NeverRage

NeverRage is a persistent-world game set across 23 realms. You explore an open world, craft and build, and take part in political conflicts, campaigns, sieges, dungeons, raids and battles. Combat supports both action and tab-targeting options.

Realms and castles

Each realm contains potential home castles for Avatars. Each landmass has two castle-land plots divided by a battlefield. Castles do not go to war unless events escalate and trigger a castle ruler’s rage, leaving room for stealth and sabotage missions and sea travel that can help set off an open-world battleground event.

You can purchase land and build a house or buy a template-house model. You can also place shrines to welcome Pantheons into your domain and gain Trade-Feature buffs. You can sail the open sea in each realm as a pirate.

Progression and crafting

Avatars gain experience as their controlling players complete tasks and activities. Experience can be spent on weapon mastery and unlocking higher-level content. Using weapons from a category grants experience for that category’s mastery system, where points can be spent; points may be lost over time or based on an Avatar’s actions.

Crafting requires materials and minerals gathered from places, objects and creatures in the world. Every item has an Age factor indicating how long it can remain intact if it is not used or consumed. Player progress persists in the game’s virtual reality.

Social standing

Players can raise their Avatar’s social standing in their home castle by gaining Charisma through activities such as donating to guilds, feeding NPCs in need, supporting castle initiatives and resurrecting players or NPCs defeated while carrying out castle commands. Romancing a higher-class NPC is also listed as a way to gain standing.

Social class can affect content and NPC interactions. For example, a Cleric’s level may allow them to increase enhancement success rates by up to 100%, while Paladins may be responsible for leading Crusades Sieges. NPCs may recognize upper-class members, bow to them or have their families greet and invite Avatars to launch, allowing players to choose whether to share the interaction.

Battles and politics

Upper-class NPCs and players make democratic decisions about castle conflicts, which can take the form of sieges, infiltrations or raids. A siege is a large-scale online battle event that can last from an hour to a week, depending on the castles’ ranks. Depending on the conflict mode chosen by both castles’ politicians, combatants may need to infiltrate the opposing castle and capture an upper-class citizen.

A castle guild may also be selected to raid a neighboring castle without permission and with little or no resources from its ruler. Raids use unorthodox tactics, and a failed raid may damage the guild’s reputation.

Arenas and open-world fights

Open-world PvP includes a crime system that flags players for PvP. Players can negotiate 1v1 duels and 1v1 arena matches, or take part in 3v3 matches.

Each of the 23 realms has unique open-world bosses and battleground bosses empowered by mythological Pantheons: Celtic, Greek, Norse, Egyptain and Kwaza Metaverse. The game also features competition involving roaming and stationary giants and world bosses.

Creature challenges

When you defeat a pack of creatures, you can duel and brand its champion. To break and reapply the brand, another player must defeat the creatures and their champion, then request a duel with the Avatar who branded the champion.

Guilds can compete to defeat an Emissary of the gods as quickly and efficiently as possible. In an event, guilds take turns, with one Gladiator from each guild settling the contest in an on-site gladiator match. Players who specialize in defeating creature packs can earn a Hunts Ticket, which lets its owner invade the dwelling of a stronger version of a creature or Emissary their Avatar has been fighting.

Web and AI systems

NeverRage is linked to a metaverse web project, but is not itself a Web3 project. Its server uses custom cloud artificial-intelligence technologies, while the client uses a traditional gaming AI system.