I have read that, in the released game, the screen that shows you how much of each color is in the void (and what their negative effects are) does not actually affect the gameplay at all. I am wondering if there is a way to turn these effects on with a patch of some kind? I appreciate the difficulty of the game and would like to make it more challenging for another playthrough.

Any help would be appreciated, thank you guys for an awesome and unique game!

Most likely, it is <property name="ColorOnWorldInfluenceEnabled" value="false" /> in Properties/World/gameplay.xml

Though, I didn't check the scripts. Maybe the influence is disabled in more places than just this one.