Nunholy is the newest game by Chowbie, a Korean artist and game developer. It is a roguelike where players can explore dungeons and battle against vampires while interacting with cute nuns hell-bent on destroying evil. If you have played Hades and Blooborne before, you'll recognize their gameplay and setting influences in this game.

You can find more about Chowbie over at their Twitter account: @Chowbie_[x.com]

Chowbie's other game is Wedding Witch, found below:

https://psteamproxy.yuanyoumao.com/app/2529820/

Compared to Wedding Witch, Chowbie's previous game, Nunholy is relatively more complex and with more systems to engage and keep track of. This guide is thus meant to serve as an additional help for beginners, to quickly reference basic things and to serve as a general aid for players. I will be updating the guide as I progress through the game and with your kind feedback. The game just came out, so bear with me if there are some things missing or incomplete, you can help by letting me know!

This guide will not serve as a full step-by-step walkthrough, cover builds in-depth or discuss boss strategies too deeply, I'll leave that for the theorycrafters and number crunchers.

On another note, I'd like to thank player Godspeed for their initial guide on doors, it served as a basis for this guide's corresponding section. You can check it out here:
https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3409100422
As well as Nietbern for the 100% achievement guide:
https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3410411076 Check their guides for more information and give them a bit of appreciation :)

2025.01.19 v.1.0 - Release version.
2025.01.19 v.1.1 - Corrected inaccuracies about urns, added info on more enemy abilities.
2025.01.21 v.1.2 - Added damage types, expanded F.A.Q.
2025.01.23 v.1.3 - Corrected typos and reworded some sections.
2025.01.29 v.1.4 - Typos, misc. fixes and updated huntresses portraits.
2025.02.01 v.1.5 - Expanded damage types, added inventory section.

Your aim as a half-vampire is to find the Vampire Queen and destroy her heart, severing the head of the recently organized vampire attacks. To do this, you need to embark in various hunts to increase your Hunter Rank and arm yourself with better weapons and skills to confront the Vampire Queen.

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If you've played Hades or other roguelikes before, you will know the way you'll progress in this game. The idea is to run dungeons while accumulating resources to slowly become more powerful. Since upgrades and affinity increases are permanent, this means that investment in those will pay dividends in later runs as each additional dungeon run will become easier. Eventually, you'll be strong enough to challenge the Vampire Queen.

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Whether at the 7th Parish or during a run, you can interact with friendly NPCs that offer you their services for a fee. You can increase your affinity with them by offering items they value, though only dungeon allies can have their affinity increased with Rubies.

Increasing their affinity lowers the prices of their goods and increases the effects of their services, these effects carry over between runs, so it's worth investing in them whenever you can.

Some NPCs like Nemera and Seraph offer extra services such as healing you. How many times you can access these services depends on the amount of interactions available, so be smart about it. Note that increasing affinity does not count as an interaction.

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Upgrades to your skills and attributes done in the Parish, as well as affinity levels from dungeon allies, are permanent and cross-runs. Upgrading these are an investment into your later runs. The more you invest, the stronger you become, the faster you can clear easier dungeons and the quicker you can return to the point where you are actually making progress. Remember to level up your skills, weapons and increase affinity with the nuns!

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Your Hunter Rank determines your boons you receive on starting a new run and can be increased by completing quests for Platina back at the 7th Parish. These benefits stack with previous ranks, meaning that at Rank C you receive a free random artifact and an amount of Bloodstones. Below all ranks and benefits. Your rank also determines what upgrades you have access to at the 7th Parish.

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As you progress through the dungeons, you will find currencies you can use to buy items, services and increase affinities.

The game has three playable half-vampire huntresses: Preiya, Marie and Sain. Each of them has a unique playstyle and a default damage type inclination, though they can be customized to change to whatever damage type is preferred. You could, for example, make all of Marie's kit deal burn damage, if you want. Knowing the strengths and weaknesses of them is key to making it all the way to the Vampire Queen.

Note that each character represents a save-file, as such, currency, ranks and unlockables cannot be shared between characters.

Combat is played from an isometric perspective and in real-time, much like other games of the genre. As a vampire hunter you are armed with a main-weapon, a sub-weapon, a skill and an ultimate ability at all times which you can change back at the Parish.

Keep in mind that touching enemies does not deal damage to your hunter, so hugging enemies and passing through them is perfectly fine.

