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Hooded Horse’s watery 4X sequel Endless Legend 2 gets a 1.0 launch date and a new faction of terraforming desert dwellers
Amplitude Studios' oceanic 4X strategy game Endless Legend 2 will exit early access with a full 1.0 launch on 17 September, publisher Hooded Horse has announced. The update marks a significant milestone for the game, adding a sixth major faction alongside smaller "Rogue Factions" that splinter off from existing societies, each bringing their own quests and stories to the turn-based strategy title.
The headline addition is the Sandshapers, an ancient desert-dwelling empire who remember the game's now sea-covered world in its dry state and seek to terraform it back through conquest. The first two Rogue Factions, the conquest-focused Order of Zelevas and the enslavement-driven Severed Claw, will also launch with 1.0, with more promised afterwards, alongside a new minor faction called the Mangrove of Harmony, shaped partly by community input. Alongside the announcement, Amplitude has also released a refreshed Steam demo featuring the Kin of Sheredyn and Last Lords factions.
In short
- Endless Legend 2 leaves early access with a 1.0 launch on 17 September.
- New Sandshapers faction and two Rogue Factions join the roster.
- A revamped Steam demo has also launched today.
Explained simply
Endless Legend 2 is a turn-based strategy game from Amplitude Studios, published by Hooded Horse. It belongs to the 4X genre, where players explore a world, expand their territory, gather resources and compete with rival factions.
The game’s world is largely covered by water, and its factions are societies with different histories and aims. The Sandshapers are an ancient desert people who remember the world before it was flooded and want to reshape it; Rogue Factions are smaller groups that break away from existing societies and have their own stories.
The game is part of the Endless series, which builds strategy and storytelling around imagined worlds and competing civilisations. Its factions offer different approaches to ruling and fighting, shaping how players experience the same changing world.