Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.
Players can freely navigate the game world with a customizable settlement bus, uncovering new habitable zones to establish additional settlements. These zones offer unique resources and challenges, encouraging players to manage multiple settlements and trade routes between them. The expedition system now provides a more interactive and engaging experience, allowing players to directly control and guide their explorers through ruins, unlocking secrets, discovering valuable loot, and facing hazardous obstacles along the way.
The developer has tackled and refactored the settler path-finding and job distribution, resulting in a more comprehensible and balanced system that can support thriving settlements with thousands of inhabitants. Players now have more control over the placement of resource buildings, as they can position them near other production facilities to receive production boosts, incentivizing strategic and efficient layout of the settlements.
Borrowing elements from the Anno series, the game world is divided into distinct zones, each with its own set of resources and challenges. Players must manage multiple settlements across these zones, establishing trade routes and optimizing resource production to ensure the survival and prosperity of their people. This zone-based system adds a layer of complexity and strategic planning, as players must carefully consider the unique characteristics of each zone and how to best utilize their resources.
The game features various environmental hazards, such as radioactive contamination, droughts, toxic rain, and sandstorms, that players must constantly monitor and mitigate. Maintaining a delicate balance between food, water, and other essential resources is crucial for the survival and growth of the player's settlements. This survival-focused gameplay loop encourages players to carefully plan their expansion, research new technologies, and optimize their production lines to ensure the long-term sustainability of their communities.