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It might be more realistic to need the heroes to build guns into rooms, or to only be able to do so while they’re not infested with monsters. A basic but outstanding demonstration is that while you’re actually in-game and playing, the dark rooms and busy pixellated backgrounds can make it difficult to see doors and heroes, but you’re only a spin of the mousewheel away from a clear map where everything is flagged up in strong colours - a map from which you can also issue orders to heroes to save having to pan around the whole level. All of this is wrapped in excellent, and very thoughtful design.

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Tactics soon emerge naturally, such as the realisation that you don’t have to fight enemies in their rooms - there’s nothing at all stopping you kiting them back into a pre-prepared deathtrap full of turrets.

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Along with their basic weapons and skills, that adds both stat- and story-based issues to assembling teams for dungeon runs.Įvery decision, though, is a balancing act, from whether to leave heroes by the crystal to prevent enemy waves smashing it while you’re at the other end of the map, to whether to use a factory slot in a new room to build an industry generator for creating weapons, a science one for researching toys, or a food one for healing and recruiting. The plot is that everyone arrived on a crashed prison ship, so some characters are guards and lawmen, and others newly escaped convicts. There’s also an element of synergy to handle. A fast runner like Sara Numas (no relation to Samus Aran…) isn’t as effective in combat as someone like Gork “Not Arnie/Duke Nukem” Koroser, but can be a great help when trying to rush the crystal to the exit past the sudden swarm of aliens that begins as soon as you pick it up. Playable heroes, for instance, are unlocked not by simply meeting them, but by surviving three levels with them, and each offer their own subtleties. Provided you can get over its introductory hump though, it’s the kind of difficulty that you can conquer simply by playing, getting a little further each time and enjoying the small victories. At this point, Dungeon of the Endless could easily stop. Now those powered rooms play host to tower defence action, where you build weapons and support structures to protect your team of two heroes. Now those rooms have to be lit to prevent them from spawning monsters, but there’s no way to do so for more than a handful at a time.

At first glance, it’s a roguelike a randomly generated, science- fiction dungeon to explore one room at a time. That’s because Dungeon of the Endless is a game of climbing through levels, but more than that it’s one about peeling back layers. The options aren’t hidden, but there’s a lot going on to keep track of. There’s a tutorial, but it only covers the absolute basics, and the initial learning curve is both a bit too steep and makes it easy to overlook important elements like levelling up heroes with food instead of simply healing them or kitting them out with improved gear. It’s a brutal experience, with its stated difficulty options of “Too Easy” and “Easy” being entirely tongue in cheek.