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An addictive mix of lightning-fast puzzle battles, powerful storytelling and immersive visual novel elements, The World Next Door follows Jun, a rebellious teen girl trapped in a parallel realm inhabited by magical creatures, who must find her way home before time runs out.

The World Next Door is a visual novel, puzzle and indie game developed by Rose City Games and published by VIZ Media.
Released on March 28th 2019 is available in English on Windows and MacOS.

It has received 324 reviews of which 262 were positive and 62 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.6 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 8.19€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified The World Next Door into these genres:

Visual Novel Puzzle Indie Female Protagonist Story Rich Action 2D LGBTQ+ Adventure Anime Choices Matter Real-Time Match 3 Singleplayer Conversation Fantasy Colorful Funny PvP Comic Book

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Windows

Memory: 4 GB RAM

MacOS

Memory: 8 GB RAM

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March 2025

The World Next Door is a really cool, short game with a pretty unique puzzle/combat mechanic; I found it frustrating at the beginning, but it does get easier with time and practice. I performed significantly better in my second run than in my first and was able to finish the game way quicker (also, there's no real consequences for dying besides having to walk back through empty rooms, so all the deaths were no big deal in the end). The characters are really cute (I LOVE Vesper and Rainy lol), and I think there's a solid amount of story for such a short game. Lots of fun sidequests you can do to get to know your party and the NPCs better, but they're also totally skippable if you're not interested. I do have a few small grievances (ha), which I'll list out here: -The hit boxes on the tiles could be janky at times, which meant that it was sometimes really frustrating to try to get a particular rune in a particular position, and I sometimes ended up just giving up on that set of runes bc it absolutely would not work. This happened frequently enough to be an issue issue and was the source of a lot of frustration for me (probably cost me a match or two), but ultimately the game was not unplayable because of it. Definitely something to brace for going in if you've read this review. -Regarding the choice at the end: The game really makes it seem like it's an either/or choice where the narrative will split when it is NOT this, it's extra content in addition to the main story like all the other quests. There is only one ending to the game, and thus, it's possible to see all the content in one playthrough. If the game had presented it differently, I would have made a different choice there, and I wouldn't be surprised if the same was true for other people. -Connected to the previous point: I wish that there were save slots. The above bullet point would have been a lot less important to me if I could have saved at choices to test out different outcomes, but the game's autosave mechanic means that you have to wipe your save and completely start over to try new things instead. I'm curious about some of the variations depending on who you bring to certain shrines, but the lack of save slots means I probably won't go back to look for them, at least not anytime soon. Despite how much time I spent writing them out, these are ultimately just nitpicks in a gaming experience that was overall really fun. The gameplay is simple to pick up but takes practice to (satisfyingly) master, the characters are likeable, the art is cute, and it's overall a solid short experience.

March 2025

Loved the story and character designs, it's a very comfy game to pick up and play through while traveling

Oct. 2024

I somehow managed to play this game in one sitting. I don't know that it was intended to be played like that, but for what it's worth: I was sleeping on this game for several years and I'm glad I finally picked it up, It was so worth the $10. The combat was interesting and fun. Also, the few little puzzle sections they had outside of combat were fun.

Oct. 2024

This is a beautiful, story-driven game that is perfect to play over a weekend. The match-3 style play is engaging and fast-paced, and each shrine holds different enemies with distinct mechanics worth learning in order to proceed. I appreciated the short side quests and different dialogue/text choices which fleshed out the characters and world, and was pleasantly surprised to learn that there is a little extra content for those who are interested in finding all that Emrys has to offer. I do want to note -- there is no chapter select, and quitting out during dialogue does run the risk of shifting you forward past that dialogue, with no way to return. I unfortunately discovered this by encountering a save state bug on the final day that caused me to have to replay the game for the outcome I wanted, but luckily I had been planning to do that anyway. This was the first game put out by a small but amazing development team, and if that's the worst issue I have to contend with on a first title (not to mention the game is already so engaging I didn't even mind), that's absolutely incredible. Cheers!

July 2024

It was amazing. Unique combat system that I didn't see in similar games which revolves around match 3 altougth I expected there will be more types of attacks than just black hole, fire ball or slash. It has pretty challenging enemies that each of them needs different approach. There are very adorable and cool characters with nice designs which implement unusual set of colors and the story and the lore is very good and I wish there was like continuation except from the end credits. Really enjoyed the game.

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8.19€

7.6

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Developer

Rose City Games

Publisher

VIZ Media

Release 28 Mar 2019

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