BPM General Guide

A guide to the characters, items, rooms, bosses and gameplay information.

Author's Notes

9/17- Thank you to everyone who commented overnight, I'll add your stuff now.

9/20- Characters fully updated, thank you [R] Scapegoat02. Also I reordered the items to their slot numbers so helmets are first now and I added a section on how to get through your first few easy mode runs.

9/23- New patch hit, guide will be updated soon. Also finally have some actual names for guns!

2/6- New update, will be adding things soon

Introduction

Hello, this is my first steam guide. I hope this helps you somehow.

Current Questions

What is Critical? Chance, damage? Can you get Criticals without items that give Critical?
Answered: Criticals are weak point hits. Items that give "Critical" increase weak point damage.

What does Triquetra do?
Answered: Doubles the power of Ultimates/RMB powers.

Does Megingjord work on Njord?
Answered: No

Does Geri force a bank to spawn?
Answered: Yes

What does the Luck stat affect?

Tips and Progression Help

This section is based on my personal opinion and time spent with the game. This should help you beat the game on Easy but remember to take this with a grain of salt.

How to Beat the Game on Easy

• Replace your starting weapon as soon as possible.
  
• The best mid tier weapons without upgrades are the Combat Shotgun and the Burst Pdw.
  
• Avoid challenge rooms. The risk/reward ratio is heavily skewed out of your favor.
  
• If you find a Dragon Skin or any item that increases your damage, it takes priority over whatever is in that slot.
  
• Any exploding weapon or item and anything that gives Cleaving will help you clear trash mobs like tiny scorpions and bats much easier.
  
• Prioritize buying extra health and skip buying shields unless you have a significant pool of coins.
  
• Get as many damage upgrades as possible.
  
• Avoid spending coins on ability upgrades.
  
• Ultimates to keep include Elli's/Odin's Favor, Njord's Riches, Snap Fingers and The Quest.
  
• The tooltip "Keep an eye out for secrets" means that you should be looking up in every room you enter for platforming sections. These usually have shrines or chests at the end.

Tips and Tricks

• You can hold shift to sprint
  
• Explosive weapons allow you to rocket jump by shooting at your feet.
  
• Most enemies have a glowing white spot somewhere on their model. This is a weak point and will do extra damage to the enemy when you shoot it. Most enemies that don't have one conspicuously visible take extra damage on headshots.
  
• Some attacks can be dodged, jumped over or require you to break line of sight. Keep an eye on your crosshair as each of these has a different symbol that telegraphs the attack.
  
• You can tell what's inside a chest based on the chest's model. Small chests contain a coin, a key or a health potion, medium chests can contain several of these items, large chests contain even more. Locked chests contain a stat buff or a piece of equipment and the flat version contains a weapon. The big chests behind damage walls in golden chest rooms can contain Clip Ups as well.

Characters

Each character has different values for health and armor as well as a unique starting weapon. You can also unlock a right mouse button (RMB) ability and an ultimate by beating the game on easy and hard respectively.

Göll
Hp: 100
Shield: 0
Starting Weapon: Pistol
Ultimate: Jarnbjorn
RMB Ability: Fire Bolt
Special: N/A


Freyr
Hp: 0
Shield: 150
Starting Weapon: Revolver
Ultimate: Freyr's Blessing
RMB Ability: Block
Special: N/A


Hildr
Hp: 50
Shield: 25
Starting Weapon: Shotgun Pistol
Ultimate: Hermóðr's Enchantment
RMB Ability: Fire Bolt
Special: Begins the game with 5 speed points and a key.


Njord
Hp: 50
Shield: 0
Starting Weapon: Energy Blast
Ultimate: Odin's Blessing
RMB Ability: Valkyrie's Veil
Special: Unlimited ammo, can't use other weapons, starts with 7 coins.


Odr
Hp: 0
Shield: 0
Starting Weapon: Double Barrel
Ultimate: Barter
RMB Ability: Teleport
Special: One hit and you're dead. Has unlimited jumps and the ability to hover. Starts with 1 point of luck.


Skuld
Hp: 150
Shield: 0
Starting Weapon: Garand
Ultimate: Sigyn's Help
RMB Ability: Mortal Curse
Special: Loses 1 health per half beat, gains health from dealing damage.


