NieR
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NieR is an adventure developed by Cavia, released 22 April 2010 on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The main story takes about 19.3 hrs to finish.
What NieR is
NieR is an adventure game developed by Cavia and released in 2010. It was published by Square Enix. It is available on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It runs on In House Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game opens with a prologue during the summer of 2049 in a snowstorm. In a modern, broken-down grocery store, Nier (Jamieson Price) fends off attacks from ethereal monsters to protect his sick young daughter, Yonah (Heather Hogan). After defeating the monsters, he checks on Yonah, who has begun to cough badly. The game then cuts to 1,312 years later, where the player sees what appears to be the same two characters, now living in a village built upon the ruins of an old town. The low-technology village is one of several, and is surrounded by more modern ruins such as the remnants of train tracks and industrial machinery. The areas between towns are filled with monsters known as Shades…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, drama, open world and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Drakengard series
NieR is the fourth of 35 entries we hold in the Drakengard series. It arrived 5 years after Drakengard 2. The next entry was Nier Replicant in 2010. Its critic score of 69 is almost exactly the series average of 68. The highest-rated entry is Nier: Automata - Become as Gods Edition at 89.
How it was received
NieR holds a critic score of 69 out of 100. That places it above 32% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored about average for its year. Players rate it 75, 6 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 19.3 hrs.
What it launched against
NieR launched on 22 April 2010, within three weeks of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction, Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter and Skate 3. All of them reviewed better. It was a Xbox Series launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction, Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter, Skate 3.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for NieR yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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