Difficulties

It Lurks Below has four difficulty levels: Normal, Nightmare, Hell, Inferno. As with Diablo and other games of the ARPG genre, each subsequent difficulty ramps up the monsters levels and reduces your resistances.

Normal difficulty

 * Monster level 1-35

Nightmare difficulty
-50 to all resists
 * Monster level 35-65
 * All monsters possess deadly Monster Modifiers
 * On Nightmare, players suffer from the Nightmare difficulty debuff:

Hell difficulty
-100 to all resists
 * Monster level 65-90
 * All monsters possess deadly Monster Modifiers
 * On Hell, players suffer from the Hell difficulty debuff:

Inferno difficulty

 * Monster level 90-110
 * All monsters possess deadly Monster Modifiers
 * On Inferno, players suffer from the Inferno difficulty debuff: [[file:Nightmare Debuff icon.png|left|link=]] -150 to all resists