Guides

New players should start with the beginner guide and then how to survive — those two cover 90% of what keeps you alive through a round of Lurking Giants. From there, the giant guide flips your perspective and shows you how to hunt, and the economy guides put you on the fastest route toward unlocking Guilt from the Store.

Everything in Lurking Giants revolves around one clock: the night runs from midnight to 6:00 AM, and a visibility pulse fires on a schedule that reveals every survivor for a moment. Whether you are prey or predator, understanding that pulse is what separates a lucky round from a repeatable one. Each guide below assumes that shared foundation, so if a strategy ever feels like it is missing a step, the answer is almost always on the night cycle page.

Where to start

If this is your first match, read the beginner guide to learn the controls, the objective and the two roles, then move straight to how to survive for the hiding-and-routing loop that keeps you alive to dawn. Once you are comfortable running from the giant, take a turn on the other side: the giant guide teaches the Attack-and-Haunt combo that ends chases quickly. When you are ready to expand your roster, the coin and unlock guides map out how to earn currency and put it toward Guilt without wasting a single grind.