How to Unlock and Equip Runes in Soulstone Survivors

Runes are powerful effects that can be unlocked in the Skill Tree and equipped in the rune slots to increase build synergies.

You need to unlock the ability to equip runes using Minor Soulstones, which can be earned by simply defeating enemies. Once you have 5 Minor Soulstones you can unlock the Runes skill.

After that, you can start unlocking the runes themselves by completing various challenges throughout the game. Each rune has three tiers of skills that can be additionally unlocked with more Soulstones.

All runes have a cost between 1 and 5, and you have the maximum power of 5 to equip runes in the rune slots of your Skill Tree. For example, you can either equip five runes that each cost 1, or you can equip one rune that costs 5. It’s up to you!

All Runes and How to Get Them

Uncommon Runes (Cost: 1)

Center of Attention

Effect: Focuses all random area effects at your position. Requirement: Unlock at least eight characters.

Dash Mastery

Effect: Increases dash speed by 50%. Requirement: Complete Curse 2: Frozen Wasteland.

Weapon Expert

Effect: Unlocks a special skill for your selected weapon. Requirement: Reach Level 100 in a single match.

Rare Runes (Cost: 2)

Controlled Chaos

Effect: Guarantees top damage for all your sources of random damage. Requirement: Complete at least 70% of Endless Cycle 3.

Critical Mastery

Effect: Guarantees 100% critical hit chance each time you deal critical damage. Requirement: Complete Curse 3: Grove.

Executioner

Effect: All negative status effects that you afflict on enemies have 5% bonus damage. Requirement: Complete Curse 4: Dungeon Despair.

Focus Fire

Effect: Increases all your damage by 40%, but reduces all your area effects by 20%. Requirement: Destroy 2,000 elite enemies.

Generalist

Effect: All your active skills have 5% bonus damage. Requirement: Destroy 400 Void Lords.

Multi-cast Mastery

Effect: Increases chance of multi-casting. Requirement: Complete Curse 4: Caves.

Purity

Effect: Increases all your damage by 50%, but reduces 5% of damage for each negative status effect afflicted on enemies. Requirement: Destroy 200,000 enemies.

Surefooted

Effect: All damage received by your character is reduced by 15%. Your resistance to pushbacks is increased. Requirement: Reach Level 90.

Epic Runes (Cost: 3)

Commanding Presence

Effect: Reduces all your damage by 40%, but increases all damage of your summons by 40%. Requirement: Destroy 300,000 enemies.

Recklessness

Effect: For each point of lost HP your damage is increased by 0. 5%. Requirement: Destroy 3,000 elite enemies.

Reroll Mastery

Effect: You get one extra reroll after every five levels. Requirement: Destroy 500 Void Lords.

Legendary Runes

Synergetic (Cost: 4)

Effect: Increases the chance of synergy power-ups by 20%. when chaining negative status effects afflicted on enemies. Requirement: Complete Endless Cycle 3.

Singular Focus (Cost: 5)

Effect: Increases the number of possible active skills, including power-ups. Requirement: Complete Curse 6: Caves.

Those are all runes in Soulstone Survivors and tips on how to get them. For more, check out our guide on the best builds in Soulstone Survivors.