

Finally, you have a chance to locate an Artefact, which you use to research new modules and upgrade existing ones with Science points. You also have a chance of locating a Merchant, who will buy and sell items for fixed prices of a random FIDS resource, and a new hero of a random level, who you can purchase for a Food cost. Once you've crash-landed, you proceed by opening doors, each of which has a chance to have monsters behind it, as well as something beneficial such as free Industry, Science, Food, or Dust( FIDS), or even something neutral, such as a Dust Machine, which has a chance to give nothing or give a boost to a resource when activated with Industry. The first room of the game when using the Escape Pod, as well as your Crystal. Additionally, powered rooms must have a direct chain back to the Crystal's room. Monsters cannot spawn in rooms that are powered or occupied by a hero, and modules can only be activated in powered rooms.

There is a fourth resource, Dust, which is used to power rooms. You receive additional Industry, Science, and Food resources as you open doors, which allows you to add defensive and resource modules, upgrade your modules, and upgrade and heal your heroes, respectively. This takes you up a floor in a standard game there are 12 game floors, and the final floor, which is the surface, an immediate victory if reached.įloors become larger and more expansive, and more difficult, as you rise.

The objective of Dungeon of the Endless is primarily to find the elevator exit on each floor, and successfully transport your Crystal from the floor's beginning room(your escape pod on the first floor) to the elevator. These crew and prisoners, as well as certain natives of the planet, constitute the game's Heroes. The game takes place in an underground dungeon, where "turns" are the opening of a new room's door, and every turn, there's a chance of monsters spawning and assaulting your heroes, your modules, and your ultimate objective to defend, your Crystal.Īs far as the story element goes, a prison ship, the Success, was shot down in orbit around a planet known as Auriga, jettisoning the escape pods containing crew, prisoners, and various items from the ship. What this boils down to is that your heroes cannot be regained once killed, and once you lose a game, you've lost for good.

Dungeon of the Endless is a "roguelike dungeon defense" game, as advertised in the Steam Store.