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There are four damage types in the game, each with their own properties.

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You will unlock abilites as you level up by interacting with Fresh Blood or receiving Moonlight Blessings. These change how your weapons and skill work and represent a large power boost in your combat abilities.previewimg=39477028;sizeThumb,floatRight;blood2.jpg][/previewimg]

If you've unlocked an ability, you can also have a chance to upgrade them. Max level is 5 for regular abilities and 3 for ultimates.

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You can receive artifacts after defeating minibosses, purchasing them from Evalaine or unsealing an Artifact Altar. They often grant passive abilities to your existing weapons and skills, further enhancing them.

You can improve artifacts in the Blacksmith Chamber. You can only upgrade each artifact once, but you can carry duplicates and their effects stack unless stated otherwise.

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Depending on who you are playing with the combat loop will change somewhat, but there are three combat mechanics to keep in mind.

A run ends either in success by killing a Duke level boss or the Vampire Queen or dying during an attempt. In order to reach the Vampire Queen for the first time, you will have to clear a run all the way to the current Duke level boss and slay them, destroying one of the three chains locking progress to the Queen. Once all three chains are destroyed, you may face the ultimate boss of the game.

To date, there are four dungeons to explore in successive order:

1. Land of the Abandoned
   
2. Path to the Depths
   
3. Crimson Garden
   
4. Cathedral of Blood

And each dungeon has a boss of a corresponding power rank which is relevant for Platina's quest. The ranks are as following in order of appearance:

1. Knight
   
2. Baron
   
3. Count
   
4. Duke
   
5. Vampire Queen

Each run consists of around 10 rooms to clear until you reach the boss room. Every dungeon has a unique encounterable mini-boss and one mandatory final boss. The Cathedral of Blood is particular as once you destroy all the chains to the inner chamber, you can fight the Vampire Queen, turning this dungeon into a two-boss dungeon. Fret not, you will receive some minor healing before fighting the last boss.

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When clearing a chamber of enemies their blood will crystallize to form a Fresh Blood crystal. Each Fresh Blood crystal has a numerical value corresponding to the amount of blood absorbed from slain enemies, which means that rooms with large amounts of enemies translates to a greater Fresh Blood crystal.

These can be consumed to gain their value in XP allowing you to level up and gaining access to new skills or rank up skills, or destroyed to gain their value in Bloodstones. This means that you always get the choice of what to do with the blood after clearing a room. Pentagram Chambers spawn an extra source of blood if you absorb the first Fresh Blood, making them particularly good for gaining fair amounts of XP.

Do note that to destroy the crystal you need to be at touching distance, attacking it from afar will not do anything.

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Your inventory will display your current weapon and skill loadout, your currencies, your status effects, your Legacy of the Martyr boons and your artifacts collected in this run. You can drop artifacts out of combat and pick them up again as much as you need.

Your artifact space is composed of a 10x5 grid and each artifact you pick up takes up a specific amount of grid space. You can rearrange the layout of the artifacts by rotating them to fit within this space. If you are familiar with Resident Evil games, you'll know how this works.

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Any time you clear a dungeon by killing the dungeon's boss and stepping through the portal, you will be presented with The Legacy of the Martyrs, a choice between two powerful upgrades specific to the huntress you are playing as. You only get three per run and can't change them mid-run, so choose wisely.


After making your choice, you will be taken to the next dungeon and be greeted at the entrance by Seraph who will offer to heal you for free. Furthermore, any Bloodstones you had will be carried over to the next dungeon for you to use as you please and if you are at the appropriate Hunter Rank, you can change your skills here as well.

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When you die during a run you'll be transported back to the 7th Parish, thereby concluding the current run as a failure. You will lose all Bloodstones but keep any Rubies or Silver Coins you found, and any skills learned or boons from the Legacy of the Martyrs will be lost as well. Fret not, however, and use this chance to upgrade skills, weapons and attributes to make your next run easier. By reaching the Parish you also save your game.

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As a vampire hunter, you'll have to delve into dungeons to find your quarry. As you do, you'll find some gates marked by various different motifs, these will lead you to special chambers with unique encounters and rewards, so choose wisely.

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Throughout your dungeon runs, you'll find some objects you can interact with.

As you explore the various chambers of the dungeons you might encounter friendly characters that will offer you their services. These can be life-savers during difficult runs or make bountiful ones all the more rewarding.

