Shueisha Games and DeskWorks have announced that Chronoscript: The Endless End will launch this fall for PlayStation 5 and PC via Steam. The game is an exploration-based action adventure built around two connected visual spaces: a 3D manor belonging to a writer, filled with manuscripts and rooms to examine, and the 2D pages of a story illustrated in pen and ink. The new Prologue trailer offers a first look at the designs for the mysterious author and the editor protagonist, while also introducing a new stage set in Ancient Egypt.
The premise begins in AD 2026. After finally bringing a long-running series to its conclusion, editor Frederick G. Muller receives a summons from a new author and travels to her grand residence, hidden deep in the mountains. The visit quickly turns strange. A mosquito bite makes him lose consciousness, and when he wakes, he finds himself trapped inside The Endless End, a manuscript written by the Vampire Mistress of the estate. From that point on, his editorial work becomes a journey through a thousand-year story that continues writing itself beyond its own ending.
The core of the adventure comes from moving between different narrative spaces. The 3D manor acts as the physical place where the author’s traces, papers, and history are gathered, while the 2D world is stitched together from thousands of manuscript pages, each functioning as its own location. Exploration will carry Frederick through eras, lands, and tales written by the Vampire Mistress across a millennium, turning the manuscript into a layered world of stories, lost figures, and hand-drawn environments.
Gameplay is rooted in the challenge of classic 2D action platformers, but the experience evolves as new tools are unlocked. Frederick will gain dynamic movement abilities tied to ink traversal, along with powers that support both exploration and combat. Among the enemies standing in his way are the Ruined, souls who suffered gruesome deaths and have returned as twisted, corrupted versions of their former selves. Defeating them is not only a combat objective, but also a way to uncover the tragic threads of their fate.
At the center of the story is Viola S. Chambers, an immortal author who has been writing an endless tale for a thousand years and has lost sight of how it should conclude. Frederick must dive through her bewildering stories, understand her anguish and loneliness, and try to uphold a promise connected to his ancestor. Chronoscript: The Endless End is aiming for a mix of platforming, mystery, and handcrafted illustration, where every page is not just part of the story, but a place to enter, cross, and survive.
