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NEO: The World Ends with You

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NEO: The World Ends with You
NEO: The World Ends with You cover
Developers
h.a.n.d.
Square Enix
Publishers
Square Enix
Engines
Unity 2019[Note 1]
Release dates
Windows September 28, 2021
Reception
Metacritic 85
OpenCritic 82
IGDB 84
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, JRPG
Art styles Anime, Cel-shaded
Themes Contemporary, Japan
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NEO: The World Ends with You is a singleplayer third-person action and JRPG game.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1647550/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Epic Games Launcher %USERPROFILE%\Documents\NEO The World Ends with You\
Steam %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\NEO The World Ends with You\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1647550/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Epic Games Launcher
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video

The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unity page for more details.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
By default B is set to confirm and A is set to cancel, which is non-standard for Xbox controllers.
Xbox button prompts
Xbox One variant. Select Control Icons: Controller 1
Impulse Trigger vibration
PlayStation controllers
By default Circle is set to confirm and Cross is set to cancel, which is non-standard for non-Asian languages.
PlayStation button prompts
Select Control Icons: Controller 2
Light bar support
Adaptive trigger support
DualSense haptic feedback support
Connection modes
Generic/other controllers
By default the right face button is set to confirm and the bottom face button is set to cancel.
Button prompts Input settings icon - Generic Controller.svg Select Control Icons: Controller 3 setting which provides generic gamepad prompts.
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
XInput only. Can be enabled/disabled.
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M
Note that you only get the button prompts that are set in the menu, so keyboard or one of the 3 gamepad settings.

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Separate settings for Voices, Sound Effects, and Music.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio
Licensed BGM and the entire last part of the game including the final boss and ending is licensed.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Spanish

Issues fixed

Prolonged heavy CPU usage when loading or auto-saving in-game

Edit boot.config file[2]
  • Open boot.config with a text editor located in <path-to-game>\NEO The World Ends with You_Data.
  • At the top of the file remove:
    gfx-enable-gfx-jobs=1
    gfx-enable-native-gfx-jobs=1
  • Save File.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11.4
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Criware

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i3-3210
AMD A8-5600K
System memory (RAM) 6 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 15 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 750
AMD Radeon RX 460
DirectX 11 compatible
A 64-bit operating system is required.


Notes

  1. Unity engine build: 2019.4.24f1[1]
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/1647550/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1647550) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Verified by User:fds29 on 2021-09-29
  2. Verified by User:fds29 on 2021-09-29
    Tested while troubleshooting.