Neverawake Review (Steam)

by Jim Smale · October 4, 2022

For this Neverawake Review, we go to a unique world with its high-quality hand-drawn graphics and beautiful animations. The enemies are not demons…but vegetables and dentists that the girl hates. Things and creatures that everyone has had a bad experience with at one time or another become monsters and attack the protagonist “Rem”.

Neverawake Review Pros:

Decent graphics.
Download size.
Steam achievements.
Full controller support.
Graphics settings – resolution, fullscreen, and graphics quality preset.
Optional opening tutorial.
Twin stick shooter gameplay.
Enemies come from all sides of the screen.
Auto-aim option is available.
Souls are what you collect to fill the level completion bar.
Dash allows you to avoid taking damage.
The special move has limited uses within a level.
World map level select.
Fast loading times.
Even with auto-aim on you can still do the aiming manually.
End of level breakdown.
Big boss encounters.
Projectiles fall into two camps – shoot them to eradicate or dash through them.
Oversoul is an option at a game over where you can pay with souls and go back in with more firepower.
Souls also act as currency.
The result tab in the menu acts like a leaderboard of your scores and ranking.
Accessories can be unlocked and equipped to add new buffs and abilities.
Unlock and equip new special attacks.
The auto scrolling of
the level can change direction.
Diary entries unlock as you play and give you more of the story.
The levels get more intricate and add obstacles and environmental hazards.
Loadout allows you to equip 3 accessories and one special attack weapon.
Bite-sized levels.
Very accessible and quick to pick up.
Levels can have branching paths so it allows you to replay levels and skip harder levels.
In-game cutscenes.
Four controller layouts.
Can skip cutscenes.

Neverawake Review Cons:

Minimal graphic settings.
Cannot rebind controls for both keyboard and the controller.
Doesn’t have any online leaderboards.
When you hit 100 percent on a level it just abruptly ends.
The end of the level breakdown flies past and makes it hard to read.
Constant difficulty spikes.
Small playing area.
The levels themselves are short but you keep looping round and round until you fill the bar.

Neverawake:

Official website.

Developer: Neotro Inc.

Publisher: PHOENIXX

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Steam

7/10
Graphics - 7/10
7/10
Sound - 7/10
8/10
Accessibility - 8/10
8/10
Length - 8/10
8/10
Fun Factor - 8/10

7.6/10

Summary

Neverawake is a nice little shooter, it has a great art style and uses a twin-stick shooter control scheme. You fight through your character’s Nightmares and collect souls so you can wake up and escape the nightmare. In reality, it’s a shooter where you collect souls to fill your bar and finish the level. Boss battles fill the screen and are more of a lesson in bullet dodging whilst residing in a bullet hell scenario. The play area is rather small and this makes it all much harder but also adds in a pinch of frustration as you just cannot see what’s happening or the mix of environmental hazards and enemies making it a right-ass kicker. Neverawake doesn’t really have a unique spin on anything instead focusing on making an accessible fun short bursts experience that players of any skill level can enjoy.