The End is Nigh
Super Meat BoyandThe Binding of Isaacdesigner Edmund McMillen has been off creating a new platformer withTyler Glaiel (Closure,The Basement Collection) that fans of the former game will probably be way,wayinto. It’s calledThe End is Nighand it’s coming to Steam on Jun 23, 2025 with a Nintendo Switch port and “possibly more” console versions happening sometime later.
Prior to today’s reveal, the only thing I knew about the project was that itwas a platformerthat employed the vocal talents of Rich Evans fromRed Letter Media.The End is Nighis a 600+ level, 12+ chapter “sprawling adventure platformer where the player takes control over Ash, one of few ‘things’ that have ‘survived’ the ‘end of the world.'” There are secrets to suss out and (what I imagine will be) infuriatingly just-out-of-reach collectibles to gather as well. Another bullet point? “Stress.”
McMillen has more detailsin a separate blog postwhere he saysThe End is Nigh“embodies aspects of basically every game [he’s] ever created.” Some general housekeeping: this game is not0uroboros, although “themes from it did bleed a great deal into [Nigh]”;The Legend of Bum-bois still happening; and from now on he intends to only “announce stuff a month or two before release.”
