If you’re diving into 1348 Ex Voto for the first time, this walkthrough hub is designed to ensure you complete the game’s action-packed campaign without missing any major content. The game is set in plague-ridden 14th century Italy, where our hero Aeta, a knight-errant, is on a perilous quest to save Bianca through a scorched land of burning villages, ruined castles, and unforgiving countryside. This walkthrough is designed to be useful, covering everything you need to know for successful battles in this game’s slow-paced but engaging sword fights, where you’ll find skill and other upgrades, and simply navigating each area without getting stuck.
Chapters
Chapter 1: Prelude
Chapter 1 of 1348 Ex Voto begins after the tutorial introduces basic combat like two-handed stance, Perfect Attacks, blocking, and guard breaks. The player must navigate a village that has been raided, fight the raiders, and make their way to the castle. The player must collect food to maintain the food bar and collect papers to upgrade Audatia (combat), Prudentia (health, food, and guard). The player must navigate burning buildings, the rooftops, and the church to finally make it to the castle courtyard to fight the raiders.
Chapter 2: The Mountains
Chapter 2 of 1348 Ex Voto takes you through a mountain trail leading to a distant keep. On your way, you visit caves, ruins, and an old tower filled with Briganti raiders. You can collect herbs, food, upgrade papers, and sword parts like the Impera Pommel, Impera Grip, and even the San Leone trinket located inside a church. After clearing your enemies and exploring all the hidden areas inside the church, you continue your mountain trail until you reach the bridge leading to the keep, enter through the stables.
Chapter 3: The Forest
Chapter 3 of 1348 Ex Voto takes Aeta through a forest filled with ruins, raider camps, and environmental puzzles. While progressing towards a tower, you collect mushrooms, papers, and other upgrades such as the San Francesco trinket and Impera Guard sword part while completing crate puzzles and lift sections. After completing a series of raider camps, you are required to fight a boss.
Chapter 4: The Villa
In Chapter 4 of 1348 Ex Voto, Aeta is in an area on the outskirts of a ruined villa, where monks have taken over the area. As you move through mausoleums, camps, and paths on the hill, you fight monks and Flagellanti, collecting supplies and documents in the process. After going through the aqueduct and charnel, you get to the villa grounds, defeat the monks in the building, and then follow Bianca’s voice to get upstairs.
Chapter 5: The Town
In Chapter 5 of 1348 Ex Voto, Aeta searches a besieged town for Bianca. You move through narrow streets, houses, and rooftops while collecting supplies and documents, fighting a number of groups of Flagellanti along the way. After being informed by a hidden survivor that there are prisoners in the church, you must fight in this area, search buildings for loot such as the Chess Queen trinket, and then arrive at the church to see that Bianca has been taken to the amphitheater.
Chapter 6: The Amphitheater
In Chapter 6 of 1348 Ex Voto, Aeta navigates his way through the ruins and underground tunnels to the amphitheater. After clearing waves of aggressive monks in the town forum, navigating the rocky terrain, and you arrive at the arena to find Bianca burned at the stake before facing off against Nessuno in a boss fight to open the Celeritas skill tree, followed by Bianca being taken away.
Videogames.
Gym.
Sneakers.
Manga.
My dog.
In that order.
