Miss Peacock v1.5.2 Update: Difficulty Adjustments

After gathering player feedback and careful discussion, we have lowered the game's difficulty by removing certain death scenarios, eliminating mandatory sanity checks, and making option-based challenges less difficult.

Here’s what we did:

1 – Removed death content in the exploration phase.

The only non–main-story death in exploration, internal ID: Barrack-08, has been removed.

It was a nightmare sequence in the barracks (Plot9) that caused an unavoidable death when mental stability was at the minimum (-3).

Exploration no longer contains any death outcomes.

2 – Removed all non-branching mental-check instant deaths.

Previously, some mental checks had no branches; if the player’s mental stability was at the minimum (-3), the check always resulted in death.

Those have been removed. Remaining mental checks have branches, so players can avoid death.

3 – Eased death-option difficulty.

Options that lead to death are now easier to recognize; some trap options have been made more absurd or odd so that “don’t pick this” is clearer.

4 – Adjusted some death types.

We adjusted certain death outcomes so they are spread more evenly, making it easier to collect death cards.

5 – Published a short guide.

As a result:

1 – Total deaths are reduced from 44 to 40.

2 – Most death-related options are significantly easier to avoid.

3 – There are no mandatory mental-check instant deaths anywhere.

4 – Death types are more evenly distributed.

5 – A short guide is available via the bulletin board so players can reliably choose non-death options; specific story triggers still require continued collection.

OTTER CLUB

[February 25, 2026]