Infinity Cure

Never 7 is a visual novel in which the player reads the story, and presses a button to advance through the text. At certain points, the player gets to make choices which affect the direction the plot proceeds in; these involve choosing what location to move to, and what the player character should say, as well as subtler choices such as whether to look a girl in the eyes or to take her hand. The game is presented from a first-person perspective, with pre-rendered backgrounds and 2D character portraits accompanying the text. The visuals mostly consist of still images, but with characters often changing their expression while talking.

After six days have passed in the game's story, the game moves back in time to the beginning, allowing the player to make new choices based on the knowledge they have gained through the first six days to try to prevent certain events. Depending on the choices the player makes, the game either ends on a "bad ending" on the sixth day, or continues into a "good ending" on the seventh day. After finishing the game, a picture gallery and a music test are made available in an omake mode. When replaying parts of the game, the player is able to use a fast forward function to move past sections of text that they have already read. The game also includes an "Append Story" mode in which the player can play new scenarios that are downloaded from the developer's website.

Never 7 takes place in the week of April 1–7, 2019. Makoto Ishihara, the player character, is a college student and truant who rarely attends his classes. As a result, he is forced to attend a seminar camp held on a remote island in to be allowed to pass to his next grade. Three other students are at the camp: Yuka Kawashima, the leader of the group; Haruka Higuchi, a studious and quiet girl; and Okuhiko Iida, a wealthy playboy who is the heir of the Iida Financial Group.

Makoto also meets three girls unrelated to the seminar camp: the wealthy Saki Asakura; and sisters Kurumi and Izumi Morino, who are temporarily running the café Lunabeach on the island. The seven are stuck on the island for a week due to a tropical cyclone preventing boats from leaving, and become friends.

The game was directed by Takumi Nakazawa, while Kotaro Uchikoshi was the planner and scenario writer. Development began immediately after Uchikoshi's first visual novel, Memories Off, was finished. He was unable to make heavy use of science fiction themes in Never 7, as his superiors at KID told him that the game needed to include cute girl characters in order to sell; he kept science fiction themes light, and the game was designed with a focus on dating game elements, with the main focus being to develop a relationship with a girl. The Dreamcast version includes new scenarios not available in the PlayStation version.

The development team depicted reality in the world of Never 7 as subjective and relative rather than absolute. As such, for each route, that route's history is the only one Makoto knows and the only one that is real to him; the Curé syndrome only exists to him in the routes where it is mentioned. The bells were used as symbols for reality being relative, and were described by the development team as "vague existences", saying that one cannot know if they exist or not. In the bad ending to Izumi's route, the bells, which "should be fictional" remain while something that should exist disappears; this was a metaphor for the idea that delusions become reality while reality becomes a delusion.

In reviews around the time of the game's release, reviewers appreciated the science fiction themes of the game. Neal Chandran at RPGFan called the plot excellent, and appreciated how the game's story is a "personal, character-driven, emotive, human tale based around gentle romance" rather than an apocalyptic "beat-the-bad-guy kind of story". He also liked how the game's interactivity is on a more personal scope than in adventure games and role-playing games he had played. He found the game's pacing and writing quality to be good, and liked the music, finding it to complement the mood of the game well.

While he thought the game's graphics were not "anything special", he was impressed by the character designs, especially that of the character Haruka. A writer at Famitsu, however, called the game's mood boring from start to end in their review of the PlayStation version. Reviewing the Dreamcast version, Famitsu DC Dreamcast's three reviews praised the high resolution graphics and its twists that could only be done in these types of games. While one reviewer found the story a bit long-winded, another founds its tempo good and appreciated that scenarios could be downloaded from the internet.