Mission Difficulty

This page shows mechanics about difficulty settings and achievements in story mode and arcade mode.

Difficulty

Levels can be played on either easy, medium, hard, extreme or impossible. Few levels only have a single set difficulty. Medium is the recommended choice for first-time playing.

Some elements in a level may change on high difficulty.

• Resources are less abundant.

• Objectives are more difficult to complete.

• Enemies appear in larger number. Larger variants and adults become more common and appear sooner.

• Preparing periods and intervals of attacking waves is shorter.

• Titans are have higher size and health.

• Enemy colonies are more aggressive, have greater maximum population and cheat more frequently.

Enemies have halved health and give doubled food amount on easy. Unique enemies may appear in some levels only on impossible.

You can't save in the middle of any levels.

Achievements

You can earn achievements by completing extra objectives before beating the respective level on the designated or higher difficulty. Only story levels and holiday levels have achievements.

Achievements don't affect rewards or story progression. You can't earn achievements when you are in new game plus.

You can enable achievement tracking to know if you meet or fail any requirements during a level.

Achievements
Level	Achievements
New Home	New Home Quantity, not Quality (medium) Speedy Setup (hard) Stand Your Ground (extreme) Picky Eater (impossible) First Innings (challenge) Just Isn't Cricket (challenge - impossible)
Subjugation	Subjugation Rapid Growth (medium) Nope (hard) Against the Odds (extreme) Get Your Own Eggs (impossible) Enemy of My Enemy (challenge) I Can Eat 50 Eggs (challenge - impossible)
The First Experiment	The First Experiment Vanilla
Rising Tide	Rising Tide Free Willis (medium) The Way Is Shut (hard) It's My Beach Now (extreme) Giant Bear (impossible) Work with What You've Got (challenge) Ambush the Ambushers (impossible - challenge)
Queen of the Hill	Queen of the Hill Separation of Duties (medium) I Love Sashimi (hard) At Arm's Length (extreme) Within Reach (impossible) Beach Cleanup (challenge) Meat's Back on the Menu (impossible - challenge)
The Second Experiment	The Second Experiment No Entry
The Harvest	The Harvest Regicide (medium) Boundary Dispute (hard) Live and Let Live (extreme) Fast Food (impossible) Trypanophobia (challenge) Fly Swatting (impossible - challenge)
Front Line	Front Line Quick March (medium) Shoot the Messenger (hard) Workforce (extreme) Whip Lash (impossible) Sitting Duck (challenge) Meticulous Harvest (impossible - challenge)
Possibly the Final Experiment	Possibly the Final Experiment Fool's checkmate
Cold Blood	Cold Blood Grab the Bull by the Horns (medium) Toad in the Hole (hard) Toad-al Annihilation (extreme) Raise the Alarm (impossible)
A Bridge Too Far	A Bridge Too Far Collector (medium) Entomophobia (hard) Disposable Bridges (extreme) Multitasking (impossible)
The Final Experiment	The Final Experiment Clever Little Ants
Hungry Spider	Appetite Sated
Festive Spider	Grinch Repelled Some Naughty Some Nice The Perfect Chritmas
New Year's Feast	New Year's Feast Don't Tickle Its Bottom (medium) Rocket Jump (hard) Spring Cleaning (extreme) Full House (impossible)

Trivia

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