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How to play PokéBonk Survivors

1. Choose Wander and Greenmere for your first run. Six original starters are available; Mossheart is a useful first choice for its recovery. Try the other stages after learning movement and experience pickup.
2. Your attacks fire automatically. Keep moving, collect glowing experience motes and choose one of three upgrades when you level up. Each run has two free rerolls for those choices.
3. Reach level 6 to awaken your creature. Defeat marked elites to recruit companions, then overcome Hollow Warden, Kiln Titan and Rift Matron to finish the run.

WASD / Arrow keys

Move through the forest

Shift

Dash with brief invulnerability; 2.4-second cooldown, or 1.8 for Lumenloop

Space / E

Use your ultimate when the crest is full

1 / 2 / 3

Choose an upgrade card

Esc

Pause or resume

Touch controls

Drag on the left to move; tap the dash and crest buttons on the right

PokéBonk Survivors gameplay

Watch a continuous battle from PokéBonk Survivors with 3D characters. The screenshots below show the complete interface and upgrade choices. Brief pauses in the video correspond to menu selections.

PokéBonk Survivors characters

Each starter has its own passive ability, automatic attack and charged ultimate. Their awakened forms keep the same identity while changing their silhouette and increasing their strength.

Sunspool — Bind 4 different elite species

Veilwing — Complete challenges in 2 different woods

Capture elites and build a team

To recruit a companion in PokéBonk Survivors, defeat a marked elite and choose Bind when the capture offer appears. You start with two companion slots. Third Knot in the Cinder Lab unlocks a third slot for later runs. Companions follow and attack automatically; a fainted companion rests before returning. If all slots are occupied, choose a companion to replace or leave the offer for experience. Successful bindings are recorded immediately in your field journal.

PokéBonk Survivors collection rules

There are 8 original playable creatures, each with an awakened form, and 68 recruitable companion families. Mossheart, Cinderfang, Tideward, Lumenloop, Brassbur and Mistwhorl are available from the start. Bind four different elite species to unlock Sunspool, or complete challenges in two different stages to unlock Veilwing. Ordinary enemies and bosses cannot be recruited.

• The journal has 151 original entries: 16 hero forms, four wild creatures, three guardians, eight founding partners and 120 forms from 60 new partner families. Choose a hero, awaken it, defeat a wild creature or guardian, or bind a partner to earn its entry. Seeing a creature alone does not record it.
• There are 68 partner families. Defeat a marked elite and accept its binding offer: success is guaranteed and costs no capture item. Wild Nib, Skitter, Mote and Lump can be recorded by defeating them, but cannot join your team.
• Start with two partner slots. Third Knot costs 50 Cinders and adds a third slot. At capacity, choose a partner to replace or decline for 12 base XP. Duplicates take separate slots and do not add a new family to collection milestones.
• The 60 regional partner families awaken when your hero reaches level 8 while they are in your team. Binding one after level 8 awakens it immediately. Awakening records a second entry and adds 30% partner health, 25% damage and a 10% shorter attack interval. Founding partners have one form.
• Partners follow and attack automatically. A fainted partner recovers fully after eight seconds of active play and still occupies its slot. Pause and upgrade choices also pause recovery. New partner traits include spread, piercing, homing, slow, burn, healing, protection and rapid attacks.
• Partner teams and awakenings last for the run. Journal entries save when you bind a partner or finish the run; unfinished runs cannot resume after closing the page. Signed-in players can sync saved progress through Account & cloud save.
• Bind 1, 4 and 8 different partner families to earn 20, 45 and 90 Cinders once each. Awakening and duplicate bindings do not count as additional families. Four families unlock Sunspool; two different stage challenges unlock Veilwing.
• The first elite arrives after 18 active seconds, then every 32 seconds; Hasty uses 12 and 16 seconds. Each world has 15 regional families; every fourth elite keeps a founding partner in the rotation. Founding partners keep their named pair abilities. Regional partners use the roles shown in the journal: combine two different, conscious families to activate a regional team effect. Their 60 automatic signatures gain an extra mechanic on awakening; the journal lists targets, cooldowns and effects.

Base shot values are before the shared damage multiplier: base × (0.8 + player damage multiplier × 0.35). Projectile speed, spread, range, status effects and missed shots also matter; this table is not a damage-per-second ranking.

Awaken your creature at level 6

Collect experience to reach level 6 and awaken your starter. In the battle below, Mossheart becomes Crownmoss while fighting Hollow Warden. Your companions stay with you after awakening. Each new run begins with your starter’s base form.

