NTE: Neverness to Everness Is on Steam, and Still Clearly Early
The modern-city setting and vehicle-and-physics systems are what set it apart from the free-to-play action-RPG field.
NTE: Neverness to Everness, the open-world urban-fantasy action RPG from Hotta Studio and Perfect World, is now playable on Steam after a run of closed beta phases across 2025 and into 2026. The studios have kept the messaging measured: the build is live and free to play on PC, but it has not been presented as a finished 1.0, and updates are still arriving in the cadence of a game finding its feet.
Hotta Studio is the team behind Tower of Fantasy, and NTE reuses some of that DNA in a very different setting: a contemporary city laced with supernatural phenomena rather than a science-fantasy world. The pitch centres on traversal and physics, with drivable vehicles, environmental interaction and a combat system that leans on momentum and destructible objects.
For PC players, NTE is another contender in the crowded free-to-play open-world action-RPG race, where the field is heavy with fantasy settings. The modern-city backdrop, the vehicle systems and the physics focus are the clearest points of difference. Tower of Fantasy drew criticism at launch for performance and monetisation, so how NTE handles both on PC is the main thing players have been watching. Early reports point to the familiar sticking points: frame-rate consistency across a range of hardware, and a launcher that has still asked for a separate publisher account on top of Steam.
What this means for players
- You can install and play NTE now on Steam for free; expect a game that is still visibly being built rather than a polished release.
- A separate publisher account has been required alongside Steam, as in earlier test phases.
- The draw is the modern setting plus the vehicle and physics systems, not a new take on the genre’s combat template.
- Hold judgement on performance and monetisation until a stable version lands — both are moving targets at this stage.
