NeverAwake FLASHBACK
Neotro Inc. · 2025 · Action, Twin Stick Shooter, Shooter, Arcade, Roguelite
PC
Positive86% · 21 📉 Recent reviews down 70%
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About NeverAwake FLASHBACK
■ Your endless nightmare starts here.
The girl who should have awoken finds herself adrift once again in a sea of raging nightmares...The side story to NeverAwake makes a grand return, reimagined as an arcade-style roguelite shooter!Teaming up with your new partner, Gabe-chan, face ever-shifting horrors in nightmarish stages. Equip new weapons, new accessories, and survive even more punishing battles. The curtain rises once again on a robust, arcade-style nightmare world!■ The rules have changed! The world of NeverAwake has been reborn as a roguelite shooter!
Take on randomly generated levels, choosing weapons and accessories as you progress to create unique builds.Experience the nightmare world of NeverAwake as a roguelite shooter, now designed for both quick play sessions and high replayability.Rem's beloved plushie, Gabe-chan, joins the fight as her protective buddy!Attacks have been expanded for more strategic battles. Of course, all-new stages and terrifying new bosses have also been added!Highly anticipated new weapons and accessories are here, too!Make the best use of the weapons found within the levels to take down the monsters haunting your sleep.
■ Story:
Rem had safely awoken from her nightmares.She was feeling better, finally living in peace.But one night... she found herself tormented by bad dreams yet again. Night after night, the darkness returns.What could possibly be the cause?And will Rem ever be free of these recurring nightmares?■ NeverAwake FLASHBACK Features:
- Explore an eccentric, bizarre world set in the nightmares of a young girl.
- Gorgeously hand-drawn graphics and animations.
- Experience unique progression through randomized stages.
- Fast-paced gameplay and high-stakes boss battles.
- Over 90 stages and dozens of tricky bosses to overcome.
- A vast array of weapons and accessories to create your preferred builds.
- Packed with tons of added features not present in the original NeverAwake.
■ About the original NeverAwake:
NeverAwake is a nightmare shooter bursting with unique world-building and original gameplay rules.Rem fights against the things she dislikes: vegetables, dogs, school friends, and more. What awaits her at the end of her battles...? Will she ever be able to wake up?NeverAwake has received critical acclaim, including the top prize Vermillion Gate Award at BitSummit X-Roads (2022) and the Famitsu Gold Award, alongside a high Metascore.What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
[h2]This game is best described as a spin-off / epilogue of NeverAwake. To make this clear from the get-go : [b]This product is aimed for players of the original who want a more arcade experience. It will alienate peoples looking for large amount of contents, and will make no effort to hide it[/b][/h2] While it still keep the design philosophy of appealing to both the general public and arcade enthusiasts, it is also far less compromising for the former. This is what it means in practice. The game will provide all the tools necessary to be completable by players of all skills level, to the point that every achievements could be accomplished by someone trying out the genre for the first time. Despite that, at no point does it remotely feel like hand-holding, even ditching the classic "continue" system that exist in virtually every arcade games. However, the true appeal is the scoring system. While it also existed in the previous NeverAwake, it was restricted to individual levels, and each would take too long to become interesting. FLASHBACK solve this issue with the addition of difficulties level (Low, Middle, High, Super High, Ultra High), as well as dynamic rank difficulty, and …5 found this helpful
The original NeverAwake is an excellent—and, in my opinion, underrated—game. Its mechanics, aesthetic, and narrative all work together beautifully. NeverAwake Flashback, however, feels more like a soft remix than a true follow-up, and it should have been handled differently. This should have been either a $5.99 DLC featuring extra modes built mostly from existing content (which is essentially what this is), or a free update released for the game’s three-year anniversary. To the developers’ credit, Flashback is priced lower than the original, but that alone doesn’t make this approach feel acceptable—especially given the original's (undeserved yet prevalent) lukewarm reception. What would have justified the price tag here was a meaningful refresh of the assets—at least three-fifths of them. Instead, it appears that nearly every enemy and boss (easily 90% or more) has been copied & pasted directly from the original. The only noticeably different in-game asset are game's currency, “souls,” and they look objectively worse than the original version. Taken on its own, NeverAwake Flashback is competently made and fun to play, but when viewed alongside its predecessor, it comes across as a…4 found this helpful
A little too barebones. Just pickup the original game. Also unsure why we must play through the same intro level every time a seed is started, totally ruins the "random" run feel1 found this helpful
I absolutely loved the original and I love this prequel. Gabe-chan's blocking ability is super fun. Lightweight roguelike mechanics work nicely. There's interplay between clearing fast and hanging out to get better multipliers. I hope to see more options and unlockables in future updates. But even now, I highly recommend this title!1 found this helpful
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It’s decent, but not much more.
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