NEO: The World Ends with You
Worth it · RPG · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $17.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Oct 2022.
- Length
- 40.2h
- Value
- $0.45/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 70% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 60% ($23.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 70% ($17.99)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, AMD Radeon RX 460 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750, 15 GB of storage. Windows only.
"Only the possibility of you can change our fate" Rindo comes to the grim realization that his life is on the line when he is forced to compete in the so-called "Reapers' Game."
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $17.99, set in April 2026. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 28 in the 4 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today's $17.99 at 70 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
At full price it scores 72. The current cut is what makes it a 83.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games closest to it, FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE ($9.99, scores 58) and CRISIS CORE –FINAL FANTASY VII– REUNION ($17.49, scores 53) both come in lower.
Of the 378 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2022 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 120 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
40.2 hours to finish it, 103 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.6 times the campaign.
The drop-off
85% start to 3% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
writing this review is difficult. neo is a good game. i like it. but unfortunately neo stands in the shadow of greatness. neo is a good game, but its a sequel to a great game. do play the world ends with you first, if you can, and then come back for neo if you want to spend some more time with the world and setting.
Square Enix somehow succeeded at translating the original TWEWY's vibe and gamefeel from two screens + touch controls to a more conventional one screen + buttons setup. Color me impressed, because I didn't think it could be done. Great for the Steam Deck.
This game it's beautifull, Twewy is my favourite game and this games holds up. The lore tumbles a bit thoug but it's fairly ok. I wish there was a re-imagine version of the first game with this mechanics. Or atleast that the first game was in Steam :( For the completionist: Some of the achivements REALLY grindy and covoluted... It's been something, I had to let it cool down and come back several times cause I got...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
NEO: The World Ends with You scores 83/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1647550/neo-the-world-ends-with-youReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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