes a number of lights on the Cardholder and awards a Gambler with stakes (chips) equal to its value which they can then use to buy a variety of items to help them survive in the Stores, hidden away in the map. To find a Store, one should pay attention to the green lanterns, they'll indicate a Store is located inside of a room or building.

When hit by a Devil, Gamblers become injured and will require medical aid, either from another Gambler who can walk up to them and Interact to perform healing or from buying a Ginseng Pill in the store which can be used to immediately heals their wounds. If struck by the Devil while in the injured state, the Gambler will enter the downed state and will start to bleed out over time. Once a Gambler has bled out enough and is close to dying, a Devil will be able to walk up to them and execute them on the spot, removing them from the game. Being downed twice normally causes you to immediately bleed out to the point where the Devil can execute you, this can be prevented by running the cheat Resilience.

Once 5 shrines have been brought to completion, the Gamblers win the gamble!

## Controls

Players can freely customize their controls in the Controls tab located in the settings. Listed below are the default settings.

Gambler Side:

* Move: W/A/S/D

* Run: Shift
* Dodge: M2/Right Click
* Crouch: Left Control
* Interact: M1/Left Click
* Buy Items/Cards: M2/Right Click
* Switch Cards: Q
* Window Vault: Space
* Open/Close Doors: R
* Pass QTE's: Space
* Use Item: E
* Point Emote: F1
* Follow Me Emote: F2
* Clap Emote: F3

Devil Side:

* Move: W/A/S/D
* Attack: M1/Left Click
* Use Devil Ability: M2/Right Click
* Pick up downed Gambler: Space
* Teleport: Q
* Buy Items: M2/Right click
* Use Item: E
* Destroy Window/Door: R
* Execute Gambler: T

## Tips and tricks

* Although the game does not support controllers at the moment, there have been reports that Xbox 360 Controllers used through Steam Big Picture are able to play the game.
* Likewise there have been successes with softwares like Xpadder to convert a controller's input into simulated mouse and keyboard inputs.

## See also

* Release date
* System requirements