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 final boss 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.

Features of New Game+
All enemies have increased health and do more damage with their attacks. However, their resistances, protection, and dodge are unaffected, as is their chance to crit.

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.

The last and deadliest change in New Game+, however, is the possibility of failing a campaign. Unlike the regular campaign - where your victory can be as long and bloody as it needs to be - you will immediately fail if either of the following things happens:

- You take more than 91 weeks to finish the game.

- 13 or more of your heroes are killed.

Keep in mind that you will always lose at least two heroes to the Heart of Darkness - if you take more than 10 casualties before the final battle, you have effectively failed your quest already (as you will immediately lose when the Heart kills the thirteenth hero, even if you're winning the actual boss battle).

Should you fail in your quest, the game will present you with a Game Over screen explaining the cause of your defeat (either giving the creature time to awaken, or enough blood to awaken prematurely), after which your save file will be deleted.

Defeating the Heart of Darkness will not prevent you from failing your campaign; your save file will be deleted as soon as you hit 91 weeks or 13 casualties.