Arknights: Endfield

Arknights: Endfield is a real-time 3D action role-playing game with strategic elements. Unlike the original Arknights, which features tower defense mechanics, Endfield introduces a semi-open world experience with base-building and strategic management elements.

The core mechanism of combat is the combo skill system. Players control a four-member team simultaneously, with the ability to switch between characters during battle, each of which has unique skills and abilities. Combat operates through a semi-real-time system where players can switch control between different characters, utilizing skill combinations and tactical coordination to defeat enemies. The system includes multiple attack types: basic attacks, tactical skills, combo skills, and ultimate abilities. Basic attacks are further divided into normal attack, drop attack, final attack (of a sequence), and execution/finisher moves.

Arknights: Endfield takes place on a moon called "Talos-II", and the player takes upon the role of the "Endministrator" of the titular "Endfield Industries" corporation.

The moon Talos-II was colonized 152 years prior to the beginning of the game's story by pioneers from Terra, the planet that serves as the setting of the previous game, accessing it through a dimensional portal known as an "Cosmic Gate." The portal was destroyed five years after the colonization of the moon during the Aggeloi War, leaving the Terran pioneers stranded on Talos-II and eventually building their own civilizations. Several concepts, factions and characters from Arknights appear, such as Originium, an energy-rich mineral enabling the use of special pseudo-magical abilities called "Arts", and "Rhodes Island", the pharmaceutical corporation which the player character belonged to in Arknights.

Arknights: Endfield was developed by Hypergryph, which had released its predecessor, Arknights. Endfield uses the Unity engine.

In 2022, Hypergryph opened user accounts for Arknights: Endfield and released a pilot trailer. A first technical test of the game on PC by prospective players took place in January 2024. Another limited beta test took place in January 2025. Endfield's released date was officially revealed at The Game Awards 2025 and was released on 22 January 2026.

According to review aggregator Metacritic, Arknights: Endfield received "mostly positive" reception, with an aggregate score of 78/100 based on 21 critic reviews; in 14 reviews compiled by review aggregator OpenCritic, the positive reviews account for 88%. GamingBolt reviewer Ravi Sinha gave the game an overall rating of "good". TheGamer reviewer Harry Alston believed that although the game has excellent visuals and character design, its delivery is ultimately "more style over substance". IGN commentator Sarah Thwaites said that there is more to explore in the game besides the "login loop", and that after about 20 hours of play, she would still be willing to continue exploring the character motivations, upgrades and "more rewarding depth". Polygon commentator Paulo Kawanishi believed that while the science fiction theme and base building bring a sense of novelty, it is not enough to make it stand out in the crowded gacha game market.

Reviews generally praised the visual and musical presentation of the game. Sinha praised its visual presentation and art style, the creation of sci-fi industrial scenes and the quality of music, and pointed out that although its semi-open areas are not a true open world, the content density is high and the exploration elements and side activities are plentiful. Thwaites also mentioned that its cyberpunk visual background and atmosphere can immerse the player, and said that the battle performance after the later development is “visually attractive”. Kawanishi also highlighted the character models and smooth action combat to create an attractive sci-fi world view.