"The Echoes Of The End: Enhanced Edition update improves upon the original release in almost every way; unfortunately it arrived too late to save Echoes Of The End from total obscurity."
An unfortunate truth about the game industry right now is that no matter how much progress has been made in regard to the portrayal of female characters, and efforts to introduce and amplify diversity, there are still enough holdouts to ensure that anything short of a slam dunk success will face nearly impossible odds in the face of a unified opposition.
This opposition often takes the form of right-wing content creators who take advantage of the average Reddit and Twitter user’s lack of individuality and overwhelming desire not to oppose the hive mind.
I have literally witnessed people change their opinion not based on how they felt about a game, but purely on how the hive mind or their favourite content creator felt about it.
I recall one very sad example where someone posted about how much he enjoyed a game, but he was unsure whether he should refund it, as he had not yet heard what his favourite streamer thought. He did not want to continue enjoying the game if the streamer did not like it.
I understand people are lonely, perhaps now more than ever, and as a result parasocial relationships are more prevalent and unhealthy than ever before. People are desperate to feel included, feel a sense of belonging, feel part of something, anything, and as a result the hive mind is formed.
Unfortunately, the hive mind feeds on drama, strife, and controversy, and cares little for truth, integrity, or compassion.
The moment the developers chose to make Ryn, a modestly dressed black woman, the protagonist of Echoes Of The End, they all but assured it would take a miracle for it to succeed.
Unfortunately for the developers this was not the only problem they would face, as Echoes Of The End was very rough at launch, and no one, not even supporters of the developers’ attempts at diversity, could honestly say it was a great game, which resulted in very few people actually buying it, and even less recommending it to others.
While the Enhanced Edition relaunch has addressed almost every possible complaint with the original and improved upon it in almost every way, in the eyes of the hive mind Echoes Of The End is simply another example of a developer that “went woke and went broke.”
While it may be too late to change the narrative, the hive mind grows and thrives when the truth is silent, and with that in mind, I will list what I liked and did not like about Echoes Of The End: Enhanced Edition.
Echoes Of The End is a very pretty game, and the scenery in particular looks really nice.
While at times the landscape almost looks a little too realistic when compared to the more stylised character models, overall every aspect of Echoes of the End looks fits together very well, and I more than once found myself stopping to take in the scenery, something I rarely do.
Fantasy video game narratives have a terrible habit of either being a brilliant tale worth experiencing or random fantasy slop that tosses together tropes such as dark lords and mcguffins into what can best be described as a passable narrative.
Thankfully for everyone involved, Echoes Of The End’s narrative has far more in common with the former, and honestly, I would put it on par with Horizon Zero Dawn and slightly below genre-defining titles such as God Of War (2018) in this regard.
While a good narrative is half the battle, for games that employ voice acting, choosing the right actors is also very important. I was pleasantly surprised not only with the voice acting, but with the animations used during cutscenes, which ensure that characters actually look like they are having a conversation, rather than flapping their lips randomly to prerecorded audio.
On that note, the dialogue is very well written, well acted, and almost perfectly animated, and I could not ask for better even from developers with vastly larger budgets and development resources.
Echoes Of The End plays like basically every other well-made third-person action game in recent memory, and that is in no way a dismissive statement. Every aspect that was originally lacking is now easily on par with what we have come to expect from the genre.
While in my opinion there are too many environmental puzzles, that is very much a personal preference, and even this is easily outweighed by the buttery smooth and ultimately very rewarding combat, which allows Ryn to engage multiple enemies at a time in a way that could best be described as dancing.
The very fact that Echoes Of The End: Enhanced Edition exists is a credit to the developers, who could have easily walked away from the game after its disappointing launch and low sales.
Especially when the developers likely knew as well as I did that no matter what they did, after such a launch, any potential revival would do little more than bump up the review score a little, and that it would have little to no impact on sales or revenue.
Echoes Of The End: Enhanced Edition was released in an effort to give players the very best experience possible, and for that I feel Deep Silver and Myrkur Games deserve recognition for the amount of work that went into making Echoes Of The End: Enhanced Edition one of the best AA third-person action games I have ever played.
Echoes of the End is an action game developed by Myrkur Games and published by Deep Silver, it released on 12 August 2025, and is available on PC, Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.
Echoes of the End supports the following peripherals:
Echoes of the End is rated PEGI 18+ and contains:
Echoes Of The End: Enhanced Edition is a fantastic action RPG that, while not equal in quality and scope to some of its closest inspirations, is a very valid AA alternative to titles such as God Of War (2018) and Jedi Fallen Order.
While it does at times go a bit heavy on puzzles, and finding written guides for some of the more difficult puzzles is near impossible due to how poorly it sold at launch, this does not change the fact that at its core Echoes Of The End: Enhanced Edition is ultimately a very well-made game that is incredibly easy for me to recommend.
We found Echoes of the End to be a good game, meaning it is likely to be enjoyable for most players, despite having a few areas that could be improved upon.
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