Difficulty

The game offers 3 difficulty levels to chose: Hard Mode, Hell Mode and Doom Mode. When player starts a new game difficulty level sets at 'Hard' by default (This happens at NG+ too), but it can be changed at any moment.

### Differences between Difficulty Levels

#### Hard

* Food doesn't spoil
* Pregnancy length is very short
* Some negative effects are turned off (like puke value and orgasm addiction)
* You can leave any location at any time

#### Hell

* Raw food and most dishes quickly spoils and dissapears
* Pregnancy length is much longer than it was in Hard Mode
* You can't leave location during battle (crossed swords indicator in top-left side of the screen means that you in battle now)

#### Doom

* Raw food and most dishes quickly spoils and dissapears(same as Hell Mode)
* Pregnancy length becomes enormously long, you better start utilizing SeedBed(Womb) stacks for that.
* You can't leave location or open the menu during battle (crossed swords indicator in top-left side of the screen means that you in battle now)
* **You can't save the game normaly. The game only saves automatically when you wake up or open the menu.** (Note that while it is stated in the game that it saves when you "return to menu", that doesn't actually happen. The save happens when you open the in-game menu by pressing x/ESC instead.
* **If you die your save file will be deleted. So the real challenge starts at this point.**

### Tips and notes

* Game offers a bunch of Achievements for playing on Hell and Doom modes. But do note, that **you have to turn on those modes at the first day of a New Game** in order to get them.
* Pregnancy length can be greatly decreased by having SeedBed(Womb) stacks. Thats can be exteremely usefull on higher difficulties for Rebirth
* Since most of the food spoils on difficulties higher than 'Hard', you will need to find a stable source of nonperishable food for you journeys. You can buy it through food merchants in every big city, but do note that such food is quite expensive. Use Cooking via Dark Cauldron. If you are passing by the Tropical or Pine Forest biome you can enter it, to grab some vegetables and make soups to eat right now. Or if you have enough points in SUR you can cook Smoked Meat or Dry Meal to eat them later since they don't spoil. Also you can craft Cheese from Lona's milk, it won't spoil either. If you have some Semen by accident, you can also cook it to get White Sludge which can be stored for 'better days'.
* On higher difficulties you can't leave the place you are, if you are being chased by enemies. You can try to talk with them if you have high WIS, but they will ask you to pay them (with your body or money), what can be not a really good idea. Or you can try to escape if you have decent amount of STAmina. The best way to deal with enemies is choose 'hide' option and then 'approach'. Doing so will make them lurk around location instead of standing right next to you when you spawns. And after that try to run around the edges of that place until the two swords on top left dissapear so you can leave, but remember entering a enconter in the swamp or inside the city when in a bad condition is suicide, those places have too many walls where you can be cornered up by multiples enemies.