Mortal Shell 2 NG+: qué se lleva y qué se reinicia

New Game Plus in Mortal Shell 2 keeps almost everything tied to your character and wipes almost everything tied to the world: it’s a second, harder cycle where your level, Shells, weapons, and upgrades all come with you, but dungeons, beacons, and quests reset. This guide covers what happens right after the final boss, exactly what transfers into the next cycle, what changes once you’re in it, and whether you should even bother going in versus staying in free roam.

Mortal Shell 2 is developed by Cold Symmetry and published by Playstack, and it doesn’t hand you a difficulty slider at all. Instead, difficulty is baked into three separate systems you find or unlock in the world itself, and New Game Plus is one of them.

There are three distinct ways to adjust how hard the game is: the Slayer Seal for players who want a lighter experience, Night Mode for those who want a significantly tougher one, and New Game Plus for players who have finished the game and want to carry their progress into a harder second run. None of them are mandatory on their own.

The important part most players get wrong: finishing the game doesn’t automatically dump you into NG+. Beating the final boss doesn’t roll credits on its own and doesn’t force a new cycle — NG+ does not start automatically after you beat the final boss. The game leaves you free to keep exploring and finishing any unfinished business. The cycle only ends when you personally choose to begin it. That free roam window is exactly where you go back for any missed Shells or gear you skipped during the main run, since your first playthrough’s map, inventory, and progress are all still fully intact until you commit.

The actual trigger has a specific name and location. New Game Plus in Mortal Shell 2 is called New Purpose. You reach it by visiting the Gloom Siphon in Marrow Keep and selecting Send Ova. Nothing about the naming is subtle in-game either — the transition screen opens with a plain welcome message once you confirm.

This is the part everyone actually searches for. Across the character-tied systems, the pattern is consistent: all character progress including level and shell points, all unlocked Shells and memories, all inventory items including seals, materials, and keys as well as permanent pickups, weapons, and sidearms with any upgrades that have been made, and all Tarstones with upgrades come with you. All current currencies, including Glimpse, Gloom, and gold carry over too, along with your Tarforge upgrade progress — worth knowing if you’ve been leaning on the Tarforge upgrade system to build a specific weapon.

World-tied systems are the ones that get wiped. Dungeons, beacons, Corrupted Gates, NPC quests, and your Ova count all reset. Map exploration is a partial exception: all revealed map areas carry over, though map markers are reset. NPCs you killed also come back alive, since killed NPCs are reset when starting New Game Plus.

The headline change is combat difficulty. Enemies hit harder and have more health in NG+ across the board, so a loadout that coasted through the first run can suddenly feel underpowered. If you haven’t settled on a build yet, it’s worth comparing that scaling against the game’s other difficulty options in a dedicated Slayer Seal vs Night Mode breakdown before you commit to Send Ova.

There’s also a cosmetic hook for going in at all: you earn the Cosmic Harbinger skin as a reward for reaching New Game+, and you equip it by resting at a Beacon and selecting Change Shades. Beyond that, exclusive content is thin — NG+ isn’t adding new areas or bosses, it’s re-running the existing world at a harder pace with your build intact.

Full completion is where NG+ stops being optional. There is one achievement that requires engaging with New Game Plus: Seeking the Past. It’s earned by watching all Shell memories, and it requires more Glimpses than you can get in a single playthrough. In fact, the earliest you can earn it is NG++, and it’s likely to be the last one most players receive before reaching 100%. One detailed breakdown pegs the math at eight Shells holding five Memories each for a total of 40, with each Shell needing 27 Glimpses to reach max Bond tier, 216 Glimpses total, against an income of roughly enough per cycle to fully max three Shells — figures worth treating as one outlet’s estimate rather than confirmed math, since Cold Symmetry hasn’t published an official NG+ breakdown.

That grind math translates directly into hours. The minimum path to full completion is two full playthroughs plus a partial NG++ run, and one estimate puts the build from a single playthrough at around 40 hours before it walks into NG+ fully intact. Stack that against a second full clear plus a partial third, and you’re realistically looking at somewhere north of 90 hours to see Seeking the Past pop — not a weekend project, and Glimpse farming across cycles (similar in spirit to Gloom farming for the currencies you’ll also be burning) becomes the actual bottleneck, not the boss fights.

Myth: You lose your build when NG+ starts

No — your Harbinger level, Shell Points, Bond progress, weapons, sidearms, and Tarstones all transfer with their upgrades intact. The reset hits the world, not your character.

Myth: NG+ begins the moment you kill the final boss

False. You get a free roam period first, and the cycle only actually starts once you manually select Send Ova at the Gloom Siphon. Skipping straight there without cleaning up is the single most common mistake.

Myth: You have to re-find every weapon and Shell from scratch

Also false. Weapons, sidearms, and Tarstones carry over instead of respawning, and their old pickup spots just hand out upgrade materials instead — there’s no reason to hoard duplicates going in.