Monk Took Book Difficulty Settings: How to Reduce or Disable Enemies

Can you turn off enemies entirely?

Yes — and it is an official, first-class option, not a hidden toggle. The Steam description states the game has difficulty options to reduce or disable enemies for a calmer experience. In practice that means the game is playable as a pure organizing-and-memory sim: shipments, shelving and evening requests with no night defense at all. For players whose joy is the filing system rather than the fight, that is the whole game with nothing missing that they wanted.

What difficulty options are available?

Two levels are confirmed by the official wording — reduced enemies and disabled enemies — sitting presumably alongside the default experience. What is not documented is the granularity underneath: whether there are separate sliders for creature frequency, night length, request volume or damage, and whether settings can change mid-run. Those details will be filled in from the settings menu itself once verified; until then, this page deliberately stops at the official line rather than inventing a settings list.

Which mode should you choose?

Match the mode to what you want the evening exam to test. If the memory loop is the fun part and combat is friction, disable enemies outright and enjoy a pure librarian sim — nothing in the organizing loop requires them. If you want the full cozy-creepy tension the store page advertises, default settings deliver it, and reduced enemies is the middle path for learning nights without losing them. Our beginner guide suggests starting calmer than you think you need, then turning threats back on once your filing system holds.

Does difficulty work differently in co-op?

Co-op has its own scaling layer on top: difficulty adjusts based on the number of players, per the official description. A four-monk session is not the solo game with more hands — workload and night threats grow with the crew. How the reduce/disable options interact with a multiplayer session (and who controls them) is undocumented so far; our co-op guide keeps the confirmed multiplayer facts in one place.

Does changing difficulty affect achievements?

Unverified, and honestly unknowable from public materials right now. The confirmed achievements include night-defense actions like killing a rat and a spider, so a fully enemy-free run presumably cannot earn those two — but whether the game marks or locks anything at reduced settings has not been stated anywhere official. Completionists who care should treat enemy-disable mode as a comfort-and-learning tool until this is tested in-game, then decide.

For what the enemies do when they are switched on, the enemies guide lists the confirmed creatures and the defense tools — daggers, crossbows and a holy cross — you meet them with.