![]() Okay, I'm done trying to categorize this game. The mood wavers being moments of hilarity and a deep sense of dread as the next door slides open. Who knows? There's just enough breadcrumbs to make this part of the Endless universe, but with enough gaps to leave you trying to figure out the connections in wonderfully imaginative ways. Opbot, one of the heroes you can find, is a character that appears in every game, one as a droid hero in space, another as a guide for a group of crash-landed spacefarers trying to discover their past.and then here, trapped in this terrible dungeon on Auriga, waiting to be found and escape.perhaps to then become that guide for the crash-landed spacefarers. Yet, at the same time, that hint of foreboding, of grand design that you get in the other Endless games hides in the corners here. ![]() The game also has a massive sense of black humor layered over all of it: the guys at Amplitude studios mockingly named the modes 'Too Easy' and 'Easy', when this game will gleefully backhand you when you think you've finally got it figured out. I mean, we should probably add 'pixel' somewhere in there, thanks to the awesomely retro aesthetic that has been applied over the whole game. That's probably as close as we can get it without making the genre description the size of a paragraph. Does that sum it up well enough? Finally? Are we done? and squad-based game play that's inspired by XCOM. So, this game is a tower defense rogue-like with RPG elements. ![]() You never know if you are going to get assaulted with waves of monsters over and over, or hear simple, somewhat eerie quiet as the coast is clear for a few moments longer. It makes each hiiiiiissssssss of a door sliding back make you catch your breath, especially as the levels go deeper, and its impossible to keep everything powered at once as you desperately look for the exit. Of course, every time you open a door, any of the rooms that you've opened before this point that don't have power running to them might spawn waves of monsters as they crawl through the vents or out of their nests to assault your survivors and your crystal. Each time you open a door, it can reveal resources, a nest of monsters, a merchant that got trapped down here with you.or another survivor you can use to bolster your rag-tag team. See, the 'waves' that you fight in a typical tower defense are created by opening new doors into the dungeon, as your brave group of heroes and/or villains try to find an escape. So, this game is tower defense, essentially. A lot of the monsters in the game are drawn to the glow of the crystal, and wish to destroy it. It's very obvious very quickly that this is not a safe place, and creating miniature laser turrets, explosives, and hero-augmenting crystals are a great way to stay alive. The power from the ship's 's engine, essentially, is re-directed into the facility, lighting it back up and allowing you to build. Playing through the dungeon is broken down into this: Your crash-landed heroes (or prisoners, or monsters, or robots) open the door from their crash-landed ship into the massive maze of an old facility upon the planet Auriga. ![]() but weren't those other two games Civilization style epics, telling a story about ruling the galaxy or saving your species? What the heck is a tiny story about some crash-landed prisoners doing next to these two games? Why is it pixel art? Why are you being attacked mercilessly by an entire dungeon of monstrous creations? It's the third game set in their Endless Universe, with Endless Space and Endless Legend having come before. This game has hooked me, not just with a gimmick or one particular well-crafted element, but because its simply well made, through and through.Ĭreated by Amplitude Studios, Dungeon of the Endless is weird right out the gate. ![]() There's something else though, a feeling that grows as you keep playing, as you keep opening doors looking for exits: Hope. much like the prisoners you play as probably do as they scrap together protective lasers and weapons out of the junk they find. The first time you watch your prisoners crash land aboard this strange alien plant and attempt to escape into its depths, you feel scared, lost, and confused. Yet, each little deviation this game creates makes it more memorable, more of a cohesive whole, not muddled and confused.ĭungeon of the Endless is a game that defies easy classification, but that's what makes it so great. How do I explain a game like Dungeon of the Endless in a rational, logical manner? Here we have a game that purposefully, gleefully breaks genre molds and shatters expectations the game play willfully created by the developers to fly in the face of as many conceived notions of various game tropes as possible. ![]()
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