3d ago
Shueisha Games pushed Chronoscript: The Endless End from 2026 to early summer 2027, adding Xbox Series X|S and Xbox on PC to the previously announced Steam and PS5 versions. The Steam demo holds an 85% positive rating across roughly 90 reviews. Producer Masami Yamamoto and Deskworks director Tom Fujii say user feedback led to changes in dodge invincibility timing, input buffering, and how the story is delivered.
3d ago
Shueisha Games announced on October 21, 2026 that Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, and Xbox Play Anywhere are now supported platforms for Chronoscript: The Endless End. The exploration-style action adventure comes from developer DeskWorks and is scheduled for release in early summer 2027. The Xbox version was announced during the ID@XBOX x IGN October Showcase 2026, which aired at 2:00 JST, alongside an Xbox announcement trailer. The game casts the player as an editor trapped inside a manuscript, working through a story of an end that has run for 1,000 years across a 2D manuscript-paper space and a 3D Western-style mansion. It is already listed for PC and PlayStation 5, and the new Xbox listing adds a further set of Microsoft platforms. The supported languages span Japanese, English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, French, Italian, Spanish, and German. A demo is available on Steam.
Aug 4
Shueisha Games will release Chronoscript: The Endless End for PlayStation 5 and PC via Steam in fall 2026. The game is a new exploration action title from Desk Works, the developer behind RPG Time: The Legend of Wright. In it, an editor named Fredrick G. Muller is bitten by a mosquito and wakes up inside a manuscript written by Viola S. Chambers, a thousand-year-old vampire. The player explores a 2D paper world that sits within a 3D Western-style mansion, and the two dimensions affect each other. Books stacked outside the manuscript can cover parts of the field, and pages can fall in real space during battles. The game uses a Metroidvania structure, with new actions gained by defeating bosses. The demo included three abilities: Page Wing Leap, a double jump; Ink Immersion, which lets the player dive into ink stains; and Sightseer Midge, which shows the map as the writer's room. Defeating enemies grants enhancement items used at checkpoint chairs to improve six categories. The demo's tutorial boss, the Foolish Reading Librarian Insect, took three attempts to defeat. A separate Extra mode offers a harder boss, the Condemning Opera Director, with two additional actions unlocked.