The World Next Door (2019) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

The World Next Door

The World Next Door is a narrative-driven, action adventure game that follows Jun, a rebellious teen girl trapped in a parallel world inhabited by magical creatures. Inspired by the emotional storytelling and…

64 28 March 2019 ESRB T

What The World Next Door is

The World Next Door is an adventure game developed by Rose City Games and released in 2019. It was published by Viz Media. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity. It carries an ESRB T age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The World Next Door is a narrative-driven, action adventure game that follows Jun, a rebellious teen girl trapped in a parallel world inhabited by magical creatures. Inspired by the emotional storytelling and thrilling action of both anime and indie games, players can expect to meet and develop friendships with an eclectic cast of characters while uncovering the mysteries hidden within this world.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

The World Next Door holds a critic score of 64 out of 100. That places it above 23% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 5 points below the year average.

What it launched against

The World Next Door launched on 28 March 2019, within three weeks of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Devil May Cry 5, Tom Clancy's The Division 2 and Anno 1800. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Devil May Cry 5, Tom Clancy's The Division 2, Anno 1800.

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