Shadow Knights: Idle RPG is a unique idle mobile game that might make you addicted to it. It is one of the newly released games developed by CookApps and can be found under the ‘Role Playing’ genre in Google Play. In this post, we will share with you Shadow Knights: Idle RPG beginner’s guide and must know tips and tricks.
About the Shadow Knights: Idle RPG
Shadow Knights: Idle RPG is a classic role-playing idle game, but it is still a lot better than the one you may have played till now. In idle games, the player doesn’t have to do much as the game plays itself without any help from the players. They tend to progress a lot faster than the normal games, so all you have to do is keep up with the pace for better output. These games are extremely easy to play. But with time, the games likely become harder and takes a lot of time and patience. But this game is not as easy and simple as other idle games, which makes it more unique.
In a normal idle game, they don’t have much variety; the goals become tougher and take a lot of time to achieve. As a result, sometimes it makes the game boring as there isn’t much for the player to do anything but wait.

But Shadow Knights: Idle RPG contains lots of different features and elements that bring out many different aspects of the game and make it more fun. In this game, you unlock different shadow heroes and unlock new worlds, skills, and many more. Hence keeps you busy with other challenges. It’s an online/offline game, and it doesn’t support multiplayer. The game is only available on ‘Android’ devices.
Game Guide
At first, the game gives you a brief tutorial about the game and its other features. The game starts by itself from the very moment you opened it. ‘Gold’ and ‘Soul Stones’ are the important resources that you acquire automatically while playing. The important things to look after are:
Characters: At first only ‘Lord’ alone attacks the enemies but after unlocking new ‘Shadows Heroes’ they both attack together afterward. You can maximum have 4 Shadows Heroes along with the Lord. There are three types of Shadow Heroes i.e. ‘Beast’, ‘Undead’ and ‘Wraith’ heroes along with 3 different quality heroes ‘normal’, ‘rare’ and ‘epic’. These Shadow Heroes acts as the lord’s underling. To unlock them, you need shards which you get through ‘Shadow Kill’ Achievements and chests. You can upgrade Lord and Shadow Heroes with ‘Golds’ and ‘Soul Stones’.
Note: You don’t die even if your Lord and Shadow Heroes are defeated, what happens is your stage gets restarted. Also every time you clear a stage, your health replenishes too.

Resources, Skills, Artifacts: There are three kinds of resources: Soul Stones which are used to upgrade shadow heroes, ‘Gold’ to upgrade Lord’s powers and HP, and ‘Gems’ which help you to buy chests, Soul Stones, Gold, and other things. Buying a chest will help you to get shards which helps you to summon new ‘shadow heroes’ or promote them. Skills and Artifacts help to boost the lord’s power and HP. You can also change Lord’s Skills accordingly.

Worlds and Other things: There are various worlds with multiple stages, you can unlock these new worlds after completing these stages. Once you’ve completed the world you can’t go back to them. There are many other things that get unlocked as you level up in the game like Races, Dungeon, Conquest, Rebirth, Grimoire, Smithy, and Raid. These mainly help you in acquiring Artifacts, enhancing each shadow hero’s race, etc. After unlocking these, the game provides you with the basic information and uses.
There are also many small aspects that you will learn as you play the game.
Tips and Tricks
- Don’t use Gems to buy resources. Use gems to buy Chests to unlock Shadow Heroes and Epic, Rare Artifacts. In-game purchases are available too.
- Always unlocking new world maps inreases the difficulty to defeat enemies. That’s why they also recommend you shadow race which will have better effect on enemies. So always change your shadow heroes accordingly.
- There’s an ‘Auto’ and ‘x1.5’ option on the screen, which activates Lords and Shadow Heroes skills automatically and increase the speed of the game.
- The game only collect 12 hours worth resources when you are away. Make sure to check minimum once/twice a day.
- While upgrading lords power, you don’t have to click everytime. Just hold onto the button and it gives you an option of increasing the x50, x100 or maximum level that you reach with the gold you have.
Shadow Knights: Idle RPG is available to download from Google Play.
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