Boy, do I feel stupid.
Okay, I've been playing the game for some time. Right after it came out to be more precise.
I was very annoyed that despite playing the lowest difficulty levels, with just a few enemies, I still lost, big time.
Now, I know I'm not Endrew Wiggin, and I know that I'm still kind of new, but I didn't expect it to be that hard to learn as I play.
I was just about to ask the question in the forum, and I decided to search for previous posts before I posted my complaints.
Then, by accident I found just the post I needed and I almost cried in shame: I thought "ridicules" was the lowest difficulty level so I was actually playing on the highest difficulty level all that time...
I tried to retrace my steps, and it seems like a vey easy mistake to do with the current UI.
First problem - No tool tips.
Second problem - Instead of showing the difficulty levels from lowest to highest, the options cycle to the beginning after the highest level. So if you click the button to lower the diff, instead you are thrown to the highest one.
Well, tomorrow I'm going to actually start testing the game for the first time...