When comparing Tales of Maj'Eyal vs Dungeon of the Endless, the Slant community recommends Tales of Maj'Eyal for most people. In the question“What are the best roguelikes/roguelites on PC?” Tales of Maj'Eyal is ranked 10th while Dungeon of the Endless is ranked 35th.
Specs
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Pros
Pro A lot of depth through many character classes and quests
Pro Pretty polished compared to other open source games
Pro Easier to learn than some other roguelikes
The graphical menu system helps a lot.
Pro Built-in but optional chat system for bragging or when you get lost
Pro Excellent pixel art
The art in this game is vibrant and colorful. It has a level of detail that many pixel games lack.
Pro Risk and reward
The game is semi-turn based. Basically, when you clear all the enemies, no more enemies will spawn until you open the next door. Which door will you open? Once you have a path to the next floor, will you continue to open the rest of the doors in case you find some rare loot? It's a wonderful gamble on your life!
Pro Great soundtrack
Pro Mixes genres of tower defense and roguelites
The game fuses the two genres in a unique way. The permadeath and random gen of roguelites mixed with the necessity of setting down strategic defensive turrets which comes with the tower defense genre.
Pro Varied game start by choosing different heroes
Cons
Con Bad balancing
Not all classes are balanced. Some are clearly weaker. As an example, every class that can summon, cannot avoid their summons to waste their skills. This is not important, except if you only have 1 summon, like the alchemist, that often charges you.
Con LUA bugs
It depends on LUA for many (if not most) things, this could ease the development, but in the end, the result is several crashes which are hard to debug.
Con Heavy resource need
Lots of graphics effects, which may make the game run slower on older systems.
Con Graphics may not appeal to everyone
Mostly because they are a mix of styles assembled throughout the lifetime of the project instead of one consistent whole.
Con Tower defense can become daunting
If you prefer relaxed gameplay this can be difficult.