Nioh 2 cover art

Nioh 2

2020 · Team Ninja · ~60h to finish

Souls difficulty plus a fighting game’s input list plus a loot game’s spreadsheet, and none of the three is optional.

soulslikeactionrpgPCPlayStation 5Steam Deck
Global—UNRATED
Baseline difficulty7.3BRUTAL

Long walls, many attempts. Bring patience.

Part of

Nioh1 of 3 to playFine place to start

A prequel set before the first game, and the one to start with. It teaches the same systems more patiently and adds the yokai forms the first game never had.

After it: Nioh

The fingerprint

12.55.07.510
Reaction
8.2
Grind
7.8
Learning Curve
7.4
Execution
7.0
Obscurity
6.9
Strategy
6.0
Punishment
6.0
Puzzle
0.5
PUBLISHEDHARDEST DEMAND FIRST
  • Learning Curve drops 1.1 points — you handle this better than most.
  • Execution drops 1.0 points — you handle this better than most.
  • Assist options shave roughly 2.4 points off, if you use them.

These are generic numbers. Calibrate and this whole page re-scores around you.

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Screenshots

IGDB

Where it bites

SPOILER-SAFE BY DEFAULT
START25%HALFWAY75%CREDITS
  1. 12% · ~5hLearning Curve

    the second mission’s boss, which is the game’s real tutorial

    ▲ 19
  2. 50% · ~30hPunishment

    the mid-game mission where two bosses share one health bar’s worth of your patience

    ▲ 20
  3. 100% · ~70hGrind

    the endgame tiers that replay the entire campaign at higher numbers

    ▲ 38

Assists & accessibility

0/3 SOURCED

CHALLENGE RELIEF

  • Practice / training mode [unsourced]A training dojo with a dummy, stance drills and every skill unlocked.

MOTOR & INPUT

  • Fully remappable controls [unsourced]

HEARING

  • Full subtitles [unsourced]

Claims marked unsourced have not been checked against a published accessibility review. Nothing here is inferred from genre — where we do not know, we say nothing.

What it is

A mission-based action RPG combining souls-style combat with three stances per weapon, ki-pulse resource management, yokai transformations and a loot system with hundreds of stats.

Where to go from here

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Its own neighbourhood, ordered by how close the difficulty actually sits.

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