Brigandine Abyss Difficulty: Easy, Normal and Hard

What is confirmed

The producer’s own summary is short and worth quoting for what it does and does not promise:

Both [modes] let you choose from Easy, Normal, or Hard when you begin. While each mode has its own difficulty level, you can also set the global difficulty at the start.

So:

Three levels. Easy, Normal, Hard.
Chosen at the start of a campaign, not mid-run.
Per mode or global. Story Mode and Mission Mode each carry their own setting, with a global option if you would rather set it once.
The specifics have not been published. The producer explicitly left the details of what each level changes “for another time”, and no follow-up letter has covered it. Steam lists the game under Adjustable Difficulty, which confirms the feature exists without describing the numbers.

This page therefore does not publish a table of enemy stat multipliers. Nobody outside the studio has one.

What actually makes runs harder

Difficulty setting aside, the campaign layer has its own pressure valves, and they are documented:

The season counter. The campaign map shows how many seasons remain until the next event battle. Fewer seasons means fewer Explorations, fewer stronghold upgrades and smaller squads when the scripted fight lands.
Invasions you did not schedule. Other factions attack on their own initiative — one achievement tracks defending against at least three invasions in a single playthrough. Building tall while leaving borders thin is its own difficulty setting.
Losing a leader. If a leader is defeated the entire squad retreats with them, so a single bad engagement can cost you a whole stack’s contribution for the battle.
Elemental matchups. Advantage moves damage and accuracy, so a wrong-element attacker misses as well as hits softly. Equipment that bestows an element is the cheapest correction available — see the equipment guide.

Choosing for a first run

If this is your first Brigandine game, Normal plus one of the two demo-prologue nations is the least surprising combination — the demo campaigns are the ones built to introduce the systems, and the starter order page explains why. Easy is there if you want the story routes without the strategic pressure; the campaigns are the same either way.

Players have been comparing notes on Hard runs in the Steam discussions since launch. Treat those threads as impressions rather than data: without published multipliers, “Hard is brutal” and “Hard is fine once you know Rally” are both just experience reports.

Beginner guide — the decisions that come before difficulty
Organization Phase — the season-by-season budget
Mission Mode — 24 nations with their own objectives

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