Dungeon of the ENDLESS™

Não conseguimos passar do nível 7. Fomos amaldiçoados, não importa o quanto tentemos, o sonho de passar do nível 7 parece irrealizável. Estratégias... composição... economia... combate... melhoramos em tudo e estudamos tudo mas quando chegamos nesse amaldiçoado nível 7 tudo cai por terra, ele drena nossas energias turno por turno e leva nossas esperanças a cada porta. Jogão.

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Game is very good in itself but unfortunately it always crashes in multiplay. All 4 runs I tried with a friend there was a problem and we had to restart the game and the game state was not saved.

I forgot about this game after years and started diving back into games I used to enjoy since games these days just aren't doing it for me anymore. This one happened to come to my mind late one night and I couldn't remember the name of it until i scrounged through my library. It's a great game that won't hold your hand and needs tactical planning as you move forward. I recommend playing it with friends, at least it's not a copy paste like most games out there now.

this ♥♥♥♥ was rated mixed for no reason so i'm trying to bump it up to positive

[h1]Pros[/h1] A deep but accessible gameplay. The game mostly does a good job at listing characteristics of skills, items and buildings. In your exploration, you earn "dust" currency, which allows to power rooms on the floor (buildings require power), and resets each time you get on a new one. I like the balance of it, as it really incentivizes to try and figure out what's most optimal : leaving as many rooms as possible unpowered to farm monster dust, switching off resource-generating rooms right after the harvest phase to move the power to a weaponized room, etc. I also enjoy the visuals. The artistic direction feels coherent overall, and minor/major building slots always appeared clear to me throughout the different styles and types of rooms, although some sprites like NPCs can sometimes hide a few slots. [h1]Cons[/h1] As the main con, while I think some aspects stay entertaining, I find others too repetitive considering the lenght of a single successful run. While randomized floor layouts vary in difficulty, since you can only see the part of a floor that you unlocked, the game encourages you to come up with the single most flexible approach you know for opening doors and managing power, and apply it everywhere. There are many characters to unlock with different and pertinent uses, but while I think character management is what varies the most between runs, I felt like this was only a minor part of the gameplay. Characters do have active skills to trigger, but most of these are combat-oriented, usually only useful when turrets aren't enough anymore, which rarely happens at least in the first 2-3 hours of a run. Mistakes can also be very punishing time-wise. If you underestimate the power of the next enemy wave, especially at higher stages, there's no miraculous turn of tables. Some mechanics only become relevant around mid-late game, at which point you already sank 1-2 hours in the run : - Dust generators are irrelevant in early game, but become a core tool for survival in mid-late game. - You can get through the first 4-6 floors by spamming tesla coils everywhere, but you might get caught off-guard the first time you'll reach a floor that sends swarms of weaker enemies, and get sent back to floor 1 without room to experiment. - Some higher floors feature stationary bosses that grow stronger over time, must be killed by your crew, and regenerate hp over time, where the key strategy is to send characters kill it before it gets too strong or stack HP regeneration so you can heal your crew faster than the boss heals itself. Both of which require prior knowledge, so unless coincidence, you might get softlocked in a 1+ hour run when you first meet those.

I enjoy the vibes and art direction a lot, but man this is just not fun. It feels you're marching, where each stride takes an hour but once your foot hits the pavement its chaos for <30 seconds