Is Neverness to Everness Worth It in 2026?
NTE is the most generous open-world gacha to launch this year — a full urban sandbox with driving, property, fishing and auction mini-games bolted onto anime action combat, handed out free with a 90-pull hard guarantee and no 50/50. What holds it back is polish and pacing: a 70 GB install, a launch window that needed two apology payouts, and a story that jumps around in time.
Scored against what NTE is trying to be — a free urban open-world gacha — rather than against premium single-player RPGs. The verdict below is based on the game's own published record: three major versions in three months, the systems each one shipped, the compensation the developer paid out, and the platform requirements. Data pages that back it up: the Steam concurrents, the version history and the PC requirements.
Pros
- ✅ 90-pull hard guarantee with no 50/50, and pity carries between banners
- ✅ The city is a real sandbox: cars, property, farming, fishing, auctions, asymmetric PvP
- ✅ Roughly six-week major versions, each adding a location, a character and several events
- ✅ Free on PC, PS5, iOS and Android with full English, Japanese, Chinese and Korean voice work
Cons
- ❌ 70 GB install and heavy recommended specs (RTX 3060 / 32 GB tier)
- ❌ The developer publicly apologised for launch shortcomings and paid out compensation twice in 1.2
- ❌ Main story is told out of chronological order, which confused a lot of players after Dreamwalk Corridor
- ❌ Generative-AI use in production is an open community argument rather than a settled question
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