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NEO: The World Ends with You
Developer Square Enix, h.a.n.d.
Neo: The World Ends with You (stylized as NEO: The World Ends with You) is a 2021 action role-playing game co-developed by Square Enix and h.a.n.d. and published by Square Enix. It is a sequel to the 2007 video game The World Ends with You. It was released for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 in July 2021 and for Windows in September. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
384 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, Steam reviews, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 6, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
90
LovedLoved
164 positive · 18 negative
95% range 85–94%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bluesky * | 21 | 7 | 169 |
| Steam reviews | 164 | 18 | 0 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 5 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
728 of 794 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
91% recommend · 163 yes, 17 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 180 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (1,043 of 1,133 positive).
Players praise the game's music, art style, and innovative battle system. [1][2][3] Some reviewers note the story has pacing issues and benefits from playing the original. [4][5][6] A few players criticize the repetitive combat and poor marketing by Square Enix. [7][8][9]
Liked
Representative posts
- [8]
Dont think its a bad game but not worth the full price. There is a lot of dialogue to read so be ready for that and the combat is not the most engaging on top of fighting roughly the same enemies with minor variations. Art style and music is cool but slightly annoyed that as far as i can tell, you only hear the same 3-4 songs (Roaming around) that will change each time you enter the menu. Also makes use of the same …
- [4]
As a big fan of both NEO and its predecessor, let me start off by saying the game is not for everyone. The story has some pacing issues. There's a huge focus on battling and reading, which could verge on feeling too repetitive for some. And while the story stands pretty well on its own and I think many newcomers could enjoy this game a lot, you do get more out of it if you've played the predecessor.... and said …
- [2]
A really truly devastatingly good game, with a great story, even better messages to learn about living your life. Of course the soundtrack is outstanding if not the best OST in any video game ever but the gameplay is also incredibly fun and addictive. Listen up y'all the world ends with you. If you want to enjoy life, expand your world. You gotta push your horizons out as far as they'll go
- [10]
Great game on it's own, but this game is made for the players who played through the original The World Ends with You. The game's translation to 3D has been fantastic. The combat is a quirky take on ARPG where you control all your party members at once. I will say though -- combat can feel repetitive BUT the good thing is, there's over 300+ pins! As a long term TWEWY fan, this game made me fall in love with the …
- [1]
TWEWY. What can you really say about these games? Amazing art style, some of the best music you'll find in any game. But the real highlight of this one is the battle system. It is one of the most innovative JRPG battle systems I have seen in recent years. A 5 man action battle system that makes it fairly easy for 1 person to control all 5 characters? Yes please. The story is what it is. find legendary warrior. Stop …
Summarised from 34 of the 261 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 12, 2026. How summaries are made
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NEO: The World Ends with You sits at 90% positive across 182 opinionated reactions from 3 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Neo: The World Ends with You received "generally favorable" reviews from critics, according to review aggregator website Metacritic. Eurogamer praised the characterization and design of the characters, finding them suitable for a The World Ends with You sequel as they also interact multiple times while participating in the Reaper's Game. Despite finding the combat system initially simplistic, the more development the player has, Neo allows the player to further experiment with multiple type of powers to fight enemies. GameSpot praised the story but had mixed feelings about appeal of the certain cast members and criticized the constant exposition the narrative gives. Nevertheless, he praised…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 384 · most liked firstI think Retro Gaming Handhelds need a little more love 💜 - Game Boy - Game Gear - Atari Lynx - Game Boy Color - Neo Geo Pocket Color - GBA - Sony PSP - Nintendo DS/3DS Just to name a few 😉 What are YOUR favorite games for Retro Handhelds?
neutral · AI labelView post →Frantically scrawling "CAT ASSASSIN GAME FROM DAVE BAUTISTA AND STRAY WRITER IS THE START OF A NEW NEO-NOIR MULTIMEDIA FRANCHISE" on the padded walls of my cell
neutral · AI labelView post →New teaser! Revealing a new scene from DELTATRAVELER Neo, featuring a new character important character... As well as the new name of the game! www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv_U...
