NTE Beginner Guide

Neverness to Everness is a vast open world game, with action combat, 4 characters team building, exploration, and heavy focus on City Tycoon and life activities.

Characters has full kits for combat, in addition to important life skills that affect your racing, shop management, income, exploration, and even vertical climbing of buildings.

There are two separate stamina systems:

• Character Pixels: for resources gathering, tied to combat and upgrade characters and their equipment. (refreshes over time through the day, fills daily)
• City Tycoon Stamina: a system for all activities in all other modes (Resets weekly)

To help you avoid feeling overwhelmed, this is a Beginners Guide for most systems and major decisions players face early on

Neverness to Everness launches at April 29, 2026 at 11:00 (UTC+8), for PC, PS5, Android, and iOS. And pre-download available since April 27, 2026 at 10:00 (UTC+8).

Rerolling takes 20 minutes or less, and help starting either strong, or with the character of your desire from the beginning.

• For most casual players, skip Rerolling.
• • Limited Banner character Nanally is guaranteed at pity (no 50/50 chance)
  • You shall get two random S Rank standard characters + Selector
  • You get Chiz, one of two strongest DPS characters for free, plus extra five free characters.
• Reroll to get even more S Rank characters early on
• Reroll to get Jiuyuan, the best support for Nanally, or Daffodill the strongest Break Damage character.

Pro Tip:

• You can make few rerolls with couple accounts blindly, writing down every account starting roster, and evaluate all accounts in comparison to each other. It would be like picking between option, instead of a sharp Yes/No decision

We have a detailed guide for Rerolling, Check out Here

At launch of Neverness to Everness, there's only one Limited banner character, lasting for two weeks. Then followed by another banner for three more weeks.

Here's what you need to know:

• You can get a functional team without pulling.
• However, Nanally is a top tier DPS at launch though, and she help in vertical exploration in open world. We recommend pulling her if you don't hate her playstyle.
• Banner character is guaranteed at 75-85 pulls (less with good luck, 90 at worst luck)
• Game grants hundreds of limited banner pulls by progressing and clearing challenges, so you will end up with enough wishes to pull both Nanally, and next banner character Hotori if you wish to.
• Hotori is a strong support, and works with Nanally and other teams as well. With expected long time value.
• Don't forget to play character trails, to get a good feeling of character before playing.
• • Sometimes the best character on paper doesn't resonate with some players, and the smoothest character to play might feel boring to some. Make sure you feel comfortable to play what you pick

Pro Tip:

• If you are hesitant, just wait. The banner doesn't go away before weeks. Try playing the game with teams without the limited character, and try exploration. Then reevaluate.

The main aspect of progression is Hunter Level, which is the account level in general. Almost every mode in the game is locked behind a Hunter Level Milestone. And character power is capped behind Appraisal Level.

Hunter Level

• It unlocks new modes, features, domains, and story chapters.
• You gain experience for Hunter level by completing Main Story, Side quests, spending stamina, discovering anomalies, and increasing City Tycoon.
• Hunter Level gets eventually capped by Appraisal Level, you need to level Appraisal level to keep progressing
• Visit Hunter Rewards after leveling up to claim rewards, such as pulls and materials.
• The Hunter Level cap is 60

Appraisal Level

• A separate rank that's like promotion milestones
• At Hunter level 20, 30, 40, 45, 50, and 55, you can upgrade Appraisal level by one. for a Total 7 Levels or (Tiers)
• Character level, and passives, Weapon Level, and Domain stages raises with every Appraisal Level
• At Hunter Level 20, 40, and 50, you have to do a quest to complete the Appraisal Level Up.
• If you ignore this quest, Hunter Level will not raise, experience overcaps, and you get only a tenth of the original experience.
• All enemies on the open world increases with Appraisal level as well, making them harder and rewards more and better materials.
• After Appraisal Level 3, if you find open world enemies and bosses too hard, you may lower Appraisal Level by One, with 24 hours cooldown before being able to revert again.

Another progression system in NTE is City Tycoon, with all fun activities. Such as café management, racing, heists, deliveries, fishing, rhythm games, and other stuff.

You get City Tycoon stamina refreshing weekly, and spending them will increase Tycoon level. At various milestones, you unlock more modes, and eventually unlock a free S Rank character, plus all her dupes and weapon dupes.

