Holy War X bosses: Minotaur, Caesar, Kraken and more

Holy War X has story bosses, island world bosses and sea bosses. A dozen have been named so far, from the red demon you fight first to Galand, added in April 2026. Each world boss drops its own armour and weapon.

Bosses named so far

Boss	Kind	Where	First shown
Red demon	Story	Start of the storyline	June 2025 (remodel)
Minotaur	World	The Labyrinth	December 2023
Caesar	World	Its own arena	March 2025
Galand	World	Southern Britannia	April 2026
Yeti	World	Antarcia Island	October 2023
Orc Boss	World	Not stated	January 2024
RELL Demon Frog	World	Not stated	July 2022
Kraken	Sea	Open sea	October 2023
Megalodon	Sea	Open sea	October 2023
Carlton	Sea	Underwater city	January 2024
Gilthunder, Dreyfus	Player-like	Not stated	Named February 2026

An unnamed world boss for Amofe Island was shown in January 2024, and a final sea boss is described below.

The first story boss

The red demon is where the storyline begins:

Across the games storyline this is the first guy you have to fight, and he's gonna keep coming back.

He was rebuilt in June 2025 at a much larger scale than a player in demon mode. He fights with daggers, and because of his size “his boss drop is a greatsword”.

Concept art of a red winged demon in gold and crimson armour — The red demon after its remodel. Posted 15 June 2025. Image: Alphirex Studio, official Discord.

Minotaur

The Minotaur is the one boss fought start to finish on camera, in the Movie, by the developer and a group of creators. It has two stages.

Move	Stage	What it does
Roar	1	Knocks players out of their race mode so the fight happens at normal size.
Tornado spin	1	Blockable, but it circles you: keep turning to face it.
Heavy attack	1	Used when it sees you blocking up close. Breaks block.
Charge	1	Picks up anyone in its path. Hitting a wall is where the damage is; missing leaves it open.
M1 string	2	Unarmed and fast, with soft tracking onto the nearest player. Ends in a grab cutscene.
Leap slam	2	Two hits, breaks block, tracks.
Flash step	2	A long-range grab that goes through block.

The arena locks when the fight starts. The developer calls the Minotaur one of the smaller bosses: “larger bosses like these make the minotaur feel like a baby”. Its arena was rebuilt in February 2026.

Caesar

Caesar is a great ape and the first of the large bosses. Large bosses react by body part: the part you hit shakes, and “depending on where you focus your attacks the boss will change how it reacts to you”. Caesar drops a rare weapon with ice moves. A full fight video with creators was promised in May 2025; in July 2026 the developer wrote that he had “all of de big monke’s stuff ready”.

Sea bosses

Eight sea world bosses had been made by January 2024, seven of them beatable. The eighth is deliberate: a hidden last boss “that appears in the deep sea which you will die to, regardless of whatever you try to do to avoid it”.

Kraken. Drops a mythical spear, the most used weapon among testers.
Megalodon. Shown in a clip in October 2023.
Carlton. Named by staff in January 2024 when the community was asked for suggestions. Lives in an underwater city; remodelled in February 2026.

A tall blue finned sea creature standing on a test grid beside smaller versions — The new model of Carlton, the underwater boss. Posted 2 February 2026. Image: Alphirex Studio, official Discord.

How boss fights work

Bosses are not stunned by hits. You deal damage until they stagger, then punish.
Cutscene moves do not work on them.
They read what you are doing: a boss that sees you blocking switches to a block breaker.
Friendly fire is on. The Movie's Minotaur fight is mostly players hitting each other.
Every world boss has an armour set and a weapon made for it, with their own perks. Weapons and armour.

Story Mode

Holy War X is inspired by The Seven Deadly Sins but tells its own story, so most bosses are original. The anime's Red Demon and Grey Demon belong to a separate Story Mode “which works almost a bit like GTA 5 heists” (24 July 2026). Player-like bosses from the anime, such as Gilthunder and Dreyfus, exist alongside the monsters.

Holy War X bosses