Last Round at the End of the World
Dream the riddle. Question the village. Choose who drowns. A poetic folk-horror game about divine messages, guilty villagers, ritual games, and the terrible cost of keeping a place safe.
- Released
- Developer
- Ex Ignorantia
- Platforms
- PC
Last Round at the End of the World is a folk-horror narrative puzzle game where you interpret divine messages, question characters, and choose who must die to keep an island alive.
Instead of fearing the sacrifice, like in The Wicker Man and Midsommar, this time, you are the Adjudicator.
Once a year, the Spirit of the Waters speaks: it gives you a poetic riddle pointing to one soul among the villagers.
Choose right, and one person drowns so the rest may live.
Choose wrong, and the water takes everyone.
The Spirit’s words are never direct: a scar, an innocent gesture, an old sin.
Every detail may be the key.
Speak with lovers, drunks, devotees, cowards, and survivors.
They all know someone must die, but no one wants to be chosen.
Some truths must be earned: gamble at the pub, work in the cemetery, kill in the woods.
Rituals and mini-games reveal clues ordinary conversations will not.
At the end of each year, say a name.
Each death changes the village; every correct choice makes you more necessary.
And perhaps more monstrous.
St. Nineveh is populated by photo-collages made from vintage and original images.
Broken faces, constructed belief, a collective past that doesn’t agree with itself.
How the launch is going
Ranked 39th of 500 games released on 12 Oct. 100% of its 10 Steam reviews are positive, and they are still arriving at about 2 a day.
- 0 Peak players
- 10 Positive
- 10 Steam reviews
Also out on 12 Oct
All 500 releases →
More like this
中国式高考ChineseGaokao
The core gameplay is QTR, which mainly includes learning knowledge points, acquiring learning skills, and taking exams. After 30 weeks or upon early active application, students will participate in the college entrance examination and be allocated universities and majors based on their exam scores
- PC
PenRogue
Catch a wide variety of Pens and battle all kinds of Trainers. Overcome the twists of a three-axis type system and survive 100 waves.
- PC
touhou AICHATRPG
Touhou Project Fan Game An RPG where you can adventure while chatting with Touhou Project characters through AI!
- PC
Cat Life
Explore a vast wild island as a cat. Climb anywhere, hunt, fight, and survive the elements as you uncover the island’s mysteries, either solo or in co-op.
- PC
Order: The New Dawn
Order: The New Dawn is a colony sim with space adventure. As a legendary captain from the United Stellar, build a base on the desert planet New Terra and face the perils of the Wastespace—how will you shape the destiny of the stars?
- PC
Terradune
Terradune is a hand-drawn, top-down 2D action RPG where ability Augments reshape your build. Turn attacks into traps, debuffs, burst damage, or defensive tools as you explore dangerous regions, conquer dungeons, collect loot, and defeat bosses in real-time combat.
- Linux
- PC
- macOS