The pod itself affects difficulty and unique conditions while the heroes are your main characters that you’ll control. Before you play a game, you’ll decide what escape pod your survivors were in and which ones you’ll control. The plot is that a spaceship carrying prisoners crash lands on a mysterious planet and the survivors must get out of the ruins that their escape pod crashed into.
I couldn’t find official notes on how frequent it is being patched but the developers are hoping to finish the game in 2014) Rogue-Like Meets Tower Defense: Screenshots and details mentioned may not fully represent the full game or subsequent versions. (The following spotlight is based on what is considered beta for Dungeon of the Endless and patch 0.8.7. While the game is not finished yet, there is a lot to like here. That combines the thrill of Rogue-like design with the methodical and often slower pace of a tower defense to make something entirely new. Dungeon of the Endless by Amplitude Studios is an interesting mix of otherwise separate game genres.
