Endless Legend 2

Endless Legend 2 is a fantasy strategy game in which you lead a faction, build an empire and wage war across an ocean world facing extinction. Cataclysmic events disrupt the natural order, and the world changes over time, opening new opportunities for exploration and conquest. You expand from a single city, develop your economy and armies, command turn-based battles, and uncover dark secrets buried at the planet’s core.

Factions and playstyles

Each faction has its own philosophy, history, capabilities and narrative, as well as distinct traits for warfare, commerce, empire-building and diplomacy. You can lead righteous warriors descended from the stars, cursed knights seeking reprieve, or hive-minded beasts that fight, feed and propagate. Faction choice shapes every aspect of play: some factions grow stronger through constant warfare and gain warriors after victories, others spread influence through cooperation and alliances with minor factions, while another can sustain itself by feeding on its own people through an economy that does not depend on ordinary needs. You can also create a faction by mixing affinities, traits, units and populations from across the game.

Factions use different military doctrines beyond the battlefield. The martial Kin of Sheredyn can build massive city fortifications and connect to powerful weapons and support systems in orbit. The spiritualist Aspects can spread coral to support themselves outside friendly territory, while the Necrophage hive can place nests and burrows across the land to travel quickly and ambush enemies from below.

Battles and heroes

You can auto-resolve battles or take direct control of individual units in turn-based tactical combat. Use terrain, including chokepoints, cover and high ground, to gain an advantage. Faction-specific units, traits, weapons and attributes shape each army, while special battlefield abilities can turn a fight around. Some factions reward careful manoeuvring to secure adjacency bonuses; others depend on numbers and overwhelming strength.

Recruit heroes who gain traits over time, form relationships that grant boons and acquire equipment useful in and out of battle. Well-trained and equipped commanders can change the course of entire wars.

Building an empire

Expand from your starting city in ways that suit your faction’s strengths and limits, while adapting to periodic monsoons and tidefalls. Build districts around each city’s central structure, gather strategic and luxury resources, and develop technology and industry. You can focus cities on population growth, industrialization and commerce, or on science, influence and military strength. Districts can add fortifications or resource production; adjacency and terrain provide bonuses, and technological advances can upgrade existing districts or unlock new options. You can seek ideal sites for lasting economic hubs and strongholds, or expand quickly to claim land and productivity ahead of your enemies.

Tidefalls draw back the oceans, revealing new land, resources and anomalies to explore, along with new routes for you and your enemies. Existing territory remains untouched, but the new terrain can change the strategic value of locations and create landbridges. You can prepare to expand as soon as the waters recede or reinforce defenses where new routes may emerge.

The surrounding lands hold both dangers and opportunities. You can defeat minor factions for their resources or build friendly relations and bring them into your empire, gaining access to their distinctive units and heroes. Exploring ancient ruins and strange anomalies can also yield resources and powerful artifacts.

Campaign paths

A mystery lies beneath the ocean world, where an ancient power stirs. You can seek dominion through conquest, diplomacy or technological advancement, pursue quests and events that can change a campaign, or empower your heroes to uncover your people’s story. You can also seek to restore harmony by finding lost legends and heroes, or defy your faction’s fate and shape a different legacy.