Endzone 2 combines elements of survival and city building/colony sims in order to create a new and unique twist on these familiar genres. Players are able to freely choose their starting point and venture into a variety of different locations that are hiding valuable and unique resources and loot. They will also be able to create and manage multiple settlements and fight against the unforgiving and ever-changing environment.

When players aren’t exploring, they’ll need to build, develop and expand their settlements and secure economic progress by researching buildings, and technologies, and refining resources to create optimized production lines in order to keep up with the size of their growing community. Players will also be tasked with establishing trade routes between habitable grounds and traders. 

Gentlymad Studios strives to bring the supportive community from Endzone - A World Apart over to Endzone 2 in order to develop the sequel in line with player expectations. Players familiar with Endzone - A World Apart can now enjoy the challenge of creating and managing multiple settlements and using vehicles to establish trade routes, barter with traders and go on expeditions. Additionally, Endzone 2 includes a complete overhaul of the rendering system bringing players a more detailed and visually appealing environment along with new animations to immerse players like never before. 

Gentlymad Studios and Assemble Entertainment are pleased to convey that as Endzone 2 nears completion for its v1.0 PC Steam release in 2025 as another major Early Access update (Steam / GOG) ensures it will become a genre-defining epic upon release.

In this multi-layered  strategy game, players explore, colonize, and manage multiple settlements across a deadly, ever-changing world where radiation, resource scarcity, and natural disasters constantly test your planning and resilience.

This latest update brings the game closer to its roots - drawing inspiration from its predecessor Endzone – A World Apart - with a renewed focus on radiation management, settler health, and meaningful survival decisions.

• Radiation Reimagined: Strategic building placement and new decontamination tools like the Decontaminator and Water-tower are essential for survival.
• Sickness and Hospitals: Outbreaks now directly impact settlers, who can recover naturally or through player-managed medical care.
• Sandstorms with Bite: Storms now damage buildings directly, requiring repair crews and resource management to keep settlements running.
• Morale vs. Health: Boost confidence at your own risk with new buildings like the Bar and Coffee Shop, fueled by craftable Beer and Weed.
• Session Goals & Monuments: Take on epic challenges with new session objectives and earn powerful monument buildings that supercharge your late-game strategy.

A New Era of Radiation

Radiation has evolved into a full survival mechanic. You’ll now need to:

• Monitor zone-based radiation with a new overlay
• Watch out for irradiated food and water
• Build Decontaminators and upgraded storage buildings to fight back
• Hope for cleansing rain – it now removes radiation naturally
• This rework adds new complexity, new visuals, and new threats.

Hospitals, Bars & More – New Buildings

This update adds over 10 new buildings, including:

• Hospital – Treat critically ill settlers
• Brewery & Bar – Produce and serve beer to boost happiness
• Coffee Shop – Distribute joints to ease settler stress
• Beacon – A late-game monument to your survival mastery
• Decorative Statues – Unlockable through new missions
• Small Town Center, new street types, adult-only shelter, and more

New Expeditions & Game Goals

Send your explorers into four new expeditions:

• Sewage Plant
• Hospital
• Traffic Accident
• Small Ominous House

You’ll also find a new goal selection system, complete with:

• 3 new themed win conditions
• 6 new achievements
• New missions to guide progression

Sandstorms & Disease Overhaul

Survival just got even harder:

• Sandstorms now cause building damage over time
• A new disease system introduces severe illness and non-working settlers
• Settlers’ mood is now affected by radiation
• Prepare your infrastructure or suffer the consequences.

Quality-of-Life & Fixes

We’ve implemented tons of fixes and improvements, including:

• Health bars & destruction visuals for buildings
• Improved road logic and settler behavior
• Better tutorials, tooltips & UI interactions
• Fixed expedition, trading, and savegame issues

Check out the full changelog below:

Added

• Achievements: Added 6 new achievements for game goals and beacon missions.
• Buildings: Added a bar to distribute beer to settlers, increasing happiness.
• Buildings: Added a beacon building (split into 3 parts) to celebrate and honor well-managed settlements.
• Buildings: Added a brewery to produce beer from hops.
• Buildings: Added a coffee shop to distribute joints to settlers, increasing happiness.
• Buildings: Added a decontaminator to remove radiation in its vicinity.
• Buildings: Added a hospital to treat sick settlers.
• Buildings: Added a shelter that houses only adults.
• Buildings: Added a small town center to provide more building space in small zones.
• Buildings: Added three decorative statues, unlockable through new late-game missions.
• Buildings: Added two new street types.
• Buildings: Added an upgraded decontaminator to remove radiation in its vicinity.
• Game Goals: Added a selection menu for game goals in the game type selection.
• Game Goals: Added a set of three themed winning conditions.
• Missions: Added several new missions for new resources and buildings.
• Radiation: Added a radiation overlay to display local radiation levels in a zone.
• Resources: Added hops resource, harvestable in fields.
• Resources: Added weed resource, growable and harvestable in swamp farms.
• Resources: Food and water can now become irradiated; build upgraded storage or decontaminators to remove radiation.
• Sandstorms: Sandstorms now damage buildings over time; affected buildings are automatically repaired but may be fully destroyed.
• Settlers: Settlers can now become severely ill and stop working.