Four places to learn and explore

Choose any of the four stages in the main-menu options. Start with Wander, or choose Maelstrom for tougher fights. A stage challenge appears near you after 18 seconds of active play, or 8 seconds in Hasty trial. You can finish it alongside the main run; defeating three bosses remains the victory condition.

• Greenmere: a bright forest without timed ground hazards. Its challenge asks you to stay inside the marked ring for 16 seconds in total, or 10 in Hasty trial. Move within the ring to avoid enemies; stepping outside pauses your progress without erasing it.
• Ashmere: fire warnings begin at 10 seconds and repeat every 16 seconds at your current position. Leave before the 1.2-second warning ends; the fire lasts 4 seconds and can hit repeatedly. For the challenge, defeat six gold-marked enemies, or four in Hasty trial. These targets are ordinary enemies and cannot be bound.
• Moonveil: from 12 seconds, a moon pulse marks a fixed position every 18 seconds. Leave its 3.2-radius circle during the 1.6-second warning or use an invulnerable dash across the burst; base damage is 14. The challenge places six lights around its center. Walk close to each one, in any order, to collect them all.
• Rimefield: from 14 seconds, three frost circles appear every 20 seconds. After a 1.4-second warning they slow movement by 35% for 3 seconds without direct damage. The separate challenge asks for three successful frost-burst dodges: leave each warning circle within 1.5 seconds while staying in the challenge area. Being caught deals 8 base damage and you can retry; earlier successful dodges remain counted.
• Complete a stage challenge once per run to restore 25% of maximum health, gain 25 crest energy and add one reroll, up to three held at once. The first completion in each of the four stages also awards 30 Cinders permanently. Repeating that stage cannot award its first-clear Cinders again. Complete two different stage challenges to unlock Veilwing. Pausing or choosing an upgrade pauses challenge progress and warnings.

Moves, upgrades and rerolls

Build your PokéBonk Survivors team around your starter’s primary attack and additional moves. Level-up choices can introduce a move, strengthen a move you already know or improve a stat with a tonic. Try area control with Thorn Orbit and Pulse Nova, or attack through groups with Sap Lance. The two rerolls belong to the current run; they refresh when you start again.

Frost Bloom

A wide chill burst slows enemies for 2 seconds. Upgrades add reach and damage and shorten its cooldown.

Cinder Comet

Marks a nearby foe’s position; a burning blast lands there 0.6 seconds later.

Seedwheel

Eight seeds fly outward in every direction, each piercing two targets.

Thorn Orbit

A ring of thorns circles you and cuts anything that steps through.

Arc Spray

A wider fan of shots, fired on its own cadence.

Pulse Nova

A periodic burst that shoves the nearest crowd back.

Seeker Motes

Slow motes that bend toward the closest foe.

Sap Lance

A piercing line that runs through several bodies.

Modes, skill links and guardian phases

Classic

Defeat three guardians and reach dawn.

Endless

Guardians repeat in order; enemy strength rises to a capped level. Each guardian defeat restores 15% health and 20 Crest charge. Each pact can be chosen once. The run ends when you fall or end it from Pause; records update at settlement.

Today’s challenge

Fixed creature, wood and difficulty. Fast boss timing; Lab upgrades are inactive. Upgrade choices still vary. Refreshes at 00:00 UTC; a run keeps its starting date.

Complete the objective, then finish the run to earn 50 Cinders once that day. Replays still earn normal run rewards.

Skill links

Raise both linked moves to level 2 to activate their extra effect.

Glassfire

Frost Bloom + Cinder Comet: a comet hitting a chilled target releases an extra icy burst. Cooldown 2.5s.

Briarwheel

Thorn Orbit + Sap Lance: casting the lance launches six thorns around you. Cooldown 3s.

Spark relay

Arc Spray + Seeker Motes: a seeker hit jumps to two nearby enemies. Cooldown 1.5s.

At half health, guardians enter phase two after a safe warning: Hollow Warden releases two waves, Kiln Titan leaves a burning charge lane, and Rift Matron marks five strikes. Keep moving out of the warnings.

Awakened signature

At level 6, your creature gains its own signature. Build around the way it fights.

Mossheart · Root Chorus

Every fourth primary volley releases a slowing root wave. Hitting a foe restores health to you and nearby partners.

Cinderfang · Kiln Chain

Primary hits on burning foes trigger a nearby blast, with a short cooldown.

