Neverness to Everness: Everything We Know So Far

This is the NextPlayWire hub for Neverness to Everness (NTE). It collects the facts about the game — developer, genre, platforms, release history, business model and systems — from official and cited sources, and links to everything we have written. Date-sensitive sections are labelled with when they were last checked.

At a glance

Developer: Hotta Studio, a subsidiary of Perfect World. Publisher: Perfect World Games. Engine: Unreal Engine 5. Genre: action RPG with gacha and hack-and-slash elements, set in a modern fictional metropolis where supernatural anomalies and everyday urban life coexist.

Platforms: PC, Android, iOS, PlayStation 5 and Mac with full cross-platform support; Wikipedia additionally lists HarmonyOS.

Business model: free to play, with gacha character acquisition.

Release history (checked 3 September 2026)

China: 23 April 2026. Worldwide: 29 April 2026. Steam, Epic Games Store and Samsung Galaxy Store: July 2026, with the Steam listing dated 7 July 2026. Earlier tests: a closed beta in China in November 2024, a first global closed beta in July 2025 and a second in February 2026.

Since June 2026 the game has also been streamable on NVIDIA GeForce NOW on Windows, Mac and Chromebook, with progress syncing across platforms on the same server.

World and premise

You play the first 'unlicensed' Anomaly Hunter in the city of Hethereau, working from an antique shop called Eibon and taking Anomaly commissions from the public.

Core systems

Combat: third-person action with basic dodges, perfect dodges and parries; teams of four with character switching; six Esper types and five class types. Movement: run, jump, sprint, climb, swim and drive, with a stamina system. Vehicles can be customised and upgraded.

Activities confirmed at launch include cooperative stages for one to four players, an asymmetrical horror stage, a first-person perspective option, fishing, a hangout system, Move-In Invites for shared residences, online mahjong, street racing, storefront businesses, Swift Cab driving and Sterry Express deliveries.

Official announcements worth knowing (checked 3 September 2026)

At launch the game featured tracks from the Persona 5 soundtrack, and a Porsche vehicle collaboration was announced for a future update. On PS5 Pro the game uses PSSR2 with volumetric fog and distance-field ambient occlusion at 4K/60 Hz.

Key facts

PC requirements in brief

The Steam listing asks for a Core i7-10700 or Snapdragon X, 16 GB of RAM, a GTX 1660, RX 5600 or Adreno X1 and 70 GB at minimum, and a Core i7-12700 or Snapdragon X2 Elite, 32 GB, an RTX 3060, RX 6700 or Adreno X2 and DirectX 12 as recommended.

Those are high for a free-to-play title, particularly the CPU and memory lines. Our requirements guide separates the official numbers from our interpretation and explains the GeForce NOW route for machines below the minimum.

Start here: our coverage, and what each piece answers

Deciding whether to install: the editorial review sets out who the game suits, what critics praised and questioned, and the honest case for skipping it. It carries no score, because we have not played it.

→ Is Neverness to Everness worth playing in 2026?

First week: the beginner's guide covers the vocabulary — Anomalies, Esper types, the Esper Meter — a sensible order for the side systems, and the mistakes that cost new players most.

→ Neverness to Everness beginner's guide: what to know before you start

Hardware: the requirements guide reproduces the official specs line by line, explains what each one implies, and refuses to invent frame rates.

→ Neverness to Everness PC requirements: can your PC run it?

Combat: the combat guide covers dodges, parries and switching, the six Esper types, how the meter charges and the full table of duo and trio reactions.

→ Neverness to Everness combat guide: basics, progression and early tips

Alternatives: if the requirements or the gacha model rule NTE out, our free RPG round-up lists the other free options on PC with their monetisation explained.

→ Best free RPGs on PC in 2026

What we have not verified, and will not assert

• Gacha pull rates, pity thresholds and banner schedules. These change with updates; the in-game rates screen is the authority.
• A character tier list, damage formulas or rotations. We could not verify them against a source we trust.
• Frame rates on any hardware. We have not benchmarked the game.
• Endgame structure and update roadmap beyond the announced Porsche collaboration.

How we cover NTE

Every fact on this page and in the linked articles is tied to a source that was read on the date shown: the developer's announcements, the Steam listing, Sony's launch feature, the GeForce NOW FAQ, Wikipedia's cited release history and one specialist combat guide. Nothing is inferred to fill a gap. When a game update changes something, we revise the article and update its date rather than leaving stale advice up.