ENDLESS Dungeon

Introduction

ENDLESS Dungeon sends a crew of shipwrecked heroes into a long-abandoned space station, defending a power crystal against escalating waves of monsters across a hybrid of twin-stick action and tower defence. Developed by AMPLITUDE Studios and published by SEGA, it released 19 October 2023 as a spiritual successor to the studio's beloved 2014 roguelite Dungeon of the Endless. It sits at a lifetime Mixed 65.0% across 3,840 reviews, with recent sentiment holding at a similar 63.4%. This review reads a substantial share of both samples and finds a genuine, ongoing split rather than a settled consensus — one this review reports plainly rather than resolving on the reader's behalf.

Series veterans, and a different kind of game

The single clearest fault line in this review's sample runs along familiarity with the original Dungeon of the Endless. Reviewers who loved that game's tighter strategic loop — resource management, path planning, character permadeath with real stakes — describe the sequel in strikingly consistent terms: "Endless Dungeon feels like it was made by people who did not play Dungeon of the Endless," writes one, while another, self-identifying as a 100%-achievement completionist of the original, describes the sequel as a "huge departure" that lost the characters and systems they loved. Several use nearly identical language independently — "significantly less strategic," "watered down," "shallow" — pointing to a real, substantive design shift rather than a superficial change of pace.

Set against that, a separate and equally sincere group of reviewers describes genuine enjoyment, specifically once they stopped measuring the game against its predecessor. One reviewer with over 450 hours in the original writes candidly: "I saw the Mixed review score and was ready to be disappointed but honestly, this is actually a great game." Another sums up the comparison bluntly: "i'll save you time and say its not Dungeon of the Endless so don't go in expecting something like a sequel, but it feels like it's trying to be its own thing and i love it." Read together, this isn't a case of one side being right — it's a genuine audience mismatch, and the honest advice is to know which group you're likely to fall into before buying.

A co-op design several call inexplicable

Independent of the sequel debate, this review's sample surfaces a specific, severe and consistently reported design flaw: in co-op sessions, only the hosting player earns progression and achievements. "Only the host makes progression. I will never understand why devs do this," writes one reviewer bluntly, and the complaint recurs across multiple reviews rather than standing alone. A later reviewer, checking back four months post-launch, reports that multiplayer-specific bugs hadn't received meaningful fixes and were, if anything, "getting worse." For a game marketed around cooperative play, this is a real, actionable problem worth knowing before organising a group session around it.

A detailed account of what the game connects to

One further finding deserves reporting on its own terms because of how specific and highly-upvoted it is. The single most-upvoted negative review in this corpus — nearly 2,000 votes — catalogues the game's Denuvo anti-tamper protection alongside telemetry and service connections it documents to Epic Games, Google, Amazon and Sega's own infrastructure, including company names and addresses for each service provider. This review cannot independently verify every technical claim in that account, but its specificity, detail and the volume of agreement it drew from other players make it worth reporting as a real, documented concern in the corpus rather than a fringe complaint — particularly for readers who weigh DRM and telemetry considerations in their purchase decisions.

Final Verdict

ENDLESS Dungeon is a competently made, stylish twin-stick tower-defence game that happens to carry the name of a series whose fans expected something different, and that mismatch is doing most of the work in its Mixed score. Judged on its own terms, a meaningful share of players — including some skeptical veterans who gave it a fair chance — genuinely enjoy it. Judged against Dungeon of the Endless specifically, or against the specific promise of functional co-op progression, it falls notably short. Decide which comparison matters to you before buying, and if you're organising a co-op group, confirm the progression-sharing issue before committing everyone's time to it.