Neon White didn’t make much of an impression on me when I first heard about it. It’s a combination of things I’m pretty lukewarm on. It’s a first-person time trial game, a visual novel, and it has a card system. Doing just one of those things is hard enough, and the individual elements often aren’t of similar enough quality in the games that try to do very different things simultaneously. This time, however, absolutely everything has been knocked out of the park. Between the phenomenal level design, masterful gameplay, and engaging narrative, Neon White is easily a contender for game of the year. It’s one of those rare games that floored me from the first hour to the last.
The game puts you in control of a Neon named White. What’s a Neon? I’m so glad you asked. They’re the souls of the dead that have sinned. The Believers, the group in control of Heaven, summon a bunch of Neons every year to help clean up any demons that have foun…