Evalaine can be found in the Bloodstone Shop chamber and will offer a random assortment of artifacts in exchange for Bloodstone. Make sure to pay her a visit if you have a large amount of Bloodstones and don't plan to level up any time soon. If you increase her affinity to level 1, you can reroll her shop items once per visit.



Lillian can be found in the Garlic chamber where she offers various garlic-related products. Her garlics are essentially the only source of shields for a run barring skills, and she can increase your max health by +20HP through the Red Spider Lily which also heals you for the same amount. Worth visiting for particularly difficult runs.



Nemera can be found in the Heart chamber and offers blood transfusion services. Through them, you can heal yourself and regain lost health or sacrifice some health for Bloodstones. The amount of Bloodstones per HP lost isn't worth it in my opinion but it can come in clutch if you need to access Fresh Blood to level up. Either way, seek Nemera out if you are badly hurt.


Seraph appears at the beginning of each new run after reaching the Parish for the first time as well as upon reaching the next dungeon floor successfully. She will tell you about your dungeon starting rewards according to you Hunter Rank, as well allow you to change your weapons and skills via the items around her chamber. Furthermore, she can heal you for free and Increasing her affinity will increase all her healing by +5HP per affinity level.

The 7th Parish of the Lumatrian Order serves as your main place to be between runs. You'll be able to rest here, save your progress and interact with helpful vendors and characters before embarking on your next hunt.

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Affinity levels carry over between runs, so it's worth investing into useful characters as early as possible in order to profit from their benefits as long as possible. Lillian will offer you better products and Evalaine's items will be cheaper, for example, things that will always be useful.

If you get lucky with a good artifact, you should look for the Blacksmith Chambers to upgrade them as soon as possible as some of the improvements are really hefty and they can carry you for a long time during good runs. Stacking a single source of damage type that complements your huntress can make you do ridiculous damage, for example.

I strongly recommend investing early into increased Bloodstone and Silver Coin drop rate research. The more you play, the more these increases will translate into large amounts of currencies. These two should be, in my opinion, your priority early-game.

If you select the ability which grants you immunity to the first attack upon reaching a new room, you can use this to convert health to Bloodstones at Nemera without receiving damage, essentially for free. Not a bug, it's intended per Chowbie's comments.

Artifact altars become pricier the longer your run goes. If you plan to arm yourself with many artifacts for a run, better to do it in the first two dungeons when prices are cheaper. In my opinion, Evalaine is a better source of artifacts as you get to choose from three of them for a cheaper price and you can always reroll the options once per visit.

Before you make your choice, take a look at the gates in the room. If you find you want to level up for your next skill, and one of the gates is a Moon Gate, it might be best to destroy the Fresh Blood instead since you can level up by clearing the Moon Chamber anyway.

Boss rooms can contain urns which drop Silver Coins so before you step through the portal to the next level, make sure to clear the room.

If you are limping along in a bad run and just want to progress as quickly as possible while minimizing enemy encounters, choosing gates with vendors will allow you to move along faster as these chambers have no enemies.

A quick way of creating a decent build is to focus exclusively on one damage type for your huntress and run. You get to pick your weapons and skill according to damage type and throughout your run you'll find artifacts that boost that type as well, so you can end up with some really powerful builds.

The Bloodstone ultimate, aside from dealing mediocre AoE damage, grants you invulnerability while it's active. If you have a crit focused build, you can essentially burst any boss down the moment the fight starts by using all your skills and attacks right on their face.

It's a flat 15% damage increase to all your damage sources, stacking up to 75% at level 5. If you see this, grab it and don't let go.

No, only mildly lewd content.

Not at the moment, maybe in the future.

Two for each huntress.

You can get the Vampire Ending by beating the Vampire Queen having consumed blood and leveling up your skills. Essentially, beating the game above level 1.

The "true" ending is the Human Ending, in which you beat the Vampire Queen at level 1 without ever consuming blood to level up (breaking the crystal for Bloodstones is fine!). This means that your huntress never succumbed to her vampire side, thus breaking the cycle of vampiric inheritance.

We don't know, you will have to ask Chowbie about that. Maybe an artbook like for Wedding Witch?

Let Chowbie know over at their Twitter page. They usually respond quite fast, Chowbie is nice like that.