![]() ![]() There’s food for leveling up your characters and healing them in combat, industry for building new infrastructure and defenses, and research for researching new stuff to kill things with. Your job is to explore the level, set up infrastructure to make things easier and safer, all building towards a successful escort of that power crystal.Īs I mentioned, there’s some 4X elements for you to play with such as the resources. As you enter new rooms on each level, you’ll usually find some enemies along with some useful resource. As you might expect, the closer you get to the top, the harder things will get. You start at the very bottom, and there are plenty of different tiers for you to go through. The game consists of various levels of this massive complex built by the Endless. ![]() So while you can expect some of that good ole’ Rogue-like gameplay, there’s a lot of new stuff to learn and do as well. However, AMPLITUDE has given the genre their own twist, such as resources and technology research. There’s a lot of dungeon crawling and plenty of enemies waiting behind closed doors to end your life. You start with a character or two, you progress them through the dungeon and develop them, and search for a way out. This wouldn’t be so impressive if not for a fact that a vast majority of games completely fail at giving you a story that you care about.Īs Dungeon of the Endless is meant to be a “rogue-like” it plays a lot like other rogue-likes. It’s a simple enough story, but it gives you just the right amount of substance to become invested in it without making you read dozens of paragraphs beforehand. All that matters is survival and that seemingly hinges on finding the next elevator and transporting the power crystal to it to unlock the next floor. So, your goal is to get from the very bottom of the complex to the very top. You start the game with two of the prisoners and nothing else but the power core of your escape pod to help you get started. However, the planet turned out to be protected by a massive complex built by the Endless that came to life and shot your ship to pieces. You are one of several prisoners who are on a massive prison ship on its way to colonize a planet. Like Endless Space and Endless Legend, Dungeon of the Endless has a fairly interesting background story to give the game some meaning. This type of art-style is either something you appreciate or you don’t, and if you don’t, that can often mean you can’t make yourself stand playing the game. However, I can see how some people could be turned off by the graphics and I can’t blame them. Despite all that, if you’re a fan of the retro look, the art style is definitely fitting for the game and I have to say I enjoyed the aesthetics a great deal. They’re not quite as retro as the original Rogue, but they’re still 2D. They have an intentionally blocky-and-pixelated nature meant to give the impression of a retro game. The graphics in Dungeon of the Endless are not very detailed. ![]() There are also a lot of 4X-like elements mixed into this rogue-like game, a lot of them mirroring systems in Endless Space and Endless Legend. The ancient race of the Endless make a sort of return, as the creators of the massive complex you crash land on. Dust also makes a return, once again acting as a sort of currency. For example, Dungeon of the Endless uses the same resource system of Food/Industry/Research as the other games. As such it should come as no surprise that I jumped into this review with a bit of excitement filling my sails.Īs this game shares the same universe as the other Endless games, there’s going to be some similarities. Combining elements from strategy, turn-based RPGs, 4X-like resource management, and tower-defense, the game is set up to be just as wonderful as the other titles in the Endless Universe. This time around, instead of another amazing 4X title, they’ve decided to delve into the realm of rogue-likes and give the genre their own unique twist. Dungeon of the Endless is the latest game in the Endless Universe, brought to us by AMPLITUDE Studios. ![]()
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