Combolands Endless Mode & Megalopolis

Why endless stops being a challenge

The clearest description comes from a player in the launch-week thread about pushing endless as far as it goes: the goal doubles roughly every eight weeks, while a compounding build can double its own weekly output every week. Their words: "The goal doubles. from let's say 100 to 200. Your score is 100 per week but it doubles every week too. so you go 200,400,800 etc over 8 weeks while it just goes from 100,200,400 every 8 weeks."

That is a difference in growth rate, not in size, so no amount of scaling on the target side closes it. Once you are ahead, you stay ahead by an ever-widening margin.

The numbers players report

• ~1e12 score per week around Megalopolis XIX, with the player noting that the rate at which base score and multipliers were increasing was itself increasing.
• Roughly 30,000 enchantment, 3,000 mult and e11 base score on Shrines by Milestone L, in a different player's run. Enchantment was the fastest-growing of the three, so they pivoted toward mult near the end.
• ~100× score growth per milestone in the mid-game of that run, slowing once it reached the e18 range.
• 2.1+ enchantment per week is the threshold one player names for one-shotting the goal and entering literally endless territory.

All four are player accounts from the same Steam thread, not developer statements. They are worth reading as the shape of the curve rather than as targets.

What carries a build that far

Two things get named repeatedly. Shrines and Reliquaries do the base-score heavy lifting, and Rogue Hideouts — from the secret Rogues guild — drive the xmult layer on top. The scoring page covers how those three layers stack.

Two things that break

• Score requirements bug out at Megalopolis XXXV. Two players independently reached the same point, and one opened a bug thread for it. Unfixed as of 2026-08-30.
• The game starts to lag once the board fills with triggering chains, which the deepest-run player flags directly.

Achievements do not pop in endless

Guild unlocks resolve when a run ends, and an endless run does not end. Players report guild victory achievements only appearing after restarting the game. Patch v1.0.6 on 2026-08-28 added a launch-time check for pending achievements, which makes restarting the documented fix rather than a superstition. Full list on the achievements page.

Reports re-read: August 30, 2026