Tideward · Reef Breaker

Every third primary volley adds a wide, piercing tidal fan.

Lumenloop · Lantern Chase

Dashing launches three homing lights. Use movement to attack.

Brassbur · Seed Bastion

Find a safe gap and stand still for 0.9 seconds to fire a heavier piercing spread. Move again before danger closes in.

Mistwhorl · Frost Harvest

Collect six experience motes to release a freezing ring, with a 2-second cooldown.

Sunspool · Sunthread Chorus

Your crest wakes fainted partners and lets them fire extra sunthreads for six seconds.

Veilwing · Night Echo

Dashing leaves an echo that repeats up to three primary attacks for 2.4 seconds.

Companion bonds

Two different partners can fight together. Both must be awake; duplicates do not complete a pair.

Briar Circuit

Brambleback + Voltwhisk: nearby lightning damages and slows a group. 6-second cooldown.

Mistflare

Gloomslug + Shardwing: a blast burns and briefly freezes targets. 7-second cooldown.

Lantern Ward

Gleamcap + Ironroot: gain a short damage-reduction shield and heal active partners. 9-second cooldown.

Explore the wilds

Three landmarks appear during each run. Follow the compass and stay inside a landmark circle for 1.4 seconds to claim it. Each is usable once per run; all bonuses end with that run.

Greenmere

Wayfarer Spring

Restore 30% of maximum health, gain 20 crest charge and restore your partners.

Trail Cache

Gain 36 base experience and one reroll, up to three rerolls.

Echo Shrine

Gain 60 crest charge and +8 percentage points of attack power for this run.

Ashmere

Cooling Spring

Restore 30% health and 20 crest charge; extinguish existing fire zones within 12 m.

Foundry Cache

Gain 36 base XP and one reroll (up to 3). All your attacks become ready immediately.

Ember Anvil

Gain 60 crest charge and +0.08 damage multiplier. Hits apply 0.7 extra seconds of burn for this run.

Moonveil

Moonwell

Restore 20% health and 20 crest charge. Revive and fully heal partners; their attacks and pair abilities become ready.

Stardust Cache

Gain 36 base XP and one reroll (up to 3). Attract all experience motes already on the field.

Echo Stone

Gain 60 crest charge and 25% more pickup range for this run.

Rimefield

Trail Hearth

Restore 30% health and 20 crest charge, ready your dash and clear existing frost zones within 12 m.

Icebound Cache

Gain 36 base XP, one reroll (up to 3) and 8 seconds of protection that reduces damage by 35%.

Aurora Monument

Gain 60 crest charge, +1 armor for this run and 12 seconds of 35% protection. Freeze foes within 9 m for 2.5 seconds; bosses for 0.5 seconds.

151 original creatures & forms

Fill your field journal by choosing heroes, awakening them, defeating wild creatures and bosses, and binding partners. Four worlds each hold 15 new partner families. Each new partner has an awakened form.

Awakening: +30% partner health, +25% ordinary-attack damage, 10% shorter ordinary-attack interval, and the family’s extra signature effect.

New records save when you bind a partner or finish the run. An active run cannot be resumed after closing the page.

Regional partner skills

Choose partners for their target, signature skill and team role. All 60 regional families have an automatic signature and a new effect on awakening at hero level 8. Ordinary attacks continue between signatures.

Mix control with damage for dense swarms, or protection with recovery when surviving is harder. Each pair needs two different families; awakening the same family does not create a second partner.

PokéBonk Survivors beginner guide

Try these two beginner routes for movement, upgrades and team choices. Upgrade offers are random, so use the alternatives when your first choice does not appear.

Your first minute

1. Start in Greenmere on Wander with Mossheart. Keep moving in small loops, let enemies follow, and return for the motes after your attacks clear a gap.
2. Take an extra move when it helps clear the crowd. Walk close enough to collect experience, without crossing a packed group just for a single mote.
3. At level 6 your starter awakens automatically. Keep the crest in use when it opens an escape route; save a ready dash for a warning or a narrow gap.
4. When the first elite falls, bind it. If your health is low, keep a wider loop while Mossheart recovers rather than standing still beside the new companion.

