This can dovetail nicely with the faction-specific bonuses and abilities. You will reap the associated bonuses with that particular “plan”. The way it works is that you’ll spend influence to pull your empire in a certain direction. Here you can set the “character” of your empire, giving it a definite focus.
The Empire Planning feature is also an important feature. Regulating the “empire-management” and diplomatic components of your empire in an interesting way. You can negotiate trade deals, convince minor factions to join your benevolent empire, or plan your expansion. You also accrue influence which affects how you conduct diplomacy with other factions. Science is for researching new technologies, more science means thee faster you will advance in tech but we’ll talk more about technologies later.ĭust is something unique to the Endless series, it acts as a sort of currency for Endless Legend, allowing you to speed up production or buying things off the world market. The more production that you have the faster you can build units and buildings, which is pretty standard. Industry represents the level of production your city makes. You’ll harvest four resources: Food, Industry, Science, and Dust.įood will give you more workers to assign to work a city, more food means the faster the city grows. If you’ve played Civilization before you’ll understand what you’ll be doing here. Winters are slowly becoming harsher and you’ll have to prepare for them since unit movement and production are reduced.įor most factions in Endless Legend, you don’t know exactly when winter will come but you do know a range of turns which gives you some idea how long you have to prepare.Įach faction has a storyline with quests to complete as you advance in Endless Legend. All the Endless on the planet were eventually destroyed in a war. So some of the factions in Endless Legend are literally lab experiments. Long ago there was an ancient race called the Endless who used Auriga as a massive biological lab. Yes, you’re trying to expand and dominate the other factions but you also have to prepare for an inevitable long winter.ĭon’t worry though I’m sure everyone will survive just fine! This ever-looming threat adds a core tension to the whole experience. Setting of Endless LegendĮndless Legend is set on the planet Auriga, which is about to undergo a freaking ice age. Although with Endless Legend’s tie into the larger Endless universe this game features sci-fi elements far more than those games. It can most easily be compared to games like Thea: The Awakening, Fallen Enchantress, or Age Of Wonders.
Both of these changes Endless Legend does well. Where Endless Legend differs from others is in its combat and the factions.
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But the modern trend of innovation started with Endless Legend.Įndless Legend is set in a sci-fi/fantasy universe shared by Amplitude Studios other games: Endless Space, Endless Space 2, and Dungeons of the Endless.Įndless Legend is a unique take on the 4X genre which innovated on the traditional formula in several key ways.īuilding off the fundamentals laid down by the Civilization series Endless Legend retains the core gameplay loop of: building cities, exploring a randomly generated world, and exploiting resources. With a slew of innovative 4X games coming up, it’s easy to think that this was inevitable. Taking a look at the 4X genre today, we are beginning to see a move away from the same tried and true approach pioneered by The Civilization series.
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