Geri
Hp: 25
Shield: 0
Starting Weapon: Pistol
Ultimate: Banking
RMB Ability: Burning Coin
Special: Smaller hitbox, lower camera pov, guarantees bank spawn.


Herfjötur
Hp: Coins
Shield: 0
Starting Weapon: Bolt Action
Ultimate: Geri's Audit
RMB Ability: Snipe
Special: Your hp is tied to your coin total, each hit takes half. You can absolutely kill yourself at the shop by spending all your coins.


Rún
Hp: Random
Shield: Random
Starting Weapon: Random
Ultimate:
RMB Ability:
Special: Totally random weapon, health/armor, coins, keys, abilities (including dash), and 1 item.


Sanngridr
Hp: 0
Shield: 0
Starting Weapon: Pistol
Ultimate: None
RMB Ability: None
Special: Odr with no abilities

Ultimates and RMB Abilities

Broken Burst
Spread shot. Low damage. Recharges in two beats.

Celestial Wave
Hits everything on the screen for moderate damage. Recharges in 16 beats.

Mortal Curse
Damage over time until death.

Sacred Sapper
Create an explosive barrel.

Steal Life
Steals some health from a single target, quick recharge.

Undying Strength
Temporary invincibility. You will still take the damage, it just won't kill you.

Barter
Lowers prices in the shop.

Cursed Luck
Sacrifice 25 hp for one point of luck. Infinite uses, no charge time.

Elli's Touch
Heals 25 hp, quick recharge.

Freyr's Blessing
Gives you one bar of shield. Freyr's default ultimate.

[/b]Geri's Audit[/b]

Turns all your items into coins.

Hermóðr's Enchantment
Hyper speed for a few seconds. Useful for getting around the map. Hildr's default ultimate.

Jarnbjorn
Fire an explosive orb. Göll's default ultimate.

Mjöllnir
Fire off a volley of projectiles.

Njord's Riches
Spawns several coins for you to pick up. Charges in two rooms.

The Quest
Ultimate that adds +1 to all stats and gives health regen. Charges up in 8 rooms.

Sigyn's Help
Spawns a chest.

Snap Fingers
Hits all enemies for large amounts of damage.

Valkyrie's Call
Call an angel to shoot enemies for a while.

Valkyrie's Veil
Make yourself invincible to the next attack that hits you. Njord's default ultimate.

Weapons

Weapon damage values have been adjusted, will update.

Bolt Action
Ammo: 4
Damage: High
Range: Medium
Reload Speed: 3 beats
Fired on Half Beats: No

Burst Rifle
Ammo: 6
Damage: Medium
Range: Short
Reload Speed: 2 beats
Fired on Half Beats: No

Chaingun
Ammo: 30
Damage: Low
Range: Long
Reload Speed: 3 beats
Fired on Half Beats: Sort of. It takes some time to spin up but final fire rate is very fast.

Double Barrel
Ammo: 2
Damage: Low/Medium
Range: Short
Reload Speed: 2 beats
Fired on Half Beats: Yes

Fireballer
Ammo: Infinite
Damage:
Range: Long
Reload Speed: N/A
Fired on Half Beats: No
Special: Can be used for rocket jumping.

Garand
Ammo: 3
Damage: Low
Range: Medium
Reload Speed: 1 beat
Fired on Half Beats: Yes
Special: Natural armor piercing? Kills guardians through their shields.

Gauss Cannon
Ammo: 3
Damage:
Range: Long
Reload Speed: 3 beats
Fired on Half Beats: No

Grenade Launcher
Ammo: 6
Damage: Medium/High
Range: Short
Reload Speed: 3 beats
Fired on Half Beats: No

Lever Action Rifle
Ammo: 6
Damage: Low
Range: High
Reload Speed: 1+1 for every missing shot
Fired on Half Beats: No

Pistol
Ammo: 8
Damage: Low
Range: Medium
Reload Speed: 2 beats
Fired on Half Beats: Yes

Plasma Pistol
Ammo: Infinite
Damage: Medium
Range: Medium/Long
Reload Speed: N/A
Fired on Half Beats: No

Quad Revolver
Ammo: 4
Damage: Medium
Range: Short
Reload Speed: 3 beats
Fired on Half Beats: Yes

Raygun
Ammo: Infinite/8
Damage:
Range: Long
Reload Speed: 3 beats (sort of)
Fired on Half Beats: Yes
Special: This gun recharges on its own after 8 shots or not firing for a while. Not affected by Clip Ups.