Make the upgrade screen work for you

• You can carry five moves including the primary attack, so at most four additional moves. Each move can reach level 5; taking every new move early leaves fewer choices for a focused build.
• Each run starts with two rerolls, two skips and one banish. Completing the stage challenge adds one reroll, up to three held at once. A skip gives up that upgrade and restores 8% of maximum health. Banish removes the chosen unlearned move from this run’s offers and redraws immediately without spending the level.
• Only banish a move you do not want in this run. There is no permanent penalty to future runs, and a banished move is not removed from your collection.

Three bosses, one dawn

Classic: PokéBonk Survivors bosses arrive about every three minutes. Hasty trial shortens the interval to 45 seconds for a faster challenge. Watch the ground warning rings, move out of danger and use a dash when you need space. Defeating the first two bosses offers a pact: a powerful bonus with a drawback that lasts for the run. Defeat all three bosses to win.

Read the three boss attacks

Classic · Phase 1

1. Hollow Warden slows to wind up, then releases an expanding ring and summons six Nibs. Leave space behind you before the warning; clear the small enemies without circling back into the ring.
2. Kiln Titan locks a straight charge direction during a 1.1-second warning, then charges for 0.75 seconds. Move sideways out of its line; running directly away can keep you on that line.
3. Rift Matron marks three fixed impact positions. The blasts arrive after 1.1, 1.6 and 2.1 seconds. Keep moving toward unmarked ground; dodging the first circle is not the end of the sequence.
4. After each of the first two bosses, choose one of two pacts. The next boss countdown restarts after the previous boss is defeated. Defeating the third boss ends the run.

At half health, guardians enter phase two after a safe warning: Hollow Warden releases two waves, Kiln Titan leaves a burning charge lane, and Rift Matron marks five strikes. Keep moving out of the warnings.

Pacts: read both sides

Each pact lasts for this run. Leaden adds health but makes escapes slower; Glass and Frenzy raise damage pressure at a survival cost. Ember drains health toward 1, so it cannot kill you by itself, but the next enemy hit can. The offer is a choice between two pacts, not a promise that your preferred one will appear.

Glass Pact

+32% strike power · −22% maximum vigor

Leaden Pact

+35% vigor · −14% move speed

Greedy Pact

+30% experience, +28% pickup reach · −16% strike power

Frenzy Pact

+22% attack speed · You take 18% more harm

Ember Pact

A burning aura around you · Your vigor slowly seeps, but never to zero

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Cinder Lab and local saves

Earn Cinders at the end of each PokéBonk Survivors run and spend them on permanent upgrades before starting again. Rootbroth improves starting health, Kiln Salt improves attack, Mote Lantern helps collect experience, Quiet Study increases experience gains and Third Knot adds a companion slot. Lab ranks, currency, records, journal entries and settings are saved locally. Sign in through Account & cloud save to sync saved progress between devices. An unfinished run is not saved. Clearing site data erases guest progress; confirm that the cloud status is up to date before changing devices.

What to buy with your first Cinders

• If you keep losing health, the first Rootbroth rank costs 20 Cinders and adds 14 starting health. If you clear too slowly, the first Kiln Salt rank costs 20 and adds 7% starting attack.
• If you leave too much experience behind, Mote Lantern starts at 15 Cinders and adds 0.45 pickup reach per rank. Quiet Study starts at 20 and adds 8% experience per rank.
• Third Knot is a one-time 50-Cinder upgrade. Buy it when you can reach and defeat several elites; it adds capacity, not a free companion at the start.

Account & cloud save

Play as a guest, or sign in to sync Cinders, lab ranks, records, collection counts and settings across devices. Your progress usually syncs within 90–120 seconds while connected. Run results and lab purchases sync sooner; local saves happen immediately. Wait for “Cloud up to date” before switching devices; a running match is not saved.

Account progress is stored on our Cloudflare service. A session cookie keeps you signed in for up to 30 days. After the page has loaded, you can keep playing if the connection drops; reloading still needs internet.

Choose which progress to continue. Automatic sync is paused until you choose.

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Signing out keeps progress on this device and stops cloud uploads.

No email is collected, and password recovery is not available. Keep your username and password in a password manager. Use a password you do not use elsewhere.

A stronger first run

• Circle the edge of a crowd instead of stopping inside it. Leave yourself a route toward clear ground.
• Collect experience early. Reaching level 6 unlocks your awakening, while abandoned motes do not help your current build.
• Use a ready crest when it makes room or saves health. Save a dash for a tight gap or a boss warning.
• Mossheart offers recovery, Cinderfang adds burn damage, and Tideward offers protection. Lumenloop, Brassbur and Mistwhorl offer other movement and survival styles.

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