Is Neverness to Everness Made by HoYoverse/miHoYo? Developer & Publisher Clarified

Bottom line first: Neverness to Everness (NTE) is developed by Hotta Studio, a subsidiary of Perfect World, and published by Perfect World. It has no equity, R&D, or publishing relationship with miHoYo / HoYoverse.

This is one of the most common misconceptions in the global community — many new players see NTE's open-world city, anime art style, and action RPG gameplay and assume it's a new miHoYo IP.

The mistake comes from four surface-level similarities:

1. 1Similar art style: NTE's anime rendering and character design language visually echo Genshin/Honkai
2. 2Similar gameplay framework: open world + gacha + multi-character swapping + elemental reactions — a framework popularized by miHoYo's titles
3. 3Global launch scale: 35M+ pre-registrations, simultaneous launch on 6 platforms — a scale reminiscent of miHoYo's global operations
4. 4Overlapping ad channels: global players encounter NTE ads on the same channels as miHoYo titles

But these are genre commonalities, not evidence of shared ownership. Open-world anime action RPG is now a category with multiple studios competing.

Hotta Studio is Perfect World's internal R&D studio. Prior titles include:

• Tower of Fantasy — open-world anime action RPG, launched 2021, operated on both CN and global servers
• Neverness to Everness — new IP launched 2026

Tower of Fantasy gave Hotta mature experience in the open-world anime category, which is why NTE can differentiate on systems like urban open world, vehicle driving, and City Tycoon.

Perfect World is a long-listed Chinese game company operating across PC, mobile, and console. NTE's CN and global servers are both published by Perfect World directly — not outsourced to a third party.

Limited practical impact, but worth knowing:

• Independent accounts: NTE accounts are unrelated to miHoYo passports — register separately
• Support & feedback: use Perfect World channels (CN: yh.wanmei.com, global communities), not miHoYo support
• Collaborations: future collab partners are decided by Perfect World — no automatic access to miHoYo IPs
• Operations cadence: version updates and banner schedules are driven by Hotta + Perfect World, independent of miHoYo's calendar

Q: Does NTE use miHoYo's technology?

No. NTE is built on Unreal Engine 5; miHoYo titles primarily use in-house engines. Different tech stacks entirely.

Q: What's the relationship between NTE and Tower of Fantasy?

Same developer (Hotta Studio). NTE is Hotta's new IP after Tower of Fantasy — no shared universe or characters, but it inherits the open-world anime action RPG R&D experience.

Q: Will miHoYo publish NTE globally?

There's no official information supporting that. NTE's global server is published by Perfect World directly.

NTE is a Perfect World / Hotta Studio title — not miHoYo/HoYoverse. The confusion stems from genre-level visual intuition, but developer, publisher, tech stack, and account systems are fully independent. Knowing this helps you find the right official channels, avoid account mix-ups, and evaluate the game on its own merits.