Review jademonkey 4/5 · Oct 3, 2023
Endgame of Devil is a fun little drafting based roguelike, most similar to Luck Be a Landlord. Instead of building a slot machine, you're building an army of evil. Every turn your army is randomly placed on a board along with heroes, who have to be defeated within a time limit. Let too many heroes through, and you lose. Additionally, …
Endgame of Devil is a fun little drafting based roguelike, most similar to Luck Be a Landlord. Instead of building a slot machine, you're building an army of evil. Every turn your army is randomly placed on a board along with heroes, who have to be defeated within a time limit. Let too many heroes through, and you lose. Additionally, at the end of every turn you can draft a new unit to your army, and at the end of each wave of heroes, you can choose a new passive for your army -- basically the same design as Luck.
With all that laid out, Endgame of Devil is similar enough to Luck Be a Landlord that you could rightfully call it a clone. However, I find it more fun. There's a smaller pool to draft from, and you get more rerolls and removal. It allows for much more control of what's happening, while still leaving you limited enough that you can't force the same playstyle every time. I also enjoy the aesthetic of building an army of lizard men more than making a slot machine to pay rent haha. The main downsides are that it's perhaps a bit too easy, and you do see the same builds a bit more than would be optimal. Still, I had fun for the full 9 hours it took me to complete the 20 difficulties the game offers.