Revolver
Ammo: 6
Damage:
Range: Long
Reload Speed: 1+1 for each missing shot
Fired on Half Beats: Yes

Rocket Launcher
Ammo: 6
Damage: Medium
Range: Long
Reload Speed: 1+1 for each missing shot
Fired on Half Beats: No

Shotgun
Ammo: 6
Damage: Medium
Range: Short/Medium
Reload Speed: 3 beats
Fired on Half Beats: No

Shotgun Pistol
Ammo: 4
Damage: Medium
Range: Short
Reload Speed: 3 beats
Fired on Half Beats: Yes

SMG
Ammo: 21
Damage: Low/Medium
Range: Medium
Reload Speed: 2 beats
Fired on Half Beats: Yes

Time Delayed Rocket Launcher
Ammo: 1
Damage: Very High
Range: Long
Reload Speed: 2 beats
Fired on Half Beats: Yes

Universal Equipment

Lucky Dice
Consumable that increases your luck stat by 4 points.

Shield Converter
Turns all your shield points to health points.

Skeleton Key
Consumable that gives you infinite keys. Can be used on the Key Demon infinitely as well.

Head Slot Equipment

Adventurer's Fedora
Helmet slot item that swaps your equipped items counter clockwise one slot. Allows you to have more than one kind of item in your build since you now have incorrectly slotted items.

Circlet of the Serpentine
Lifesteal small amounts of health when you damage enemies.

Deadeye Lens
Increases the size of the crosshair.

Equity
Helmet slot item that will do moderate damage to anyone that attacks you.

Fluffy
Reloading boosts the power of your next shot.

Hat of Madness
Helmet slot item that makes your shots cause the enemy to explode after a beat.

Helm of Precision
Increased weakpoint damage multiplier.

Helm of Rage
Increased damage for landing shots perfectly on beat.

Hermóðr The Messenger
Makes you very fast.

Máni
Chance to freeze enemies on hit.

Ogre's Helm
Turns your projectiles into a shotgun spread.

Seiðr's Hat
Creates a small damage aura around your character model.

The Secret Chord
First shot when entering a room is boosted.

Short Horned
Grants luck upon stage completion.

Ymir's Crown
Fires shots when you do, they are slow but track.

Shield Slot Equipment

Battle Lion
Shiedl slot item that cuts your cooldowns in half. Affects your dodge and gun as well allowing you to dodge and shoot on half beats.

Berserker's Arm
Increased weakpoint damage.

Dragon Skin
A shield that gives you one regenerating shield point. This is a contender for strongest individual item in the game. Allows you to effectively pick up Damocles sword items free of charge and walk through the damage walls in golden chest rooms at no permanent cost.

Cursed Iron
Shield slot item that increases damage but turns health into shields. Health ups will also turn into shields.

Face of Death
Shield slot item that gives you double damage. Does not affect RMB abilities. Also a contender for strongest individual item in the game.

Gungnir's Partner
Increases range.

Lion Heart
Revives you at half hp when you die. Odr's best friend.

Richeous Sun
Shield slot item that causes your shots to also fire off a volley of fireballs.

Skjalomeyar's Plate
Shield slot item that gives you one point of shield and reduces the damage you take.

Springhel
Jump up? (may be increased number of jumps)

Storm
Shield slot item that causes your attacks to hit nearby enemies. Also known as cleaving.

The Best Defense
Infinite ammo.

Triquetra
Fortify magic ability?

Hand Slot Equipment

Dwarven Bracelet
Reveals the entire map for you.

Dwarven Ring
Turns all of your shots into arcing grenades.

Go Faster Glove
Increases your movement speed by a large amount.

Gold Bracelet
Enemies drop coins more often,

Gunnr's Bracer
Increases health received from healing items. Affects ultimates and RMB abilities.

Loki's Bargain
Adds one level to each of your stats but has no other effects.

Megingjord
Carry two weapons. (might work on Njord, needs testing)

Memento Mori
Shots hit nearby enemies as well. Also called cleaving.

Midgard Bracelet
Gives you one level of each stat and an extra bar of health.

