It’s a busy day for 4X followers. Announced just last week, new expansions have launched right now for each space-empire builder Endless Space 2 and its extra gravity-bound cousin Endless Legend. They’re each wonderful video games (Endless Legend was RPS’s Game Of The Year of 2014) which have solely gotten higher over time as a result of fixed growth & patching. Now appears time to offer them a glance if you happen to’ve handed on them beforehand, as on high of the 2 new growth releases, Amplitude’s whole Endless collection is free to try for the weekend, and steeply discounted besides.
Endless Space 2’s growth is known as Supremacy, and is targeted on kicking over any and all sandcastles that don’t belong to you. There’s a brand new ship class – Behemoths – that are unsurprisingly very giant and difficult, and may be upgraded to defend and even destroy whole star methods. Supremacy additionally re-introduces the Hissho from the unique Endless Space. While maybe a little bit reductive, ‘cranky samurai bird-people’ ought to offer you a tough thought of what their deal is. So lengthy as they’re successful fights, they develop stronger, however their delight is definitely bruised by defeat.
Endless Legend’s Inferno growth is much less easy. It introduces a brand new alien race – the Kapaku – to the progressively freezing planet of Auriga. Rather than hoping to flee offworld like lots of the different races, the Kapaku’s end-goal is to unfold fiery volcanic terrain throughout the floor of the planet to raised match their misplaced homeworld. Still inhospitable to different races, however at the very least it’s not ice. The growth additionally introduces the Dust Eclipse occasion to the sport, which basically turbo-charges each faction, messes with the climate and triggers unusual occasions. Roll the cube.
All of that is accompanied by a series-wide sale and free weekend over on Steam, together with quirky defensive roguelike spinoff Dungeon Of The Endless. The authentic Endless Space has been slashed all the way down to a tiny £1.49/€2/$2, whereas a bundle featuring the entire series and all expansions (minus right now’s releases) is £37/€46.67/$46.67. Apparently if sufficient man-hours are clocked throughout all Endless video games over the weekend, everybody will probably be rewarded with bonus ship skins for Endless Legend 2.
Today’s expansions, Supremacy and Inferno, each weigh in at £9.89/€11.69/$11.69, or if you happen to play each video games, you will get them together for £17.58/€20.78/$20.78 here.
