When comparing Dungeon of the Endless vs Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, the Slant community recommends Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup for most people. In the question“What are the best roguelikes/roguelites on PC?” Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is ranked 8th while Dungeon of the Endless is ranked 35th. The most important reason people chose Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is:
There are a few different classes available at character creation, each one has it's own abilities that are different from the others. Creating one is quite simple, which makes for a fast way to get into the game and start playing.
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Pros
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
Pro Simple character creation with different classes
There are a few different classes available at character creation, each one has it's own abilities that are different from the others. Creating one is quite simple, which makes for a fast way to get into the game and start playing.
Pro Gold Standard for roguelikes
The controls and replayability have been refined over the years. Whether the player chooses to play with Tiles (graphics) or console (ASCII) the game works well even when choosing online or offline play. Either way there is just enough interface to play the game.
Cons
Con Tower defense can become daunting
If you prefer relaxed gameplay this can be difficult.
Con Have to fiddle with controls
Being that the game uses an emulated keyboard on screen it works best on tablet, though is not really the preferred method (but is the only one) since it takes up screen space.