Powershot Gloves
Gives your shots the ability to penetrate enemies and walls.

Quaternote
Causes each trigger pull to shoot two shots in rapid succession. Njord's best friend.

Raven God
"Super Range" (probably gives you effective max range stat, needs testing)

Sigrdrifa's Bracer
Penetrating shots.

Six Shooter
Allows you to mash out reloads.

Spacewalker
Infinite jumps.

Boot Slot Equipment

Angelic Boots
Gives you an extra jump. Can be activated to perform a bigger jump.

Boots of Rock
Boot slot item that creates a small explosion near you when you land after jumping or falling.

Giant Slayer's Boots
Boots that cause your shots to deal percentage health damage.

Odin's Sneakers
Speed increase boots.

Hermod's Greaves
Speed and range up.

Rythmic Chaos Boots
Causes explosions on the beat. I believe this has a small cooldown before it reactivates but it could also be working based on the current Floor's song similar to The Secret Chord.

Seiðr's Blessing
All enemies take damage over time, no hit needed to activate.

Skates of Strafe
Boot slot item that gives a speed multiplier. Stacks with other speed increasing items.

Spurs of Justice
Adds a DoT effect on weak point hits.

Tampling Boots
Executes low health enemies. Works with cleaving.

Bosses

Draugr
Floor: Asgard I
Notable Attacks: Creates 4 walls of energy that can be sidewalked or dodged. Also has an attack that can only be dodged by jumping.

Ymir
Floor: Asgard II
Notable Attacks: Has a tracking beam that requires you to break line of sight with him. Spawns dragon heads that will chase you periodically.

Vétt
Floor: Vanaheim I
Notable Attacks: Charges a blast that hits the whole room. You can avoid this by standing in the circle.

Gullveig
Floor: Vanaheim II
Notable Attacks: Summons a cross of damaging walls that move periodically and can be jumped over.

Alvis
Floor: Svartalfheim I
Notable Attacks: None?

Mistcalf
Floor: Svartalfheim II
Notable Attacks: Fires waves of energy that can be dodged in a number of directions.

Surt
Floor: Helheim I
Notable Attacks: Has two phases. Gets bigger in Phase 2.

Nidhogg
Floor: Final
Notable Attacks: Starts the battle off with an ever expanding sphere of damage. Summons large dragon heads.

Fafnir
Floor: Asgard Crypts
Notable Attacks: Creates an expanding shockwave on the floor.

Rooms

Bank
Store coins for later playthroughs. Bank will close after 10 coins have been donated. Donating 100 coins will open the back wall which spawns a chest that contains a few coins.

Huginn's Shop
General item shop. Sells health, health upgrades, armor, keys and equipment. Every purchase adds to your loyalty card and with enough points the shop will be upgraded.

Muninn's Armory
Weapon vendor. Also has a loyalty system called Muinn's Gratitude that is used to upgrade his shop.

Challenge Room
Has a lever that spawns enemies on platforms. You get a reward chest if you defeat all the enemies. You can pull the lever multiple times.

Boss Challenge
Similar to challenge rooms, spawns a boss that spawns a treasure chest when killed.

Casino
Spawns a slot machine that dispenses items for coins.

Item Randomizer
Takes coins and dispenses an item or a random piece of equipment. Can be rerolled.

Golden Chest
Contains a chest that requires a key to open. Usually contains a piece of equipment. Some rooms have an extra section in the back that requires you to take damage to get into but contains an extra chest.

Library
Requires a key to open. Contains an ultimate ability or a RMB ability.

The Disk
Appears before the fight with Nidhogg. Dumping enough coins into it will cause it to spawn an item and that item will remain there until you pick it up or swap it for another item. Items in The Disk will carry over through runs.

Well
Spawns four middle to high powered pieces of equipment with each being from a different slot. You can only choose one, the others will disappear.

Stairs
Spawns in Asgard 1, requires a key. Used to access Asgard Crypts.

Altar
Spend coins to boost stats at random, one point per coin.

Prestige Altar
30 coins to make all of your items permanent. Consumes your items allowing you to pick up new ones.

Damocles Sword Room
Spawns three damocles sword shrines with a variety of items and equipment. Some have multiple swords.

Warp Room
Warp pipes to the first stage of any level in the game.

