Everything below is in Options, on the title screen and in the game's menu. Options belong to your device and save at once. Before your first new game, a short card offers Gore, the flash and motion rows, Shake and Text speed. If your device asks for reduced motion, Reduce flashes and Reduced motion start on, and Shake starts off.

Reading

• Text speed: Slow, Normal, Fast or Instant. Confirm shows the rest of a line; hold it to fast-forward.
• Auto-advance: Off, Slow or Normal. Lines move on after a pause for reading. It never makes a choice for you.
• Text box: Standard or High contrast, an opaque black box with bright white text.
• Captions: Off or On. A line of text for sounds that tell you something you can't see: a bell, a door, a roar.
• Backlog: the last 50 lines said, to read again. L, or the gamepad's Select, opens it during a scene.

Seeing

• Gore: Full or Low. Low has far less blood, in one muted colour, and no wounds or pools.
• Reduce flashes: Off or On. No white flashes across the screen.
• Reduced motion: Off or On. No hit-stop, blood-drip wipe, speaker hop or heat haze, and fewer embers and ash.
• Shake: On or Off. The screen shakes on heavy hits, quakes and roars.
• Brightness: Standard, Bright, Brighter or Brightest. Lifts the dark of caves, nights and lantern floors; above Standard, a carried lantern lights a tile further.
• Minimap: On or Off. A small map while you cross the world. N turns it on and off.
• Objective marker: Off or On. A small arrow at the screen's edge, pointing to your objective when it is off screen.

Hearing

• Sound: On or Off, for music and sound effects. M mutes on a keyboard.
• Music: Score, the full soundtrack, or Chiptune, the lighter one, for a slow phone.
• Music volume, SFX volume and Ambience volume: Off, then 1 to 10 each.
• Text blips: On or Off. A soft sound in each speaker's voice as their lines type out.
• Silent switch (iPhone and iPad only): Mutes game or Plays anyway, with the ring switch on silent.

Playing

• Difficulty: Easy (weaker foes), Normal or Hard (tougher foes). Kept with each save.
• Battle speed: Normal or Fast. Fast halves the pauses in battle; rolls and outcomes stay the same.
• Overcast ask: On or Off. Ask before a spell you can't afford tears your Imprint for max HP.
• One-handed (phones held upright only): Off or On. Tap where to walk, or hold to steer; tap someone to talk. No D-pad, and bigger buttons.
• Joystick (phones held sideways only): Off or On. Put a thumb down anywhere on the left and drag to walk, in place of the D-pad.
• Pad opacity (phones held sideways only): 50%, 65%, 85% or 100%. How solid the touch controls look while no thumb is on them; pressed, they are always solid.
• Always run: Off or On. Run without holding Run; hold Run to walk instead.
• Controls: see and change every key and gamepad button.
• Play stats: On or Off. Anonymous counts of where players stop, and the Ledger's tallies: no cookies, no account. Privacy has the details.

Keyboard and mouse

To	Press
Move	Arrow keys or WASD
Confirm	Space, Enter or Z
Back	Esc, Backspace or X
Menu	Tab or E
Run	Hold Shift
Repeat last round (battle)	R
Battle info	I
Text log	L
Minimap	N
Mute, fullscreen	M, F

Click menus to choose and text to move it on. Change any key in Options, Controls, except M and F.

Gamepad

To	Xbox	PlayStation
Move	D-pad or left stick
Confirm	A	Cross
Back	B	Circle
Menu	Start	Options
Run	Hold X	Hold Square
Repeat last round (battle)	Y	Triangle
Battle info; text log outside battle	Select	Share
Change tabs	LB, RB	L1, R1

A gamepad works as soon as you press a button. Change any button in Options, Controls.

Touch

To	Touch
Move	The D-pad
Confirm	The bell button, or tap the text
Back	B
Menu	Menu
Run	Tap Dash; tap again to walk
Repeat last round (battle)	Repeat, at the top of the commands
Battle info	Hold a finger on a hero or foe
Text log	The Log tab on the text box

Upright, the buttons sit below the screen; sideways, they sit on its edges. Each is at least 44 pixels across. Tap a menu row to choose it.