Nioh: Complete Edition
Steel your mind and ready your blade for an intense action RPG experience set in bloody Sengoku era Japan. Combining real life historical events with dark fantasy and folklore, face off against bloodthirsty…
Nioh: Complete Edition is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Team NINJA, released 7 November 2017 on PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Nioh: Complete Edition is
Nioh: Complete Edition is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Team NINJA and released in 2017. It was published by Koei Tecmo Games. It is available on PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on proprietary engine [ by Team Ninja ].
The premise, in the publisher's words
Set in the year 1600, during a fictionalized version of Japan's late Sengoku period, Nioh follows William, an Irish swordsman who travels to Japan in pursuit of an enemy. Amid a land torn by war, supernatural creatures known as yokai have begun to appear and spread chaos. William crosses paths with the warlord Tokugawa Ieyasu and his ninja ally Hattori Hanzo, forming an alliance against both the yokai and the Western sorcerer Edward Kelley, whose dark alchemy is driving much of the conflict. As he is trained in the ways of the samurai, William is drawn into the wider struggle to unify Japan while hunting the man who wronged him.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 79 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Nioh series
Nioh: Complete Edition is the sixth of 17 entries we hold in the Nioh series. The next entry was Nioh 2: Special Edition in 2020. Its critic score of 83 is almost exactly the series average of 84. The highest-rated entry is Nioh: Bloodshed's End at 90.
How it was received
Nioh: Complete Edition holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 83% of the 1,124 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 12 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 82, across 53 votes.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel® Core™ i5 3550 or over, 6 GB RAM and NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 780 VRAM 3GB or over AMD Radeon™ R9 280 VRAM 3GB or over. An 6GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 80GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Nioh: Complete Edition launched on 7 November 2017, within three weeks of Call of Duty: WWII, Super Mario Odyssey, Assassin's Creed Origins and South Park: The Fractured But Whole. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Call of Duty: WWII, Super Mario Odyssey, Assassin's Creed Origins, South Park: The Fractured But Whole.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Nioh: Complete Edition yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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