You wouldn’t imagine this from studying its evaluations on Steam, however Neon White is squarely a T-rated recreation. Significantly, individuals, preserve it in your pants!
Launched final week for Change and PC, Neon White is a first-person puzzle-platformer-shooter-speedrunning-dating-sim with card-collecting components. (Sure, it’s loads.) You play as White, an murderer, or “Neon,” quickly introduced up from hell to purge heaven of a demon infestation who suffers from a plot-convenient bout of amnesia. Between bite-sized missions, you chat and hang around with a crop of fellow Neons, all of whom had been acquainted with White throughout his pre-death life.
It’s a colourful forged of characters: There’s the demure Crimson, who recurrently flirts with White and hints at a earlier relationship between the 2. Violet is an unabashed sadist in a low-cut crop high. Yellow is a laid-back bro who loves beer and crushes at billiards. However they’re all overshadowed by Inexperienced, shredded and shirtless and supposedly tied to White on an inextricable stage.
Neon White performs out like every week of band camp, besides with extra animal-shaped masks.
There may be, to say the (very, very) least, a ton of suggestive subtext abound, alongside a smattering of domtext. This appears to have ushered in a wave of reward. Of the roughly 1,400 evaluations on Steam, 98 p.c are constructive—and loads of them seem to profess a point of attraction, both performative or real, to the sport’s forged of characters. (After some Googling, I discovered some phrases I want I might unlearn.)
However people have plenty of constructive stuff to say about Neon White itself. Some say the platforming is a blast, or the cardboard system is exclusive AF. A number of followers cracked the identical joke about receiving a “free” recreation alongside your “new Machine Woman album.” (Machine Woman, an offbeat however fashionable Brooklyn-based digital act, did the music for Neon White. I can affirm: The OST is superior.) Even the handful of damaging evaluations are likely to sofa their downward-facing thumbs in reward for the sport, whether or not it’s an acknowledgement of how tight the core gameplay is or how attractive the visuals are.
Right here’s Neon White, as instructed by the equal components surprisingly and unsurprisingly sordid realm of Steam evaluations.
