Popular mobile Gacha gameArknightsis getting a follow-up in the franchise titledArknights: Endfield. The originalArknightsis a free to play hybrid of Gacha tactical RPG mixed with a Tower Defense.; The sequel,Arknights: Endfield, is set in the same universe but with updated graphics and new features. If you’ve played the original, you may be wondering: isArknighst: Endfielda Tower Defense game? Let’s take a look at what we know.
Arknights: Endfieldis a real-time RPG
Even though the originalArknightsis primarily a Tower Defense game, that is not the case with the upcomingArknights: Endfield. Instead,Arknights: Endfieldis a real-time 3D RPG with strategic elements mixed in. Story-wise, Endfield takes place in the same world as Arknights but has its own setting, storyline, characters, and gameplay. Players can explore the open world of the planet Talos-II while leveling up characters in a real-time RPG setting.
As players explore Talos-II, they will unlock new towns and hubs as well as the ability to link them together to progress further in the game. It’s taking similar systems fromArknights, but altering them to fit in the gameplay of a real-time RPG.
IsArknights: Endfielda Gacha game?
Despite the gameplay shifting gears,Arknights: Endfieldis still a Gacha game.Endfieldwill be free to play but players will use a Gacha system to obtain characters and equipment. Even though not everyone will like that system, it has become somewhat of a staple to these free-to-play styles of games.
If it uses a system similar toArknights, players will still be able to utilize pulls on the Gacha system even as a free player. Of course, players who opt to spend money on the game will be able to have higher chance or at the very least more frequent pulls to try and get the characters they are looking for.
So at the end of the day, isArknights: Endfielda Tower Defense game? It’s not. But as we explained, it will have similar features toArknights, just as a real-time RPG instead.
