Publisher Assemble Entertainment and developer Gentlymad Studios have announced survival simulation game sequel Endzone 2 as part of Gamescom 2023: Opening Night Live. It will launch in Early Access for PC via Steam in Q1 2024.
Here is an overview of the game, via its Steam page:
About
Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanities 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.
Survivors,
The time has come to surpass the confining limits of these lands. Our brightest minds have constructed machinery that allow us to break free and venture beyond our borders!
Let there be no doubt—even after centuries, Mother Nature’s anger remains unbroken. She is the same untamed beast she was when our ancestors stepped out of the Endzone. Our way will be filled with obstacles, misery, and death. Yet, we are pioneers, born with a unwavering curiosity to expand, rebuild, and thrive. Together, we will rekindle humanity.
—Jeremiah Sawchyn, Leader of Expedition 01
Key Features
- Survive amidst a relentless and ever-changing environment in a world of constant threat.
- It’s your turn to freely choose your starting point by taking direct control of your settlement bus.
- Venture into the treacherous badlands, a terrain riddled with ancient ruins, hidden loot, and daring missions.
- Explore habitable zones full of unique resources and daunting challenges, giving rise to multiple settlements under your command.
- Build, develop, and expand your settlements, forging a remarkable landmark with many buildings and upgrades.
- Secure your economic progress by researching new buildings, technologies, and refined resources as well as optimized production lines.
- Master your trade skills as you establish and manage trade routes between your zones and traders that are essential for your survival.
Develop Your Settlement
Survive in a world of constant threats, including radioactively contaminated ground, droughts, toxic rain, and sandstorms. Grow and expand your settlement, research technologies, refine resources, and manage your economy by building an efficient infrastructure.
Stabilize Your Legacy
Nurture your settlement by thoughtfully caring about the needs of your people. Forge trading routes between your zones and traders, facilitating the exchange of vital goods. Transcend mere survival and usher your settlement into an era of flourishing prosperity.
A Motorized Takeoff
In Endzone 2, you hit the road with your trusty bus, navigating through the badlands — an uninhabitable and treacherous terrain scattered with ruins, loot, and missions. Yielding to your curiosity and exploring these areas may reward you with special resources, technologies, and new trading partners. However, it can also place you in deadly peril, triggering disasters or jeopardizing the lives of your explorers.
Discover the Unknown
As you journey through the badlands, you’ll encounter habitable zones — expansive plots of land ripe for settlement and scarce resource harvesting. Each zone boasts its own unique array of resources, so choose your next settlement location wisely and let your journey flow.
An Unforgiving World
In Endzone 2, the landscape and environment are in constant flux, presenting ever-changing challenges just around the corner! Behold as sandstorms ravage the surroundings and droughts deplete your water supplies, leaving your zones parched and transformed into deserts.
Key Changes and Additions
Endzone: A World Apart veterans, please read!
- Zones – In Endzone: A World Apart, you played on one vast map where you could build a global settlement. But in Endzone 2, the world expands as you uncover different zones, each offering exclusive resources to plunder. Manage multiple settlements and unlock a vast amount of possibilities.
- New Settler Behavior – We’ve tackled and refactored settler paths and job distribution issues from the ground up. Embrace the new and improved system, now more comprehensible and balanced, supporting thriving settlements with thousands of inhabitants.
- Vehicles – Your wish for vehicles back in Endzone: A World Apart has been heard! Now, you can freely choose your starting location by moving your settlement bus. As the game progresses, you’ll have the opportunity to construct additional vehicles, perfect for establishing trade routes or venturing into the treacherous badlands.
- Expedition System Overhaul – Exciting changes! The updated expeditions system introduces detailed ruins waiting to be explored by directly controlling and guiding your explorers. They consist of less text and more action! Uncover clues, unlock secrets, and discover valuable loot on your journeys.
- New Graphics – Our rendering system has undergone a complete overhaul, bringing you a more detailed and visually stunning environment. The animations have received a makeover too, resulting in breathtaking graphics that will immerse you like never before.
Watch the announcement trailer below.