Since its release, people have widely regarded "Neutopia" as a clone of Nintendo's "The Legend of Zelda". The PC Engine version of the game was reviewed in the February 1990 issue of German magazine Power Play, where reviewer Martin Gaksch called the game ""Zelda" on the PC-Engine" and said that the "differences between "Zelda" and "Neutopia" must be found with an electron microscope". They said that the graphics, music, and gameplay were good, and that the only thing that kept "Neutopia" from being superior to "Zelda" was the 24-character password system and that the text was in Japanese.