neutral · AI labelView post →Starting today, we're piloting Japanese magazines in our digital archive! We've spent the last few months upgrading our library infrastructure to support Japanese-language material, starting with the magazine Neo Geo Freak. Read the full blog post for more info: gamehistory.org/5k-magazines/
neutral · AI labelView post →Making games is a long marathon, but not because of its technical perils. Is the game design, quality control, storytelling etc. Our creative intentions are where the hard work comes around. (Btw, here's a polished cutscene of our game Neo Habits) 👾🔧 #IndieGame #GameDev #PixelArt
neutral · AI labelView post →NEO Super Mario Bros (GBA, 2003) The game initially started development as a combo port of Super Mario Land and Super Mario Land 2.
neutral · AI labelView post →I haven't own a physical game since 2021 (NEO TWEWY) cuz Switch games in my country go for $80-90 USD + stores don't have the latest games on time. Any game I buy is digital which is good and bad for *gestures hands* multiple reasons but such is my hobby 😔
negative · AI labelView post →“The Neo Geo’s place in video game history is nonexistent” I say as I upload my 40th video about the history of the Wii U.
neutral · AI labelView post →loving the maximalist UI design on this golf game. it's like if you told SimAnt era Maxis to make Neo Turf Masters.
neutral · AI labelView post →My hottest take is that if it's not an original Neo Geo cab with a selection of games, arcade cabinets should be one game only. It's part of the joy of it for me. The art, the controls, the layout are all setup for THAT game. Magical.
positive · AI labelView post →Retro game folks are always weird about the Neo Geo, as are folks who did not grow up with it and got their impression from retro game folks, so I feel as though I need to clarify the branches of Neo Geo. A thread 🧵:
neutral · AI labelView post →I wonder if this boss from Sonic 3 was inspired by this enemy from the Neo Geo game Last Resort. They both got a big red eyeball and spin around.
neutral · AI labelView post →idk I just wanna see more Atari 2600, C64, ZX Spectrum, NES, Master System, Game Boy, Lynx, Game Gear, Turbo Grafx-16, SNES, Genesis, Game Boy Color, Neo Geo, 3DO, PlayStation, Saturn, N64, Jaguar, Dreamcast, PS2, OG XBOX, GameCube, GBA, PS3, XB360, DS, PSP, and Wii posts on here. That's all.
neutral · AI labelView post →I love how the Neo Geo is both the most expensive video game thing ever but also nobody knows anything about it at all apparently.
positive · AI labelView post →Behind the scenes: The Handhelds Every handheld shot I've taken used these devices. The Nomad, Game Boys and the B&W Neo Geo Pocket (Blue one) are launch models I've owned 25+ years The GBA SP and Neo Geo Pocket Color (Silver) are recent additions to my collection. Lots of Eneloops folks,
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm excited to play my least favorite game: White supremacist/Neo-Nazi, Islamist, anti-Zionist, or other/non-specific?
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy Birthday Splatoon 3! The game that gave me my two favorite agents~ ☺️ Both Neo Agent 3 models and map by @bunnxarts.bsky.social #splatnsfw #splatoonnsfw
neutral · AI labelView post →A old Con badge commission for Mr @azaghal.bsky.social it’s based on the card design from the Neo Geo Pocket card game SNK vs Capcom
neutral · AI labelView post →I think a lot about how Neo wanted to jump off a building rather than stay at The Game Awards
neutral · AI labelView post →An old collage made up of many mini Neo Geo game logos.
neutral · AI labelView post →Fantasian Neo Dimension feels like a lost Final Fantasy game emerging from the 90s. Our review: bit.ly/41isPhq
neutral · AI labelView post →Kizuna Encounter: Super Tag Battle - Neo Geo box artwork. Not really a well-known game, this was a 1996 weapon-based tag-team fighting game by SNK for the Neo Geo arcade and home platform.
neutral · AI labelView post →When you hear retro game folks say that the Neo Geo was an expensive rich kids toy, they're specifically talking about the Neo Geo AES.
neutral · AI labelView post →Promo image I did for @jhano.bsky.social for his new point 'n click cyberpunk game, Neo Junk City! You're definitely gonna want to keep a tab on this, it's gonna be great!
neutral · AI labelView post →starting a new off stream game tonight~ i am so excited to experience Fantasian Neo Dimension!!! have you played it? 🥹💙
positive · AI labelView post →Apple's MacBook Neo is a brilliant budget notebook - but who well does it game? www.digitalfoundry.net/reviews/macb...
