Nioh 3 is heading to PS5 and PC in 2026, complete with two distinct combat styles

Nioh 3 is heading to PlayStation 5 and PC in 2026 and you will get a style of its Sengoku setting and darkish samurai motion on Sony’s console proper now. A demo for the sport is dwell at this time on PS5 and it will be accessible by way of June 18, courtesy of developer Staff Ninja and writer Koei Tecmo.

The sport reveal was a pleasant shock throughout Sony’s State of Play occasion at this time, and it got here with a trailer showcasing large, demonic creatures and frantic motion scenes. Very like its predecessors, Nioh 3 is a darkish fantasy motion RPG set in 15-century Japan. The unique Nioh got here out in 2017 and its sequel landed in 2020, with a handful of Useless or Alive installments launched in between.

Nioh 3 introduces a brand new fight system to the sequence that lets gamers swap between two distinct preventing kinds, Samurai and Ninja. Samurai is just like earlier Nioh titles with a give attention to close-range martial arts, whereas Ninja permits fast reactions like dodging and aerial strikes. Gamers will be capable to change fight kinds on the fly. Nioh 3 options an open world — Staff Ninja calls it an “open discipline,” truly — to discover, as effectively.

“Apart from the brand new battle kinds, Nioh 3 additionally permits gamers to take pleasure in an open discipline that provides a brand new freedom of exploration to the distinctive rigidity and confrontations which have change into a defining attribute of the Nioh sequence,” Staff Ninja head Fumihiko Yasuda stated on the PlayStation Blog. “Expertise sudden encounters with formidable yokai, discover suspicious villages riddled in violent secrets and techniques, and tackle the daunting challenges of The Crucible.”