Getting Started
Beginner's Guide: The First Two Hours
A first-session plan for launch day: open the story, keep both energy bars moving, turn on Casual Mode, start City Property early, and hold your Reactor Crystals — details live in the focused guides.
This page is a first-session plan for launch day, not a full systems manual. It gives the order of operations for the opening hours and points the details at the focused guides — numbers below are CBT2-observed unless marked officially confirmed.
First session, in order
From the opening story to the systems that fill your day-one routine
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Finish the opening story
Follow the markers through movement basics, your first investigation, and your first fights — until the Detective wakes up in their own bed on Morgue Street and meets Alf. That scene is the gate for the timed daily systems.
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Tour the menus once, badly
Between story beats, open every menu tile once and close it again. You are building the map in your head so a later objective costs one navigation instead of five. The tiles that matter daily, in rough order: City Roaming, Case Review, City Property, and the Acquaintance panel.
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Spend both energy bars
Vitality pays for EXP, upgrade materials, and the daily Case Review claim; Free Time pays for City Affairs minigames. Neither bar should sit capped — a full bar is wasted progress.
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Clear new Character Tutorials and send gifts
Every newly acquired character has a one-time tutorial with a reward. Acquaintance gifts have a daily cap, so start them early.
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Push City Roaming to 100 Steps
The daily task track fills a Steps meter; community guides put the milestone chests at 100 Steps (CBT2-observed). Logging in plus one Hilbert's Hotel run covered most of the meter in beta.
Three habits to lock in early
Set these once and let them pay out for the rest of the account
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Turn Casual Mode on
Settings → Combat → Casual Mode (officially confirmed in the beta build's settings path) adds time dilation on incoming attacks and a hit prompt — exactly what you want while you are still reading telegraph colors.
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Buy City Property early
Buy a property, upgrade it, and assign an assistant as soon as the system opens. In the beta this was a main passive source of scarce upgrade materials, and it accrues while you play everything else.
Daily and weekly routine -
Hold your Reactor Crystals
Convert them for a limited character banner you actually want, not the standard pool — and spend the free standard Shots as they arrive.
Gacha and resources
What not to worry about yet
None of this blocks the first session
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Optimal teams
The Detective carries the early game fine. Team-craft starts when you have four built characters.
Combat Basics: Telegraphs and the Loop -
Perfect Implement sets
Implement stats are fixed, and you will swap them often early on. The layers are explained in the equipment database.
the equipment database -
The gacha math
Save first, read later — the pity table and the spend rules keep until you actually pull.
Gacha and Resources: Where to Spend Reactor Crystals
Where to go next
One focused guide per system, in the order that helps most
Last verified November 14, 2026 against the sources stamped above. Newer official words land in News first.