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ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights

Live Wire, Adglobe · Binary Haze Interactive

Quick read

ENDER LILIES is a grim 2D metroidvania: you send a chorus of bound knights through a ruin, then you walk the map you already paid for.

What kind of game is it?

Metroidvania routing plus spirit summons. You collect ghosts and spend them as a kit. The map still has to be drawn from memory; death costs position rather than a run, and the next sitting is a choir you already named.

Who is it for?

For players who crave a ruin they keep, and spirits they send ahead of them.

How it plays

Loop: Exploring a map
Sessions: Medium sessions
Progression: A world that stays
Players: Single-player
Structure: Metroidvania
Tone: Dark · Challenging

Game DNA

What playing it feels like, out of 100. Our reading, separate from Steam reviews.

Progression80
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Story58
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Social18
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Key Steam facts

Steam store figures, checked 17 Aug 2026.

Release

released

2021-06-21

Review score

93.8%

Checked 17 Aug 2026.

Steam positive percent.

Review count

45,511

Checked 17 Aug 2026.

Store price

€9.99

Checked 17 Aug 2026.

Languages

Demo

Early Access

Players

Single-player

How many people play ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights?

Estimates from public Steam data, not figures from the studio. Ranges, not exact numbers.

Estimated copies

1.1M – 2.5M

Steam reviews × 25 to 55. For a free game: players, not sales.

All-time peak players

6,332

Most people playing at the same moment, per SteamCharts.

Average players, Aug 2026

219

Peak that month: 527.

Median playtime

21.1 h

Half of 300 recent reviewers played 16.2–27.8 h. 3% under 2 h.

Players over time

Sept 2023Aug 2026

Where the players are

Languages of the last 300 Steam reviews. A proxy for regions, not a country split.

Simplified Chinese39%
English21%
Russian9%
Portuguese (Brazil)8%
Traditional Chinese7%
Spanish (Spain)5%

Steam data checked 4 Oct 2026

What makes it different?

You collect ghosts and spend them as a kit while the ruin stays on the map.

Core mechanics

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Genre / subgenre

Steam genre: metroidvania.

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Sources

Store price checked 17 Aug 2026.

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