70
The debut from Iceland doesn’t try to reinvent the wheel of the action-adventure genre. Instead, it looks back, stripping away modern hybridizations and leaning on the classic pillars of platforming, puzzles, and combat. None of these elements stand out as exceptional, but none fall flat either. Its true strength lies in a heartfelt story, a likable duo of protagonists who grow over the course of their journey, and the stunning Icelandic landscapes that bring flavor to an otherwise grounded fantasy. With a runtime of around ten hours, it never outstays its welcome, even if it’s a game you’ll likely forget soon after finishing.
67
Echos of the End represents an ambitious fantasy action installment, featuring a broad array of mechanics and a nascent narrative. However, among the industry's leading titles, it exhibits several critical vulnerabilities.
40
The games it apes work because they're easy to engage with and paced to banish boredom. Here, everything takes ages and is sprinkled with tiny irritations. Appropriately, given its title, the game can offer only a muted reverberation of its inspirations, with the exception of recreating their flaws quite capably. [Issue#415, p.102]
8
Eu gostei bastante para uma estreia foi além das minhas expectativas, não reinventa o gênero mais usa com eficiência tudo o que o gênero oferece
8
Puzzles and combat can be a bit janky. The lack of a post final battle play section is a bit annoying after getting an in-universe armor as a reward for our actions during the invasion. Those issues aside, it is a generally fun game and visually rich world. I hope to see a sequel in the future
8
It drew me in with its beautiful environments, strong atmosphere, and great performance optimization (particularly after the Enhanced Edition and later updates). The story-driven focus, puzzles, platforming, exploration, and serviceable combat kept me engaged throughout. It really felt like a well-crafted and memorable fantasy action-adventure game, and it’s quite a remarkable feat for an AA project. Congrats to the devs.
Echoes of the End
Released On:
Aug 12, 2025
Metascore
Mixed or Average
66
User score
Mixed or Average
6.8
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Metascore
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26% Positive
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Aug 12, 2025
85
Echoes of the End may be one of 2025’s best surprises. While it has a bit of jank that leads to occasional frustration, it’s easily offset by gorgeous visuals, a great story, fascinating lore, engaging combat, smart puzzles, and excellent traversal mechanics. I desperately hope Myrkur Games continues to build and grow what has the potential to be an incredible franchise.
Aug 12, 2025
79
The Icelandic studio Myrkur Games delivers a fun and extremely well designed first game with Echoes of the End. The real standouts are the world and its inhabitants but the rest of the game doesn’t have to hide behind them. The game does suffer from extremely basic combat that only gets better if you invest your skill points in new and much more exciting moves that will make fights a lot more interesting. Puzzles are relatively barebones and don’t demand any creative solutions. If you still struggle there is a very handy and well implemented hint system though. Overall Echoes of the End suffers in many tiny aspects but the game as a whole comes together rather well.
User score
Mixed or Average
56% Positive
110 Ratings
110 Ratings
22% Mixed
44 Ratings
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22% Negative
43 Ratings
43 Ratings
Nov 24, 2025
10
This is a great game for a AA production. Fun combat, awesome companion. Simple story, linear gameplay, solid music & voice acting, and very good looking environments. Pretty heavy on the puzzles, but they are well done and i enjoyed them. It ran pretty well on my machine and i did not have any stutters. It is a bit rough around the edges for some scenes and interactions, but for a AA production all of it is acceptable.
You can really see the inspiration from games like god of war and Jedi Survivor, and if you like those sort of games then this is a solid purchase.
Oct 5, 2025
10
Amazing game! Ienjoyed playing this game has a good story and lovely gameplay i can say it s one of the best game i really played in last period of time!!!
