Experience an all-new "critical edition" of a 1996 Inform 5 game about mental illness, magic, and the second law of thermodynamics. Featuring original artwork by Callie Smith.

When D, a psychiatrically disabled chaos wizard, learns that an estranged family member is near death, he must brave the dangers beyond the trailer park to see them one last time. Can D reach the hospital in time? Can he escape a seemingly endless cycle of guilt and misery? Or is he doomed to forever repeat the ending?

Play along with a playlist of 90s songs (Spotify) that inspired this game (YouTube mirror here)!

Story Mode: Repeat the Ending features an optional "story" mode that allows players a way to progress through the story comfortably as a more kinetic experience.

CW: mental illness, severe depression, self-harm, death of a loved one, references to drugs and alcohol, mild profanity.

High-resolution images are only supported via web play.

Please consider rating or reviewing Repeat the Ending here.


StatusIn development
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
AuthorDrew Cook
GenreInteractive Fiction
Tagsbipolar-disorder, Dark, inform, Magic, Magical Realism, parser, Surreal, Text based, weird

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Repeat the Ending (game file, requires an interpreter) 6.5 MB
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Fashion Book and 2003 Transcript.pdf 1.6 MB
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Map (contains spoilers) 1 MB
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RTE Release 7 Source Code 960 kB

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