“It’ll be a game for freaks,” said Ben Esposito of Neon White in a gameplay trailer when it was announced for Nintendo Switch last July.
Really, it’s a game for people who like fun, campy, melodrama alongside their speedrunning. In a video preview of the game, Esposito describes Neon White as a speedrunning first person shooter meets visual novel that’s “nostalgic but not in a superficial way”.