• Open the shop as soon as possible, to start progression early on
• You will reach a point where you have done the available parts of Main Story, and the rest is hunter-level-gated, so you have a room to do side activities. This is the best time to focus on City Tycoon progress
• At level 18 Tycoon (in about a day or two of playing) you unlock one of the best DPS characters in game Chiz. She will reach her full potential after you unlock couple of her dupes (At higher level Tycoon)
• At level 21 you unlock her best-in-slot weapon. So make this your target early on.
• The Tycoon Level page will be guiding you, so there's no guessing work. There are defined quests to follow (such as purchase apartment, invite character, activate anomaly .. etc)

There are many systems involved in team building, from Esper and Elements system, Combat Basics, and individual Characters kits. These are detailed in our dedicated guides, and here's the bare minimum you need to know while building your first team and beyond.

Define your main DPS early on & beyond

• Your very first DPS is main character Zero, A Cosmos character with instant Esper Meter filling for easy reactions.
• The next free characters Mint and Adler instantly pair well with Zero for a Blossom and Hexed reactions starter team.
• On login on third day, you will get free A Rank character Aurelia who's another main DPS, you may decide to build around her.
• Pulling Limited Banner character Nanally will take some until accumulating enough Limited Pulls (few days), but you can build several different teams around her. (Recommended for casual players)
• You will get Chiz which is another S Rank DPS from City Tycoon level 18, and you can make her either main DPS or Sub DPS
• Some Standard Banner characters you get from pulling or Selector can play as main dps, such as Baicang or Hathor, but require much more investment and optimization to be competitive.

Define Team Esper Cycle and reaction

Once you start getting more characters, you shall switch out the starter team of Zero, Mint, and Adler. Especially Mint who has the least value among them.

Nanally team

• This is the most common and safe team to go for.
• Nanally pairs well with another Anima character, Jiuyuan, especially if you manage to get one dupe of her, to unlock her healing.
• For Blossom reaction, you have to pick Cosmos character such as Zero,
• If you go for Charge reaction (Anima + Cosmos + Lakshana) Zero will provide healing, so you may pair them with Hathor
• However, there is a far stronger option if you get your hands on Sakiri. This way you ignore Charged and Remora reaction and go for Hexed reaction (Anima + Incantation). On top of gaining all of Sakiri support power.
• If you got no Sakiri nor Jiuyuan, don't despair. Go for full Discord team with Adler, Daffodill, and Haniel. This full all roles, sustain, buffer, main DPS, and sub DPS. has two free characters, and very easy to build by merely pulling Nanally and selecting Daffodill from Selector.

Chiz team

• As a Cosmos Main DPS, who buff Charged Reaction, she prefer Lakshana and Anima Supports, so Hathor and Jiuyuan are good picks for such a team. But you can slot Skia and Nanally, or even Mint if all else fails.
• For last Spot you can use Zero, Sakiri, or Adler, depending on your roster

Baicang team

• He's Incantation Main DPS, and empowers Scorch reaction, so his DPS is absolutely tied to getting a Chaos Support, and only option is Daffodill
• To complete reactions of this team, bring a Psyche support such as Haniel or Fadia or both. But getting 3 Standard characters o same team is tricky.

Aurelia team

• Aurelia is a Psyche element dps, so she pair well with Lakshana characters for Stain reaction (Psyche and Lakshana vulnerability). So she pair well with Hathor or Skia if you got either of them.
• Having both Lakshana and Psyche elements allow you to either go for Top Tri or Bottom Tri reactions.
• If you need a sustain such as Adler with his Incantation element, you better get Daffodill as Chaos character to add Nova, Scorch, and Discord reactions for overall balanced team.
• If you go for Top Tri, you may consider Edgar as Cosmos for sustain (poor but workable choice), then add Nanally when you get her. Making a three DPS +1 sustain team. or abandon sustain and go for Zero

• Invest in your Main Carry first, followed by characters that gets most of field time, and give leftovers to rest of your team
• Stop investing into beginner characters at mid level such as 40, and switch to proper strong teams
• Don't spend a lot of Stamina on farming Artifacts early on, with huge RNG factor tied to them
• Weapon Level, Character Level, and Character Skill Level are guaranteed upgrades, prioritize them
• Upgrade materials become more abundant over time, and you can upgrade more characters later, but don't split resources on so many characters early on