Nioh 3

Reviewed specifically as a co-op experience. Me and a friend burned through It Takes Two, bounced off Split Fiction because it was too easy, and went looking for something with actual teeth. Nioh 3 has teeth. If you're coming here looking for Dark Souls or Elden Ring difficulty but with two people: manage your expectations. Co-op is easier. More enemies, more HP on bosses, but you're always able to gang up on everything together and that tips the scales. From other reviews the difficulty curve is expected to keep climbing significantly, so it probably won't stay easy forever. But don't expect solo-difficulty challenge with a friend alongside you. That's just the nature of two people coordinating on content tuned for one. That said, it's an absolute blast doing it together. The co-op implementation itself is one of the best I've experienced in any game, let alone a soulslike. Progression saves to your own profile, so you can play solo for a bit, hop on with your friend later, and everything carries over. Chests you opened stay opened for you. If you've overleveled you can actually manually drop excess Amrita into your personal stash and dial your level back down to match your friend before joining. That kind of thoughtfulness is rare. I main Ninja, he mains Samurai. The two class systems are different enough that we genuinely complement each other rather than stepping on each other's toes. There's actual build theory to sink into between sessions, and the depth of the systems keeps growing the further you go. After 50 hours we're still in the first real era. There's a full NG+ mode and two DLC expansions coming. For two people looking for a co-op game that respects your intelligence and rewards coordination, this is the one right now. Recommended.

Legendary. I love the fact that the game starts with an easy mode and only after 100+ hours of grinding through the main story, getting destroyed, slammed, laughed at, it acknowledges you and allows you to unlock a normal mode. I would expect nothing less. I salute you Team Ninja.

Based on v1.0.6 (2026 jun). The PC port is nearly unplayable on a computer which can run Crimson Desert on Ultra. In Nioh 3 a lot of visual settings are Off or on Low and there are still unexpected under 30 FPS areas. Add to that that the game would not look nearly as good as Crimson Desert even on maximum visual settings, this game looks average at best. If I add a few mods to Skyrim, it looks way better than this game. Clearly, the engine coders and environment artists were either sub par or wasn't given the time to do a proper job. It is horrendously unoptimized. So my negative vote is based on the game performance, not the content.

Don't buy the PC port. Just don't. Flat out don't buy the PC port. In the simplest words - the performance is beyond dogsh** and the game performs worse than modern UE5 titles, however unlike modern UE5 titles the graphics look like dog water and PS3 era. Team Ninja needs to retire the Katana engine or completely modernize it because it shouldn't be this bad and ugly. Now the game itself. Nioh 2 has the best action combat of any ARPG ever fullstop, and while I dropped Nioh 1 (because i played 2 first) I still had a decent time with it. Nioh 3? Nioh 3 is genuinely just a giga-lite version of Nioh 2 but slopified into an open world (OH MY GOD GUYS THEY ARE SO INNOVATIVE!!! INSTEAD OF THE BORING LEVEL SYSTEM WE HAVE A BORING OPEN WORLD SYSTEM!!!) The combat, while Lite, is still fun. While I'm not a fan of the Ninja/Samurai build splits I do kinda see their vision. Really the game is still just Nioh at its core. Its just pathetic that they decided to go for the open world approach - the reason why i dropped Rise of the Ronin as well. It's just so, so, so boring and repetitive. It's 2026 man. Why didn't they just use the modern Souls approach? The story is - imma be frank i skipped cutscenes after 10 hours because there isn't a single Souls game with an interesting story besides Bloodborne and maybe Lies of P but i started skipping cutscenes last year when it comes to Souls games because cmon man you don't play them for the story. I remember when I played Steelrising and just didnt give a sh** I mean there's really not much I can say about this game since I decided to drop it after the Hiruko fight. Atleast for the time being. This performance was so bad that I should have dropped the game 30 hours ago BUT I OPTED AGAINST IT because of sunk cost fallacy and because, well, i figured it might get better. The funny thing is i even waited a few months after release because I know Team Ninja and their PC ports. However, as you can see, that did not help LMFAO. The game as a game is very by the books and a safe sequel, well, Ghost of Yotei is a "safe sequel" this is a "barebones sequel", all it does "differently" is just being Open world for the Kyle's that play games every weekend after football practice. I think you should just play Nioh 2 instead and if you TRULY want to play this game for the love of god play it on console. Also prepare yourself for probably the worst boss roster of the entire Team Ninja catalogue. 6/10 it really pains me, the game would be 7.5 if the performance wasn't this bad and if it didnt impact my enjoyment. Again, it's 2026 Team Ninja. INNOVATE. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, INNOVATE. Since it took them this long to make an open world game, IS IT TIME FOR A BATTLE ROYALE?!?!? /s

Jogaço demais, pra mim tranquilamente o melhor dos 3, finalmente mudaram aquele formato horrível de missões e agora é mundo aberto, e claramente deram um facilitada no jogo pra tentar atrair mais jogadores, e sobre o desempenho, não esta injogavel, mas esta daquele jeito que a KOEI lança seus jogos, usando a muleta DLSS eu joguei tranquilamente!

真的，优化真的像一坨屎样，别买了。慢慢等吧

ソウルライクのような高難度が好きな人にはとてもオススメです。とにかく理不尽だったりシビアだったりの緊張感のある戦闘が最初から最後まで続くので、そういったものを求める人はずっと遊んでいけると思います。 ただしそれほどアクションが得意でない人にはオススメできません。 アクション以外の要素としてキャラクリエイトが非常に魅力的なゲームですが、、難易度が高い状態が永遠続くので自分好みのキャラを動かすだけで楽しめるという人も、アクションが得意ではないと正直すぐに疲れてしまいます。自分がすこし悔しいですが途中で高難度のアクションに満腹感を感じてきてしまい次第にクリアまで行けずプレイしなくなってしまいました。

Worst running game of the year, and doesn't look better than even nioh 1 let alone nioh 2 enough to justify the performance. Not nearly enough new content to justify the price tag. Closer to a community mod than a sequel.

O jogo é maravilhoso, mas sou obrigado a dar nota ruim porque a Team Ninja e a Koei tão muito de sacanagem. desde o lançamento pessoas reclamando do mesmo problema de renderização de cenário e inimigos, gente com PCs muito melhores do que o meu reclamando, PCs acima do mínimo pro game, todos eles, eu jogando no mínimo com um PC relativamente bom que roda jogos muito mais bonitos e com mapas muito maiores do que Nioh 3 no ultra e os mapas demoram para renderizar, quanto mais tu joga o jogo pior a renderização fica, hoje tentei invocar um bixo, eu esperei 20 segundo até o bixo de fato aparecer para atacar o inimigo, se eu tivesse atacado o inimigo eu tinha matado o bixo antes da minha invocação aparecer. é uma resonra que eles saibam desse problema e ainda não tenham arrumado, amei o jogo, muito, mas até que eles arrumem a minha avaliação é: pirateiem o jogo, não vale à pena pagar por um jogo com problemas de 4 meses atrás enquanto tu pode comprar jogos como Crimson Desert que os problemas são arrumados semanalmente.

terrible performance. the game stutters a lot and the i have the codec error so i cant even see the skills. tried to fix the codec error did everything online and still have this error