Overview
Gamescom 2025 was a major event appearance for Neverness to Everness, featuring a new trailer during the Opening Night Live ceremony and the first publicly playable demo on PC and PlayStation 5. The Opening Night Live trailer combined fresh gameplay footage with cinematic cutscenes, while the demo at Hall 10.1, Booth A070 gave attendees direct hands-on time with the game on both PC and PS5 hardware.
Gamescom 2025 was the moment Neverness to Everness demonstrated that the console release was real and playable on its target hardware. Following the playable PC demo at Tokyo Game Show 2024 the year prior, Gamescom 2025 added the PS5 version to the publicly playable lineup, leaving only the mobile demo to debut later (which it did at Tokyo Game Show 2025).
Event Details
Detail | Value |
|---|---|
Event | Gamescom 2025 |
Location | Koelnmesse, Cologne, Germany |
Booth | Hall 10.1, Booth A070 |
Trailer Premiere | Opening Night Live ceremony |
Demo Platforms | PC and PlayStation 5 |
Trailer Type | Mix of new gameplay footage and cinematics |
Opening Night Live Trailer
Perfect World Games and Hotta Studio released a new trailer during Gamescom 2025 Opening Night Live, the marquee press conference that opens the show. The trailer featured a mix of new gameplay footage and visually stunning cinematics, showcasing:
Open-world action and RPG elements
Supernatural combat sequences
Spectacular vehicle chases
Various playable characters in action
Opening Night Live is one of the highest-visibility moments of Gamescom each year, drawing global press and consumer attention. Securing a slot in the ceremony positioned Neverness to Everness as a notable upcoming title alongside the year's other Opening Night Live announcements.
Hands-On Demo
Following the Opening Night Live trailer, the studio revealed that Neverness to Everness was available to try on the show floor at Hall 10.1, Booth A070. The exclusive demo for PC and PS5 let attendees experience:
The game's reality-inspired urban environments
High-speed vehicular action through Hethereau's streets
Supernatural anomaly encounters
PC and PS5 hardware running the game side by side
This was the first time PS5 players could try the game directly, providing tangible evidence that the console version was production-ready well ahead of the eventual launch. Console-focused players had previously seen footage in trailers but not played the game; Gamescom 2025 closed that gap.
Path Tracing Reveal
Alongside the Opening Night Live trailer, Hotta Studio confirmed expanded technical features including path tracing support on PC. The path tracing demonstration showed light interacting with reflective surfaces, glass facades, and wet streets in real time, providing the most physically accurate lighting model the game would offer at launch.
This continued the technical narrative established at Gamescom 2024 (full ray tracing) and built toward the eventual launch-window technology reveals around DLSS 4 Multi-Frame Generation, NVIDIA Reflex, and path tracing as a coordinated feature set.
Why Gamescom 2025 Mattered
Confirmed PS5 readiness: the console demo demonstrated the game running on its target hardware, removing a key uncertainty for console-focused players.
Expanded technical scope: path tracing reveal continued the high-end PC narrative.
Maintained European visibility: alternating between Gamescom (Europe) and Tokyo Game Show (Asia) kept the game in front of both major regional press cycles.
Built launch-window momentum: the August 2025 timing fed into the December 2025 Co-Ex Test recruitment opening and the February 2026 launch announcement.
Related Pages
Gamescom 2024
Tokyo Game Show 2024
Tokyo Game Show 2025
Path Tracing
Platforms
Co-Ex Test