Game Modes

The New game+ is a game mode which give you the possibility to begin a new campaign, more difficult and more challenging. The New game+ is unlocked the first time you finish the game, after killing the Heart of Darkness and viewing the epilogue cinematic. After unlocking it, when you create a new save file you are given the choice to activate the New game+ features.

Changed Features
In the New Game +, all enemies (including boss) are more powerful. It means a bigger health bar and increased damage from all attacks (which also mean incredibly powerful critical hits).

All gameplay options are locked. For example, you can't deactivate the corpse apparitions or the fact that retreat can fail. This means the difficulty is absolutely locked to the maximum.

On the Old Road, the Traveler's Tent is replaced by the Transcendent Terror, which makes you begin your adventure with less loot and an afflicted hero. This can also give you a virtue.

Unchanged Features
Enemies have more health, but their resistances is the same as before. Same thing for their protection. They hit harder, but it don't seem they have more crit chances, or do more DOT damage (bleed/poison). Their speed and dodge is also unchanged.

The enemies are tougher, but the rest of the game is not changed. The trinkets bring the same buffs, town activities cost the same amount of gold, quest reward are not less than before.

Failing Campaign
The principal change of the New game+ is the possibility of failing a campaign according to 2 criteria: the time you take and the number of heroes you let die.

As a matter of fact, you fail if:

- You take more than 91 weeks (=91 dungeons) to finish the game

- You let 13 of your heroes die

[SPOILER] However, you have to lose 2 heroes against the Heart of Darkness, so in reality, you can't afford to lose more than 10 of your heroes before this fight [SPOILER].

If you do fail, you'll meet a Game Over screen which announce you that you took too much time and the Creature awakened, leading mankind to its doom or that the blood of too many dead heroes have awakened the Thing in advance, accelerating the end.

After that, the save file itself will be deleted, reducing all your efforts to ash and tears of rage. So think carefully: do you really have what it take for this kind of challenge?