Hotta’s NTE is somehow a mix of, well, EVERYTHING, and it still manages to be a ton of fun.
NTE is a lovely new lifestyle sim gacha game that plays out like a slice of anime life, but with some spooky stuff happening all around us. It has a heavy story and a lot of produced cutscenes, voice acting, and presentation, and it shows that developer Hotta really have done the work to get this game right.
This game is absolutely LOADED with content. There are racing seasons in it. Mahjong. Multiplayer co-op and PVP. It feels like the open world games that dominate Western platforms but with a hybrid fighting style of modern action RPGs. We can even take cars belonging to other people, like the scoundrels that we are. There is A LOT to see and do; it’s kind of nuts.
This particular gacha system uses a sort of playboard where we’re doing dice rolls instead of character rolls, moving around on a chessboard so that we can see where things are and where we’re headed. We can land on something that we want or roll right past it, and though it’s something I personally haven’t done all too often I do find it an interesting way to approach the character-acquiring aspect.
The game has immediately jumped into the secondary slot of games that I constantly check up in, even replacing one of the current gacha RPG powerhouses.
This review is based on a PC code. This video first appeared as a part of The SideQuest Live for May 07, 2026.
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