Neverness to Everness Drops April 29 With Persona 5 Tracks

Fourteen tracks. That's how many songs from the Persona franchise are being licensed for Neverness to Everness, the free-to-play supernatural RPG from Hotta Studio that launches worldwide on April 29. The collaboration, revealed during the game's launch preview special program on April 18, pulls from both Persona 5 Royal and Persona 5: The Phantom X, including fan-favourite cuts like "Beneath the Mask -rain-" and "Life Will Change."

That's a bold opening move for a game that most people still associate with Tower of Fantasy, Hotta's previous gacha title. Licensing Persona music isn't cheap, and it signals that Perfect World Games is spending real money to make NTE's launch feel like an event rather than just another free-to-play RPG quietly appearing on storefronts. I'm curious whether this is a one-time launch promotion or something baked into the game long-term, because hearing "Life Will Change" while running around a neon-lit city that isn't Shibuya is either going to feel incredible or deeply strange.

What NTE Actually Is

Beyond the music news, the launch trailer and special program gave a fuller picture of what players are walking into. NTE casts you as an unlicensed Anomaly Hunter operating out of a rundown antique shop called Eibon in Hethereau, a modern metropolis where paranormal activity is just part of city life. You recruit companions with supernatural abilities, chase down urban anomalies, and apparently work your way up from running a café to owning a penthouse. The game is coming to PS5, PC, iOS, and Android, with a China launch on April 23 preceding the global release.

The Persona tracks aren't the only music collaboration either. Hotta is also pulling several songs from its own Tower of Fantasy, including "Chocolate" and "New World." Recycling your own catalogue is less exciting, but it makes sense for a studio trying to cross-pollinate its player bases. The full list runs to over twenty tracks across both collaborations.

What I find interesting is the positioning. Gacha RPGs live and die on their first impression, and Hotta clearly learned from Tower of Fantasy's rocky global launch that vibes matter as much as mechanics in those opening weeks. Attaching the Persona name to your marketing is a shortcut to a very specific audience: JRPG fans who might otherwise scroll past another anime-styled open-world game. Whether NTE's actual gameplay loop can hold those players beyond the honeymoon period is the real test. The gameplay trailer leans heavily on atmosphere and city exploration over combat specifics, and as the game's official account noted on X, the livestream was meant to fill in those gaps.

Neverness to Everness launches April 29 as a free-to-play title on PS5, PC, iOS, and Android. Monetisation details beyond its gacha structure haven't been fully outlined yet, so I'll be watching closely for how aggressive the spending hooks are once servers go live.