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Endless Tactics: Trial Run is a Turn-Based Roguelite game. Play as the commander of a high-risk planetary mining expedition, defend your base from alien creatures while trying not to get overrun. Use resources to upgrade your starship, unlock new tech, powerups, and deadly new worlds to harvest.
Endless Tactics: Trial Run
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Endless Tactics: Trial Run is the prologue to Endless Tactics a Turn-Based Roguelite game where you play as the commander of a high-risk planetary mining expedition.
Explore the first solar system and prepare for the expeditionary voyage by practicing your military command and mining skills, explore the starter solar system, and take on a limited arsenal of tools while beating back alien fauna, dangerous weather, and other secrets in this introduction to Endless Tactics! Defend your base from incessant hordes of alien creatures as you harvest valuable resources, and weather dangerous planetary hazards such as spore filled meteor showers and earthquakes, all while uncovering valuable drop pods and new mysterious Artifacts. Whenever things get too bleak, Extract to your orbiting spaceship to rearm, Upgrade, and unlock more dangerous and profitable worlds. Good luck, Commander. MechTek is counting on you to make a buck!

Defend your mining operation from the alien menace! Manage a variety of units from military vehicles to towering mechs to fight back the deadly alien hordes as you extract valuable resources! Sometimes, tough decisions and sacrifices will be necessary to keep it going just until the next Extraction Opportunity - then Extract, or remain there and face the fearsome Apex Enemies (Bosses unique to each Planet)!

Outfit your orbiting spaceship with the latest gear in excavation and offensive technology (warning: some upgrades might increase profits at the cost of survivability).
Approach Operations in any order and scale you wish and choose what missions you undertake. This solar system is home to a variety of quarantined (but highly profitable) planets, from verdant jungles to toxic wastelands.

Planetary events such steel-piercing sandstorms, earthquakes, airstrikes, and a whole slew of other events accompany each mission tilting the odds in and out of your favor.
Alien Artifacts are scattered across all of the [NULL] Solar System. Collect and combine them for all kinds of game-changing (and sometimes breaking) builds! Among them, you'll encounter Artifacts like Skewstone - which makes ALL Units move diagonally, like checkers; and Armageddon - which makes EVERYTHING deal double Damage. And you can just keep stacking them for as long as you survive!
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