Endless Tactics
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About Endless Tactics
Endless Tactics is a turn-based roguelite strategy game from Dead Battery Games, released March 31, 2026. It blends base-building with tactical combat, set on hostile alien worlds. You command a mining crew, defending outposts from waves of enemies while managing limited resources to upgrade your starship and tech. The game runs on PC and Mac, with a single-player focus. Expect procedurally generated maps, permadeath risks, and a slow-burn grind to unlock stronger units and abilities. It’s not a deep RPG but a focused survival loop where each decision matters. If you like managing tight systems under pressure, this might hook you.
Gameplay
Each session starts with a mining base surrounded by hostile creatures. You spend turns moving units, using abilities, and fortifying positions. Resource gathering is critical, ore, fuel, and rare minerals fuel upgrades to weapons, armor, and the starship’s teleporter. Alien waves escalate in size and aggression; one miscalculated move can collapse your defenses. Between battles, you decide which technologies to prioritize, balancing short-term needs against long-term goals. The game’s grid-based combat feels clunky at first, but mastering unit synergies and terrain advantages adds depth. Missions often force trade-offs: save a high-value resource or retreat to preserve soldiers. Replayability hinges on experimenting with unlockable units and world modifiers.
What Players Think
Endless Tactics has a 6.8/10 PlayPile Score from 42,000 users, with 28% completing the core loop. Average playtime is 12 hours, though 40% of players quit before reaching the midgame. Community moods are split: 35% love its punishing difficulty and incremental upgrades, while 45% call it repetitive. Critics on Steam and Metacritic average 72%, praising the roguelite structure but criticizing lack of variety. One user wrote, “It’s like FTL meets Into the Spider-Verse, but the enemies memorize your tactics too fast.” Achievement hunters note 82% of players miss the “Overclocked Mining” trophy due to early deaths. The $24.99 price tag raises expectations it doesn’t consistently meet.
PlayPile's Take
Endless Tactics works best as a niche pick for fans of slow, methodical strategy. Its strength is the tension between resource scarcity and enemy escalation, but the formula flattens after 10-15 hours. With 34 achievements and a $25 price point, it’s a moderate risk. Skip if you crave narrative or dynamic combat. Stick with it if you enjoy optimizing systems under constraints. The game isn’t great, but it’s consistent, a 6/10 for players who like their tactics with a side of suffering.
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