neutral · AI labelView post →Finally was able to finish my first playthrough of this game and it was great. Now re-release TWEWY:FM on PC cowards
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i feel like this game changed my life, being like "ooh what a cool looking game" to being completely sucked into the entire series of twewy was a trip in itself, thats not to mention the OTHER trip i had experiencing this game. the first time i really liked a "power of friendship" esque ending. square enix make twewy 3 and my life is yours
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →it's funny how NEO TWEWY is Square Enix's third best action game system (Kingdom Hearts, Dissidia, NEO TWEWY) but it always gets excluded from conversations because nobody played it
positive · AI labelView post →I liked this game so much back when I bought it in 2021, that I bought it again so I can play it all over again on my PC. The only flaw this game has is actually Square's disgusting attempt at marketing it (or lack of thereof). If you're reading this, please give this a try, I swear you won't regret it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This week's Arcade Archives release is SNK's 1988 golf game 'Fighting Golf' afaik there is only golf & the fighting is relegated to you fighting for the best score, rather than killing your rivals with a golf club, which would have done a lot to increase my interest levels⛳ tldr, Neo Turf Masters
neutral · AI labelView post →The new fighter of my Neo Geo Pocket inspired game. Meet Miss Caga
neutral · AI labelView post →Persona but better and without the option to date minors
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Neo Contra (コナミ NEO CONTRA) by Konami is a retro game for PlayStation 2 from 2004.
neutral · AI labelView post →>Be me >Endgame >Leveling up pins on the hardest difficulty >15 enemies reduction >Die at the 15 >Restart the battle from 1 10/10 wouldn't do it again
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If only Square Enix cared enough to port the first game to PC that would be amazing. I can't get enough of this franchise, and I hope someday we can get more games, a side story of the old characters or the new ones, a VN whatever it is. Square Enix please get to work and continue the story someday, I'm sure Minamimoto's plans are not finished yet and it would be a great end to the franchise if anything. Even though I love this game a lot, is kind of pricey, so better grab it when it's on…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Indie Retro News: Neo Turbo Challenge - Lotus homage game is teased for the amiga [UPDATE] www.indieretronews.com/2026/06/neo-... #retrogaming #gaming #games #amiga
neutral · AI labelView post →Quizmo Time! Predating the Switch by 20+ years, which of these was the first to make home console games portable? 🔴 Sega Game Gear 🟡 NEC TurboExpress 🔵 Sega Genesis Nomad 🟢 Neo Geo Pocket Leave your answers in the comments below~!
neutral · AI labelView post →"Everyone would have killed for a Neo Geo when it released but they couldn't afford it" - every videogame historian ever, forgetting that it was a literal meme for a few years & the best reviewed game was a mid Ghouls n Ghosts knock off that cost 8x what that game's year old MD port did
negative · AI labelView post →As a big fan of both NEO and its predecessor, let me start off by saying the game is not for everyone. The story has some pacing issues. There's a huge focus on battling and reading, which could verge on feeling too repetitive for some. And while the story stands pretty well on its own and I think many newcomers could enjoy this game a lot, you do get more out of it if you've played the predecessor.... and said predecessor does have better stor ypacing. And yet for all that... at the time of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →it is annoying how with NEO TWEWY it really overtly seems like there was a whole other game that was meant to happen the ending feels like when a KH game quickly alludes to the events of another game, except the game doesn't exist
negative · AI labelView post →Call my wife Blazing Star the way she's as beautiful as a late-stage Neo Geo game
neutral · AI labelView post →NEO:TWEWY is an extremely underrated game and a great sequel Thank you Square Enix for making little to no marketing campaigns for this game and making it exclusive for almost a year on the epic games launcher and shadow dropping it on steam. But also Thank you Square Enix for making a series with peak art style and a game that has unique gameplay and its honestly miraculous how they transferred it from 2d (the first game) to 3d in the sequel, i really like how they did it and i find it just…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What's your go-to game on the Neo Geo Pocket and why is it Neo Turf Masters?
