“Never Ending Beyond” features a roguelite action-adventure. You play an Android character named CareTakerUnit, advancing all the way on the edge of the broken planet “Beyond”. The visual style is cute, but the gameplay rhythm is hard: there is pressure to start over every time you enter a level, and you have to use the abilities and partners obtained by the authorities to break through the road.
You don’t catch pets, you “touch animals” and turn them into combat power!
The game makes “pacification” a core mechanism. When you encounter animals on the map, you don’t necessarily have to simply kill them, but you can gain them as partners through interaction. Each partner will bring different combat benefits: including exclusive weapons and passive effects, and then you can freely match them in the game to create your own play style.
One set of weapons and one set of passives, you can create your own style
“Never Ending Beyond” allows you to take apart and mix the weapons and passives of different animals, which is equivalent to increasing the freedom of “Build”. You can play a game that favors burst, endurance, control, or simply take a route that relies entirely on the effects of partners. Each game has different choices, and the feel and difficulty will also change accordingly.
The levels have more than one theme, and there is a boss battle at the end
The game has three main level themes, focusing on animals, dinosaurs and mythical creatures respectively, and there are boss battles in each section, making the process not just “clear monsters and get to the end”, but also have clear pressure points!
You can take the loot back to the garden and plant it to make the next fight smoother!
It’s not purely zero every game. The game provides a garden area as a breathing space. You can “plant” the loot obtained in the adventure and make it part of your outside development. For meat pigeon players, this kind of design is very satisfying: you will feel that each defeat is not in vain, but paving the way for the next one.
The current discount price of “Never Ending Beyond” is RM21.40 (approximately TWD 144 / HKD 36), and there is a demo for players to experience. If you want to try it, you can go to Steam to download and play!