DUNGEON OF THE ENDLESS COOP GENERATOR

The catch is that you only have so much of the 'light' resource available to use to power rooms. Enemies also won’t spawn in rooms that are powered, which helps keep you that much safer when you open doors or finally pick up the crystal.

DUNGEON OF THE ENDLESS COOP GENERATOR

The catch is that once you grab the crystal, the entire level opens up and quickly fills with monsters making the journey a perilous one.Īs you move from room-to-room, you’re faced with a decision to make: do you provide power to the room or do you leave it in darkness? If the room is powered, you’ll be able to build a resource generator and modules to help fend off foes. Each level more or less plays out the same: open doors until you find the exit, then take the power crystal from the start to the exit all the while fending off the denizens of the dark. You start out on the first floor, with your ship crashing into a planet, and its your job to find the exit all the way up (or is it down) on the 13th floor. There’s also a splash of RPG elements as you can level up characters, unlock new abilities, and discover or purchase new equipment with which you can customize your character.Īll of these systems work together seamlessly to play like something that feels close to a cooperative board game. On top of all this, the actual game runs through a mixture of turn-based plays, with each turn defined as opening a new door in the dungeon, and real-time action as you move between rooms and battle foes. It’s also a tower defense game, where rooms can have set upgrades placed to take care of baddies that spawn within the floor itself. At its core, it is a rogue-like, which means each time you play it’s a randomized set of levels and it’s 'game over' should you die. It’s because of this, Dungeon of the Endless from Amplitude Studios’ Games2gether team is one of the freshest games I’ve played in years.ĭungeon of the Endless blends so many genres together that it’s difficult to describe exactly what type of game it is. But what is rare today is to find a game that does it so seamlessly and well that it almost creates a new genre in itself. A lot of games today tend to mix genres, it’s rare to see a straight shooter with no RPG elements or an RTS that doesn’t also utilize some elements of tower defense.

Dungeon of the endless coop