neutral · AI labelView post →Better late than never! It's #BandcampFriday and I have made so very much music for you: - Albums inspired by Rez and R4 Ridge Racer Type 4 - OSTs for fictional arcade games - 31-track love letter to racing game music - Sludgy, shoegazey grunge rock - Neo-Y2K acid jazz for miles - Christmas music!?
neutral · AI labelView post →A really truly devastatingly good game, with a great story, even better messages to learn about living your life. Of course the soundtrack is outstanding if not the best OST in any video game ever but the gameplay is also incredibly fun and addictive. Listen up y'all the world ends with you. If you want to enjoy life, expand your world. You gotta push your horizons out as far as they'll go
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TWEWY. What can you really say about these games? Amazing art style, some of the best music you'll find in any game. But the real highlight of this one is the battle system. It is one of the most innovative JRPG battle systems I have seen in recent years. A 5 man action battle system that makes it fairly easy for 1 person to control all 5 characters? Yes please. The story is what it is. find legendary warrior. Stop reapers from taking over a section of the world they're not supposed to. It's…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's tough, I find it really hard to recommend this game to people who haven't played the original. Especially this being on steam, you have no real way of experiencing the original story unless you go outta your way to play the Final Remix on switch. If you have played it, definitely pick this up its an amazing sequel with some fun callbacks to the original game. They somehow managed to top themselves on the soundtrack, its awesome and unlike anything in other games. I fell in love with this…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this has gotta be up there as one of my new favorite games of all time. after somehow avoiding spoilers for years, experiencing this game blind has really made me appreciate this niche little corner of square's catalog even more than I already did. the music is top notch, the gameplay is enjoyable throughout, the story is great, the characters are entertaining, and if this is the last game in this series we get, it absolutely ended on a high note. I really wish more people knew about this and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Prime example of a translation that was butchered by pseudo-translators. They love to make the lines sound completely different thinking they know better than the original writer and insert some agenda. How do you translate このグラフィティ何? 104かな? ん~･･･何か気に入らない! to Is this supposed to be 104? Uh-uh-we aren't glorifying capitalism on my watch. Other examples そうだよ･･･ リーダーだろ･･･ That's right, she's our kween. 怪しいヤツを見かけたって人がいたんだ もしかしたらネクに関係あるかも Said he saw someone acting kinda sus. Might be an…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played the original TWEWY like 15 years ago & I kinda wish I had replayed it to get into this one, but I had a good time. The story is a lil' convoluted but, as any JRPG enthusiast, I am very good at suspending my disbelief and then it's just a great continuation of the original. Which was probably also very convoluted but obviously I don't remember. Good soundtrack, very fun & chaotic gameplay (that can also be very strategic if you let it!), and a lovely story. And the writing is very…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Started playing Fantasian Neo Dimension again. Man, what a special little game. I've championed it since its Apple Arcade days and I wait every day hopeful to hear more about the sequel that is supposedly being made. I wish I could be involved with Mistwalker. It'd be my biggest career dream.
positive · AI labelView post →I don't know, I think its okay Spent a few hours in this game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game on it's own, but this game is made for the players who played through the original The World Ends with You. The game's translation to 3D has been fantastic. The combat is a quirky take on ARPG where you control all your party members at once. I will say though -- combat can feel repetitive BUT the good thing is, there's over 300+ pins! As a long term TWEWY fan, this game made me fall in love with the series all over again. Time to wait for the next game in 15+ years.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is an excuse for Tetsuya Nomura to make a bunch of clothing designs, and god bless him for it. This game apparently released to like no fanfare, and that's truly a shame because it's more original than like 90% of the other things Square usually churns out. It's not breaking new ground or anything but it's a quality hybrid beat'em up.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Anyways on a more positive note I've been listening to Bubble Bobble music because my friends been playing them lately and learned about the 360/Wii game "Neo" and its amazing soundtrack. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpL0...
neutral · AI labelView post →Joshua's here and he's gayer than ever
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ace Combat 8 is a game about how if you post really fucking hard, you too can defeat an army of Agartho-Fascist Neo-Mongolians puppeteered by Cryptoland.
neutral · AI labelView post →Paper Spamton Neo I like to imagine all the parts as seperate pieces because of the way they move, sway, and act in game
neutral · AI labelView post →I played this game so I don't larp about how cool their music is.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →
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