NONEWORLD

Been playing for a few hours now, and its a pretty interesting game. (Haven't finished yet, to be clear) Pros: - Great atmosphere. The feeling of "There is something wrong here" saturates everything, including your character. The overarching theme of recovering memories makes me feel like I'm living through a mystery novel and I'm waiting for the pieces to all fall into place in my head. I'm excited to reach the end. - There's some pretty funny jokes scattered around your adventure. I've definitely laughed a few times which helps keep the aforementioned "something is wrong" feeling from being overwhelming. - The difficulty seems to be scaling pretty well as the game goes on. The berries are a great mechanic, and important/useful items are spaced along the adventure so you don't run out but also don't end up with too many. Battles can be both tough and easy depending on how well you learn to use your abilities. Cons: - There's several times where you're forced to go to the next area as soon as you enter a certain room, with no way to go back. Unfortunately, there's no real way to know you're entering said room until its too late, so I've missed a couple things by accidentally progressing down the correct path. Possibly will get more chances as I get further in the game, but I'm not sure yet. - Still has some bugs. I've clipped out of bounds three times already. twice because a wall didn't actually have a barrier attached to it, and once due to a room exit with an awkwardly placed loading trigger. I also ended up soft-locking myself at one point and having to force quit the game losing progress. Overall, I'm having a great time. This is the first time I bought a game off the "just released" list and I think I found a good one :D

Overall a really good game! It's cute, I love the atmosphere and music, and its all around a good time. It could definitely use some polish tho, inputs have sudden sticky keys issues and general input lag sometimes. 8/10

A very intriguing rpg in a beautiful world. Each of the characters is very memorable, each with their own track in the OST. The combat has a lot of depth, especially towards the end of the game. The biggest standout was the music, the songs for CloudSmasher and Mayday are on my daily playlists. Definitely would reccomend this game

Juego corto, simple pero bonito, sinceramente da vibras de Omori pero más allá del genero y la estética, no comparten nada más, un juego indie más que aceptable y por el precio que tiene, está bien. Aunque más que un juego, diria que es una experiencia corta.

TLDR: NONEWORLD is a pretty short and sweet RPG Maker game! I would highly recommend it if you're looking for a neat 4-5 hour RPG. If you're not into RPG Battles then there's an "Easy" option to choose from- some of the battles can be a bit difficult on the normal setting so would recommend that option at the start of the game if you're just looking for an exploration / story experience. I think a lot of people might look at this game and go "Oh this is just copying OMORI right?" Not really? For starters this is way shorter. The art style might be similar but I think it's different enough that it stands on its own. There's definitely more emphasize on black and white color assets rather than full color. The story isn't really spelled out and by the end of it you'll probably be left with more questions than answers. It's pretty up to interpretation on what the story is in my view. The combat's pretty straight forward even though it may not look like it at first. It's actually kinda impressive the amount of skills you have to use even though the amount of battles is like, 10 ish? They make up for that by making the encounters pretty tough, especially at the beginning. My favorite thing about this game is just the vibe. The black and white details stick out enough and you really get the sense you're in this lonely ruined world (or dream? Afterlife? I'm not sure) There's a book that explains a bunch of lore for the things that you see and it just got me invested in the world. The music is just this distorted jumble of sounds and noises during battle which gives this eerie vibe to them. But when you're exploring it's kinda the same thing where it's a pretty peaceful, chill song but there's all these weird ambient noises in the background of it that never quite relaxes you. I could go on and on but I think NONEWORLD is a game that you should just try for yourself if it even looks remotely interesting. The price is pretty low and it's only about 4-5 hours so it's not much of a time sink for an RPG. Anyway, looking forward to seeing what the dev puts out next!

a good game with an interesting setting, only real complaint would be that you can't increase the screen size to fill up the monitor when playing but that's really only personal preference.