How to play Polyworld

Polyworld starts in seconds in a web browser: press Play now on polyworld.us, no download and no account. These are the game's own Guide cards: what there is to do, and where to find it.

In this guide

• Rift worlds and bosses: The six rift worlds of Polyworld (The Keep, Inferno, Glacier, Storm, Hollow Wood, Void): their elements, guardians, bosses, gear sets and legendary powers, plus Twin Seal and the Treasure Goblin.
• Weapons and skills: Every weapon family in Polyworld (swords, axes, maces, scythes, fists, staffs, wands and guns), the special moves their mastery unlocks, and the skills you learn as you level.
• Gear sets and legendary powers: All 7 gear sets in Polyworld with their 2, 4 and 6 piece bonuses, and every legendary power: what it does and which slots it rolls on.
• Companions: The companions of Polyworld: who they are, their looks, and Kindle, the sky dragon only friends can bring.
• Arena modes: The 5 arena modes of Polyworld: Knockoff, Duel, Team deathmatch, Survival and the Climb, with how many players each takes.

Controls

• Open polyworld.us and press Play now: you're in the game in seconds, no account needed.
• On a computer: WASD to move, the mouse to aim, click to attack, Space to jump, E to talk and use, Z, X, C and T for skills, I for your bag and B to build.
• On a phone or tablet: buttons on the screen.
• Like your hero? Give it a name and a password to keep it.

⚔️ Adventure

🌀 Rifts

Monster dungeons under the King's statue. Pick a tier: higher tiers drop finer gear and more gold. Aldra fights beside you when you go alone or in two; a party fits the monsters to its size.

Where: King's statue, plaza

🎯 First person

Press V (phones: tap 🎯) to see through your hero's eyes and aim with the mouse. Again: back to the view from above.

👥 Twin Seal

Two bosses, one team. Beat Tip and Top together!

Where: King's statue, plaza

🏆 Survival and the climb

Hold out against waves with your party, or race up the tower: chests wait at the end.

Where: King's statue, plaza

⚔️ Arena

Knockoff, duels and team fights against other players. Win to climb the ratings.

Where: King's statue or Vex, plaza

🔥 World events

Raiders invade the plaza and ore surges light up the ground now and then: a banner says when. Join in for extra loot.

☠️ Bosses and trophies

From rift tier 3 the boss at the end can be the Grey Gatekeeper, the Brood Queen, the Crystal Golem, the Storm Ram or the Hex Lord; each tells you how to beat it when it wakes. From tier 5 each may drop its own trophy: a legendary nobody else has.

Where: King's statue: Rifts

🥚 Companion eggs

Rift bosses and chests sometimes drop an egg. Use it to hatch a new look for a companion (12 to collect), then pick it at the top of this Guide.

Where: Rift bosses and chests

🛡️ Gear

🎒 Bag and equipment

Wear gear in the figure's slots, keep the rest in the bag. Hover an item to compare it with what you wear; right-click to wear or use it.

⚒️ Bram's forge

Forge a rare or epic piece for the slot you want at your drop level, upgrade gear up to +10 (every number grows), reroll one affix, turn materials into others, repair worn weapons.

Where: Bram, plaza

♻️ Break down gear

Gear you don't need becomes dust, essence and relic fragments: what upgrades are made of. One tap clears old gear out of your backpack.

Where: Bram's forge → ♻️ Break down gear, or your crafting bench

💎 Gems and sockets

Gems come from digging deep and from rifts. Set them into sockets: weapons get elemental damage, armour health and resistances, rings and amulets crits and finding. Three make one of the next rank.

Where: Bram's forge → ⬆️ Improve my gear, or your crafting bench

🔮 Imprints and set reforging

A legendary on the wrong slot? Break it down with Keep its power: you get an imprint that makes a rare or epic piece of a fitting slot legendary. Broken-down set pieces give shards: swap a set piece for another piece of its set.

Where: Bram's forge → ⬆️ Improve my gear

🔮 Enchanting

Lysa adds another affix to a piece of gear, for a diamond and some gold.

Where: Lysa, plaza

🌟 Legendaries and sets

Legendaries carry a power of their own; wear 2, 4 or 6 pieces of a set for its bonuses. Legendary gear binds to you when picked up; everything else can be traded.

Where: Rift chests and bosses

👗 Wardrobe

Every helmet, armour, trousers and boots you put on is kept. Pick any of them to show instead of what you wear: your gear still counts.

✨ Growing stronger

🪄 Magic

Buy a wand or staff from Lysa and wear it like a gun: Ember is fire, Frost frost, Storm lightning, Plague poison, Arcane arcane. Wands shoot fast, staffs slow with big bursts; mana comes back by itself. More spells in Skills (K), Arcanist: Fireball, Frost Nova, Blink, and Attunement for more elemental damage.

Where: Lysa, plaza

✨ Skills

One point every level. Learn actives and put any of them on Z, X, C or T; passives work on their own. At rank 3 an attack can change its style (fire, frost, lightning…). ↺ Reset skills gives every point back, free. Past level 30, XP earns ⭐ stars: each adds a little damage and health.

🧍 Character and weapon mastery

Your level, every stat, and mastery: land hits with a weapon family to unlock its special moves.

