Hooded Horse's watery 4X sequel Endless Legend 2 gets a 1.0 launch date and a new faction of terraforming desert dwellers

There’s an updated demo to try, too

The aboriginal entree signifier of oceanic, asymmetric faction warfare strategy sequel Endless Legend 2 is coming to an... end? That can’t beryllium right. But seemingly it is, arsenic the Amplitude Studios-developed, Hooded Horse-published 4X crippled officially has a 1.0 motorboat acceptable for September 17th.

If you’ve been waiting, then, for Amplitude to get their UI fixes and shame-inducing ‘Bully’ badges each successful order, them’s the time. The 1.0 motorboat volition besides adhd a sixth large faction, portion introducing smaller Rogue Factions: fringe groups that person splintered disconnected from the main societies of oddballs and monsters, each with their ain quests and stories.

The large caller players are the Sandshapers, an past empire who retrieve erstwhile Endless Legend 2's sea-covered satellite was axenic desert. As pro-sand extremists, they question to terraform it backmost to its adust state, similar a clump of reverse Fremen. Doubtless a hard radical to triumph implicit with diplomacy, though possibly not arsenic genocidally batshit arsenic the coral plague radical that Edwin likes to play as.

Rogue Factions, meanwhile, stay recognisable offshoots from their genitor large factions, but supply chiseled faction quests and strategical twists. The Order of Zelevas, for instance, are a "conquest-focused" splinter radical from the Kin of Sheredyn, and The Severed Claw enactment a grim rotation connected the Necrophage by lone being capable to regenerate mislaid forces by enslaving defeated enemies. Hooded Horse’s announcement refers to these arsenic "The archetypal 2 planned," suggesting much Rogue Factions volition involvement their claims post-launch.

Version 1.0 volition besides adhd a caller insignificant faction, the "starfish-like" Mangrove of Harmony. Which isn't arsenic imposing a statement arsenic "conquest-focused," but hey. These crusty fellows person been developed with art, lore, and mechanical input from Endless Legend 2 players, meaning that perversely, we already cognize much astir them than the Sandshapers and rogues. Here’s however the Mangrove were described arsenic portion of past year’s assemblage creation contest:

Gameplay Concept:

• The Mangrove of Harmony provides bonuses to Dust, Food, and Defense, representing their mastery implicit Dustwater reservoirs. Their units are slow-growing but highly durable—trees of warfare that outlast alternatively than outpace.

Unique Unit:

• The Colossus of Harmony (but yet up to devs): a walking fortress formed from countless interwoven Mangroves. Its peculiar attack, Tendril Spear, launches a wide of Dust-infused tendrils that pierce enemies from afar, evolving to origin insignificant splash harm arsenic the portion evolves.

Truth beryllium told, I bask speechmaking astir expansive strategy games - oregon rather, different people’s beingness stories written wrong them - much than I bask being a hexagon huntsman myself. But I americium funny to spot however Endless Legend 2 1.0 lands, fixed the lone idiosyncratic who seemed to similar its 2025 demo was our coral-slathering quality editor.

On that note, Amplitude are besides adding - today, successful information - a "new and improved" demo to Steam, wherever Endless Legend 2 has sat demo-less for months. It includes the Kin of Sheredyn and the Last Lords arsenic playable factions.