# Game guide

Source: https://www.nomaphome.com/guide

No Map Home is easiest to learn by playing. These pages answer the questions that come up along the way: how to start, how fights work, where to go next and how to play with others.

### How to play

How to start as a guest, move, fight, light your lantern and find your way home, on a keyboard or a phone.

[How to play](https://www.nomaphome.com/how-to-play)

### Classes

What each class does in a fight, and which one suits the way you like to play.

[Classes](https://www.nomaphome.com/classes)

### Combat

How basic attacks, abilities, defenses and marked ground attacks fit together.

[Combat](https://www.nomaphome.com/combat)

### Progression

How much experience each level needs, which areas suit your level, and where gold comes from.

[Progression](https://www.nomaphome.com/progression)

### World

Where the regions, dungeons and realms lie, how to travel between them, and what changes at night.

[World](https://www.nomaphome.com/world)

### Parties

How to play with friends, share a join link and hire a mercenary from the guild.

[Parties](https://www.nomaphome.com/parties)

### Homes & crafting

What your home, vault and private wilderness offer, and how to make potions, enchantments and meals.

[Homes & crafting](https://www.nomaphome.com/homes)

### Your first hour

- Choose a class. Pick a class and race on the play page and start as a guest. From level 2, this browser keeps your hero. [Compare the classes](https://www.nomaphome.com/classes)
 
- Meet Lantern’s Rest. Read Mara’s account of the missing adventurers and follow her first request. [Learn the controls](https://www.nomaphome.com/how-to-play)
 
- Walk into Lantern March. The wilderness beside the town suits levels 1–5. Select an enemy, time your abilities and step out of marked ground. [How combat works](https://www.nomaphome.com/combat)
 
- Keep a way home. Rest at checkpoint lanterns as you find them: defeat returns you to the last one you rested at, with everything you carry. Press B or tap the portal button to open a way home. [Your home](https://www.nomaphome.com/homes)
 
- Find company. Invite a friend with a join link, or prove yourself to the Mercenaries’ Guild and hire a mercenary. [Parties and mercenaries](https://www.nomaphome.com/parties)

When Lantern March feels easy, [Progression](https://www.nomaphome.com/progression) shows which regions suit your level, and [World](https://www.nomaphome.com/world) shows where the roads lead.

### Reference

- [FAQ](https://www.nomaphome.com/faq): free play, saving your hero, devices and the public preview.
 
- [What’s new](https://www.nomaphome.com/whats-new): the November 2026 update, from the Mercenaries’ Guild to Hell.
 
- [Press kit](https://www.nomaphome.com/press-kit): facts, descriptions, screenshots, videos and logos for articles and streams.