I went hands-on with Endless Dungeon’s first OpenDev (Amplitude’s in-house version of early access) build and discovered that roguelikes and tower defense games have a lot more in common than I thought.

There is a commonality between the two because it’s the same people working on both.” If you like how we look at strategy in 4X, then I’m pretty sure you’d love how we look at strategy in action. “ Endless Dungeon is one of those forms where you can explore tactics with friends during intense action. “What we want to show is that strategy and tactics can take a lot of different forms,” Amplitude Studio head Romain de Waubert told Digital Trends in an interview. Building on a formula first explored in an experimental 2014 game Dungeon of the Endless, Amplitude Studios wants to show that its 4X expertise applies to more action-heavy games with Endless Dungeon. Rather, it’s a unique mix of a twin-stick shooter, tower defense, and roguelike. However, the next Endless game, Endless Dungeon, isn’t a strategy game.

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