Until the End begins with a wonderfully intriguing splash screen. It’s there for a long moment, as if it’s very important what you’re reading. And it reads:
Unto the EndDeveloper: 2 Ton StudiosPublisher: Big Sugar GamesPlatform: Played on Xbox Series SAvailability: Out now for £20 on PC (Steam, GOG), Stadia, Xbox (One/S/X, and included with Game Pass), and coming to Switch 17th December.
All those things sounded quite exciting to me. And it’s no lie. Unto the End certainly isn’t the platformer it looks like in the screenshots. It’s slow, it’s bleak, and it’s bloody hard. It’s more like a Souls game, side-on.
Let’s break it down a bit. Unto the End is a game about being some kind of viking, or Norse warrior, or maybe a Celtic warrior – someone hairy and burly in a fairly frozen land – and venturing off into, well, it’s not clear, and for some goal that’s not clear either. The game begins with your wife and child stoically waving you farewell. There are no words. You just turn and go.