Shrines

Shrines will give you an ability upgrade or item depending on the type of shrine.

Ability Shrine
Increases your ability stat by one point for one coin.

Damage Shrine
Increases your damage stat by one point for one coin.

Luck Shrine
Increases your luck stat by one point for one coin.

Precision Shrine
Increases your precision by one point for one coin.

Range Shrine
Increases your firing range by one point for one coin.

Speed Shrine
Increases your speed stat by one point for one coin.

Key Demon
Takes keys and rewards you with an item after a certain number of keys have been offered up. The rewards are randomized.

Coin Valkyrie
Takes coins and rewards you with a random item after a certain number of coins have been offered up. Rewards are randomized.

Slot Machine Removed as of 2/5/21, spawns in its own room.
Takes your coins. Maybe you get a reward, maybe you dont.

Triple Chest
Not exactly a shrine but it won't fit anywhere else in the guide. Each chest takes a key and only one has a reward, the other two have an enemy inside.

Damocles Sword
Costs 25 hp/shield to get the reward the sword protects. You can mitigate this damage with anything that allows you to take a free hit such as Dragon Heart or Freyr's Block ability.

Floor Modifiers

Barren
No chests will spawn for completed rooms.

Castle
Spawns a special room that consists of a platforming section and an enemy called the Cutthroat.

Dark
Low light conditions.

Exploding
Enemies drop skulls that will damage enemies. Also prevents enemies from dropping anything besides the skulls so coins and keys will not drop.

Frozen
Momentum carried through movement. Like walking on ice.

Glass
Player takes double damage and creates a shattered effect on surfaces. Enemies and bosses have lower hp.

Infested
More enemies.

Inverted
Screen upside down, controls unaffected.

Midas
Enemies drop one coin when killed. Bosses and Minibosses drop several. Room clear chests drop one coin.

Pitted
Contains a special room variant that requires platforming to get out of.

Space
Low gravity.

Boss Modifiers

Burning
Damaging fire aura.

Champion
Increased hp and damage.

Cloned
Two bosses spawn with reduced hp.

Crazed
Faster attacks.

Dwarf
Smaller model and hitboxes.

Electric
Electricity to spawns in the room that will damage you.

Giant
Larger model and hitboxes.

Haywire
Not an actual boss modifier but apparently it's possible for a boss to spawn with far more than two modifiers. Based on an encounter with Vengeful/Champion/Cloned/Dwarf/Crazed Ymir. In the case that this happened, only Vengeful Champion Ymir was displayed in the intro zoom.

Hidden
Invisible boss.

Lethal
Increased damage.

Vengeful
Fires projectiles at the player when damaged.

[Bravoblitz]

Just a tip, Undying Strength with Odyr DOES NOT work

[Jesus "O Grande" Cristo]

for any new people on this guide this is very outdated from 3 years ago theres some new items

[Phyan]

Slot Machine is still in the game. Playing for the first time and I encountered it.

[Matrix_D0ge]

I played for few hours only so far, but so far the second chest in the chest room (after the pain barrier) always contained a weapon, might be useful if you are trying to replace your basic pistol.

[Pre-lobotomy]

Is the stat boost from a boss chest or shop the amout as a shrine?

[538]

Does anyone find Skuld completely obnoxious to play? I get to ONE end of a Floor but because I traversed x amount of rooms and my speed is 1 or 2. I am not able to get to the next room in time before I die.
I get that you should be quick to keep your score multiplier up, however this is incredibly frustrating when you traverse the floor only to have to back-track through EMPTY ROOMS not able to heal from any source.
Although the times you do make it to the next room w/ enemies you are low HP and die in 1-2 hits.

Anyone else have the same struggles or am I just bad?

[Six]

Correction for Geri's Audit, although it might've been mentioned already: It doesn't turn all your items into coins, it turns all unequipped items (including items in shops and protected by Damocles's Blades) into a single coin each.

[slartibartfast]

Thank you so much for this! The game just throws you into the dungeon with no hand-holding, so this guide has been a godsend.

[Cécile D.]

Something to add about the Adventurer's Fedora: it also swaps abilities and ultimates, giving the ability to have two ultimates or two abilities.

[PANDAMONIUM [BRUU]]

yo, any idea how i heal after getting Cursed Iron? i just get another item and can't heal anymore lol