Neverness To Everness: the complete guide hub

NTE gets compared to an anime Grand Theft Auto, and the comparison is only half fair. Yes, you drive real licensed cars through a modern city, take taxi and delivery jobs and buy property. But the core is a character action RPG with a gacha roster, built by the studio behind Tower of Fantasy on Unreal Engine 5. You play an Esper called Zero, the first "unlicensed" Anomaly Hunter working for Eibon, a rundown antique shop that pays its rent by taking Anomaly commissions from anyone who will pay.

NTE Launch Trailer: Play On! (official NTE Global channel)

What kind of game NTE is

Three games are stacked on top of each other, and you can spend whole evenings in just one of them:

• An action RPG. You fight with a team of four characters, switching between them to trigger reactions called Esper Cycles. Dodges, perfect dodges and parries matter more than gear scores.
• A city life sim. Hethereau has jobs (Swift Cab, City Delivery), mini games such as Riichi Mahjong at Little Sparrow, fishing, auctions, races, a heist mode called Pink Paws Heist, and homes you buy with the soft currency Fons.
• A collection game. Characters and their signature Arcs come from a dice board gacha called Scarborough Fair. Cosmetics, cars and outfits are the main thing the game sells.

The tone is a city dramedy. The official descriptions lean on jokes (a TV headed repairman with strange eating habits, a Witch who reads fortunes to find lost cats), and the main story mixes slice of life with horror themed episodes like "Fogden Game" and "The Witch".

Hethereau: the city you live in

The official site splits Hethereau into five districts. Each has a different job in the game, which our vehicles and city guide covers street by street:

Miguel DistrictHethereau Skytower at night, framed by office towers and neon signs.

Unheard ShoresAzure Vista Station on the coastal line, with a cherry tree and a suspension bridge.

New HerlandThe Nautili Tunnel: an underwater glass tube with a whale swimming overhead.

Updates add areas outside the city too. Version 1.2 opened the fantasy Warren Continent through the "Fighting with a Dragon" episode, 1.3 added Duskmoor with the Starfall Bay Resort and Tearlake, and 1.4 added the Pukaland theme park and the mountain town of St. Arbor.

Combat in one minute

Every character has one of six attributes: Cosmos, Anima, Incantation, Chaos, Psyche and Lakshana. They sit on a wheel, and two neighbours on the wheel trigger an Esper Cycle when you swap in the second character with the Cycle gauge filled. Remora (Cosmos and Lakshana), Blossom (Cosmos and Anima), Hexed (Anima and Incantation), Scorch (Incantation and Chaos), Nova (Chaos and Psyche) and Stain (Psyche and Lakshana) are the two attribute Cycles. Three neighbours give Charge or Discord.

That is why team building beats raw rarity in NTE. A well matched team of decent characters clears content that a pile of mismatched S-Class units struggles with. The details, with tested team lists, are in best team comps, and the current power ranking is in our characters tier list.

The gacha in one minute

NTE's gacha is a board game. You roll Solid Dice on a Limited Board, your piece moves one to six tiles, and you collect what is on the tile. Behind the presentation the rules are simple, and they are friendlier than most of the genre. Per the official board rules: if the featured S-Class character has not dropped within 70 rolls, the board upgrades to Modified and the rate goes up; the 90th roll always gives the featured character, and all limited boards share one pity counter. There is no 50/50 coin flip that can hand you a standard character instead.

The catch is cosmetics. Each limited board has three Perk rewards (an outfit, a glider livery and a vehicle livery) at 50, 120 and 200 rolls. Our gacha and banners guide explains the dice types, the Arc Research Program, what a free player earns per version and the full banner history.

Cars, bikes and city life

Driving is not decoration. Vehicles move you between jobs, races and Anomaly commissions, and the game sells real licensed cars: the NTE x Porsche collaboration added the Porsche 918 Spyder, the 911 Turbo (930) and the Taycan Turbo GT with Weissach Package. Most other vehicles are bought with Fons at in-game dealerships, such as the Sirocco at TerraX for 4,000,000 Fons or the Yesteryear bike at the Ticking Back bike shop for 800,000 Fons. The Ghost Train cuts through Anomaly space for fast trips. All of it is in the vehicles and city guide.

Where you can play it

NTE runs on Windows (official launcher, Steam and the Epic Games Store), PlayStation 5, iOS and iPadOS 15 or later, Android, and Macs with an Apple M1 chip or newer on macOS 14 or later. The Steam version arrived on 8 July 2026 and supports cross progression with the other platforms across the Asia, America, Europe and SEA servers.

PC players should check the hardware first: Steam lists 16 GB of RAM and a GTX 1660 as the minimum, 32 GB and an RTX 3060 as recommended, and 110 GB of storage. Valve marks the game as unsupported on Steam Deck. See PC requirements and release date and platforms for the full picture.

Version history so far

Dates for 1.2 to 1.4 come from the official Steam announcements. The 1.0 and 1.1 board dates are the ones reported by community trackers and match the board names the official notes mention later. The current 1.4 boards end on 11 November 2026 at 05:59 UTC+8, which lines up with the 1.5 date Game8 reports.

Is NTE worth playing in late 2026?

If you like open world gacha games and want something less fantasy heavy, yes. The city is dense, the side activities are real games rather than chores, and the pity system is honest: 90 rolls always get you the featured character. Reviews at launch praised exactly that mix; criticism focused on early story pacing, some translations and a launch controversy over AI assisted background assets, which Hotta Studio said it would rework.

It is less ideal if you want hard combat from day one, or if you play on a weak laptop. Start with the beginner guide; it covers the first week, the free S-Class pick and the mistakes that waste dice.

Which guide to read first

Neverness To Everness guides

GuideNeverness To Everness beginner guide: your first weekSet up the account correctly, get through the prologue, pick the right free characters and stop wasting dice and Fons.

Tier listNeverness To Everness characters tier list (version 1.4)All playable characters ranked for version 1.4, with attribute, class, role and where they come from.

GuideNeverness To Everness best team comps (version 1.4)How Esper Cycles decide your team, then complete four person lineups for limited carries, standard characters and free players.

GuideNeverness To Everness gacha and banners explainedThe dice board rules from the official notices, what pity really costs in Annulith, the Arc banner, free income per version and the full board history.

GuideNeverness To Everness vehicles and city guideHow to get and summon vehicles, which cars are worth Fons, every Porsche, the five districts of Hethereau and the side jobs that pay for it all.

GuideNeverness To Everness PC requirementsThe official minimum and recommended specs, what they mean for real hardware, Windows on Arm, Steam Deck, Mac, launchers and settings that matter.

GuideNeverness To Everness release date and platformsWhen NTE launched where, every platform and store with its requirements, how cross progression and servers work, and the update schedule so far.

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