Shooter

Echo

Single Player

Critic · Metacritic

3.6

Users · RAWG

2017

Released

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📅 Release Info

Release DateSeptember 19, 2017

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Publisher

🏷️ Game Details

Genres

ShooterRole-playing (RPG)AdventureIndieActionRPGStrategyCasual

Playable on

PCPlayStation

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PC (Microsoft Windows)PCPlayStation 4

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About this game

After a century in stasis the girl En arrives at her destination: A Palace out of legend, a marvel of the old civilization eons gone, still awaiting its first human occupants. Out here, using forgotten technologies, she hopes to bring back a life that shouldn’t have been lost.

In Echo everything has consequence: As you try to wield its magical technologies it becomes apparent that the Palace has a will of its own… It studies everything you do, everything you are – to use it against you.

Pros & Cons

Pros

Enemies imitate the player's behavior through the Palace's adaptive systems.
The Palace combines imposing architecture, isolation, and science-fiction atmosphere.
Player actions can be reproduced by later enemies during infiltration.
The Palace's history unfolds gradually around an unusual premise.
Visuals, sound design, and music reinforce the alien atmosphere.

Cons

Palace corridors and rooms become repetitive later in the campaign.
Deliberate movement and repeated infiltration cycles slow the campaign.
Abstract explanations and limited exposition make the narrative opaque.

Pros & Cons are AI-assisted summaries, not our own playthrough reviews. Sources and how we make recommendations.

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