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Title: Bask in the grotesque pixel-art beauty of Neverway

Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2025 23:38:22 +0000
Link: https://www.engadget.com/gaming/pc/bask-in-th...

Neverway already looks, sounds and feels like it's going to be something
special ΓÇö in a grim, grotesque and hellishly depressed kind of way. (Side
note: That could be a nice tagline, no? It's grim! It's grotesque! It's
hellishly depressed! It's... Neverway! OK, I'll stop.)

Neverway is a life-sim RPG starring Fiona, a young woman who quits her dead-
end job to live on a remote island farm for a while, where she ends up
becoming the immortal herald of a dead god. Fiona has to fight through
nightmare realms and battle repulsive horrors, while also tending her land
and maintaining relationships with townsfolk. She's able to meet and date
more than 10 distinct characters, and forming friendship bonds unlocks combat
abilities. The game features farming and fishing mechanics, and there's also
a crafting system for secondary tools like the hookshot, which supplements
Fiona's primary weapon, a sword.

Neverway comes from Coldblood Inc., an independent Vancouver studio founded
by Brazilian-Canadian developers Pedro Medeiros and Isadora Sophia. Medeiros
is the pixel artist behind Towerfall and Celeste, two stunning indie games,
and Sophia is an ex-senior software engineer at Microsoft and the creator of
the open-source Murder Engine, which powers Neverway. The game also features
music by Disasterpiece, the composer behind Fez and the top-tier horror film
It Follows, with sound design by Martin Kvale of NokNok Audio. OuterSloth,
the indie game fund established by Among Us creators InnerSloth, is providing
financial backing for Neverway, and Coldblood Inc. is self-publishing it.

Though Neverway was officially announced one month ago during the Triple-i
Initiative showcase, it still made a splash as part of the Day of the Devs
event tied to Summer Game Fest 2025 this week. Neverway is heading to PC at
an undetermined future time, and it's available to wishlist on Steam now.

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