Endless Legend Review

Endless Legend is a 4X Strategy game. The term is a short for "eXplore, eXpand, eXploit and eXterminate". In plain English, it means it is a strategy game where your goal is to dominate something and everything. Be it through force, through resources or through sheer numbers.

Combat view

Gameplay is quite simple. There are two major management focus: City and Army. In your cities you will allocate your population into different structures in order to increase/decrease production of a resource. Be it science, food, troops, or even the city expansion itself. For army units you will move them through the world exploring the environment. In case of combat, you have the option to decide individually about what each unit will do in a turn based environment or just let the computer simulate the battle in an instant. Once the turn ends, you repeat until someone wins the game. If you have more than one city and one army, you just do the same process to each of them.

Science progress.

Throughout the game you can expand your empire by building new cities, research new science that will give you "world wide" bonuses, destroy or conquer enemies through military power, explore the map, trade goods and the list just keeps going. There are basically six main progression systems in the world and each can give you the victory if advanced enough. City, Army, Science, Quests, Politics and Commerce.

Strategic resources Market

Just like the real world, a lot of importance is given to the currency and all systems connects to it. The more money an empire have the more access it has to other resources, effectively converting money into power. Lacking a specific resource? Buy it! Too much of something? Sell it! Small, but rich empire? Make your units so strong through financial means that they will rival the mightiest army out there! A savvy trader can be a deadly force in the game, by understanding other empires needs and anticipating enemy moves, one can effectively lock the goods into a price so high or so low that they will have no choice but to bend to your will. Starving an army or a whole empire is as effective as bleeding it!

Unit equipment screen

We have just started describing Endless Legend here in order to keep our post manageable. There are so much depth and interconnecting mechanics in this game that we could make a whole series on it! From the nuance of hero choice, the peculiarities of each race, the consequences of boosters optimization to the smooth population system and city development. Endless Legend is a very daunting game with a steep learning curve and pages and pages FULL of information to process at once. Fortunately just knowing how to build a city and battle units is plenty to enjoy the game. Both of which are taught in the tutorial. 

The empire grows!

Our favorite aspect of the game is that every little detail that you learn how to master gives you an advantage all around. For example: Learning how to better expand your cities to use the land resources will give you more resources to use. Learning how to better equip your units will make your army stronger. Learning strengths and weaknesses of other races will make you more efficient against them. And so on. There is no optimal strategy in the game. The more you learn about its connected systems, the more you will understand that every scenario, every enemy, every play will be different with different factors to consider under different circumstances. All that with beautiful eye catching graphics, delightful music and rich possibilities.

May Auriga favor you!