The world of Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon can feel unwelcoming for new players. Steeped in Arthurian legends, this game has monsters and enemies pulled straight out of storybooks that can eat away huge chunks of your health with just one hit.

Thankfully, the game offers options to adjust the difficulty to suit your preferences. Whether you're looking for a challenge or want to breeze through the story, you'll be able to tweak your experience just the way you like it. Here's a complete breakdown of the different difficulty settings in Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon, along with our recommendations on which one to choose.

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All Difficulty Settings in Tainted Grail The Fall of Avalon

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Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon features five different difficulty levels catering to a variety of players.

Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon Difficulty Options

Story Focus

When Story Focus is enabled, combat is extremely forgiving. Perfect for players who want to explore the world and follow the story with minimal resistance.

Explorer

For players who want to experience the story with minimal challenge. Enemies are forgiving, and resources are plentiful. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the journey.

Adventurer

A balanced experience. Combat is fair but requires focus. Mistakes are punished, but recovery is possible. Designed for experienced players.

Veteran

A step up in difficulty. Enemies hit harder and show less mercy. Every resource counts. For those who seek a serious challenge.

Survival Mode

When survival mode is enabled, you can save only at bonfires, and death ends the game. Recommended only for the most hardcore players. This will not be a balanced experience. This will be a painful experience.

Story Focus and Survival Mode only become available when you choose Explorer and Veteran difficulty, respectively.

How to Change Difficulty in Tainted Grail The Fall of Avalon

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Players can change the difficulty anytime they want by going into Options. The difficulty slider can be found at the top of the Game tab.

What Changes in Each Difficulty?

The biggest difference you'll notice when you move to a higher difficulty in Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon is that enemies take less damage and hit a lot harder. This makes each combat encounter more punishing. You'll need to learn how to parry and dodge effectively without draining your stamina. For mage builds, mana management also becomes extremely important.

You'll also need to keep potions and food ready before each battle to heal up during fights. Your weapons and armor need to be upgraded regularly to account for the extra health of enemies. Equipping proper armor and weapon relics becomes essential to match the increased damage and health of your opponents.

Which Difficulty Should You Pick?

Adventurer is the standard difficulty that the developers intended for players in Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon. The game will feel challenging at first. However, once you learn the basics and figure out how to optimize your build, things will become easier to manage.

For newcomers to the genre, turning down the difficulty to Explorer is the way to go. You won't have to worry as much about managing your gears at this difficulty setting.

Players who want a serious challenge can look into the Veteran difficulty option. You'll have to take each fight slowly and focus on avoiding damage as much as possible. Enemies will be able to potentially one-shot you if you're underleveled. You'll also need to constantly upgrade your weapons and fine-tune your build to keep up with the bump in difficulty.

We don't recommend enabling Survival Mode on your first playthrough of Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon as it also activates permadeath.

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Survival Horror
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Top Critic Avg: 77 /100 Critics Rec: 71%
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Released
May 23, 2025
ESRB
Mature 17+ // Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Language, Use of Drugs
Developer(s)
Questline
Publisher(s)
Awaken Realms
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WHERE TO PLAY

DIGITAL
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Engine
Unity
Number of Players
Single-player
Steam Deck Compatibility
Verified
Early Access Release
March 30, 2023
PC Release Date
May 23, 2025
Xbox Series X|S Release Date
May 23, 2025
PS5 Release Date
March 25, 2025
Genre(s)
Action, RPG, Open-World, Survival Horror
OpenCritic Rating
Strong
How Long To Beat
~50 hours
X|S Optimized
Yes
File Size Xbox Series
33.66 GB