📜 Quests

Residents with a ! over their heads have work for you; a ? means it's done. 🧭 Go in the journal walks you to the next step.

🎁 Tasks

🎁 at the top: three small tasks every day, from level 5 two for the week and from level 10 two for the month. Done ones light up gold: press Claim for a chest in your bag, and claim the bigger prize when all of them are done (the month's: an Ancient Chest with an ancient legendary, and a companion egg).

🏅 Badges

Clear rifts, beat bosses, dig, build, finish daily tasks…: about 40 badges light up on your wall, each with a little gold.

🏆 Rankings

Who has cleared the highest rift, the best arena rating, the highest climb, the highest level and the most daily tasks, and where you stand.

👑 King Poly's story

The King's quests tell why the rifts are opening. Start by saying hello.

Where: King Poly, plaza

🏝️ Your island

🏝️ Your island

Your own island off the plaza, through the black-hole portal. Dig and build anything; ☰ → Restore my island puts the ground back.

Where: Through a portal on the plaza

⛏️ Digging

Hold the pickaxe on the ground. Deeper down: iron, gold, diamonds and gems.

Where: Your island

🧱 Building

The hotbar turns into blocks: place and remove them. Ore blocks cost one ore each. 🎨 turns the page: bright coloured blocks (Pip sells them, a coin each), crystal (a rare gem) and rift (a rift shard). Take a block down and you get it back.

📦 Chest, rack, bench and mailbox

Mira sells a storage chest, a display rack and a crafting bench (forging, salvage and gems at home). Place them from your bag; your mailbox keeps what was sent to you.

Where: Mira, plaza

✨ The Astral journey

Logged off, or meditating at the Starfire by your island's portal (E)? Your spirit journeys to the Astral Sea. From level 5 your companion goes along and brings back forge materials in the 🌌 Astral Satchel (now and then a piece of gear), and gathers starlight: seven stars give it the Astral look, then an egg. You also gain ✨ Insight: kills give double XP until it's used. Up to 12 hours count.

Where: Your island, by the portal

🏘️ The plaza

🔫 Weapon shops

Kestrel sells guns. Lysa sells staffs and wands. Bram sells swords, axes, maces, knuckles and shields. Vex sells Dragon Fists. Shop gear always fits your level.

Where: Kestrel, Lysa, Bram and Vex, plaza

🛒 Mira's shop

Buy potions, pickaxes, starter armour, furniture and ore; sell what you don't need. Friends get better prices.

Where: Mira, plaza

🌾 Happy Farm

Rent a plot from DengDeng, grow crops for food buffs and poisons, sell the harvest.

Where: DengDeng, plaza

🗡️ Hire an adventurer

Kestrel joins your next rift and fights beside you, for gold.

Where: Kestrel, plaza

🎲 Jinx's dice

You and Jinx each roll a die for a little gold: the higher roll wins.

Where: Jinx, plaza

❔ Riddles

Orrin asks riddles; whisper him the answer (/w Orrin …).

Where: Orrin, plaza

💬 Talk to residents

Every resident remembers you. Whisper any of them (/w Name …), give gifts from Talk: friends sell cheaper, share secrets and give better quests.

Where: Pip knows everyone

👥 Friends

👥 Friends

Add people by their name or from the chat (right-click a name) and see who's online.

🐲 Invite friends

Your invite link is in the lobby and 👥 Friends: friends who sign up with it become your friends at once and land in your Voxel. The first who reaches level 5 hatches Kindle, a sky dragon only friends can bring; every friend after makes it grow (they get a Companion Egg).

💌 Messages

Whispers kept like letters: people get them even when offline.

🤝 Trading

Right-click (or hold) someone next to you → 🤝 Trade. Both put things in and press Ready: then they swap. Legendaries are bound to you and can't be traded.

🔍 Find a group

No party? Press 🔍 Find a group on the King's rift panel: when someone else here looks too, you go together into a rift you can all take.

Where: King's statue: Rifts

🤝 Party

Play together: rifts and runs take the whole party, and the monsters fit its size.

🛡️ Guild

Join or found a guild: shared storage, a guild chat and a level you raise together.

😊 Emotes

Wave, laugh, point: pick one from the wheel and it shows over your head.

More of the guide

• Rift worlds and bosses: The six rift worlds of Polyworld (The Keep, Inferno, Glacier, Storm, Hollow Wood, Void): their elements, guardians, bosses, gear sets and legendary powers, plus Twin Seal and the Treasure Goblin.
• Weapons and skills: Every weapon family in Polyworld (swords, axes, maces, scythes, fists, staffs, wands and guns), the special moves their mastery unlocks, and the skills you learn as you level.
• Gear sets and legendary powers: All 7 gear sets in Polyworld with their 2, 4 and 6 piece bonuses, and every legendary power: what it does and which slots it rolls on.
• Companions: The companions of Polyworld: who they are, their looks, and Kindle, the sky dragon only friends can bring.
• Arena modes: The 5 arena modes of Polyworld: Knockoff, Duel, Team deathmatch, Survival and the Climb, with how many players each takes.

Written from the game's own data; last updated 2026-10-22.