Fixed

• Buildings: Added a safety check to fix occasional half-cell offset when placing buildings.
• Buildings: Fixed an issue preventing some buildings from being buffed by storage facilities.
• Buildings: Fixed zone road connections not correctly calculating connections to the town center when new roads are interrupted by blocking terrain.
• Buildings: It is now possible to cancel the creation of vehicles.
• Buildings: Warnings are no longer disabled when a building's workforce is at or below zero.
• Expeditions: Added savegame fixes for certain greenhouse expeditions.
• Expeditions: Disabled camera shake when bridges are auto-unlocked at session start.
• Expeditions: Fixed interactables not being usable while the object an explorer is standing on is moving, even when the interactable is in range.
• Expeditions: Fixed several expedition errors and glitches.
• Map Generation: Fixed an unreachable mine slot.
• Minimap: Ensured proper updating of upcycling slots on the minimap after dismantling ruins.
• Missions: Fixed an error where events could trigger even if their filters were not met.
• Missions: Fixed seed goals not counting correctly.
• Research: Fixed an error occurring when finishing research with the research window open.
• Research: Fixed technologies currently being researched from being discovered on expeditions or through events.
• Savegames: Added a fix for buildings becoming locked after loading a savegame.
• Savegames: Added a fix for cases where the same random loot was selected twice for a POI, preventing 100% completion.
• Settlers: Fixed homeless settlers issue after Wanderers/Outlanders events.
• Settlers: Fixed unwanted behavior of settlers going to storage facilities when not in a working state.
• Trading: Fixed an error occurring when rerolling trader prices.
• Trading: Fixed several errors with trade routes.
• UI: Fixed different issues with drag-and-drop functionality for resources.
• UI: Fixed an error when changing zones while a construction inspector is open.
• Upcycling: Added 2-3 construction states to upcycling ruins to prevent them from popping in/out.

Tweaked

• Buildings: Added a health bar to buildings.
• Buildings: Added destruction effects to buildings with low health.
• Buildings: Regular farms can now be placed outside fertile soil, with an adjustable field of influence.
• Buildings: Swamp farms now have an adjustable field of influence.
• Buildings: Town Center now includes an option to adjust settlers' repair behavior.
• Buildings: Upgraded storage buildings now clean irradiated resources.
• Diseases: Revamped the disease system.
• Intermediate Area: Radiation is now displayed as 100% outside a zone (visual effect only).
• Missions: Added a mission triggered when losing a zone.
• Missions: Added new missions to remind players to build upgraded storage buildings.
• Notifications: Added notifications when food and water become too irradiated.
• Radiation: Adjusted radiation heatmap gradients for clearer visibility.
• Radiation: Radiation tooltip on buildings now shows radiation levels as a percentage.
• Radiation: Rain can now remove radiation.
• Resources: Added a rating and labeling system for seeds.
• Resources: Seeds are now distributed across sectors based on their rating.
• Sandstorm: Increased the strength of sandstorms.
• Settlers: Radiation now affects settlers' mood.
• Trading: Trade routes are now factored into resource-per-minute goals.
• Trading: Trader prices no longer reset when loading a savegame.
• Tutorial: Adjusted the tutorial to cover updated radiation and disease mechanics.
• Tutorial: Revised several tutorial texts for clarity.
• UI: Added end screens for game goals.

 

Key Features

• Survive amidst a relentless and ever-changing environment in a world of constant threat.
• It's your turn to freely choose your starting point by taking direct control of your settlement bus.
• Venture into the treacherous badlands, a terrain riddled with ancient ruins, hidden loot, and daring missions.
• Explore habitable zones full of unique resources and daunting challenges, giving rise to multiple settlements under your command.
• Build, develop, and expand your settlements, forging a remarkable landmark with many buildings and upgrades.
• Secure your economic progress by researching new buildings, technologies, refined resources, and maintain optimized production lines.
• Master your trade skills as you establish and manage trade routes between your zones and traders that are essential for your survival.

Endzone 2 will be available in three different editions, and players that pre-order can take advantage of a 10% discount. In addition, the studio has partnered with One Tree Planted to plant a tree for each unit sold.

• Standard Edition -  For core gamers
• Save The World Edition - Featuring a soundtrack, digital artbook, and a partnership with OneTreePlanted to plant a tree for each unit sold
• Supporter Edition - Including all Save The World benefits and serves as a way to support the developer further

Endzone 2 is coming to PC (Steam / GOG) in 2025.