On December 14, Binary Haze Interactiveannouncedwith a trailer thatEnder Lilies: Quietus of the Knightswill be launching onSteam Early Accesson June 03, 2025. With a $19.99 price tag. Three areas will be playable.Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knightswill ultimately release onPCvia Steam,PS4,PS5via backward compatibility,Switch,Xbox One, andXbox Series X, in Q2 2021. The final game will include at least eight areas.Ender Liliesis a dark fantasy themed metroidvania. Long story short, amnesic protagonist Lily tries to save the world from a rain which turns people into the undead. She can unlock new skills and weapons after defeating bosses, purifying and recruiting them. As a priestess, Lily will also experience visions expanding the story. We detailed more of thestory and gameplay ofEnder Liliesin our past coverage.The new gameplay trailer showcases several exploration segments and boss fights. In particular, we can identify a pretty cool dodging mechanic, and what seems like a Just Guard like mechanic: Looks like guarding enemies' attacks right when they connect will nullify them.TheEnder Liliessoundtrack, heard in the trailer, was handled by Japanese indie groupMili, who recently did an opening theme song for theGoblin Slayeranime adaptations and songs forDeemo.Keiichi Sugiyama, who worked onSkies of ArcadiaandRez, is handling the sound effects.
Ender Lilies: Quietus of the KnightsSteam Early Access Announcement Gameplay Trailer
Ender Liliesis developed by international but Japanese at heart companyBinary Haze Interactive(the publisher) and its sister companies Live Wire and Adglobe. Binary Haze Interactive was founded in June 2020. the director and story writer ofEnder Liliesis Keisuke Okabe. You can easily tellEnder Lilieswill be a typical Japanese game: through the gameplay seen in the trailer, or the chara design of protagonist Lily.
Adglobeis a Shibuya-based company working on game, web design, and mobile game development.Live Wirewas made of 25 employees as of March 2020, and was founded by Adglobe in February 2018. Most notably, the president is Makoto Takada, who used to be the president of Neverland, which closed down in 2013. Neverland was the developer of theEstpolis (Lufia)JRPG series on SNES, and theRune Factoryseries on Nintendo DS, 3DS, PS3 and Wii.
Moreover, it’s important to noteEnder Lilieswas scheduled to release before 2020 ends but now got delayed. Binary Haze Interactive also teased it’s working on two more games which will be revealed in 2021.
Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knightswill support the following languages: English, Japanese, French, German, Spanish (Spain), Korean, Chinese (Simplified and Traditionnal), Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), and Russian.
Lastly, several screenshots were published and can be found further below.
Personally speaking, I’m very excited to see how the game will fare. Moreover, this is a full 2D Japanese game, something pretty rare nowadays, as only13 Sentinels: Aegis Rimimmediately comes to mind. You can be sure we’ll share our thoughts on the early access.