Sep 16, 2025
70
The debut from Iceland doesn’t try to reinvent the wheel of the action-adventure genre. Instead, it looks back, stripping away modern hybridizations and leaning on the classic pillars of platforming, puzzles, and combat. None of these elements stand out as exceptional, but none fall flat either. Its true strength lies in a heartfelt story, a likable duo of protagonists who grow over the course of their journey, and the stunning Icelandic landscapes that bring flavor to an otherwise grounded fantasy. With a runtime of around ten hours, it never outstays its welcome, even if it’s a game you’ll likely forget soon after finishing.
Aug 12, 2025
70
Nothing about Echoes of the End is original, but it’s worth a look if you’re a fan of flashy action and environmental puzzles.
Sep 9, 2025
67
Echos of the End represents an ambitious fantasy action installment, featuring a broad array of mechanics and a nascent narrative. However, among the industry's leading titles, it exhibits several critical vulnerabilities.
Aug 20, 2025
57
Echoes of the End has more bad than good to it, and the jank of its technical issues running throughout all aspects of the game bring down even its best elements, like its strong visual presentation, character-driven storytelling, and some fun platforming and puzzle challenges. The combat both overall fails to innovate and pass the standard bar for interesting, and as a whole package it's likely not worth your time when you need to get five-chapters deep in a 10-chapter story to get to its best bits.
Sep 4, 2025
40
The games it apes work because they're easy to engage with and paced to banish boredom. Here, everything takes ages and is sprinkled with tiny irritations. Appropriately, given its title, the game can offer only a muted reverberation of its inspirations, with the exception of recreating their flaws quite capably. [Issue#415, p.102]
Aug 26, 2025
10
Echoes of the End is a very impressive game that I highly enjoyed. The story and visuals are superb, with fun gameplay. Very easy to recommend to fans of narrative adventure games. I played on PC (3070 + Ryzen 7) and it ran smooth for the vast majority of my playthrough without crashes. I finished the game in around 14 hrs or so.
Oct 12, 2025
6
Not a bad game at all. It was a nice surprise for the most part to be honest.
My problem with this game was the bugs mostly one i had that forced me to download a save game because the updates didn't solve it and i was stuck at the end of chapter 7. The game itself has flaws of course like repetitive combat and is perhaps 2 or 3 chapters too long.
Dec 20, 2025
5
It's a pretty good linear experience. Definitely can feel the influence of God of War and other ARPGs in this creation. The story is meh, and the game does a pretty good job mixing combat with puzzles (maybe too many puzzles for my taste). Definitely recommend this if you're able to grab it cheap on a Steam sale.
Feb 28, 2026
4
The amount of jank in this game is baffling. i get there is a lot to be put into an open world game. but the animations are stiff. you get teleported to the correct position the game needs you to be even with something as simple as the tight wall sidle. what broke the camels back for me was how easy i managed to fall out of the map just trying to figure out a jump puzzle. maybe im spoiled but i have played ps1 games with less jank
Dec 1, 2025
4
ПЛЮСИ:1. UE5 - а значить дуже приємний візуал2. Цікава бойовкаМІНУСИ:1. Дуже мерзотна головна героїня, вона не "сильна жінка", а просто бидло. Не викликає жодної поваги або співчуття до неї.2. Загадок більше ніж іншого геймлпея. І не те щоб вони складні, їх просто забагато - одна з основних причин чому дропнув гру.3. Зараз би у 2025 році не зробити Українську локалізацію.4. Десь криві аниімації, і в цілому видно, що гра не відполірована.5. Ціна. Ні, хлопці, вона не може коштувати 1000+ грн. Максимальна адекватна ціна - 400-450грн.
SummaryEchoes of the End is a cinematic third-person action-adventure game. It blends a deeply personal, character-driven story with thrilling magic and sword-based combat, engaging traversal and thought-provoking puzzles. Inspired by Iceland, this epic adventure offers a mature, rich and immersive experience in a breathtaking and original fant... Read More
Platforms:
- PC
- Xbox Series X
- PlayStation 5
Initial Release Date:Aug 12, 2025
Developer:
- Myrkur Games
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