Nioh
In Nioh, players will traverse war-torn Japan as William, a blonde-haired swordsman whose background as a fierce warrior and seasoned knowledge of the blade allows him to survive in the demon-plagued land of…
Nioh is an adventure developed by Team NINJA, released 7 February 2017 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $6.55 at GameBillet. The main story takes about 47.5 hrs to finish.
What Nioh is
Nioh is an adventure game developed by Team NINJA and released in 2017. It was published by Koei Tecmo Games. It is available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
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, fantasy and historical. 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 is the first of 17 entries we hold in the Nioh series. The next entry was Warriors All-Stars in 2017. Its critic score of 88 is 4 points above the series average of 84. The highest-rated entry is Nioh: Bloodshed's End at 90.
How it was received
Nioh holds a critic score of 88 out of 100. That places it above 90% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 17 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 84, across 212 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 47.5 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 90 hrs, roughly 1.9 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $6.55, that works out to about $0.14 per hour of the main story, or $0.07 per hour if you finish everything.
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 costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $6.55 at GameBillet, 87% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Nioh launched on 7 February 2017, within three weeks of Horizon Zero Dawn, NieR: Automata, Hollow Knight and Resident Evil 7: Biohazard. It reviewed better than 2 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: Horizon Zero Dawn, NieR: Automata, Hollow Knight, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Nioh yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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