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Exploration-based action adventure game Chronoscript: The Endless End will launch for PlayStation 5 and PC via Steam this fall, publisher Shueisha Games and developer DeskWorks! announced.

Alongside the announcement, a “Prologue” trailer offering a first look at the character designs for the mysterious writer and the protagonist, an editor, as well as the new stage “Ancient Egypt.”

Here is an overview of the game, via Shueisha Games:

About

A thousand years of words… waiting for your final mark. Chronoscript: The Endless End is an exploration-based action-adventure game where you, an editor trapped within a manuscript, must unravel a thousand-year story that writes itself beyond its end—across 2D pages and a 3D manor.

Prologue

The year is AD 2026. After finally bringing his long-running series to an end, a certain Editor receives a mysterious summons from a new Author. He makes his way to the Author’s grand residence, sequestered deep in the mountains. There, he is bitten by a mosquito and instantly loses consciousness. When he wakes, he finds himself trapped within The Endless End, a manuscript penned by the Vampire Mistress of the estate.

Discover Chronoscript: The Endless End

Chronoscript: The Endless End is an innovative exploration-based action-adventure game set in two worlds: the cluttered, manuscript-strewn manor of a writer rendered in 3D and the intricate, pen-and-ink-illustrated pages of that manuscript rendered in 2D. Explore a 2D world stitched together from thousands of manuscript pages, each its own unique location. Fight fearsome enemies who, when sowing the seeds of destruction, have departed from this world. Grow stronger with every discovery made and victory won. Lose yourself in the story of a writer and her editor. This original form of spatial expression is now for you to experience.

Key Features

Hard-Hitting Action – Rooted in the satisfying challenge of classic 2D action platformers, the game evolves as you play, unlocking dynamic ink-traversing moves, as well as unique abilities to be used in exploration and combat.

Confront “The Ruined” – Souls who met gruesome deaths in life have been resurrected and now stand in your way as twisted, corrupted versions of their past selves. Defeat them to unravel the tragic threads of their fate.

Traverse the Many Eras Depicted within the Manuscript – Within the manuscript pages lies a vast world of stories, tales written by the Vampire Mistress across a thousand years and countless lands.

Intricate Artwork – The story’s protagonist, enemies, and backdrops are all hand-drawn with pen and ink. The frame-by-frame animation style gives them an eerie sense of life.

Characters

Vampire: Viola S. Chambers – An author cursed with immortality, she has been writing an “endless story” for a millennium. Having lived for so many centuries, and undertaken so many stories, she has lost sight of the end. Now, she calls upon our Editor in hopes that he will be able to uphold his ancestor’s promise and finish the tale.

Editor: Frederick G. Muller – A taciturn editor who has brought many a long-running publication to a concise finish. After answering a summon to a secluded manor from a new author, he becomes trapped within the thousands of pages of her manuscript. He must now dive deep to make sense of each bewildering story, while also attending to the Author’s anguish and loneliness to bring the “endless story” to its conclusion.

Watch a new trailer below. View a new set of screenshots at the gallery.

Prologue Trailer

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Publisher Shueisha Games and developer DeskWorks! have released a new trailer for exploration-based action adventure game Chronoscript: The Endless End introducing the “Age of Discovery” stage.

“The interior of the writer’s mansion resembles a private museum, adorned with rooms themed around various ‘eras’ of world history,” Shueisha Games said. “In this world premiere trailer, you can witness the ‘Age of Discovery’ stage—a symbol of discovery and pioneering—and the fierce battles against the enemies lurking within.”

Chronoscript: The Endless End is due out for PlayStation 5 and PC via Steam in 2026.

Watch the trailer below.

“Age of Discovery” Announce Trailer

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Publisher Shueisha Games and RPG Time! The Legend of Wright developer DeskWorks! have announced Chronoscript: The Endless End, an exploration-based action adventure game for PlayStation 5 and PC (Steam). It will launch in 2026.

About

A thousand years of words… waiting for your final mark. Chronoscript: The Endless End is an exploration-based action adventure game where you, as an editor trapped within a manuscript, are to unravel the mystery of a thousand-year story that writes itself beyond its end.

Prologue

The year is AD 2026. With a long-running serial now behind him, an editor receives a curious new assignment. He travels to a manor deep in the mountains where the client awaits, only to black out the instant a mosquito sucks his blood. When he comes back to his senses, he finds himself within the pages of a story that writes itself beyond its end, a manuscript penned by the master of the manor, a writer who has lived for a millennium.

Discover Chronoscript: The Endless End

Chronoscript: The Endless End is an innovative exploration-based action-adventure game set in two worlds: the cluttered, manuscript-strewn manor of a writer rendered in 3D and the intricate, pen-and-ink-illustrated pages of that manuscript rendered in 2D. Explore a 2D world stitched together from thousands of manuscript pages, each its own unique location. Fight fearsome enemies who, when sowing the seeds of destruction, have departed from this world. Grow stronger with every discovery made and victory won. Lose yourself in the story of a writer and her editor. This original form of spatial expression is now for you to experience.

Key Features

Hard-Hitting Action – Rooted in the satisfying challenge of classic 2D action platformers, the game evolves as you play, unlocking dynamic ink-traversing moves, as well as unique abilities to be used in exploration and combat.

Enemies Corrupted Beyond Recognition – Fight against many souls who left this world while they paved the way for disaster and are now resurrected. Vicious bosses block your path. Defeat them to reveal the grim tales that sealed their fates.

Intricate Artwork – The protagonist, enemies, backgrounds, and others are all drawn by hand in pen and ink. Each frame of animation breathes unsettling life into them.

Development Studio: DeskWorks Inc. DeskWorks Inc. is a small development team specializing in unique art styles and gameplay experiences. With a deep love for and understanding of exploration-based 2D action-adventure games as players, they are bringing their best ideas to the genre as developers. Guest Creators Top-tier creators with a shared vision for Chronoscript: The Endless End have brought their talents in sound production and character design into the game, fully joining forces with the team.

Watch the announcement trailer below.

Announce Trailer

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