When Katya, a young explorer with no memory of her past, awakens on Kuros, she finds a mysterious alien world teetering on the brink of destruction. Determined to piece together her forgotten life, she sets out to explore her strange surroundings.
With the guidance of six unique allies, help Katya explore five elemental realms – Wood, Fire, Water, Metal, and Aether – and heal the mysterious and damaged glyphstones that govern the landscape. Collect quest-related hidden objects, construct useful items and unique power-ups, and solve mind-bending puzzles to repair the stones and restore balance to this mystical world.
Below are the Gameplay Basics you will need to be successful!

Kuros is a big world and, to get around, you'll need to know a few things about navigation. The following tips will help you in your travels.
To leave a location, search the edges of your screen for map exits. A map exit that takes you to another room will be displayed as an arrow.
Some exits will take you to the world map. These exits will display a map icon next to the arrow.
Map fragments are well-hidden throughout Kuros and must be found in order to discover new areas. Every 10 map fragments found will result in a new location being uncovered on the world map.
To see how many map fragments you have collected, hover your mouse cursor over the lightstone in the lower left corner of the screen.
The map construction puzzle will occur when you have successfully found all 10 map pieces and exit to the world map. You must assemble the collected fragments to discover new locations and progress on your journey. Below is an example of the map construction puzzle.

Changing locations in Kuros is as simple as finding a map exit and then left clicking on any previous location or newly discovered location on your world map.

Your character's icon will appear over your current location on the world map.

Your mouse cursor represents Katya’s ability to interact with objects and puzzles in the game world.
• Left clicking on an object will pick it up.
• To use an item once it’s been picked up, left click on the screen element you want to use it with.
• Place objects in the inventory by left clicking one of the open slots.
• Note: Objects that look similar can be stacked.
Kuros is a hidden object adventure game. On virtually every screen you will need to find hidden items that will help you with your quest. Items may be used to interface with puzzles, repair broken objects, and help uncover new locations to explore.
The Wand will help Katya activate magical glyphs, heal glyphstones, and even light Katya’s way in dark situations.
The Scepter is a powerful staff with both magical and mechanical properties. Where the Wand is useless, the Scepter may come in handy.
Chromatic Lenses are special items that when used will uncover one hidden object on the screen. Using a Chromatic Lens will permanently use it’s magic, but there are many lenses hidden throughout Kuros.
Scrying Orbs will reveal the solution to any puzzle and allows Katya to automatically solve them. Scrying Orbs are powerful and rare devices and their magic is only usable once. If you’re lucky enough to find one of these, save it for a really difficult puzzle.
Kuros is a strange and magical place that holds many challenges for the would-be adventurer. Occasionally, Katya will find herself faced with puzzles that require the camera to zoom in on what she is viewing. Typically these challenges must be solved or fixed for Katya’s journey to continue.
Restoring the glyphstone can only happen when the realm has been set at ease. This is done by finding map fragments which reveal new locations to explore. Your Lightstone will keep track of your progress in healing the current realm.
Click on a symbol on your lightstone and then click on an empty spot to engrave it. To heal the glyphstone, solve the pattern in the puzzle.

Back to Game - Return to the game currently being played.
Switch to Full Screen - Switch between Full Screen and Windowed Mode.
Sound Volume - Adjust the Sound Volume using the slider bar.
Music Volume - Adjust the Music Volume using the slider bar.
Save & Exit - Save and Exit the current game and return to the Main Menu.
Windows XP/Vista
Pentium III 750MHz or better (1.0 GHz Vista)
384 MB System RAM (512 MB Vista)
64MB AGP Video Card
Internet Explorer 5.0+, AOL 5,6 or MSN browsers
Direct-X 9 (10 Vista)
Keyboard & mouse required
Joystick and game pad are not supported
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