turrets) can be built, but only a few rooms per floor will have major module slots where major modules (i.e. Most rooms contain minor module slots where minor modules (i.e. Dust is used to power up rooms on the current floor, which has the effect of disabling random enemy spawns in the room and enabling construction of modules in that room. The player also has a special resource called Dust, which is only generated by opening new rooms and killing enemies. Between opening rooms, the player can spend their standard resources (Industry, Science, and Food) to do things like build modules (like structures in an RTS/4X game) that generate more resources or function as automated defenses (like towers in a tower defense game) or buy and sell equipment for their party members using a merchant. Opening the door to a new room is like taking a new turn: resources increment up once by their growth rates, enemies may spawn in any unpowered rooms, and randomly-generated treasure, NPCs, or other things may be found in the newly entered room.
Initially, only one ship and 4 survivors are available, but many more ships and survivors can be unlocked by achieving specific goals during playthroughs.Įach ship may have unique conditions that its selection will enforce upon the game to be played, like the Infirmary ship, which disables heroes from freely healing up after combat, but amplifies the effect of paid healing and replaces most random loot with drugs.Įach survivor has a unique combination of starting stats, equippable item types, and skills that they can learn as they level up.Įvery floor is divided up into a dozen or more rooms, all with their initially doors closed. Upon starting a new game, the player picks a starting ship and individual survivors from a roster. If the player can guide the party of survivors and their power crystal up through all 12 floors without either of them being destroyed, the game is won. With them, the survivors must bring their wrecked ship's power crystal, as it is their only source of energy and they will need it to power up some of the subsystems of the complex in which they are trapped. The player must guide the small number of survivors (up to 4) in ascending up to the surface to their escape.
The premise of the game is a that prison ship has crash-landed on an unknown alien planet, embedding itself 12 floors deep in a mysterious and labyrinthine complex. An Xbox One version has been announced for release in 2015. The game was first released on Steam Early Access on December 11, 2013, and it was released in full on October 27, 2014. It is set in the same fictional universe as Amplitude Studios' strategy titles Endless Space and Endless Legend. Dungeon of the Endless is a roguelike dungeon exploration game with 4X and tower defense elements.
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