Hammer Knight: Seoul Rescue

An action game where you fight your way along the subway through a downtown Seoul overrun by monsters. At each station you rescue trapped citizens and stamp the station's landmark. Play solo or with up to 5 friends. The five characters from Hammer Knight Season 1 appear, but the story is separate, so you don't need to have played Season 1.

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How a run works

1. Tap Start Game on the title screen to open the Line 2 map. Choose a starting station, a character and a start time, then tap Set off.
2. You get off at 3 stations per run. At each one you come out of a numbered exit into streets built along the real road layout. Every arrival is announced with "This stop is ○○."
3. Every station has one landmark. Stand on the pad under the gold pin for a moment to get the stamp, plus one upgrade and 15% HP.
4. Stand next to a trapped citizen to rescue them. Rescued citizens follow you to the end and help with attack power, healing or thrown stones depending on their job. You must rescue 4 citizens at each station before you can call the train.
5. Hold out inside the circle at the green-roofed boarding gate until the train arrives. Rocks fly in from the rooftops while you wait. If one hits you inside a red circle, you lose health and the train is delayed, so keep moving.
6. When the train arrives, you ride it to the next station. You recover a little health on board.
7. Board the train at the third station and the leg is complete. The next run continues from the following station.

The 43 stations are split into legs of 3, so 15 runs take you all the way around Line 2. Your stamps are saved on this device, and the title screen and line map show how many you have collected.

Day and night

The in-game clock moves 6 minutes for every real second, so a single run goes from daytime to sunset to night. At night, windows, street lamps and landmarks light up, and monsters appear more often and in larger numbers. You can start in the morning, daytime, evening or night.

Controls

Basic attacks fire automatically. When you level up, pick one of three cards to get stronger for that run. Key layout, sound, vibration and one-handed controls can be changed in Settings, which are shared with Season 1.

Characters

In Seoul Rescue everyone starts under the same conditions, whoever you pick. The knight level and gear you earned in Season 1 have no effect.

Play with friends (up to 5)

1. On the line map screen, set a nickname and tap Invite friends to create a room.
2. Send the invite link through a messenger. Friends who open it join right away, with no install or login.
3. Each player picks one character. The cards show who picked whom.
4. The host chooses the starting station and start time, and the run begins once everyone taps Ready.

The more players there are, the tougher and more numerous the monsters. If a friend disconnects mid-run, their character keeps following and moves on its own.

The 43 stations of Line 2 and their landmarks

Listed clockwise from City Hall, all the way around. Each station has its own stamp picture.

Station names, numbers and order follow public Seoul subway line information. The road and building layout and exit positions around each station are redrawn in a simplified form for the game, based on open map data from V-World, run by Korea's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. They differ from the real places and cannot be used for directions. Landmark art is placed on open ground near each station, not at its real location.

Map data: MOLIT V-World (Korea). All train and transfer-station sounds are original synthesized sounds; no real announcements or recordings are used.

Updates in the works

• Above-ground station exits: the 9 stations on elevated sections still use temporary exits. They will be moved to the real exit positions.
• Transfers: you will be able to change to other lines at transfer stations.
• More lines: after Line 2, the lines that run through Seoul will be added one at a time.

FAQ

What happens to my "Seoul Line 2" progress from Season 1?

On the same device and browser, your stamps and next starting station carry over as they are. "Seoul Line 2" has been removed from Season 1 and moved into this game.

Where is my progress saved?

There is no sign-up, so it is saved only in this device's browser. If you clear the browser's site data, your stamps are deleted too.

Can I use it like an app on my phone?

Tap Install to home screen on the title screen, or on iPhone choose Add to Home Screen from the Share button, and it will open full screen.

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