Holy War X races

The five races

The count comes from the Movie (March 2025): “there are five races in game on release”, which is also why anything you fight that is not an animal or a skeleton is “most likely a human, fairy, giant, demon or goddess”.

A Vampire Clan appears among the role-play servers the Discord linked in 2022, but vampire is not one of the five release races and has not come up since.

How you get a race

Races are rolled on a spin wheel. On 28 April 2026 the developer confirmed that “the races and magics (because the magics are race locked)” stay on spins. He has also promised more spins at release for everybody, testers or not, “due to us taking so long”.

An older game pass on the official page, Increased Rates, reads “Increase your chances to getting rare Races/Magics/Styles!”. It is off sale and predates two changes: combat styles left the spin wheel in April 2026, and higher race variants left it in May 2025.

Higher variants

Each race has a stronger form. In the May 2025 video the developer says these moved from spins to progression:

Higher variants such as noble demons, goddesses, and elder giants are obtainable via progression rather than spins.

How the names line up was laid out in a 2022 preview. The goddess clan is the higher form of the celestial: celestials have small wings, goddesses large ones. Ordinary demons were shown running on all fours, while noble demons look human. That preview is from before the 2023 rework, so the details may have changed; the split into a base race and a variant you work towards has been restated since.

Race modes

Every race has a transformation, called a mode. The Movie gives each one a job:

• Goddess mode “focuses more on speed”.
• Demon mode “focuses more on assault”: finishing its full M1 string throws fireballs out to the sides.
• Giant mode “is essentially a tank”.
• Fairy mode appears in the footage but is not explained.

In a mode you keep everything you can do as a player and gain extra moves. A full M1 combo normally knocks a transformed player back, but if you are transformed too you can keep the combination going. Two things knock you out of a mode: certain boss moves, such as the Minotaur's roar, and, once power levels are added, the “immense magical pressure” of a much stronger player.

The modes shown are the top form for the base races. Higher variants go further, taking on forms such as an assault mode and later a Demon King mode, which the developer says arrive in updates after release.

Balance

Because rare races are spun, people asked whether a lucky roll wins fights. The answer given in April 2026: “we've ensured all races essentially have balanced magics, so you won't get bodied by some race like goddess or demon”. In November 2023 the developer had already said the races are “fairly balanced and the game will not be pay to win”.

Not known yet

• The odds of each race on the spin wheel.
• Stat differences between races.
• What a human or fairy mode does.
• How long it takes to reach a higher variant.

Each of these becomes its own page once the game is open and the numbers can be read from it.