Deskworks! The developers of RPG Time! The Legend of Wright and Shueisha Games have unveiled an exploration-based, action-adventure game.

A thousand years of words await your final mark. Chronoscript: The Endless End, in which you play as an editor trapped within a manuscript. Your mission is to unravel the mystery of a thousand-year-old story that writes itself beyond its end. The year is 2026 AD. After finishing a long-running serial, an editor receives a curious new assignment. He travels to a manor deep in the mountains where the client awaits. The instant a mosquito sucks his blood, he blacks out. When he regains consciousness, he finds himself within the pages of a story that writes itself beyond its end—a manuscript penned by the manor’s master, a writer who has lived for a millennium.

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

Drawing from the satisfying challenges of classic 2D action platformers, the game evolves as you play. You unlock dynamic ink-traversing moves and unique abilities for exploration and combat. Fight against the souls of those who left this world and paved the way for disaster, who have now been resurrected. Vicious bosses block your path. Defeat them to uncover the grim tales that sealed their fates. The protagonist, enemies, backgrounds, and other elements are all hand-drawn in pen and ink. Each frame of animation breathes unsettling life into them.

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

Chronoscript: The Endless End is set to release in 2026 for PlayStation 5 and PC.

Source: Gematsu