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Repentance · Choose the run
Normal and Hard follow the story routes. Greed and Greedier build a run around waves, coins and a separate final encounter. Choose the mode that matches the completion or unlock you want.
Example: Normal Heart mark
Learn a route here if repeated deaths are preventing you from reaching its checkpoint. A Normal win does not grant that goal's Hard-only reward.
Example: red Hard Heart mark
Use Hard when you can survive the route and want its Hard completion. The difficulty setting alone does not open a locked route.
Normal Greed completion mark
Plan purchases before starting waves. Saving coins matters, but buying enough damage and protection to reach the donation machine matters too.
Red Greedier completion mark
Treat Greedier as its own budget and wave pattern. Normal/Hard story marks do not fill the Greed mark, and Greed does not fill story marks.
Marks belong to the character and the relevant goal. The Heart art illustrates Normal versus Hard; it does not represent every story boss. A seeded run, a challenge or a restricted mod setup can disable ordinary achievements. Use an eligible run when collecting unlocks.
Check your character's completion noteHard is more than a different mark color. Selected enemy projectiles and movement become faster, champions and difficult layouts are more common, and supplies become less reliable. The Womb's ordinary full-heart damage is a floor rule shared by Normal and Hard.
Fewer tinted rocks and reduced Soul Heart drops from blue and purple fires make early protection harder to replace. Heart-type room-clear awards have a separate one-third suppression rule.
Separate the reward sourcesRegular Shops have a 50% chance to use a lower upgrade level despite your permanent Shop upgrades. Do not budget around a full inventory on every floor.
Shop and Greed donation unlocksSome attacks and movements leave less reaction time. A familiar room can still demand a different dodge. Hard does not universally double all damage or add every enemy change to every fight.
Prepare for route bossesStepping on the active stop button normally costs half a heart. Clear remaining enemies before using the opened rooms; pressing the button again resumes the sequence. The Lost and Tainted Lost use a coin-payment penalty instead. Character exceptions are not a reason to assume the button is free for every flying character.
Read the wave counter
This reference covers the first six arena floors. The final Ultra Greed floor uses its own encounters. It does not predict enemies, coin amounts or a live seed.
Required for the ordinary floor exit
Part of the first button sequence. Another wave can arrive when its timer expires, even if enemies remain.
Coins are wave payments. Clear the arena safely before planning your next purchase; Normal room-clear pickup odds do not describe these payments.
Story runs ask you to reach a route checkpoint. Greed asks you to survive a wave budget, then bring coins to the final machine. Greedier unlocks at 500 total Greed donations; Keeper unlocks at 1,000. The regular Shop Donation Machine is a separate counter. Normal room-clear award modifiers do not automatically multiply wave coin payouts.
Learn ordinary enemy patterns before comparing modesRepentance, reviewed October 7, 2026. Repentance+ changes some Greedier rules, so this guide keeps the current dataset's version. Challenges, seeds, special characters and mods can add exceptions. Completion and HUD icons, room doors and boss portraits are extracted game art.
