{"id":1116718,"date":"2026-01-30T20:17:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/ender-magnolia-bloom-in-the-mist-review"},"modified":"2026-01-30T20:17:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:17:24","slug":"ender-magnolia-bloom-in-the-mist-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/ender-magnolia-bloom-in-the-mist-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ender-magnolia-bloom-in-the-mist-review.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>After just under a year in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/what-weve-been-playing-legacies-flowers-and-lightsabers\">early access<\/a>, this sequel to the beloved 2021 Metroidvania <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/review-ender-lilies-quietus-of-the-knights-a-metroidvania-built-of-care-and-charm\">Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights<\/a> is finally ready for prime time. Set a few decades after Ender Lilies (but which you don&#8217;t need to have played to appreciate this standalone adventure), Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist begins in a very similar fashion. You awaken in a dark and fantastical landscape with only the tiniest scrap of memory to help you get your bearings, but you quickly discover you possess a strange ability to control synthetic, robotic beings called Homonculi to help you fend off wayward attackers. As before, this is a journey of discovery, healing and trying to fix a world where everything &#8211; and everyone &#8211; has seemingly turned against you, all through the lens of befriending monsters and drawing on their respective abilities to help you push further into this strange and dying land to find the source of its malignance once and for all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/ender-magnolia-bloom-in-the-mist-review\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/ender-magnolia-bloom-in-the-mist-review\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After just under a year in early access, this sequel to the beloved 2021 Metroidvania Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights is finally ready for prime time. Set a few decades after Ender Lilies (but which you don&#8217;t need to have played to appreciate this standalone adventure), Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist begins in a very similar fashion. 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