Originally Posted by Raze

There is a harder difficulty mode being added, but since it will involve changes to opponents (composition and AI) it isn't likely going to be compatible with existing saves. There are also new skills being added, like dual wielding, and a few other things.
See this kickstarter update video and blog post. There has been no ETA, other than "some months" (as of mid March).


Thanks for the info! Well, my memory is rather bad, so I don't mind restarted the story (as I probably would have forgotten quite a lot of it!)
I hope the new difficulty level really ramps up the difficulty. I like extremely challenging battles ;-)