The role-playing mode in KnightShift resembles Blizzard Entertainment's hack-and-slash game Diablo. In this part of the game, you'll generate a character from one of eight different classes, including knights, barbarians, and wizards, and adjust various statistics, including strength and stamina, using the character points that you receive each time you gain a level. You'll also collect gold from fallen enemies that you can use to purchase weapons, armor, and other items from merchants. In the meantime, you'll play through a hack-and-slash single-player adventure with an entourage of soldiers that you'll control like a squad of real-time strategy units, so they won't have inventories or experience levels, but they will be able to improve their abilities by picking up magic items along the way.