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"publishedAt": "2026-04-21T17:30:00.000Z",
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"Strategy: Turn-Based Strategy",
"Fantasy",
"Hooded Horse",
"Single Player",
"AMPLITUDE Studios",
"Endless Legend 2",
"Multiplayer Competitive",
"PC",
"Strategy: Grand Strategy/4X",
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"Bird view / Isometric",
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"textContent": "The least involving part of any 4X strategy is very often diplomacy with AI civilizations. Even Endless Legend 2, a game with a faction of coral people who can make other people like them by infesting their territory with spores, does settle into a formula. You make friends with other leaders forever or you define them as enemies and obliterate them. Maybe you grease the wheels by offering some minor nation a palmful of glowy rocks in return for passage through their lands.\n\nDevelopers Amplitude are trying to give Endless Legend 2's diplomacy more consistency and flavour, however, by giving the world itself a memory. As of the game's latest update, you'll find it harder to cuddle up to other factions after spending 20 turns incinerating their dominions. Even worse, you might be permanently branded a Bully.\n\nRead more",
"title": "Endless Legend 2's answer to the common 4X problem of \"goldfish\" AI is a cunning system of badges, from Pleasant to Bully"
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